Academic, best-selling literary biographer and novelist Dr Paula Byrne, will deliver the inaugural, Excellent Women Lecture, focusing on Oswestry’s very own literary hero, Barbara Pym.
Born in Oswestry, in 1913, Barbara Pym lived through extraordinary times. She attended Oxford in the thirties when women were the minority. She spent time in Nazi Germany, falling for a man who was close to Hitler and she made a career on the Home Front as a single working girl in London. In her ground-breaking biography, ‘The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym’, Dr Paula Byrne explored Pym’s extraordinary life as revealed by her extensive archive of diaries, letters, notes and stories. Her Excellent Women lecture places Barbara Pym centre stage as one of the great English novelists: a generous, shrewdly perceptive writer and a brave woman, who only in the last years of her life (she died in 1980) was suddenly, resoundingly recognised for her genius.
This is a fantastic opportunity to hear from a critically acclaimed biographer, whose biographies of other Excellent Women include: Jane Austen, Kick Kennedy and Emma Hardy.
A book signing session follows this event.
Interested in attending more than one session? Then why not save and purchase a Day Pass for £38, giving access to all four events.
Tickets: £10