A month ago I came across an article in New Yorker called When Barbara Pym Couldn’t Get Published [1]. Barbara Pym was a novelist of some modest success. She had published six books 1950-1961 before her editor dropped her quite suddenly in 1963. She had become old-fashioned. According to the article, Pym’s world is ..less a realm of hope and glory than one of modesty and mild deprivation. The “boiled chicken smothered in white sauce” that’s served to the new curate provides the same nutritional […]
Spinsters, Bedsits, and Religion: Definitely Not The Office
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym