Sylvia Townsend Warner - Hardcover

Harman, Claire

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701129387 ISBN 13: 9780701129385

Publisher: New Amsterdam Books, 1995

Synopsis

Sylvia Townsend Warner, who died in 1978, was a poet, novelist and writer of short stories. This biography makes use of her previously unpublished diaries, and those of her friend and lover, Valentine Ackland. It covers her early life as a musicologist and composer, her years as an active member of the Communist Party, her literary successes and her relationship with Valentine Ackland. Claire Harman edited "Collected Poems of Sylvia Townsend Warner" and "Selected Poems".

About this title

About the Author:

Claire Harman is the award-winning biographer of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1989), Fanny Burney (2000) and Robert Louis Stevenson (2005) and the author of the best-selling Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World (2009). She writes regularly for the literary press on both sides of the Atlantic and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006. Her most recent work is Charlotte Bronte: A Life.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0701129387
• ISBN 13: 9780701129385
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256