The Corner That Held Them

Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner; Philip Hensher (Introduction by)

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  • : $25.00 AUD
  • : 9781844088041
  • : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
  • : Virago Press
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  • : 0.286
  • : March 2012
  • : 198mm X 126mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 22.99
  • : May 2012
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  • : Sylvia Townsend Warner; Philip Hensher (Introduction by)
  • : Virago Modern Classics Ser.
  • : Paperback
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  • : English
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Barcode 9781844088041
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Description

In memory of the wife who had once dishonored and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded a 12th-century convent in Norfolk. Two centuries later, the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such ironic beginnings, the inhabitants are prey to the ambitions, squabbles, jealousies, and pleasures of less spiritual environments. An outbreak of the Black Death, the collapse of the convent spire, the Bishop's visitation, and a nun's disappearance are interwoven with the everyday life of the nuns, novices, and prioresses in this marvelous imagined history of a 14th-century nunnery.

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A masterful historical novel of monastic life, set in the 14th century. Many consider this Townsend Warner's most accomplished work.

Reviews

A magnificent recreation of the life of a medieval convent, dense with physical detail and imagined lives Philip Hensher, DAILY TELEGRAPH

Author description

Born in Harrow (1893-1978), Sylvia Townsend Warner published seven novels, four volumes of poetry, a volume of essays and eight volumes of short stories. She lived most of her adult life with her close companion Valentine Ackland in Dorset and Norfolk.