Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Townsend Warner was an English novelist, poet and musicologist, best known for the novel Lolly Willowes and for The Corner That Held Them and the story collection Kingdoms of Elfin. Her other fiction includes Mr Fortune's Maggot, Summer Will Show and After the Death of Don Juan. She spent most of her adult life in partnership with the poet Valentine Ackland.