Valentine Ackland

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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.
Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1989.
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Black and white photograph of Valentine Ackland in a rural setting at Winterton in Norfolk (her family's holiday home) in 1928. Her hair is cropped short, and she is wearing a white long-sleeved shirt, dark tie, breeches, and hunting boots, and holding a rifle.
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Milestones

20 May 1906
Mary Kathleen McCrory Ackland (later VA ) was born at 54 Brook Street in London.
Ackland, Valentine. For Sylvia: An Honest Account. Chatto and Windus, 1985.
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November 1933
VA , with Sylvia Townsend Warner , published Whether a Dove or Seagull, a collection of love poems.
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, 1982, pp. xi - xxiii; 275.
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Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1989.
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9 November 1969
VA died of cancer of the lungs (metastasised breast cancer) at her home at Frome Vauchurch in Dorset.
Howe, Bea, and Valentine Ackland. “Foreword”. For Sylvia: An Honest Account, Chatto and Windus, 1985, pp. 5 - 24.
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Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora, 1988.
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Biography

Birth and Influences

20 May 1906
Mary Kathleen McCrory Ackland (later VA ) was born at 54 Brook Street in London.
Ackland, Valentine. For Sylvia: An Honest Account. Chatto and Windus, 1985.
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