J. R. Ackerley's memoir, My Dog Tulip, did not please everyone when it first came out in 1956. Edith Sitwell said it was “meaningless filth about a dog.” Harold Nicolson found it so offensive he could hardly read it, and refused to review it. “I think Joe Ackerley must have gone off his head,” he […]

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