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CHAPTER 1 MANNERS and COMEDY 1. Here and Throughout Notes CHAPTER 1 MANNERS AND COMEDY 1. Here and throughout, parenthetical notation cites manuscript and folio number from the papers of Barbara Pym collected in the Department of Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, Oxford. 2. J. I. M. Stewart, The Naylors (London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd, 1985), p. 87. 3. Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym (eds), A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters (London: Macmillan, 1984) p. xiii. 4. Barbara Pym, 'A Year in West Oxfordshire', in Places, an Anthology of Britain, Ronald Blythe (ed.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981), p. 120. 5. Personal letter from P. T. W. Baxter, former Director of the Interna­ tional African Insititute, 6 August 1983. 6. Tony Kirk-Greene, 'Barbara Pym 1913-1980', Africa, 2 June 1980, pp. 94-5. 7. Caroline Moorehead, 'How Barbara Pym was Rediscovered after 16 Years Out in the Cold', Times Literary Supplement, 14 September 1977, p. 11. 8. 'Reputations Revisited', The Times Literary Supplement, 21 January 1977, p. 68. 9. E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1927) p. 6. 10. Lionel Trilling, 'Manners, Morals, and the Novel', The Liberal Imagi­ nation (New York: Viking, 1951) p. 205. 11. James W. Tuttleton, The Novel of Manners in America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972) p. 10. 12. Margaret Drabble (ed.), The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 5th edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987). 13. Frederick C. Crews, The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957). 14. Gerald Mast, The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973) p. ix. 15. Richard Poirier, The Comic Sense of Henry James (New York: Oxford Universtiy Press, 1960) p. 63. 16. Trilling, p. 222. 17. Trilling, p. 206. 18. Forster, pp. 68-9. 19. Henri Bergson and George Meredith, Comedy: Meredith's 'An Essay on Comedy and Henri Bergson's "Laughter"', Wylie Sypher (ed.) (Garden City: Doubleday, 1956) p. 128. 206 Notes to pp. 15-57 207 20. Isa Kapp, 'One Woman's Virtue', Washington Post, 14 January 1984, D,4.p.3. CHAPTER 2 THE EARLY WORK- POEMS, STORIES, AND RADIO SCRIPTS 1. Shirley Hazzard, 'Excellent Woman', in Dale Salwak (ed.), The Life and Work of Barbara Pym (London: Macmillan, 1987) p. 3. 2. Hazel Holt, personal interview, Tivington Knowle, Somerset, April 1987. 3. David Lodge, Small World (New York: Macmillan, 1984) p. 64. 4. Robert Liddell, 'Two Friends: Barbara Pym and Ivy Compton- Burnett', London Magazine (August-September 1984) p. 62-3. 5. Somerset interview. 6. Liddell, 'Two Friends', pp. 62-3. 7. Personal letter from RobertS. Smith, 20 August 1983. 8. Anthony Kaufman, 'The Short Fiction of Barbara Pym', Twentieth Century Literature (Spring 1986) p. 50-7. 9. Personal letter from Colin Harris, Principal Library Assistant, Bodleian Library, 14 March 1985. 10. Kathleen Browder Heberlein, Communities of Imaginative Participation: The Novels of Barbara Pym (Unpublished doctoral dissertation: Univer­ sity of Wisconsin, 1984) p. 20. 11. Kaufman, p. 67. 12. Kaufman, p. 68. CHAPTER 3 THE EARLY NOVELS 1. Philip Larkin, 'The World of Barbara Pym', Times Literary Supplement (11 March 1977) p. 260. 2. Colin Harris, Assistant Librarian, Department of Western Manu­ scripts, Bodleian Library, Oxford. Personal letter, 14 March 1985. 3. Tony Kirk-Greene, 'Barbara Pym 1913-1980', Africa 2 (June 1980) p. 94. 4. Hilary Pym, personal interview, Barn Cottage, Finstock, April1987. 5. Hazel Holt, personal interview, Tivington Knowle, Somerset, April 1987. 6. Geoffrey Holt, Somerset interview, April1987. 7. Anita Brookner, 'The Bitter Fruits of Rejection', The Spectator, 19 (July 1986) p. 30. 8. Anne Tyler, 'From England to Brooklyn to West Virginia', New York Times Book Review, 13 February 1983, p. 1. 9. Lotus Snow, personal letter, April 23, 1988. 10. Robert Liddell, 'Two Friends: Barbara Pym and Ivy Compton­ Burnett', London Magazine (August-September 1984) p. 61. 208 Notes to pp. 58-84 11. 'Women of Character', The Times Literary Supplement, 7 July 1950, p. 417. 12. In Jane and Prudence, chain-smoking novelist Barbara Bird laughs about a reviewer who complained that her work held 'much incident and little wit' (JP, 117). 13. Liddell, p. 61. 14. Robert Emmet Long, Barbara Pym (New York: Ungar Publishing, 1986), p. 25. 15. Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford, Elizabeth Porges Watson (ed.), (London: Oxford University Press, 1972) p. 1. 16. Jane Nardin, Barbara Pym (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1985) pp. 63-4. 17. Nardin, p. 67. 18. Nardin, p. 69. 19. E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1927) p. 53. 20. Alison Lurie, The Language of Clothes (New York: Random House, 1981), p. 3. 