Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
By the age of sixteen, UT
had begun receiving commissions for her sculptures and had rented a studio of her own in which to exhibit her works. The money she earned from these commissions gave...
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.
39
Ernest Troubridge, who came from a distinguished naval family, was a friend of the Taylor family and a widower in...
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...
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.
162
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
201, 234
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...
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...
Publishing
Una Troubridge
During her involvement with the Society for Psychical Research
, from about 1916 to 1921, a number of UT
's papers appeared in the Proceedings, some of which she co-wrote with Radclyffe Hall
.
Troubridge, Una. The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall. Hammond, Hammond.
57
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...
Baker, Michael. Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall. Hamish Hamilton.
94
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...
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
165
Baker, Michael. Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall. Hamish Hamilton.
124, 128, 131
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...
