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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) |
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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
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The Corner That Held Them (novel) | ||
1949 |
Somerset (Paul Elek, Vision of England series) | ![]() |
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1951 |
Jane Austen (pamphlet) (Longmans, Green & Co for The British Council) | ||
1954 |
The Flint Anchor (novel) | ||
1955 |
Winter In The Air (stories) | ||
1957
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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. |
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
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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) |
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| Harman, Claire | Sylvia Townsend Warner | 1989 |
| Mulford, Wendy | This Narrow Place | 1988 (Pandora) |
A selection of other important reference books: |
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| 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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