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

American patient), 268, 275, 327

Baker, Joe, 249–50

Baldrey, Mrs (RH’s godmother), 7

Baldwin, Nurse, 344–5

Baldwin, Oliver, 197

Baldwin, Stanley, 200, 215

Balfour, Gerald, 88, 100, 111, 118

Ballou, Robert (US publisher), 245

Bankhead, Tallulah, 130–1, 136, 156, 167

Barker, Lilian, 218

Barnet, Revd Mr (of Rye), 252

Barney, Natalie: and Romaine Brooks, 122; in Florence, 124; lesbian social life, 125, 147, 222; RH visits in Paris, 135, 261, 276, 290; depicted in The Well of Loneliness, 160; privileged social position, 167; Compton Mackenzie satirizes, 171; on French Riviera, 234, 284; and RH’s relations with Evguenia, 279; criticizes fascism, 303

Bath, Hubert, 43

Batten, Cara see Harris, Cara

Batten, George, 33–9, 41, 43, 48, 58, 96; death, 50–1, 80

Batten, Mabel Veronica (née Hatch; ‘Ladye’): relations with RH, 33–5, 40–4, 47–53, 559, 65, 74–9, 85, 273, 314; background, character and amours, 35–9; Sargent portrait of, 39, 136, 213; diaries, 47, 51, 62, 67, 85, 99; Catholicism, 48, 54; ill-health, 55, 57, 66, 79; in Great War, 60–1, 65–6; injured in motor accident, 61–2, 66; edits RH’s stories, 65; will, 65–6, 80, 101; and RH’s attachment to Una, 74–6, 78; Una Troubridge usurps, 74, 124, 302; death, 79–81, 85–6; RH seeks spiritualist contact with, 86, 88–93, 95–6, 99, 155, 243; and accusations of immorality against RH, 106, 108–9; RH’s posthumous devotion to, 116, 118, 124, 136, 169, 238; RH dedicates The Unlit Lamp (Octopi) to, 126, 132; and RH’s theories of inversion, 155; and RH’s The Well of Loneliness, 159; Una ceases anniversary tributes, 358

Beach, Sylvia, 214, 222

Beauclerc, Helen, 148

Begley, Revd Walter, 6, 24–5

Bell, Mr & Mrs Hamilton, 60

Bell, Quentin, 198

Bell, Vanessa, 186

Benn, Mr (friend of Evguenia), 335–6

Bennett, Arnold, 173–4, 183, 185, 206, 221

Benson, E.F, 241–2, 325

Benson, Monsignor Hugh, 241

Bertha (parlourmaid), 244, 247, 249

Besant, Annie, 55, 67

Birkett, Norman (later 1st Baron), 198–9, 204–8

Birley, Dr, 217

Biron, Sir Chartres: tries and condemns The Well of Loneliness, 180, 183, 191–3, 199–212, 214, 237, 250; Cape publishes, 249

Black Boy (house), Rye, 238, 240, 245, 252–4

Bloomsbury Group, 186

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 38

Bodkin, Sir Archibald, 180, 191, 200, 204, 214, 217–18

Bonaventura, Father, 174, 193, 238, 240, 247, 249, 252, 255, 257

Bourdet, Edouard: La Prisonnière, 147

Bourke, Edward, 36, 38, 42

Bourne, Mabel, 240, 249, 253, 258, 280

Bradley (chauffeur), 143, 146

Brandt, Carl (US literary agent), 170, 189

Braun, Father Wendelin, 257

Breeds (Rye builder), 243

Breslau (German cruiser), 72

Brewster, Henry, 118

Brittain, Vera, 173

Brogli, Princesse de, 284

Brooks, Romaine: paintings, 52, 122; invites RH to Capri, 122, 124; RH meets, 122; lesbian social life, 125; and RH’s The Forge, 126–7, 135; RH and Una give fancy-dress ball for, 130; portrait of Una, 132; privileged social position, 167; Compton Mackenzie satirizes, 171; and suppression of RH’s Well of Loneliness, 198; on French Riviera, 234, 284; RH visits in Paris, 261; visits RH at Sirmione, 266; absent in USA, 276; in Italy after war, 369

Bruce, Miss (nurse), 131

Buchel, Charles, 159, 370

Buck, Pearl S., 317

Bullock, Molly, 252

Bumpus, John and Edward (publishers), 32, 42, 49

Burnelones, Sir Edward, 69

Burroughes-Burroughes, Dorothy (‘Budge’), 122, 135, 137

Bushell, Judge Hyman, 222–3

Butes, Alfred, 196

Butt, Sir Charles Parker, 14

Cameron, Julia Margaret, 206

Cape, Jonathan (publisher): publishes The Well of Loneliness, 168, 170–2, 187, 208; and campaign to ban Well of Loneliness, 175–6, 178–81, 183–4, 191–2, 195, 218, 220; summoned, 193, 203; increases RH’s royalties, 214; relations with RH, 237; and RH’s The Master of the House, 245; RH attacks, 246, 249

