Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978)
Author of Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman
About the Author
Image credit: Cropped scan of back cover of Penguin No.642 (unattributed image).
Works by Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Element of Lavishness: Letters of William Maxwell and Sylvia Townsend Warner, 1938-1978 (2000) 142 copies
The Espalier 4 copies
Sketches from nature 2 copies
Rainbow 2 copies
Bluebeard's Daughter [short story] 2 copies
More Joy in Heaven 1 copy
Azrael & other poems 1 copy
A Widow's Quilt 1 copy
A Moral Ending 1 copy
Two conversation pieces 1 copy
Emil 1 copy
The blameless triangle 1 copy
The Phoenix 1 copy
Associated Works
Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (1991) — Contributor — 562 copies
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Contributor — 99 copies
Voices from Fairyland: The Fantastical Poems of Mary Coleridge, Charlotte Mew, and Sylvia Townsend Warner (2008) — Contributor — 12 copies
Vader is de beste — Author — 3 copies
Number 5. The Apple Disdained by R.H. Mottram [SIGNED] Number 6. The Man Who Missed the Bus by Stella Benson [SIGNED]… (1929) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Warner, Sylvia Nora Townsend
- Other names
- וורנר, סילביה טאונסנד
- Birthdate
- 1893-12-06
- Date of death
- 1978-05-01
- Burial location
- East Chaldon Churchyard, Dorset, England, UK
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Country (for map)
- England, UK
- Birthplace
- Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK
- Place of death
- Maiden Newton, Dorset, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK
London, England, UK
Norfolk, England, UK
Frome Vauchurch, Dorset, England, UK
Maiden Newton, Dorset, England, UK - Education
- privately educated
- Occupations
- novelist
short story writer
poet
musicologist
translator
diarist - Relationships
- Ackland, Valentine (partner/lover)
Machen, Arthur (uncle)
Warner, George Townsend (father) - Organizations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1972])
The New Yorker
British Communist Party - Short biography
- Sylvia Townsend Warner, born at Harrow on the Hill in Middlesex, England, was an only child who was educated at home, and she became an accomplished musician at a young age. At the outbreak of World War I, she went to work in a munitions factory in London, and began to write fiction. In 1930, she bought a cottage in the village of Chaldon Herring in Dorset, where she lived with poet Valentine Ackland for the rest of her life. During her career, Sylvia produced seven novels, including Lolly Willowes (1926), Summer Will Show (1936), The Corner that Held Them (1948), and The Flint Anchor (1954); four volumes of poetry; a volume of essays; and eight volumes of acclaimed short stories; as well as a biography of T.H. White. The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner, published after her death, contain vivid thoughts and reactions to the events of the London Blitz and World War II in general. She also translated Proust's Contre Saint Beuve into English.
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