For Sylvia by Valentine Ackland

For Sylvia

An Honest Account

Valentine Ackland

Valentine Ackland, writer and poet, was for 40 years the closest companion of Sylvia Townsend Warner, for whom she wrote this autobiographical essay. It tells of her childhood, life in London in the 1920s, lesbian relationships, a hopeless marriage and her fight against alcoholism.

From Publishers Weekly

In this soul-searching ‘record of blundering from shame to shame,’ Ackland (19061969), a shy, sensitive English poet and dealer in antiques, writes of her desperately unhappy childhood, emotionally disturbed adolescence and young womanhood, ‘amorous lusts’ and lesbian experiences, disastrous marriage, return to the Catholic church, long struggle to free herself from an addiction to alcohol and, most of all, her 40-year relationship with the novelist, short story writer and music scholar Sylvia Townsend Warner, whom she calls her ‘sun.’ Poignant and sometimes painfully frank, this is also an account of joy and happiness and of the power and truth of her life with Townsend Warner.

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Details

ISBN	9780701135621
Genre	Autobiography/Biography
Publication Date	1991
Publisher	Chatto & Windus
Format	Trade Paperback
No. of Pages	144
Language	English
Rating	NotRated
Subject	20th Century; Ackland, Valentine; Authors, English; Biography; Great Britain
BookID	4183