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For SylviaValentine Ackland

For Sylvia

1985135 pages
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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.

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2 editions
  • Other · English · 1986
    Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 160 pages · 9780393022971
  • Other · English · 1985
    Chatto & Windus · 135 pages · 9780701139414
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