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British Council, organization founded in 1934 to promote a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language abroad. A drama department was founded in 1937 and, after amalgamating with the music department in 1961, again became a separate entity in 1977; it was renamed the drama and dance department in 1980, though dance had in fact always been within its jurisdiction. The department sponsors tours overseas by leading British companies; distributes copies of British plays with a view to their performance abroad; gives advice and information on all aspects of British theatre; and sponsors visits to Britain by theatre personalities from other countries for professional study and contacts with representatives of the British theatre.
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Sarah Waters on Sylvia Townsend Warner
Magazine article from: Out; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...bed, and found love there," Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote in her diary after her...described in a poignant memoir, For Sylvia: An Honest Account), her on...neglected mid-century writer, Sylvia Townsend Warner, in this issue. (This piece...
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Sylvia Townsend Warner's "very cultured voice".
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...in fiction. One who has done it brilliantly is Sylvia Townsend Warner, the British writer who died in 1978 and was the...one's very soul. Throughout her long career, Sylvia Townsend Warner enjoyed success and renown, if not fame...
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Critical Essays on Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist, 1893-1978.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2006; 468 words
; 0773458735 Critical essays on Sylvia Townsend Warner, English novelist, 1893-1978...essays are a tribute to the work of Townsend Warner, whose interest in feminism...correspondence. The topics covered include Townsend Warner's sense of place, her...
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MR FORTUNE'S MAGGOT SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER ; BOOK OF A LIFETIME
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/2/2007; ; 602 words
; Sylvia Townsend Warner describes how she came across a volume of letters by a missionary...the possibility of finding love and losing it. It seems to me that Sylvia Townsend Warner pulls off a fine trick: letting us glimpse the frailty of...
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In Dorset, some things don't alter FICTION Dorset Stories By Sylvia Townsend Warner BLACK DOG PRESS pounds 15.99 pounds 15.99 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 9/3/2006; 664 words
; Shortly before Sylvia Townsend Warner's death in the late 1970s I was...Russian cigarette. Smoke hovered around Warner as her beloved cats, Moth and Pericles...eccentric occupants) were all grist to Warner's literary mill. The Honourable...
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This Rapturous Form
Magazine article from: Marvels & Tales; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...writes that she was not aware of fairy tales' influence on her until, "along in her sixties," she came upon Sylvia Townsend Warners evocation of "Sleeping Beauty" in the tiny poem that goes like this: The Sleeping Beauty woke The spit began...
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POWERFUL TALES FROM 'FRAU NOAH'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/9/1989; ; 700+ words
; SELECTED STORIES OF SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER. Viking. 440 pp. $24.95. Sylvia Townsend Warner, born to a schoolmaster's family but without formal education herself, worked in a munitions factory during World War I and spent 10 years editing...
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Ahead of Her Time
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/25/2001; ; 700+ words
; THE MUSIC AT LONG VERNEY Twenty Stories By Sylvia Townsend Warner Counterpoint. 220 pp. $24 THE ELEMENT OF LAVISHNESS Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell 1938-1978 Edited by...
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A meeting of true minds
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 6/10/2006; ; 700+ words
; THE ELEMENT OF LAVISHNESS : LETTERS OF SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER AND WILLIAM MAXWELL , 1938-1978 edited by Michael...years. It began as a simple transaction; in 1938 Sylvia Townsend Warner, as a dare, submitted a short story to...
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BOOK REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/19/1994; ; 700+ words
; SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER refused to write her autobiography, claiming that she was "too...pressure of her prose, is obvious, but what really matters is the way Sylvia Townsend Warner experimented in her diary with the unwritten rules of the...
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sylvia Townsend Warner 1893-1978, English novelist and poet. Her first published work...ed. by S. Pinney, and The Element of Lavishness: Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell, 1938-1978 (2001), ed. by M. Steinman...
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Warner, Sylvia Townsend
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Warner, Sylvia Townsend (1893–1978), novelist and poet. Her first volume of verse, The Espalier (1925), was followed by several others...
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Book Clubs
Book article from: American Decades
...1926, established the integrity of the judges: Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes: or, the Loving Huntsman...salutary. THE 1926 BOMC SELECTIONS Lolly Willowes, by Sylvia Townsend Warner Teeftallow, by T. S. Stribling O Genteel...
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Maxwell, William (Keepers)
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...Horizon Press, 1980. Editor, The Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner. London, Chatto and Windus, 1982; New York...Editor, with Susanna Pinney, Selected Stories , by Sylvia Townsend Warner. London, Chatto and Windus, 1988...
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William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Bibliography: See biography by B. Burkhardt (2005); M. Steinman, ed., The Element of Lavishness: Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell, 1938-1978 (2001); C. Baxter et al., ed., A William Maxwell Portrait (2004).
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