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	glbtq >> literature >> Ackerley, J. R.
		Ackerley, J. A twentieth-century British editor who fostered the careers of a number of important gay writers, J. Ackerley also wrote a small but significant body of gay literature that includes memoirs and drama.
		Ackerley's output as a writer himself was small: one play, one novel, three autobiographical works, and a handful of poems.
		Up to this point, Ackerley felt that his father, a prosperous fruit importer, had a life complete in "the steady regularity of its domestic rhythms" and was more than a little puzzled by and even contemptuous of his homosexual son.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/ackerley_jr.html (763 words)

	J. R. Ackerley -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ackerley (November 4, 1896 - June 4, 1967, full legal name Joe Ackerley) was arts editor of The Listener, the arts publication of the BBC, from 1935 to 1959, and an important author in his own right.
		Furthermore, Ackerley's main aim in life was not literary success, but the desire to find his "Ideal Friend", the great love of his life whom he was never to find.
		Ackerley was a well-known "twank," a term used by sailors and guardsmen to describe a man who paid for their sexual services, and he describes in humorous and human detail the ritual of picking up and entertaining a young guardsman, sailor or labourer.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/j/j._r._ackerley.htm (575 words)

	J.R. Ackerley \| Outcyclopedia, the free and queer encyclopedia
		Ackerley attended Rossall School and later served in the British Army in World War I and was taken prisoner by the Germans in 1917.
		Though Ackerley is often described as a "minor literary figure," his influence on the works and careers of many of the most celebrated writers in gay literature in particular, and English literature in general, could hardly be described as minor.
		Ackerley insured that this support for the lietrary arts would continue after his death after willing his fortunes to the English Centre of International PEN to fund its annual prize in autobiography, The J.R. Ackerley Prize.
	outcyclopedia.0catch.com /jr_ackerly.html (537 words)

	turksheadreview My Dog Tulip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A childless bachelor with spare room in his Putney flat, Ackerley adopts Tulip, rescuing her from an unsavory but unfortunately all too common life in which she is often isolated, emotionally neglected, nervous and lonely.
		Ackerley has given Tulip a measure of immortality by his loving portrayal of her in this book, where she is as alive in the moment as ever.
		In the end we realize that, childless bachelor though he was, Ackerley has raised Tulip the way many of us would like to raise our kids—tirelessly attending their needs with the utmost sense of responsibility but then reveling in their freedom and enjoying the individuals they’ve become.
	www.turksheadreview.com /reviews/books/ackerley_tulip.html (827 words)

	NIH Reviews: J. R. Ackerley
		Ackerley, who did not think very highly of anything else he had written to that time, himself compared it to "an eighteenth-century cabinet, everything sliding nicely, and full of secret drawers," and that bit of self-flattery is becomingly modest.
		Ackerley obviously wanted to square his admiration for his father (who had, by Ackerley's account, been very indulgent of him) with his knowledge of the sordid reality of his father's life, but if he succeeded, he still cannot have managed to persuade anyone else what a great guy the old man was.
		Much Ackerley biography is based on the reminiscences of jealous acquaintances and on the carefully guarded statements of friends who had to reconcile their loyalties to both him and his sister, Nancy West, with whom Ackerley had a troubled relationship, and whom Ackerley's friends also admired.
	www.newimprovedhead.com /jra2.htm (2473 words)

	NYRB: J. R. Ackerley
		Ackerley (1896-1967) was for many years the literary editor of the BBC magazine The Listener.
		Ackerley's pursuit of his father is also an exploration of the self, making My Father and Myself a pioneering record, at once sexually explicit and emotionally charged, of life as a gay man.
		Ackerley has written a book that is a profound and subtle meditation on the strangeness abiding at the heart of all relationships.
	www.nybooks.com /nyrb/authors/7426 (151 words)

	Salon \| Save these books! page 2
		David J. Garrow, Presidential Distinguished Professor at Emory University, is the author of "The FBI and Martin Luther King Jr." (1981) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning King biography "Bearing the Cross" (1986).
		It is certainly the most poignant, in large part because Ackerley is so unwavering in his focus on the dog as a dog, a creature both profoundly loved and essentially inscrutable, governed by her own rules and instincts and codes of conduct.
		Dog, in Ackerley's view, is in the details, and it's the details he provides.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/1997/12/cov_04feature2.html (4032 words)

	J. R. Ackerley
		In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah's fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court.
		Ackerley began thinking of himself as homosexual in 1917 while a prisoner of war.
		Ackerley never found a longtime lover and later in life settled with his dog Queenie who inspired the books My Dog Tulip and We Think the World of You both of which were produced for television.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/a/ackerley_jr.htm (461 words)

