About Sylvia Townsend

Name                               : Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978)

Occupation                      : Writer of novels, short stories and poems

Her inspiration in writing : Valentine Ackland ( her lover)

Literary works                :

Novels

·          Lolly Willowes (1926)

·          Summer Will Show (1936)

·          My Fortune’s Maggot (1929)

Short stories

·          Some World Far From Ours (1929)

·          Elinor Barley (1930)

·          The Salutation (1932)

Poet

·          The Espalier (1925)

·          Time Importuned (1928)

·          Opus 7 (1931)

She also wrote letters, diaries, biographies, translations and others.

Theories in her writings:

v  Feminist theory (Lolly Willowes-1926)

v  Modernism (Summer Will Show – 1936)

v  Surrealism (The Espalier-1925)

v  Postmodernism (The Mahogany Table)

Her writings are mostly about:

1.     a rejection of Christianity

2.     the position of women in patriarchal societies

3.     ambiguous sexuality, or bisexuality

4.     lyrical descriptions of landscape

Her beliefs:

v  believe  that the Soviet  Union  incarnated  the  freedom, democracy,  and  justice  that  they  were seeking. Fortunately, the writing on these themes is relieved by descriptions of events and evocations of nature.

v  freeing women from their economic dependence on men

Sources:

1.     http://www.townsendwarner.com/biography.php

2.     http://www.thenation.com/article/history-unforeseen-sylvia-townsend-warner?page=0,1

3.     http://www.williamapercy.com/wiki/images/Warner.pdf

4.      http://www.sylviatownsendwarner.com/stw_bibliography.html