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Lolly Willowes or the Loving Huntsman
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Series: Virago Modern Classics
Author(s): Sylvia Townsend Warner  
ISBN: 1853815020
ISBN-13: 9781853815027
Publication Date: 07 Oct 1993
Pages: 256 (198 x 126)
Format: Paperback
Published Price: £9.99


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DESCRIPTION:
Lolly Willowes is a twenty-eight-year-old spinster when her adored father dies, leaving her dependent upon her brothers and their wives. After twenty years of self-effacement as a maiden aunt, she decides to break free and moves to a small Bedfordshire village. Here, happy and unfettered, she enjoys her new existence nagged only by the sense of a secret she has yet to discover. That secret - and her vocation - is witchcraft, and with her cat and a pact with the Devil, Lolly Willowes is finally free. An instant and great success on its publication in 1926, Lolly Willowes is Sylvia Townsend Warner's most magical novel. Deliciously wry and inviting, it was her piquant plea that single women find liberty and civility.

REVIEWS:
'One of our most idiosyncratic, courageous and versatile writers' HERMIONE LEE 'A novel as original in its conception as it is subtle and refined in its artistry ... LOLLY WILLOWES retains all of the charm and all of the 'relevance' it owned years ago' TLS 'Witty, eerie, tender' JOHN UPDIKE, NEW YORKER 'She has a talent amounting to genius' ROSAMOND LEHMANN

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY:
Born in Harrow (1893-1978) Sylvia Townsend Warner published seven novels, four volumes of poetry, a volume of essays and eight volumes of short stories. She lived most of her adult life with her close companion Valentine Ackland in Dorset and Norfolk.

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