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Barbara Mary Crampton Pym FRSL (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist. In the 1950s she published a series of social comedies, of which

Quartet in Autumn was the seventh novel by British writer and editor Barbara Pym to be published, appearing in 1977. Highly praised and shortlisted for

No Fond Return of Love is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1961. Dulcie Mainwaring, thirty two and recently jilted, works on ‘the dustier fringes

Barnes. A vestry, in a matching style, was added in 1936. The novelist Barbara Pym lived in Barnes from 1949 to 1961. She worshipped at St Michael's, and

has also played several real-life characters for television, including Barbara Pym and in a dramatised BBC Omnibus biographical documentary of 1994 about

An Unsuitable Attachment is a novel by Barbara Pym, written in 1963 and published posthumously in 1982. Ianthe Broome is a well-bred librarian in her

Excellent Women, the second published novel by Barbara Pym, first appeared from Jonathan Cape in 1952. A novel of manners, it is generally acclaimed as

Some Tame Gazelle is Barbara Pym's first novel, originally published in 1950. The title of the book is taken from the poem "Something to Love" by Thomas

Jane and Prudence is the third novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1953. Jane Cleveland, aged 41, is married to a clergyman who has recently taken

The Sweet Dove Died is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1978. The title is a quotation from a poem, "I Had a Dove", by John Keats. Leonora Eyre