Sylvia Townsend Warner by Claire Harman - ISBN: 9780241964439
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A novelist, poet, communist, and lover: a life revealed.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

A Biography

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    384 pages

  • Release Date

    18 November 2015

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Summary

A reissued biography of Sylvia Townsend Warner from the acclaimed author of Charlotte Bronte.

Claire Harman turns her skilled and thoughtful biographer’s eye to Sylvia Townsend Warner. Sylvia Townsend Warner was a twentieth-century English novelist, poet, and active member of the Communist Party in Britain. She also spent time as a musicologist and composer and lived the majority of her adult life in an open homosexual relationship with her lover, Valentine Ackland. This biography mak…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241964439
ISBN-10:0241964431
Author:Claire Harman
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:18 November 2015
Weight:267g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 23mm
About The Author

Claire Harman

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.

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