The trials of Radclyffe Hall
Diana Souhami (Author)
"Radclyffe Hall, one of England's great eccentrics, is most famous for her novel The Well of Loneliness. About 'congenital introverts' - lesbian love - it caused a furore when she wrote it in 1928. In an extraordinary trial it was banned under the Obscene Publications Act and 'consigned to the King's furnace'." "In effect it was the nation's attitude to sex which was on trial rather than the obscenity of Radclyffe Hall's novel. She sent the government, the judiciary and the literary establishment into turmoil." "Her life was a series of legal and emotional trials. Sexually chauvinistic, she expected absolute loyalty from her partners while she herself had passionate affairs." "In this biography Diana Souhami brings a fresh and irreverent eye to the life of this remarkable and troubled figure."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1998
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1998