Miss Pym and a Friend

Miss Pym and a Friend

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Pym Society Vintage Nov 010

AGM Dates: The dates for the 2011 Annual General Meeting and conference at St Hilda's College in Oxford have just been finalized. The AGM will be held on 26-28 August, which is the Summer Bank Holiday weekend. The conference theme is Crampton Hodnet.

Calls for Papers: Proposals for papers to be presented at the March 2011 North American Conference at Harvard are due by 1 December 2010. Preference will be given to papers related in some way to No Fond Return of Love, but all topics are welcome. Registration and meals fees are waived for North American conference speakers and there is a small honorarium. Please send a 100-150 word proposal to barbarapymsociety@gmail.com.

Proposals for papers to be presented at the August 2011 Annual General Meeting in Oxford are due by 14 January 2011. Preference will be given to papers related in some way to Crampton Hodnet. Please send a 100-150 word proposal to barbarapymsociety@gmail.com.

Finally, this Saturday 6 November is the fall tea in Boston. The reply deadline has passed, but we can always put a little more hot water in the pot; if you would like to attend and are not already on our guest list, please let us know immediately.

And finally, I had to share this Pym sighting: New York jazz musician Rob Price, who entitled one of his tracks "Dashiell Hammett and Barbara Pym," found this in Richard Davenport-Hines's review of Paul Willetts's Members Only: The Life and Times of Paul Raymond, which appeared in the TLS (22 October 2010):

"… In 1952, he started the Paul Raymond Variety Agency, based in three attic rooms above Ferrari's coffee bar in Charing Cross Road, and staged such shows as 'We Strip Tonight' and "Folies Parisienne', advertised as including "The Banned Reefer Dance, performed by the Dangerous Girl with the Low Neckline'. Soon he had made enough money to move in with his wife, who choreographed the shows, to the London suburbs, where he lived next door to Barbara Pym."

D.J. Taylor also mentioned the Pym connection when he reviewed the book for The Independent.

Best wishes,
Tom Sopko, North American Organizer

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