by Paula Byrne
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5. RL to BP, 7 August 1945.
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6. RL to BP, 13 June 1947.
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7. RL to BP, 17 December 1947.
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8. RL to BP, 15 February 1948.
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9. RL to BP, 26 April 1948.
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10. RL to BP, ‘Tuesday in Passion week’, 1949.
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CHAPTER IV
1. She reveals her close knowledge of it in the journal ‘After Christmas II’, 25 July 1943.
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2. STG, p. 1.
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3. STG (published text), chapter 4. To avoid cluttering the text, henceforth page references will only be given for longer quotations from the novels.
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4. STG, pp. 45–6.
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5. STG, p. 46.
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6. STG, p. 46.
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7. STG, p. 106.
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8. STG, p. 150.
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CHAPTER V
1. STG, p. 221.
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2. Beveridge Report, 1942, para. 108.
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3. Janet H. Howarth, Women in Britain: Voices and Perspectives from Twentieth Century History (2019), p. 141.
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4. ALTA, p. 145; my comparison via Bank of England inflation calculator.
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5. MS. Pym 170. Draft letter to TLS, undated.
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6. Notebook containing manuscript notes and drafts for EW (MS. Pym 13).
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7. EW Notebook.
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8. EW Notebook.
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CHAPTER VI
1. EW, p. 128.
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2. EW, p. 60.
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3. With grateful thanks to the Reverend Father Matthew Catterick of St Saviour’s church, Pimlico.
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4. EW, p. 287.
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5. EW, p. 229.
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6. STG, p. 229.
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7. EW, p. 1.
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8. EW, p. 27.
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9. EW, p. 61.
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10. EW, p. 7.
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11. EW, p. 124.
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12. EW, pp. 107–8.
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13. EW, pp. 109–10.
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14. EW, p. 111.
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15. EW, p. 113.
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16. EW, p. 149.
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17. EW, p. 163.
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CHAPTER VII
1. ALTA, p. 156.
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2. ALTA, p. 158.
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3. EW, pp. 161–2.
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4. ALTA, p. 157.
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5. Newspaper clippings of reviews of STG (MS. Pym 163/1). The Antonia White review appeared in the New Statesman, 1 July 1950. See further, Yvonne Cocking, Barbara in the Bodleian: Revelations from the Pym Archives (2013), chapter 5, ‘Some Tame Gazelle: Some Views and Reviews’.
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6. BP to HH, 1 May 1950.
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7. Quoted, HH to BP, September 1950.
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CHAPTER VIII
1. Robert Liddell, The Last Enchantments (1991) p. 17.
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2. Liddell, Last Enchantments, p. 17.
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3. RL to BP, 20 June 1944.
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4. Liddell, Last Enchantments, p. 220.
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CHAPTER IX
1. RL to BP, Tuesday of Passion Week, 1947.
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2. See Barbara in the Bodleian, p. 84.
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3. Literary Notebook III (MS. Pym 42), 17 June 1951.
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4. Literary Notebook I (MS. Pym 40), 27 November 1949.
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5. Literary Notebook I, 27 November 1949.
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6. Robert Liddell, Elizabeth and Ivy (1986), p. 17.
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7. Liddell, Elizabeth and Ivy, p. 11.
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CHAPTER X
1. RL to BP, early 1952.
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2. BP to HH, 27 March 1952.
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3. Newspaper clippings of reviews, and readers’ correspondence forwarded by publisher (MS. Pym 163/1).
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4. Newspaper clippings of reviews, and readers’ correspondence.
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5. MS. Pym 163/1.
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CHAPTER XI
1. JAP, p. 33.
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2. Literary Notebook III, 1 February 1952.
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3. JAP, p. 9.
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4. JAP, p. 5.
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5. JAP, p. 5.
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6. Thomas Kendrick to BP, 25 January 1951.
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7. TK to BP, 2 February 1950.
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8. JAP, p. 27.
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9. JAP, p. 29.
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10. JAP, p. 30.
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11. JAP, p. 90.
