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Lolly Willowes

Warner, Sylvia Townsend  more...
Virago Modern Classics    more...

Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: General & literary fictionClassic fiction
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Publication Date: 24/04/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom



 

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Lolly Willowes is a twenty-eight-year-old spinster when her adored father dies, leaving her dependent upon her brothers and their wives. After twenty years of self-effacement as a maiden aunt, she decides to break free and moves to a small Bedfordshire village. Here, happy and unfettered, she enjoys her new existence nagged only by the sense of a secret she has yet to discover. That secret - and her vocation - is witchcraft, and with her cat and a pact with the Devil, Lolly Willowes is finally free. An instant success on its publication in 1926, LOLLY WILLOWES is Sylvia Townsend Warner's first and most magical novel. Deliciously wry and inviting, it was her piquant plea that single women find liberty and civility, a theme that would later be explored by Virginia Woolf in 'A Room of One's Own'.


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