ABSTRACT
Warner and Ackland’s relationship ended with Ackland’s death in 1969. In chapter seven I examine what happens when the text is all that remains. In exploring Warner’s grief I examine the powerful elegies she wrote after Ackland’s death and describe how, after 1969, Warner returned to their traditional meeting place - their letters and diaries - to construct a world in which she believed her lover still lived. I examine Warner’s assembly of their correspondence into what became I’ll Stand By You and her practice in 1970 of keeping two diaries in which she articulated her profound grief. I also discuss Warner’s final collection of stories, Kingdoms of Elfin.
