How fickle (to put it lightly) older western feminist literary texts can be! Sylvia Townsend Warner’s novel, alternatively titled The Loving Huntsman, is a gem in the rough of 1920’s English literature. A witty, hilarious, hard-hitting tale of a middle-aged, middleclass spinster in London who moves to the countryside away from her overbearing family…until her annoying nephew shows up in town, when she then enters a pact with a certain devilish figure to push her nephew to move away. A witch story somehow unconventional and loving in how it looks at the decisions women decide to make for their autonomy, Townsend Warner has created a delightful feminist novel. -H&H