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          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.

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          Journal
          STW
          The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society
          UCL Press
          2398-0605
          15 April 2020
          : 19
          : 1–2
          : 68-70
          Affiliations
          [* ] 1893–1978
          Article
          10.14324/111.444.stw.2020.11
          887c5225-84b2-4308-9abb-1d822e588eb7
          Copyright © 2020, Tanya Stobbs

          This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.stw.2020.11

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          Literary studies,History
          Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS),Second World War,Maiden Newton,Valentine Ackland,Sylvia Townsend Warner

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