Breeding

Frank Kermode

  • The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner edited by Claire Harman
    Chatto, 384 pp, £25.00, June 1994, ISBN 0 7011 3659 6
  • Sylvia and David: The Townsend Warner/Garnett Letters edited by Richard Garnett
    Sinclair-Stevenson, 246 pp, £20.00, June 1994, ISBN 1 85619 341 1

Sylvia Townsend Warner died in 1978, aged 84. Her first novel, Lolly Willowes, appeared in 1926, and none of her later works quite matched its success. In her later years she was probably better known to most people as a name that appeared under rather than above story after story in the New Yorker; that journal published about fifty over a period of some forty years. She was a copious, elegant and witty writer, and since she produced these stories rather easily, she came to think of the New Yorker, for a long time an indispensable financial support, as a generous old admirer whom she could please fairly easily when she needed to.

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Vol. 16 No. 14 · 21 July 1994 » Frank Kermode » Breeding (print version)
Pages 15-16 | 2806 words