The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society

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

The 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”

The 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"

The 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".

The Journal for 2008 has the following articles:

• Janet Machen (1917-2008) – Ray Russell
• Letters to Oliver Stonor – Sylvia Townsend Warner, with an introduction by Mary Jacobs
• A Visit to the Founder – Ronald Blythe
• Robertson Scott and The Countryman – Neil Philip
• A Life-Long Love (poetry by Valentine Ackland) – Judith Stinton
• "Nefarious Activities": STW, VA and MI5 Surveillance – Mary Jacobs and Judith Bond
• Review by Glen Cavaliero of New Collected Poems by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Review by Gillian Spraggs of Journey from Winter by Valentine Ackland
• And two articles by Sylvia: "Barcelona" and "Soldiers and Sickles"

The Journal for 2009 has the following articles:

• Something Understood: Formality and the Language of the Heart in the Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner – Janet Montefiore
• Memories of Sylvia Townsend Warner – Clive Robbins
• Some Chaldon Witches – Judith Stinton
• Review by Helen Sutherland of Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness by Maren Tova Linett
• Review by Helen Sutherland of Knowing Your Place: East Anglian Landscapes and Literature edited by Peter Tolhurst
• Review by Nathan Waddell of Women, Privacy and Modernity in British Early Twentieth Century Writing by Wendy Gan
• And two pieces by Sylvia: "Foreword: The Fall of France" and "The Red Dress"

The Journal for 2010 has the following articles:

• The Unnaturalness of a Society: Class Division and Conflict in Warner’s Kingdoms of Elfin - Hannah Priest
• Warner’s Excerpts from The Portrait of a Tortoise - Barry Pike
• The Queerness of Lolly Willowes - Peter Swaab
• Encounters Between Elves and Humans in Warner’s Kingdoms of Elfin - Rebecca K. Hahn
• And two pieces by Sylvia: "The Country Schoolmaster" and "A New Way of Protecting Fruit"

The Journal for 2011 has the following articles:

• Tree and Dreams: Sylvia Townsend Warner, the Pastoral, and Fantastic Ruralism - Mary Jacobs
• The Ambivalent Composer and the Carnegie Competition: From Music to Literature - Lynn Mutti
• Sylvia Townsend Warner and Romance - Claire Harman
• Narratives of Ethnography in ‘The Cat’s Cradle Book’ - Georgia Johnston
• Sylvia Townsend Warner and Tudor Church Music - Richard Searle
• And two pieces by Sylvia: "Recommendation to Starvation" and "Dearest Rachel"

The Journal for 2012 has the following articles:

• Tracking Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Red Footsteps in Lolly Willowes – June E. Dunn
• The Silent Self: Valentine Ackland’s Diaries after 1949 – Ailsa Granne
• Dr Mary Elizabeth Jacobs: A Tribute – Angela K. Smith
• And two pieces by STW: "The Dog’s Tragedy" and Dearest Rachel Reviews

Backcopies

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Most of the Society's Newsletters are also available (2 per year) at £1.50 ($2.00 + shipping) each.

Contributors

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
• "A Visit to the Founder", Journal, 2008

Bond, Judith

• "Items in the STW/VA Archive belonging to the STW Society", Newsletter 17, 2008
• "Ancient Solitary Reign at the Pen Mill Hotel", Newsletter 21, 2010

Bond, Judith & Jacobs, Mary

• "Nefarious Activities": STW, VA and MI5 Surveillance, Journal, 2008

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

Dunn, June E.

• Tracking Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Red Footsteps in Lolly Willowes, Journal, 2012

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

Garnett, David

• "Chaldon Faces", Journal, 2007

Granne, Ailsa

• The Silent Self: Valentine Ackland’s Diaries after 1949, Journal, 2012

Grigson, Geoffrey

• "Elfins and Densmen" (Review of Kingdoms of Elfin), Journal, 2005

Hahn, Rebecca K.

