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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Una Troubridge
UT met Radclyffe Hall (John) for the second time at a tea party given by Troubridge's cousin Lady Clarendon . In 1961 she wrote Our friendship, which was to last through life and...
Textual Production Una Troubridge
UT organised this production, the first appearance of her work on Colette, as a private performance, inviting press and stage managers she thought might be willing to promote a commercial run of the play. The...
Cultural formation Una Troubridge
UT and her lover Radclyffe Hall joined the Society for Psychical Research (founded in 1882) at the encouragement of Sir Oliver Lodge , a well-known physicist and writer on Spiritualism.
Baker, Michael. Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall. Hamish Hamilton.
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Textual Production Una Troubridge
UT kept a daily diary throughout her adult life, and she relied on these diaries in the writing of her biography of Radclyffe Hall (who did not keep a diary).
Family and Intimate relationships Una Troubridge
UT , who had for nearly two years been living intermittently with her lover Radclyffe Hall , agreed to sign a deed of separation from her husband . He signed the deed the next day...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Una Troubridge
UT wrote much of her 1914 diary in Italian. After 1915, her diaries document her relationship with Radclyffe Hall , touching on the two women's health, families, travels, and social activities. She also writes about...
Literary responses Una Troubridge
Aside from her translations, UT is largely remembered as the lover and amanuensis of Hall . She herself is partly responsible for this view of her life and work, because of her self-presententation as wholly...
Other Life Event Una Troubridge
UT 's relationship with Radclyffe Hall was publicly scrutinised when Hall sued George Lane Fox-Pitt , a member of the Society for Psychical Research , for accusing her of immorality.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
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Baker, Michael. Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall. Hamish Hamilton.
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Family and Intimate relationships Una Troubridge
UT 's lover and companion of twenty-eight years, Radclyffe Hall , died of colon cancer: a terrible blow to her partner.
Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf.
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Textual Production Una Troubridge
UT collaborated with Radclyffe Hall on the first part of a research paper, On a Series of Sittings with Mrs. Osborne Leonard. Hall now delivered it to a private council of Society for Psychical Research
Textual Production Violet Trefusis
Around 1941, VT and Vita discussed another writing of their story. Vita thought that a novel superior to Radclyffe Hall 's loathsomeWell of Loneliness could be produced, but soon dismissed the idea of a...
Family and Intimate relationships Noel Streatfeild
One of her close friends and literary mentors was Daphne Ionides , whom she met in 1926.
Huse, Nancy. Noel Streatfeild. Twayne.
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Huse suggests that this was (in addition to a stimulating literary and professional friendship) an intense relationship...
Friends, Associates Christopher St John
CSJ , Edith Craig , and Tony Atwood spent much time in the company of Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge , who were staying temporarily in Kent while their house was being renovated.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
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Textual Production Stevie Smith
SS 's list of requisites for a critic or reviewer goes like this: Attention, impartiality, and no regard for age or sex.
Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage.
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In April 1941 she was reviewing for John O'London's, Country Life...
politics Vita Sackville-West
VSW disliked the term feminist, though many of her socially nonconforming attitudes would attract that term today. She supported the fight for Radclyffe Hall 's Well of Loneliness. She did not involve herself...

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