Barbara Pym: a bibliography

(updated with the help of Kathy Ackley)

Books

• Ackley, Katherine, The Novels of Barbara Pym (Garland, 1989).
• Allen, Orphia Jane, Barbara Pym : Writing a Life (Scarecrow Press, 1994)
• Benet, Diana, Something to Love: Barbara Pym's Novels (U of Missouri Press, 1986)
• Burkhart, Charles, The Pleasure of Miss Pym (U of Texas Press, 1987)
• Cooley, Mason, The Comic Art of Barbara Pym (1988)
• Cotsell, Michael. Barbara Pym (Macmillan, 1989).
• Holt, Hazel A Lot To Ask (MacMillan, 1990) Una biografia di Barbara Pym scritta dalla sua ex collega e curatrice letteraria.
• Liddell, Robert, A Mind at Ease: Barbara Pym and Her Novels (Owen, 1989) L'autore, amico della Pym fin dai tempi di Oxford, è stato una sorta di "mentore letterario" della scrittrice. La Pym gli ha dedicato A Few Green Leaves (assieme alla sorella Hilary) e, forse, Sweet Dove Died.
• Little, Judy, The Experimental Self: Dialogic Subjectivity in Woolf, Pym, and Brooke-Rose (Southern Illinois University Press, 1996)
• Long, Robert Emmet. Barbara Pym (Ungar, 1986).
• Nardiin, Jane. Barbara Pym (Twayne, 1985).
• Pym, Hilary e Wyatt, Honor, A' La Pym (Prospect Books, 1995) Curata dalla sorella di Barbara Pym e da una delle sue più vecchie amiche, è una raccolta di ricette tratte dai quaderni di cucina della scrittrice e di brani "gastronomici" presi dai romanzi. In copertina, un ritratto della gatta Minerva.
• Rossen, Janice, The World of Barbara Pym (1987)
• Rossen, Janice, ed., Independent Women : The Function of Gender in the Novels of Barbara Pym (The Harvester Press Sussex e St. Martin's Press New York 1988)
• Salwak, Dale, ed., The Life and Work of Barbara Pym (U of Iowa Press, 1987)
• Salwak, Dale, Barbara Pym: A Reference Guide (G. K. Hall, 1991)
• Snow, Lotus, One Little Room an Everywhere: The Novels of Barbara Pym (Puckerbrush, 1987)

• Tsagaris, Ellen M. The Subversion of Romance in the Novels of Barbara Pym. (Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1998)
• Weld, Annette, Barbara Pym and the Novel of Manners (St. Martin's Press, 1992)
• Wyatt-Brown, Anne M., Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography (U of Missouri Press, 1992)

Articles

• London Review of Books, November 20-December 4, 1980.
• New York Times, May 10, 1982, January 1, 1983, August 5, 1983, June 14, 1984.
• New York Times Book Review, December 24, 1978, February 1, 1981, June 20, 1982, February 13, 1983, July 31, 1983, July 8, 1984, January 17, 1988.
• Publishers Weekly, October 12, 1984, October 4, 1985.
• Punch, October 19, 1977.
• Time, October 9, 1978, September 26, 1983, June 24, 1985.
• Times (London), February 18, 1982, July 19, 1984, June 20, 1985.
• Times Literary Supplement, March 11, 1977, July 7, 1978, July 18, 1980, February 26, 1982.

...and a suggestion from Kathy Ackley, to handle the fact that a lot was written about BP:

 

See Ophia Jane Allen's book, Barbara Pym: Writing a Life (Scarecrow Press, 1994), for articles about Pym. One chapter of Allen's book is a bibliographic essay on critical approaches to Barbara Pym and her novels. The book has a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary materials published up to 1994. Allen provides complete bibliographic information for over 120 periodical articles on Pym, 40 pages of reviews of her work, organized by book title, and 14 dissertations.

Television

In 1991, the BBC broadcasted a BOOKMARK special entitled MISS PYM'S DAY OUT, produced and directed by James Runcie. Barbara Pym was played by Patricia Routledge.

 

Radio

In 1994, BBC Radio 4 broadcasted Elizabeth Proud's adaptation of SOME TAME GAZELLE, in six 30-minutes episodes. Directed by Sioned William, the cast included Miriam Marolyes (Harriet) and Harriet Gordon (Belinda).