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    Summer Will Show

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    Summer Will Show tells the story of Sophia Willoughby who, after being packed off to her improvident husband in Paris, suffers the tragedy of the death of her children and…

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    The True Heart

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    Sukey Bond, on graduating from a late Victorian orphanage, is sent to work as a maid on a farm on the Essex Coast. After she falls in love with her…

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    The Flint Anchor

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    John Barnard, a leading merchant, is a pillar of 19th century rectitude. Though stern with his tippling wife, he is undermined by helpless love for his cold-hearted daughter and the…

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    Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography

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    The poet Sylvia Townsend Warner rose to sudden fame with the publication of her classic feminist novel Lolly Willowes in 1926, but never became a conventional member of London literary…

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    The Corner That Held Them

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    An outbreak of the Black Death, the collapse of the convent spire, the Bishop’s visitation and a nun’s disappearance are interwoven with the everyday life of the nuns, novices, successive…

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    Lolly Willowes

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    In this early feminist classic, a London spinster breaks free from her controlling family and escapes to the countryside. She soon discovers that her new neighbors are a coven of…

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    After the Death of Don Juan

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    Published in 1938, mirroring the author’s concern with the background to the Spanish Civil War, this novel mixes legend and history, in tracing the disappearance of Don Juan.

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    Lolly Willowes

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    A satirical feminist classic about a woman who leaves her stifling place in her brother's London home for the wilds of the English countryside, where she meets and makes a…

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    Winter in the Air

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    This Christmas, bask in these 'diminutive masterpieces'(Guardian) by the English genius behind Lolly Willowes.

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    Lolly Willowes

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    In this early feminist classic, a London spinster breaks free from her controlling family and escapes to the countryside. She soon discovers that her new neighbors are a coven of…

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    Lolly Willowes

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    First published by Viking Press 1926 –T.p. verso.

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    Lolly Willowes

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    Considered an early feminist classic, Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes; Or The Loving Huntsman is a fantastical comedy about a middle-aged witch and her search for peace that was selected…

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    Lolly Willowes

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    Considered an early feminist classic, Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes; Or The Loving Huntsman is a fantastical comedy about a middle-aged witch and her search for peace that was selected…

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    Lolly Willowes or The Loving Huntsman

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    Lolly Willowes; or The Loving Huntsman is a novel by English writer Sylvia Townsend Warner, her first, published in 1926. It has been described as an early feminist classic.

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    Lolly Willowes: Or the Loving Huntsman

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    This is a new release of the original 1926 edition.

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    Lolly Willowes or the Loving Huntsman

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    ‘A novel as original in its conception as it is subtle and refined in its artistry’ TLS This, the author’s most magical novel, introduced the theme of women’s liberty that…

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    English Climate: Wartime Stories

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    Short stories written during the Second World War by Sylvia Townsend Warner, never before published as a collection and several of the stories have not been in print since the…

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    Lolly Willowes or The Loving Huntsman

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    ‘A novel as original in its conception as it is subtle and refined in its artistry’ TLS This, the author’s most magical novel, introduced the theme of women’s liberty that…

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    Jane Austen

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    During her lifetime Jane Austen published but four novels, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816). Northanger Abbey and Persuasion appeared posthumously in…

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    New Collected Poems

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    The first Collected Poems of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) was published by Carcanet in 1982. Since then, more of her work has come to light, including some of the most…

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    Lolly Willowes: or the Loving Huntsman

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    Lolly Willowes is a satirical comedy of manners incorporating elements of fantasy. It is the story of a middle-aged spinster who moves to a country village to escape her controlling…

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    Lolly Willowes or The Loving Huntsman

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    Lolly Willowes; or The Loving Huntsman is a novel by English writer Sylvia Townsend Warner, her first, published in 1926. It has been described as an early feminist classic.

