The Trials of Radclyffe Hall

by Diana Souhami

  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, 234, 239

  Elgar, Sir Edward, 18, 28, 55–6

  Ellard, George, 176

  Ellis, Henry Havelock: writes preface to The Well of Loneliness, 158–60, 168–70, 173, 219; and suppression of The Well of Loneliness, 179, 184, 195, 197; and RH s finances, 213; lampooned, 219–220; and dramatization of The Well of Loneliness, 139; Eonism and Other Supplementary Studies, 175; Studies in the Psychology of Sex,, 155

  Eisner, Anne, 174, 198

  Emblem Hurlstone (RH; unfinished novel), 274, 280, 308

  Emmanuel, Mother, 119

  English Club, 138

  Enthoven, Gabrielle, 111, 121–2, 130, 137, 159, 167, 240, 242

  Ernst, Morris, 222, 224–8, 240

  Evans, Charles, 168

  Evans, (Dame) Edith, 305

  Evans, Violet, 244

  Exeter, 329–30

  Faber, Geoffrey, 191, 195

  Farmer, Elizabeth, 6

  Farmer, Mary Ratcliffe, 24

  Farrar, Gwen, 130

  Fascism, 185, 297, 301, 311, 320

  Fassett, Dorothea, 230, 235, 237

  Femina Vie Heureuse prize, 145, 147–8

  Ferber, Edna, 228

  Ferris, Rock, 373

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 228

  Flament, Albert de, 293

  Flanner, Janet (Genet), 214, 239

  Florence, Italy: RH visits with Una, 124, 315–18, 320; RH stays in with Una and Evguenia, 303, 308–12; Una returns to after war, 369–71

  Floud, Sir Francis, 189–91

  Flower, Newman: RH lunches with, 130; and RH’s The Unlit Lamp, 135; patronizes Mrs Leonard, 136; and RH’s Adam’s Breed, 141, 145; and RH’s Well of Loneliness, 167–8

  Food see Adam’s Breed

  Ford, Ford Madox, 28, 122; Ladies Whose Bright Eyes, 120

  Forebears and Infancy (RH; autobiography), 4, 310

  Forge, The (RH; earlier Chains; novel), 126–7, 129–30, 131, 135

  Forgotten Island, The (RH; poetry), 61

  Forster, E.M., 185–7, 195, 201; Maurice, 186–7

  Fox-Pitt, Edith, Lady (née Douglas), 108

  Fox-Pitt, Sir John Lane, 99, 105–12, 118, 158, 178, 219

  Franchetti, Mimi, 147, 184

  Friede, Donald, 213, 220, 221, 223–4; see also Covici-Friede (US publishers)

  Fry, Penrose, 242.

  Fuller, Dr, 291, 293, 296, 308, 318–19, 313

  Fulton, Eustace, 204, 211–12

  Gallimard (French publishers), 224, 246

  Galsworthy. John. 148, 194

  Garbo, Greta, 159

  Garnett, Edward, 196

  Garry (maid), 61

  Garvin, James Louis, 144, 172–3

  Garvin, Viola (née Taylor; then Woods; Una Troubridge’s sister), 68, 71, 144–5, 173, 303, 322, 367

  Gautier, Theophile: Madeleine de Maupin, 226

  Geddes, Father, 345

  General Strike (1926), 140

  Gentry (publicity manager of Cassell), 147–8

  George Vl, King, 301

  Gerrard, Teddie, 130–1, 136, 167, 366

  Gielgud, (Sir) John, 253–4

  Glendening, Dr Logan, 228

  Goddard, Theodore, 62, 66, 145, 170, 209, 235–7, 249

  Goeben (German cruiser), 72–3

  Goodner, Carol, 255

  Goodrich, Nurse, 334

  Gordon, Taylor, 148

  Goudeket, Maurice, 261, 284

  Gower, Lucy, 305

  Granville-Barker, Harley, 193

  Grasse, France, 291–3

  Grassman, Father Thomas, 252

  Great War (1914–18): outbreak, 60; life in, 65–6; ends, 101; in RH’s fiction, 159–60, 162, 250–1

