The Barbara Pym Society

2012 North American Conference Program

                                                        Friday 16 March                                                         

On Friday evening we will return to the Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer Street

(corner of Mount Vernon), Beacon Hill, Boston for a lavish buffet dinner

6:30 p.m. Wine & Cheese reception

7:00 p.m. Dinner, $50 per person with cash wine bar     MENU

8:30 p.m.  Hymn Sing with organ, in the church

All other conference activities will be held at Harvard University's Barker Center for the Humanities, 12 Quincy Street (corner of Harvard) in Harvard Square

                                                      Saturday 17 March                                                       

9:00 a.m.  Registration and Continental Breakfast

10:00  Welcome: Tom Sopko, North American Organizer, and Clemence Schultze, BPS Chair

10:15  Yvonne Cocking: Jane and Prudence: A Study in Contrasts

11:15  Charlotte Silver: Barbara Pym and the Comedy of Manners

12:15  Lunch at the Barker Center

1:15 – 1:45  Pym video: Out of the Wilderness (0:28)

        This video was produced by Ellen Miller in 1984 and features an interview with Hazel Holt and

        Hilary Pym, plus some footage from the 1977 BBC production Tea with Miss Pym. 

2:00  Linda McDougall:  Jane and Prudence and Barbara and Hazel: The Women Friends of

        Barbara Pym and How They Influenced Her Work

3:00  Perri Klass:  “You Never Know When You May Need Whiskey”: Barbara Pym on Drinks

         and Drinking

4:00  Drinks Party & Bring-and-Buy Sale

4:45-7:00 Free Time

7:00 Dinner at John Harvard's Brew House, $38 with cash bar    MENU

       The restaurant is at 33 Dunster St. in Harvard Square, a 5- to 10-minute walk from the Barker Center

                                                        Sunday 18 March                                                         

9:15 a.m. Coffee and pastry

10:00 Isabel Stanley:  Not Quite a Trollope Wife: Jane Cleveland’s Literary Expectations

         of Herself as a Clergy Wife

11:00  Dramatized Reading

12:00  Conference adjourns

12:30 p.m.  Lunch at Grafton Street Pub, $23 with cash bar    MENU

          The restaurant is on Massachusetts Ave about 200 yards from the Barker Center