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The Trials of Radclyffe Hall

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by Diana Souhami


  FICTION

  1924 The Unlit Lamp (Cassell)

  1924 The Forge (Arrowsmith)

  1925 A Saturday Life (Arrowsmith)

  1926 Adam’s Breed (Cassell)

  1928 The Well of Loneliness (Cape)

  1932 The Master of the House (Cape)

  1934 Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself (Heinemann)

  1936 The Sixth Beatitude (Heinemann)

  UNPUBLISHED WORKS BY RADCLYFFE HALL (IN TEXAS)

  Michael West

  Forebears and Infancy

  Novel Writing

  Why I Write

  Lecture notes on the trial of ‘The Well of Loneliness’

  Miracle of St Ethelflaeda

  The Faith of Father Dearing

  Woman in a Crêpe Bonnet

  The World (fragment)

  The Career of Mark Anthony Brakes

  The Cunningham Code

  Like Cures Like

  The Scarecrow

  Emblem Hurlstone

  The Shoemaker of Merano (fragment. mss destroyed by UVT)

  BOOKS

  Bagnold, Enid, Diary Without Dates (London 1978)

  Baker, Michael, Our Three Selves: A Life of Radclyffe Hall (Hamish Hamilton 1985)

  Barney, Natalie Clifford, Adventures of the Mind (New York University Press 1992)

  Beach, Sylvia, Shakespeare & Company (Faber and Faber 1956)

  Belford, Barbara, Violet: the Irrepressible Violet Hunt (Simon & Schuster 1990)

  Bell, Anne Olivier and McNeillie, Andrew, eds, The Diary of Virginia Woolf (Hogarth Press 1977–84)

  Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, Poetical Works (London 1914)

  ——, My Diaries (London 1919)

  Boyer, Paul S., Purity in Print: the Vice-Society movement and book censorship in America (Saunders 1968)

  Brittain, Vera, Radclyffe Hall: A Case of Obscenity? (Femina Books 1968)

  Carpenter, Edward, The Intermediate Sex (Allen & Unwin 1908)

  Castle, Terry, Noël Coward and Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits (Columbia University Press 1996)

  Cline, Sally, Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John (John Murray 1997)

  Collis, Rose, Portraits to the Wall: historic lesbian lives unveiled (Cassell 1974)

  Cook, Walter, Reflections on ‘Raymond’ (London 1917)

  Cossart, Michael de, The Food of Love: Princesse Edmond de Polignac and her salon (Hamish Hamilton 1978)

  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)

  Ellis, Havelock, Psychology of Sex (London 1909)

  Ernst, Morris L. and Seagle, William, To the Pure: obscenity and the censor (New York 1929)

  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)

  Franks, Claudia Stillman, Beyond ‘The Well of Loneliness’: the fiction of Radclyffe Hall (Avebury 1982)

  Friede, Donald, The Court of Special Sessions: ‘The Well of Loneliness’ (New York 1929)

  Frye, Jennie Cooper, A Study in Censorship: Radclyffe Hall’s ‘The Well of Loneliness’ (mss)

  Gallup, Donald, Pigeons on the Granite: memories of a Yale librarian (Yale University Library 1988)

  Glasgow, Joanne, Your John (New York University Press 1997)

  Glendinning, Victoria, Vita (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1983)

  Grosskurth, Phyllis, Havelock Ellis (Knopf 1980)

  Hanscombe, Gillian and Smyers, Virginia L., Writing for their Lives: The Modernist Women 1910–40 (The Women’s Press 1987)

  Henson, Herbert Hensley, Retrospect of an Unimportant Life (Oxford University Press, 1944)

  Hirschfeld, Magnus (ed. Norman Haire), Sexual Anomalies and Perversions (Encyclopaedic Press 1952)

  Hookham, Paul, ‘Raymond’, a Rejoinder (London 1917)

  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)

  Jeffreys, Sheila, The Spinster and Her Enemies: feminism and sexuality 1880–1930 (Pandora 1985)

  Kaye-Smith, Sheila, All the Books of My Life (Cassell 1956)

  Kermode, Frank, Puzzles and Epiphanies (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1962)

  Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, Psychopathia Sexualis (Pioneer Publications 1953)

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

  Lees-Milne, James, Caves of Ice (Chatto & Windus 1983)

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

  Liou, Liang-Ya, The Sexual Politics of Oscar Wilde, Radclyffe Hall, D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf (University of Texas, PhD dissertation, 1993)

  Lodge, Oliver, Raymond (London 1916)

  Longford, Elizabeth, The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1979)

  Lottman, Herbert, Colette (Secker & Warburg 1991)

  Mannin, Ethel, Young in the Twenties (Hutchinson 1971)

  McLaughlin, Redmond, The Escape of the Goeben: Prelude to Gallipoli (Seeley Service 1974)

  Nicolson, Nigel, ed., Vita and Harold (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1992)

  Nicolson, Nigel and Trautmann, Joanne, eds, The Letters of Virginia Woolf (Hogarth Press 1975–80)

  Ormrod, Richard, Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall (Cape 1984)

  Salvo, Louise de and Leaska, Mitchell, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (Hutchinson 1984)

  Secrest, Meryle, Between Me and Life: a biography of Romaine Brooks (Macdonald & Jane’s 1976)

  Souhami, Diana, Gertrude and Alice (Pandora 1991)

  Stephenson, P. R. (intr.), The Sink of Solitude: a verse lampoon by several hands (Hermes Press 1928)

  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)

  Weiss, Andrea, Paris was a Woman: portraits from the Left Bank (Pandora 1995)

  Wickes, George, The Amazon of Letters: the life and loves of Natalie Barney (W. H. Allen 1977)

  Wilson, Edmund, The Twenties: from notebooks and diaries of the period (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1975)

  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 (av
ailable 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

  xi

  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 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 infal
libly

  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

 

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