35 WARNER, 10 January 1957.
36 ibid., 15 March 1957.
37 STW to PN, 27 March 1957.
38 YALE: STW to AG, n.d.
39 WARNER, 14 October 1958.
40 ibid., 14 August 1957.
41 Peg Manisty to the author, 4 September 1985.
42 WARNER, 8 April 1956.
43 DORSET: George D. Painter to STW, 5 March 1957.
44 STW to NS, 16 February 1960.
45 ibid., 2 March 1960.
46 Letters, p. 179.
47 WARNER, 17 June 1960.
48 ACKLAND, 28 February 1961.
49 WARNER, 5 March 1961.
50 ACKLAND, 31 December 1961.
51 Letters, p. 228.
52 WARNER, 9 July 1961.
53 ACKLAND, 27 September 1961.
54 ibid., 19 May 1962.
55 YALE: VA to AG, 3 December n.d.
56 ACKLAND, 24 August 1961.
57 YALE: STW to AG, 23 January 1950.
58 WARNER, 29 January 1962.
59 Letters, p. 199.
60 John Updike, ‘The Mastery of Miss Warner’, New Republic, 5 March 1966.
61 ACKLAND, 13 July 1962.
62 WARNER, 21 September 1963.
63 Letters, p. 211.
64 ibid., p. 215.
65 STW to AG, 14 July 1966.
66 WARNER, 16 December 1966.
67 ibid., 21 February 1967.
68 READING: Michael Howard to Eric Hiscock, 3 August 1967.
69 John Updike, New Republic, 5 March 1966.
70 STW to NS, 15 March 1971.
71 IG, p. 58.
72 WARNER, 28 August 1967.
73 DORSET: STW papers.
74 ACKLAND, 13 May 1968.
75 ibid., 30 June 1968.
76 Letters, p. 237.
77 VA to an unnamed priest, 18 July 1969 (copy in the possession of Peg Manisty).
78 ACKLAND, 25 July 1969.
79 WARNER, 17 July 1969.
80 ibid., ‘9 November 1969’, though probably written not on, but near, that date. This entry, and those for 22 November 1969 and 3 December 1969 appear in the back of STW’s 1965 diary.
81 ibid., 20 November 1969.
Other sources include: conversations with Joy Finzi and Peg Manisty.
Chapter 7: 1969–1978
1 STW, ‘Azrael’, TP, p. 13.
2 Letters, p. 244.
3 STW to Jean Larson, 27 December 1969.
4 WARNER, 18 January 1970 (i).
5 STW to Jean Larson, 30 January 1970.
6 Letters, p. 246.
7 WARNER, 4 March 1970 (i).
8 STW to JF, 7 December 1970.
9 WARNER, 18 September 1970 (ii).
10 WARNER, 1970 (i).
11 Letters, pp. 247–8.
12 STW to BH, 15 December 1973.
13 WARNER, 14 June 1971.
14 From notes on STW by Antonia Trauttmansdorff (in the possession of Angela Pitt).
15 Reported in WARNER, 21 December 1970 (ii).
16 Letters, p. 255.
17 STW to PN, 16 January 1972.
18 Letters, p. 257.
19 THW, p. 219.
20 Letters, p. 257.
21 WARNER, 24 September 1972.
22 From notes on STW by Antonia Trauttmansdorff (in the possession of Angela Pitt).
23 PNR 23, p. 36.
24 KE, p. 15.
25 Guardian, 5 January 1977.
26 KE, pp. 1–2.
27 PNR 23, p. 36.
28 Letters, p. 272.
29 ibid., p. 273.
30 ibid., p. 285.
31 ibid., p. 287.
32 TP, p. 14.
33 STW to Michael Schmidt, 30 January 1978.
34 Letters, p. 289.
35 ibid., p. 290.
36 ibid., p. 305 (footnote by WM).
37 ibid., p. 297.
38 WARNER, June 1977.
39 Letters, p. 302.
40 ibid.
41 ibid., p. 303.
42 ibid., p. 304.
43 ibid., p. 302.
44 ibid., p. 306.
45 STW to JF, 10 January 1970.
Other sources include: conversations with Susanna Pinney, Antonia Trauttmansdorff and Bea Howe.
Acknowledgements
The author and publishers would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce copyright material: Susanna Pinney and William Maxwell, Executors of the Estate of Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Chatto & Windus Ltd. for extracts from Letters by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1982); the Estate of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Carcanet Press Ltd., for extracts from Collected Poems by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1982); Susanna Pinney and William Maxwell, Executors of the Estate of Valentine Ackland, and Chatto & Windus for extracts from The Nature of the Moment by Valentine Ackland (1973) and For Sylvia: An Honest Account (1985); the Estate of Robert Frost and Jonathan Cape for extracts from The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (1964); The Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (as owners only) for extracts from letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner to George Plank and to Leonard Bacon, extracts from the journal of Alyse Gregory and from the letters of Valentine Ackland to Alyse Gregory in their possession; Chatto & Windus for extracts from letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner to Charles Prentice in their archive at Reading University; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas (as owners only) for extracts from letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner to Nancy Cunard and to Alyse Gregory.
I would like to express my thanks to Susanna Pinney and William Maxwell who gave me full access to the Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland papers in the Dorset County Museum and permission to quote from the published and unpublished writings of both Sylvia and Valentine. Without their generous help and encouragement, and that of the trustees of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s estate, Joy Finzi and Peg Manisty, I would have been unable to write this book.
I must record my gratitude to Janet Pollock, Bea Howe, Peg Manisty and Angela Pitt for their invaluable help and friendship and to Jean Larson, Mary Dene, Steven Clark, Julius Lipton and all of the above for kindly allowing me to quote from material in their possession. The late Rosemary Manning was particularly generous in loaning me Valentine’s letters to Alyse Gregory, now at Yale University, and the late Hilary Machen was as generous with his time, reminiscences and encouragement.
I would like to thank Roger Peers, of the Dorset County Museum, for his help and interest in my research, and also Michael Bott, of Reading University Library, and A.D.K. Hawkyard and J.S. Golland of Harrow School.
Many people have spoken or written to me about Sylvia, and significantly increased my understanding of my subject: Sybil Chase, Marchette Chute and the late Joy Chute, the late Vivien Elgood, the late David Garnett, the late Kenneth Hopkins, Colin House, the late George Howe, Peter Jones, J. Lawrence Mitchell, George D. Painter, O.B.E., Trekkie Parsons, the late Mrs Lucy Penny, the late Edgell Rickword, Ruth and Antony Scott, the late Norah Smallwood, Janet Stone, the late Grafin Antonia von & zu Trauttmansdorff, Mrs Elizabeth Warner and Elizabeth Wade White.
I would also like to thank my editor at Chatto & Windus, Jeremy Lewis, a model of patience, my family and Jacky Quigley and Nancy Stenhouse.
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