In Sunday’s Book Review there was an interesting article about Pym. She had published six books with the same publisher when suddenly they turned down her seventh, the reason being they were not losing money but not turning a profit either. She kept writing and receiving rejection slips until The Times Literary Supplement asked a number of literary figures to name the most overrated and underrated authors of the last 75 years. Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil (?) picked Pym as underrated. So she was soon back in business with her new books published and her older books reissued. I was so happy to see we still own 7 or 8 of her books. I’m sure I read them all.