  Greenbaum, Eddie, 223

  Gregory, Mrs (Chelsea landlady), 93

  Greig, John Thomson, 197

  Grimston (house), Datchet, 98–9

  Gurney, Violet (Ernest Troubridge’s sister), 101

  Hague, Father, 136

  Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia, 301

  Hailsham, Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount, 191

  Haire, Norman, 197

  Haldane, J.B.S., 194

  Hales, Winifred, 243

  Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of, 311

  Hall, Radclyffe (Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall; ‘John’): relations with mother, 4, 7–10, 12, 17, 27, 31, 42, 116, 151–4, 172, 287; autobiography, 4, 310; temper, 4, 8, 42, 47, 79, 115, 131, 293, 316, 322; birth, 6–7; childhood, 7–19; dyslexia, 9, 12–13, 17–18, 62; trust fund, 9, 19; self-centredness, 10, 19, 138; schooling, 12–13, 17; Visetti makes indecent advances to as child, 16–17, 269; interest in animals and pets, 18, 51–2, 119, 143–4, 253, 258, 330–1; music and composing, 18; early sexual feelings and affairs, 19–24, 26–32; inheritance from father, 24–5, 27; allowance to mother, 27, 66, 154; appearance, dress and style, 28, 67, 112, 118, 120, 125, 129, 178, 224, 280; country and sporting interests, 28, 30, 43, 51; cars and motoring, 30, 53, 61, 118, 129, 146, 249; poetry, 30–2, 40–3, 48–9, 52, 55, 57, 61; tours USA, 30; meets Mabel Batten, 33–5, 40–1; relations with Mabel Batten, 41–4, 47–53, 55–9, 65, 74–9; given nickname John, 42; belief in reincarnation, 48, 59, 132–3; converts to Catholicism, 48, 54; affair with Phoebe Hoare, 55–8, 61, 67, 74; glandular fever, 55; mumps, 60; in Great War, 60–1, 249; and Mabel’s injury in motor accident, 61–2, 66; short stories, 62, 63–5, 67, 250, 258; treatment of servants and help, 66, 115, 131–2, 139, 146, 233, 243, 249; meets Una Troubridge, 67, 73; relations with Una Troubridge, 74–8, 85, 92–4, 98–9, 102–4, 112, 115, 125, 131–2, 135, 140, 142, 161, 306–8; and Mabels death, 79–81, 85–6; spiritualist sessions and psychic interests, 86, 88–94, 95–7, 99–101, 109, 118; makes will, 93, 314, 319, 332, 345, 377; measles, 93; reads paper to Society for Psychic Research, 99–100, 105; buys and occupies Chip Chase (house), 101, 115–16; Ernest Troubridge denounces, 102; and Una’s stay in Bowden House for psychoanalysis, 103; wins immorality slander case, 106–12; lesbianism made public, 111–12; sleeps alone, 115–16; novel-writing, 116–18, 121, 123–4, 126, 130–6, 138–41, 144, 159, 234, 236, 238, 243, 245, 274, 280; smoking, 118, 120, 178, 303, 315, 321–2, 341; keeps, breeds and shows dogs, 119, 131, 169, 172, 230, 253–4; political views, 119–20, 140, 242; adopts masculine ways, 120, 125; reading, 120, 129–
