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I'll Stand by You : The Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland
 
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I'll Stand by You : The Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland [Paperback]

Sylvia Townsend Warner (Author), Valentine Ackland (Author), Susanna Pinney (Editor)

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A collection of letters that gives an account of the love between the novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland, which lasted as a "marriage" for over 30 years. It also covers their involvement in the Spanish Civil War, in Communism and in World War II.

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A look behind the scenes 4 Aug 2000
By K. Percy - Published on Amazon.com
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I fell into Warner's writing by whim -- a bookclub had a quartet of her novels on sale. Those 4 stories delighted me with their cheerful twists on reality -- devil worship as a cure for housewife's blues, f'r instance -- but one story in particular, Summer Will Show, was harrowing by being too real, too vivid, and that's a love story of two women against a backdrop of war. Having since then read Warner's diaries and letters, and Ackland's "For Sylvia" I believe that the acuteness of the insight in this story stemmed from the deep and cognizant love she had with Ackland. I never cease to recommend Warner's writing to people; I've come to love her diaries and letters more than her stories, for their charm and intelligence and the way in which she can make the most dreary commonplace items and events vivid with humor or threat or beauty. Still, this collection of letters, in which her writing scintillates as usual, bothered me in its subject matter. The collection is presented as a portrait of their relationship (rather than as a literary objet) and you can't help but be moved by the emotions of the writers in these extremely intimate letters, often written when they were unable to speak what needed to be said. The storms of the relationship made me queasy, especially since they seemed so uneven and, pardon the 90's jargon, unhealthy. Bloomsbury mores were a universe unto themselves, but it's still hard to read letter after letter from Ackland proclaiming that her love is the most ardent in the world, but she must be excused so she can go have sex with this American chick for a few more weeks. Warner moves out -- of her own home -- so that the two can have a month together, and in fact picks her own embroidered initials out of the table linen so as not to give offense. It's a bit much. So my overall take on it is that if you can tolerate the emotional context, the language of the letters, esp. Warner's, is magnificent. If you enjoy this book, her diaries and letters to others are even better. All have been edited quite well, with respect for the author and scholarship in general.

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