In the 1960s, Barbara Pym’s manuscripts were languishing in her linen cupboard unpublished, until Philip Larkin’s support ...

The 70s novel about the everyday grumbles of four office workers remains just as relevant, playfully staged by director Dominic Dromgoole ...

What a left-field delight this first-ever staging of a Barbara Pym novel proves to be. Adapted by Booker Prize winner ...

It sometimes seems there are two schools of enjoyable fiction. In one, the fate of the world hangs in the balance: There’s running and shooting on the low-brow end of this spectrum, and scheming and ...

There's a passage in Barbara Pym's "Jane and Prudence" that always makes me smile. After Jane Cleveland's husband is installed as vicar in a village church, Jane is introduced to a Miss Doggett, a ...

THE ADVENTURES OF MISS BARBARA PYM. By Paula Byrne. William Collins. 704 pages. $34.99. Even the most passionate of Barbara Pym fans may be hard-pressed to explain why they find her writing so ...

One reaches page 388 of Paula Byrne’s new biography, “The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym” (HarperCollins), before the subject’s career as a published novelist begins. It appears to end on page 482, ...

If you are familiar with the quiet little gems that are the novels of Barbara Pym, you may be surprised by the number and intensity of the writer’s love affairs—all doomed. Paula Byrne brings these ...

Clever, funny and full of surprises, this true literary original leaps off the page in a wonderfully attentive biography In 1933, Barbara Pym, then an Oxford undergraduate, went on a date with a man ...

“You’ll see it’s exactly like her novels. Everyone here is from their pages,” Laura Shapiro said, when I told her that this was my first time at the Barbara Pym Society’s annual North American ...

There can be few literary comebacks more satisfying than that of Barbara Pym. In the 1950s and early 1960s she published six novels, stories about ordinary women, often single, books that revel in the ...