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

Hunt, undated, 1907 (Cornell)

29

She loved me so hotly

Violet Hunt diary, May 1907 (Cornell)

I had never seen

Michael West, mss (Texas)

I wondered angrily

ibid

30

I was tongue tied

ibid

Those were carefree

Forebears and Infancy, second draft, mss (Texas)

31

A gondola

Twixt Earth and Stars (Bumpus 1906)

If you were a Rose

ibid

33

I was so embarrassingly

Radclyffe Hall, ‘I must have been a tiresome and disconcerting baby’, mss (Texas)

He has found

Mabel Veronica Batten to Cara Harris, August 1906 (CL)

5 Sporks, poggers and poons

35

I was as wax

Michael West, third draft, mss (Texas)

36

she accepted homage

The Life and Death of RH

I do hope that you do not

George Batten to Mabel Veronica Batten, undated 1875 (CL)

37

He has a perfect mania

Lady Strachey to Mabel Batten, November 1875 (Strachey papers, India Office Library, London)

38

Batten is the only

quoted in Philip Magnus, King Edward VII (John Murray 1964)

I warned him

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Collection (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)

40

Very soon it was born

Forebears and Infancy, mss (Texas)

41

She used to come and sit the seeds were sown

Violet Hunt diary, August 1907 (Cornell) Forebears and Infancy

JOHN

6 John and Ladye

47

Never sends a line

Mabel Batten to Cara Harris, 17 February 1911 (CL)

I find Jonathan

ibid, 7 February 1911 ibid

51

They seem very happy

ibid

How I wish

ibid, 14 February 1911

52

Sir, Have the Suffragettes

RH to the Pall Mall Gazette, 4 March 1912

7 If I can fix something for Ladye

54

Johnnie is pink

MVB to Cara Harris, 8 December 1912 (CL)

They say he suffers

ibid

56

Every appointment

RH to Cara Harris, undated, June 1916 (CL)

57

Johnnie almost feels

MVB to Cara Harris, 19 September 1913 (CL)

59

It leaves Rome far

RH to Cara Harris, 19 April 1914 (CL)

Travelling grows

ibid

60

Once, when I suggested

ibid, 10 June 1916

What manner of men

Malvern Gazette, 11 September 1914

Recruiting is

MVB to Cara Harris, 13 September 1914 (CL)

8 Roads with no signposts

63

compelling, devouring

Out of the Night, mss (Texas)

65

All eyes are fixed

The Modern Miss Thompson, mss (Texas)

They always came back

‘I must have been a tiresome and disconcerting baby’ (Texas)

But he seemed

Forebears and Infancy, mss (Texas)

67

For very good reasons

The Life and Death of RH

69

I came to believe

UVT Letters to John, March 1944

70

He had no right

UVT Daybook, 8 February 1931 (Texas)

The physical never mattered

UVT Letters to John, March 1944

Having chosen

UVT Clothes, unpublished essay (Texas)

Troubridge brought me

UVT Letters to John, March 1944

Gradually and infallibly

UVT Daybook, 5 November 1931 (Texas)

71

It is horribly

Crichton-Miller to UVT, 23 November 1913 (Ottawa)

73

He said to me, ‘I am a naval officer’

UVT ‘A Thumbnail Sketch of the Rt Hon. Sir Winston Churchill & Admiral Sir Ernest Troubridge, Royal Navy in 1914’, unpublished essay (Ottawa)

9 Chenille caterpillars

74

Una here to breakfast

MVB Diary, 22 January 1916 (CL)

All I knew or cared

The Life and Death of RH

75

There are three

Crichton-Miller to UVT, 21 September 1915 (Ottawa)

76

I can shut my eyes

UVT Daybook, 23 August 1938 (Texas)

78

Felt chilled

MVB Diary, 22 January 1916 (CL)

80

I don’t understand

RH to Cara Harris, June 1916 (CL)

I have tried

ibid

Her grief

The Life and Death of RH

10 The eternal triangle

85

I have a great

RH to Cara Harris, June 1916 (CL)

It was lonely

The Life and Death of RH

86

She is so very

RH to Cara Harris, June 1916 (CL)

