‘My Mother Won the War’: Patriotism and the First World War in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Scenes of Childhood (1981)

Abstract

This essay discusses the subversive treatment of the First World War and patriotism in four of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s neglected New Yorker short stories fromthe 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, later collected in Scenes of Childhood and Other Stories (1981)