Radclyffe Hall

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Standard Name: Hall, Radclyffe
Birth Name: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall
Nickname: John
Self-constructed Name: Radclyffe Hall
RH is best-known today for her landmark lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness, 1928. But she herself explained that she waited until she had made a name for myself as an author . . . because I felt that it would . . . be difficult for an unknown writer to get a novel on congenital sexual inversion published.
Hall, Radclyffe. Radclyffe Hall’s 1934 Letter About The Well of Loneliness. Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation.
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Her literary reputation was based first on her poetry but later, and more substantially, on her novels, particularly Adam's Breed.
Black and white photograph of Radclyffe Hall, shown from the waist up. She is wearing a man's suit and tie, and her short hair is slicked back. In her left hand she holds a small black dog.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Una Troubridge
By 1925 UT was working as a reader of manuscripts for Cassells and for Radclyffe Hall 's agent Audrey Heath . She had also begun reviewing books for the Sunday Times.
Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf.
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Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
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Other Life Event Una Troubridge
The obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall 's novel The Well of Loneliness began on 9 November 1928, when Hall's publisher received a summons. It and culminated on 16 November, when the novel was declared obscene...
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
MW has specialized in adapting and abridging novels for radio. Between 1980 and 2004 she adapted a wide array of fiction by women writers, including works by Jane Austen , Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot
politics Amabel Williams-Ellis
A tea-party at the London studio of architect Clough Williams-Ellis (probably hosted by him and his wife AWE ) was held to discuss possible legal support of Radclyffe Hall 's The Well of Loneliness.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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politics Virginia Woolf
The New Censorship, a letter to the editor protesting against the suppression of Radclyffe Hall'sThe Well of Loneliness and signed by VW and E. M. Forster , appeared in the Nation.
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
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politics Virginia Woolf
During the trial of Radclyffe Hall 's novel The Well of Loneliness, VW attended with many friends and associates in order to give evidence, but the magistrate refused to hear testimony on literary merit.
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
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Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
She and Forster began to know one another this year and became lifelong friends. He reviewed her books, and she his, and in defence of Radclyffe Hall 's The Well of Loneliness they wrote jointly....

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