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Sylvia Townsend Warner

April 2024

  • Rosamond Lehmann

    Book of the day
    Rural Hours by Harriet Baker review – the country lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann

    Three writers’ pastoral years are beautifully observed in this group biography but seem little more than tangential to their work

June 2022

  • A visitor looks at a painting entitled Paysage International-forêt by Yan Pei-Ming in Colmar, France.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 forests in fiction

    Daphne du Maurier, Mervyn Peake and Angela Carter are among the authors enchanted by these shadowy borderlands of civilisation

September 2021

  • Marie de France from an illuminated manuscript

    Book of the day
    Matrix by Lauren Groff review – a brilliant nun’s tale

    Visionary leader, queer lover, 12th-century writer … the life of Marie de France is triumphantly reimagined in an assertively modern novel about female ambition and creativity

April 2021

  • Left: the young Molly Ackland. Right: Valentine Ackland, with cropped hair and man's necktie, holding a cigarette.

    Gay, communist, female: why MI5 blacklisted the poet Valentine Ackland

    A biography of the Dorset poet, who was a lover of the novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner, traces her struggle ‘to live as herself’

March 2020

  • Film director Nora Ephron. Photo by Linda Nylind. 3/9/2009

    Lockdown reading
    Tackle that to-be-read pile: the books to try if you're self-isolating

    From Nora Ephron to Thomas Mann, here are 12 books to entertain, challenge and inspire if you’re confined at home due to Covid-19

January 2020

  • Sylvia Townsend-Warner © Virago Press

    Of Cats and Elfins by Sylvia Townsend Warner review – charming fantasies

    Nymphs and phoenixes feature in a collection of remarkable short pieces by the author of Lolly Willowes

June 2019

  • Stunning Skies above the river Thames at Gravesend.<br>River Thames PX75FW Stunning Skies above the river Thames at Gravesend.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about the River Thames

    From bucolic source to marshy lower reaches, London’s mighty river has inspired great writing

February 2018

  • The village of East Chaldon in the Purbeck district of Dorset

    Country diary
    Country diary: literary tourists follow Sylvia Townsend Warner's path

    East Chaldon, Dorset: Her diary records a happy morning when she and her lover, the poet Valentine Ackland, lay on top of a barrow listening to the wind

December 2016

  • Sylvia Townsend Warner.

    Books of defiance
    Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes is 'a great shout of life'

    Defying the genteel harness of Edwardian spinsterhood, this novel’s heroine instead becomes a witch and dallies with Satan himself

August 2015

  • Read on

    The 100 best novels
    The 100 best novels written in English: the full list

    Robert McCrum has reached a verdict on his selection of the 100 greatest novels written in English. Take a look at his list

March 2015

  • Painting Sylvia Townsend Warner Collection

    Life on the wave: how fisherman turned artist John Craske was saved by the sea

    Admired by the likes of John Betjeman and Peter Pears, John Craske spent a spell in an asylum before taking up painting and embroidery. Now, seven decades after his death, his dramatic seascapes are finally getting wider acclaim

September 2014

  • Sylvia Townsend Warner in 1934, photographed by Howard Coster.

    The 100 best novels
    The 100 best novels: No 52 – Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1926)

    A young woman escapes convention by becoming a witch in this original satire about England after the first world war, writes Robert McCrum

October 2013

  • 2004, BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REA

    On the shelf: Bridget Jones and other literary singletons

    Bridget Jones is back – as a widow. Why in fiction is it still a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman must be in want of a husband, asks Rachel Cooke

March 2012

  • Classics corner
    Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner – review

  • Female workers at a chocolate factory in 1954

    Books blog
    Neglected women writers: this is a class issue

October 2009

  • Sylvia Townsend Warner Virago

    The Digested Read podcast
    Mr Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner

  • MILLENNIUM ISLAND

    Digested classics
    Mr Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner

March 2009

  • Quentin Crisp, National Portrait Gallery

    National Portrait Gallery snubs Kylie Minogue and picks Nelson Mandela for gay icons list

    Gay icons list chosen for National Portrait Gallery snubs Kylie Minogue for Nelson Mandela and other 'inspirational' choices

January 2009

  • 1000 novels everyone must read
    1000 novels everyone must read: the definitive list

    Selected by the Guardian's Review team and a panel of expert judges, this list includes only novels – no memoirs, no short stories, no long poems – from any decade and in any language. Originally published in thematic supplements – love, crime, comedy, family and self, state of the nation, science fiction and fantasy, war and travel – they appear here for the first time in a single list

March 2008

  • Lightning from skies

    Lives & letters: Sylvia Townsend Warner's passionate love poetry became profoundly sad as she experienced betrayal, bereavement and old age. It's time her genius was more widely recognised, argues Claire Harman

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