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

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The Life and Death of RH

25 The freedom of human beings

223

The causes

Morris Leopold Ernst So Far So Good (Harper 1948)

The only essential

ibid

224

The book is well

Saturday Review of Literature, 4 May 1929 (Texas)

She is Byronese

New York Telegram Magazine, December 1928

225

Conscious censoriousness

Morris Ernst’s brief for the defence (Texas)

226

If Stephen were a man

ibid

228

The book in question

‘Well of Loneliness Cleared in Court’ New York Times, 20 April 1929

229

Tired as I am

RH to Donald Friede, 4 May 1929 (Texas)

Long bitter experience

Morris Ernst to Covici-Friede, 20 April 1929 (Texas)

a great tragic story

Wilette Kershaw to RH, 9 April 1929 (Texas)

230

unpardonably

UVT Diary, 17 April 1929 (Ottawa)

definite plans

UVT to Wilette Kershaw, 21 April 1929 (Texas)

THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE

26 An awful shock

233

grave warnings

The Life and Death of RH

grew as brown

ibid

234

All afternoon

UVT Diary, 21 July 1929 (Ottawa)

as an amends

The Life and Death of RH

mad and blasphemous

UVT Diary, 8 August 1929 (Ottawa)

I know you would wish

RH to Wilette Kershaw, 9 August 1929 (Texas)

235

Probably we are right

Audrey Heath to RH, 6 September 1929 (Texas)

soft as pulp

UVT to Audrey Heath, 7 September 1929 (Texas)

We both think

ibid

236

recommend her

RH to Audrey Heath, 4 October 1929 (Texas)

‘Stop, stop!’ he screamed

Radclyffe Hall, The Master of the House (Jonathan Cape 1932)

237

I have made enquiries

Affidavit from C. S. Tomlinson, 25 October 1929 (Texas)

238

At 12.30

UVT Daybook, 7 January 1931 (Texas)

lectured her

UVT Diary, 13 January 1930 (Ottawa)

239

in which she begged

Paris was Yesterday

backboneless

J. Holroyd-Reece to RH and UVT, 2 September 1930 (Texas)

that she knew

Paris was Yesterday

240

use the censorship

Morris Ernst to Harold Rubinstein, 30 September 1930 (Texas)

howls of laughter

UVT Diary, 28 December 1930 (Ottawa)

27 Just Rye

241

just fond

UVT Daybook, 26 February 1931 (Texas)

242

Isn’t Rye heavenly

ibid, 16 April 1931

a future life for dogs

ibid, 27 May 1931

244

I long to own

ibid, June 1931

When I look back

ibid, 1 November 1931

pose of head

ibid, 11 December 1931

245

Even better class

ibid

As she left

ibid

246

they thought they

UVT Daybook, 1 March 1932

went the colour

ibid, April 1932

28 Give us a kiss

248

What she has been

UVT Daybook, 6 July 1932 (Texas)

249

the subhuman, seething

ibid, August 1932

put me among the girls

ibid, 2 October 1932

trying to make

ibid

John is genuinely

ibid, 14 March 1933

250

shortly before I

preface to Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself

(Heinemann 1934)

‘My God!’

Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself

252

decently behaved

UVT Daybook, February 1933

They would rather

ibid, 14 February 1933

253

How are the mighty

ibid, May 1933

Mabel Bourne!

ibid, October 1933

254

There is always

ibid, April 1933

The propaganda novel

RH Novel Writing, The Taylorian

Institute, Oxford, 27 February 1933

255

I am disgusted

UVT Daybook, 26 August 1933

256

grim outcome

ibid, September 1933

It is her duty

ibid, November 1933

257

I shall not be present

ibid, 7 November 1933

SAME HEART

29 The intolerable load

262

John was obviously

Evguenia Souline, autobiographical notes, undated, c. 1957 (Monica Still)

I can see

RH to ES, 3 March 1939 (Texas)

