Editing Barbara Pym (section)

==Popular culture and reputation==
Forewords to her novels have been written by [[A. N. Wilson]], [[Jilly Cooper]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3669659/The-Insider-Jilly-Cooper-on-Barbara-Pym.html|title=The Insider: Jilly Cooper on Barbara Pym|date=2 December 2007|website=The Telegraph|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref> and [[Alexander McCall Smith]].

[[Philip Larkin]] said, "I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new [[Jane Austen]]". [[Shirley Hazzard]] was a fan of Pym's work, which she described as "penetrating, tender, and... greatly daring".<ref name="Holt 1990, p.275"/> The novelist [[Anne Tyler]] wrote about her work:<ref>Holt 1990, p.276</ref>
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On 19 February 1992, the British television series ''Bookmark'' broadcast an episode entitled ''Miss Pym's Day Out'', written and directed by [[James Runcie]]. The film follows Pym (played by [[Patricia Routledge]]) from dawn to evening on the day she attended the 1977 Booker Prize awards, for which ''Quartet in Autumn'' was nominated. The script includes excerpts from Pym's letters and diaries. Appearances by real-life figures including Hilary Pym, [[Hazel Holt]], [[Jilly Cooper]], [[Tom Maschler]] and [[Penelope Lively]] are contrasted with adapted excerpts from Pym's novels performed by actors.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://barbara-pym.org/about-barbara-pym-and-her-writings/miss-pyms-day-out/| title = The Barbara Pym Society, accessed 26 April 2020}}</ref> The film was nominated for a [[British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA]] [[Huw Wheldon]] award for Best Arts Programme<ref>{{cite web| url = http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=Huw%20Wheldon%20Award| title = BAFTA Awards website, accessed 27 April 2020}}</ref> and won the Royal Television Society award for Best Arts Programme.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-UK/Broadcasting/Archive-BBC-IDX/IDX/90s/BBC-Year-Book-1992-OCR-Page-0032.pdf| title = American Radio History website, accessed 27 April 2020}}</ref>