Journal

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The Journal for 2000 has the following articles:

  • Sylvia Townsend Warner as poet – John Lucas
  • “The True Story of England’s Greatness”: Degeneracy, Primitivism, Eugenics – Gay Wachman
  • Writers at Work – Sylvia Townsend Warner interviewed by Louise Morgan in 1931
  • And two works by Sylvia herself, “Jungle Blossom” and “A Fragment”

The Journal for 2001 has the following articles:

  • The Willowes Pattern – Rosemary Sykes
  • Some Musings on Lolly Willows – Ren Draya
  • Alternative Lives – R.B. Russell
  • The Short Stories – Glen Cavaliero
  • John Craske, 1881 – 1943, Fisherman and Artist – Peter Tolhurst
  • And three Works by Sylvia, The Original Ending of Lolly Willowes, “I Am Come Into My Garden” and “Rainbow”

The Journal for 2002 has the following articles:

  • “Enter If You Will”: Echoes from a Haunted House – Janet Montefiore
  • “Sharing a Worldliness of Austerity”: Sylvia Townsend Warner and Jane Austen – Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt
  • Sylvia Townsend Warner in Conversation with Val Warner and Michael Schmidt, 1975
  • Review of “Arguments of Heart and Mind: Selected Essays, 1977-2000: Janet Montefiore” by Glen Cavaliero
  • And works by Sylvia, “Northanger Abbey: An Introduction” and Four Uncollected Poems

The Journal for 2003 has the following articles:

  • Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Biographer’s ‘Moral Sense’ – Janet Montefiore
  • Shelf Lives 11: Sylvia Townsend Warner – Peter Scupham
  • And three works by Sylvia: The Book of Merlyn: The Story of the Book, Death and the Lady: The Letters of Katherine Mansfield and Bathrooms Remembered

The Journal for 2004 has the following articles:

  • Sylvia Townsend Warner: The Centrifugal Kick – Dame Gillian Beer
  • Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Letters to Peter Pears
  • Maxwell’s World – Justin Cartwright
  • And five works by Sylvia: Feverell’s Middlesex, Elegy, Arcase, Il Faut Partir, Love of France and Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Two book reviews – Chaldon Herring: Writers in a Dorset Landscape and Stepdaughters of England

The Journal for 2005 has the following articles:

  • Who is Sylvia? – Claire Harman
  • Elfins and Densmen – Geoffrey Grigson
  • From Elphame to Otherwhere – Helen Sutherland
  • The Corners That Held Her – Gill Davies
  • Sylvia Townsend Warner’s letters to Daniel Menashe
  • Review by Glen Cavaliero of Narrative Settlements by Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt
  • And two works by Sylvia: Poison and Defoe and Moll Flanders

The Journal for 2006 has the following articles:

  • Labours of Love – Frances Bingham
  • Sylvia in Suffolk – Ronald Blythe
  • The Politics of Disclosure and the Fable – Mary Jacobs
  • Re-imagining the Middle Ages – Rachel Willcock
  • A Friendship Rediscovered – Peter Tolhurst
  • Review by Glen Cavaliero of Dorset Stories and review by Helen Sutherland of Critical Essays on Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • And two works by Sylvia: “Soldiers, Weeding-Women” and “Linnets and A True Ear”

The Journal for 2007 has the following articles:

  • Chaldon Faces – David Garnett
  • A Word is a Bridge – Margaretta Jolly
  • This was a Lesson in History – Rosemary Sykes
  • And five works by Sylvia: “The Way I have Come”, “The Essex Marshes”, “Private Letters in Old Ink”, “Scorched Earth Policy” (short story) and “The Historical Novel”.

