Sykes, Rosemary, ‘This was a lesson in history’: Sylvia Townsend Warner, George Townsend Warner and the matter of history’, Critical Essays on Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist 1893–1978 (eds) Gill Davies, David Malcolm, and John Simons (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 2006), 103–115.

Wallraven, Miriam, Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture: Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches (New York: Routledge, 2015).

Warner, Sylvia Townsend, ‘The Historical Novel’ (1940), in With the Hunted: Selected Writings, (ed.) Peter Tolhurst (Norwich: Black Dog Books, 2012), 268–270.

—, ‘Women as Writers’ (1959), in With the Hunted: Selected Writings (ed.) Peter Tolhurst (Norwich: Black Dog Books, 2012), 231–240.

—, ‘In conversation with Val Warner and Michael Schmidt in 1975’ (1981), in With the Hunted: Selected Writings, (ed.) Peter Tolhurst (Norwich: Black Dog Books, 2012), 399–406.

—, I’ll Stand By You: Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland, (ed.) Susanna Pinney (London: Random House, 1998).

List of Publications:

For the establishment of this list, I am indebted to Claire Harman’s (2008) very detailed chronology and to Janet Montefiore’s bibliography (2014). Place of publication for Chatto and Windus is always London.

1925: The Espalier (poems, Chatto and Windus)

1926: Lolly Willowes (novel, Chatto and Windus)

1927: Mr Fortune’s Maggot (novel, Chatto and Windus)

1928: Time Importuned (poems, Chatto and Windus)

1929: The True Heart (novel, Chatto and Windus)

1931: Opus 7 (poem, Chatto and Windus)

1931: A Moral Ending and Other Stories (short stories, London: Furnival Books)

1932: The Salutation and Other Stories (short stories, Chatto and Windus)

1933: Whether a Dove or Seagull (poems, with Valentine Ackland, New York: Viking Press)

1934: Whether a Dove or Seagull (poems, with Valentine Ackland, Chatto and Windus)

1936: More Joy in Heaven (short stories, London: Cresset Press)

1936: Summer Will Show (novel, Chatto and Windus)

1938: After the Death of Don Juan (novel, Chatto and Windus)

1940: The Cat’s Cradle Book (short stories, Chatto and Windus)

1943: A Garland of Straw (short stories, Chatto and Windus)

1947: The Museum of Cheats (short stories, Chatto and Windus)

1948: The Corner that Held Them (novel, Chatto and Windus)

1949: Somerset (non-fiction, London: Paul Elek)

1951: Jane Austen (criticism, London: The British Council)

1954: The Flint Anchor (novel, Chatto and Windus)

1955: Winter in the Air (short stories, Chatto and Windus)

1957: Boxwood, first edition (poems, Monotype Corporation)

1958: By Way of Sainte-Beuve (trans. of Marcel Proust, Contre Sainte-Beuve, Chatto and Windus)

1960: Boxwood, second enlarged edition (poems, Chatto and Windus)

1962: A Place of Shipwreck (trans. of Jean-René Huguenin, La Côte Sauvage, Chatto and Windus)

1962: A Spirit Rises (short stories, Chatto and Windus)

1966: A Stranger With a Bag (short stories, Chatto and Windus)

1967: T. H White (biography, Jonathan Cape)

1968: King Duffus and Other Poems (poems, privately printed)

1971: The Innocent and the Guilty (short stories, Chatto and Windus)

1977: Kingdoms of Elfin (short stories, Chatto and Windus)

Posthumous publications (excluding reprints):

1978: Azrael, intr. Peter Pears (poem, New Bury: Libanus Books)