Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Townsend Warner (Dec. 6, 1893-1978) was a writer.

Warner had a lifelong love affair with another woman, Valentine Ackland (1907-1969).

Works

• Lolly Willowes, or, The Loving Huntsman (1925 novel)
• Kingdoms of Elfin (1978 collection)
• Mr. Fortune's Maggot (1927)
• The True Heart (1929)
• Whether a Dove or a Seagull (1933; joint collection of Warner's & Ackland's poems)
• Summer Will Show (1936)
• After the Death of Don Juan (1938)
• The Corner That Held Them (1948)
• The Flint Anchor (1954)
• T. H. White: A Biography (1967)
• The Nature of the Moment (collection of Valentine's poems, edited by Warner)
• Translation, Proust's Contre Saint-Beuve into English
• Guide to Somerset, England
• 150 short stories to New Yorker between 1936 and 1977
• 10 volumes of Tudor Church Music with "the Committee"

Further research

• Sylvia Townsend Warner Archive: The Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1XA - England. Sylvia Townsend Warner / Valentine Ackland Room. Write at least one month in advance for permission to: Susanna Pinney, 7 Southbrook Road, London, SE12 8LH
• Sylvia Townsend Warner Papers at New York Public Library
• The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society; see also alternate link
• Booksellers Bibliography
• biography

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