60 ibid., p. 202.
61 ibid., p. 196.
62 ibid., p. 195.
63 Advertisements in The Times, September 1916.
64 PUREFOY, p. 138.
65 The Times, 25 September 1916.
66 DORSET: GTW diary, 26 April 1916.
67 ibid., 3/4 April 1916.
68 ibid., 26 August 1916.
69 Harrovian, p. 92.
70 STW to VA, 24 March 1931.
71 YALE: VA to AG, 16 March n.d.
72 WARNER, 28 January 1966.
73 Letters, p. 251.
74 ibid.
75 DORSET: Warner family papers.
76 Harrovian, pp. 92–9.
77 STW to VA, 25 March 1931.
78 DORSET: STW, an unfinished piece of writing about thrift.
79 ibid.
80 WARNER, 24 September 1958.
81 ibid.
Other sources include: F. Hudleston, Hutton John (privately printed, n.d.); The Harrow Register; Reynolds; DORSET: Flora Warner’s memoirs; conversations with Ruth and Antony Scott, Vivien Elgood and Antonia Trauttmansdorff.
Chapter 2: 1918–1930
1 SC, p. 138.
2 ibid., p. 141.
3 Letters, p. xxii.
4 STW, ‘The Point of Perfection in XVI Century Notation’, extracted from The Proceedings of the Musical Association, 11 February 1919, p. 67.
5 ibid., postscript.
6 Espalier, p. 10.
7 SC, pp. 140–1.
8 Hartley, p. 79.
9 Letters, p. 114.
10 Garnett, pages 12 and 2.
11 PNR 23, p. 39.
12 PUREFOY, p. 141.
13 Letters, p. 251.
14 By BH.
15 STW to BH, 12 August 1921.
16 PR5, p. 13.
17 TFP, Soliloquies of a Hermit, Andrew Melrose, 1918, p. 1.
18 PR5, p. 14.
19 ibid., p. 16.
20 ibid.
21 ibid., p. 17.
22 ibid., p. 19.
23 PNR 23, pp. 41–2.
24 DORSET: an account of STW’s discovery of the Essex marshes (incomplete). Other unmarked quotations in this passage are from the same source.
25 STW, ‘The Way By Which I Have Come’, The Countryman, July 1939, p. 476.
26 Garnett, p. 8.
27 Espalier, p. 81.
28 John Cowper Powys to Llewelyn Powys, quoted in Graves, p. 156.
29 Garnett, p. 62.
30 Humfrey, p. 128.
31 ibid., p. 129.
32 ibid., p. 130.
33 Garnett, p. 5.
34 Humfrey, p. 130.
35 STW, ‘Bathrooms Remembered’, New Yorker, 11 January 1964.
36 ibid.
37 Reynolds, p. 140.
38 ibid., p. 141.
39 This account of his visit to Little Zeal was related to the author by Hilary Machen.
40 Note on LW in WARNER, 1 December 1963.
41 ibid.
42 Letters, p. 168.
43 Antony Scott to the author, 24 August 1988.
44 Peter Austin Jones to the author, September 1988.
45 PNR 23, p. 36.
46 Espalier, p. 88.
47 Denis Donoghue, ‘Ten Poets’, London Review of Books, 7 November 1985.
48 PNR 23, p. 42.
49 Letters, p. 3.
50 READING: STW to CP, 5 January 1925.
51 Quiller-Couch, p. 51.
52 Letters, p. 8.
53 LW, pp. 234–6.
54 READING: STW to CP, 15 February 1926.
55 Newcastle Daily Journal, 26 June 1926.
56 Westminster Gazette, 6 July 1926.
57 STW, ‘Modern Witches’, Eve, 18 August 1926.
58 Letters, p. 9.
59 I have been unable to trace the source of this.
60 READING: STW to CP, 4 June 1926.
61 Warner, O., p. 20.
62 Norah Smallwood in conversation with the author, 13 July 1984.
63 Warner, O., pp. 19–20.
64 Ackland (FS), p. 108.
65 STW to JF, 3 February 1970.
66 Partridge, p. 108.
67 ibid., p. 129 and p. 126.
68 Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf, vol. 5, p. 47.
69 Partridge, pp. 127–8.
70 Note on MFM in Letters, p. 11.
71 ibid., p. 10.
72 Letters, p. 9.
73 MFM, pp. 112–13 (Viking Press, 1st edition).
74 ibid., p. 186.
75 WARNER, 27 April 1928.
76 TFP in an interview in John O’London’s Weekly and Outlook, 23 October 1936.
77 PR5, p. 26.
78 Garnett, p. 6.
79 BH in a BBC radio broadcast, ‘The True Heart’, 15 March 1986.
80 Ackland (FS), p. 98.
81 STW, Introduction to STW/VA letters.
82 ibid.
