About Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Nora Townsend Warner (6 December 1893 – 1 May 1978) was an English novelist, poet and musicologist, known for works such as Lolly Willowes, The Corner That Held Them, and Kingdoms of Elfin. She spent most of her adult life in partnership with the poet Valentine Ackland. Her father was a house-master at Harrow, one of the most prestigious British "public" (independent) schools, and was associated with an award which was posthumously renamed the Townsend Warner History Prize. Between 1875 and 1895, Warner's paternal grandfather, The Reverend George.
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