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This is a brief discussion of Sylvia Townsend Warner and, of course, of some speculative-fiction books by Warner.
This discussion and list does not necessarily include every book by Warner: it includes only those books that I both know and like. Just as with the author list itself, omission of a particular item may mean I didn’t think highly enough of the omitted item, or it may simply mean that I have not yet sufficient familiarity with it. (In a very few cases, I have listed some books merely on the strength of my opinion of the author: all such books are clearly marked below, as throughout these lists, with a hash mark (#) before the title so you know what’s what.)
I don’t pretend that this discussion is a deep analysis. My intent is no more than to give you a rough idea of what kinds of tales Warner tells, how those tales are usually told, and what makes them and Warner worthy; in sum, to help you rank Sylvia Townsend Warner (and the works by Warner listed here) on your personal literary to do list.
Regrettably, I have not yet had an opportunity to write an essay on this author, but the Other Resources section below will lead you to some information about the Notable Books listed farther down this page.
Here are some of the more useful current pages:
There are also a couple of useful sites now only available through The Wayback Machine. Those include the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society [archived copy], and the Sylvia Townsend Warner Archive [archived copy]. Beyond those is a useful biographical/critical page at the Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture [archived copy]; it includes a most useful bibliography of writings about Warner and her work.
(The noted caricaturist David Levine, of The New York Review of Books, did a sketch of Warner.)
As noted above, there is a good bibliographical summary at the at the glbtq.com Warner page [archived copy]. Besides what it lists, there is Critical Essays on Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist 1893 – 1978, by Gill Davies, David Malcolm, and John Simons.
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