Pym Books Currently in Print

From what I could find, the list below is an accurate description of Pym books in print. For the 100th Anniversary of Pym's birth, I am revising and working on a second edition of my book on Pym, currently titled The Subversion of Romance in the Novels of Barbara Pym, dedicated to my friend and mentor, the late romance writer for Mills and Boon, Angela Wells. Here is the list to date of Pym's work: Excellent Women by Barbara Pym Paperback - Reissue ISBN-13: 9780452267305 Pub. Date: 05/28/1988 List price: $15.00 Online Price: $12.82 (You Save 14%) Spend $25, Get FREE Shipping Usually ships within 24 hours A few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym , Barbara Pym Paperback ISBN-13: 9781559212281 Pub. Date: 06/28/1999 List price: $12.95 Online Price: $11.07 (You Save 14%) Spend $25, Get FREE Shipping Usually ships within 24 hours Check store availability Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym Paperback - Reprint ISBN-13: 9781559212649 Pub. Date: 04/28/1999 List price: $12.95 Online Price: $11.07 (You Save 14%) Spend $25, Get FREE Shipping Usually ships within 24 hours Check store availability 12. LESS THAN ANGELS by Barbara Pym Paperback ISBN-13: 9781559213882 Pub. Date: 06/30/2008 List price: $12.95 Online Price: $11.07 (You Save 14%) Spend $25, Get FREE Shipping Usually ships within 24 hours 6 used from $6.18 Check store availability 13. No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym Paperback ISBN-13: 9781559213066 Pub. Date: 01/15/2002 List price: $13.95 Online Price: $11.92 (You Save 14%) Spend $25, Get FREE Shipping Usually ships within 24 hours Bottom of Form 10 used from $4.87 Check store availability Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym , Elizabeth Stephan Audio - 6 Cassettes ISBN-13: 9781850895534 Pub. Date: 09/28/1995 List price: $54.95 Online Price: $49.45 (You Save 10%) Item Ships Free Usually ships within 24 hours 2 used from $36.63 15. A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym Paperback ISBN-13: 9781559213530 Pub. Date: 08/30/2008 List price: $12.95 Online Price: $11.07 (You Save 14%) Spend $25, Get FREE Shipping Usually ships within 24 hours Top of Form Bottom of Form 16. Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym Paperback ISBN-13: 9781559212267 Pub. Date: 07/28/2007 List price: $13.95 Online Price: $11.92 (You Save 14%) Spend $25, Get FREE Shipping Usually ships within 24 hours Top of Form Bottom of Form 14 used from $3.96 17. Jane y Prudence/ Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym Hardcover - Translation ISBN-13: 9788426417169 Pub. Date: 05/30/2009 List price: $30.95 Online Price: $27.85 (You Save 10%) Item Ships Free Usually ships within 2-3 days Top of Form Bottom of Form 1 used from $28.41 18. Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym Paperback ISBN-13: 9781559213547 Pub. Date: 11/01/2006 List price: $12.95 Online Price: $11.07 (You Save 14%) Spend $25, Get FREE Shipping Usually ships within 24 hours Top of Form Bottom of Form 5 used from $7.74 Check store availability 19. From The Hearth To The Open Road, Vol. 113by Barbara Waxman Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780313266508 Pub. Date: 05/11/1990 List price: $117.95 Online Price: $106.15 (You Save 10%) Item Ships Free Usually ships within 24 hours Top of Form Bottom of Form 4 used from $38.25 20. My Dear Charlotte by Hazel Holt eBook Learn more ISBN-13: 2940011056321 Pub. Date: 06/21/2010 Note: Not compatible with Mac and Blackberry Clients List price: $6.95 eBook Price: $5.56 (You Save 20%) Available for download via Wi-Fi and 3G These items ship to U.S. addresses only. Available for Download Learn More

Download Creative Writing Primer for Free today! Midwest Writing Center: Happy birthday MWC Creative Writing Primer!

Midwest Writing Center: Happy birthday MWC Creative Writing Primer!:   June 15 is the first anniversary of the release of the MWC Creative Writing Primer , the first ebook MWC Press (2012) released by...

Memoir; Writing your Life Story: To My Schoolmate, Who left us too Early

Memoir; Writing your Life Story: To My Schoolmate, Who left us too Early: To Mary Landa Adapted from A.E. Houseman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young” From your friend, Ellen The time you won your town’s swim race We ch...

Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: Desiree Holt and Barbie Dolls

Below is an update on a modern romance writer, and I plan to include more in my second edition of my book on Pym.  With Kindle and other means of publication, Romance Writing is more popular than ever, and more people are writing in every genre more than ever.   Currently on Kindle are my novels Wild Horse Runs Free and The Bathory Chronicles, Volume I.  With love from Tin Lizzie will soon be on Alibris, and is available directly from me as well.

For all out there who have wanted to write but were afraid, now is the time.  Pick up your pen and write!