The Journal for 2008 has the following articles:

  • Janet Machen (1917-2008) – Ray Russell
  • Letters to Oliver Stonor – Sylvia Townsend Warner, with an introduction by Mary Jacobs
  • A Visit to the Founder – Ronald Blythe
  • Robertson Scott and The Countryman – Neil Philip
  • A Life-Long Love (poetry by Valentine Ackland) – Judith Stinton
  • “Nefarious Activities”: STW, VA and MI5 Surveillance – Mary Jacobs and Judith Bond
  • Review by Glen Cavaliero of New Collected Poems by Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • Review by Gillian Spraggs of Journey from Winter by Valentine Ackland
  • And two articles by Sylvia: “Barcelona” and “Soldiers and Sickles”

The Journal for 2009 has the following articles:

  • Something Understood: Formality and the Language of the Heart in the Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner – Janet Montefiore
  • Memories of Sylvia Townsend Warner – Clive Robbins
  • Some Chaldon Witches – Judith Stinton
  • Review by Helen Sutherland of “Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness” by Maren Tova Linett
  • Review by Helen Sutherland of “Knowing Your Place: East Anglian Landscapes and Literature” edited by Peter Tolhurst
  • Review by Nathan Waddell of “Women, Privacy and Modernity in British Early Twentieth Century Writing” by Wendy Gan
  • And two pieces by Sylvia: “Foreword: The Fall of France” and “The Red Dress”

The Journal for 2010 has the following articles:

  • The Unnaturalness of a Society: Class Division and Conflict in Warner’s Kingdoms of Elfin – Hannah Priest
  • Warner’s Excerpts from The Portrait of a Tortoise – Barry Pike
  • The Queerness of Lolly Willowes – Peter Swaab
  • Encounters Between Elves and Humans in Warner’s Kingdoms of Elfin – Rebecca K. Hahn
  • And two pieces by Sylvia: “The Country Schoolmaster” and “A New Way of Protecting Fruit”

The Journal for 2011 has the following articles:

  • Tree and Dreams: Sylvia Townsend Warner, the Pastoral, and Fantastic Ruralism – Mary Jacobs
  • The Ambivalent Composer and the Carnegie Competition: From Music to Literature – Lynn Mutti
  • Sylvia Townsend Warner and Romance – Claire Harman
  • Narratives of Ethnography in ‘The Cat’s Cradle Book’ – Georgia Johnston
  • Sylvia Townsend Warner and Tudor Church Music – Richard Searle
  • Review by Judith Bond of “Cousin and Friend: Letters to Rachel 1950-1952” edited by Rachel Monckton-How and Moira Rutherford
  • Review by Helen Sutherland of “An Experiment in Leisure” by Marion Milner
  • Review by Helen Sutherland of “Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Mid-twentieth-century Britain” edited by Kristin Bluemel
  • And two pieces by Sylvia: “Recommendation to Starvation” and “Dearest Rachel”

The Journal for 2012 has the following articles:

  • Tracking Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Red Footsteps in Lolly Willowes – June E. Dunn
  • The Silent Self: Valentine Ackland’s Diaries after 1949 – Ailsa Granne
  • Dr Mary Elizabeth Jacobs: A Tribute – Angela K. Smith
  • Review by Helen Sutherland of “The British and Irish Short Story Handbook” by David Malcolm
  • Review by Helen Sutherland of “With the Hunted. Selected Writings of Sylvia Townsend Warner” edited by Peter Tolhurst
  • And two pieces by STW: “The Dog’s Tragedy” and “Dearest Rachel” (letter)

The Journal for 2013 has the following articles:

  • Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Rhapsodic Pastoral – Jane Feaver
  • ‘That Odd Thing, a Musicologist’ – Lynn Mutti
  • Feeding Squirrels – Paul Brownsey
  • A Rational Romantic: The Importance of Being Sylvia – Glen Cavaliero
  • Review by Helen Sutherland of “The Akeing Heart. Passionate Attachments and their Aftermath” by Peter Haring Judd
  • Review by Gemma Moss of “The History of British Women’s Writing 1920 – 1945 (Vol. 8)” edited by Maroula Joannou
  • And one piece by Sylvia: “Elizabeth Gaskell 1810-1865”

