Dr Harriet Baker gave the 2025 Sylvia Townsend Warner Lecture on Wednesday 22 October at University College, speaking on ‘Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Old Teapot: Archives, Objects and Life-Writing‘.
Once it is up on YouTube, we will link to the recorded lecture here.
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 was generously supported by UCL Press and the UCL Institute for Advanced Studies, as well as the STW Society.