Abstract
Sylvia Townsend Warner’s 1958 poetry collection Boxwood is an unusual book with an unusual genesis. This article examines how Warner and her neighbour, the wood engraver Reynolds Stone, collaborated on the project. It explores Warner’s meditations on rural life, storytelling and human mortality in the wider contexts of her own poetry and the history of British wood engraving.
Highlights
Maiden Newton’s real war was rather different, as Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland were to discover after they moved from West Chaldon to ‘Riversdale’, Frome Vauchurch, in August 1937
At War : Sylvia Townsend Warner and Maiden Newton its name – and loved the River Frome which flowed beneath their windows
The Sheridans owned land in Maiden Newton, they did not own many of the houses: the village is an open one
Summary
Maiden Newton’s real war was rather different, as Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland were to discover after they moved from West Chaldon to ‘Riversdale’, Frome Vauchurch, in August 1937. At War: Sylvia Townsend Warner and Maiden Newton Maiden Newton, home to Sylvia Townsend Warner for 40 years, has more recently been at war.
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