As for marriage, BP
's involvements with men as a student must have been to some extent influenced by social pressure to marry. She felt badly let down when Henry Harvey
decided to wed another...
Dedications
Barbara Pym
She dedicated it to very old friends, Henry Harvey
and Robert Liddell
.
Smith, Robert Sidney. “’Always Sincere, Not Always Serious’: Robert Liddell and Barbara Pym”. Twentieth Century Literature, Vol.
41
, No. 4, 1 Dec. 1995.
Family and Intimate relationships
Barbara Pym
Rupert Gleadow
cared about BP
a great deal, but their romance was an experience which she chose to downplay in her memory and writing. Her long, unsuccessful pursuit of Henry Harvey
, who both attracted...
Intertextuality and Influence
Barbara Pym
BP
began this novel as a story about Hilary
and me as spinsters of fiftyish—that is, about a then unimaginable future. Its dry humour and irony, its concentration on middle-aged spinsters, clergy, and the...
Reception
Barbara Pym
When An Unsuitable Attachment was finally published (posthumously), Larkin remarked that it was richly redolent of her unique talent, despite some aspects of the text that were not fully done.
qtd. in
Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
34
Meanwhile in September...
Textual Production
Barbara Pym
BP
's other juvenilia include poems and short stories published in the literary magazine at her boarding school, Liverpool College
: The Sad Story of Alphonse, Henry Shakespeare, Adolphe, Satire (an imitation...
Textual Production
Barbara Pym
In many ways this novel reflects BP
's undergraduate years at Oxford
, featuring characters and episodes based partly on herself, her sister, and her friends or acquaintances. Among these, Henry Harvey
and the future...