Valentine Ackland
Valentine Ackland 'One November evening in 1925, two young women from London arrived at the village of Chaldon, in Dorset. Both wore trousers and had Eton-cropped hair. They brought with them two…
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Valentine Ackland
'One November evening in 1925, two young women from London arrived at the village of Chaldon, in Dorset. Both wore trousers and had Eton-cropped hair. They brought with them two suitcases, a gramophone, and a wooden boxful of records; the bare necessities.
She was soon to meet the love of her life, Sylvia Townsend Warner, already a celebrity for her dashing debut novel Lolly Willowes. The taller of the two, Mrs Turpin, had come to the country to recover from a recent operation to remove her hymen.' Mrs Turpin was Valentine Ackland, on the run from her recent disastrous marriage. They would live in Dorset together in a passionate relationship until Valentine's death in 1969.
Valentine was a dedicated poet, deeply involved with Communism during the 1930s, and an environmentalist and peace campaigner. Recently released MI5 files show that she was blacklisted for confidential work during