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The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society
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An account dedicated to the writer Sylvia Townsend Warner, and for news from the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society https://townsendwarner.com/
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Help raise the final funds for Sylvia's statue! Join us at this fundraiser at beautiful Poxwell Hall in Dorset, on Sun 26th Oct, 1pm! townsendwarner.com/statue-fundr...
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Big news we signed off Sylvia Townend Warners Mark at the weekend. Artist Denise Dutton who created the Mary Anning statue has done it again. We are so thrilled and we can’t wait to sit on the bench and have a chat with Sylvia.
A fifth scale Maquette of how Sylvia Townsend Warner statue will look. She is sat on a bench in 1930s dress with her trademark curly short bob and wire rimmed glasses. She has pearls around her neck and wears a beautiful cascade jacket and tweed skirt. There are a cascade of books falling from her lap and a cat Rubbing his head around her legs.
October 16, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Dr Harriet Baker will be giving the 2025 Sylvia Townsend Warner Lecture on Wednesday 22 October at 5.30pm, at UCL. Her subject is ‘Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Old Teapot: Archives, Objects and Life-Writing‘. For tickets to the in-person event or to watch online, go to: bit.ly/3KSe26Q
Photo of Dr Harriet Baker standing in a doorway, wearing aa white shirt.
October 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Announcing a conference in London in May 2026, to mark the centenary of Lolly Willowes, Sylvia's first and best-known novel.
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Detail of the 2016 Siruela (Spanish) edition of Lolly Willowes, showing a cat with the title written on its white chest.
July 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society is pleased to announce the Mary Jacobs Memorial Essay Prize 2026. The aim of the Prize is to encourage further study of the writings of Sylvia Townsend Warner, in honour of the distinguished work of Dr Mary Jacobs. townsendwarner.com/mary-jacobs-...
Headshot of scholar Dr Mary Jacobs
July 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them (1948) is the subject of June's episode of the literary podcast Backlisted. The hosts speak with Tanya Kirk, author, editor and the Librarian of St John’s College, Cambridge.
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242. The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner — Backlisted
Sylvia Townsend Warner's  The Corner That Held Them  (1948) is the subject of this episode, almost ten years since Backlisted covered the same author's classic debut  Lolly Willowes ...
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July 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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I've done another post on Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Flint Anchor - one of my top 20 books. Now I am looking at clothes, particuarlly crinolines, and Warner's great touch with conversations clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
The Flint Anchor Part Two: Crinolines & Conversations
The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner published 1954   [excerpt] Women had begun to wear crinolines, and Mary prided herself on h...
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May 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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A perfect book to read over a Bank Holiday: The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner, a family saga which is both Spinster Miserylit and highly entertaining - how does STW do it? clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/bank...
Bank Holiday Read: The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner published 1954   We are in the season of UK Bank Holidays: those extra days off we get at E...
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May 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Looking forward to the STW Society summer outing, this time to Sylvia and Valentine's Norfolk haunts, on 26 and 27th July! All members welcome!
Ruins of abbey among reeds, with river bank in the foreground, lots of blue sky
June 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM