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The Journal, containing articles of an academic nature is published in late autumn. Peter Tolhurst is the Editor and would welcome any queries or suggestions for articles. Contact him at:

The two Newsletters are edited by Judith Stinton who is always pleased to receive any snippets of information which are of general interest. Send any queries or suggestions regarding the Newsletter to Judith Bond:

Your email will be forwarded on to Judith Stinton.


     

The Journal for 2000 has the following articles:

• Sylvia Townsend Warner as poet - John Lucas
• "The True Story of England's Greatness": Degeneracy, Primitivism, Eugenics - Gay Wachman
• Writers at Work - Sylvia Townsend Warner interviewed by Louise Morgan in 1931
• And two works by Sylvia herself, "Jungle Blossom and "A Fragment"

The Journal for 2001 has the following articles:

• The Willowes Pattern - Rosemary Sykes
• Some Musings on Lolly Willows - Ren Draya
• Alternative Lives - R.B. Russell
• The Short Stories - Glen Cavaliero
• John Craske, 1881 - 1943, Fisherman and Artist - Peter Tolhurst
• And three Works by Sylvia, The Original Ending of Lolly Willowes, "I Am Come Into My Garden" and "Rainbow"

The Journal for 2002 has the following articles:

• "Enter If You Will": Echoes from a Haunted House - Janet Montefiore
• "Sharing a Worldliness of Austerity": Sylvia Townsend Warner and Jane Austen - Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt
• Sylvia Townsend Warner in Conversation with Val Warner and Michael Schmidt, 1975
• Review of "Arguments of Heart and Mind: Selected Essays, 1977-2000: Janet Montefiore" by Glen Cavaliero
• And works by Sylvia, "Northanger Abbey: An Introduction" and Four Uncollected Poems

The Journal for 2003 has the following articles:

• Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Biographer’s ‘Moral Sense’ - Janet Montefiore
• Shelf Lives 11: Sylvia Townsend Warner - Peter Scupham
• And three works by Sylvia: “The Book of Merlyn: The Story of the Book”, “Death and the Lady: The Letters of Katherine Mansfield” and “Bathrooms Remembered”

The Journal for 2004 has the following articles:

• Sylvia Townsend Warner: The Centrifugal Kick - Dame Gillian Beer
• Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Letters to Peter Pears
Maxwell’s World – Justin Cartwright
• And five works by Sylvia: “Feverell’s Middlesex”, “Elegy”, “Arcase, Il Faut Partir”, “Love of France” and “Ludwig van Beethoven”
• Two book reviews – Chaldon Herring: Writers in a Dorset Landscape and Stepdaughters of England

Journal for 2005 has the following articles:

• Who is Sylvia? – Claire Harman
• Elfins and Densmen – Geoffrey Grigson
• From Elphame to Otherwhere – Helen Sutherland
• The Corners That Held Her – Gill Davies
• Sylvia Townsend Warner’s letters to Daniel Menashe
• Review by Glen Cavaliero of “Narrative Settlements” by Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt
• And two works by Sylvia: “Poison” and “Defoe and Moll Flanders”

Journal for 2006 has the following articles:

• Labours of Love - Frances Bingham
• Sylvia in Suffolk – Ronald Blythe
• The Politics of Disclosure and the Fable – Mary Jacobs
• Re-imagining the Middle Ages – Rachel Willcock
• A Friendship Rediscovered – Peter Tolhurst
• Review by Glen Cavaliero of Dorset Stories and review by Helen Sutherland of Critical Essays on Sylvia Townsend Warner
• And two works by Sylvia: Soldiers, Weeding-Women and Linnets and A True Ear

Journal for 2007 has the following articles:

• Chaldon Faces – David Garnett
• A Word is a Bridge– Margaretta Jolly
• This was a Lesson in History – Rosemary Sykes
• And five works by Sylvia, 'The Way I have Come', ‘The Essex Marshes', ‘Private Letters in Old Ink', ‘Scorched Earth Policy' (short story) and ‘The Historical Novel'.

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Alphabetical index of contributors to Society Journals and Newsletters

Ackland, Valentine

‘The First and the Last' (Short Story), Newsletter 10, 2005

‘A Ghost was Born' (Short Story), Newsletter 12, 2006

‘Cat Characteristics', Newsletter 13, 2006

‘Country Dealings', Newsletter 15, 2007

 

Beer, Gillian

‘STW: “The Centrifugal Kick”', Journal, 2004

 

Bingham, Frances

‘Labours of Love: Valentine Ackland on her Centenary', Journal, 2006

 

Blythe, Ronald

‘Sylvia in Suffolk', Journal, 2006

 

Carey, John

‘Pure Pleasure: Mr Fortune's Maggot', Newsletter 3, 2001

 

Cartwright, Justin

‘Maxwell's World', Journal, 2004

 

Cavaliero, Glen

‘The Short Stories', Journal, 2001

 

Davies, Gill

‘The Corners That Held Her: The Importance of Place in the Writings of STW',

Journal 2005

 

De Groot, Jerome

‘Forgotten Classics : STW's Lolly Willows', Newsletter 13, 2006

 

Draya, Ren

‘Some musings on Lolly Willowes', Journal, 2001

 

Feaver, Jane

‘Book of a Lifetime: Mr Fortune's Maggot, Newsletter 14, 2007

 

Fitzgerald, Penelope

‘Keeping Warm' (Review of STW's Letters and Collected Poems,

Newsletter 8), 2004

 

Grigson, Geoffrey

‘Elfins and Densmen' (Review of Kingdoms of Elfin), Journal, 2005

 

Harman, Claire

‘Who is Sylvia?', Journal, 2005

 

Jacobs, Mary

‘The Politics of Disclosure and the Fable', Journal, 2006

 

Jolly, Margaretta

‘A Word Is A Bridge', Journal, 2007

 

Le Guin, Ursula

‘Brief Encounter: Recollections of STW', Newsletter 9, 2004

 

Lucas, John

‘STW as Poet', Journal, 2000

 

Montefiore, Janet

‘ “Enter if you will”: Echoes from a Haunted House', Journal, 2002

‘STW and the Biographer's “Moral Sense”', Journal, 2003

 

Nesbitt, Jennifer Poulos

‘Sharing a “Worldliness of Austerity”: STW and Jane Austen', Journal, 2002

 

Reviews

‘Arguments of Heart and Mind: Selected Essays, 1977-2000',

Janet Montefiore, by Glen Cavaliero, Journal, 2002

‘Chaldon Herring', Judith Stinton by Ray Russell, Journal, 2002

‘Step Daughters of England', Jane Garrity, Journal, 2004

‘Narrative Settlements', Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt by Glen Cavaliero, Journal, 2005

‘Dorset Stories', STW, by Glen Cavaliero, Journal, 2006

‘Critical Essays on STW' by Helen Sutherland, Journal, 2006

 

Robertson, Alec

‘Another Life: From Frome to Winterton', Newsletter 9, 2004

 

Russell, Ray

‘Alternative Lives in STW's Lolly Willowes and Arthur Machen's “A Fragment of Life” ', Journal, 2001

 

Scupham, Peter

Shelf Lives: II STW (Poetry Essay), Journal, 2003

 

Stinton, Judith

‘STW and the Ladies Shooting Class', Newsletter 2, 2001

‘Unconsidered Trifles', Newsletter 4, 2002

‘A Chaldon Fragment', Newsletter 9, 2004

‘STW's Somerset', Newsletter 11, 2005

‘A Real Character: Mrs Hawley Edwards', Newsletter 12, 2006

‘Stories of Hilton', Newsletter 13, 2006

‘Wicked Women of West Chaldon', Newsletter 14, 2007

‘More About Miss More', Newsletter 15, 2007

 

Sutherland, Helen

‘From Elphame to Otherwhere: STW's Kingdoms of Elfin', Journal, 2005

 

Sykes, Rosemary

‘The Willowes Pattern', Journal, 2001

‘This Was A Lesson In History', Journal, 2007

 

Tolhurst, Peter

‘John Craske, 1881-1943, Norfolk Fisherman and Artist, Journal, 2001

‘A Jar of Sweets', Newsletter, 2003

‘A Friendship Rediscovered: STW and Ruth Scott', Journal, 2006

‘Setting Somerset ', Newsletter 15, 2007

 

Vaughan, Bridget

‘A Child's Eye View of STW', Newsletter 3, 2001

Wachmn, Gay

‘ “The True Story of England's Greatness”: Degeneracy, Primitivism, Eugenics', Journal, 2000

 

Warner, Sylvia Townsend

‘The Jungle Blossom', (Short Story), Journal, 2000

‘Writer's at Work', (interview), Journal, 2000

‘I am come into my garden' (Short Story), Journal, 2001

‘Philip and Anna' (Short Story), Journal, 2002

‘Northanger Abbey : An Introduction', Journal, 2002

Four Uncollected Poems, Journal, 2002

STW in Conversation, Journal, 2002

‘The Land of Gwent', Newsletter 6, 2003

‘Story with an Hypothesis' (Short Story), Newsletter 6, 2003

‘The Book of Merlyn: The Story of the Book', Journal, 2003

‘Death and the Lady: The Letters of Katherine Mansfield' (Review), Journal, 2003

Bathrooms Remembered (Essay), Journal, 2003

Nancy Cunard, Newsletter 7, 2003

Two Unpublished Letters, Newsletter 7, 2003

‘Cuckoo' (Short Story), Newsletter 8, 2004

‘Feverell's Middlesex' (Essay), Journal, 2004

‘Elegy' (Poem), Journal, 2004

‘Arsace, 11 Faut Partir' (Short Story), Journal, 2004

‘Love of France' (Essay), Journal, 2004

Letters to Peter Pears, Journal, 2004

‘Ludwig Van Beethoven' (Review), Journal, 2004

‘Country Worker and Country Living' (Reviews in The Countryman 1949), Newsletter 10, 2005

‘Modern Witches' (Essay), Newsletter 1, 2000 and 10, 2005

‘All this Winter Day' (Poem), Newsletter 10, 2005

‘Paul Nordoff: Pioneer in Musical Therapy' (Obituary), Newsletter 11, 2005

‘Concerning Author's Cottages No. 9: Miss Green's, Chaldon Herring', Newsletter 11,2005

‘Poison' (Short Story), Journal 2005

‘Defoe and Moll Flanders' (Essay), Journal, 2005

‘Letters to Samuel Menashe', Journal, 2005

‘Weeds' (Essay), Newsletter 12, 2006

‘Soldiers, Weeding-Women and Linnets' (Essay), Journal, 2006

‘A True Ear' (Review of Thos. Hardy : A Critical Biography), Journal, 2006

‘Footsteps On The Battlements', Newsletter 15, 2007

‘The Way I Have Come', Journal, 2007

‘The Essex Marshes', Journal, 2007

‘Private Letters in Old Ink', Journal, 2007

‘Scorched Earth Policy', Journal, 2007

‘The Historical Novel', Journal, 2007

Willcock, Rachel

‘Re-Imagining the Middle Ages: STW and The Corner That Held Them', Journal, 2006

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