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Copyright © 1948 by the Estate of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Introduction copyright © 1988 by Claire Harman

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Cover image: Ruins of Castle Acre Priory Church, c. 1780–1820; akg-images / British Library

Cover design: Katy Homans

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893–1978, author. | Harman, Claire, writer of introduction.

Title: The corner that held them / by Sylvia Townsend Warner ; introduction by Claire Harman.

Description: New York : New York Review Books, [2019] | Series: New York Review Books Classics | This publication is a reproduction of The corner that held them by Sylvia Townsend Warner, the edition published in London by Virago Press on 1988.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019017347| ISBN 9781681373874 (paperback) | ISBN 9781681373881 (epub)

Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Contemporary Women. | FICTION / Religious.

Classification: LCC PR6045.A812 C67 2019 | DDC 823/.914—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019017347

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