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Recent research has shed new light on women who served in secret roles during World War II — some of whom died before their contribution was ever recognised. Among them were two of the finest British novelists of the twentieth century: Barbara Pym and Muriel Spark. In this talk, Claire Smith explores their wartime intelligence work and how those experiences went on to shape their fiction.
Recent research has shed new light on women who served in secret roles during World War II — some of whom died before their contribution was ever recognised. Among them were two of the finest British novelists of the twentieth century: Barbara Pym and Muriel Spark. In this talk, Claire Smith explores their wartime intelligence work and how those experiences went on to shape their fiction.