The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society is very pleased to announce that Dr Harriet Baker will be giving the 2025 Sylvia Townsend Warner Lecture on Wednesday 22 October at 5.30pm. Her subject is ‘Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Old Teapot: Archives, Objects and Life-Writing‘.
The lecture will take place as usual at UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Room G11 Ground Floor, South Wing Wilkins Building. It will also be streamed live on Zoom.
Harriet Baker is a writer, critic, and Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her work has appeared in the London Review of Books, Paris Review, New Statesman, and the Financial Times. She is the author of the acclaimed study Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann, published by Allen Lane in 2024. It was awarded the Biographers’ Club Tony Lothian Prize and the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award.
The event is supported by UCL Press and the UCL Institute for Advanced Studies as well as the STW Society. The lecture is free and will be followed by a drinks reception. Places are limited, so please book in advance through Eventbrite.
Tickets: To attend in person, make your reservation here. To attend online, please book your place here.