Books by Sylvia Townsend Warner
“It was such fun to re-read this after a period of years. It’s a so-called feminist classic, a slim little book. In some ways it’s a satire, in other ways, it’s a very, very serious book. I think it’s actually very trenchant in the way it’s describing how domesticity traps so many women, and how few options there are to escape that.” Read more...
The Best Novels about Witches and Witch Hunts
Margaret Meyer, Novelist
Interviews where books by Sylvia Townsend Warner were recommended
The Best Novels about Witches and Witch Hunts, recommended by Margaret Meyer
The figure of the witch recurs across cultures and time periods, and remains a source of fascination even today. Here, Margaret Meyer—author of The Witching Tide, an acclaimed historical novel inspired by a notorious English witch hunt—recommends five brilliant fiction books about witches, and explains how the witch serves as a symbol of female power in a patriarchal society.
