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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 biography
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