The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society
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An account dedicated to the writer Sylvia Townsend Warner, and for news from the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society https://townsendwarner.com/
Join us for a historic moment in the heart of Dorchester!
Visible Women UK proudly invites you to the unveiling of the new statue of Sylvia Townsend Warner on Sunday, 14th December at 1pm sharp. townsendwarner.com/join-us-in-d...
Visible Women UK proudly invites you to the unveiling of the new statue of Sylvia Townsend Warner on Sunday, 14th December at 1pm sharp. townsendwarner.com/join-us-in-d...
December 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Join us for a historic moment in the heart of Dorchester!
Visible Women UK proudly invites you to the unveiling of the new statue of Sylvia Townsend Warner on Sunday, 14th December at 1pm sharp. townsendwarner.com/join-us-in-d...
Visible Women UK proudly invites you to the unveiling of the new statue of Sylvia Townsend Warner on Sunday, 14th December at 1pm sharp. townsendwarner.com/join-us-in-d...
Help raise the final funds for Sylvia's statue! Join us at this fundraiser at beautiful Poxwell Hall in Dorset, on Sun 26th Oct, 1pm! townsendwarner.com/statue-fundr...
Big news we signed off Sylvia Townend Warners Mark at the weekend. Artist Denise Dutton who created the Mary Anning statue has done it again. We are so thrilled and we can’t wait to sit on the bench and have a chat with Sylvia.
October 16, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Help raise the final funds for Sylvia's statue! Join us at this fundraiser at beautiful Poxwell Hall in Dorset, on Sun 26th Oct, 1pm! townsendwarner.com/statue-fundr...
Dr Harriet Baker will be giving the 2025 Sylvia Townsend Warner Lecture on Wednesday 22 October at 5.30pm, at UCL. Her subject is ‘Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Old Teapot: Archives, Objects and Life-Writing‘. For tickets to the in-person event or to watch online, go to: bit.ly/3KSe26Q
October 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Dr Harriet Baker will be giving the 2025 Sylvia Townsend Warner Lecture on Wednesday 22 October at 5.30pm, at UCL. Her subject is ‘Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Old Teapot: Archives, Objects and Life-Writing‘. For tickets to the in-person event or to watch online, go to: bit.ly/3KSe26Q
Announcing a conference in London in May 2026, to mark the centenary of Lolly Willowes, Sylvia's first and best-known novel.
townsendwarner.com/lolly-willow...
townsendwarner.com/lolly-willow...
July 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Announcing a conference in London in May 2026, to mark the centenary of Lolly Willowes, Sylvia's first and best-known novel.
townsendwarner.com/lolly-willow...
townsendwarner.com/lolly-willow...
The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society is pleased to announce the Mary Jacobs Memorial Essay Prize 2026. The aim of the Prize is to encourage further study of the writings of Sylvia Townsend Warner, in honour of the distinguished work of Dr Mary Jacobs. townsendwarner.com/mary-jacobs-...
July 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society is pleased to announce the Mary Jacobs Memorial Essay Prize 2026. The aim of the Prize is to encourage further study of the writings of Sylvia Townsend Warner, in honour of the distinguished work of Dr Mary Jacobs. townsendwarner.com/mary-jacobs-...
Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them (1948) is the subject of June's episode of the literary podcast Backlisted. The hosts speak with Tanya Kirk, author, editor and the Librarian of St John’s College, Cambridge.
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/242...
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/242...
242. The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner — Backlisted
Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner That Held Them (1948) is the subject of this episode, almost ten years since Backlisted covered the same author's classic debut Lolly Willowes ...
www.backlisted.fm
July 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them (1948) is the subject of June's episode of the literary podcast Backlisted. The hosts speak with Tanya Kirk, author, editor and the Librarian of St John’s College, Cambridge.
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/242...
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/242...
Reposted by The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society
I've done another post on Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Flint Anchor - one of my top 20 books. Now I am looking at clothes, particuarlly crinolines, and Warner's great touch with conversations clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
The Flint Anchor Part Two: Crinolines & Conversations
The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner published 1954 [excerpt] Women had begun to wear crinolines, and Mary prided herself on h...
clothesinbooks.blogspot.com
May 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I've done another post on Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Flint Anchor - one of my top 20 books. Now I am looking at clothes, particuarlly crinolines, and Warner's great touch with conversations clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
Reposted by The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society
A perfect book to read over a Bank Holiday: The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner, a family saga which is both Spinster Miserylit and highly entertaining - how does STW do it? clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/bank...
Bank Holiday Read: The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner published 1954 We are in the season of UK Bank Holidays: those extra days off we get at E...
clothesinbooks.blogspot.com
May 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
A perfect book to read over a Bank Holiday: The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner, a family saga which is both Spinster Miserylit and highly entertaining - how does STW do it? clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/bank...
Looking forward to the STW Society summer outing, this time to Sylvia and Valentine's Norfolk haunts, on 26 and 27th July! All members welcome!
June 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Looking forward to the STW Society summer outing, this time to Sylvia and Valentine's Norfolk haunts, on 26 and 27th July! All members welcome!