Friday, 11 April

Saturday, 12 April

8:30 – 10 a.m. Registration – Washburn Refectory
            A complimentary light continental breakfast will be available

        Morning session in Sherrill Hall

10:00  Welcome.

10:15  “Handwork and Sewing in the Works of Barbara Pym.”
            Dr. Clemence Schultze, Lecturer, Department of Classical and Ancient History, Durham University, and Chair of the Barbara Pym Society.

11:00  “Barbara Pym and Rupert Gleadow.”
            Yvonne Cocking, Archivist and Researcher of the Barbara Pym Society.

12:15  Lunch (included in registration fee) – Washburn Refectory

Free time to visit Harvard Square, socialize or take a walk

Afternoon session in Sherrill Hall

2:00   “A Look at Marriage in Pym's Early Novels [Some Tame Gazelle, Crampton Hodnet, Excellent Women, Jane & Prudence.”
            Ann and Dan DiPietro, Eileen Kennedy, and Charles Hansmann, Pym Society members .

 3:00  Group Discussion on Pym’s view of marriage
           led by Kathy Ackley, Pym Society member .

 3:45  Coffee break and Book Sale – Washburn Refectory

 5:00  Barbara Pym films/CDs – Tea with Miss Pym, Miss Pym’s Day Out, Desert Island Discs

 6:30  Dinner –Washburn Refectory.
          Speaker: Tim Burnett, Pym Society member, “Class in the Novels of Barbara Pym”

        Sunday, 13 April

9:30  Coffee and muffins

10:00  “‘He was far too handsome to be let loose in a small town:’ Glamorous and Not-So-Glamorous Foreigners in Barbara Pym’s Fiction.”
            Dr. Eleonore Biber, University of Vienna.

11:00  Dramatization of “Scenes from Marriages in Barbara Pym Novels”
           Tim Burnett, Rita Phillips, Clemence Schultze, Martin Rich, Yvonne Cocking

12:00  Conference adjourns