30, 158, 247; restlessness, 120; leaves Chip Chase, 121; and lesbian social life, 121–2, 125, 130–1, 147, 159, 241; and Italian Fascism, 124, 285, 297, 301, 311, 320; Italian holidays with Una, 124, 308; in Holland Street house, 134, 136, 169; literary reputation and success, 135–6, 147–8, 175; lectures to English Club, 138; in General Strike, 140; class consciousness, 144; on lesbian identity and inversion, 146, 155–6, 158–60, 171; wins literary prizes, 147–8, 159; Buchel portrait of, 159, 370; Compton Mackenzie satirizes, 171; and Visetti’s death and funeral, 172; and suppression of The Well of Loneliness, 178–81, 184–7, 191–4, 198–203, 207–11; sells Holland Street house, 187–209, 213; protests in court against Biron’s comments, 210–11; literary earnings, 213–14; loses appeal against Well of Loneliness verdict, 214–19; caricatured in The Sink of Solitude, 219–20, 234; protests at suppression, 221–2; and clearing of The Well of Loneliness in USA, 229; and dramatization of The Well of Loneliness, 230, 234–5, 239–40; French holiday, 230, 233–6; health problems, 237, 243, 247, 257–8, 297, 311, 318, 321–6, 328, 338–44; sympathetic wounds, 238; life and conflicts in Rye, 241–7, 251–8, 280; financial losses, 242, 249; and Una’s hysterectomy and convalescence, 248–9; complains of Father Bonaventura, 252; lectures on novel writing, 254; infatuation with Evguenia Souline, 262–7, 274, 276–80, 283, 289, 302, 304, 305–6, 308, 310, 319, 321, 337–8, 341–2; letters to Evguenia, 264–70, 348, 376–7; financial gifts to Evguenia, 267, 271, 279, 317, 319; and Evguenia’s visits to England, 272–3, 287–8, 307, 309, 323; relations with Evguenia and Una, 274–5, 280–8, 289–96, 298, 307, 309, 312–15; and Evguenia’s illness, 291–2; wrecks Evguenia’s Paris flat, 293; in Italy with Evguenia, 296–8, 301–2, 309, 316; injured in fall, 306–8; depressions, 311–12, 322, 331, 339, 342; and Evguenia’s naturalization difficulties, 312, 314–15; humiliates Una, 314; growth on lip removed, 315; Evguenia seeks freedom from, 316–17, 319, 321; Evguenia visits in Florence (Christmas 1938), 317–18; at outbreak of World War II, 325–6; at Lynton during war, 326, 328–30; responsibility for Evguenia in war, 331–4, 386–7; Una dominates during war, 332–4, 338–41; eye problems, 334–5, 337; colostomy operation, 344–5; will changed in Una’s favour, 346–7, 356; decline and death, 347–9; dying injunction to Evguenia, 347; funeral and obituaries, 353; Una constructs posthumous image, 353–5, 358–9; mother challenges will, 360; portrait as child, 360, 363; Una’s memoir of, 360–1; Una destroys papers, 369

