Tag: 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 Townsend Warner, whose work I adore. Here the Finch family, dressed in their best, are…

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  January 19, 2014

  A View of Exmoor, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Persephone Book of Short Stories

• 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, written between 1932 and 1977, are as sharply subversive as her other work led me…

  chrisharding53

  September 8, 2013

  http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, short story, short story Sunday, Sylvia Townsend Warner

• 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 looked at it and saw the first offering was by Sylvia Townsend Warner how could…

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  June 2, 2013

  An Act of Reparation, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Infinite Riches Virago Modern Classics Short Stories, shot stories, Sylvia Townsend Warner