Letters Of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Very early in her career Sylvia Townsend Warner won recognition of a discerning group of writers and readers on both sides of rare imagination and originality increased with each new publication. In addition to publishing some twenty books she wrote thousands of letters, mainly to close friends and acquaintances, and these quite naturally provide a record of almost fifty years of the writer’s life.

As the editor of the selection says, she had a connoisseur’s eye for the bogus and a hatred fo...