  Hancock Jack and Molly, 330, 344, 370

  Harcourt Brace (US publishers), 286, 288

  Harper, Dr, 344

  Harraden, Beatrice, 148

  Harris, Austin, 40, 43

  Harris, Cara (née Batten; Mabel’s daughter; ‘Rognons de la Fleche’): born, 36; moves to London, 38; painting, 39; affair with Romer, 40; relations with mother, 43, 74; and mother’s relations with RH, 47; and father’s death, 50; and Clarkes, 51; children, 56, 58–9; and mother’s death and will, 79–80; takes mother’s diaries, 85; and RH’s psychic pursuit of Mabel, 97–8, 100–1; Una refuses to send photographs of mother to, 367

  Harris, Frank, 171

  Harris, Honey (Cara’s daughter), 79, 100

  Harris, Karen (Cara’s daughter), 59

  Harris, Peter (Cara’s son), 97

  Hartley, Dr, 247

  Hartley, Leslie Poles, 173

  Harty, Sir Hamilton, 28

  Hastie, Mr (RH’s solicitor), 101

  Hastings, Sir Patrick, 237

  Hatch, George Cliffe (Mabel Batten’s father), 36

  Hatch, George (Mabel Batten’s brother), 58

  Hatch, Minnie, 36

  Hatch, Nelly, 58

  Hathaway, Dr, 102

  Hatten, Marjorie, 342

  Healy, Justice (USA), 224

  Heath, Audrey: as RH’s literary agent, 121; and RH’s The Unlit Lamp, 126, 135; and RH’s The Forge, 127; Una reads manuscripts for, 140; and RH’s Adam’s Breed, 141–2; and RH’s Well of Loneliness, 168–72, 178, 187, 209; ends RH’s contract with Blanche Knopf, 189; in Rye with RH, 219; and RH’s renouncing England, 220; and dramatization of The Well of Loneliness, 230, 235–7, 239; relations with RH deteriorate, 236–7, 747; and RH’s The Master of the House, 245–6; sends flowers to Una in hospital, 248; and RH’s The Sixth Beatitude, 286, 288; decline, 367

  Hedley, Prescott, 247

  Heinemann, William (publisher), 65, 121, 126, 168, 286

  Hemingway, Ernest, 228

  Herbert, (Sir) A.P., 197

  Hermes Press, 219

  ‘Hicklin Rule’ (1868), 202

  Highfield (house), Malvem Wells, Worcestershire, 30, 51

  Hill, Leopold (bookseller), 188–9, 191–3, 198, 203–4

  Hirschfeld, Magnus, 199

  Hitler, Adolf, 297, 301, 311, 315, 320–1, 324, 329

  Hoare, Oliver, 55–6, 58, 60, 112, 160

  Hoare, Phoebe, 55–8, 60–1, 67, 74, 98, 112

  Holland Street, London: RH buys and occupies, 134, 136–7, 169; RH sells, 187, 209, 213

  Hollander, Georges, 277

  Holroyd-Reece, Jehanne, 234, 366

  Holroyd-Reece, John: publishes RH’s The Well of Loneliness in Paris, 188, 214, 222; and prosecution of The Well of Loneliness, 239; on Riviera, 234; criticizes dramatization of The Well of Loneliness, 239; on d’Annunzio’s fantasy, 285; attempts to secure visa for Evguenia, 329; declines to help Evguenia in money disputes with Una, 355–6; and Una’s allowance to Mrs Visetti, 360; Una lodges with, 366

  Hope, Laura (Ernest Troubridge’s sister), 70–1, 101

  Horn, Judith, 289

  Horsford, Dr, 360, 363

  Housman, Laurence, 196

  Howard, Wren, 187–8

  Hume-Williams, S ir Ellis, 107, 110–11

  Humely, Mr (spiritualist), 91

  Hunt, Violet, 28–30, 41, 120, 122, 135, 144–5, 147, 159

  Hutchinson, Vere, 121, 135, 137

  Inskip, SirThomas, 180, 191, 215–18

  Irons, Evelyn, 159, 167, 250

  Irwin, Margaret, 135

  Isaacs, Rufus Daniel (Lord Chief Justice; later 1st Marquess of Reading), 107, 109–11

  Jacob, Naomi (‘Micki’), 258, 266, 284–5, 348

  James, Henry, 28

  James Tait Black Prize, 159

  Jameson, Storm, 195–6

  Johnson, J. Rosamund, 148

  Joll, Cecil, 344–5

  Jones, Llewellyn, 227

  Joynson-Hicks, Sir William (later 1st Viscount Brentford; ‘Jix’): supports suppression of The Well of Loneliness, 179–81, 183, 185, 189–92, 200, 204–5, 214–15, 117–18, 237

  Judge, Mr (solicitor), 356

  Kaye-Smith, Sheila, 148, 195, 201, 244, 246, 248

  Keppel, Mrs George (Alice), 58

  Kershaw, Wilette, 230, 234–7, 239–40

  Kipling, Rudyard, 215–16, 218

  Kirkby-Lunn, Louise, 39, 50

  Kitchener, Field Marshal Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl, 87

