For Sylvia by Valentine Ackland
When I started reading *For Sylvia: An Honest Account* by Valentine Ackland (published posthumously, in 1985) I was rather prepared to loathe the author. I've recently read Sylvia Townsend Warner's *Diaries*, and I haven't come across more heartbreaking diary entries than those concerning the period when Ackland (STW's partner for decades) decided to move her lover Elizabeth Wade White into their home, while Sylvia Townsend Warner moved out to a hotel, as some sort of experiment. Although Warner is devoted to Ackland until Ackland's death, and indeed until her own, she comes acros... more »
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