It's just the tragic story of someone who is. it isn't a sob story about rights denied gays either. this isn't some kinky, soft core porn, fantasy, lesbian sex thriller. What broke back mountain failed miserably in doing, ratcliffe did with ease. anyone could pick up this book and see clearly everything she's very clearly alluding to, so there isn't much mystery, but instead, a whole lot of straightforward honesty about an aspect of the world most overlook without even realizing. there isn't anything too astounding about her writing style, and nothing too "deep" about it either. It should be MANDATORY that everyone reads this book. In the seventies, the halcyon days of radical feminism, it was hailed as the first portrayal of a 'butch' woman. Vilified as 'the bible of lesbianism' by fire-and-brimstone reactionaries. The novel was successfully prosecuted for obscenity when if first came out, and remained banned in Britain until 1948. However, the novel on which Radclyffe Hall's reputation rests primarily is The Well of Loneliness (1928). She died from cancer of the colon in October 1943.Īs Radclyffe Hall (no hyphen prefixed neither by 'John' nor 'Marguerite'), she published a volume of stories, Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself (1934), which describes how British society utilised 'masculine' women during the First World War and then dropped them afterwards, and a total of seven novels. In later life, Radclyffe-Hall chased after a younger woman named Evguenia Souline, a White Russian refugee.
With Batten, Radclyffe-Hall converted to Catholicism in the company of Una, she pursued an interst in animals and spiritualism.
But before Batten died in 1916, Radclyffe-Hall, known in private as 'John', had taken up with the second love of her life, Una, Lady Troubridge, who gave up her own creative aspirations (she was the first English translator of the French novelist Colette) to manage the household which she shared with 'John' for 28 years. Batten and Radclyffe Hall entered into a long-term relationship. In 1907, she met a middle-aged fashionable singer, Mrs Mabel Batten, known as 'Ladye", who introduced her to influential people. In the drawing rooms of Edwardian society, Marguerite made a small name as a poet and librettist. Mother on the south coast of England perhaps battered Radclyffe Hall, whose father, a playboy, known as 'Rat', meanwhile ignored her. People in Great Britain and the United States originally banned The Well of Loneliness (1928), obscene novel of British writer Marguerite Radclyffe Hall.
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