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the love letters of Radclyffe Hall

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Your John

the love letters of Radclyffe Hall

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This book represents the first publication of original writing by Radclyffe Hall, author of The Well of Loneliness, in over fifty years.

Deciphered and edited by Hall scholar and biographer Joanne Glasgow, Your John is a selection of Hall's love letters to Evguenia Souline, a White Russian emigre with whom Hall fell completely and passionately in love in the summer of 1934. Written between this first meeting and the onset of Hall's last illness in 1942, these letters detail Hall's growing obsession, the pain to her life partner, Una Troubridge, of this betrayal, and the poignant hopelessness of a happy resolution for any of the three women.

It was ultimately this relationship, Glasgow argues, that tragically precipitated the decline in Hall's creative work and in her health. The letters also provide important new information about her views on lesbianism, and take us well beyond the artistic limits she imposed on the characters in The Well. They shed light on her thinking about religion, politics, war, and the literary and artistic scene.

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English
Pages
273

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Cover of: Your John: The Love Letters of Radclyffe Hall (Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life & Literature)
Your John: The Love Letters of Radclyffe Hall (Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life & Literature)
March 1, 1999, New York University Press
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: Your John
Your John: The Love Letters of Radclyffe Hall (Cutting Edge (New York Univ Pr))
January 1, 1997, New York University Press, NYU Press
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Your John
Your John: the love letters of Radclyffe Hall
1997, New York University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 16-17) and index.

Published in
New York
Series
The cutting edge

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.912, B
Library of Congress
PR6015.A33 Z494 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 273 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
273

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL996923M
ISBN 10
0814730922
LCCN
96035603
LibraryThing
2479977
Goodreads
1998017

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL3297461W

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