She came to this job via an introduction from a friend in the WRNS, Frances Kendrick
, whose aunt Beatrice Wyatt
was Secretary of the Institute. At the Institute, Pym worked for Daryll Forde
...
Intertextuality and Influence
Barbara Pym
Pym's experience working as an assistant editor for anthropologist Daryll Forde
at the International African Institute
in London, from 1946, informed this novel as well as some of her other works.
