Marie Radclyffe-Hall

RH's mother, Marie, was American, and had already been married and widowed when she married Radclyffe Radclyffe-Hall. Their marriage was unhappy from the start.

To avoid the threat of libel, she waited to publish it until after Hall's ex-lovers (Jane Randolph Caruth, Dolly Clarke, and Evgenia Souline) and Hall's mother, Marie Visetti, had all...