I have read many love stories over the years, both true and fictional. However, none have affected me so powerfully as that of an English couple; the writer Sylvia Townsend Warner and the poet Valentine Ackland. Originally I came upon their story in a library copy of
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It is such a privilege to have access to someone’s diaries. I find myself handling them with something akin to reverence. Recently I have been in Sydney’s Mitchell Library reading those of English writer Sylvia Townsend Warner. Sylvia began them in 1927, the year after she
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Sometimes the tiniest, least expensive gifts provide the greatest pleasure. When recipients acknowledge their delight in the manner of the examples below, the result it is a gift to us all. In 1989 The children’s author Roald Dahl received a small container filled with coloured
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