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 | | Young related how Vance and Nettie's daughter Aileen, during her service with a medical unit in the Spanish Civil War, had had an unfortunate romantic involvement with a man called "Dr Luted." Possibly out of a reaction to this experience, Young said, Aileen had "made strong emotional attachments to women," while in London. |
| | This transference, Young told Vance, "would also be bound up with an identification with you, as a man, and as a writer." In other words, Aileen had come to see Vance as a competitor and a rival, an impediment to her desire both for independence and for success as a writer. |
| | Aileen Palmer was a revolutionary, an intellectual and a writer, but for a woman of her generation these three facets of her life were, as Marxists used to say, in contradiction. |
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