Novelist Barbara Pym
on Collecting and Antiques
Marcia and her milk bottles, plastic bags, and tins are
frequently commented on in books on collecting, like Susan Pearce’s The Collector’s Voice-Modern Voices. Other
characters have their collecting predilections and hobbies, too, and several
types of collectibles appear in her novels. Here is a list of a few of them:
- A
Faberge Egg
- Miss Grime’s
Bits and Pieces
- A
Father Christmas Figurine
- Cycladic
Idols made of dough
- Norman’s love of
“stuffed” animals at the museum
- The
Bishop’s soap animals
- The
character who loves to “collect” unusual license plate numbers
- Numerous
jumble sales mentioned
- James
the antiques dealer in The Sweet
Dove Died, and Leonora’s antiques and collectibles
- Characters
have hobbies like knitting
- Flower
arranging
- Reading
in general
- Love
of cookbooks, themselves a hobby and collectible
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| Courtesy, Theriault's |
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| Courtesy, Theriault's |
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| Courtesy, Theriault's |
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