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An unsuitable attachment to Nazism: Barbara Pym in the 1930s spectator.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from spectator.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Last modified on Thu 8 Apr 2021 05.13 EDT In 1971 the author Barbara Pym was at her day job at the International African Institute when she noticed âMr Câ laboriously attacking his lunchtime sandwich with a knife and fork. Pym made a mental note of the detail before asking herself ruefully, âOh why canât I write about things like that any more â why is this kind of thing no longer acceptable?â Ten years earlier, Jonathan Cape had dumped her after her sixth book on the grounds that her brand of anthropological observation of English social manners was old lady-ish, dull and didnât sell. As an extra humiliation, no other publishing house had been interested in picking up Miss Pym: books built on âthe daily round of trivial thingsâ could hardly compete with Frederick Forsythâs ....
Chips Channon's diaries can read like a drunken round of Consequences spectator.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from spectator.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.