Barbara Pym: The Gentle Art of Indexing
In Barbara Pym’s charming novel, No Fond Return of Love (1961), the whimsical heroine, Dulcie Mainwaring, attends an indexing conference. Dumped by her fiancé, she needs to meet new people, though the...
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Happy New Year of Reading Dead Writers! Let us begin with my favorite Barbara Pym novel, No Fond Return of Love. I adore this book, set on the fringes of the literary professions in London in the...
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