Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978) was an English novelist, poet, short story writer, and musicologist, best known for her novels *Lolly Willowes* (1926), *Mr Fortune's Maggot* (1927), *Summer Will Show* (1936), and *The Corner That Held Them* (1948), as well as her collections of short stories published in *The New Yorker*. She spent much of her life in a partnership with poet Valentine Ackland and was active in left-wing politics, including the Communist Party, while also editing and translating works like Proust.[1][2][4]