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, 1994.
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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
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, 1989.
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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, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
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Author summary Una Troubridge
Twentieth-century translator and biographer UT is best remembered for her numerous translations from the French and Italian, and for her biography of her lover of twenty-eight years, the writer Radclyffe Hall . UT also published...
Publishing Una Troubridge
Gallimard published Léo Lack 's and UT 's French translation of Radclyffe Hall 's novel The Well of Loneliness, as Le puits de solitude.
Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf, 1985.
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Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Naomi Mitchison
She had finished this book, and her publisher had read it by 1933. She argued for months over its acceptability with her usual publishers, Jonathan Cape (who had been fined for publishing Radclyffe Hall 's...
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, 1961.
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Reception Lili Elbe
Although the negative criticism that LE received before publishing her book had largely been overcome through her first newspaper publication, there was still some lingering suggestion of scandal surrounding her book when it appeared. It...
Textual Features Violet Hunt
The protagonist having been married and lost the custody of her child through divorce, is concerned when she contemplates re-marriage to guard against the same thing happening again. The character named Isabel Agate is modelled...
Textual Features Naomi Mitchison
Her format here has stories or groups of stories introduced and ended with a poem. Topics range from ancient to contemporary, from sexuality to politics. The first poem has Phaedra telling her sister Ariadne about...
Textual Features Mary Renault
Lesbianism had been the subject of novels in the 1920s and 30s. Virginia Woolf 's Mrs. Dalloway and Elizabeth Bowen 's The Hotel had both been criticised (the latter severely) for sympathetic treatments of emotional...
Textual Features Djuna Barnes
Structured as a monthly chronicle, Ladies Almanack is a satiric lesbian cosmology based on Natalie Barney and her circle in Paris. Among its characters are Patience Scalpel, based on Mina Loy , Lady Buck-and-Balk and...
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...
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 Una Troubridge
UT published her biography, The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall, which she had finished writing by 19 February 1945.
Norman, Sylva. “A Woman’s World”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3119, 8 Dec. 1961, p. 883.
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Troubridge, Una. The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall. Hammond, Hammond, 1961.
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Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf, 1985.
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Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
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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, 1983.
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In April 1941 she was reviewing for John O'London's, Country Life...

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