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“[The book] I’ll be pressing into people’s hands forever is “Lolly Willowes,” the 1926 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner. It tells the story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for her in favor of freedom and the most unexpected of alliances. It completely blindsided me: Starting as a straightforward, albeit beautifully written family saga, it tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness.” - Helen Macdonald in The New York Times Book Review's “By the Book."
In Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner tells of an aging spinster's struggle to break way from her controlling family—a classic story that she treats with cool feminist intelligence, while adding a dimension of the supernatural and strange. Warner is one of the outstanding and indispensable mavericks of twentieth-century literature, a writer to set beside Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, with a subversive genius that anticipates the fantastic flights of such contemporaries as Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson.
- Sales Rank: #253527 in Books
- Color: Other
- Brand: Brand: NYRB Classics
- Model: 1057767
- Published on: 1999-09-30
- Released on: 1999-09-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .60" w x 5.00" l, .55 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 230 pages
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- Used Book in Good Condition
Amazon.com Review
Sylvia Townsend Warner began her literary career as a poet, and her first novel is as nimble and precise as poetry and reads as if it might have been composed to a meter. Like some of Jane Austen's fiction, Lolly Willowes is a comedy about the perils, pleasures, and consolations of spinsterhood, and the predicament of its heroine is at first deliberately and deceptively commonplace. "Aunt Lolly, a middle-aging lady, light-footed upon stairs, and indispensable for Christmas Eve and birthday preparations," is nevertheless troubled by vague, indefinable longings, a hankering after the solitude of woods and dark rural places. At last a revelation in a greengrocer's leads her to abandon her outraged London family and take rooms in an obscure hamlet, Great Mop.
Here her neighbors keep curiously late and noisy hours, but otherwise allow her to pass the time "in perfect idleness and contentment." She is eventually pursued into her idyll, however, by her nephew, and Titus's familiar small demands drive her to rage and despair: "No! You shan't get me. I won't go back. I won't.... Oh! Is there no help?" She is promptly visited by a mysterious black kitten, who fastens its claws upon her hand and draws blood. At once she understands. The kitten is her familiar, and has been sent by dark forces. "She, Laura Willowes, in England, in the year 1922, had entered into a compact with the Devil."
She has, in short, become a witch--or, rather, she has rediscovered her own slumbering diabolical potential, in the unlikely setting of a Buckinghamshire hamlet that--as she now realizes--is peopled entirely by witches. Laura soon attends a rollicking but ultimately rather disappointing midnight Sabbath; she is visited by Satan in the shape of a pleasant-faced man in a corduroy coat and gaiters who rids her of Titus and restores her to privacy and peace. She is left with a vision of the women "all over England, all over Europe ... as common as blackberries, and as unregarded" to whom he has offered the promise of adventure, "the dangerous black night to stretch your wings in." It is this vision that lends the novel its subversive edge, that ultimately allies it less with the work of Austen than with that of Virginia Woolf, and with later feminists. They "know they are dynamite," says Laura of Satan's women, "and long for the concussion that may justify them." --Sarah Waters
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“[The book] I’ll be pressing into people’s hands forever is “Lolly Willowes,” the 1926 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner. It tells the story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for her in favor of freedom and the most unexpected of alliances. It completely blindsided me: Starting as a straightforward, albeit beautifully written family saga, it tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness.” - Helen Macdonald in The New York Times Book Review's “By the Book."
Sylvia Townsend Warner’s brilliantly varied and self-possessed literary production never quite won her the flaming place in the heavens of repute that she deserved. In Lolly Willowes, her first novel, she moves with somber confidence into the realm of the supernatural, and her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it. This is the witty, eerie, tender but firm life history of a middle-class Englishwoman who politely declines to make the expected connection with the opposite sex and becomes a witch instead.
— John Updike
Silvia Townsend Warner…is perhaps the most unjustly neglected of all the modern masters of fiction. She is remembered as a writer of historical novels, but her novels are written with such extraordinary immediacy that they stretch the possibilities of long-disparaged genera and blur the distinction between historical fiction and serious literature….Like the controversial movie Thelma and Louise, Lolly Willowes is [a] Rorschach blot that might suggest liberation to some readers and folly to others. It is an edgy tale that suggests how taking control of one’s own life might entail losing control; it might even entail an inexorable drift toward an unknown and possibly disastrous fate. In short, Lolly Willowes would be an ideal book-club selection, sure to spark a rousing discussion.
