Hall, Radclyffe. Radclyffe Hall’s 1934 Letter About The Well of Loneliness. Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation, 1994.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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, 1985. 94 |
Cultural formation | Maya Angelou | At fifteen, having worried all her life about being too tall, MA
read Radclyffe Hall
's The Well of Loneliness and became anxious that she might be, or might be developing into, a lesbian. She... |
Cultural formation | Winifred Holtby | Rumours that they were in a lesbian relationship circulated throughout their lifetime, and some scholars have also raised this possibility. At least some of WH
's stated views on sexuality implied a questioning of heterosexual... |
death | Una Troubridge | The Times obituary notice recollected the cultural significance of UT
's lifelong companionship with Radclyffe Hall, declaring, Few who remember London and the Continent in the twenties and thirties will fail to recall the appearances... |
Education | Edith Craig | |
Education | Bernice Rubens | Bernice attended first Tredegarville Infant School, then Roath Park Girls' School. She and her siblings would sometimes steal chocolate from Woolworths
(never from a corner shop where they would have known the shopkeeper). Rubens, Bernice. When I Grow Up. Time Warner Books, 2005. 13 |
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, 1994. xv |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Una Troubridge | |
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, 1985. 275 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rose Allatini | Melanie Mills (Janet Melanie Ailsa Mills
), the friend with whom RA
shared her life from the time she moved to Beckley, shared many of her interests too. Cyril Scott called Mills in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Una Troubridge | UT
later said of her marriage: Almost before I knew it I was grown-up. Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf, 1985. 39 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Una Troubridge | On the outbreak of World War One, Ernest Troubridge
, as the Commander of the Second Squadron, was assigned to the task of preventing German ships in the Adriatic from sallying out into the Mediterranean... |
Fictionalization | Natalie Clifford Barney | NCB
has been a magnet for biographers (recently as the subject with Romaine Brooks
of Diana Souhami
's Wild Girls in 2004 and as a minor character in Joan Schenkar
's Truly Wilde: the Unsettling... |
Friends, Associates | Naomi Jacob | NJ
wrote a letter of appreciation to Radclyffe Hall
after The Well of Loneliness appeared in 1928. In January the following year she met Hall and Una Troubridge
when the former lectured in Southend (though... |