Lolly Willowes

Warner, Sylvia Townsend

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In prose, as much as poetry, the Great War had many consequences. A year after Mrs Dalloway, a startling literary voice with Bloomsbury connections appeared on the London scene with a highly original satire on postwar England. Sylvia Townsend Warner was a young poet who told her editor at Chatto & Windus that she had written a "story about a witch". Within a year, Lolly Willowes had become the talk of the town. Today, Townsend Warner holds her place as a proto-feminist who is also a major minor classic.

Laura "Lolly" Willowes is a twentysomething middle-class Englishwoman who, on the death of her father, at first becomes a conventional maiden aunt living with her brother in London. Then, "groping after something", she makes a bid for personal freedom, an escape to Great Mop, "a secluded hamlet in the heart of the Chilterns", where she finds herself happily becoming a witch in communion with the devil.

Categories:

Fiction - Women's Fiction

Year:

2011

Publisher:

New York Review Books

Language:

english

File:

EPUB, 249 KB

IPFS:

english, 2011