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12. JAP, p. 33.
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13. JAP, p. 36.
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14. JAP, p. 55.
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15. Robert Liddell, A Mind at Ease: Barbara Pym and her Novels (1989), p. 51.
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16. JAP, p. 204.
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17. JAP, p. 178.
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18. JAP, pp. 206–7.
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CHAPTER XII
1. ALTA, p. 162.
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2. ALTA, p. 160.
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3. Newspaper clippings of reviews, and readers’ correspondence forwarded by publisher (MS. Pym 163/1).
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4. Newspaper clippings of reviews, and readers’ correspondence.
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5. Marks and Spencer Ltd. Correspondence with Jonathan Cape relating to Jane and Prudence, 1953 (MS. Pym 163/2), fols. 234–8.
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CHAPTER XIII
1. Literary Notebook IV (MS. Pym 43), 13 February 1952.
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2. LTA, p. 184.
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3. ‘Ups and Downs of a Writer’s Life’ (MS. Pym, 98 fols. 79–83), talk for the Senior Wives Fellowship at the United Reform Church, Headington, Oxford.
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4. LTA, p. 122.
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5. LTA, p. 42.
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6. LTA, p. 112.
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7. LTA, pp. 133–4.
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8. LTA, p. 167.
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9. LTA, p. 190.
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10. LTA, p. 169.
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11. LTA, p. 189.
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12. LTA, p. 166.
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CHAPTER XIV
1. Interview in Times Literary Supplement, 1 January 1978 (MS. Pym 98, fol. 32).
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2. EW, p. 116.
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3. Literary Notebook VI, 1954 (MS. Pym 45).
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4. Literary Notebook VI, 1954.
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5. Literary Notebook VI, 1954.
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6. Literary Notebook VI, 1954.
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7. On 7 October 1955 she attended her first class of Portuguese lessons at King’s College, London. She continued classes up to at least March 1958.
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8. Literary Notebook VI, 1954.
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CHAPTER XV
1. BP to RS (MS. Pym 162), 22 April 1954.
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2. Literary Notebook VII (MS. Pym 46), 15 May 1955.
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CHAPTER XVI
1. Rachel Ferguson, We were Amused (1958), quoted, ALTA, p. 175.
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2. LTA, p. 28.
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3. Literary Notebook IX, 1956 (MS. Pym 48).
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4. BP to Hazel Holt, quoted, ALTA, p. 178. Following quotation from same letter.
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5. Holt, ALTA, pp. 177–9.
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CHAPTER XVII
1. Now in the V&A: https://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/collections/the-denton-welch-dolls-house/.
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2. Denton Welch phrases from In Youth is Pleasure (1945); Pym, Literary Notebook VIII (MS. Pym 47), 15 October 1955.
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CHAPTER XVIII
1. Holt, ALTA, p. 172.
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2. Literary Notebook IX (MS. Pym 48), 21 September 1956.
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3. Denton Welch, 30 August 1942, in Journals, ed. Michael De-La-Noy (2011), p. 8.
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4. Literary Notebook VII (MS. Pym 46), April 1955.
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5. Denton Welch, Good Night, Beloved Comrade: The Letters of Denton Welch to Eric Oliver (2017), p. 20.
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6. Literary Notebook IX (MS. Pym 48), 1956 (no specific date given).
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CHAPTER XIX
1. Literary Notebook XII (MS. Pym 51), 29 April 1958.
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2. David Cecil to BP (MS. Pym 148).
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3. Review clippings in MS. Pym 164.
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4. AGB, p. 12.
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5. AGB, p. 207.
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6. AGB, p. 213.
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7. AGB, pp. 214, 270.
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8. AGB, p. 277.
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CHAPTER XX
1. Literary Notebook XI (MS. Pym 50), August 1957.
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2. NFRL, pp. 1, 9.
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3. NFRL, pp. 39–40.
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4. NFRL, p. 116.
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5. NFRL, p. 10.
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6. NFRL, p. 191.
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7. Literary Notebook VII (MS. Pym 46), May 1955.
