Being splendid
Stephen Wall, 3 March 1988
The Pleasure of Miss Pym
by Charles Burkhart.
Texas, 120 pp., $17.95, July 1987,0 292 76496 0 Show More
by Charles Burkhart.
Texas, 120 pp., $17.95, July 1987,
The World of Barbara Pym
by Janice Rossen.
Macmillan, 193 pp., £27.50, November 1987,0 333 42372 0 Show More
by Janice Rossen.
Macmillan, 193 pp., £27.50, November 1987,
The Life and Work of Barbara Pym
edited by Dale Salwak.
Macmillan, 210 pp., £27.50, April 1987,0 333 40831 4 Show More
edited by Dale Salwak.
Macmillan, 210 pp., £27.50, April 1987,
“... as badly hurt as she was by the subsequent break-up of her wartime affair with the radio writer Gordon Glover. Robert Liddell, in his contribution to Dale Salwak’s volume, objects to too tragic a view of ‘Barbara’s hobby (generally enjoyable) of “unrequited love” ’, and as a friend of hers since 1932 his view has to be taken ... ”