The Trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami (interesting novels to read txt) 📕

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Coward, Noël, Present Indicative (William Heinemann 1937)

Craig, Alec, Banned Books of England (London 1962)

Dickson, Lovat, Radclyffe Hall at the Well of Loneliness: A Sapphic Chronicle (Collins 1975)

Douglas, James, The Unpardonable Sin (London 1907)

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Faderman, Lillian, Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship & Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present (Junction Books 1982)

Field, Andrew, The Formidable Miss Barnes (Secker & Warburg 1983)

Fitch, Noel Riley, Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: a history of literary Paris in the twenties and thirties (Souvenir Press 1984)

Flanner, Janet (Genêt), Paris Was Yesterday 1925–1939 (Angus & Robertson 1973)

Ford, Ford Madox, Memories and Impressions (Harper & Row 1911)

Forster, E. M., Maurice (Edward Arnold 1971)

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Hunt, Violet, The Flurried Years (Hurst & Blackett 1926)

Jacob, Naomi, Me and the Mediterranean (Hutchinson 1945)

——, Me – Yesterday and To-day (Hutchinson 1957)

——, Me and the Swans (Kimber 1983)

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Lee, Hermione, Virginia Woolf (Chatto & Windus 1996)

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Leonard, Gladys Osborne, My Life in Two Worlds (London 1931)

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Lodge, Oliver, Raymond (London 1916)

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Lottman, Herbert, Colette (Secker & Warburg 1991)

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Troubridge, Laura, Exit Marriage (London 1929)

——, Life Amongst the Troubridges (John Murray 1966)

Troubridge, Una Lady, The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall (Hammond Hammond 1961)

Weeks, Jeffrey, Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (Quartet 1977)

——, Sex, Politics and Society: The regulation of sexuality since 1800 (Longman 1981)

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NOTES

ABBREVIATIONS

Berg:

Berg Collection, New York Public Library

CL:

Cara Lancaster

Cornell:

Cornell University Library

ES:

Evguenia Souline

Ottawa:

The Lovat Dickson bequest. National Archives of Canada, Ottawa

PRO:

Public Records Office, London

RH:

Radclyffe Hall

SPR:

Society for Psychical Research, London

Texas:

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas

UVT:

Una Vincenzo Troubridge

Una Troubridge’s diaries at the time of writing are in three places:

Those from 1913–1931 are in Ottawa (available on microfilm).

Those from 1931–1943 called Daybooks are in Texas.

Those from 1943–1963 called Letters to John are in London but will go to Texas.

Radclyffe Hall’s 576 letters to Evguenia Soulina are in Texas (available on microfilm). Many are included in Your John, edited by Joanne Glasgow (New York University Press 1997).

Radclyffe Hall’s notes on sittings with Gladys Leonard are owned by the Society for Psychical Research and are at the Cambridge University Library.

Mabel Batten’s diaries and letters are owned by Cara Lancaster, London.

Government papers relating to the trial of The Well of Loneliness in England are in the Public Record Office, London.

Joan Slater in London has an archive of papers relating to Radclyffe Hall.

Private matters

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Even if they add

author to Departmental Record Officer,

The Home Office, 11 December 1998

in the interests of national security

Home Office Record Management Services to author, 9 February 1998

MARGUERITE

1 The Fifth Commandment

4

Always my mother

Forebears and Infancy, mss (Texas)

I pity those

ibid

A night of

ibid, second draft

6

They quarrelled

ibid

7

My mother had me

ibid

8

Without her

ibid

an altogether

Michael West, mss (Texas)

2 Sing, little silent birdie, sing

11

It was delicious

Michael West, mss (Texas)

12

A foolish indefinite

ibid

13

She knew that

ibid

15

a touch of the ‘grand manner’

Agnes Nicholls Harty, Mr Albert Visetti (The Royal College of Music Magazine, vol. 24, no. 3)

She felt as she

Michael West

16

It was a place to dream

ibid

Here then the great

ibid

17

lest we have

UVT Letters to John, 30 June 1945

A faded, shiny

ibid

18

Sing, little silent

‘The Birth of Spring’, from Poems dedicated to Sir Arthur Sullivan, by Marguerite, ‘Toddles’, January 1894

They did not like

Michael West

19

She knew she was different

The Well of Loneliness (Cape 1928)

3 Come in kid

21

passionate declarations

Michael West, mss (Texas)

22

These lessons

ibid

And when I did

ibid

Her music and

ibid

23

I bobbed like a cork

ibid

They were even inclined

ibid

24

I only feel that I have missed

Forebears and Infancy, mss (Texas)

There were some things

ibid

25

pleased, revolted

Michael West, third draft

I used to watch

ibid

4 The pearl necklace she gave me

28

the Lord had not

UVT, The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall (Hammond Hammond 1961)

Man is vile

Violet Hunt, Diary July 1907 (Cornell)

Perhaps even now

RH to Violet