Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) is best known as the author of the controversial lesbian novel, The Well of Loneliness. Court cases led to the book being banned in both the United Kingdom and the United St...
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The literary contribution of Radclyffe Hall is often overshadowed by the notoriety of the obscenity trial of her The Well of Loneliness (1928), the first openly lesbian novel in English. In fact, howe...
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In the following essay, Parkes compares the treatment of lesbian themes in The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall, which was declared obscene by the British courts, and Orlando by Virginia Woolf, wh...
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UNCOMMON ARRANGEMENTS: SEVEN PORTRAITS OF MARRIED LIFE IN LONDON LITERARY CIRCLES, 1910–1939By Katie Roiphe The Dial Press, $26, 344 pages
Within a certain social circle—O.K., mine...
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Radclyffe Hall
(Marguerite) Radclyffe Hall
Critical Essay by Adam Parkes
Roiphe Escapes From Herself, Delves Into Edwardian Marriages
