Miss Pym and a Friend

Miss Pym and a Friend

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Memoir; Writing your Life Story: My Book Guide

Memoir; Writing your Life Story: My Book Guide: Guide for Buying Professional Books, Reference Books, Law Books, and URLS for College Students by Ellen Tsagaris Map Quest. www....

Memoir; Writing your Life Story: Remarkable Creatures

Memoir; Writing your Life Story: Remarkable Creatures: Here is a freely shared excerpt from bookbrowse.com. I love this book, for its fossil history, Darwinian lore, and great portrayals of "uns...

Monday, August 20, 2012

Popular Passages from The Subversion of Romance and Citings in other Books

Popular passages Page 20 - it is only a novel! " replies the young lady ; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. " It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda; " or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.‎ Appears in 434 books from 1818-2008 Page 16 - America is now wholly given over to ad****d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash — and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of The Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse?‎ Appears in 82 books from 1877-2007 More Page 27 - He had a dark face, with stern features and a heavy" brow ; his eyes and gathered eyebrows looked ireful and thwarted just now ; he was past youth, but had not reached middle age ; perhaps he might be thirty-five.‎ Appears in 51 books from 1848-2006 Page 171 - I HAD a dove and the sweet dove died ; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for ? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving...‎ Appears in 90 books from 1826-2005 Page 73 - I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock. 'I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St John, and I scorn you when you offer it.‎ Appears in 31 books from 1859-2006 Page 20 - Catherine, for many years of her life, as plain as any. She had a thin awkward figure, a sallow skin without colour, dark lank hair, and strong features ; so much for her person, and not less unpropitious for heroism seemed her mind. She was fond of all boys...‎ Appears in 57 books from 1818-2008 Page 112 - Perhaps the time will come when one may be permitted to do research into the lives of ordinary people,' said Dulcie, 'people who have no claim to fame whatsoever.‎ Appears in 11 books from 1981-1998 Page 140 - Christmas comes but once a year : And, when it comes, it brings good cheer ; % But, when it's gone, it's never the near.‎ Appears in 125 books from 1810-2008 Less References to this book From other books Reading Barbara Pym Deborah Donato Snippet view - 2005 The Older Woman in Recent Fiction Zoe Brennan Limited preview - 2005 From Google Scholar The Problem Of Closure In The Novels Of Barbara Pym ARTHUR LOUIS RANKIN - 2001 The" Enviable Detachment" of the Anthropologist: Barbara Pym's ... Joe B Fulton - 2003 - Papers on Language & LiteratureReferences from web pages Bibliography Tsagaris, Ellen M. The Subversion of Romance in the Novels of Barbara Pym. (Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1998); Weld, Annette, ... www.spore.it/ pym/ bibliography.htm Papers on Language and Literature: "enviable detachment" of the ... Tsagaris, Ellen M. The Subversion of Romance in the Novels of Barbara Pym. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State U Popular P, 1998. ... findarticles.com/ p/ articles/ mi_qa3708/ is_200301/ ai_n9218650/ print

Table of Contents from my book about Pym

Contents Something Very Barbara Pym 1 The History and Definition of Romance Fiction 9 The Virtue of a Single Woman 31 The Excellent Cinderella 57 Romantic Appetites or the Study of Men Embracing 87 Suitably Unsuitable Attachments 105 What 133 Trivia as a Full Life 155 Notes 165 Selected Bibliography 173 Index 181 Copyright

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Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: So, when is it an addition, cont'd

Dr. E's Doll Museum Blog: So, when is it an addition, cont'd: When is a hobby too much? Anyone ever read "A Gentle Madness," about collecting in general, or hobbies in particular, or "Magnificent Obsess...

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Blue Plaque on Pym's Bluestock Home

OXFORDSHIRE BLUE PLAQUES SCHEME Home Plaques awarded, with biographies Who qualifies for a blue plaque? Making a proposal Funding & Ceremonies Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New plaques unveiled in 2012: • Maureen Gardner • H. H. Asquith • Kenneth Grahame • Mrs Humphry Ward Barbara PYM (1913–1980) Novelist Barn Cottage, High Street, FinstockBorn Barbara Mary Crampton Pym at Oswestry in 1913, the daughter of a solicitor, Frederic Crampton Pym, she was educated at Liverpool College, Huyton, and read English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. There she developed her passion for literature and church ritual and also formed her habit of cherishing ‘unrequited attachments to unresponsive men’ (C. A. R. Hills, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ), notably for one Henry Harvey who appears as the archdeacon, Henry Hoccleve, in her first published novel, Some Tame Gazelle. Disappointment in love is the inspiration for her thirteen novels, humorous and gentle satires on English parish and suburban life. She had a long struggle to get the first novel into print, eventually succeeding in 1950, and up to 1961 six were published, including Excellent Women and A Glass of Blessings. Then she received a crushing blow when, in the changed climate of the nineteen sixties and seventies, publishers rejected An Unsuitable Attachment as unfashionable and she remained in the wilderness until 1977. In that year both Lord David Cecil and Philip Larkin named her in the TLS as the most underrated writer of the century and reawakened the publishers’ interest. Her books began to be published again, beginning with Quartet in Autumn and she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Four manuscripts which had been gathering dust for years were published posthumously, including Crampton Hodnet, set in North Oxford. During the war years she served in the WRNS and was posted to Naples. In 1946 she began research and editorial work at the International African Institute and the rest of her professional life was spent there. She lived with her sister Hilary Walton in various parts of London and then in 1972 they settled in Finstock at Barn Cottage. There Barbara remained, writing and participating in village life, until her death from cancer in 1980. Her final days were spent in the Oxford hospice, Michael Sobell House. She is buried in Finstock churchyard. •Sources: Hazel Holt, A Lot to Ask: a life of Barbara Pym (1990); Oxford Dictionary of National Biography •Picture: Barbara Pym’s former house The plaque was unveiled at Barn Cottage, High Street, Finstock on 1 September 2006 by Deirdre Bryan-Brown, Chairman of the Barbara Pym Society, in conjunction with their annual conference at St Hilda’s College. Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board BARBARA PYM 1913–1980 Writer lived here 1972–1980 the Barbara Pym Society Back to list of plaques awarded © Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board Contact Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board

Friday, August 3, 2012