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Miss Pym and the Slough of Despond


I seem to have been circling round the novelist Barbara Pym most of my writing life. A friendly librarian steered me towards her books when I was still at school. By then I knew that, one way or another, I was going to write fiction as long as I lived.

“You will enjoy Miss Pym,” said the librarian. “All writers do.”

First Encounter With Miss Pym

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This entry was posted in books, writing and tagged Anthony Trollope, Barbara Pym, Diane Pearson, Elizabeth von Arnim, Hazel Holt, Ivy Compton Burnett, Lord David Cecil, Paula Byrne, Philip Larkin on 9th May 2021 by Sophie.
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