English Climate: Wartime Stories Gift Wrapping:Cambridge Imprint paper faces a bleak future where

faces a bleak future where ‘it is so extremely difficult for a woman of my age and uncertified qualifications to find a post‘ and DE Stevenson never forgets ‘the potentially bleak outlook for women who cannot marry into a secure life

while Mollie wrote of the quotidian stream of English life

not too intrusive

The excellence of this story lies in the depth behind the flashing surface

English Climate: Wartime Stories Gift Wrapping:Cambridge Imprint paper faces a bleak future wherePREFACE BY LYDIA FELLGETT 240 pp ISBN 9781910263273 Sylvia Townsend Warner was born in 1893; by the time war broke out she was an established novelist, and from 1936 onwards her short stories appeared mostly in The New Yorker (approaching 150 of them over the years, even more than Mollie Panter Downes and Elizabeth Taylor, those other two British women writers who were promoted and revered by the New Yorker editors). We have collected twenty two