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8. NFRL, p. 38.
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9. NFRL, p. 78.
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10. BP to RS, 21 October 1960; RS to BP, 8 March 1961.
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CHAPTER XXI
1. BP to RS, 16 March 1961.
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2. Literary Notebook XVI (MS. Pym 55), 11 April 1961.
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3. Literary Notebook XVI, 11–20 April 1961.
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CHAPTER XXII
1. BP to PL (Letters from Barbara Pym to Philip Larkin, Bodleian Library, MSS. Eng. lett. c. 859–60), 1 March 1961.
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2. PL to Norman Iles, 5 June 1943.
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3. Anthony Thwaite (ed.), Selected Letters of Philip Larkin 1940–1985 (1999), pp. 48, 69.
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4. Andrew Motion, Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life (1993), p. 59.
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5. Motion, Larkin, p. 59.
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6. Motion, Larkin, p. 309.
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7. Larkin’s friend Monica Jones, quoted, Motion, Philip Larkin, p. 308.
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8. PL to BP, 5 March 1961.
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9. Literary Notebook IX (MS. Pym 48), 1 March 1956.
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10. BP to PL, 23 September 1961.
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11. BP to PL, 15 October 1961.
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12. Published in Philip Larkin’s second volume of verse, The Less Deceived (1955).
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CHAPTER XXIII
1. Virginia Nicholson, How Was It For You? Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s (2019), p. 11.
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2. Macmillan, speech to South African Houses of Parliament, 3 February 1960.
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3. UA, p. 17, first published by Macmillan (1982). Quoted from first paperback edition (Granada Publishing, 1983). Not in Virago Modern Classics.
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4. UA, p. 26.
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5. UA, p. 126.
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6. UA, p. 72.
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7. UA, p. 114.
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8. UA, p. 185.
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9. UA, p. 193.
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10. UA, p. 194.
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11. UA, p. 250.
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12. Literary Notebook XVIII (MS. Pym 57), 24 March 1963.
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BOOK THE SIXTH: THE WILDERNESS YEARS
CHAPTER I
1. BP to RS, 8 February 1963.
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2. Quoted, Nicholson, How Was It For You?, p. 123.
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3. Private communication, Yvonne Cocking to the author.
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4. BP to PL, 8 July 1963.
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CHAPTER II
1. Literary Notebook XIX (MS. Pym 58).
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2. BP to PL, 12 May 1963.
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CHAPTER III
1. BP to RS, 15 December 1961.
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2. RR to BP (MS. Pym 159), 7 January 1964.
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CHAPTER IV
1. Literary Notebooks XVII–XXVIII (MSS. Pym 56–67).
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2. Literary Notebook XVII, 22 March 1962.
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3. Literary Notebook XVIII, 14 August 1963.
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4. Literary Notebook XIX.
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5. BP to PL, 16 February 1964.
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6. BP to RS, 11 June 1963.
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7. BP to RS, 11 January 1963.
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8. BP to RS, 16 October 1963.
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9. BP to RS, 16 October 1963.
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10. BP to RS, 8 December 1963.
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CHAPTER V
1. BP to PL, 12 May 1963.
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2. PL to BP, 15 July 1963.
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3. BP to PL, 23 August 1963.
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4. PL to BP, 7 December 1963; BP to PL, 12 January 1964.
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5. RR to BP, 7 January 1964.
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6. Richard writes [19]65, but means [19]64.
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7. BP to RS, 23 January 1964.
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8. BP to RS, 23 March 1965.
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9. BP to RR, 25 March 1964.
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10. Literary Notebook XX (MS. Pym 59), 29 March 1964.
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11. Literary Notebook XX, 1 May 1964.
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12. BP to PL, 16 February 1964.
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13. ‘Faith Healing’ in Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings, published by Faber and Faber (1964), p. 15.
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14. Larkin, Whitsun Weddings, p. 10.
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15. PL to BP, 14 July 1964.
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16. Literary Notebook XX, 12 May 1964.
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