Cover of The Trials of Radclyffe Hall

Book 1999

The Trials of Radclyffe Hall

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Publisher
Doubleday
Published
1999
  • Trials (Obscenity)
  • Feminism in literature
  • English Authors
  • Spiritualism in literature
  • Lesbians
  • Eccentrics and eccentricities
  • English Novelists
  • Authors, English

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.