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Dorset Stories
The writer Sylvia Townsend Warner spent the best years of her life in Dorset from the time she first moved to Chaldon Herring in 1927 to her death in 1978. Collected together for the first time 'Dorset Stories' contains a number of previously unpublished stories and many others long out of print.
Letters Of Sylvia Townsend Warner
Very early in her career Sylvia Townsend Warner won recognition of a discerning group of writers and readers on both sides of rare imagination and originality increased with each new publication. In addition to publishing some twenty books she wrote thousands of letters, mainly to close friends and acquaintances, and these quite naturally provide a record of almost fifty years of the writer’s life. As the editor of the selection says, she had a connoisseur’s eye for the bogus and a hatred for assumptions of privilege – her heart was with the hunted, always, and her deep understanding of human behaviour makes the whole a remarkably compassionate volume. Her interests are wide-ranging, and we read of the pleasures of travel, Proust’s shortcomings as a literary critic, current politics, Rupert Brooke at the Café Royal, an eccentric moorhen, the Spanish Civil War. Above all, apart from their intrinsic interest and literary quality, Miss Warner’s letters reveal the special brand of wit and humour that pervades every word she writes.
Lolly Willowes
A satirical feminist classic about a woman who leaves her stifling place in her brother’s London home for the wilds of the English countryside, where she meets and makes a deal with the devil himself—with an introduction by Mona Awad, author of Bunny “Lolly Willowes calls for ‘a life of one’s own’ three years before Virginia Woolf’s impassioned cry for a room. . . . An elegantly enchanting tale that transcends its era.”—The Guardian Laura “Lolly” Willowes is an unmarried, middle-aged woman in early-twentieth-century London—a spinster who has lived with, and in service of, her brother’s overbearing family for the past twenty years. With her brother’s children now g...
Landmarks in English Industrial History
Landmarks in English Industrial History is a fascinating exploration of the social and economic forces that shaped the modern world. With detailed accounts of the major inventions, innovations, and technological breakthroughs of the Industrial Revolution, as well as the social and political struggles that accompanied them, this book provides a rich and engaging portrait of a critical period in human history. Whether you are a history buff, a business student, or simply a curious reader, Landmarks in English Industrial History is a must-read for anyone interested in the roots of modern society. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge...
Myths and Memories of the Black Death
This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic. The concept of cultural memory is used to examine the ways in which journalists, writers of fiction, scholars and others referred to, described and explained the Black Death from around 1800 onwards. The distant medieval past was often used to make sense of aspects of the present, from the cholera pandemics of the nineteenth-century to the climate crisis of the early twenty-first century. A series of overlapping myths related to the Black Death emerged based only in part on historical evidence. Cultural memory circulates in a variety of media from the scholarly article to the video game and online video clip, and the connections and differences between mediated representations of the Black Death are considered. The Black Death is one of the most well-known aspects of the medieval world, and this study of its associated memories and myths reveals the depth and complexity of interactions between the distant and recent past.
The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner created a self-portrait in the diaries she kept from 1927 until her death in 1978. In this selection, she writes of her friends and colleagues, her writing and music, her dog and cats, and her delight in gardens and housewifery. Above all, this is an account of a great love affair. Valentine Ackland came into the writer's life in 1931, bringing both sensual liberation and emotional anguish which was to last beyond death and evoke writing of power and honesty.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 'One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years' Sarah Waters The poet Sylvia Townsend Warner rose to sudden fame with the publication of her classic feminist novel Lolly Willowes in 1926, but never became a conventional member of London literary life, pursuing instead a long writing career in her own individualistic manner. Cheerfully defying social norms of the day, Warner lived in an openly homosexual relationship with the poet Valentine Ackland for almost forty years. Together, they were committed members of the Communist party and travelled twice to Spain during the Civil War, but Warner paid for her outspokennes...
Mr. Fortune's Maggot
A second meaning to the word 'maggot' is 'a whimsical or perverse fantasy' and it is a maggot of this variety that takes the Reverand Timothy Fortune, ex-clerk of the Hornsey Branch of Lloyds Bank, to the remote South Sea island of Fanua as a missionary. This 'pious escapade' brings him the joy of being let loose into the world for the first time.
