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Sylvia Townsend Warner

Born

in Harrow on the Hill, London, England

December 06, 1893

Died

May 01, 1978

Website

http://www.townsendwarner.com/society.php

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry

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Sylvia Townsend Warner was born at Harrow on the Hill, the only child of George Townsend Warner and his wife Eleanora (Nora) Hudleston. Her father was a house-master at Harrow School and was, for many years, associated with the prestigious Harrow History Prize which was renamed the Townsend Warner History Prize in his honor, after his death in 1916. As a child, Sylvia seemingly enjoyed an idyllic childhood in rural Devonshire, but was strongly affected by her father's death.

She moved to London and worked in a munitions factory at the outbreak of World War I. She was friendly with a number of the "Bright Young Things" of the 1920s. Her first major success was the novel Lolly Willowes. In 1923 Warner met T. F. Powys whose writing influenced h ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 16,970 ratings · 2,410 reviews · 77 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Alison Lurie 3.71 avg rating — 8,546 ratings — published 1926 — 137 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Corner That Held Them 3.94 avg rating — 1,150 ratings — published 1948 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summer Will Show 3.58 avg rating — 734 ratings — published 1936 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kingdoms of Elfin 3.95 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 1977 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mr. Fortune's Maggot; and, The Salutation by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Adam Mars-Jones (Introduction) 3.66 avg rating — 346 ratings — published 1932 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The True Heart 3.44 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 1929 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mr Fortune's Maggot 3.70 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 1927 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winter in the Air 3.67 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1955 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Element of Lavishness: Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner & William Maxwell, 1938-1978 by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Michael Steinman, William Maxwell 4.45 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Music at Long Verney: Twenty Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Michael Steinman 4.09 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1977 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

tags: aging, death-and-dying

1134 likes

“One doesn’t become a witch to run around being harmful, or to run around being helpful either, a district visitor on a broomstick. It’s to escape all that - to have a life of one’s own, not an existence doled out to by others.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

tags: witches

73 likes

“She was heavier than he expected - women always are.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Kingdoms of Elfin

tags: expectations, humour, weight, women

29 likes

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