The Journal for 2014 has the following articles:

  • Spellbound? The Secret Message of Lolly Willowes – Emma Robson
  • A Critical Edition for Lolly: On the Benefits of Being Unregarded – Jennifer P. Nesbitt
  • One Person’s Weight: Sylvia Townsend Warner and Herbert Howells – Richard Searle
  • Music and the Condition of Being Alive: The Example of Sylvia Townsend Warner – Dame Gillian Beer
  • History and Myth in ‘After the Death of Don Juan’ – Mercedes Aguirre
  • And two works by Sylvia, “Untitled Poem” and “From the Diary”
  • Review of the Literature Compass Special Issue on Sylvia Townsend Warner – Helen Sutherland

The Journal for 2015 has the following articles:

  • The Kingdom of Elfin – Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • A Note on Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Kingdom of Elfin – Vike Martina Plock
  • The Corner That Held Them – ‘A Note on the Historical Background’
  • The Sea Change: Opera Libretto in Six Scenes – Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • ‘Heavenly Hermaphroditism’: A Note on The Sea Change – Peter Swaab
  • An Interview with Sylvia Townsend Warner (1971) – Chris Bowles
  • Sylvia’s Gifts: Meetings with Sylvia Townsend Warner in the 1970’s – Tinch Minter
  • Quiet Revolutions – Amanda Chambers
  • Review by Peter Robinson: Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske by Julia Blackburn
  • Review by D.M. Mitchell: Bloomsbury’s Outsider: A Life of David Garnett by Sarah Knights

The Journal for 2016 has the following articles:

  • Some Notes on George Moir and Flora Warner – Claire Harman
  • Man’s Moral Law – Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • Nine Translations from Baudelaire – Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • A Recurrent Modulation: Religious Themes in the Poetry of Sylvia Townsend Warner – Pauline Matarasso
  • Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Letters: Where Are They Now? – Peter Tolhurst

The Journal for 2017 has the following articles:

  • After the Death of Don Juan: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Spanish Novel – Maud Ellmann
  • ‘Some notes on Sylvia Townsend Warner’ (c. 1926) – Ben W. Huebsch
  • Notes on Warner and Schoenberg – Lynn Mutti
  • The Gardener’s Story – Sara Hudston
  • Eight letters from Sylvia Townsend Warner to Colin House – Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • Sylvia Townsend Warner interviewed by François Gallix about T.H. White (1974) – François Gallix
  • Dorchester Chronicles – Judith Stinton
  • Review of “Nancy Cunard – Selected Poems” – Mercedes Aguirre

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Contributors

Alphabetical index of contributors to Society Journals and Newsletters

Ackland, Valentine

  • “The First and the Last” (Short Story), Newsletter 10, 2005
  • “A Ghost was Born” (Short Story), Newsletter 12, 2006
  • “Cat Characteristics”, Newsletter 13, 2006
  • “Country Dealings”, Newsletter 15, 2007

Aguirre, Mercedes

  • History and Myth in ‘After the Death of Don Juan’, Journal, 2014

Beer, Gillian

  • “STW: ‘The Centrifugal Kick'”, Journal, 2004
  • Music and the Condition of Being Alive: The Example of Sylvia Townsend Warner, Journal, 2014

Bingham, Frances

  • “Labours of Love: Valentine Ackland on her Centenary”, Journal, 2006

Blythe, Ronald

  • “Sylvia in Suffolk”, Journal, 2006
  • “A Visit to the Founder”, Journal, 2008

Bond, Judith

  • “Items in the STW/VA Archive belonging to the STW Society”, Newsletter 17, 2008
  • “Ancient Solitary Reign at the Pen Mill Hotel”, Newsletter 21, 2010

