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The Journal for 2024 has the following articles:
•Modern Times: A Poem – Sylvia Townsend Warner, with an introductory note by Harriet Hall
•Six Romances of the Spanish Civil War and their English Translations – Sylvia Townsend Warner
•The Mary Jacobs Prize Essay 2023: “Translation and Ideology in Sylvia Townsend Warner: Six Romances of the Spanish Civil War into English” – Alicia Fernández Gallego-Casilda
•Georg Lukács, Sylvia Townsend Warner and The Historical Novel – Ksenia Shmydkaya
•Philibert – Sylvia Townsend Warner
•Cuckoo – Sylvia Townsend Warner
•Review of Ailsa Granne’s “Life-Writing, Genre and Criticism in the Texts of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland: Women Writing for Women” – Janet Montefiore
The Journal for 2023 (issue 1) has the following articles:
•Lolly Willowes: The Berg Collection Manuscript – Sylvia Townsend Warner
•Draft of a Preface to Lolly Willowes – Sylvia Townsend Warner
•Five Letters to Charles Prentice, 1925–26 – Sylvia Townsend Warner
•Malleus Maleficarum: Review of The History of Witchcraft and Demonology by Montague Summers – Sylvia Townsend Warner
•Twice as Natural – Sylvia Townsend Warner
•Draft of a Preface to The True Heart – Sylvia Townsend Warner
•Lolly Comes to Town – Percy N. Stone
•Spain’s Living Daughters – Sylvia Townsend Warner
•Lynn Mutti – Richard Searle, Judith Bond, Judith Stinton
•Review of “Of Cats and Elfins: Short Tales and Fantasies” – Maud Ellmann
•Review of Rebecca Kate Hahn’s “Side-Stepping Normativity in Selected Short Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner” – Peter Swaab
•Review of Judith Stinton’s “Chesil Beach: A Peopled Solitude” – Peter Robinson
•Review of Frances Bingham’s “Valentine Ackland: A Transgressive Life” – Maud Ellmann
The Journal for 2022 (issue 2) has the following articles:
•Letter to the Editor – Ruth Williams
•‘My Usual Despicable Hold on Life’: The View from Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Diaries – David Trotter
•Mrs Hazlitt’s Divorce – Sylvia Townsend Warner
•A Heart on the Sand – Sylvia Townsend Warner
•Small Antiques: Six Poems for Valentine Ackland – Sylvia Townsend Warner
•Review of R.B. Russell and J. Lawrence Mitchell’s “Sylvia Townsend Warner: A bibliography” – Janet Montefiore
•Review of “Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Climate: Wartime stories” – Adam Piette
The Journal for 2021 (issue 1) has the following articles:
•The Unfinished Sequel to The Corner That Held Them (Part 2 of 2)
•‘All across Europe it had come’: The Black Death and Fascism in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them – Adam Piette
•Hamlet in England – Sylvia Townsend Warner
•Footsteps on the Battlements – Sylvia Townsend Warner
•Stephen Tomlin in Chaldon Herring (1921–3) – Michael Bloch, Susan Fox
•Sylvia Townsend Warner and Peter Pears: Loss and Friendship – Lynn Mutti
•Review of Judith Aronson’s “Through the Lens of Janet Stone: Portraits, 1953–1979” – Ian Archie Beck
•Review of Hester Styles Vickery’s “Square Haunting: Five women, freedom and London between the wars” – Francesca Wade
The Journal for 2020 (issue 1) has the following articles:
•Letter to the Editor – John Lucas
•Notes on The Corner That Held Them – Sylvia Townsend Warner
•The Unfinished Sequel to The Corner That Held Them (Part 1 of 2)
•Posthuman? Animal Corpses, Aeroplanes and Very High Frequencies in the Work of Valentine Ackland and Sylvia Townsend Warner – David Trotter
•Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Possibilities of Freedom: The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society Lecture 2019 – Peter Swaab
•Glen Cavaliero: Two Tributes – Paul Hartle and John Hodgson
The Journal for 2019 (issue 2) has the following articles:
•Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Spanish Civil War Love Poems, with an Introduction by Mercedes Aguirre
•At War: Sylvia Townsend Warner and Maiden Newton – Judith Stinton
•‘Possibilities in a Collaboration’: Boxwood in Context – Michael Not
•Review by Helen Sutherland of “The Akeing Heart: Letters between Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland and Elizabeth Wade White” by Donald Judd (Handheld Press, 2018)
•And three works by Sylvia: “My Shirt is in Mexico”, “The Difficulties of Autobiography” and “Pianos and Pianolas”
The Journal for 2019 (issue 1) has the following articles:
