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Valentine Ackland - A Transgressive Life (Paperback)
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Valentine Ackland - A Transgressive Life (Paperback)
Series: Handheld Research, 4
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Loot Price R437
Discovery Miles 4 370
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'One November evening in 1925, two young women from London arrived
at the village of Chaldon, in Dorset. They brought with them two
suitcases, a gramophone, and a wooden boxful of records; the bare
necessities. Both wore trousers and had Eton-cropped hair. The
taller of the two, Mrs Turpin, had come to the country to recover
from a recent operation to remove her hymen.' Mrs Turpin was
Valentine Ackland, on the run from her recent disastrous marriage.
She was soon to meet the love of her life, Sylvia Townsend Warner,
already a celebrity for her dashing debut novel Lolly Willowes.
They would live in Dorset together in a passionate relationship
until Valentine's death in 1969. Valentine was a dedicated poet,
deeply involved with Communism during the 1930s, and an
environmentalist and peace campaigner. Recently released MI5 files
show that she was blacklisted for confidential work during the
Second World War, and remained under long-term surveillance.
Despite her commitment to Sylvia, Valentine had many affairs with
women who fell for her androgynous beauty and her masterful conduct
of an amour. She also struggled with alcoholism, but the
relationship with Sylvia survived all challenges. Frances Bingham
has written the definitive biography of this remarkable
cross-dressing woman, poet and activist, recovering an important
part of British lesbian history and creating a testament to
queerness and gender identity in Valentine's transgressive life.
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