Bond, Judith & Jacobs, Mary

  • “Nefarious Activities”: STW, VA and MI5 Surveillance, Journal, 2008

Bowles, Chris

  • An Interview with Sylvia Townsend Warner (1971), Journal, 2015

Brownsey, Paul

  • “Feeding Squirrels”, Journal, 2013

Carey, John

  • “Pure Pleasure: Mr Fortune’s Maggot”, Newsletter 3, 2001

Cartwright, Justin

  • “Maxwell’s World”, Journal, 2004

Cavaliero, Glen

  • “The Short Stories”, Journal, 2001
  • “A Rational Romantic: The Importance of Being Sylvia”, Journal, 2013

Chambers, Amanda

  • Quiet Revolutions, Journal, 2015

Davies, Gill

  • “The Corners That Held Her: The Importance of Place in the Writings of STW”, Journal, 2005

De Groot, Jerome

  • “Forgotten Classics : STW’s Lolly Willows”, Newsletter 13, 2006

Draya, Ren

  • “Some musings on Lolly Willowes”, Journal, 2001

Dunn, June E.

  • “Tracking Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Red Footsteps in Lolly Willowes”, Journal, 2012

Ellman, Maud

  • “After the Death of Don Juan: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Spanish Novel”, Journal, 2017

Feaver, Jane

  • “Book of a Lifetime: Mr Fortune’s Maggot”, Newsletter 14, 2007
  • “Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Rhapsodic Pastoral”, Journal, 2013

Fitzgerald, Penelope

  • “Keeping Warm” (Review of STW’s Letters and Collected Poems, Newsletter 8), 2004

Gallix, François

  • “Sylvia Townsend Warner interviewed by François Gallix about T.H. White (1974)”, Journal, 2017

Garnett, David

  • “Chaldon Faces”, Journal, 2007

Granne, Ailsa

  • The Silent Self: Valentine Ackland’s Diaries after 1949, Journal, 2012

Grigson, Geoffrey

  • “Elfins and Densmen” (Review of Kingdoms of Elfin), Journal, 2005

Hahn, Rebecca K.

  • “Encounters Between Elves and Humans in Warner’s Kingdoms of Elfin”, Journal, 2010

Harman, Claire

  • “Who is Sylvia?”, Journal, 2005
  • “Sylvia Townsend Warner and Romance”, Journal, 2011
  • “Some Notes on George Moir and Flora Warner”, Journal, 2016

Hudston, Sara

  • “The Gardener’s Story”, Journal, 2017

Huebsch, Ben W.

  • “Some notes on Sylvia Townsend Warner” (c. 1926), Journal, 2017

Jacobs, Mary

  • “The Politics of Disclosure and the Fable”, Journal, 2006
  • “Nefarious Activities”: STW, VA and MI5 Surveillance, Journal, 2008
  • “Tree and Dreams: Sylvia Townsend Warner, the Pastoral, and Fantastic Ruralism”, Journal, 2011

Johnston, Georgia

  • “Narratives of Ethnography in ‘The Cat’s Cradle Book’”, Journal, 2011

Jolly, Margaretta

  • “A Word Is A Bridge”, Journal, 2007

Krissdottir, Morine

  • “The STW/VA Archive”, Newsletter 17, 2008

Le Guin, Ursula

  • “Brief Encounter: Recollections of STW”, Newsletter 9, 2004

Lucas, John

  • “STW as Poet”, Journal, 2000

Matarasso, Pauline

  • “A Recurrent Modulation: Religious Themes in the Poetry of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Journal, 2016

Minter, Tinch

  • Sylvia’s Gifts: Meetings with Sylvia Townsend Warner in the 1970’s, Journal, 2015

Montefiore, Janet

  • “‘Enter if you will’: Echoes from a Haunted House”, Journal, 2002
  • “STW and the Biographer’s ‘Moral Sense'”, Journal, 2003
  • “Something Understood: Formality and the Language of the Heart in the Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Journal, 2009