  Knopf, Alfred (US publisher), 169

  Knopf, Blanche, 169–71, 187–9

  Knott, Nurse, 7–8, 10–12, 17

  Koopman, John, 39

  Krafft-Ebing, Richard von: Psychopathia Sexualis, 164

  Ladye see Batten, Mabel Veronica

  Lafargue De-Avilla, Fabienne, 137, 144, 147, 367

  Lafayette (photographer), 130

  Lakin, Mrs (motorist), 61–2, 66

  Lang, Cosmo Gordon, Archbishop of York

  (later of Canterbury), 194

  Lapiccirella, Dr, 321

  Lawrence, D.H.: The Rainbow, 202

  Le Gallienne, Eva, 147

  Leonard, Gladys: RH consults as medium, 88–93, 95, 97–9, 102–3, 109, 118, 136, 140, 169, 173, 182, 219, 242, 276, 287, 323; My Life in Two Worlds, 242

  Levy, Rabbi Felix H., 228

  Lewis, Sir George, 102, 108, 111–12

  Lifar, Sergei, 276

  Llanberis, 85

  Llandudno, 62

  Lodge, Sir Oliver, 86–9, 96–7, 100, 118

  Lodge, Raymond, 86–8

>   Logan, F.H., 368

  London Play Company, 230, 235–6

  Lovat Dickson, Horatio, 357, 362

  Lowther, Toupie (‘Brother’): tennis playing, 33, 40; at Herstmonceux Castle, 52; with ambulance unit in Great War, 66, 75, 159–60, 162; RHs friendship with, 111, 120 130, 144, 147; Una on, 111, 119; teaches RH to drive, 118; in London lesbian scene, 121; fancy dress ball, 122; RH reads The Forge to, 127; and Romaine Brooks’s portrait of Una, 137; affair with Fabienne Lafargue De-Avilla, 137, 144, 147; depicted in The Well of Loneliness, 159–60, 162; and suppression of The Well of Loneliness, 198, 211; breach with RH, 242; death, 367

  Lucas, E.V., 135

  Lugsch, Miss (of Chicago), 246, 258

  Lumbroso, Signor (Florence neighbour), 311

  Lusitania (ship), 65

  Lygon, Mrs (tenant of White Cottage), 76

  Lynton, Devon, 326, 328–31, 340–1, 370

  Lyons, Alfred, 196

  Lytton, Edith, Countess of, 38

  Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of (‘Owen Meredith’), 37–8

  McAdoo (New York magistrate), 221

  Macaulay, (Dame) Rose, 196

  McCarthy, (Sir) Desmond, 205

  MacDonald, Ramsay, 242

  McDonnell, Miss (cook), 146–7

  McEwan, Miss (housemaid), 240

  Mclnerney, Justice (USA), 224

  Mackenzie, (Sir) Compton: Extraordinary

  Women, 171, 219

  Maclean, Miss (housekeeper), 118, 140, 147

  Macquister, Frederick, 112, 203

  McSweeney, Joy, 250

  Makaroff, Evguenia see Souline, Evguenia

  Makaroff, Vladimir (Evguenia’s husband), 365, 370, 376–7

  Makedon, Xenia, 374

  Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, 30, 51, 57, 60–2, 65, 75–8, 314

  Manners, Dr, 343

  Manners, Lord Cecil, 79

  Maria (maid), 319

  Marjoribanks, Mrs George, 79

  Marlow-on-Thames, 10, 11

  Martin, Easthrope, 43

  Mary (parlourmaid), 243

  Massola, May, 369

  Master of the House, The (RH; earlier The Carpenter’s Son; novel), 234, 236, 238–9, 243, 245–6, 274

  May, Dr, 102

  Mayo, Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of, 36, 38

  Melville, J.B., 198, 208, 212, 217

  Merano, Italy, 296–7

  Meredith, Owen see Lytton, 1st Earl of Merrill, George, 187

  Meyer, Adolf de, 52

  Meyer, Olga de, 52

  Michael West (RH; autobiographical novel), 4, 65, 76