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Biography

Name: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Birth Date: December 6, 1893
Death Date: May 1, 1978
Nationality: British, English
Gender: Female

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Biography of Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Sylvia Townsend Warner's short stories are remarkable both for the diversity of their subject matter and for their number. Most frequently Warner's narratives are a blend of realism and the fantastic. Before the works of such writers as Gabriel...
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Biography of Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Sylvia Townsend Warner's first novel, Lolly Willowes; or, The Loving Huntsman (1926), was the first selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, her second novel, Mr. Fortune's Maggot (1927), an early selection of the Literary Guild. In spite of such an...


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Sylvia Townsend Warner Information
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Sylvia Townsend Warner (December 6, 1893 - May 1, 1978) was an English novelist and poet. Her novels include Lolly Willowes, Summer Will Show, The Corner That Held Them, Mr Fortune's Maggot, The Flint Anchor and After The Death of Don Juan. She also...


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Sarah Waters on Sylvia Townsend Warner
12/01/2006: 659 words, approx. 2 pages
MY HERO "I got Into her bed, and found love there," Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote in her diary after her first night with Valentine Ackland in October 1930; she could not have known it then, but their relationship would last almost 40 years,...
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Mr Fortune's Maggot Sylvia Townsend Warner ; Book Of A Lifetime
03/02/2007: 447 words, approx. 2 pages
Sylvia Townsend Warner describes how she came across a volume of letters by a missionary in Polynesia when looking for something to read in the Westbourne Grove Public Library. These letters provided her with the "maggot" ("a whimsical or perverse fancy") that was to...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Wendy Mulford
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In the following essay, Mulford traces Warner's literary development throughout the 1930s.
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Critical Essay by Terry Castle
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In the following essay, Castle discusses Warner's Summer Will Show as a lesbian novel.
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Critical Essay by Bruce Knoll
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In the following essay, Knoll perceives Lolly Willowes as a novel that explores the dualism between male aggression and female passivity.
 


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