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"Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hot for certainties in this our life!"
-George Meredith
(epigraph to DUSTY ANSWER by Rosamond Lehmann)

Slow read begins Aug. 1st, 2024! #DustyAnswer2024 #RosamondLehmann #STWTheCorner2024

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„Taking ship at Venice ... All day Dame Lilias's thoughts sailed to Jerusalem over a blue transparent sea, blue as a flower and wide as a sky.“

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Entertaining stories with deep insights into the medieval world of a convent. 🙏Christina! @christina500.bsky.social

#STWTheCorner2024 Week 7 begins today!

“It was not easy to get Adela to stir, she seemed unable to comprehend the notion of danger and she had none of the uncloistered woman's instinct to obey the male.“

Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Corner That Held Them XII
The Candlemas cuckoo
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#SylviaTownsendWarner #STWTheCorner2024 Week 6 begins July 15th -
1. What will happen to Dame Sibilla?
2. Who succeeds Bishop Walter?
3. Is the Black Death still around?
4. Will Henry Yellowlees sing again?
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„Children were beaten to make them pray more fervently, for the prayer of a child has more power than any grown person's prayer“

Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Corner That Held Them
A Sacrifice to Woden (253)
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#STWTheCorner2024 Week 5 begins July 8th -
Both Sylvia Townsend Warner and Virginia Woolf read Medieval English Nunneries (1922) by Eileen Power, a study of the daily workings of such communities, focusing on the women, there by choice or otherwise.

„Her attitude and expression showed a slow-burning thrifty happiness,and she resembled a virtuous wolf. Wolfishly,she had got her teeth into the psalter,she was at last doing something positive and profitable.“

Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Corner That Held Them (10)
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#STWTheCorner2024 Week 4 begins July 1st -
Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Book: The Corner That Held Them
About: 4th century nuns in England
Tone: Dark, amusing, historical, endearing, lots of pigs.

„How many uncomfortable conversations, boring confidences, protracted jokes, that blessed bell had cut short!“

Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Corner That Held Them
Prioress Matilda
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#STWTheCorner2024 Week 3 begins June 24th-
Not too late to join if you're intrigued by 14th c. French nuns in England during the Black Death, with a layer of sophisticated irony and unbarred details! Slow read of Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner that Held Them (1948).

„But ladies never can make up their minds.“

Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Corner That Held Them
The Spire
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Just encountered an overtly subversive passage about exorcism, necrophilia, cradle snatching, Angel of Death... Hope that my brother-in-law's 81 yr old religious mother doesn't take up my book recommendation! Or would she secretly chuckle away? #TheCornerThatHeldThem #STWTheCorner2024

#STWTheCorner2024 Revised Week 2 schedule - starts June 17th - a booboo here, some proofreading there -
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„Men fight like so many stags, and to live with them perpetually would be intolerable; but from time to time a male quarrel is refreshing, like hartshorn or catnip.“

Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Corner That Held Them
Prioress Alicia
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"Only by kissing or shrieking could she lack the strain of so much thankfulness. The child woke and struck at her with a sleepy arm. 'Don't kiss me so hard, mother. It hurts.'" Ursula. #STWTheCorner2024

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Just started reading The Corner today with a small book group after connecting deeply with Summer Will Show. STW wastes no time with that first sentence! #STWTheCorner2024

Day1-
1. First chapter is titled "Orate Pro Anima" (pray for the soul).
2. "There will be no nunnery, for he will never part from my money." Wise, pragmatic Alianor.
3. "A good convent should have no history. History is of the world, costly and deadly...."
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#STWTheCorner2024 Week 1 of #slowread begins today, June 10th-
"For neither might the corner that held them keep them from fear" -The Wisdom of Solomon XVII 4 (epigraph of novel)
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#VWFreshwater Day 6, 6/6- "Mr C [opening his eyes slowly]: Alfred, Alfred!" p.72 to p.84 (end). Notes p.85-86.

Thanks for reading together! Hope to see everyone on June 10th for #STWTheCorner2024 ! (1948 first edition cover here.)

Hello! Hope you'll join me for #VWFreshwater from June 1 - 6, 2024. Virginia Woolf revised her 1923 play for the 1935 performance at Vanessa Bell's residence in London.

Afterwards, starting June 10th, we'll read "The Corner That Held Them" by Sylvia Townsend Warner #STWTheCorner2024 .