Life-writing, genre and criticism in the texts of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : women writing for women / Ailsa Granne.

Sylvia Townsend Warner has increasingly become recognized as a significant and distinctive talent amongst twentieth-century authors. This volume explores her remarkable relationship with Valentine Ackland - her partner for forty years - by closely examining their letters and diaries alongside a sele...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Granne, Ailsa (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature.
Subjects:
Description
Summary:Sylvia Townsend Warner has increasingly become recognized as a significant and distinctive talent amongst twentieth-century authors. This volume explores her remarkable relationship with Valentine Ackland - her partner for forty years - by closely examining their letters and diaries alongside a selection of their other texts, in particular their poetry. This analysis reveals the crucial role their writing played in establishing, maintaining, and defending their intimacy and describes the emergence of an alternative textual world upon which they became wholly reliant. Examining how Warner and Ackland exploited the distance between their lived life and their accounts of it, gives rise to many fascinating and untold stories. Furthermore, in investigating the fluidity of the boundaries between letters, diaries and fiction this book also provides a fresh perspective on these life-writing forms. Warner and Ackland's need to speak as women, writers and lovers, shaped their texts, so that they became not simply records of events, nor acts of communication, but complex documents in which love is won and lost, myths are created, and lives are changed, as will be the perspectives of those who read this book.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 203 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781000091878
1000091872
9781003056270
100305627X
9781000091939
1000091937
9781000091991
1000091996
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 07, 2020)
Biographical or Historical Data:Ailsa Granne holds a BA in literature from the Open University and an MA from King's College London. She completed her PhD in 2015 at the Centre for Life Writing Research at King's where she is currently a visiting Research Associate. Before becoming a student of English literature, Ailsa's career was spent working in the NHS as a pharmacist and later as a hospital general manager.