87

I should think

Oliver Lodge, Raymond or Life and Death with Examples of the Evidence for Survival of Memory and Affection After Death (Methuen 1916)

Great happenings

ibid

The King and Queen

ibid

88

made from emanations

ibid

The idle apprentice

The Life and Death of RH

89

I understood then

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

90

heaps and heaps

RH Notes on Leonard sittings, October 1916 (SPR)

92

Tell my Ladye

ibid, 3 October 1916

94

I often wonder

UVT Diary, July 1917 (Ottawa)

11 A very grave slander

97

So very interesting

UVT Diary, 11 January 1917 (Ottawa)

as an educated woman

The Life and Death of RH

99

Their offence to me

UVT Daybook, 31 March 1931 (Texas)

100

Mrs Salter now

RH to Sir Oliver Lodge, 2 July 1918 (SPR)

102

He could not take the child

RH Notes on Leonard sittings, 26 March 1919 (SPR)

I think it so damnably

UVT Diary, 17 November 1919 (Ottawa)

103

It is my misfortune

Hugh Crichton-Miller to UVT, 15 January 1920 (Ottawa)

12 A grossly immoral woman

105

Miss Radclyffe Hall

The Times, 19 November 1920

106

Miss Radclyffe Hall

ibid

Admiral Troubridge

ibid

107

as horrible an

ibid

109

You say that

ibid

What did you pay

ibid

112

I feel I can

UVT Diary, December 1920 (Ottawa)

RADCLYFFE HALL

13 Octopi

115

Miss Hall had

Winifred Hales to Monica Still

Why in the name

UVT, Beds, mss (Ottawa)

116

Writing, it was like

The Well of Loneliness

unmarried daughters

The Unlit Lamp (Cassell 1924)

117

They wither away

undated notes (Texas)

I’m not a woman

The Unlit Lamp

plenty of work

The Life and Death of RH

118

I wonder why it is

The Memoirs of Ethel Smyth, introduction by Ronald Crichton (Viking 1987)

119

Olaf went over

UVT Diary, February 1920 (Ottawa)

‘The Fitz-John Dachshunds’

The Queen, 23 August 1923

120

The minute my house

RH ‘How Other Women Run Their Houses’, Daily Mail, 11 May 1927

122

All between members

UVT Letters to John, 24 February 1946

One always feels

RH to ES, 6 September 1934 (Texas)

14 Octopi and chains

124

My plans depend

Romaine Brooks to RH, 11 Septembern 1921 (Ottawa)

We had both

The Life and Death of RH

We could lunch

Romaine Brooks to RH, 23 December 1921 (Ottawa)

125

Paris ones

Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare and Company (Faber and Faber 1960)

127

One of the women

RH The Forge (J. W. Arrowsmith 1924)

128

Long hours

The Life and Death of RH

15 How to treat a genius

129

It is pleasant

RH ‘First-Nighters’, Sketch, February 1924

130

a bedlam afternoon

UVT Diary, 12 June 1923 (Ottawa)

131

the life that proudly

The Life and Death of RH

132

Yes your portrait

Romaine Brooks to UVT, undated (Ottawa)

This involved

The Life and Death of RH

133

I ask you to kiss

RH A Saturday Life (J. W. Arrowsmith 1925)

16 Books about ourselves

138

If we cannot

RH Novel Writing, The Taylorian Institute Oxford, 27 February 1933

It is wiser

RH Adam’s Breed (Cassell & Co. 1926)

139

If our literary

Novel Writing

141

A boy’s first love

Adam’s Breed

Firmly rejecting

The Life and Death of RH

143

We followed

ibid

144

Don’t repress my

James L. Garvin to UVT, 22 December 1926 (Ottawa)

145

His subsequent

The Times, 30 January 1926

146

I wished to offer

RH letter to Gorham Munson 2 June 1934 (Texas)

148

it is far

RH to Winifred Macy, 22 January and 13 June 1926 (Texas)

STEPHEN GORDON

17 Something of the acorn about her

151

To encourage inverts

RH, letter to Gorham Munson (Texas)

152

I arrived

RH to Winifred Macy, 23 January 1927 (Texas)

I can only say

ibid, 15 February 1927

153

He assured me

ibid

154

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