Mottram, Stephen

  • “The Unfortunate & the Replica in the Wrington Church Hand-Book, 1949”, Newsletter 16, 2008
  • “STW Society: Aquisitions Policy”, Newsletter 17, 2008

Mutti, Lynn

  • “STW, Music & The Dreaming Spires – Heaven!”, Newsletter 17, 2008
  • “The Ambivalent Composer and the Carnegie Competition: From Music to Literature”, Journal, 2011
  • “That Odd Thing, a Musicologist”, Journal, 2013
  • “Notes on Warner and Schoenberg”, Journal, 2017

Nesbitt, Jennifer Poulos

  • “Sharing a ‘Worldliness of Austerity’: STW and Jane Austen”, Journal, 2002
  • A Critical Edition for Lolly: On the Benefits of Being Unregarded, Journal, 2014

Philip, Neil

  • “Robertson Scott and The Countryman”, Journal, 2008

Pike, Barry

  • “Warner’s Excerpts from The Portrait of a Tortoise”, Journal, 2010

Plock, Vike Martina

  • A Note on Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Kingdom of Elfin, Journal, 2015

Priest, Hannah

  • “The Unnaturalness of a Society: Class Division and Conflict in Warner’s Kingdoms of Elfin”, Journal, 2010

Reviews

  • “Arguments of Heart and Mind: Selected Essays, 1977-2000”, Janet Montefiore, by Glen Cavaliero, Journal, 2002
  • “Chaldon Herring”, Judith Stinton by Ray Russell, Journal, 2002
  • “Step Daughters of England”, Jane Garrity, Journal, 2004
  • “Narrative Settlements”, Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt by Glen Cavaliero, Journal, 2005
  • “Dorset Stories”, STW, by Glen Cavaliero, Journal, 2006
  • “Critical Essays on STW” by Helen Sutherland, Journal, 2006
  • “New Collected Poems” by Glen Cavaliero, Journal, 2008
  • “Journey from Winter” by Gillian Spraggs, Journal, 2008
  • “Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness” Maren Tova Linett by Helen Sutherland, Journal, 2009
  • “Knowing Your Place: East Anglian Landscapes and Literature” ed. Peter Tolhurst by Helen Sutherland, Journal, 2009
  • “Women, Privacy and Modernity in British Early Twentieth Century Writing” Wendy Gan by Nathan Waddell, Journal, 2009
  • “Cousin and Friend: Letters to Rachel 1950-1952” ed. Rachel Monckton-How and Moira Rutherford by Judith Bond, Journal, 2011
  • “An Experiment in Leisure” Marion Milner by Helen Sutherland, Journal, 2011
  • “Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Mid-twentieth-century Britain” ed. Kristin Bluemel by Helen Sutherland, Journal, 2011
  • “The British and Irish Short Story Handbook” David Malcolm by Helen Sutherland, Journal, 2012
  • “With the Hunted. Selected Writings of Sylvia Townsend Warner” ed. Peter Tolhurst by Helen Sutherland, Journal, 2012
  • “The Akeing Heart. Passionate Attachments and their Aftermath” Peter Haring Judd by Helen Sutherland, Journal, 2013
  • “The History of British Women’s Writing 1920 – 1945 (Vol. 8)” ed. Maroula Joannou by Gemma Moss, Journal, 2013
  • “Literature Compass” – Special Issue on Sylvia Townsend Warner, by Helen Sutherland, Journal, 2014
  • “Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske” Julia Blackburn, by Peter Tolhurst, Newsletter 31, 2015
  • “Selected Poems” Nancy Cunard by Mercedes Aguirre, Journal, 2017

Robbins, Clive

  • “Memories of Paul Nordoff”, Newsletter 17, 2008
  • “Memories of Sylvia Townsend Warner”; Journal, 2009

