Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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British novelist, poet, short-story writer and musicologist whose novel Lolly Willowes and decades of New Yorker stories established her distinctive literary career.
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About Sylvia Townsend Warner
Fiction and short stories
Warner’s novel Lolly Willowes brought her recognition in Britain and the United States. She went on to publish seven novels and numerous short-story collections, including work that appeared regularly in The New Yorker.
Poetry and musicology
Warner began with poetry and maintained a wide-ranging career that also included biography, letters, translation and literary criticism. Before her fiction became widely known, she worked on the Oxford University Press Tudor Church Music project.
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