Never has any woman been so well and truly loved as I
It was in 1930 that English poets Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland moved in together—three years after first laying eyes on each other, and three years before a joint collection of their poetry, titled Whether a Dove or Seagull, was published. Their relationship endured for almost four decades, until Ackland’s death from cancer in 1969. The …
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