In the 1960s, Barbara Pym’s manuscripts were languishing in her linen cupboard unpublished, until Philip Larkin’s support prompted a late-career revival. As a new stage adaptation of her 1977 novel ‘Quartet in Autumn’ arrives at the Arcola, Katie Rosseinsky explores why Pym’s work is enjoying another wave of popularity I n the Seventies, the author Barbara Pym was stuck in the literary wilderness. In 1963, her longtime publishers at Jonathan Cape had sent her a chilly rejection letter, turning