Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Townsend Warner was born in 1893, the daughter of a master at Harrow School. Initially destined for music, she spent about ten years, from 1917, working on a scholarly edition of Tudor church music, and published her first novel at thirty-two. A communist from 1935 and committed against fascism, she went to Spain in 1936 for the Red Cross. She lived for almost forty years with a poet in Dorset. She died in 1978.

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