{"id":40401,"date":"2026-04-05T15:45:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=40401"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:45:14","slug":"for-sylvia-by-valentine-ackland-all-editions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/for-sylvia-by-valentine-ackland-all-editions\/","title":{"rendered":"For Sylvia by Valentine Ackland (All Editions)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>For Sylvia: An Honest Account<\/em> by <a href=\"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?s=Valentine+Ackland\">Valentine Ackland<\/a> is an autobiographical essay written for her long-time companion, the novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner. Ackland traces her desperately unhappy childhood, her emotionally turbulent adolescence, her lesbian relationships, a disastrous marriage, her return to the Catholic church, and her long battle with alcoholism. Above all it is the record of a forty-year love &#8212; she calls Warner her &#8220;sun&#8221; &#8212; told with painful frankness and, ultimately, with joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Genre:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/category\/autobiography-biography\/\">Autobiography\/Biography<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Subjects:<\/strong> Ackland, Valentine; Authors, English; Biography; Great Britain; Lesbians; Social Science \/ Lesbian Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-comments\">Comments<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Valentine Ackland (1906-1969) is one of the less celebrated figures in twentieth-century lesbian literary history, largely because she lived and worked in the shadow of Sylvia Townsend Warner, whose reputation has fared considerably better. <em>For Sylvia<\/em> was written during Ackland&#8217;s lifetime but published posthumously, and it offers something rare: an unguarded interior account of what it meant to be a lesbian woman in mid-century England, written not for public consumption but as a private act of love and reckoning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book&#8217;s value is not primarily literary &#8212; Ackland herself describes it as a record of blundering &#8212; but documentary and emotional. It captures the specific texture of a life lived against the grain of its era: the shame, the concealment, the alcoholism that often accompanied it, and the sustaining power of a relationship that lasted four decades. The partnership between Ackland and Warner is one of the great lesbian love stories of the twentieth century, and this book is Ackland&#8217;s own account of what it cost and what it gave her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-publication-history\">Publication History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ackland-for-sylvia-chatto.jpg\" alt=\"For Sylvia - Chatto and Windus 1985\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody>\n<tr><td>ISBN<\/td><td>9780701139414<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Genre<\/td><td>Autobiography\/Biography<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Publication Date<\/td><td>01-Jan-85<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Publisher<\/td><td>Chatto &amp; Windus<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Format<\/td><td>Trade Paperback<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>No. of Pages<\/td><td>144<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Language<\/td><td>English<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Rating<\/td><td>Not Rated<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>BookID<\/td><td>4180<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ackland-for-sylvia-norton.jpg\" alt=\"For Sylvia - W. W. Norton 1986\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody>\n<tr><td>ISBN<\/td><td>9780393022971<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Genre<\/td><td>Autobiography\/Biography<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Publication Date<\/td><td>06-May-86<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Publisher<\/td><td>W. W. Norton<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Format<\/td><td>Hardcover<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>No. of Pages<\/td><td>160<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Language<\/td><td>English<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Rating<\/td><td>Not Rated<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>BookID<\/td><td>4181<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ackland-for-sylvia-methune-paper.jpg\" alt=\"For Sylvia - Methuen 1986\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody>\n<tr><td>ISBN<\/td><td>9780413606105<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Genre<\/td><td>Autobiography\/Biography<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Copyright Date<\/td><td>1985<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Publication Date<\/td><td>08-May-86<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Publisher<\/td><td>Methuen<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Format<\/td><td>Trade Paperback<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>No. of Pages<\/td><td>164<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Language<\/td><td>English<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Rating<\/td><td>Not Rated<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>BookID<\/td><td>4182<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ackland-for-sylvia-1.jpg\" alt=\"For Sylvia - Chatto and Windus 1991\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody>\n<tr><td>ISBN<\/td><td>9780701135621<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Genre<\/td><td>Autobiography\/Biography<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Publication Date<\/td><td>1991<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Publisher<\/td><td>Chatto &amp; Windus<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Format<\/td><td>Trade Paperback<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>No. of Pages<\/td><td>144<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Language<\/td><td>English<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Rating<\/td><td>Not Rated<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>BookID<\/td><td>4183<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Sylvia: An Honest Account by Valentine Ackland is an autobiographical essay written for her long-time companion, the novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner. Ackland traces her desperately unhappy childhood, her emotionally turbulent adolescence, her lesbian relationships, a disastrous marriage, her return to the Catholic church, and her long battle with alcoholism. 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