Bingham, F.;
(2020)
The Bequest of Books: A Hidden Biography.
The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society
, 19
(1-2)
pp. 54-63.
10.14324/111.444.stw.2020.09.
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Abstract
This article presents and introduces a sequence of six poems that Sylvia Townsend Warner dedicated to Valentine Ackland. Five are previously unpublished, as is the sequence as a whole. Five of the six are love poems to Valentine Ackland arising from their trips to Spain during the Spanish Civil War; in them the romantic and sexual theme is interwoven with their experience of social revolution in Barcelona. The poems are particularly important because of their unusual combination of radical politics and queer desire.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Bequest of Books: A Hidden Biography |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.444.stw.2020.09 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.stw.2020.09 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2020, Frances Bingham. All photographs and images © 2020, Liz Mathews. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) 4.0 https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited |
| Keywords: | Sylvia Townsend Warner; Valentine Ackland; Spanish Civil War; lesbian love poetry; queer politics; communism; the 1930s. |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10100298 |
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