Valentine Ackland : a transgressive life
Bingham, Frances2021
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Total copies: 1
One November evening in 1925, two young women from London arrived at the village of Chaldon, in Dorset. They brought with them two suitcases, a gramophone, and a wooden boxful of records; the bare necessities. Both wore trousers and had Eton-cropped hair. The taller of the two, Mrs Turpin, had come to the country to recover from a recent operation to remove her hymen. Mrs Turpin was Valentine Ackland, on the run from her recent disastrous marriage. She was soon to meet the love of her life, Sylvia Townsend Warner, already a celebrity for her dashing debut novel Lolly Willowes. They would live in Dorset together in a passionate relationship until Valentine's death in 1969. Valentine was a dedicated poet, deeply involved with Communism during the 1930s, and an environmentalist and peace campaigner.
Main title:
Valentine Ackland : a transgressive life / Frances Bingham.
Author:
Bingham, Frances, author
Imprint:
Bath : Handheld Press, 2021.
Collation:
270 pages ; 22 cm.
Series title:
Handheld research ; 4.
ISBN:
9781912766406 (pbk)
Dewey class:
821.912821.912 ACK
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3113788