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421: 655:(1960), Ackerley's only novel; it explores a middle-class intellectual man (based closely on himself) and his working-class London family. It includes a fictionalised account of Ackerley's experience with his dog Queenie (called "Evie" in the book). It explores the frustrations of the relationship between the homosexual narrator and Evie's former owner, who was (mostly) heterosexual. The novel was adapted as a 269:
and conscientiously." In February 1917, Peter was wounded in action on a dangerous assignment. Though Peter got back to the British lines, Ackerley never saw him again, as he was killed on 7 August 1918, two months before the end of the war. Peter's death haunted Ackerley all his life; he suffered from
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While he never found the "Ideal Friend" he wrote of so often (at least in human form), he had many long-term relationships. Ackerley was a "twank", a term used by sailors and guardsmen to describe a man who paid for their sexual services. He described the ritual of picking up and entertaining a young
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Ackerley was openly homosexual after his parents' deaths, having realised his homosexuality while he was interned in Switzerland during the First World War. Ackerley plumbed his sexuality in his writings. He belonged to a circle of notable literary homosexuals. They flouted convention, specifically
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Toward the end of his life Ackerley sold 1,075 letters from Forster, dating from 1922 onwards, for which he received ÂŖ6,000. He said that it was "a sum of money which will enable Nancy and me to drink ourselves carelessly into our graves". Ackerley did not live long enough to enjoy the money, but,
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He soon volunteered to go back to the front. He was promoted to captain, when his elder brother Peter, also an officer in the East Surrey Regiment, arrived in France in December 1916. At the time, Ackerley was his superior officer. He later wrote that the cheerful Peter saluted his brother "gladly
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His mother was Janetta Aylward (known as Netta), an actress whom Roger met in Paris; the two returned to London together. They had an intermittent relationship, and three years later, in 1895, she gave birth to a son, Peter, then Joe a year later, and Nancy in 1899. According to Joe's maternal Aunt
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and Elizabeth, twins born in 1909, and Diana, born in 1912; all were cared for by a Miss Coutts. The birth of the youngest was never registered but they were all given their mother's surname. Ackerley described the lives of his half-sisters in his 1968 memoir: "They had no parental care, no family
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begins: "I was born in 1896 and my parents were married in 1919." Registered at birth as Joe Ackerley, he later took the middle name Randolph after his uncle, Randolph Payne, first husband of his mother's sister Bunny. As an adult, he published under his first two initials and surname. His father,
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Ackerley thus discovered that his father had had a second family for more than 20 years. Roger used to visit his daughters three or four times a year when he was supposedly travelling on business, and sometimes when out to walk his first family's dog. His mistress, Muriel Perry, served as a nurse
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little boy, more repelled than attracted to sex, which seemed to me a furtive, guilty, soiling thing, exciting, yes, but nothing whatever to do with those feelings which I had not yet experienced but about which I was already writing a lot of dreadful sentimental verse, called romance and
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region where he was wounded, this time in the buttock and thigh. While he was waiting for help, the Germans arrived and took him prisoner. As an officer, he was assigned to an internment camp in neutral Switzerland, which was relatively comfortable. Here he began his play,
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which expresses the cabin fever of captivity and his frustrated longings for another English prisoner. Ackerley was not repatriated to England until after the war ended. Temporary Captain Ackerley relinquished his commission on completion of service, 24 April 1919.
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and other literary bright lights, but was lonely, despite numerous sexual partners. With his play having trouble finding a producer and feeling generally adrift and distant from his family, Ackerley turned to Forster for guidance. Forster, whom he knew from
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overlooking the Thames. Almost all his significant work was produced during this period. He had a stable job at the BBC and ended the unsatisfying promiscuity of his younger years. What remained was his search for what he called an "Ideal Friend".
599:(first performed 5 July 1925), a play about Captain Conrad's comfortable captivity in Switzerland during the First World War. Conrad suffers most from his longing for the attractive young Lieutenant Grayle. Ackerley claimed to prefer the title 174:
Roger Ackerley, was a successful fruit merchant known as the "Banana King" of London. Roger Ackerley was first married to a young Swiss woman of wealthy parentage named (Charlotte) Louise Burckhardt (1862-1892) who died probably of
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life, no friends." For years the girls thought that their father was "Uncle Bodger", who occasionally brought them gifts and money. Ackerley looked after his father's second family without telling his mother, who died in 1946.
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in Fleetwood, Lancashire. During this time, he discovered he was attracted to other boys. His striking good looks earned him the nickname "Girlie," but he was not very sexually active as a schoolboy. He described himself as
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explores some of his experiences. The Maharaja was homosexual, and His Majesty's obsessions and dalliances, along with Ackerley's observations about Anglo-Indians, account for much of the humour of the work.
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For years Ackerley was obsessed with his relationship with his father, both because of the tension of his covert homosexuality and what he described as his father's domineering personality. In his memoir,
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In the years after Queenie's death Ackerley worked on his memoir about his father and drank too much. His sister Nancy found him dead in his bed on the morning of 4 June 1967. Ackerley's biographer
629:(1956), an account of living with his dog Queenie. Her companionship enabled him to give up seeking casual sex. The dog's name was changed to Tulip in the title when the editors of 946: 776:
to be upset, and if I had a paper I would upset them all the time; I think that life is so important and, in its workings, so upsetting that nobody should be spared." (Letter to
613:(1932), 15 first-person accounts by men who had escaped from prisoner-of-war camps during the First World War, edited and introduced by Ackerley (published by The Bodley Head). 466:
On 30 October 1961 Queenie died. Ackerley, who had lost a brother and both parents, described it as "the saddest day of my life." He said: "I would have immolated myself as a
