Sylvia Townsend Warner: Stand By Me
"I have felt what it is to be famous."
Sylvia Townsend Warner was a twentieth-century English musicologist, poet, novelist and short story writer, but she is probably best known for two of her novels, Lolly Willowes and The Corner That Held Them.
Born on 6th December 1893 to George Townsend Warner, a Harrow schoolmaster, and his wife Nora Eleanor Mary Hudleston, she was an only child and curious and intelligent from a young age. Though she was devoted to her father, her relationship with her mother became strained as she grew older and proved uninterested in the social niceties that were important to Nora.