Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner. My Dog Tulip by J.R. Ackerley. My Father and Myself by J.R. Ackerley. The Other House by Henry James. Peasants and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov. Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman. A Handbook on Hanging by Charles Duff. Hindoo Holiday by J.R. Ackerley. · The best novels: No 52 – Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner () A young woman escapes convention by becoming a witch Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. · S ylvia Townsend Warner's first novel (published in ) begins with year-old Lolly Willowes being sent, "as if she were a piece of family property forgotten in the will", to live with her Estimated Reading Time: 1 min.
Sylvia Townsend Warner (6 December - 1 May ) was an English novelist, poet and musicologist, known for works such as Lolly Willowes, Whether a Dove or a Seagull, and After the Death of Don Juan. Sylvia Townsend Warner was a young poet who told her editor at Chatto Windus that she had written a "story about a witch". Within a year, Lolly Willowes had become the talk of the town. Today. One of my favourite midth century writers is Sylvia Townsend Warner (), who publish seven novels during her life, as well as sparkling short stories and poetry, and a biography of T.H. White. This week, my friend (and Modern Fairies colleague) Carolyne Larrington has produced a podcast on Warner's Lolly Willowes and Kingdoms of Elfin, which I highly recommend.
First published in , this was the debut novel for Sylvia Townsend Warner, and is the first book I have read by her. Our main character is Laura Willowes, the much beloved daughter of Everard Willowes, a wealthy brewer. Laura has two brothers, Henry and James, and an idyllic childhood. In Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner tells of an aging spinster's struggle to break way from her controlling family—a classic story that she treats with cool feminist intelligence, while adding a dimension of the supernatural and strange. Warner is one of the outstanding and indispensable mavericks of twentieth-century literature, a writer to set beside Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, with a subversive genius that anticipates the fantastic flights of such contemporaries as Angela Carter. Lolly Willowes. Drama. Sylvia Townsend Warner's wondrous novel about a woman who finally finds fulfilment in her life when she takes up witchcraft. Show more. by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Adapted by.
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