Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John
By (Author) Sally Cline
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
15th July 2010
Main
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
823.912
464
Width 153mm, Height 234mm, Spine 34mm
710g
Radclyffe Hall was the pen-name of Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall, the author of The Well of Loneliness, which on its publication in 1928 became the centre of a trial for obscenity and was banned in Britain until 1949. The novel itself openly discussed lesbian relationships and challenged contemporary ideas about lesbianism. 1998, explores her other literary works, as well as her relationships and politics, which were often at odds.