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Sylvia Townsend Warner

  • Short Story Sunday – Telling Tales with STW

    I’m not sure if  a Gainsborough portrait of Arminella Blountin the character actually exists, so here’s his painting ofhis daughters chasing a butterfly. This week a short story much more to my taste – A View of Exmoor, by Sylvia… Continue reading

  • Short Story Sunday: Forbidden Love

    It’s Sunday, so it’s short story time again, and this week I’ve abandoned Persephone for Virago and I’m dipping into Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Selected Short Stories, which are every bit as wonderful as I hoped they would be. These tales,… Continue reading

  • Short Story Sunday: Infinite Riches

    My 1993 edition of Infinite Riches,is edited by Lynn Knight. A slight change from ‘The Persephone Book of Short Stories’ this week, because I found a copy of Infinite Riches, a Virago Modern Classics short story collection, and once I… Continue reading