‘Women are dynamite’: Dorset unveils Sylvia Townsend Warner statue
Tribute to Victorian author and LGBTQ+ pioneer secured in Dorchester amid parallel feminist campaigns around UK“The thing all women hate is to be thought dull,” says the title character of...
By Esther Addley · The Guardian Culture
Tribute to Victorian author and LGBTQ+ pioneer secured in Dorchester amid parallel feminist campaigns around UK “The thing all women hate is to be thought dull,” says the title character of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s 1926 novel, Lolly Willowes , an early feminist classic about a middle-aged woman who moves to the countryside, sells her soul to the devil and becomes a witch. Though their lives are so limited by society, Lolly observes, women “know they are dynamite … know in their hearts how dangerous, how incalculable, how extraordinary they are”. Continue reading...