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“... which projects Pym’s Oxford friends, as well as her sister, into a fantasised middle age. As Charles Burkhart observes, it is a novel in which ‘every character is a “character”,’ though to call it ‘hilarious’ as he does is perhaps to be too easily amused. Archdeacon Hoccleve (the name reminds us that the Oxford English School left a ...”

“... and a hospital. He was broadly admired and trusted by members of the tribe. His nephew Ernest Burkhart was married to an Osage called Mollie, of whose riches he was the guardian. They had two small children. Mollie Burkhart’s sister Minnie had died of a ‘peculiar wasting illness’ at the age of 27, despite a ...”