83 WARNER, 26 August 1929.
84 TI, pp. 28–9.
85 STW, ‘Bathrooms Remembered’, New Yorker, 11 January 1964.
86 Morgan, p. 27.
87 Oliver Warner, ‘Sylvia Townsend Warner’, Bookman, October 1929.
88 TH, p. 293.
89 WARNER, 8 March 1929.
90 DORSET: Anne Parrish to STW, 31 October 1948.
91 TH, p. 227.
92 PNR 23, p. 43.
93 WARNER, 20 January 1928.
94 ibid., 20 April 1929.
95 CP, p. 12.
96 VA to STW, 2 January 1931.
97 WARNER, 5 August 1929.
98 ibid.
99 ibid., 23 October 1929.
100 ibid., February 1930. Later included in WDS, p. 89.
101 ibid., 5 March 1930.
102 STW, Introduction to STW/VA letters.
103 ibid.
104 ACKLAND, 4 August 1930.
105 ibid.
106 ibid., 25 August 1930.
107 ibid., 5 August 1930.
108 ibid.
109 WARNER, 25 September 1930.
110 Ackland (FS), p. 125.
111 WARNER, 11 October 1930.
112 ibid.
Other sources include: PUREFOY and conversations with Bea Howe, George Howe and Norah Smallwood.
Chapter 3: 1930–1937
1 Ackland (FS), p. 51.
2 ACKLAND, 27 December 1952.
3 ibid., 16 February 1948.
4 Obituary of R.C. Ackland in The Times, 31 August 1923.
5 ACKLAND, 27 December 1952.
6 Ackland (FS), p. 75.
7 ibid., p. 79.
8 ibid., p. 80.
9 ibid., p. 89.
10 ibid., p. 115.
11 This and the other information in the paragraph comes from VA, ‘Diary of Episodes June to October 1928’ (DORSET).
12 Ackland (FS), p. 119.
13 WDS, p. 131.
14 STW, Narrative 1, STW/VA letters.
15 WARNER, 23 October 1930.
16 ibid., 19 October 1930.
17 STW, Narrative 1, STW/VA letters.
18 Ackland (FS), p. 126.
19 STW, Narrative 2, STW/VA letters.
20 ACKLAND, 7 May 1930.
21 Ackland (FS), p. 124.
22 Norah Smallwood in conversation with the author.
23 By NS.
24 ACKLAND, 7 August 1930.
25 Reported in VA to STW, 29 March 1931.
26 DORSET: ‘Notes by V.A.’, appended to ‘John Craske: Notes on his life by Laura Craske’.
27 ibid.
28 STW, catalogue note, ‘John Craske, Fisherman and Artist’, Aldeburgh Festival exhibition, 1971.
29 WARNER, 7 June 1931.
30 ibid., 18 June 1931.
31 ibid.
32 ACKLAND, 12 July 1931.
33 ibid., 14 July 1931.
34 TEXAS: STW to NC, 26 July 1944.
35 WDS, pp. 116–17.
36 Antonia Trauttmansdorff in conversation with the author.
37 ACKLAND, 23 July 1931.
> 38 DORSET: from brief notes on her early books by STW.
39 Salutation, pp. 80–1.
40 DORSET: notes on her early books by STW.
41 Letters, p. 40.
42 STW, Narrative 7, STW/VA letters.
43 ACKLAND, 3 October 1932.
44 ibid., 21 October 1932.
45 Bea Howe, Foreword to Ackland (FS), p. 20.
46 Ackland (NM), p. 13.
47 ACKLAND, 14 December 1933.
48 YALE: Alyse Gregory’s journal, 26 February 1933.
49 Letters, p. 24.
50 ibid.
51 CCB, p. 9.
52 Ackland (FS), p. 129.
53 ACKLAND, 14 December 1933.
54 READING: STW to CP, 9 November 1933.
55 Austin Clarke, New Statesman and Nation, 21 April 1934.
56 Humbert Wolfe, Observer, 8 April 1934.
57 Frost, p. 238 (23 February 1934).
58 ibid., p. 240 (19 March 1934).
59 Untermeyer, pp. 157–8.
60 ibid., p. 166.
61 ibid., p. 145.
62 Llewelyn Powys to VA, n.d., copied into ACKLAND, November/ December 1933.
63 ACKLAND, 10 January 1934.
64 ibid., 23 January 1934.
65 Letters, p. 28.
66 ibid., p. 30.
67 ibid.
68 STW, Narrative 4, STW/VA letters.
69 DORSET: VA, ‘I always knew we had only come to stay’, last stanza.
70 WARNER, 9 May 1972.
71 Ackland (FS), p. 131.
72 ACKLAND, 21 July 1935.
73 ibid., 14 October 1933.
