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In a fascinating biography, Frances Bingham gives a detailed account of Valentine Ackland s life. She had a catastrophic
marriage before her 38-year love affair with poet Sylvia Townsend Warner.
Gay, communist, female: why MI5 blacklisted the poet Valentine Ackland
A biography of the Dorset poet, who was a lover of the novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner, traces her struggle ‘to live as herself’
The young Molly Ackland, left; Valentine Ackland, right, strikes a pose for the camera. Photograph: Warner-Ackland Estate
The young Molly Ackland, left; Valentine Ackland, right, strikes a pose for the camera. Photograph: Warner-Ackland Estate
Sun 4 Apr 2021 04.00 EDT
With the help of Dorset police, MI5 were confidently closing in on three subversive potential terrorists living quietly together near the sea almost 85 years ago. Local officers had been alerted to their shared communist sympathies and were now monitoring the suspects: Ackland, Townsend and Warner, each one deemed a threat to Britain’s security in the run-up to the second world war.
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It’s impossible, now, to think of modernism without thinking about gender, sexuality, and the diverse movers and shakers of the early twentieth century. But this was not always so. “The Passion Projects” examines biographical projects that modernist women writers undertook to resist the exclusion of their friends, colleagues, lovers, and companions from literary history. Many of these works were vibrant efforts of modernist countermemory and counterhistory that became casualties in a midcentury battle for literary legitimacy, but that now add a new dimension to our appreciation of such figures as Radclyffe Hall, Gertrude Stein, Hope Mirrlees, and Sylvia Beach, among many others.