• "Encounters Between Elves and Humans in Warner’s Kingdoms of Elfin", Journal, 2010

Harman, Claire

• "Who is Sylvia?", Journal, 2005
• "Sylvia Townsend Warner and Romance", Journal, 2011

Jacobs, Mary

• "The Politics of Disclosure and the Fable", Journal, 2006
• "Nefarious Activities": STW, VA and MI5 Surveillance, Journal, 2008
• "Tree and Dreams: Sylvia Townsend Warner, the Pastoral, and Fantastic Ruralism", Journal, 2011

Johnston, Georgia

• "Narratives of Ethnography in ‘The Cat’s Cradle Book’", Journal, 2011

Jolly, Margaretta

• "A Word Is A Bridge", Journal, 2007

Krissdottir, Morine

• "The STW/VA Archive", Newsletter 17, 2008

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
• "Something Understood: Formality and the Language of the Heart in the Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner", Journal, 2009

Mottram, Stephen

• "The Unfortunate & the Replica in the Wrington Church Hand-Book, 1949", Newsletter 16, 2008
• "STW Society: Aquisitions Policy", Newsletter 17, 2008

Mutti, Lynn

• "STW, Music & The Dreaming Spires – Heaven!", Newsletter 17, 2008
• "The Ambivalent Composer and the Carnegie Competition: From Music to Literature", Journal, 2011

Nesbitt, Jennifer Poulos

• "Sharing a 'Worldliness of Austerity': STW and Jane Austen", Journal, 2002

Philip, Neil

• "Robertson Scott and The Countryman", Journal, 2008

Pike, Barry

• "Warner’s Excerpts from The Portrait of a Tortoise", Journal, 2010

Priest, Hannah

• "The Unnaturalness of a Society: Class Division and Conflict in Warner’s Kingdoms of Elfin", Journal, 2010

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
• "New Collected Poems" by Glen Cavaliero, Journal, 2008
• "Journey from Winter" by Gillian Spraggs, Journal, 2008
• "Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness" Maren Tova Linett by Helen Sutherland, Journal, 2009
• "Knowing Your Place: East Anglian Landscapes and Literature" ed. Peter Tolhurst by Helen Sutherland, Journal, 2009
• "Women, Privacy and Modernity in British Early Twentieth Century Writing" Wendy Gan by Nathan Waddell, Journal, 2009

Robertson, Alec

• "Another Life: From Frome to Winterton", Newsletter 9, 2004

Robbins, Clive

• "Memories of Paul Nordoff", Newsletter 17, 2008
• "Memories of Sylvia Townsend Warner"; Journal, 2009

Russell, Ray

• "Alternative Lives in STW's Lolly Willowes and Arthur Machen's 'A Fragment of Life'", Journal, 2001
• "Janet Machen (1917 - 2008)", Journal, 2008

Scupham, Peter

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

Searle, Richard

• "Sylvia Townsend Warner and Tudor Church Music", Journal, 2011

Swaab, Peter

• "The Queerness of Lolly Willowes", Journal, 2010

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
• "Autumn Weekend [Somerset]", 2007, Newsletter 16, 2008
• "Words and Music, Newsletter 16, 2008
• "For the Good of the Cause", Newsletter 16, 2008
• "A Life-Long Love" (poetry by Valentine Ackland), Journal, 2008
• "Some Chaldon Witches", Journal, 2009
• "An Inch from the Mile" Newsletter 18, 2009
• "Riversdale, Frome Vauchurch", Newsletter 19, 2009
• "St, Basil, Toller Fratrum", Newsletter 21, 2010

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
• "A Cotswold Adventure", Newsletter 17, 2008
• "Where is Sylvia?" Newsletter 18, 2009

Vaughan, Bridget

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

Wachman, Gay

• "'The True Story of England's Greatness': Degeneracy, Primitivism, Eugenics", Journal, 2000

Warner, Sylvia Townsend

• "The Jungle Blossom", (Short Story), Journal, 2000
• "Writers 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, Il 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
• "Barcelona", Journal, 2008
• "Letters to Oliver Stonor", Journal, 2008
• "Soldiers and Sickles", Journal, 2008
• "Foreword: The Fall of France", Journal, 2009
• "The Red Dress", Journal, 2009
• "On Choosing a Country Residence" Newsletter 19, 2009
• "What the Soldier Said", Newsletter 19, 2009
• "The Country Schoolmaster", Journal, 2010
• "A New Way of Protecting Fruit", Journal, 2010
• "The Domestic Petronius", Newsletter 20, 2010
• "The Inspired Old Buzzard: William Blake, 1757-1827", Newsletter 20, 2010
• "Lady Chatterley's Lover" (letter), Newsletter 22, 2011
• "Alexander Pope" (review), Newsletter 22, 2011
• "Things Seen", Newsletter 22, 2011
• "Recommendation to Starvation", Journal, 2011
• "Dearest Rachel", Journal, 2011, 2012
• "The Dog’s Tragedy", Journal, 2012

Wildblood, Jenny

• "Cooking the Books", Newsletter 18, 2009

Willcock, Rachel

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