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The Paris Review - More Pain Than Anyone Should Be Expected to Bear


Photo: Lucy Scholes.
I first came across the poet and short story writer Frances Bellerby’s fiction when I was working on my Ph.D. My subject was sibling relationships in mid-twentieth-century British literature, and some dusty avenue of research led me to Bellerby a name I had not come across before and haven’t since, bar this article on the treasure trove that is the Neglected Books website quite a few of whose short stories feature brother-and-sister pairs. Ultimately, I didn’t reference her work in my finished thesis, but neither did I forget some of the haunting images therein. Two children in the gloaming, the descending darkness bringing with it a premonition of war. The strange out-of-body experience of a child a reaction to witnessing a horrible accident that momentarily renders her unable to identify the scratched and bloody hand in front of her as her own, caught on blackberry brambles. Or simply the tableau of a cozy drawing room on a winter’s evening, seen ....

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Gay, communist, female: why MI5 blacklisted the poet Valentine Ackland


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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