Barbara Pym
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Characters from the wonderful Barbara Pym’s An Unsuitable Attachment, discussing academics and their writing production: “ … my wife says that we anthropologists are like a housewife faced with the remains of yesterday’s stew and wondering whether it can possibly be eked out to make another meal.” “You can do that all right with a
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Her life’s been rather disappointing In a way, and lonely. I suppose That’s why Robert likes to have her here At Christmas, with her knitting, and those old Pink mules she’s had for years. Funny How she never married – still, she must Be used to that by now – like those women You read about in
Virginia Rounding: Author, editor, proofreader, indexer 