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Foreword. Hilary Pym Walton Introduction. Frauke Elisabeth Lenckos Barbara Pym 1913-1980. Ellen J. Miller |
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Part I: Reading in Barbara Pym's Novels "All This Reading . . .": The Importance of Literature in the Novels of Barbara Pym. Katherine Anne Ackley "A Life Ruined By Literature?": Barbara Pym's Excellent Women Readers. Frauke Elisabeth Lenckos Excellent Women and After: The Art of Popularity. Barbara Everett A Suitable Detachment: Barbara Pym and the Romance of the Library. Helen Clare Taylor "Love Like Bedsocks": Pym's Some Tame Gazelle. Anthony Kaufman Reading Pym Autobiographically: Aging and Death in the The Sweet Dove Died, Quartet in Autumn, and A Few Green Leaves. Orphia Jane Allen The Quest for Ritual and Celebration in the Comedic World of Barbara Pym. Ellie Wymard Full of Quotations, Like Hamlet: Literary Quotations and Allusions in Some Tame Gazelle. Anne Pilgrim |
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Part II: Literary Encounters My First Reader. Hazel Holt Autumn Leaves: Publishing Barbara Pym. Paul De Angelis Pym as Comforter. John Bayley Philip Larkin: Pym's Ideal Reader. Janice Rossen Reading Charlotte M. Yonge in the Novels of Barbara Pym. Barbara Dunlap Reading Pym with College Students. Jan Fergus A Critic's Confession. Jane Nardin A Last Literary Collaboration. "A Year in West Oxfordshire," by Barbara Pym. Ronald Blythe |
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Epilogue. The Literary Reputation of Barbara Pym. Dale Salwak |
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Selected Bibliography Selected Annotated Bibliography, 1982-1998 Index |