0008322201 
Hardback The adventures of Miss Barbara Pym / Paula Byrne.
Publication year: 2021
Format: Hardback
Publisher: London : William Collins,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780008322205 (hbk.) :
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She was Pym to friends. Miss Pym in her diaries. Sandra in seduction mode. Pymska at her most sophisticated. English novelist Barbara Pym's career was defined, in many senses, by rejection. Her first novel 'Some Tame Gazelle' was turned down by every publisher she sent it out in 1935, finally published only fifteen years later. Though she picked up a publisher from there and received modest praise, the publishing industry grew restless and her sales spiralled downwards. By her seventh novel she had been dropped. She was deemed old-fashioned, telling stories of little English villages, unrequited love and the social dramas of vicars or academics. This biography, brimming with Pym's private diaries and intimate letters, offers a first full insight into Barbara Pym's life and how it informed her writing.
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272 pages ; 24 cm
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The short chapter format of this biography works really well.
17/06/21