Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Lolly Willowes is a twenty-eight-year-old spinster when her adored father dies, leaving her dependent upon her brothers and their wives. After twenty years of self-effacement as a maiden aunt, she decides to break free and moves to a small Bedfordshire village. Here, happy and unfettered, she enjoys her new existence nagged only by the sense of a secret she has yet to discover. That secret - and her vocation - is witchcraft, and with her cat and a pact with the Devil, Lolly Willowes is finally free. An instant and great success on its publication in 1926, Lolly Willowes is Sylvia Townsend Warner's most magical novel. Deliciously wry and inviting, it was her piquant plea that single women find liberty and civility.

One of our most idiosyncratic, courageous and versatile writers * HERMIONE LEE *
A novel as original in its conception as it is subtle and refined in its artistry.. LOLLY WILLOWES retains all of the charm and all of the 'relevance * it owned years ago’ *
TLS * 'Witty, eerie, tender’ *
JOHN UPDIKE, NEW YORKER * 'She has a talent amounting to genius’ *

Born in Harrow (1893-1978), Sylvia Townsend Warner published seven novels, four volumes of poetry, a volume of essays and eight volumes of short stories. She lived most of her adult life with her close companion Valentine Ackland in Dorset and Norfolk.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781853815027
ISBN 10	1853815020
Title	Lolly Willowes
Author	Sylvia Townsend Warner
Series	Virago Modern Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	1993-10-07
Number of pages	256
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