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...
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.
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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.
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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...