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A List of the Principal Writings of Sylvia Townsend Warner.
Unless stated otherwise the publishers are Chatto & Windus.

1925

The Espalier (verse)

Sylvia Townsend Warner

1926
Lolly Willowes (novel)
1927
Mr Fortune's Maggot (novel)
1928
Time Importuned (verse)
1929
The True Heart (novel)
1931
Opus 7 (verse)
1932
The Salutation (stories)
1934
Whether A Dove Or Seagull (verse) (with Valentine Ackland)
1935
More Joy In Heaven (stories) (The Cresset Press)
1936
Summer Will Show (novel)
1938
After The Death Of Don Juan (novel)  
1943
A Garland Of Straw (stories)  
1947
The Museum Of Cheats (stories)  
1948
The Corner That Held Them (novel)  
1949
Somerset (Paul Elek, Vision of England series) Sylvia Townsend Warner
1951
Jane Austen (pamphlet) (Longmans, Green & Co for The British Council)
1954
The Flint Anchor (novel)
1955
Winter In The Air (stories)
1957
Boxwood (verse) (with illustrations by Reynolds Stone)
1960
The Cat's Cradle Book (stories)
1962
A Spirit Rises (stories)
1966
A Stranger With A Bag (stories)
1967
T.H. White (biography)  
1971
The Innocent And The Guilty (stories)  
1977

Kingdoms Of Elfin (stories)

• Mention may also be made of The Portrait of a Tortoise, 1946, an anthology of writings by Gilbert White with Introduction; translations of Contre St Beuve (1958) by Proust and A Place of Shipwreck (1963) by Jean-Rene Huguenin: and The Nature of the Moment, 1973, a collection of poems by Valentine Ackland, with an anonymous memorial tribute in which the hand of Sylvia Townsend Warner is unmistakable.

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1980
Twelve Poems
1981
Scenes of Childhood and Other Stories
1982
Collected Poems (Carcanet New Press)
1982
Letters (ed. William Maxwell)
1984
One Thing Leading to Another and other stories
1988
Selected Stories
1994
Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner
1994
Sylvia and David – The Townsend Warner/Garnett Letters (ed. Richard Garnett)
1998
I'll Stand By You. Selected letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland (Pimlico)
2001
The Element of Lavishness. Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell. (Counterpoint)
2001
The Music at Long Verney. (Counterpoint) (stories)
2006
Dorset Stories (Black Dog Books)
2007 Somerset (a new edition by Black Dog Books)

 

Harman, Claire Sylvia Townsend Warner 1989
Mulford, Wendy This Narrow Place 1988 (Pandora)

A selection of other important reference books:
Stinton, Judith Chaldon Herring: The Powys Circle in a Dorset Village 1988 (Boydell Press)
 new revised edition Black Dog Books, April, 2004  
Lucas,John (Ed.) with an essay by Rattenbury, Arnold Writing and Radicalism ‘Literature, lying and sober truth: attitudes to the work of Patrick Hamilton and Sylvia Townsend Warner’ 1996 (Longman)
Lucas, John The Radical Twenties 1997 (Five Leaves Publications)
Joannou, Maroula with an essay by Beer, Gillian Women Writers of the 1930s
‘Sylvia Townsend Warner: the Centrifugal Kick’
1999 (Edinburgh University Press)
Garrity, Jane Step-Daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary 2003 (Manchester University Press)
Montefiore, Janet Men and Women Writers of the 1930s: The Dangerous Flood of History 1996 (Routledge)
Montefiore, Janet Arguments of Heart and Mind: Selected Essays 1977-2000 2002 (M.U.P.)
Tolhurst, Peter East Anglia – A Literary Pilgrimage 1996 (Black Dog Books)
Tolhurst, Peter Wessex - A Literary Pilgrimage 1999 (Black Dog Books)
Hackett, Robin Sapphic Primitivism: Productions of Race, Class and Sexuality in Key Works of Modern Fiction 2003 Rutgers University Press
Wachman, Gay Lesbian Empire - Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties 2001 Rutgers University Press
Croft, Andy ed. A Weapon in the Struggle: The Cultural History of the Communist Party in Britain. Includes a chapter 'Sylvia Townsend Warner in the 1930s' by Maroula Joannou. 1998 (Pluto Press)
Gill Davies, David Malcolm, John Simons editors Critical Essays on Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist 1893 - 1978 2006 (Edward Mellen Press)

We would be grateful for suggestions on other titles to add to this list.

     


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