Editing Barbara Pym (section)

===Personal life===
In June 1946, Pym started work at the [[International African Institute]] in London. She became the assistant editor of the scholarly journal ''[[Africa (journal)|Africa]]'', where she would work until her retirement in 1974.<ref>Holt 1990, p.183</ref> That inspired her use of [[anthropology|anthropologists]] as characters in some of her novels, notably ''Excellent Women'', ''Less than Angels'', and ''An Unsuitable Attachment''. Pym's sister Hilary separated from her husband in 1946, and the two sisters moved together into a flat in [[Pimlico]]. They would later move to a house in [[Queen's Park, London|Queen's Park]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Pym |first=Barbara |date=1984 |title=A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters (ed. Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym) |location=New York |publisher=E. P. Dutton |page=184 |isbn=0525242341}}</ref>

Pym did not marry or have children, despite several close relationships with men. In her undergraduate days, they included Henry Harvey (a fellow Oxford student, who remained the love of her life)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120216145605/http://jamesruncie.com/docs/film_misspym.html James Runcie: "Miss Pym's Day Out"]. Accessed 17 March 2013</ref> and [[Rupert Gleadow]].<ref>Holt 1990, pp. 34–35</ref> When she was 24 she had a romance with the future politician [[Julian Amery]], six years her junior.<ref>Faber, David, Speaking for England, London, 2005, {{ISBN|0-7432-5688-3}}</ref> In 1942 she had a brief relationship with the BBC radio producer [[Gordon Glover]], who was the estranged husband of her friend [[Honor Wyatt]]. Glover broke this off abruptly, which traumatised Pym,<ref>Byrne, Paula, ''The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym'', (2021: William Collins), p 335.</ref> and when Glover died in 1975 she burnt her diary for 1942.<ref>Byrne, Paula, ''The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym'', (2021: William Collins), p 563.</ref>