02103cam a2200301 i 4500 678812133 TxAuBib 20230501120000.0 221026s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2022035007 9780008322205 HRD 34.99 0008322201 HRD 34.99 TxAuBib rda Byrne, Paula, author Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym. The adventures of Miss Barbara Pym [BOOK] : a biography / Paula Byrne. London : William Collins, 2022. 686 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, revealing the inner workings of domestic life so brilliantly that her friend Philip Larkin announced her the era’s own Jane Austen. But who was Barbara Pym and why was the life of this English writer – one of the greatest chroniclers of the human heart – so defined by rejection, both in her writing and in love? Pym lived through extraordinary times. She attended Oxford in the thirties when women were the minority. She spent time in Nazi Germany, falling for a man who was close to Hitler. She made a career on the Home Front as a single working girl in London’s bedsit land. Through all of this, she wrote. Diaries, notes, letters, stories and more than a dozen novels – which as Byrne shows more often than not reflected the themes of Pym’s own experience: worlds of spinster sisters and academics in unrequited love, of powerful intimacies that pulled together seemingly humble lives. Provided by publisher. 20230501. Pym, Barbara. Women authors, English 20th century Biography. Authors, English 20th century Biography. Biographies.