Hilary Pym Walton

Standard Name: Walton, Hilary Pym

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Barbara Pym
BP 's father, Frederic Crampton Pym , a solicitor, had been born illegitimate.
BP called her father Dor. In an interview with biographer Anne Wyatt-Brown, Hilary Pym could not remember what the name meant...
Family and Intimate relationships Barbara Pym
BP 's sister, Hilary , was born in 1916. Hilary married a man named Walton, but the marriage was of relatively brief duration. The two sisters lived together for much of their adult lives, and...
names Barbara Pym
  • BirthName: Barbara Mary Crampton Pym
  • Self-constructed: Sandra
    To reflect the more dashing aspects of her character,
    Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
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    BP used the name Sandra at Oxford . Her friend and biographer Hazel Holt suggests that she may...
Residence Barbara Pym
When she began her war work in December 1941, Pym moved into a house in Bristol with her sister Hilary , her friend Honor Wyatt , and Wyatt's two children.
Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
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Textual Production Barbara Pym
BP 's A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters, was published posthumously. The text was edited by Hazel Holt and the author's sister, Hilary Pym Walton .
Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text 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...

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