‘Yes, I will,’ said Molly Ackland (closet lesbian) to Richard Turpin (Catholic and closet gay) when he asked her to marry him in 1925. All fine … until she started showing lesbian tendencies, falling in love with a girl called Lana at her finishing school in Paris. From then on, for the rest of her life, Valentine would feel like the failed poet, even though her poems continued to be published in prestigious journals. Perpetually needy from her childhood of lovelessness, Valentine started having affairs. Sylvia wrote Valentine a declaration of love after 38 years together: ‘My heart’s thanks for all you have given me, all your understanding .

Source: Daily Mail June 10, 2021 21:01 UTC