| 词条 | Some Tame Gazelle |
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| name = Some Tame Gazelle | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:SomeTameGazelle.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Barbara Pym | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | subject = | genre = Comedy | publisher = Jonathan Cape | pub_date = 1950 (1st edition) | english_pub_date = | media_type = Print (hardbound) | pages = 252 (1st edition) | isbn = | oclc = 7094635 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}Some Tame Gazelle is Barbara Pym's first novel, originally published in 1950. It is considered a remarkable first novel, because of the way in which the youthful Pym - who began the book while a student at Oxford before the Second World War - imagined herself into the situation of a middle-aged spinster, living with her sister in the country.[1] The title of the book is taken from the poem "Something to Love" by Thomas Haynes Bayly.[2] Plot summaryMany of the characters in the book are based on Pym's own circle, as she pictured them in twenty or thirty years' time. The two heroines, Belinda and Harriet Bede, are Barbara herself and her sister, Hilary. Archdeacon Hoccleve, a married clergyman for whom Belinda has long nurtured a passion, is believed to be based on Pym's first love, Henry Harvey.[3] In the course of the book, both sisters receive proposals of marriage which they feel obliged to reject, partly because they are not attracted to the men in question, but mainly because they are so used to living together and have become devoted to one another. In fact, Pym and her sister did end up living together in a quiet village in Oxfordshire. Pym's friend, the British writer Robert Liddell, appears in the novel in the guise of Dr. Nicholas Parnell.[3] Another character, Count Ricardo Bianco, is based on the real-life count and academic, Roberto Weiss. [4]Notes1. ^Barbara Pym Society 2. ^Bayly, Thomas Haynes, Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems, London: Richard Bentley, 1844 3. ^1 {{cite book |title = Barbara Pym |last = Long |first = Robert Emmet |year= 1986 |publisher = Ungar |location = New York |isbn = 0-8044-2545-0 |page = 8}} 4. ^{{Citation | last = May | first = Radmila | author-link = | last2 = | first2 = | author2-link = | title = Barbara Pym in Henley | journal = Contemporary Review | volume = | issue = | pages = | date = Feb 1, 1996 | origyear = | month = | url = http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Barbara+Pym+in+Henley.-a018144605 | archiveurl = | archivedate = | doi = | id = }} 5 : 1950 British novels|Novels by Barbara Pym|Debut novels|Novels set in Oxfordshire|Jonathan Cape books |
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