“Author Barbara Pym may have worked for MI5, research suggests.” Not just Some Tame Gazelle then! If you don’t know her wry work try!! #BarbaraPym

Un 11 de enero muere
🖋️ #BarbaraPym (1913-1980)
Después pasó un tiempo de cierto olvido.
Ahora, esta fascinante escritora,
que narra como nadie historias de gente corriente,
es una ineludible de la #Literatura inglesa del XX
Aquí, sus #novelas están siendo editadas
por @gediciones

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Totally against the grain of my personal aesthetic, I LOVE American editions of #BarbaraPym w/ the horrifically colored graphic tessellating wallpaper patterns, they’re what my local library has & I’m steadily replicating the collection at home, thanks to eBay, not JUST so I can admire their spines arranged so harmoniously together, but so I can finally annotate & leave crumbs & jam smears & coffee splashes in them guilt-free. What can I say?—I’m a library patron with a conscience. #booklover

“Encouraged by her silence Mr. Mold went on: ‘What I mean to say is, that I think we should be very happy if we married. My house is large and comfortable and my financial position is sound… and,’ he added, rather as an afterthought, ‘I loved you the moment I saw you.’”

(Keep in mind he had a backup plan if she didn’t seem as pretty to him that day, as she had initially struck him before.)

“Some Tame Gazelle”
#BarbaraPym
#British #novel

This is Barbara Pym.
If you are a woman entering the age of invisibility & feeling awfully alone these holidays—feeling wretchedly jilted in love—feeling like drinking or eating yourself into a coma—then please, read one of her novels.
She will become your best friend. She will make you piss yourself laughing. She will turn spinsterhood into pure comedy gold.
#EnglishLiterature #BarbaraPym #humor

‘Een glas vol zegeningen’ van #BarbaraPym, vertaald door #AndaSchippers op tafel bij #BoekhandelRoelants in #Nijmegen.

Delighted that the Barbara Pym Eoghan Harris sockpuppet account is going to be forced to cough up its secret. Should be a great few sweaty days for some other right wing journos...

#EoghanHarris
#BarbaraPym
#Sockpuppets

Seven books to get to know me, fiction edition (inspired by @alicemcalicepants and @bjornlarssen )
-A Home at the End of the World, #MichaelCunningham
-Jane and Prudence, #BarbaraPym
-Harriet the Spy, #LouiseFitzhugh
-The Patron Saint of Liars, #AnnPatchett
-Stardust, #NeilGaiman
-Cutting for Stone, #AbrahamVerghese
-Eleanor and Park, #RainbowRowell

#Books #bookstodon #FictionReader #FictionFriday #7Books

Any #BarbaraPym fans on here?

Three books on the go just now:
Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels.
John Gross, The Rise & Fall of the Man of Letters.
Brian Moynahan, Leningrad: Siege & Symphony.
All good in their different ways. #BarbaraPym was one of the many women writers who featured in my 80s reading: Alison Lurie, Beryl Bainbridge, Anta Brookner, Alice Thomas Ellis. Should revisit them soon!

#Bookstodon
Some of my favourite writers:
#DavidMitchell
#JaneGardam
#KateAtkinson
#IrisMurdoch
#BarbaraPym
#GeorgeEliot
#WilliamShakespeare

To name but a few…..

@lilycarol #CharlesPortis #BarbaraPym #FernandoPessoa #AlexanderMcCallSmith #JRRTolkien #MervynPeake #HarukiMurakami #JaneAusten #FyodorDostoevsky #TerryPratchett —wait, how many? Anyway those are some of my faves <3

@jonwesleyhuff
#janeausten
#ursulakleguin
#BarbaraPym
#dianawynnejones
#dawnpowell

Der leicht zerfledderte Zustand des linken Taschenbuchs deutet darauf hin, wie oft ich "Excellent Women" über die Jahre gelesen habe. Einfach köstlich, ihre sanfte Ironie.

Es ist wohl der mir liebste Roman von Barbara Pym, eine meiner Lieblingsautorinnen.❤️

#NameTheTranslator: aus dem Englischen von Sabine Roth.

#BarbaraPym #Buchtipp #Literaturtipp 
#frauenlesen #InsRegalgestellt #Lieblingsautorin #VortrefflicheFrauen #DumontVerlag #ExcellentWomen #JaneAusten

📖 Dies Buch über #BarbaraPym, eine meiner Lieblingsautorinnen, schenkte mir eine Freundin.😊

"The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym". Gelungene Biografie von Paula Byrne.

#BarbaraPym #frauenlesen #Buchtipp #Literatur #Autorinnenleben
#InsRegalgestellt #Lieblingsautorin