Robertson, Alec

  • “Another Life: From Frome to Winterton”, Newsletter 9, 2004

Robson, Emma

  • Spellbound? The Secret Message of Lolly Willowes, Journal, 2014

Russell, Ray

  • “Alternative Lives in STW’s Lolly Willowes and Arthur Machen’s ‘A Fragment of Life'”, Journal, 2001
  • “Janet Machen (1917 – 2008)”, Journal, 2008

Scupham, Peter

  • “Shelf Lives: II STW (Poetry Essay)”, Journal, 2003

Searle, Richard

  • “Sylvia Townsend Warner and Tudor Church Music”, Journal, 2011
  • One Person’s Weight: Sylvia Townsend Warner and Herbert Howells, Journal, 2014

Stinton, Judith

  • “STW and the Ladies Shooting Class”, Newsletter 2, 2001
  • “Unconsidered Trifles”, Newsletter 4, 2002
  • “A Chaldon Fragment”, Newsletter 9, 2004
  • “STW’s Somerset”, Newsletter 11, 2005
  • “A Real Character: Mrs Hawley Edwards”, Newsletter 12, 2006
  • “Stories of Hilton”, Newsletter 13, 2006
  • “Wicked Women of West Chaldon”, Newsletter 14, 2007
  • “More About Miss More”, Newsletter 15, 2007
  • “Autumn Weekend [Somerset]”, 2007, Newsletter 16, 2008
  • “Words and Music, Newsletter 16, 2008
  • “For the Good of the Cause”, Newsletter 16, 2008
  • “A Life-Long Love” (poetry by Valentine Ackland), Journal, 2008
  • “Some Chaldon Witches”, Journal, 2009
  • “An Inch from the Mile” Newsletter 18, 2009
  • “Riversdale, Frome Vauchurch”, Newsletter 19, 2009
  • “St Basil, Toller Fratrum”, Newsletter 21, 2010
  • “Dorchester Chronicles”, Journal, 2017

Swaab, Peter

  • “The Queerness of Lolly Willowes”, Journal, 2010
  • ‘Heavenly Hermaphroditism’: A Note on The Sea Change, Journal, 2015

Sutherland, Helen

  • “From Elphame to Otherwhere: STW’s Kingdoms of Elfin”, Journal, 2005

Sykes, Rosemary

  • “The Willowes Pattern”, Journal, 2001
  • “This Was A Lesson In History”, Journal, 2007

Tolhurst, Peter

  • “John Craske, 1881-1943, Norfolk Fisherman and Artist”, Journal, 2001
  • “A Jar of Sweets”, Newsletter, 2003
  • “A Friendship Rediscovered: STW and Ruth Scott”, Journal, 2006
  • “Setting Somerset”, Newsletter 15, 2007
  • “A Cotswold Adventure”, Newsletter 17, 2008
  • “Where is Sylvia?” Newsletter 18, 2009
  • “The John Craske Exhibition”, Newsletter 31, 2015
  • “The Genesis of T H White: A Biography”, Newsletter 32, 2016
  • “Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Letters: Where Are They Now?”, Journal, 2016

Vaughan, Bridget

  • “A Child’s Eye View of STW”, Newsletter 3, 2001

Wachman, Gay

  • “‘The True Story of England’s Greatness’: Degeneracy, Primitivism, Eugenics”, Journal, 2000

