Sylvia townsend warner biography of mahatma

          By focusing on the unrecorded lives of the poor, Warner challenges the Whig conception of history as uninterrupted progress towards enlightenment and economic....

          SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER: A BIOGRAPHY

          Being asked to write the biography of Warner back in 1982 was a life-changing event for me, and I was very fortunate in being allowed to take my time over it – seven years as it turned out.

          Sylvia Townsend Warner's portrayal of a fourteenth-entury nunnery is widely considered to be one of the greatest historical novels of all time.

        1. Warner, Sylvia Townsend.
        2. By focusing on the unrecorded lives of the poor, Warner challenges the Whig conception of history as uninterrupted progress towards enlightenment and economic.
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        4. Along with her partner and political comrade-in-arms Valentine Ackland, Sylvia Townsend Warner conjugated her defiantly lesbian private life with her political.

          5. The literary executors had a schedule in mind, and some of the biographical material could only be published after certain people were dead. This meant I could carry on the research far longer than is normally possible – which was convenient, as my children were all very young – and though there were moments when I thought I would never finish the book, with hindsight I think it was a very  good way to write it.

          When I started, Warner was only recently dead, and it took a while to introduce myself into a group of rather disparate friends, enemies and family and to reconstruct the facts of her life. Just reading through her diaries took a couple of years, and finding the shape of her life and work of course took much longer.

          But nothing could have