Ackland, Valentine (1906–1969)

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Ackland, Valentine (1906–1969)

British author. Born Mary Kathleen McCrory Ackland in London, England, 1906; died Nov 9, 1969, in Dorset, England; elder sister of Joan Ackland; m. Richard Turpin; lived with Sylvia Townsend Warner for 30 years.

Works include (with Sylvia Townsend Warner) Whether a Dove or Seagull (1934), Country Conditions (1936), The Nature of the Moment (1973), Further Poems (1978), For Sylvia, An Honest Account (1985).

See also Wendy Mulford, This Narrow Place: Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland: Life, Letters and Politics, 1930–1951 (Pandora, 1988); and Women in World History.

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