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 sele...

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1. Verfasser:	Granne, Ailsa (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York, NY Routledge 2020
Schriftenreihe:	Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature
Schlagworte:	Warner, Sylvia Townsend / 1893-1978 / Criticism and interpretation Ackland, Valentine / Criticism and interpretation Warner, Sylvia Townsend / 1893-1978 / Relations with women Ackland, Valentine / Relations with women Lesbian authors / Great Britain
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Zusammenfassung:	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 their writing played in establishing, maintaining, and defending their intimacy and describes the emergence of an alternative textual world upon which they became wholly reliant. Examining how Warner and Ackland exploited the distance between their lived life and their accounts of it, gives rise to many fascinating and untold stories. Furthermore, in investigating the fluidity of the boundaries between letters, diaries and fiction this book also provides a fresh perspective on these life-writing forms. Warner and Ackland's need to speak as women, writers and lovers, shaped their texts, so that they became not simply records of events, nor acts of communication, but complex documents in which love is won and lost, myths are created, and lives are changed, as will be the perspectives of those who read this book
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ISBN:	9781000091878 1000091872 9781003056270 100305627X 9781000091939 1000091937 9781000091991 1000091996