Radclyffe Hall

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Radciyffe Hall was a legend in her own lifetime and her fame has never faded. She was also a lesbian, which became part of that legend. Christened Marguerite, a shy, insecure child with golden curls and Victorian muslin dresses, she became, when men alone wore the trousers, a flamboyant character who smoked small green cigars, cross-dressed in Chinese silk smoking jackets and called herself John. In 1928, when she was 48, her fifth novel The Well of Loneliness was taken to trial and banned for obscenity, despite protests from leading literary and political figures. The trial turned the book into a notorious best-seller and brought the author literary acclaim. But Hall herself has remained an enigma.
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Radciyffe Hall was a legend in her own lifetime and her fame has never faded. She was also a lesbian, which became part of that legend. Christened Marguerite, a shy, insecure child with golden curls and Victorian muslin dresses, she became, when men alone wore the trousers, a flamboyant character who smoked small green cigars, cross-dressed in Chinese silk smoking jackets and called herself John. In 1928, when she was 48, her fifth novel The Well of Loneliness was taken to trial and banned for obscenity, despite protests from leading literary and political figures. The trial turned the book into a notorious best-seller and brought the author literary acclaim. But Hall herself has remained an enigma.
This biography meticulously analyses the effects on a writer of her readiness to become a martyr to a cause. Contrary to her popular image, each of Radciyffe Hall's seven novels is a serious subterranean spiritual quest. Beginning her career as a poet she wove her inner life around her Catholic conversion. That a Catholic should also be a strong spiritualist was but one of her irreconcilable oppositions. Withdrawn and awkward, she nevertheless found herself in bold and brazen situations. Initially a keen feminist, a member of the Natalie Barney - Djuna Barnes Paris circle and a suffragist supporter, later her domestic life upheld reactionary values of hearth and home. Though she was a passionate believer in sexual loyalty, her blazing acts of infidelity led to her infamous and tormented triangular relationships. The first of these agonizing affairs combined the singer Mabel (Ladye) Batten and the married sculptor Una Troubridge, Colette's original English translator; the second, Una Troubridge (who in the end was her partner for 28 years) and a young White Russian nurse, Evguenia Souline.
Sally dine uses entirely new material to explore for the first time the connections between Radciyffe Hall's writings, her life and her milieu. Vissza