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Radclyffe Hall
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[August 12, 1880 - October 7, 1943] |
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Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John (1999) by Sally Cline
The Trial of Radclyffe Hall (1998) by
Diana Souhami (1998)
The extraordinary life of a great English eccentric
and author, as seen by one of England's leading biographers.
A fascinating figure of English literary and political history, Radclyffe
Hall was born in 1880 in Bournemouth, England. Hall suffered through an
exceedingly unhappy childhood until her father's death. With her
inheritance, Hall leased a house in Kensington and began to live the way
she pleased. She started dressing in chappish clothes, called herself
Peter, then John, and wrote her first collection of verse. She was a
political reactionary, a reformed Catholic, a member of the Society for
Psychical Research, fussy about food and obsessive about work. She got her
pipes from Dunhill's, wore brocade smoking jackets, spats in winter, and
had her hair cropped off at the barber's.
Hall is most famous today for her book, The Well of Loneliness,
which she wrote in 1928. A novel about lesbian love, the book caused an
enormous scandal on its publication and it was suppressed both in the U.S.
and the United Kingdom, where Hall was put on trial under the Obscene
Publications Act.
Brilliantly written, witty, and satirical, this major new biography by
Diana Souhami brings a fresh and irreverent eye to the life of this
fascinating eccentric.
Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall (1985) by
M. Baker
The Life And Death Of Radclyffe Hall
(1961) by Lady Troubridge Una
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