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    Lolly Willowes: or, The Loving Huntsman

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    Lolly Willowes is a twenty-eight-year-old spinster when her adored father dies, leaving her dependent upon her brothers and their wives. After twenty years of self-effacement as a maiden aunt, she…

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    Music at Long Verney

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    This title collects 20 of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s short stories, most of them from the years at The New Yorker . They span a full half-century, from 1929 to 1977…

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    Of Cats and Elfins: Short Tales and Fantasies

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    The 23 stories in Of Cats and Elfins encompass scholarship, black humour, the Gothic, and the anthropomorphic cats of The Cat’s Cradle Book (1940), which enact Warner’s preoccupation with the…

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    Mr Fortune’s Maggot

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    The Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-clerk of the Hornsey Branch of Lloyds Bank, has spent ten years as a South Seas Island missionary when he is impelled to embark on what…

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    Summer Will Show

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    Summer Will Show tells the story of Sophia Willoughby who, after being packed off to her improvident husband in Paris, suffers the tragedy of the death of her children and…

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    Lolly Willowes (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    Set in early twentieth-century England, Lolly Willowes is a satirical comedy of manners and an early feminist classic. When her newfound contentment is threatened, Lolly embraces a dark path to…

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    Mr Fortune’s Maggot

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    The Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-clerk of the Hornsey Branch of Lloyds Bank, has spent ten years as a South Seas Island missionary when he is impelled to embark on what…

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    Lolly Willowes or the Loving Huntsman

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    ‘A novel as original in its conception as it is subtle and refined in its artistry’ TLS This, the author’s most magical novel, introduced the theme of women’s liberty that…

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    Lolly Willowes or the Loving Huntsman

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    ‘A novel as original in its conception as it is subtle and refined in its artistry’ TLS This, the author’s most magical novel, introduced the theme of women’s liberty that…

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    Lolly Willowes: The Power of Witchcraft in Every Woman (Feminist Classic)

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    Lolly Willowes is a novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner, described as an early feminist classic. It is a satirical comedy story with elements of fantasy. It tells about a middle-aged…

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    Lolly Willowes

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    Lolly Willowes is a twenty-eight-year-old spinster when her adored father dies, leaving her dependent upon her brothers and their wives. After twenty years of self-effacement as a maiden aunt, she…

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    Modernism and Music: Politics and Aesthetics in James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Sylvia Townsend Warner

    Gemma Moss

    Using an approach to music informed by T. W. Adorno, this book examines the real-world, political significance of seemingly abstracted things like musical and literary forms.

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    Rural Hours

    Harriet Baker

    A joyful, rule-breaking experiment in biography, which celebrates 'country life' as a state of mind

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    Proust on Art and Literature

    Perseus,Sylvia Townsend Warner

    Beginning with the remarkable essay Contre Saint-Beuve, this surprising and stimulating critical collection presents Proust’s views on the contemporary writing of his era, on painting and painters, and on such…

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    The Akeing Heart: Letters between Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland and Elizabeth Wade White

    Peter Haring Judd

    The Akeing Heart is the long-lost story of the deep and passionate relationships between Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland and Elizabeth Wade White.

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    Life-Writing, Genre and Criticism in the Texts of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland: Women Writing for Women

    Ailsa Granne

    Sylvia Townsend Warner has increasingly become recognized as a significant and distinctive talent amongst twentieth-century authors. This volume explores her remarkable relationship with Valentine Ackland by closely examining their letters…

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    Life-Writing, Genre and Criticism in the Texts of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland: Women Writing for Women

    Ailsa Granne

    Sylvia Townsend Warner has increasingly become recognized as a significant and distinctive talent amongst twentieth-century authors. This volume explores her remarkable relationship with Valentine Ackland by closely examining their letters…

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    The Element Of Lavishness

    William Maxwell,Sylvia Townsend Warner

    This title shares the 40-year correspondence between a story-writer and her New Yorker editor. Witty and affectionate, it is an addition to the literature of friendship.

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    Lolly Willowes or the Loving Huntsman (Deluxe Library Edition)

    Sylvia Townsend Warner, Sarah Nichols

    First published in 1926, 'Lolly Willowes or the Loving Huntsman' is an amusing and witty novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner, an English novelist, poet, and musicologist.

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    T H White: A Biography

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    T H White, author of the much-loved The Sword in The Stone, The Once and Future King, The Goshawk, and many other works of English literature, died in Greece from…

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    The Corner That Held Them

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    A masterful historical novel of monastic life, set in the 14th century. Many consider this Townsend Warner’s most accomplished work.

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    Lolly Willowes or the Loving Huntsman (General Press)

    Sylvia Townsend Warner, Sarah Nichols

    First published in 1926, 'Lolly Willowes or the Loving Huntsman' is an amusing and witty novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner, an English novelist, poet, and musicologist.

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