THE ADVENTURES OF MISS BARBARA PYM. By Paula Byrne. William Collins. 704 pages. $34.99. Even the most passionate of Barbara Pym fans may be hard-pressed to explain why they find her writing so ...

There's a passage in Barbara Pym's "Jane and Prudence" that always makes me smile. After Jane Cleveland's husband is installed as vicar in a village church, Jane is introduced to a Miss Doggett, a ...

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June marks 100 years since the birth of English novelist Barbara Pym, the only author to be named twice in a 'Times Literary Supplement' list of 'the most underrated novelists of the century.' Five ...

This fall, my husband and I braved country roads and their harrowing roundabouts to make a literary pilgrimage to the tiny town of Finstock in Oxfordshire, England, to see … what? Barn Cottage, the ...

“For what could be more peculiar than a crowd of grown-up people, most of them middle-aged or even elderly, collected together . . . for the purpose of discussing scholarly niceties that meant nothing ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

As Ecclesiastes says, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. If you had asked most pundits in the Fifties which novelist’s centenary we would be celebrating in 2013, most would ...

My grandfather was a clergyman so loved by his parishioners that he was known as 'St Richard'. After a stint as chaplain in the trenches, where he won a Military Cross, he returned to his West Riding ...