‘Career of Mark Anthony Brake, The’ (RH; story), 63–4

Carnarvon, Catherine, Countess of, 344–6

Carolina, Maria, 320

Carpenter, Edward, 187

Carpenter, William Boyd, Bishop of Ripon, 187

Carpenter’s Son, The see Master of the House, The

Caruth, Harry, 31

Caruth, Jane see Randolph, Jane

Cassell (publishers), 135–6, 141, 144

Casson, (Sir) Lewis, 148

Chains see Forge, The

Chamberlain, Neville, 315, 320, 324

Chambers, Dorothea, 33, 40

Chaplin, Olive, 305, 314

Chapman’s pet shop (London), 253

Cheattle, Dr, 61

Chesterton, G.K., 147

Cheyney, Mr (of Rye), 252

Child, Dr Armando, 344, 346, 357, 360, 375, 377

Chip Chase, Hadley Wood, Middlesex, 101–2, 104, 115–16, 118, 120–1

Chivers, Mr & Mrs (Lynton hotel keepers), 329–30

Churchill, Dr Stella, 197

Churchill, (Sir) Winston S., 72–3, 200, 330, 333

Clarendon, Edward Hyde Villiers, 5th Earl of, 42, 67

Clarendon, Emma, Countess of (née Hatch; then Bourke), 36, 42, 47, 50, 67, 80

Clark, Miss (RH’s secretary), 139, 146

Clarke, Dolly (née Diehl; RH’s cousin): RH’s affair with, 31–3, 40–1; allowance from RH, 44, 66; marriage, 44, 51; RH maintains relations with, 47, 55, 58–9; in Great War, 60–1; children, 66, 85, 93; RH stays with, 79, 85; disagreements with Una Troubridge, 98; attends RH’s psychic reading, 100; in Malvern with RH, 314

Clarke, Jacqueline (Cara Harris’s daughter), 85

Clarke, Robert Coningsby, 40, 43–4, 51–2, 60

Clermont Tonnerre, Duchess of, 147, 221

Cochran, (Sir) Charles B., 253

Cockburn, Sir Alexander James Edmund (Lord Chief Justice), 201

Cocteau, Jean, 284

Cole, Mrs (schoolteacher), 17

Colefax, Sibyl, Lady, 40

Colette, 147–8, 167, 221, 233, 261, 284; Chéri (adapted by Una Troubridge), 238, 240, 242

Collingwood, Father, 248

Collins, Dr Joseph, 227

Collins (publishers), 126

Connolly, Cyril, 174

Conran, Dr, 247

Cook, James, 191

Corsini, Maria, 369

Coster, Howard, 130, 246

Coventry, Cicely, 119

Covici, Pascal, 213, 220, 223–4

Covici-Friede (US publishers), 213, 220, 224, 229–30, 310

Coward, (Sir) Noël, 129–30, 159, 187, 240, 242

Craig, Edy, 240–1, 254, 305, 314

Crichton-Miller, Dr Hugh, 71, 74, 77, 88, 94, 97, 100, 101–4

Cripps, Etheline, 131, 366–7

Cripps, Roy, 366

Cummings, Dr, 248

Cunningham Code, The (RH; unfinished novel), 134

Curtis, Dr Montague, 147, 249, 258, 280

Cust, Robert Henry, 194

Daily Express, 176, 179, 213, 239

Daily Herald, 184, 221

Davies, Peter, 368

Davison, Emily, 52

Dawson, Bertrand Edward, Viscount Dawson of Penn, 337, 340

Dennett, Mary Ware: The Sex Side of Life, 223

Dickens, Charles: Our Mutual Friend, 201

Dickie (maid), 144, 147

Diehl, Edwin Otley (RH’s maternal grandfather), 8

Diehl, Mrs Edwin Otley (RH’s maternal grandmother): relations with RH, 6, 8–10, 16, 18, 27, 30, 47; death, 50

Diehl, William (RH’s uncle), 31

Doubleday (US publisher), 144, 169, 171

Douglas, James: attacks The Well of Loneliness, 175, 176–9, 183, 189, 196, 205, 207, 213–14, 368; attacks D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow, 202;

Douglas, James-contd lampooned in The Sink of Solitude, 219–20; commends RG’s The Master of the House, 246

Dowling, Dr, 238

Dowson, Sir Oscar, 368

Drake, May, 121

Dreiser, Theodore, 228

Dresser, Marcia van, 242

Duncan, Isadora, 55

Dywell, Mr (hairdresser), 139

Ede, James Chuter, 368–9

Eden, Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon), 311, 315

Edge, Gladys, 197

Edward VII, King (formerly Prince of Wales), 33, 37, 39, 50

Edward VIII, King (later Duke of Windsor), 297

Egan, Beresford, 220,