Sylvia Townsend Warner | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis & critique of Sylvia Townsend Warner.

Sylvia Townsend Warner | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis & critique of Sylvia Townsend Warner.
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SOURCE: A review of One Thing Leading to Another, and Other Stories, in British Book News, July, 1984, p. 427.

In the following review, Toulson calls One Thing Leading to Another, and Other Stories "a good collection" that includes some characters who showcase Warner "at her sharpest and funniest. "

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. Lolly is a sad, wispy, lonely person, the conventional maiden aunt, half-crazed by her isolation and inability to build herself a satisfactory life in society. The twenty stories here, selected and edited by Susanna Pinney, are woven round several such figures: Helen Logie, the priests' housekeeper in the title story, who having once accidentally made...

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