'Valentine Ackland' in OBA Collectie

For over forty years, Valentine Ackland was Sylvia Townsend Warner's companion and closest friend. She was also a writer and a poet on her own account. This authobiographical essay will surely establish itself as a minor, and deeply moving, classic of s...

'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 ha...

Biografie van twee uitzonderlijke Britse vrouwen: 40 jaar leefden zij samen als auteurs, partners en politiek links gerichte vrouwen (actief tijdens de Spaanse burgeroorlog).

Bespreking van de liefdesgedichten die Sylvia Townsend Warner en Valentine Ackland voor elkaar schreven.