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Radclyffe Hall turned the literary establishment of England upside down when The Well of Loneliness was published. Put on trial under the Obscene Publications Act, she was spurned by the Bloomsbury set, including Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, both of whom once had lesbian relationships themselves.
Radclyffe Hall, however, was always a controversial figure. Born in 1880, she was an unwanted child who at age fifteen, upon her fathers death, inherited more than three hundred thousand dollars. She immediately liberated herself from her family and began to affect the manners and demeanor of a young man. She was a political reactionary, a Catholic convert, a member of the Society for Physical Research, and an aggressive and successful conqueror of a series of women as her lovers.
This major new biography by Diana Souhami, will stand for decades to come as the definitive look at one of the twentieth century's most intriguing characters.
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Trials (Obscenity), Feminism in literature, English Authors, Spiritualism in literature, Lesbians, Eccentrics and eccentricities, English Novelists, Authors, English, Lesbianism in literature, Biography, History, English Women authors, LGBTQ art & artists, LGBTQ biography and memoir, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Hall, radclyffe, 1886-1943, Authors, biographyPeople
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The trials of Radclyffe Hall
1998, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Hardcover
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0297818252 9780297818250
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [420]-422) and index.
Works by Radclyffe Hall: p. [419].
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This is a biography of Radclyffe Hall, one of England nost eccentric contemporaywomen. She is also the quintissential gay and lesbian icon. The book spans her whole life from her unhappy childhood to the contravercy of her most famous book" Well of Loneliness". Brilliantly written, witty and satirical, this major new biography brings a fresh and irreverent eye to the life of this fascinating eccentric.
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