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that day," (when Peter was conceived). His father set up a household with his mother starting in 1903, after which the children saw him more regularly. His business,
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its weekly magazine, where he served for more than two decades. He published many emerging poets and writers who became influential in Great Britain. He was
711:(1982), selections from Ackerley's diary, edited by Francis King. Most material refers to Ackerley's relationship with his sister Nancy West (nÊe Ackerley). 436:
Ackerley took financial responsibility for his sister Nancy, who was unstable, and his aging Aunt Bunny. In 1946 (the year his mother died), he acquired an
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who had purchased an excerpt, became concerned that using the name Queenie might encourage jokes about Ackerley's sexuality. The book was adapted as an
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when Queenie died. For no human would I ever have done such a thing, but by my love for Queenie I would have been irresistibly compelled." In 1962,
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together with the royalties from his existing works and posthumous works, it allowed Nancy to live in relative comfort until her death in 1979.
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on 31 August. Ackerley enjoyed his success, returning to London to carouse with its theatrical crowd. Through Cambridge friends, he met
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named Queenie. The dog became his primary companion for the next 15 years. During this time, he was most productive. He revised
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was finally produced in 1925, to some acclaim. Its run began at The Three Hundred Club on 5 July 1925, then transferred to the
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Ackerley spent about five months in India, which was still under British rule. He developed a strong distaste for the several
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Uncanny Spectacle: The Public Career of the young John Singer Sargent, Marc Simpson, Yale University Press, 1997, p. 114
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Bunny, Peter's birth, and likely all of them, were "accidents." She told him, "Your father happened to have run out of
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His father gave him a generous allowance and never insisted that he follow him into the business.
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was included in a collection of young British writers, so he began to receive some recognition.
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Whisnant, Clayton J. (13 March 2003). "Masculinity and Desire in the Works of J. R. Ackerley".
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during the First World War and was busy with her career; she seldom saw their three daughters:
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the homophobia that kept gay men in the closet or exposed openly gay men to legal prosecution.
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Ackerley and his dog Queenie; Donald Windham and Sandy Campbell papers/Beinecke 10541998
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In the United States Ackerley's books have been reissued and are published solely by
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His memoir serves as a guide to the sexuality of a gay man of Ackerley's generation.
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Roy Broadbent Fuller Poetry manuscripts, 1965-1969 (ca. 50 items) are housed at the
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J. R. (Joe Randolph) Ackerley Collection, 1924-1983 (187 items) is housed at the
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The Letters of J. R. Ackerley, ed. Neville Braybrooke, Duckworth, 1975, p. 206
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should have won, and also thought little of the award's previous recipients.)
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rather than penetration. Ackerley described himself as "quite impenetrable".
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Ackerley left the BBC in 1959. He visited Japan in 1960 to see his friend
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W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman Collection, 1929-1976 is housed at the
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In 1935 Ackerley was appointed Literary Editor of the BBC's magazine
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In October 1929, Ackerley's father, Roger Ackerley died of tertiary
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Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present
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My Father and Myself, J. R. Ackerley, Penguin Books, 1971, p. 15
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My Father and Myself, J. R. Ackerley, Penguin Books, 1971, p. 10
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in September 1914. He was assigned to the 8th Battalion of the
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guardsman, sailor or labourer. Forster warned him, "Joe, you
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In 1975 Diana Perry, then Diana Petre, published a memoir,
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Dynes, Wayne R. (ed.), Garland Publishing, 1990. p. 9
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broke out in August 1914, Ackerley was commissioned as a
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the year after its founding in 1927, he was promoted to
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Peter Burton papers, circa 1960-2008 are housed at the
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E. M. Forster Collection, 1908-1971 is housed at the
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profiled Ackerley in a dramatised biography starring
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1989. 684:, about their father's two sets of children. 752:Ackerley's sister Nancy endowed the annual 294:From the autumn of 1919, Ackerley attended 276:In May 1917, Ackerley led an attack in the 1363:Sir John Collings Squire Papers, 1910-1958 328:, arranged a position as secretary to the 42: 772:"To speak the truth, I think that people 549: 516:give up looking for gold in coal mines." 372:In 1928 Ackerley joined the staff of the 220:"a chaste, puritanical, priggish, rather 1214: 1130: 1032: 976: 419: 157:Ackerley's extramarital half-sister was 152:homosexual activity was forbidden by law 1385:Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center 1346:Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center 1335:Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center 1292:, BenBella Books, Inc.; Dallas, Texas, 1288:Stern, Keith (2009), "Ackerley, J.R.", 1053:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 930: 928: 926: 924: 922: 920: 865:, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989, p. 7 843:, p. 7. 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Index

J.R. Ackerley

Magdalene College, Cambridge
Sally Grosvenor
jrackerley.com
BBC
literary editor
The Listener
openly
homosexual activity was forbidden by law
Sally Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster
tuberculosis
John Singer Sargent
Lady with the Rose
French letters
Elders & Fyffes Ltd
Rossall School
public
preparatory school
narcissistic
First World War
second lieutenant
East Surrey Regiment
East Anglia
France
1 July 1916
Battle of the Somme
survivor's guilt
Arras
Magdalene College, Cambridge

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