•A Note on Valentine Ackland – Sylvia Townsend Warner
•From Country Conditions (1936), “Introduction”, “The Labourers” and “Appendix 1” – Valentine Ackland
•Poems: “Variations on a Theme” and “Whether the Lost Thing Found” – Valentine Ackland
•Guests of Spain – Valentine Ackland
•The Flame of the Candle – Valentine Ackland
•The Man in the Balloon – Valentine Ackland
•The End of the Affair: A Correspondence between Valentine Ackland and Elizabeth Wade White, with an Introduction by Ailsa Granne and Peter Haring Judd
•The Bequest of Books: A Hidden Biography – Frances Bingham
The Journal for 2018 (issue 2) has the following articles:
•“Introduction” to Kingdoms of Elfin (Handheld Press, 2018) – Ingrid Hotz-Davies
•The Sylvia Townsend Warner Conference, April 2018 – Howard J. Booth and Gemma Moss
•Innocence, Naivety, Directness: Children in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Fiction – Jan Montefiore
•Pastoral Revisions in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Espalier – Paul Robichaud
•Propaganda, Pacifism and Periodicals: Conflicted Anti-Fascism in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Spanish Civil War Writing – Jake O’Leary
•Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Flint Anchor and Modernism – Howard J. Booth
•Walking at the Margins in Lolly Willowes and Summer Will Show – Emma Shaw
•‘The Milk Marketing Scheme’: Sylvia Townsend Warner – Tanya Stobbs
The Journal for 2018 (issue 1) has the following articles:
•Sylvia, A Memoir – Susanna Pinney
•Admired, Belittled, Beloved: The Critical Reception of Sylvia Townsend Warner – Jan Montefiore
•Holy and Profane Love in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Mr Fortune Fictions – Harry Daniels
•Landscape and Embodiment in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes and The True Heart – Harriet Baker
•The Politics of Reorientation in Summer Will Show – Cornelia-Catrinel Dunca
•History and Fantasy in The True Heart – Lucy Haenlein
•Two Poems: Two Stories – Judith Stinton
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
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 2015 has the following articles:
•The Kingdoms of Elfin – Sylvia Townsend Warner
•A Note on Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Kingdoms of Elfin – Vike Martina Plock
•The Corner That Held Them, ‘A Note on the Historical Background’ – Sylvia Townsend Warner
•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 1970s – Tinch Minter
•Quiet Revolutions – Amanda Chambers
•Review by Peter Robinson of “Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske” by Julia Blackburn
•Review by D.M. Mitchell of “Bloomsbury’s Outsider: A Life of David Garnett” by Sarah Knights
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 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 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 Sylvia: “The Dog’s Tragedy” and “Dearest Rachel” (a letter)
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” ( a letter)
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 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 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: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland 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 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 By Which I have Come”, “The Essex Marshes”, “Private Letters in Old Ink”, “Scorched Earth Policy” (a short story) and “The Historical Novel”
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 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 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
•Two book reviews – “Chaldon Herring: Writers in a Dorset Landscape” by Judith Stinton and “Stepdaughters of England” by Jane Garrity
•And five works by Sylvia: “Feverell’s Middlesex”, “Elegy”, “Arcase, Il Faut Partir”, “Love of France” and “Ludwig van Beethoven”
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 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
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: Fisherman and Artist – Peter Tolhurst
•And some works by Sylvia: The Original Ending of Lolly Willowes, “I Am Come Into My Garden”, “Rainbow”, “Northanger Abbey: An Introduction” and Four Uncollected Poems
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 (1931)
•And two works by Sylvia herself: “Jungle Blossom” and “A Fragment”