Join us in the Memorial Room following the 10AM service for a discussion of The Corner that Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Warner was a remarkable English writer and musicologist who died in the 1970s. She’s most known for her super weird and witchy proto-feminist novel, Lolly Willowes. A Corner that Held Them, first published in 1948, is equally eccentric and unlike any novel before or after it. It is set in a convent in medieval England during a time marked by outbreaks of the Bubonic Plague. It’s about the seemingly boring—but actually fascinating (no really!)—lives of the residents of the convent over the course of centuries.  It’s going to be a total hoot, but don’t get too attached to any one character...  A Corner that Held Them (and Lolly Willowes) has been reprinted in a beautiful paperback by the NYRB Classics, which is probably my favorite publishing endeavor. They really know how to make a paperback.  (JRS - April edition of “The Apostle” newsletter).

You are welcome to join us whether you have finished the book, or not even yet started reading!