![]() ![]() ![]() Poet and novelist Philip Larkin and biographer Lord David Cecil both chose her as their most underrated novelist, the only author nominated twice. Though her first books were popular, decreasing sales on several subsequent novels led to her work being rejected as too “old-fashioned.” Though Pym didn’t stop writing, she was unable to get anything published from 1962 until 1977, when the Times Literary Supplement ran an article in which high-profile literary figures listed their most underrated and overrated British novelists of the 20 th century. J– Barbara Pym born, British author, Fellow of Royal Society of Literature, who wrote social comedies like Excellent Women A Glass of Blessings and Quartet in Autumn.In 1889, she founded the Pokrov of Our Lady Monastery, a convent of nursing nuns with its own hospital to provide free treatment for the poor, and became an Orthodox nun. She settled in Kiev, where she recovered her mobility. In 1881, her nephew, Tsar Alexander III, allowed her to return. A carriage accident left Alexandra almost completely paralyzed and, in 1880, she was compelled by her brother-in-law Tsar Alexander II, to go abroad. He expelled Alexandra from their household in 1879. ![]() Petersburg, while her husband was starting a flagrant affair with a ballerina, and forming a second family with her. By 1865, she was founding a training institute for nurses in St. Alexandra was plain, serious-minded, religious, and devoted to charity work. She bore two sons, but the marriage, arranged by the Russian Imperial family to try to control the Grand Duke’s excesses, was a failure. Alexandra was raised as a Lutheran, but had to convert to Russian Orthodoxy, and took the name Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Russia. In 1856, she was married to Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, the third son of Tsar Nicholas I. Alexandra was also interested in medicine and solving the social problems of the poor. She spoke Russian, German, English and French, and excelled in the arts. J– Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg born to Duke Peter of Oldenburg and his wife Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg, noted for their philanthropy, who assured she was well educated. ![]()
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