Pianos and Pianolas

A biographical reminiscence by Sylvia Townsend Warner describing the piano-playing of her grandmother Fanny, her own first piano lessons and the way that her father played the pianola

My Shirt Is in Mexico

Sylvia Townsend Warner lived for nearly half her life in Maiden Newton.Surprisingly, since she was a Communist, and Maiden Newton was a working-class village, she showed little interest in its people. During the Second World War, however, she inevitably became more involved with them. ‘Miss Warner’ was a driving force in the Women’s Voluntary Service in Dorchester, and in Maiden Newton’s Civil Defence. Almost all of her short stories about the village date from this chaotic and unpredictable period. They provide a rich source of material about the village’s Home Front, and show Warner’s attitude to it all: a mix of amusement, pity and resignation which combine to make some very fine stories

The Unfinished Sequel to The Corner That Held Them (Part 1 of 2)

This is the first part of a two-part edited presentation of an unfinished sequel to Sylvia Townsend Warner’s 1948 novel, The Corner That Held Them

Notes on The Corner That Held Them

A draft manuscript essay in which Warner recalls the genesis of The Corner That Held Them and the stages of its composition

Gravitational Stability and Renormalization-Group Flow

First-order `Bogomol'nyi' equations are found for dilaton domain walls of D-dimensional gravity with the general dilaton potential admitting a stable anti-de Sitter vacuum. Implications for renormalization group flow in the holographically dual field theory are discussed.Comment: 12p, Latex; v2:one reference added, version to appear in PL