"Our Time": Sylvia Townsend Warner and Virginia Woolf in the 1940s

This essay addresses the convergence of ideas and altered priorities of Sylvia Towsend Warner and Virginia Woolf in the Second World War with close attention to Woolf's posthumously published Between the Acts (1941) and Warner's The Corner That Held Them (1948). It considers some of Warner's short fiction. I discuss the literature of the war and how Warner and Woolf are situated in relation to ‘late’ modernism.