	J. R. Ackerley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		We Think the World of You (1960), a fictionalized account of how Ackerley acquired Queenie and learned to live with her; winner of the first W.
		Ackerley was a close friend and literary admirer of E.
		Ackerley willed his royalties to a fund to establish the annual J.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/J._R._Ackerley (580 words)

	Alibris: J R Ackerley
		J. Ackerley's amazing, unorthodox, and diverting memoir about himself and his beloved dog has become an underground classic.
		In the 1920s, a young J. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal Secretary to the maharajah of a small principality.
		Reworked from diaries written in 1923 during a stint as the secretary for the Maharajah of Chhatarpur, Ackerley reveals an eccentric, pre-independence slice of India.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/J_R_Ackerley (401 words)

	Book reviews
		Although Ackerley himself was gay and rather fancied the younger generation (these days he would be lynched, ostracised and otherwise condemned), he was allowed to only partly indulge his passions at the court and was circumspect in his description of the shenanigans thereat.
		Ackerley’s other classic is his "My father and myself" (reviewed elsewhere) — the two books together helped pave the way for a more general acceptance of homosexuality among the intellectual classes in early twentieth-century Britain and both have recently come back into vogue.
		The fact that Ackerley was gay and that his father may have had an homosexual relationship when he himself was younger added a degree of piquancy to Ackerley’s exploration of his father’s past.
	library.westminster.org.uk /Info/past_reviews.htm (16433 words)

	Additional Reading (from J.R.R. Tolkien) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The letter R probably started as a picture sign of a human head, as in Egyptian hieroglyphic writing (1) and in a very early Semitic writing used in about 1500 BC on the Sinai Peninsula (2).
		Hicks, John R. British economist Sir John R. Hicks made pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory.
		Guggenheim, Solomon R. philanthropist Solomon R. Guggenheim was the son of industrialist Meyer Guggenheim and younger brother of Daniel Guggenheim.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-92822?tocId=92822 (809 words)

	Elysium Press: Catalog
		ACKERLEY, J.R. We Think the World of You.
		A very good copy of this authobiographical novel in very good jacket, slight rubbing to rear cover, a few foredge spots.
		Frontispiece drawing of young man by J. Martin Pitts.
	www.elysiumpress.com /pages/catalog/a.html (505 words)

	Amazon.com: My Dog Tulip (New York Review Books Classics): Books: J. R. Ackerley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ackerley's colleague E. Forster hailed the book; Edith Sitwell declared it "filth." The most balanced and reasonable reading may have been from the novelist Julia Strachey, who noted in a private letter, "though entirely about dogs, [it] is a veritable little marvel of brilliance and shockingness.
		First, Ackerley wrote neither a cute book for dog lovers nor a user's manual; most of the book describes the sex life (real and frustrated) and excretory functions of his dog (whose real name was Queenie).
		But what REALLY disturbed me was the misery Ackerley put this poor animal through in his obsession to find her "a husband." Worse still, once she finally managed to produce a litter, Ackerley's inclination, was to kill all the pups.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0940322110?v=glance (2599 words)

	City Lights » More on dogs
		I have been reading another dog book, J. Ackerley’s “My Dog Tulip.” Ackerley was an Englishman who died in 1967, and this book, about his Alsatian named Tulip, was set mostly in the 1940s.
		Ackerley was one of those brilliant, cranky misanthropes that England once produced in such abundance, and this is a dog book like no other.
		Ackerley is tempted to let Tulip investigate this new phenomenon, but fearing the reaction of some other people in the vicinity, calls her off.
	www.billingsgazette.com /blog/citylights/index.php?p=97 (256 words)

	Books : My Dog Tulip (New York Review Books Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Throughout the years of his dog's life, Ackerley strove (sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing) to meet the needs of this creature so different from himself.
		As a story of a female shepherd and her owner, it is brutally honest, to the detail.
		Ackerley as a dog person, seems so indulgent and feeble.
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	My Dog Tulip [New York Review of Books Classics] - J R Ackerley Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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	Granta: My Father and Myself
		JR Ackerley's father was the Banana King, a successful importer of fruit and a bluff, hearty fellow — qualities little appreciated by his refined and literary son.
		On his death, however, he left a letter revealing that his life of respectable prosperity was a facade.
		This began for Ackerley an ongoing quest to comprehend a father who remained always just out of reach.
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	C. H. B. Kitchin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His best known novels are The Auction Sale, Streamers Waving, and Mr.
		He was one of Francis King's two mentors, the other being J.
		He was born into wealth and increased his wealth through investment in the stock market.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/C._H._B._Kitchin (160 words)