74 PNR 23, p. 35.
75 STW, Narrative 5, STW/VA letters.
76 STW to Julius Lipton, 3 May 1935.
77 DORSET: STW notes for an introduction to VA poems (unfinished).
78 SWS, p. 256.
79 PNR 23, p. 35.
80 VA, ‘Country Dealings III’, LR, I, 2, September 1935.
81 ACKLAND, 17 September 1935.
82 Letters, p. 35.
83 Untermeyer, p. 167.
84 PNR 23, p. 36.
85 ibid.
86 LR, I, 10, July 1935.
87 ibid., I, 7, April 1935.
88 Letters, p. 37.
89 ACKLAND, 14 November 1935.
90 News of the World, 15 March 1936. Some of Sylvia’s unease about Brennand may be inferred from the characterisation of Ernie in ‘The Snow Guest’ (SR), whom she claimed to have modelled on him.
91 News Chronicle, 17 August 1936.
92 Unidentified newspaper clipping in ACKLAND, 1936.
93 Letters, pp. 41–2.
94 STW, ‘Barcelona’, LR, II, 15, December 1936.
95 Letters, p. 42.
96 STW to SC, 6 September 1937.
97 LR, II, 15, p. 140.
98 Letters, p. 42.
99 WARNER, 9 May 1972.
100 STW interview with Simon Blow, Guardian, 5 January 1977.
101 Times Literary Supplement, 23 January 1937.
102 Listener, 13 January 1937.
103 STW, Narrative 6, STW/VA letters.
104 From an account by the Belgian writer Denis Marion of ‘Three Days in Madrid’, Combat (Brussels), 31 July 1937.
105 VA, ‘Writers in Madrid’, Daily Worker, 21 July 1937.
106 ibid.
107 Spender, p. 243.
108 ibid., pp. 241–2.
109 ibid., pp. 244–5.
110 Letters, p. 49.
111 ibid., p. 47.
112 Corpus Barga, ‘El II Congreso Internacional de Escritores. Su signification’, Hora de Espana, no. 8, August 1937.
113 DORSET: VA, ‘Congress in Spain’ (7-page ts, incomplete).
114 YALE: VA to AG, 14 October n.d.
115 Letters, p. 47.
116 YALE: VA to AG, 19 July 1937.
117 STW, Narrative 6, STW/VA letters.
118 Spender, p. 246.
Other sources include: Elwin; Graves; Vincent Brome, The International Brigades: Spain 1936–1939 (London, Heinemann, 1965); II congreso internacional de escritores para la defensa de la cultura (1937), 3 vols. (Generalitat Valenciana, 1987); conversations with Elizabeth Wade White and Hilary Machen.
Chapter 4: 1937–1947
1 Letters, p. 51.
2 ibid., p. 49.
3 DORSET: STW to VA, 29 October 1937.
4 VA to AG, 29 July [1937].
5 DORSET: STW to VA, October 1937.
6 DORSET: STW notebooks.
7 STW to Edgell Rickword, 10 October 1937.
8 WARNER, 2 December 1937.
9 ibid., 9 December 1937.
10 Letters, p. 303.
11 ADJ, pp. 23–4.
12 Letters, p. 51 (footnote).
13 PNR 23, p. 36.
14 STW, Narrative 7, STW/VA letters.
15 Letters, p. 54.
16 ibid.
17 Ackland (FS), p. 134.
18 STW, Narrative 7, STW/VA letters.
19 STW to David Garnett, 14 June 1976.
20 WARNER, 6 February 1970 (i).
21 Letters, p. 258.
22 WM, Introduction to Letters, p. xv.
23 Letters, p. 55.
24 CP, pp. 44–5.
25 Letters, p. 55.
26 STW to VA, 31 July 1949.
27 Letters, p. 62.
28 STW, Foreword to Ilya Ehrenburg, The Fall of France Seen Through Soviet Eyes (Modern Books, n.d.).
29 WARNER, 17 June 1940.
30 ibid., 20 June 1940.
31 YALE: VA to AG, n.d.
32 DORSET: draft poem in WARNER at 11 July 1941.
33 Letters, p. 64.
34 STW to NS, 14 June 1967.
35 ACKLAND, 29 August 1941.
36 YALE: VA to AG, 18 September 1941.
37 Letters, p. 203.
38 ibid., p. 81.
39 STW to Elling Aanestad, 14 February 1942.
40 Letters, p. 80.
41 STW, Narrative 8, STW/VA letters.
42 WARNER, 23 January 1943.
43 ibid., 7 March 1943.
44 DORSET: STW, Notes on NC.
45 DORSET: STW notebooks.
46 Letters, p. 84.
47 ibid.
