Naghmeh Varghaiyan - The Rhetoric of Women’s Humour in Barbara Pym’s Fiction

3Lord David Cecil praises Pym’s novels as “the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years” (qtd. in Long 221).

4Pym began studying English literature at Oxford in 1931 and graduated in 1934. During World War II, she worked as a censor in the Postal and Telegraph Censorship in Bristol. In 1943 she joined the Wrens (Women’s Royal Naval Service). Later, she worked as an editorial assistant at the International Institute of African Languages and Culture in London where she continued to work until 1974.

5Pym enjoyed relative popularity afterwards. According to Long, she “reacted to this sudden fame unpretentiously, and her habits of living did not change” (23). Within some years, her health began to deteriorate and she became gravely ill by January 1980. Chemotherapy was unsuccessful and she died on January 11, 1980, and was buried in Finstock.

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