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5 unusual facts about Radclyffe Hall


Radclyffe

:This article is about the contemporary writer Radclyffe; for the author of The Well of Loneliness see Radclyffe Hall.

Radclyffe Hall

Lovat Dickson (1975): Radclyffe Hall and the Well of Loneliness: A Sapphic Chronicle (HarperCollins)

The British composer and bon-vivant Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, wrote a roman à clef girls' school story entitled The Girls of Radcliff Hall, in which he depicts himself and his circle of friends, including Cecil Beaton and Oliver Messel, as lesbian schoolgirls at a school named "Radcliff Hall".

Sensible Sensuality

In the West, James Joyce’s Ulysses or even Radclyffe Hall's Loneliness in the Well or Virginia Woolf’s Orlando are some examples which have to suffer a lot for describing sexuality in literature.

William Melville

Had successfully defended anarchists; also unsuccessfully acted in appeal against the obscenity decision re: Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness.


Naomi Jacob

Known by her friends as Micky, she had a strong circle of friends including Marguerite Broadfoote, Radclyffe Hall, 'Little Tich', Marie Lloyd, Bransby Williams and many others.


see also

Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge

According to Lovat Dickson, an early biographer of Radclyffe Hall, "the family life was built on beauty, wit and style".