Barbara Pym was born in Oswestry, Shropshire, the elder daughter of Frederic Crampton and Irene Thomas Pym. She was educated at a private school in Liverpool and at St. Hilda's College, Oxford, where ...
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Barbara Pym received by far her greatest acclaim, which included frequent comparisons between her work and that of Jane Austen, just prior to and after the end of her life. Her early novels were publi...
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Barbara (Mary Crampton) Pym