48 TEXAS: STW to NC, 9 May 1944.
49 ACKLAND, 5 May 1944.
50 STW, Narrative 8, STW/VA letters.
51 Reported in a letter from John Cowper Powys to Dorothy Richardson, 4 September 1939. See Graves, p. 305.
52 DORSET: STW, ‘Notes on three Day-Books, Dorchester Rural District WVS’.
53 Letters, p. 88.
54 ibid.
55 YALE: VA to AG, n.d. [1944].
56 ACKLAND, 19 April 1945.
57 ibid., 1 May 1945.
58 ibid., 14 May 1945.
59 Letters, p. 91.
60 YALE: VA to AG, 9 October 1945.
61 YALE: VA to AG, n.d. [1946].
62 ACKLAND, 3 August 1947.
63 ibid.
64 Ackland (FS), p. 35.
65 ACKLAND, 5 November 1947.
66 Ackland (NM), pp. 39–40.
Other sources include: P.C. Buck, Psychology for Musicians (Oxford University Press, 1944); Anne Chisholm, Nancy Cunard (London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1979); conversations with Norah Smallwood and Hilary Machen.
Chapter 5: 1947–1950
1 ACKLAND, 8 March 1948.
2 TEXAS: Arthur Machen to Colin Summerford, 17 January 1940.
3 STW/VA letters, footnote to letter 138.
4 Letters, p. 99.
5 YALE: VA to AG, 19 December 1947.
6 ibid.
7 Reported in VA to AG, 17 January n.d. [1948].
8 STW to SC, 19 May 1948.
9 STW to Walter Strachan, 14 August 1946 (Hewett, p. 65).
10 MC, p. 119.
11 ibid., p. 138.
12 Opus 7, pp. 18–19.
13 Letters, p. 96.
14 Somerset, p. 8.
15 ibid., p. 53.
16 PNR 23
, p. 36.
17 CTHT, p. 61.
18 STW inverviewed in Guardian, 5 January 1977.
19 STW to NS, 15 March 1971.
20 Somerset, p. 50.
21 Donald Davie, Under Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain, 1960–1985 (Carcanet, 1989).
22 YALE: VA to AG, n.d. [1949].
23 ACKLAND, 23/24 January 1949.
24 STW, ts inserted in ACKLAND, January 1949.
25 Letters, p. 112.
26 ACKLAND, 11 April 1949.
27 ibid., 16 May 1949.
28 Letters, p. 112.
29 ibid.
30 STW, Narrative 10, STW/VA letters.
31 ACKLAND, 11 June 1949.
32 ibid.
33 STW, Narrative 10, STW/VA letters.
34 ibid.
35 Ackland (FS), p. 132.
36 WARNER, 15 August 1949.
37 YALE: Alyse Gregory’s journal, 12 September 1949.
38 WARNER, 9 September 1949.
39 YALE: Alyse Gregory’s journal, 12 September 1949.
40 WARNER, 12 September 1949.
41 ibid., 17 September 1949.
42 STW to BH, 6 September 1949.
43 WARNER, 30 September 1949.
44 ibid., 6 October 1949.
45 ibid., 24 October 1949.
46 ibid., 7 November 1949.
47 YALE: STW to GP, 30 December 1960.
48 ACKLAND, 11 December 1949.
49 WARNER, 19 January 1950.
50 ibid., 16 February 1950.
51 ibid., 9 March 1950.
52 ACKLAND, 17 March 1950.
53 Reported in WARNER, 23 March 1950.
54 WARNER, 29 March 1950.
Chapter 6: 1950–1969
1 WARNER, 19 July 1950.
2 Letters, p. 108.
3 TEXAS: STW to NC, 21 April 1947.
4 ACKLAND, 25 May 1950.
5 ibid., 10 September 1951.
6 Letters, p. 129.
7 ibid., p. 128.
8 YALE: VA to AG, n.d. [1952].
9 YALE: STW to AG, 13 November 1951.
10 ACKLAND, 19 January 1952.
11 ibid., 26 September 1951.
12 ibid., 17 August 1951.
13 WARNER, 19 November 1952.
14 ibid., 10 October 1952.
15 ACKLAND, 6 March 1953.
16 ibid.
17 WARNER, 7 January 1954.
18 ibid., 4 September 1953.
19 Letters, p. 145.
20 ACKLAND, 1 December 1953.
21 FA, p. 78.
22 Sunday Times, 26 September 1954.
23 WARNER, 12 December 1954.
24 OT, p. 108.
25 ACKLAND, 8 January 1956.
26 ibid., 17 February 1956.
27 ibid.
28 ibid., 15 February 1956.
29 WARNER, 28 February 1956.
30 ACKLAND, 1 March 1956.
31 WARNER, 28 March 1956.
32 ibid.
33 ACKLAND, 24 April 1956.
34 ibid., 9 December 1958.
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