8 Hahn, Rebecca, Sidestepping Normativity: The Short Stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner. Dissertation University of Tübingen, 2017, 173.

9 quoted in Melanie Micir, ‘”Living in two tenses”: The intimate archives of Sylvia Townsend Warner’, Journal of Modern Literature 36 (2012), 119–131, 126.

10 Purkiss, Diane, At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, and Other Troublesome Things (New York: New York University Press, 2000), 8; Silver, Carole G, Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 149–184 on Victorian fairy cruelties.

11 Simons, John, ‘On the compositional genetics of the Kingdom of Elfin together with a note on tortoises’, Critical Essays on Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist 1893–1978 (eds.) Gill Davies, David Malcolm, and John Simons (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 2006), 45–60, 47.

12 quoted in Simons 2006, 47.

13 For example, James, David, ‘Realism, late modernist abstraction, and Sylvia Townsend Warner’s fictions of impersonality’, Modernism / Modernity 12 (2005), 111–131; Harker, James, ‘”Laura was not thinking”: Cognitive minimalism in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes’, Studies in the Novel 46 (2014), 44–62; Hahn 2017.

14 Macdonald, Kate, ‘Witchcraft and non-conformity in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926) and John Buchan’s Witch Wood (1927)’, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 23 (2012), 215–238, 224.

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

16 on the continuity today between fairy and vampire worlds, see Purkiss 321–2.

17 see for example Datlow, Ellen and Terri Windling, eds, The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm (New York, 2006).

18 Powers, Elizabeth, ‘On situating Sylvia Townsend Warner: How (not) to become a “classic” writer’, The Yale Review 104 (2016), 88–100, 88.

19 Harman, Claire, ‘Introduction’, in Sylvia Townsend Warner, New Collected Poems, (Manchester: Carcanet, 2008), 1–11, 1.

20 Harman, Claire, Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography (1989; London: Penguin, 2015), 20; 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.

21 Harman 1989, 13.

22 Harman 1989, 20.

23 Sutherland 2005.

24 Warner, Sylvia Townsend, ‘The Historical Novel’ (1940), in Tolhurst 2012, 268–270, 268.

25 Warner, Sylvia Townsend, ‘Women as Writers’ (1959), in Tolhurst 2012, 231–240, 236.

26 Warner 1959, 234.

27 Warner 1975, 399.

28 Harman 1989, 24.

29 Rattenbury, Arnold, ‘Literature, lying and sober truth: Attitudes to the work of Patrick Hamilton and Sylvia Townsend Warner’, Writing and Radicalism (ed.) John Lucas (London and New York: Longman, 1996), 201–244, 220–222.

30 Ewins, Kristin, ‘The question of Socialist writing and Sylvia Townsend Warner in the Thirties’, Literature Compass 5 (2008), 657–667; Joannou, Maroula, ‘”Our Time”: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf and the 1940s’, Literature Compass 11 (2014), 732–744.

31 Sykes 2006; Joannou 2014, Micir 2016.

32 Mars-Jones, Adam, ‘Introduction’, in Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mr Fortune’s Maggot and The Salutation (New York: New York Review of Books, 2001), vii–xiii, ix.

33 See Judd, Peter Haring, The Akeing Heart: Letters between Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland and Elizabeth Wade White (Reading: Handheld Press, 2018).

34 Micir 2018.

35 Mars Jones 2001, xiii.

36 Hahn, Rebecca, ‘Encounters between elves and humans in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Kingdoms of Elfin’, Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society (2010), 53–68.

37 Priest, Hannah, ‘The unnaturalness of a society: Class divisions and conflict in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Kingdoms of Elfin’, Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society (2010), 1–16.

38 Nesbitt 107–8.

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By Kate Macdonald