Sylvia Townsend Warner, Summer will Show (1936)
Alison Hennegan on Summer will Show
This is the fourth of seven novels by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) and is set in France during the 1848 Revolution.
Revolutions come in many kinds. Europe in 1848 was a continent in ferment and Paris was a city in turmoil. But Sophia Willoughby, a repressed English woman visiting the French capital and caught up in turbulent political events, found herself experiencing her own personal revolution. with her old certainties about female friendship and the nature and possibilities of love being dramatically overturned.
In this 1936 novel, generally considered one of her finest, Townsend Warner explores her constant fascination with the relationship between public, social, and political concerns and more intimate, personal and individual ones.
Live online lecture and seminar with Alison Hennegan, retired Fellow of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.
Saturday 20 September 2025
18.00-20.00 British Summer Time
19.00-21.00 Central European Summer Time
Morning / lunchtime in the Americas
Prices
£32.00 full price
£27.00 students
£27.00 CAMcard holders
Links
Caroline Lodge discusses this novel on Bookword.
Sylvia Townsend Warner Society.
Claire Harman, biographical notes on STW.
Alison Hennegan on Summer will Show
This is the fourth of seven novels by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) and is set in France during the 1848 Revolution.
Revolutions come in many kinds. Europe in 1848 was a continent in ferment and Paris was a city in turmoil. But Sophia Willoughby, a repressed English woman visiting the French capital and caught up in turbulent political events, found herself experiencing her own personal revolution. with her old certainties about female friendship and the nature and possibilities of love being dramatically overturned.
In this 1936 novel, generally considered one of her finest, Townsend Warner explores her constant fascination with the relationship between public, social, and political concerns and more intimate, personal and individual ones.
Live online lecture and seminar with Alison Hennegan, retired Fellow of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.
Saturday 20 September 2025
18.00-20.00 British Summer Time
19.00-21.00 Central European Summer Time
Morning / lunchtime in the Americas
Prices
£32.00 full price
£27.00 students
£27.00 CAMcard holders
Links
Caroline Lodge discusses this novel on Bookword.
Sylvia Townsend Warner Society.
Claire Harman, biographical notes on STW.
Alison Hennegan on Summer will Show
This is the fourth of seven novels by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) and is set in France during the 1848 Revolution.
Revolutions come in many kinds. Europe in 1848 was a continent in ferment and Paris was a city in turmoil. But Sophia Willoughby, a repressed English woman visiting the French capital and caught up in turbulent political events, found herself experiencing her own personal revolution. with her old certainties about female friendship and the nature and possibilities of love being dramatically overturned.
In this 1936 novel, generally considered one of her finest, Townsend Warner explores her constant fascination with the relationship between public, social, and political concerns and more intimate, personal and individual ones.
Live online lecture and seminar with Alison Hennegan, retired Fellow of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.
Saturday 20 September 2025
18.00-20.00 British Summer Time
19.00-21.00 Central European Summer Time
Morning / lunchtime in the Americas
Prices
£32.00 full price
£27.00 students
£27.00 CAMcard holders
Links
Caroline Lodge discusses this novel on Bookword.
Sylvia Townsend Warner Society.
Claire Harman, biographical notes on STW.