Sylvia Nora Townsend Warner was born at Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, the only child of George Townsend Warner and his wife Eleanor "Nora" Mary (née Hudleston). Her father was a house-master at Harrow School and was, for many years, associated with the prestigious Harrow History Prize which was renamed the Townsend Warner History Prize following his death in 1916. As a child, Townsend Warner was home-schooled by her father after being kicked out of kindergarten for mimicking the teachers. She was musically inclined, and, before World War I, planned to study in Vienna under Schoenberg. She enjoyed a seemingly idyllic childhood in rural Devonshire, but was strongly affected by her father's death. She moved to London and worked in a munitions factory at the outbreak of World War I.
In 1923, she met T. F. Powys, whose writing influenced her own and whose work she in turn encouraged.The two became friends, and her debut novel, Lolly Willowes, was published shortly after in 1926. From her first work, it was clear that Warner's focus was on subverting societal norms; she would later heavily use the themes of rejecting the Church, a need for female empowerment, and independence in her works. It was at Powys' home that Warner first met Valentine Ackland, a young poet; the two women fell in love, moving in together in 1930 and eventually settling at Frome Vauchurch, Dorset, in 1937. Her relationship with Ackland inspired much of Warner's works, including a published collaboration of poems, Whether a Dove or a Seagull, in 1933. Alarmed by the growing threat of fascism, they were active in the Communist Party, and Marxist ideals found their way into Warner's works. Warner participated in the II International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture, held in Valencia between 4 and 17 July 1937, while serving in the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War. After the war, Warner and Ackland permanently returned to England, living together until Ackland's death in 1969. After Warner's death in 1978, her ashes were buried with Ackland's at St Nicholas, Chaldon Herring, Dorset.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-241-45488-6
EAN 9780241454886
'A great shout of life and individuality ... an act of defiance that gladdens the soul' Guardian Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving, alone, to the depths of the countryside, her overbearing relatives are horrified.But Lolly has a greater, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-241-47607-9
EAN 9780241476079
Don Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured - or has he escaped? Dona Ana, the woman he tried to seduce, will stop at nothing to discover the truth. Set in a rural eighteenth-century Spain rife with suspicion and cruelty, and featuring a glorious cast ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-241-47608-6
EAN 9780241476086
Pillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. This is their story - his brandy-swilling wife, their hapless offspring and their changing fortunes - over the decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner's last novel, The Flint Anchor gloriously overturns our ideas of history, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-241-47609-3
EAN 9780241476093
After three years on the remote tropical island of Fanua, Timothy Fortune, a missionary from London, has made little headway. The islanders show very little interest in Christianity and he has only a single convert: a boy, Lueli. As Mr Fortune's affections for both Lueli and his new island home deepen, he begins to question ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-241-45484-8
EAN 9780241454848
'She is my husband's mistress - and here am I, taking her out to dinner'Sophia Willoughby of Blandamer House, upstanding Victorian matriarch, has packed her errant husband off to Paris with his mistress Minna. But when tragedy throws her life off balance Sophia goes to seek him out, and instead finds herself intensely attracted to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-241-45481-7
EAN 9780241454817
The nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to trouble them, whether it is through fire, floods, pestilence, a collapsing spire, jealous rivalries, a priest with a secret or a plague of caterpillars. As we follow their daily lives over three centuries, this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
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ISBN 978-84-121414-2-9
EAN 9788412141429
En la Inglaterra victoriana, Sukey Bond, una muchacha recién salida del orfanato, es enviada como sirvienta a una granja de Essex. En la granja trabaja Eric, un muchacho apuesto y huidizo que, en sus escasos encuentros con Sukey, la mira con una expresión de esplendoroso triunfo . Todos dicen que Eric es un idiota, pero ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda con solapas · 154 páginas
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ISBN 978-84-17700-53-9
EAN 9788417700539
"El gato ha estado junto al hombre desde los "tiempos de la caverna: el inicio de su mutuo afecto se pierde en la noche de la Historia.En el Antiguo Egipto se adoraba a una gata-diosa llamada Bast, y los arqueólogos han hallado, al excavar en las tumbas de los notables, miles de momias de gatos, ...
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