Valentine Ackland

VA published very little in her lifetime, and has gone largely unrecognised since. Her lifelong partner, Sylvia Townsend Warner , was very supportive of Ackland and helped her to get her writing into print. This writing (which dates from four decades of the mid twentieth century) took the form of poetry, as well as political critique, an autobiography, and letters. VA contributed articles regularly to magazines such as Country Standard, Left Review, and The Countryman, none of which paid very well. At present she is better known for her association with Warner than for anything she wrote herself.