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“Living in two tenses”: The Intimate Archives of Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Journal of Modern Literature
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 36, Number 1, Fall 2012
- pp. 119-131
- 10.2979/jmodelite.36.1.119
- Article
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Although Sylvia Townsend Warner is most well known for her novels and short stories, her late career is marked by a commitment to biographical writing. This essay argues that Warner’s struggle to complete a biography of T.H. White led her to develop what Ann Cvetkovich has called an “archival mode of witness,” and her subsequent preservation, compilation, and annotation of an epistolary archive documenting the nearly 40 years of her relationship with Valentine Ackland demonstrates a queer politics of trans-temporal affiliation and (re)production.