Born Mary Kathleen Valentine Ackland in London. English poet and an important figure in the emergence of modernism in twentieth-century British poetry. Her first poems were published in Modern Anthology in 1923. She moved to Dorset where she was able to live more freely and it was there that she met Sylvia Townsend Warner. They lived together from 1930 until Valentine's death. Both Sylvia and Valentine became communists in the 1930s and volunteered in the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War.
Born Mary Kathleen Valentine Ackland in London. English poet and an important figure in the emergence of modernism in twentieth-century British poetry. Her first poems were published in Modern Anthology in 1923. She moved to Dorset where she was able to live more freely and it was there that she met Sylvia Townsend Warner. They lived together from 1930 until Valentine's death. Both Sylvia and Valentine became communists in the 1930s and volunteered in the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War.
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