Dr Tony Shaw
Mainly the Obscure, and/or mainly 'Outsider' Literature
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Spinster Novel
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Spinster Novel
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11 July 2013
Barbara Pym:
Some Tame Gazelle
(1950)
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My second Barbara Pym novel is in fact her first published, although it took many more years in the making, being begun sixteen years pr...
8 July 2013
Barbara Pym:
Excellent Women
(1952)
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Barbara Pym's Excellent Women depicts a world that revolves around spinsters, Anglo-Catholic rituals, anthropologists, church jumbl...
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26 June 2013
Sylvia Townsend Warner:
Lolly Willowes
(1926)
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This is a far from conventional spinster novel: it is deeply subversive, it screams anti-convention. Towards the end of the book the nar...
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