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Philibert by Warner, Sylvia Townsend

“…Warner’s 1948 story describes the artistic triumphs of the ‘Court Hairdresser’ Monsieur Philibert, whose ambitious headdresses powerfully determine the life of…”
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Modern Times: A Poem by Warner, Sylvia Townsend, Hall, Harriet

“…‘Modern Times’ is a light verse narrative that Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote as a gift for her friend Stephen Clark. It is illustrated with adverts cut out of…”
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The Mary Jacobs Prize Essay 2023: ‘Translation and Ideology in Sylvia Townsend Warner: Six Romances of the Spanish Civil War into English’ by Gallego-Casilda, Alicia Fernández

“…Upon her return to Britain from Spain following her attendance at the Second International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture held in Madrid,…”
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Six Romances of the Spanish Civil War and their English Translations by Sylvia Townsend Warner by Warner, Sylvia Townsend, Gallego-Casilda, Alicia Fernández

“…This article presents parallel Spanish–English texts of six poems translated by Sylvia Townsend Warner from their Spanish originals following her attendance at…”
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Georg Lukács, Sylvia Townsend Warner and The Historical Novel by Shmydkaya, Ksenia

“…Georg Lukács’s seminal work The Historical Novel has a peculiar position in contemporary literary scholarship: while no one fully agrees with Lukács’s theory,…”
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Cuckoo by Warner, Sylvia Townsend

“…A 1949 short story set in a bomb-damaged city in post-war Germany. Frau Beigel’s uncle comes from the country to the city to sell a cuckoo-clock…”
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Draft of a Preface to The True Heart by Warner, Sylvia Townsend

“…Warner’s draft of a preface to her novel The True Heart probably dates from the mid-1960s. It includes details about the background and composition of the…”
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Lolly Comes to Town by Stone, Percy N.

“…This is a feature interview about Sylvia Townsend Warner, shortly after her arrival in New York in 1929 to work for a month as a guest contributor to the New…”
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Five Letters to Charles Prentice, 1925–26 by Warner, Sylvia Townsend

“…Five previously unpublished letters from Sylvia Townsend Warner to her publisher Charles Prentice of Chatto & Windus. The letters discuss Warner’s first two…”
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Draft of a Preface to Lolly Willowes by Warner, Sylvia Townsend

“…These two short fragmentary pieces from the Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland Archive in the Dorset History Centre concern Lolly Willowes (1926) and…”
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Twice as Natural by Warner, Sylvia Townsend

“…Warner’s article discusses what might be thought of as genuinely lifelike in fiction, as against the conventions of realism and naturalism that she found in…”
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Malleus Maleficarum: Review of The History of Witchcraft and Demonology by Montague Summers 1 by Warner, Sylvia Townsend

“…Sylvia Townsend Warner reviewed Montague Summers’s book on witchcraft and demonology in 1926. She took an ironic and sceptical view of his denunciatory fervour…”
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Spain’s Living Daughters by Warner, Sylvia Townsend

“…Warner’s article describes in detail the harsh economic conditions and powerful social restrictions in women’s lives in rural Spain. She notes that the…”
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Lynn Mutti by Searle, Richard, Bond, Judith, Stinton, Judith, Swaab, Peter

“…Lynn Mutti is remembered by four friends and colleagues in the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society. The article touches on her work as Secretary of the Society and…”
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Lolly Willowes: The Berg Collection Manuscript by Warner, Sylvia Townsend

“…The article gives a brief account of the manuscript of Lolly Willowes in the Berg Collection in the New York Public Library and of Warner’s process of revising…”
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‘My Usual Despicable Hold on Life’: The View from Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Diaries (The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society Lecture 2021) by Trotter, David

“…This lecture draws on published and unpublished material from the 38 notebooks of different sizes, shapes and states of repair archived in the Dorset History…”
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Small Antiques: Six Poems for Valentine Ackland by Warner, Sylvia Townsend

“…A sequence of six poems by Sylvia Townsend Warner dedicated to Valentine Ackland and presumably inspired by some of the antiques in which she started trading…”
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A Heart on the Sand by Warner, Sylvia Townsend

“…A sequence of five poems by Sylvia Townsend Warner dedicated to Valentine Ackland and dated Easter 1952…”
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Mrs Hazlitt’s Divorce by Warner, Sylvia Townsend

“…An essay in which Warner speculates on the character and circumstances of William Hazlitt’s wife Sarah (née Stoddart) during the stay in Scotland from April to…”
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Table of Contents: The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society 23(1)

“…Issue information for The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society 23(1)…”
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