‘Excellent Women’ author Barbara Pym celebrated with an English Heritage Blue Plaque

Barbara Pym, a 1950s novelist who was rediscovered in the 1970s and lauded for her social comedies, has become the latest person to be honoured with a Blue Plaque.
Plaque prior to installation (c) English Heritage
The plaque, which will be formally unveiled later today, will go on the side of 108 Cambridge Street in Pimlico, where Pym lived from November 1945 to autumn 1949. It was at this Pimlico flatshare that Pym started her writing career, drawing extensively on her experiences of living and