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English novelist (1913–1980)

Barbara Mary Crampton PymFRSL (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist. In the 1950s she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958).

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In 1977 her career was revived when the critic Lord David Cecil and the poet Philip Larkin both nominated her as the most underrated 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.

Biography

Early life

Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was born on 2 June 1913 at 72 Willow Street^[1] in Oswestry, Shropshire, the elder daughter of Irena Spenser, née Thomas (1886–1945) and Frederic Crampton Pym (1879–1966), a solicitor.^[2] She was educated at Queen's Park School, a girls' school in Oswestry.

From the age of 12, she attended Huyton College, near Liverpool. Pym's parents A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters GES