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Sylvia Townsend Warner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sylvia Nora Townsend Warner (6 December 1893 - 1 May 1978) was an English novelist and poet. Sylvia Townsend Warner was born at Harrow on the Hill, the only child of George Townsend Warner and his wi...
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The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society website, containing information on the novels, short stories, poems and letters of the writer Sylvia Townsend Warner. ... Welcome to the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society...
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The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society website, containing information on the novels, short stories, poems and letters of the writer Sylvia Townsend Warner. ... ; Sylvia Townsend Warner; Valentine Ackland...
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The poet, novelist, and short story writer Sylvia Townsend Warner is an important lesbian voice of the earlier twentieth century. ... Warner, Sylvia Townsend (1893-1978)
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The Sylvia Townsend Warner Archive Website ... SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER was born and brought up at Harrow School where her father George was a housemaster and teacher of history. A music student, she became interested in the music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and spent ten years editing the ten-volume compilation...
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Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978) was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist, as well as an authority on early English music and a devoted member of the Communist Party. ... Mr. Fortune's Maggot, Sylvia Townsend Warner's second novel, is lyrical, droll, and deeply affecting, and her missionary captivated his creator...
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Research Warner Sylvia Townsend and other related topics by using the free encyclopedia at the Questia.com online library. ... by S. Pinney, and The Element of Lavishness: Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell, 1938–1978 (2001), ed. by M. Steinman; partial biography by W. Mulford (1988) and biography by...
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Sylvia Nora Townsend Warner was born on December 6, 1893, in Devon, England, the only child of George Townsend Warner, a schoolmaster, and Nora Huddleston Warren. Educated at home, she moved to London in 1917 to pursue a career in musicology, serving as one of the editors of the ten-volume study Tudor Church Music.
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Sylvia Townsend Warner, a prolific poet and novelist, was at her best in the sympathetic creation of eccentric and slightly dotty characters. She is probably most widely known for Lolly Willowes, first published in 1925 and reissued by The Women's Press in 1978, the year of her death.
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[In the following review, Davis notes an uneven quality in the sketches in Scenes of Childhood and reflects on her meeting with the author.] ... Reading this book [Scenes of Childhood], I gradually realized that almost everything that mattered to the author was either left out or skipped past ... Almost, I have to emphasize:
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