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Synopsis
Explores the connections between the writings and colorful lifestyle of Radclyffe Hall, a best-selling lesbian poet and novelist whose flamboyant antics raised many eyebrows during the early twentieth century.
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She's best known as the author of The Well of Loneliness, "the one lesbian novel everyone has heard of," feminist scholar Sally Cline wittily remarks. But in her lifetime (1880-1943), Radclyffe Hall was a popular writer who deliberately courted controversy with her fifth novel, banned as obscene in 1928 after one of the 20th century's most notorious literary trials. Cline devotes valuable critical attention to Hall's other books, and to a flamboyant personal life (a virtual who's who of homosexual Britain) that was at odds with her political and religious conservatism.
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Sally Cline teaches at Cambridge University.
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- PublisherOverlook Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0879518316
- ISBN 13 9780879518318
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
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