The Maze by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Introduction from A Distant Cry Stories from East Anglia Chosen by Peter Tolhurst, 2002,  Black Dog Books Norwich: In 1922 Warner travelled to East Chaldon in Dorset to meet the writer T F Powys whose allegorical tales she much admired. As a result she decided to rent a cottage in the village and a highly influential friendship grew out of that first meeting. Through her contact with David Garnett at Chatto and Windus Warner arranged for Powys' stories to be published. Four years later, following the appearance of her first novel Lolly Willows, Warner went to stay with Garnett at Hilton Hall on the edge of the Fens. There she was much taken with the pillar on the green erected to the memory of William Sparrow in the centre of a turf maze cut by him to celebrate the Restoration of 1660. The maze, in which Mr Slumber is, by her own admission, an affectionate portrait of Garnett, appeared in the The Salutation (1932), Warner's collection of decidly Powysian short stories.   First Published 1932