Sylvia Townsend Warner
Warner was a brilliantly versatile writer whose work encompassed fantasy, historical fiction, social comedy, and beautifully crafted short stories. Lolly Willowes, her first novel, is a subtle feminist fantasy of liberation.
Works
- Lolly WillowesNovel of a woman who escapes her conventional family life to become a rural witch figure
- Mr Fortune's MaggotNovel of a missionary's spiritual crisis and forbidden love on a remote South Pacific island
- The True HeartNovel retelling the true heart love story from the ancient English folk legend
- Summer Will ShowNovel spanning European revolution of 1848 through lives of an estranged English couple
- The Corner That Held ThemMedieval novel about the life and conflicts within an English nunnery during the fifteenth century
- The Espalier
- Time Importuned
- Whether a Dove or Seagull
- Collected PoemsCollected poetry of Sylvia Townsend Warner spanning her lyrical and inventive verse career