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Barbara Pym, the Glossary

Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist.^[1]

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A Few Green Leaves

A Few Green Leaves is the final novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1980, the year of Pym's death.

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A Glass of Blessings

A Glass of Blessings is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1958.

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A Lot To Ask: A Life of Barbara Pym

A Lot To Ask: A Life of Barbara Pym is a 1990 biography of the English novelist Barbara Pym. The author, Hazel Holt, worked with Pym in the 1950s at the International African Institute in London before embarking on her own literary career. The pair remained friends, and Holt functioned as Pym's literary executor after the latter's death from breast cancer in 1980.

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A Very Private Eye

A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters is a 1984 publication of writings by the English novelist Barbara Pym.

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A. N. Wilson

Andrew Norman Wilson (born 27 October 1950) is an English writer and newspaper columnist known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular history. Barbara Pym and a. N. Wilson are Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.

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Africa (journal)

Africa is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the International African Institute.

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Alexander McCall Smith

Sir Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith (born 24 August 1948) is a Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction. Barbara Pym and Alexander McCall Smith are Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature.

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An Academic Question

An Academic Question is a novel by Barbara Pym, written in the early 1970s and published posthumously in 1986.

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An Unsuitable Attachment

An Unsuitable Attachment is a novel by Barbara Pym, written in 1963 and published posthumously in 1982.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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Anglo-Catholicism

Anglo-Catholicism comprises beliefs and practices that emphasize the Catholic heritage and identity of the Church of England and various churches within the Anglican Communion.

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Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic.

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Anthropology

Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans.

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À La Pym

À La Pym: The Barbara Pym Cookery Book (published in the United States as The Barbara Pym Cookbook) is a 1988 cookbook by Hilary Pym and Honor Wyatt collecting recipes for meals served, or mentioned, in the novels of Hilary's sister, Barbara Pym.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Radio 4 Extra (formerly BBC Radio 7) is a British digital radio station from the BBC, broadcasting archived repeats of comedy, drama and documentary programmes nationally, 24 hours a day.

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Blue plaque

A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom, and certain other countries and territories, to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.

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Bodleian Library

The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford.

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Booker Prize

The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland.

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Breast cancer

Breast cancer is a cancer that develops from breast tissue.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Awards, is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Canon (fiction)

The canon of a work of fiction is "the body of works taking place in a particular fictional world that are widely considered to be official or authoritative; those created by the original author or developer of the world".

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Characterization

Characterization or characterisation is the representation of characters (persons, creatures, or other beings) in narrative and dramatic works.

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Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy (often abbreviated chemo, sometimes CTX and CTx) is the type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs (chemotherapeutic agents or alkylating agents) in a standard regimen.

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Civil to Strangers

Civil to Strangers and Other Writings is a collection of novels and short stories by Barbara Pym, published posthumously.

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Comedy of manners

In English literature, the term comedy of manners (also anti-sentimental comedy) describes a genre of realistic, satirical comedy of the Restoration period (1660–1710) that questions and comments upon the manners and social conventions of a greatly sophisticated, artificial society.

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Crampton Hodnet

Crampton Hodnet is a comic novel by Barbara Pym, published posthumously in 1985, and originally written in 1940.

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Desert Island Discs

Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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Dyslexia

Dyslexia, previously known as word blindness, is a learning disability ('learning difficulty' in the UK) that affects either reading or writing.

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E. P. Dutton

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Excellent Women

Excellent Women, the second published novel by Barbara Pym, first appeared from Jonathan Cape in 1952.

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Finstock

Finstock is a village and civil parish about south of Charlbury in Oxfordshire, England.

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Frances Greville

Frances Greville (née Macartney; c. 1724 – 1789) was an Anglo-Irish poet and celebrity in Georgian England.

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Gelatin dessert

Gelatin desserts are desserts made with a sweetened and flavoured processed collagen product (gelatin), which makes the dessert "set" from a liquid to a soft elastic solid gel.

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Gordon Glover

Claud Gordon Glover (7 June 1908 – 1 March 1975) was a British writer, particularly for radio, as well as some novels.

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Hamish Hamilton

Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton (Hamish is the vocative form of the Gaelic Seumas, James the English form – which was also his given name, and Jamie the diminutive form).

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Hazel Holt

Hazel Holt (nee Young, 3 September 1928 – 23 November 2015) was a British novelist. Barbara Pym and Hazel Holt are 20th-century English women writers and English women novelists.

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High comedy

High comedy or pure comedy is a type of comedy characterized by witty dialogue, satire, biting humor, wordplay, or criticism of life.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is sexual attraction, romantic attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Honor Wyatt

Honor Ellen Wyatt (6 February 1910 – 23 October 1998) was an English journalist and radio presenter, known for her association with Barbara Pym, Robert Graves, and Laura Riding as well as for her own work.