Warner, Sylvia Townsend

  • “The Jungle Blossom”, (Short Story), Journal, 2000
  • “Writers at Work”, (interview), Journal, 2000
  • “I am come into my garden” (Short Story), Journal, 2001
  • “Philip and Anna” (Short Story), Journal, 2002
  • “Northanger Abbey: An Introduction”, Journal, 2002
  • Four Uncollected Poems, Journal, 2002
  • “STW in Conversation”, Journal, 2002
  • “The Land of Gwent”, Newsletter 6, 2003
  • “Story with an Hypothesis” (Short Story), Newsletter 6, 2003
  • “The Book of Merlyn: The Story of the Book”, Journal, 2003
  • “Death and the Lady: The Letters of Katherine Mansfield” (Review), Journal, 2003
  • “Bathrooms Remembered” (Essay), Journal, 2003
  • “Nancy Cunard”, Newsletter 7, 2003
  • Two Unpublished Letters, Newsletter 7, 2003
  • “Cuckoo” (Short Story), Newsletter 8, 2004
  • “Feverell’s Middlesex” (Essay), Journal, 2004
  • “Elegy” (Poem), Journal, 2004
  • “Arsace, Il Faut Partir” (Short Story), Journal, 2004
  • “Love of France” (Essay), Journal, 2004
  • Letters to Peter Pears, Journal, 2004
  • “Ludwig Van Beethoven” (Review), Journal, 2004
  • “Country Worker and Country Living” (Reviews in The Countryman 1949), Newsletter 10, 2005
  • “Modern Witches” (Essay), Newsletter 1, 2000 and 10, 2005
  • “All this Winter Day” (Poem), Newsletter 10, 2005
  • “Paul Nordoff: Pioneer in Musical Therapy” (Obituary), Newsletter 11, 2005
  • “Concerning Author’s Cottages No. 9: Miss Green’s, Chaldon Herring”, Newsletter 11,2005
  • “Poison” (Short Story), Journal 2005
  • “Defoe and Moll Flanders” (Essay), Journal, 2005
  • “Letters to Samuel Menashe”, Journal, 2005
  • “Weeds” (Essay), Newsletter 12, 2006
  • “Soldiers, Weeding-Women and Linnets” (Essay), Journal, 2006
  • “A True Ear” (Review of Thos. Hardy : A Critical Biography), Journal, 2006
  • “Footsteps On The Battlements”, Newsletter 15, 2007
  • “The Way I Have Come”, Journal, 2007
  • “The Essex Marshes”, Journal, 2007
  • “Private Letters in Old Ink”, Journal, 2007
  • “Scorched Earth Policy”, Journal, 2007
  • “The Historical Novel”, Journal, 2007
  • “Barcelona”, Journal, 2008
  • “Letters to Oliver Stonor”, Journal, 2008
  • “Soldiers and Sickles”, Journal, 2008
  • “Foreword: The Fall of France”, Journal, 2009
  • “The Red Dress”, Journal, 2009
  • “On Choosing a Country Residence” Newsletter 19, 2009
  • “What the Soldier Said”, Newsletter 19, 2009
  • “The Country Schoolmaster”, Journal, 2010
  • “A New Way of Protecting Fruit”, Journal, 2010
  • “The Domestic Petronius”, Newsletter 20, 2010
  • “The Inspired Old Buzzard: William Blake, 1757-1827”, Newsletter 20, 2010
  • “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” (letter), Newsletter 22, 2011
  • “Alexander Pope” (review), Newsletter 22, 2011
  • “Things Seen”, Newsletter 22, 2011
  • “Recommendation to Starvation”, Journal, 2011
  • “Dearest Rachel”, Journal, 2011, 2012
  • “The Dog’s Tragedy”, Journal, 2012
  • “Elizabeth Gaskell 1810-1865”, Journal, 2013
  • “Untitled Poem”, Journal, 2014
  • “From the Diary”, Journal, 2014
  • “The Kingdom of Elfin”, Journal, 2015
  • “The Sea Change: Opera Libretto in Six Scenes”, Journal, 2015
  • “Man’s Moral Law”, Journal, 2016
  • “Nine Translations from Baudelaire”, Journal, 2016
  • “Eight letters from Sylvia Townsend Warner to Colin House”, Journal, 2017

Wildblood, Jenny

  • “Cooking the Books”, Newsletter 18, 2009

Willcock, Rachel

  • “Re-Imagining the Middle Ages: STW and The Corner That Held Them”, Journal, 2006
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