Talk:Civil to Strangers

Plot summary of Civil to Strangers
'When Stefan returns home, a feeling of yearning remains.' This doesn't seem to be justified by the text. Cassandra decides to visit Budapest, and, coincidentally, Stefan goes home (not for good) at the same time, and Cassandra fears it will look as though they have eloped together. I don't think there's any indication that a woman travelling alone in the 1930s is a problem: Adam doesn't raise any difficulty; the problem is that Cassandra appears not to be travelling alone. Snugglepuss (talk) 14:56, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Plot summary of "Home Front Novel"
'Pym wrote this unfinished, untitled novel in 1939. The 28-year-old Pym had finished studying at St Hilda's College, Oxford'. In 1939 Pym was 26–27. The wording sounds as though she studied at St Hilda's until she was 28. Snugglepuss (talk) 15:28, 19 April 2023 (UTC)


 * She actually graduated in summer 1934, so it seems rather irrelevant. Sbishop (talk) 15:35, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Plot summary of So Very Secret
It says Cassandra is the daughter of an Anglican canon. On p. 292 she describes herself as the daughter of the former vicar. Does it say somewhere else that her father was a canon? (He could have been both.) Snugglepuss (talk) 15:32, 19 April 2023 (UTC)