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3 unusual facts about Some Tame Gazelle


Roberto Weiss

At Oxford he met the novelist Barbara Pym, who later used him as the basis for the character Count Ricardo Bianco in her first novel, Some Tame Gazelle, which she had begun writing while at Oxford.

Some Tame Gazelle

Pym's friend, the British writer Robert Liddell, appears in the novel in the guise of Dr. Nicholas Parnell.

Another character, Count Ricardo Bianco, is based on the real-life count and academic, Roberto Weiss.



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