21. Lotus Snow, One Little Room An Everywhere: Barbara Pym's Novels (Orono, Me.: Puckerbrush Press, 1987) pp. 31-54. 22. Victoria Glendinning, 'Spontaneous Obsession, Imposed Restraint', New York Times Book Review, 8 July 1984, p. 3. 23. Michele Slung, 'Barbara Pym: the Quiet Pleasure of Her Company,' Washington Post, Book World, 17 January 1988, p. 3. 24. A. N. Wilson, 'Daffodil Yellow and Coral Pink', The Literary Review, June 1985, p. 43-4. 25. Rossen, The World of Barbara Pym (New York: St. Martin's Press) p. 181. 26. Jocelyn McClurg, 'Posthumous Pym: Less Than Others', The Hartford Courant, 22 September 1985, G3. 27. Rossen, p. 32. 28. Miranda Seymour, 'Spinsters in Their Prime', Times Literary Supple­ ment, 28 June 1985, p. 720. CHAPTER 4 SOMETHING 'VERY BARBARA PYM' 1. Elizabeth Wilson, Only Halfway to Paradise: Women in Postwar Britain 1945-1968 (Tavistock Publications: London, 1980) p. 149. 2. Untitled anonymous review of Excellent Women, Kirkus Reviews, 1 August 1978, p. 837. 3. 'Divided Loyalties', Anonymous review of Excellent Women, Times Literary Supplement, 28 March 1952, p. 217. 4. Polly Brodie, untitled review, Library Journal, 15 October 1978, p. 2135-6. 5. Anon., Kirkus Review 46, 1 August 1978, p. 837. 6. Anne DucMne, 'Brave are the Lonely', Times Literary Supplement, 30 September 1977, p. 1096. 7. Karl Miller, 'Ladies in Distress', The New York Review of Books, 9 November 1978, pp. 24-5. Notes to pp. 85-122 209 8. John Updike, 'Books: Lem and Pym', New Yorker, 55, 26 February 1979, p. 121 9. Robert J. Graham, 'Cumbered with Much Serving: Barbara Pym's "Excellent Women'", Mosiac 17 (Spring 1984) p. 145. 10. Updike, 'Books: Lem and Pym', pp. 117-18. 11. John Updike, Hugging the Shore (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983), p. 415. 12. Diana Benet, 'The Language of Christianity in Pym's Novels', Thought 59, no. 235, December 1984, 505. 13. Benet, p. 507. 14. Robert Smith, 'How Pleasant to Know Miss Pym', Ariel 2, no. 4, October 1971, p. 66. 15. Robert Liddell, 'Two Friends: Barbara Pym and Ivy Compton­ Burnett', London Magazine, August-September, 1984, p. 61. 16. 'Family Failings', The Times Literary Supplement, 2 October 1953, p. 625. 17. Joyce Carol Oates, 'Barbara Pym's Novelistic Genius', in The Life and Work of Barbara Pym, Dale Salwak (ed.), (London: Macmillian, 1987) p. 43. 18. Anatole Broyard, 'Overflowing Her Situation', New York Times Book Review, 15 August, 1982, p. 27. 19. Michael Gorra, 'Restraint is the Point', New York Times Book Review, 31 July 1983, p. 18. 20. R. Smith, p. 66. 21. Daniel Snowman, Britain and America: An Interpretaion of Their Culture 1945-1975 (New York: New York University Press, 1977) p. 84. 22. Rosemary Dinnage, 'Comic, Sad, Indefinite', New York Review of Books, 16 August 1984, p. 16. 23. Richard Poirier, The Comic Sense of Henry James (New York: Oxford University Press, 1960) p. 23. 24. Benet, p. 6. 25. Barbara Pym, A Glass of Blessings (New York: Perennial Library edition, Harper & Row, 1981), back cover. 26. Henry James, as quoted in F. 0. Matthiessen, Hf: the Major Phase (New York: Oxford University Press, 1944) p. 50. 27. Edmund Fuller, 'Finding a Lifetime Friend in a Writer's Work', Wall Street Journal, 20 October 1980, p. 24. 28. Kate Browder Heberlein, Communities of Imaginative Participation: The Novels of Barbara Pym (Unpublished doctoral dissertation: University of Wisconsin, 1984) p. 144. 29. Asa Briggs, A Social History of England (New York: The Viking Press, 1983) p. 290. 30. Hazel Holt, 'The Novelist in the Field: 1946-1974', in The Life and Work of Barbara Pym, Dale Salwak (ed.), (London: Macmillian, 1987) pp. 22-33. 31. Holt, in Salwak, p. 24. 32. Holt, in Salwak, p. 24. 33. Holt, in Salwak, p. 26. 34. Holt, in Salwak, p. 22. 210 Notes to pp. 122-167 35. Holt, in Salwak, p. 26. 36. Holt, in Salwak, p. 27. 37. Holt, in Salwak, p. 26. 38. Holt, in Salwak, p. 31. 39. Holt, Somerset interview. 40. Holt, in Salwak, p. 23. 41. Holt, in Salwak, p. 28. 42. Tony Kirk-Greene, 'Barbara Pym 1913-1980', Africa 2, (1980) p. 94. 43. Kirk-Greene, p. 94. 44. Barbara Pym, 'In Defence of the Novel: Why You Shouldn't Have To Wait Until the Afternoon', The Times (London), 22 February 1978, p.18. 45. Riley Hughes, 'Books', Catholic World 185, September 1957, p. 473. 46. Holt, in Salwak, p. 27. 47. Alfred Harris, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, tele­ phone interview, September, 1988. 48. Rubin Rabinovitz, The Reaction Against Experiment in the English Novel 1950-1960 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1967) pp. 28-9. 49. Jane Nardin, Barbara Pym (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1985), preface. 50. Lotus Snow, personal interview, Canandaigua, New York, 1988. 51. Janice Rossen, The World of Barbara Pym, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987) p. 37. 52. Anne Tyler, 'From England to Brooklyn to West Virginia', New York Times Book Review, 13 February 1983, p.
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