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Ecology Reading and Cat Woes

Blessed be this first day of Summer and the Solstice. We continue on as best we can. I have much to post, and will begin by introducing a new book, Edible by Tracy Ryuder and Carole Topalian, on eating local all over the country via a lovely,illustrated directory of farmers markets. More about this later. Our cat, our beloved Emma, is not well. She is on thyroid meds, and has had several teeth pulled, conditions she came with when we adopted her. She went from a fierce little tiger, to a little bag of meek, limp marbles. She only wants to sleep in the bathtub, and did want to drink from the tap there obsessively. She is better at that, but now does not have much appetite, and seems depressed. She used to sleep on a her blanket, a baby blanket with another fleece afghan, but she is half the cat she was. Vet says she is fine, but I think her system was shocked. She is around 11 years old. Any ideas? I am more worried that she is not into food, which was not a problem. She ate well and normally, before, and I buy her organic, holistic food, or make it for her. Some publications that fit the season, here are some favorites: Extraordinary Health, volume 17. Drew Barrymore on the cover. Features include RAW probiotics, which one is right for you? and "Eight "new You" healthy recipes. Heatlhy Living, vol. 17, noo. 3: Alanis Morisette on cover. Features: Coffee Bean skinny Pill, Silver Soothese ASthma Syumptoms, What Drug companies won't tell youa bout joint pain, Natural Hari care that performs! The above two can be found at local natural food stores. Design Toscano Catalog special midsummer issue features garden decor, with lots of fairies and animals, as we approach Midsummer and thoughts of A Midsummer Night's Dream! I am not a spokesperson for any of these, but I enjoy reading them, even if I never buy anything. As a writer, I get inspiration everywhere. From the University of Wisconsin Press, several pertinent Land management journals and other journals and books, many delivered as ebooks: Ecological Restoration, Steven N. Handel Ed. Land Economics, Daniel romley, Ed. Landscape Journal, Lance M. Neckar, ed. Native Plants Journal, Ed. R. Kasten Dumroese, USDA Forest Service Also, on NPR yesteday morning was a story called "The Secret Live of Plants," about how hard it is for plants to survive and thrive, and which are good food sources, and what humans can learn about survival by studying them. Try NPR or, All Things Considered to find it. Still working on typing, and my hands and arms hurt more than ever. My books seem to be doing well, and I have some signings and programs coming up. Thanks to all my readers and followers for this and my other blogs. You are my online family, and I love you all!

Mention of Bronte Girls and their Wax Dolls Doll Museum: Wax Dolls, back to the 19th Century and our Chrono...

Doll Museum: Wax Dolls, back to the 19th Century and our Chrono...: Mary Hillier, Helen Young, Janet P. Johl, and other writers have observed that wax dolls may date to antiquity, though it is doubtful they ...

Variations on Excellent Women: An Apologia for Countess Erzebet Bathory: Marie Antoinette and Erzebet Bathory

Two more Variations on Excellent Women

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For my Friend, Writer Angela Wells, who could put Catherine Oliphant to Shame

My Friend Angela Wells passed aways this week; I just learned about it. If you have read my book on Pym, or my dissertation, you will see her quoted, and her books discussed. Angela wrote for Mills and Boon, and also for many other venues. She was a gifted writer, researcher, editor, and wonderful friend. We were friends for over twenty years, and I can't believe she is gone. She left a terrifc son named Ian. I will list her books later, and some of the reviews she got. If you have a chance, look up her books on Amazon for Harlequin and Harlequin Presents. I met Angela when I was writing my thesis on Barbara Pym and romance writers. That had to have been in 1992 or 1993. I sent out a survey to various writers asking questions, and your mom answered; she was one of the first. I found her in the Romance Writers Pink Pages, a directory of writers with contact information. We started writing and never stopped. Over the years, we became good friends, and I was trying to visit England, which is one of my dreams. Angela and I talked about family and heartache. She wrote to me when my mother died, and when my good friend Mary Hillier from Surrey died suddenly. She had Greek friends and relatives and wrote about Greeks in her books. I loved what she wrote, and used her books, with her permission, in my thesis. I especially liked Rash Contract. She was a wonderful friend, and always encouraged me to write. I still think of things she wrote to me, and her ideas have helped me never to have writers block. She was a great writer herself, versatile, and full of ideas. She edited well and read for me. I finally got the book she was helping me with published; it was Wild Horse Runs Free, about the Apache. We also talked about plants, and dolls, which I like. She emailed me photos of her early doll, and of a half or pincushion doll that belonged to her mother. She told me about her family, and of Cyril, and you, of course. I told her about my friend Mark at church and the struggles of the choir in dealing with some of the egoistical priests we got. We sent each other little things over the years, a video, a bracelet, some souvenir stamps. She kept me up to date on all the Royal stories involving Princess Diana, and I sent her clips on things she was interested in here. It was from her that I learned what a ‘transformation’ was. It is what we call in the US a wig, of course, or hair piece/extension. I don’t know where the years went. She sent me cards for my wedding, to Dino, who like you, is into computers, websites, all things digital. So is my little step-son. Mitchie is a guru of these things, and a devotee of the late Steve Jobs. Angela was a wonderful person, so talented, and always doing something. She helped many writers, including me. I will feel her loss every day, but I’ll also think of her with love and fondness always. Again, my family and I are so very sorry.

The Passing of Edith Bunker; A True Excellent Woman

We note the passing of a most excellent woman, perhaps the most excellent of all. Our own Edith Bunker, played by actress Jean Stapleton, passed away at age 90. As Archie Bunker’s wife in All in the Family, Stapleton was tolerant and long suffering, even while Archie blew his short fuse and shot off his big mouth. As a stage actress and character actor for small parts, Jean Stapleton was chosen as a relative unknown to TV audiences to play Edith Bunker, but she made the role her own from 1971-78. The show was inspired by a British show, Till Death Do Us Part. It is conceivable that Pym saw this show, and may have even seen All in the Family, though her diaries reveal she was not that fond of us “Yanks.” Though Archie told her to “stifle” and called Edith ‘dingbat,” she was unfazed. She ruled both Archie and her family, and turned him into a kinder, gentler Archie by the end of the show’s run. Edith tackled rape, infidelity, cancer, al the major social issues her contemporaries faced. She could be funny and ditzy, but dead serious when the occasion called for it. Thought capable of “making tea in a crisis,” she often solved the problems for her family, Gloria, son in law Mike, and Archie.