She, Laura Willowes, in England, in the year 1922, had entered into a compact with the Devil. It is this vision that lends the novel its subversive edge, that ultimately allies it less with the work of Austen than with that of Virginia Woolf, and with later feminists. Though she never found favour with the literary or political establishment, her highly original and entertaining view of society is just as potent today as ever, and her satire as mordant. A Society was formed in January 2000, to celebrate all aspects of her life and work, and it has a growing membership. Guide to the Sylvia Townsend Warner Papers Finding aid to the Sylvia Townsend Warner Papers at The New York Public Library.
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