| Author: | Sylvia Townsend Warner, Sylvia Townsend Warner | ISBN: | 9780571279036 |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber | Publication: | May 19, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber | Language: | English |
| Author: | Sylvia Townsend Warner, Sylvia Townsend Warner |
| ISBN: | 9780571279036 |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Publication: | May 19, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Language: | English |
In the course of her brilliant career Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote superbly in many and diverse forms but never penned a memoir, properly speaking. However, from the 1930s to the 1970s she did contribute a series of short reminiscences to the New Yorker. Scenes of Childhood collects and orders those reminiscences, thus forming a volume that reads as a joyous, wry and moving testament to the experience of being alive. The collection evokes a recognisably English world of nannies, butlers, pet podles, public schools, 'good works' and country churches, but the resonances of these stories are universal - funny and touching by turns.
In the course of her brilliant career Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote superbly in many and diverse forms but never penned a memoir, properly speaking. However, from the 1930s to the 1970s she did contribute a series of short reminiscences to the New Yorker. Scenes of Childhood collects and orders those reminiscences, thus forming a volume that reads as a joyous, wry and moving testament to the experience of being alive. The collection evokes a recognisably English world of nannies, butlers, pet podles, public schools, 'good works' and country churches, but the resonances of these stories are universal - funny and touching by turns.
