Barbara Pym (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)

Other Literary Forms

In 1984, Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym published a one-volume edition of Barbara Pym’s diaries and letters, entitled A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters. In 1987, Holt edited a miscellany, Civil to Strangers and Other Writings, which contained mostly fiction but some nonfiction.

Achievements

Pym was a writer of distinctive qualities who, having suffered discouragement and neglect for fifteen years, was rediscovered toward the end of her life, to take her rightful place as a novelist of considerable...

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