The trials of Radclyffe Hall

Diana Souhami Diana Souhami First published 1998

About this book

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.

Subjects

authors, biography
authors, english
biography
eccentrics and eccentricities
english authors
english novelists
english women authors
english women novelists
feminism in literature
fiction, general
great britain, biography
great britain, history, 20th century
hall, radclyffe, 1886-1943
history
lambda literary awards
lambda literary award winner
lesbianism in literature
lesbians
lesbians, biography
lgbtq biography and memoir
spiritualism in literature
trials (obscenity)
women authors