Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lolly Willowes?Sylvia Townsend Warner ($2). Lady into witch...
Engaged. Miss Sylvia Thompson, 23, English author of a recent U S best seller, The Hounds of Spring (TIME, March 1, BOOKS); to one Peter Luling, Eton-Oxford raised Manhattanite...
Lolly Willowes?Sylvia Townsend Warner ($2). A decayed gentlewoman's discovery of Satan...
LOLLY WILLOWES, OR THE LOVING HUNTSMAN?Sylvia Townsend Warner?Viking Press ($2). Lolly Willowes, a forgotten maiden, was nearly 50 before she understood the impulses long stirring beneath her life-routine among normal, well- to-do British relatives?impulses that had set her to reading in dusty books about werewolves and spells; to searching for potent, hidden herbs on solitary walks; and to quaint medicinal brewings and distillations in private...
...HOUNDS OP SPRING?Sylvia Thompson?Little, Brown ($2). The bird's-eye view of Miss Thompson's novel is promising. A girl's true love goes to war and is reported dead. Desolate and a bit selfish, she marries with half a heart. Then the grave?which was a living one, a prison camp?gives up its dead. She finds it in her to leave husband and child, to conclude, on a veranda in Fiesole, that she was wise to relight her candle after fate had snuffed it. The story is straightforwardly written out, with honest British cliches of word...