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Radclyffe Hall

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born

August 12, 1880 in Bournemouth, Hampshire (now Dorset), The United Kingdom

died

October 07, 1943

gender

female

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall was born on the south coast of England. Her mother may have battered her, while her father, a playboy known as 'Rat', ignored her. In the drawing rooms of Edwardian society, Marguerite made a small name for herself as a poet and librettist. In 1907 she met a middle-aged fashionable singer, Mrs Mabel Batten, known as 'Ladye", who introduced her to influential people. Batten and Radclyffe-Hall entered into a long-term relationship. 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...more

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Books by Radclyffe Hall

Average rating: 3.47 · 2,339 ratings · 212 reviews · 8 distinct works

	The Well of Loneliness 3.46 avg rating — 2,275 ratings — published 1928 — 24 editions	My rating:
	The Unlit Lamp 3.71 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1924 — 6 editions	My rating:
	A Saturday Life 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1925 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Adam's Breed 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1926 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Your John: The Love Letters of Radclyffe Hall 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Sous Influences by Radclyffe Hall, Michel Poirier (Traduction) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	My rating:
	The Penguin Book of First World War Stories by Barbara Korte (Editor), Rudyard Kipling (Contributor), Anne Perry (Contributor) 3.42 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Women, Men and the Great War: An Anthology of Stories by Trudi Tate (Editor), William Faulkner (Contributor), Mary Butts (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Radclyffe Hall

“What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

tags: freedom

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“Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted"
-Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

tags: hope , optimism , world

4 people liked it

“The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth. ”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

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