ABSTRACT
Born in England in 1893 and making her literary debut with Lolly Willowes in 1926, three years before Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Sylvia Townsend Warner is neither a proper feminist nor an ecological writer. Warner views on identity and domination of women and nature echo those of contemporary theorists, such as Judith Butler, Stuart Hall, Karen J. Warren, Val Plumwood, and Patrick Murphy. Theorizing binaries/dualisms and hegemonic centrism is crucial for feminists and especially ecofeminists, because it explains the logic of domination of what is constructed as marginal groups. The latter is mostly associated with the tradition of the pastoral, which tends to idealize nature, while what is needed for an ecological text is not idealization but "a true encounter with it". Karen J. Warren exposes the patriarchal nature of Judeo-Christian religions that put down, in addition to women, "other others"—children, animals, plants, and the earth itself, with stars and God being above all.
