{"id":234984,"date":"2025-10-23T12:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/234984\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T12:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:06:07","slug":"novelist-townsend-warners-statue-for-dorchester-cast-in-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/234984\/","title":{"rendered":"Novelist Townsend Warner’s statue for Dorchester cast in bronze"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a Facebook post, the charity said the cast was “currently cooling off after the pour, and then the real magic begins \u2014 piecing her together and finessing all those beautiful details”.<\/p>\n

Sylvia Townsend Warner was a contemporary of Virginia Woolf and lived in Dorset with her long-term partner, Valentine Ackland in the early 20th Century.<\/p>\n

The \u00a360,000 life-size statue will sit on a new public bench, with a cat at the writer’s feet – a reference to Townsend Warner’s love of cats.<\/p>\n

The charity previously said the animal would be based on Susie, a locally famous cat with more than 10,000 followers on Facebook.<\/p>\n

But complaints about its appearance while it was still in the wax stage of the casting process prompted the charity to distance itself from the popular feline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a Facebook post, the charity said the cast was “currently cooling off after the pour, and then…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-234984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}