BP
's mother, Irena Spenser (Thomas) Pym
, was the youngest of ten children of an Oswestry ironmonger.
BP
called her mother Links. Anne Wyatt-Brown
, one of Pym's biographers, proposes that the name...
Instructor
Barbara Pym
Barbara's sister Hilary observed that their mother, Irena Pym
, strongly encouraged them to write and draw, and insisted that they attend a stimulating, reputable school.
Pym, Barbara. “Editorial Materials”. A Very Private Eye, edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, 1984, p. various pages.