biography
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Warner, Sylvia Townsend
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| female
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| lived:
| (1893–1978)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Harrow, NW Greater London, UK. A student of music, she researched the music of the 15th-c and 16th-c, and was one of the four editors of Tudor Church Music (10 vols, 1923–9). She published seven novels, four volumes of poetry, essays, and eight volumes of short stories, many of which had previously appeared in the New Yorker. Ranging widely in theme, locale, and period, significant titles are Lolly Willowes (1926), Summer Will Show (1936), and The Corner That Held Them (1948). |
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