Erection date: 1985
Barbara Pym, 1913 - 1980, novelist, lived here, 1960 - 1972.
From a paper presented at the 2012 conference of the North American Barbara Pym Society we deduce that the plaque was erected in or before the mid 1980s, by whom we cannot discover.
NW6, Brooksville Avenue, 40
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Barbara Pym
Novelist. Born as Barbara Mary Crampton Pym in Oswestry, Shropshire. Lived in...
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