1st Edition

Life-Writing, Genre and Criticism in the Texts of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland Women Writing for Women

By Ailsa Granne Copyright 2020
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

Sylvia Townsend Warner has increasingly become recognized as a significant and distinctive talent amongst twentieth-century authors. This volume explores her remarkable relationship with Valentine Ackland - her partner for forty years - by closely examining their letters and diaries alongside a selection of their other texts, in particular their poetry. This analysis reveals the crucial role... Read more

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction1 The Early Years

2 The Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland

3 Lives in Language

4 The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

5 The Diaries of Valentine Ackland: The Silent Self

6 Valentine Ackland as Poet-priest

7. The Death of Valentine Ackland

Afterword

Biography

Ailsa Granne holds a BA in literature from the Open University and an MA from King’s College London. She completed her PhD in 2015 at the Centre for Life Writing Research at King’s where she is currently a visiting Research Associate. Before becoming a student of English literature, Ailsa's career was spent working in the NHS as a pharmacist and later as a hospital general manager.