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Dawn Langley Simmons : ウィキペディア英語版 | Dawn Langley Simmons
Dawn Langley Pepita Simmons (15 October 1937,〔 or unknown date in 1922, depending on source〔〔 – 18 September 2000) was a prolific English author and biographer. Born as Gordon Langley Hall, Simmons lived her first decades as a male. As a young adult, she became close to British actress Dame Margaret Rutherford, whom she considered an adoptive mother and who was the subject of a biography Simmons wrote in later years. After sex reassignment surgery in 1968, Simmons wed in the first legal interracial marriage in South Carolina.〔 == Early life == Simmons's parents were servants at Sissinghurst Castle, the English estate of biographer Harold Nicolson and his novelist wife, Vita Sackville-West. Simmons was born in Sussex as Gordon Langley Hall to Jack Copper, Vita Sackville-West's chauffeur, and another servant, Marjorie Hall Ticehurst, before they were married.〔 Although she claimed to have been born with an unusual condition that resulted in the swelling of her genitals with the result that she was mistakenly identified as a boy, Charleston author Edward Ball's book ''Peninsula of Lies'' (2004) states that she was born male. As a child, Simmons was raised by her grandmother and at one point visited the castle and met Virginia Woolf, Sackville-West's lover.〔 Woolf made Sackville-West the subject of the novel ''Orlando: A Biography'', which bears a striking resemblance to Simmons' own life story.〔
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