Hall, Radclyffe. Radclyffe Hall’s 1934 Letter About The Well of Loneliness. Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation, 1994.
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Leisure and Society | Violet Hunt | VH
hosted luncheons for Radclyffe Hall
, Bram Stoker
, H. G. Wells
and others at the Writers' Club
in Bruton Street. She later claimed: It was the first really literary and journalistic women's... |
Leisure and Society | Edith Craig | Radclyffe Hall
and Una Troubridge
, who lived nearby, were among those who attended the Barn Theatre
performances. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 161 |
Literary responses | Isabella Ormston Ford | More recently, Chris Waters
suggested that IOF
's novel offers a vitriolic indictment of the expectations that thwarted women's ambitions, in a way that anticipates Radclyffe Hall
's novel The Unlit Lamp. Waters, Chris. “New Women and Socialist-Feminist Fiction: The Novels of Isabella Ford and Katharine Bruce Glasier”. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939, edited by Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, University of North Carolina Press, 1993, pp. 25-42. 31 |
Literary responses | E. M. Hull | Despite the novel's popular success on the one hand and detractors on the other, the popular newspapers . . . completely ignored E. M. Hull. She was not interviewed, nor did her name appear in... |
Literary responses | Una Troubridge | Aside from her translations, UT
is largely remembered as the lover and amanuensis of Hall
. She herself is partly responsible for this view of her life and work, because of her self-presententation as wholly... |
names | Mary Renault |
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Occupation | Una Troubridge | By the age of sixteen, UT
had begun receiving commissions for her sculptures and had rented a studio of her own in which to exhibit her works. The money she earned from these commissions gave... |
Occupation | Una Troubridge | By 1925 UT
was working as a reader of manuscripts for Cassells
and for Radclyffe Hall
's agent Audrey Heath
. She had also begun reviewing books for the Sunday Times. Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf, 1985. 162 Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997. 201, 234 |
Other Life Event | Una Troubridge | The obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall
's novel The Well of Loneliness began on 9 November 1928, when Hall's publisher received a summons. It and culminated on 16 November, when the novel was declared obscene... |
Other Life Event | Una Troubridge | UT
's relationship with Radclyffe Hall
was publicly scrutinised when Hall sued George Lane Fox-Pitt
, a member of the Society for Psychical Research
, for accusing her of immorality. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997. 165 Baker, Michael. Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall. Hamish Hamilton, 1985. 124, 128, 131 |
politics | Storm Jameson | In November 1928 SJ
was one of many authors (including E. M. Forster
, Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
, and Desmond MacCarthy
) prepared to testify in defence of Radclyffe Hall
's lesbian novel The... |
politics | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
disliked the term feminist, though many of her socially nonconforming attitudes would attract that term today. She supported the fight for Radclyffe Hall
's Well of Loneliness. She did not involve herself... |
politics | E. M. Forster | After 1924, EMF
turned from writing novels to social and political causes, in particular the issue of freedom of expression. In 1928 he campaigned against the suppression of Radclyffe Hall
's The Well of Loneliness... |
politics | Virginia Woolf | The New Censorship, a letter to the editor protesting against the suppression of Radclyffe Hall'sThe Well of Loneliness and signed by VW
and E. M. Forster
, appeared in the Nation. Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan, 1989. 115 |
politics | Mary Renault | MR
appreciated Compton Mackenzie
's Extraordinary Women, which dealt openly with lesbians and evaded the censor because it treated lesbianism as comic. She referred to it in a review as a masterpiece of gentle... |
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