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- catalog abstract ""Radclyffe 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 child with golden curls and Victorian muslin dresses, she became - at a time when men 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 forty-eight, her fifth novel, The Well of Loneliness, was banned for obscenity, despite protests from leading literary and political figures, turning the book into a bestseller and bringing Hall literary fame." "First a serious poet and novelist, then a cause celebre, Hall was also a sometime feminist, a member of the Natalie Barney-Djuna Barnes Paris circle, and a Catholic convert who believed in spiritualism. In this, the first major biography of this influential, ultra-flamboyant lesbian novelist, Sally Cline uses new material to explore the connections among Hall's writing, life, and milieu, meticulously analyzing the effects on a writer of her readiness to become a martyr to a cause."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10579901.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""Radclyffe 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 child with golden curls and Victorian muslin dresses, she became - at a time when men 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 forty-eight, her fifth novel, The Well of Loneliness, was banned for obscenity, despite protests from leading literary and political figures, turning the book into a bestseller and bringing Hall literary fame." "First a serious poet and novelist, then a cause celebre, Hall was also a sometime feminist, a member of the Natalie Barney-Djuna Barnes Paris circle, and a Catholic convert who believed in spiritualism. In this, the first major biography of this influential, ultra-flamboyant lesbian novelist, Sally Cline uses new material to explore the connections among Hall's writing, life, and milieu, meticulously analyzing the effects on a writer of her readiness to become a martyr to a cause."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [408]-415) and index.".
- catalog description "What's in a Name? 1880-1906 -- Early Naming -- In the Name of the Fathers -- Renaming Love -- Poetry and Passion 1907-1916 -- The Sweetest Violet -- The April Grandmother -- Sapphists, Suffrage and Catholic Conversion -- First Fictions, First Infidelities -- From a Lapse to a Life: Una Troubridge -- Spiritualist to Spiritual Novelist 1916-1927 -- The Penitential Period -- Striking Out -- Finding Her Voice -- The Twenties -- Forging Ahead -- Critical Acclaim -- Crusade and Martyrdom 1928-1933 -- Boldness -- The Well -- The Trolley Years -- The Rye Relationship -- The Book of Letters 1934-1943 -- Souline -- Same Heart and Severe Differences -- Sickness, Death and Beyond -- After Words.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 434 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Radclyffe Hall.".
- catalog identifier "0879518316".
- catalog isFormatOf "Radclyffe Hall.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press,".
- catalog relation "Radclyffe Hall.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "823/.912 B 21".
- catalog subject "Authors, English 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Hall, Radclyffe Biography.".
- catalog subject "Hall, Radclyffe.".
- catalog subject "Lesbians Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "PR6015.A33 Z62 1998".
- catalog subject "Women authors, English 20th century Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "What's in a Name? 1880-1906 -- Early Naming -- In the Name of the Fathers -- Renaming Love -- Poetry and Passion 1907-1916 -- The Sweetest Violet -- The April Grandmother -- Sapphists, Suffrage and Catholic Conversion -- First Fictions, First Infidelities -- From a Lapse to a Life: Una Troubridge -- Spiritualist to Spiritual Novelist 1916-1927 -- The Penitential Period -- Striking Out -- Finding Her Voice -- The Twenties -- Forging Ahead -- Critical Acclaim -- Crusade and Martyrdom 1928-1933 -- Boldness -- The Well -- The Trolley Years -- The Rye Relationship -- The Book of Letters 1934-1943 -- Souline -- Same Heart and Severe Differences -- Sickness, Death and Beyond -- After Words.".
- catalog title "Radclyffe Hall : a woman called John / Sally Cline.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".