Lolly Willowes, or, The Loving Huntsman by Sylvia Townsend Warner 222 pp.
Set in the early twentieth century in England, spinster Laura Willowes, nicknamed Lolly within her close and controlling family, is taken into her brother's household after the death of her beloved father. Lolly lives a quiet, genteel existence assisting her sister-in-law with the children and household tasks. Once the children are grown, she realizes the need to get away from her stifling family and moves off to a tiny village of Great Mop where she rents rooms from a widow and begins a life of rambling the countryside and doing as she pleases. She eventually decides she is a witch and embarks on a supernatural journey with other townsfolk. When her nephew Titus comes to stay and she is once again stifled by family, she uses witchcraft to send him on his way. This somewhat odd little book is considered to be an early feminist classic and its author is known for her feminist writing.
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