Lolly Willowes

✍ Scribed by Sylvia Townsend Warner

• Publisher: New York Review Books
• Year: 1926
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 100 KB
• Edition: NYRB Classics (2011)
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0940322161

✦ Synopsis

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Paperback, 222 pages
Published 1926
NYRB Classics (2011)
Guardian/Mccrum 100 Best Novels
Original Title: Lolly Willowes, or, The Loving Huntsman
Introduction by: Alison Lurie
In Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner tells of an aging spinster's struggle to break way from her controlling family—a classic story that she treats with cool feminist intelligence, while adding a dimension of the supernatural and strange. Warner is one of the outstanding and indispensable mavericks of twentieth-century literature, a writer to set beside Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, with a subversive genius that anticipates the fantastic flights of such contemporaries as Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson.
Lolly Willowes, always so gentle and accommodating, suddenly announces that she is moving, alone, to the countryside. To her overbearing family in London, it is a disturbing and inexplicable act of defiance. But Lolly will not be swayed, and in the depths of the English countryside she gradually discovers not only freedom and independence, but also, unexpectedly, her true vocation.