The element of lavishness : letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell, 1938-1978 / edited by Michael Steinman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893-1978.

Contributor:

Maxwell, William, 1908-2000.

Steinman, Michael (Michael A.)

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893-1978--Correspondence.

Warner, Sylvia Townsend.

Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893-1978.

Authors, English--20th century--Correspondence.

Authors, English.

Periodical editors.

United States.

Maxwell, William, 1908-2000. Correspondence.

Maxwell, William.

Periodical editors--United States--Correspondence.

Maxwell, William, 1908-2000.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Records and correspondence.

Biographies.

Personal correspondence.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxvii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Counterpoint, [2001]

Summary:

"In July 1938, William Maxwell, then twenty-nine years old and the acting poetry editor of The New Yorker, wrote to Sylvia Townsend Warner inviting her to send him verse. Miss Warner, forty-four and famous for her novel Lolly Willowes, had recently begun writing stories for the magazine, antic, inimitable sketches of English life that Maxwell adored. The poems were sent, and a remarkable friendship was begun."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Michael Steinman

Letters, 1938-1978

Postscript / William Maxwell

"What You Can't Hang Onto" / William Maxwell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893-1978. Element of lavishness.

ISBN:

1582431183

9781582431185

OCLC:

45066143