	J.R. Ackerley, Homosexuality, and Bloodless Brits
		I was delighted to read your review of J. Ackerley, My Father and Myself.
		He was gay, but typical of 20s and 30s England --- it was a country that traditionally put gays in prison --- he was secretive, ashamed, and turned his shame into a bitter self-flagellation.
		But to the best of my knowledge, the rigorous enforcement of the Labouchere Amendment did not begin in earnest until the 1910s, when lots of people worried about homosexuals in the army, etc. By the 1920s, police began to scope out public lavatories and the situation was fully as bad as you suggest.
	www.ralphmag.org /BB/letters.html (751 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: My Dog Tulip (NYRB Classics S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He inexorably turns to his favoured Vet, 'Miss Canvey for aid, and is full of frothing praise after she has solved yet another niggling behavioural problem that he has been unable to get to the root of.
		During these confrontations, Ackerley shows another side of his character, one which has little patience with the human race.
		It was a surprise gift from Ackerley that the inevitable drawn-out death scene never materialised; instead he chose to leave us with a a finely tuned descriptive passage condensed from a thousand early morning walks on Putney Common.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0940322110 (681 words)

	We Think the World of You [New York Review Books Classics] - J R Ackerley P N Furbank
		Biography of J R Ackerley P N Furbank
		J R Ackerley P N Furbank - We Think the World of You [New York Review Books Classics] - 0940322269
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	R.E.M. -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Ackerley, J.R. British novelist, dramatist, poet, and magazine editor known for his eccentricity.
		Simon, William E. investment banker and public official William E. Simon served as treasury secretary during the administrations of presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford.
		William Edward Simon was born on Nov. 27, 1927, in Paterson, N.J. He was a partner at the investment firm of Salomon Brothers when Nixon appointed him head of the Federal Energy Office in 1973;...
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	mchugh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In one sense, these texts increasingly deprivatize the modern British gay man's sexual anguish by aligning it with that of his canine companion, two sorts of outlaws in parallel structures who, in Ackerley's mind, are searching for sex in a cold cultural climate.
		Starting from these strangely shared circumstances Ackerley persistently weaves a mature version of the boy-and-his-dog tale--"a fairy story for adults," as he coyly termed his novel (A, p.
		Together these texts walk the dog along a thin line between recording gay male sexual frustration and validating outlaw sex in forbidding circumstances, ultimately positioning human-animal intimacy as a means of transportation from liminality in a sexually repressive heterosexual culture to centrality in sexually promiscuous sodomite cultures.
	www.uchicago.edu /research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/v27/v27n1.mchugh.html (284 words)

	www.AndrewSullivan.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This clear-eyed and wondering, humorous and moving book, described by Christopher Isherwood as on of the "great masterpieces of animal literature," is her biography, a work of faultless and repsectful observation that trasncends the seeming modesty of its subject.
		In telling the story of his beloved Tulip, Ackerley has written a book that is a profound and subtle meditation on the strangeness abiding at the heart of all relationships."
		Ackerley was, in his day, one of the most celebrated literary impresarios in London.
	www.andrewsullivan.com /print_mon.php?book_num=2002_07_01_book_club_archive.html (338 words)

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		CHANCE, R. The Workmen's compensation law of New Jersey, together with kindred legislation and forms.
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	KU Libraries Selected Works in Gay Biographical Prose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ackerley, J. My Sister and Myself: The Diaries of J.R. Ackerley.
		Delany, Samuel R. The Motion of Light in Water.
		The author is straight, but the memoir involves his years as a teenager living with his uncle in New York, the gay novelist Edmund White.
	www.ku.edu /~rmelton/gayles/bioprose.htm (4612 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - My Father and Myself (New York Review of Books Classics Series) - J. R. Ackerley - ...
		And after Ackerley himself died, he left a surprise of his own--this coolly considered, unsparingly honest account of his quest to find out the whole truth about the man who had always eluded him in life.
		But Ackerley's pursuit of his father is also an exploration of the self, making My Father and Myself a pioneering record, at once sexually explicit and emotionally charged, of life as a gay man. This witty, sorrowful, and beautiful book is a classic of twentieth-century memoir.
		It is not hard to see why the books of J.R. Ackerley should now seem worth reprinting...In every respect we are at the ideal historical distance to view him as both within and ahead of his time.
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	E.M. Forster: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
		This collection comprises correspondence, primarily with J.R. Ackerley and Malcolm Darling, and drafts of literary works, notably Passage to India.
		Outgoing correspondence comprises over 800 letters from Forster to J. Ackerley, Morgan's friend and confidante, and over 200 letters to Malcolm Darling, another close friend.
		Ackerley, J.R. (Joe Randolph), 1896-1967--3.3-5.3 (849 from Forster)
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/uthrc/00039/00039-P.html (1193 words)

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