Women
Christopher Ricks, 20 May 1982
My Sister and Myself: The Diaries of J.R. Ackerley
edited by Francis King.
Hutchinson, 217 pp., £8.95, March 1982,9780091470203 Show More
edited by Francis King.
Hutchinson, 217 pp., £8.95, March 1982,
“... Ackerley and his sister: about that only, since Nancy is granted no independent life. (Francis King does his best to supply her with one in his accommodating introduction.) Given that Ackerley could unquestionably write, his perverse refusal to make real the husband of Nancy, or her son, has to be evidence that it was his own flesh only that he yearned for ... ”