Lolly Willowes

by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Overview

A spinster aunt grows tired of being the "extra woman" in the family and goes off to the country to become a witch. A delightful feminist classic which was the Book-of-the-Month Club's first feature choice in 1926.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781504073011
Publisher:	Open Road Media
Publication date:	01/01/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	301
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978) was a British author who began her self-proclaimed "accidental career" as a poet after she was given paper with a "particularly tempting surface." Originally a musicologist, Warner was one of the editors of the 10-volume Tudor Church Music and was also a contributor to Grove’s Dictionary of Music. Lolly Willowes, her first novel, was the first selection of the Book of the Month Club. In addition to her short stories, 144 of which appeared in the New Yorker, Warner also published many collections of short fiction, novels, volumes of poetry, and works of nonfiction, including Jane Austen: 1775–1817 and the semiautobiographical, posthumously published Scenes of Childhood.

Editorial Reviews

Sylvia Townsend Warner had a connoisseur's eye for the bogus, and a hatred of the assumptions of privilege. Her heart was with the hunted, always...Along with an extraordinary fancy she had a deep understanding of human behavior, so that nothing, no feeling, seemed to lie beyond the reach of her imagination...She had the true novelist's awareness of the wheel (the image is hers) turning and turning in 'the bright implacable river' of life.

William Maxwell

Lolly Willowes is a morality fable, fully realized but sparely told...It remains a novel as original in its conception as it is subtle and refined in its artistry.

Times Literary Supplement

Lolly Willowes is a treasure; profound, crisp and brilliant, an allegory to enchant even the reader with little patience for allegory, a fantasy firmly and illuminatingly located in the very dailiness of life...

Boston Sunday Globe