May I take off

ibid

There was something

ES, autobiographical notes

263

I fought like

ibid

I am really

RH to ES, 17 July 1934

Meet me at

ibid, 20 July 1934

Darling, Yes

ibid, 24 July 1934

264

And your darling

ibid, 29 August 1934

I am tormented

ibid, 27 July 1934

265

After a scene

ibid, 31 July 1934

And when she

ibid

267

I want you

ibid, 13 August 1934

I resented it

ES, autobiographical notes

congenital invert

RH to ES, 19 August 1934

I asked if

ibid, 2 September 1934

268

I love you too much

RH to ES, 7 August 1934

Now listen Souline

RH to ES, 29 August 1934

269

I haven’t

ibid

I found you a virgin

ibid, 7 June 1934

all crumpled

ibid, 30 December 1934

Very often

ES, autobiographical notes

270

You woke me

RH to ES, 8 December 1934

271

She might have made

ibid, 5 October 1934

30 A trois

272

I feel crazy

RH to ES, 27 November 1934 (Texas)

I am not

ibid, 4 December 1934

273

All that I did

UVT Daybook, 13 November 1934 (Texas)

274

I feel as though

RH to ES, 22 November 1934

275

Una wants to come

ibid, December 1934

I am perpetually

UVT Daybook, 4 March 1935 (Texas)

276

Her mind never

ibid, March 1935

277

But how can I

ibid

So there is another

ibid, January 1935

You’re quite right

ibid, 20 March 1935

31 How long O Lord, how long

279

Please, oh, please

RH to ES, 1 April 1935 (Texas)

280

I scarcely dare

UVT Daybook, 12 April 1935 (Texas)

I wonder how

RH to ES, Easter Sunday 1935 (Texas)

If she was

UVT Daybook, April 1935 (Texas)

Lord how every

ibid

281

grieved thinking of

UVT Daybook, April 1935 (Texas)

282

Pull yourself together

RH to ES, 19 May 1935 (Texas)

283

Oooh I hate

UVT Daybook, 24 June 1935 (Texas)

I am always

ibid, 22 June 193 5

284

John looked upon me

ES, autobiographical notes

285

Why are we not

UVT Daybook, October 1935 (Texas)

286

Just now

quoted in RH to ES, 7 November 1935 (Texas)

You belong to me

RH to ES, 3 November 1935 (Texas)

287

My poor old mother’s

ibid, 18 October 1935

drag on

ibid, 26 October 1935

Me she so hates

ibid

The Warrens

UVT Daybook, 1 December 1935 (Texas)

32 His name was Father Martin but she called him Henry

289

common as dirt

UVT Daybook, 9 January 1936 (Texas)

I have noticed

ibid, 18 January 1936

290

with an enchanting

ibid, 4 January 1936

And much pleasant

ibid, 17 January 1936

For my poor sake

RH to ES, 31 January 1936 (Texas)

291

And here we are

UVT Daybook, March 1936 (Texas)

291

With Ladye’s help

ibid, April 1936

294

In the two years

ibid, 15 July 1936

We cannot allow

ibid, July 1936

295

I could do not much

ES, autobiographical notes

We shall be apart

UVT Daybook, 8 March 1936 (Texas)

What a woman

ibid, August 1936

296

It is not

UVT Daybook, 7 October 1936 (Texas)

She sneered

ibid

297

Fascist anti-

ibid, 5 November 1936

It may shock

ibid, 24 December 1936

OUR THREE SELVES

33 An empty fiction

301

The teaching

UVT Daybook, 18 March 1937 (Texas)

302

I pointed out

ibid, 29 June 1937

303

I cannot

ibid, May 1937

I think of what

RH to ES, 16 July 1937 (Texas)

304

Don’t you think

ibid, 21 July 1937

The cottage looks

ibid, 15 July 1937

Oh Evguenia

ibid, 16 July 1937

305

She seemed incapable

ibid, 17 July 1937

a grim horror

UVT Daybook, 8 August 1937 (Texas)

306

Thank you good

RH to ES, 25 August 1937 (Texas)

307

She finds fault

ibid, 1 October 1937

When I have

ibid, 23 October 1937

I seem to get

ibid, 20 December 1937

308

Whatever she is

UVT Daybook, 15 May 1938 (Texas)

34 Never mind Una

309

Of course this ‘study’

ibid, 23 June 1938

that way you would

ibid, 31 July 1938

310

Every task

ibid, 25 February 1938

311

Horrified recipients

RH to ES, 28 June 1938 (Texas)

312

I would like

ibid

313

Can we never Then my nerve

UVT Daybook, July 1938 (Texas)

314

I should