— Tim Walker, News-Press
About the Author
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978) was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist, as well as an authority on early English music and a devoted member of the Communist Party. Her many books include Mr. Fortune’s Maggot and Lolly Willows (both published by NYRB Classics), The Corner that Held Them, andKingdoms of Elfin.
Alison Lurie is a former Professor of English at Cornell. Her most recent novel is Truth and Consequences.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A quietly sensuous novel, a passionate appeal beautifully realized
By T. M. Teale
This novel is many things; some people say it might be a feminist novel and the author a literary maverick, or this novel is unusual because the main character finally realizes her true vocation as a witch, but _Lolly Willowes_ is so much more beautiful and complex than all that. For one thing, no review that I'd read said anything about this story being about one woman's love of the English countryside. The beauty of the land is on every page. The main character, Laura Willowes, "Aunt Lolly," gets so much pleasure from walking the hills and meadows and woods and woodland paths that I feel sure that author Sylvia Townsend Warner put herself into Lolly. If being passionate about solitary walks in nature is a sign of witchcraft, then let's have more of it.
The novel flows beautifully, and has many lines like this: "The bees droned in the motionless lime trees" (38). Sensitive images like that do many things: they show the passion for the countryside (as I mentioned), and also give the reader a sense of time, and place, and mood, and Lolly's interior thoughts. These carefully-crafted sentences are not random poetic lines dropped into the text but part and parcel of this novel's pace and tone of voice. In a pivotal scene, Lolly is in a shop room when she goes into a sort of meditative trance; the room falls quiet like she's alone outdoors: "No sound, except sometimes the soft thud of a riper plum falling into the grass, to lie there a compact shadow among shadows" (80).
The novel is 220 pages and divided into three parts of almost equal length, each part mapping out Lolly Willowes's life through her psychological development. Part 1 shows what the wild hill country meant to Lolly, as she goes from birth through childhood in the care of her loving father, whose nurturing of her is truly a touching portrait of fatherhood. This opening section also shows the social environment in which Lolly is embedded; we see the development of her two brothers and their wives and children, how they are well-off--but perhaps not typically middle-class--and how the "spinster aunt" Lolly plays a useful social role. The Willowes stalwart Englishness is characterized by steadfast values, often predictable, but what society depends upon. Though Lolly seems stuck in one position (the maiden Aunt), it is a comfortable prison. This early portrait of Laura Willowes is necessary to show her later development and how her streak of creativity finds expression when she breaks away from her brother and the Willowes's stable and secure existence.
Also of note is that this novel was originally published in 1926 and now has a kind of sociological or non-fiction quality. I'm not spoiling the novel for you if I suggest that the turning point is in Part 1 around the topic of how the Willowes family holds up during World War I, or the Great War, during which they have been confined to London: During the immediate aftermath of the war, Lolly becomes aware that she is hungry for change in life: "She [Lolly] saw how admirable it was for Henry and Caroline [ her brother and his wife ] to have stayed where they were [in London]." The narrator continues, "But she was conscious, more conscious than they were, that the younger members of the family had somehow moved into new positions. And she herself, had she not slightly strained against her moorings, fast and far sunk as they were?" (66). Again, the key to Lolly/Laura's happiness is the countryside--but in an unusual expression of creative energy and self-consciousness, which you'll find out when you read.
There is an understated sensuality at work all through this novel, one that male readers can appreciate, too, since Warner knew that there were men like Lolly Willowes, who wanted to break away from their masculine social roles in the 1920s.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
What do women want?
By Amazon Customer
To become witches.
To be free of the endless round of caring for men, who spend their time in importance and neediness.
Some of us have this now. Others will never be free. Laura Willowes is given the choice, although she doesn't know it. An odd little gem of a book.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Beautifully written story about a woman creating an independent life ...
By J.M.C.
Beautifully written story about a woman creating an independent life in the only way she knew how, given the times she was living in. Quirky and insightful with moments of brilliance.
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