Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Biography

Sylvia Nora Townsend Warner was an English novelist, poet and musicologist, known for works such as the novels Lolly Willowes (1926) and The Corner That Held Them (1948), and the short story collection Kingdoms of Elfin (1977). She spent most of her adult life in partnership with the poet Valentine Ackland.

Books by Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Corner That Held ThemThe Corner That Held Them
Lolly Willowes : or, The Loving HuntsmanLolly Willowes : or, The Loving Huntsman
Lolly WillowesLolly Willowes
Summer Will ShowSummer Will Show
Lolly WillowesLolly Willowes
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Quotes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

"Truth has beauty power and necessity."

Sylvia Townsend Warner

"If one were to include one-tenth of the remarkable people one knows, in one's fiction, no one would accept it. Real life remains one's private menagerie."

Sylvia Townsend Warner

"To think of losing is to lose already."

Sylvia Townsend Warner