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Huw Wheldon

Sir Huw Pyrs Wheldon, (7 May 1916 – 14 March 1986) was a Welsh broadcaster and BBC executive.

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Huyton College

Huyton College was an independent day and boarding school for girls founded in England in 1894 as the sister school to Liverpool College with which it merged on 27 July 1993, a few months short of its 100th birthday.

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International African Institute

The International African Institute (IAI) was founded (as the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures - IIALC) in 1926 in London for the study of African languages.

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Intertextuality

Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text, either through deliberate compositional strategies such as quotation, allusion, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche or parody,Gerard Genette (1997) Paratexts Hallo, William W. (2010) The World's Oldest Literature: Studies in Sumerian Belles-Lettres Cancogni, Annapaola (1985) pp.203-213 or by interconnections between similar or related works perceived by an audience or reader of the text.

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Irony

Irony, in its broadest sense, is the juxtaposition of what on the surface appears to be the case and what is actually the case or to be expected.

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James Runcie

James Robert Runcie (born 7 May 1959) is a British novelist, documentary filmmaker, television producer and playwright.

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Jane and Prudence

Jane and Prudence is the third novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1953.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Barbara Pym and Jane Austen are English women novelists.

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Jilly Cooper

Dame Jilly Cooper (born Jill Sallitt; 21 February 1937), is an English author. Barbara Pym and Jilly Cooper are 20th-century English women writers and English women novelists.

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John Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Jonathan Cape

Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape (1879–1960), who was head of the firm until his death.

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Julian Amery

Harold Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh, (27 March 1919 – 3 September 1996) was a British Conservative Party politician, who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 39 of the 42 years between 1950 and 1992.

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Less than Angels

Less Than Angels is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1955.

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Lime (fruit)

A lime is a citrus fruit, which is typically round, green in color, in diameter, and contains acidic juice vesicles.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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Lord David Cecil

Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil, CH (9 April 1902 – 1 January 1986) was a British biographer, historian, and scholar.

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Mastectomy

Mastectomy is the medical term for the surgical removal of one or both breasts, partially or completely.

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Naples

Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.

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No Fond Return of Love

No Fond Return of Love is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1961.

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Oswestry

Oswestry is a market town, civil parish and historic railway town in Shropshire, England, close to the Welsh border.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Patricia Routledge

Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge (born 17 February 1929) is an English actress and singer, best known for her comedy role as Hyacinth Bucket in the popular BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995).

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Paul Scott (novelist)

Paul Mark Scott (25 March 1920 1 March 1978) was an English novelist best known for his tetralogy The Raj Quartet.

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Paula Byrne

Paula Jayne Byrne, Lady Bate (born 2 August 1967), is a British biographer, novelist, and literary critic.

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Penelope Lively

Dame Penelope Margaret Lively (née Low; born 17 March 1933) is a British writer of fiction for both children and adults. Barbara Pym and Penelope Lively are Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Philip Larkin

Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. Barbara Pym and Philip Larkin are Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Pimlico

Pimlico is an area of Central London in the City of Westminster, built as a southern extension to neighbouring Belgravia.

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Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is the second novel by English author Jane Austen, published in 1813.

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Quartet in Autumn

Quartet in Autumn is a novel by British novelist Barbara Pym, first published in 1977.

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Queen's Park, London

Queen's Park is an area in North West London and West London, located partly in the City of Westminster and mostly in the London Borough of Brent.

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Radio drama

Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance.

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Randolph Hotel, Oxford

The Randolph Hotel, also known as The Randolph Hotel by Graduate Hotels, is a 5 star hotel in Oxford, England, on the south side of Beaumont Street, at the corner with Magdalen Street, opposite the Ashmolean Museum and close to the Oxford Playhouse.

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Robert Liddell

(John) Robert Liddell (13 October 1908 – 23 July 1992) was an English literary critic, biographer, novelist, travel writer and poet.

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Romantic Novelists' Association

The Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) is the professional body representing authors of romantic fiction in the United Kingdom.

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Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".

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Rupert Gleadow

Rupert Seeley Gleadow (22 January 1909 – 30 October 1974) was a British lawyer and author, who wrote on legal matters under the name of Justin Case.

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A shared universe or shared world is a fictional universe from a set of creative works where one or more writers (or other artists) independently contribute works that can stand alone but fits into the joint development of the storyline, characters, or world of the overall project.

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Shirley Hazzard

Shirley Hazzard (30 January 1931 – 12 December 2016) was an Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Barbara Pym and Shirley Hazzard are Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Shropshire

Shropshire (historically SalopAlso used officially as the name of the county from 1974–1980. The demonym for inhabitants of the county "Salopian" derives from this name. and abbreviated Shrops) is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England, on the border with Wales.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Pym

Also known as Barbara Mary Crampton Pym.

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