She lived in Dorset with her long-term partner, Valentine Ackland, in the early 20th Century and was a trailblazer for lesbian visibility and acceptance at a time when same-sex relationships defied societal expectations.<\/p>\n
She was a prolific writer and poet whose works included Lolly Willowes, The Corner That Held Them and Kingdoms of Elfin.<\/p>\n
The \u00a360,000 life-size statue depicts her sitting on a public bench, with a cat at her feet – a reference to Townsend Warner’s love of felines.<\/p>\n
The installation encountered a number of setbacks involving site restrictions, a sewage pipe and heavy rain.<\/p>\n
Anya Pearson, of Visible Women, who also led the Mary Anning project, said she was relieved to see the project completed.<\/p>\n
“There’s not a guidebook on how to raise statues,” she said.<\/p>\n
“This is on a really busy shopping street at the busiest time of year. It’s been much more stressful than Mary.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She lived in Dorset with her long-term partner, Valentine Ackland, in the early 20th Century and was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-184479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}