{"id":96436,"date":"2025-10-23T12:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/96436\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T12:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:13:07","slug":"novelist-townsend-warners-statue-for-dorchester-cast-in-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/96436\/","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":96437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-96436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}