"Barbara Mary Crampton Pym" was an English novelist. In the 1950s she wrote a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958). In 1977 her career was revived when the biographer Lord David Cecil/David Cecil and the poet Philip Larkin both nominated her as the most under-rated writer of the century. Her novel Quartet in Autumn (1977) was nominated for the Booker Prize that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Yes, it seems that things like that should go on in London... It is better taste somehow that a man should be unfaithful to his wife away from home.

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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

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