EJS
has been much anthologised: in Geoffrey Grigson
's Poetry of the Present: An Anthology of the Thirties and After, 1949, and more recently in collections edited by Fleur Adcock
, Philip Larkin
,...
Cultural formation
Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW
's father was an atheist whose unconventional views undoubtedly inspired her own rejection of traditional thought. Her mother similarly showed little concern for religion, regarding most biblical characters as frauds, even though she taught...
politics
Valentine Ackland
Stephen Spender
's later autobiography incorporates a vitriolic personal attack
Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora, 1988.
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on both women and their work in Spain. Such unthinking heterosexism and homophobia is (says biographer Wendy Mulford
) an index of attitudes prevailing...
politics
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Stephen Spender
includes in his autobiography a passage that biographer Wendy Mulford
terms a vitriolic personal attack
Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora, 1988.
99
on Warner and Ackland, denigrating their work in Spain. Mulford characterises this as heterosexism and homophobia, representative...
Reception
Sylvia Townsend Warner
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
, and in June 1977 the Aldeburgh Festival honoured her with a special programme of her work. As if to reinforce the parallel sometimes...
Reception
Kathleen Jamie
Julian of Norwich was reprinted in The Virago Book of Love Poetry, edited by Wendy Mulford
, in 1990.
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Texts
Mulford, Wendy, editor. The Virago Book of Love Poetry. Virago Press, 1998.
Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora, 1988.
Maitland, Sara, and Wendy Mulford. Virtuous Magic. Mowbray, 1998.