The Trials of Radclyffe Hall

by Diana Souhami

  Mills, Florence, 148

  ‘Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself’ (RH; story), 250–1

  Mitchison, Naomi, 196

  ‘Modern Miss Thompson, The’ (RH; story), 64–5

  Monte Carlo, 55, 58

  Morrell, Lady Ottoline, 186

  Mortimer, Raymond, 219

  Munich Agreement (1938), 315

  Munster, Father, 339

  Murat, Violette, 131

  Murray, John, 135

  Murray, Professor Gilbert, 88

  Mussolini, Benito (Il Duce), 285, 297, 301, 311, 315–16, 310, 329, 365

  Nash, Audrey, 305

  Nash, John, 305

  Nash, Paul, 242, 305

  Newton, Isabel, 99–100, 105–6

  New York Society for the Suppression of Vice see Society for the Suppression of Vice

  Nicholls, Agnes (later Harty), 22–8, 78, 155

  Nicolsky, Lysa, 263, 272, 286, 306, 319–21, 323

  Nicolson, (Sir) Harold, 185, 219

  Nightingale, Dr, 333, 336, 344

  Nijinsky, Vaslav, 71–2, 75

  Nikkish, Arthur, 18

  Noble, Dr Williamson, 337

  Norman, James, 197

  Obscene Publications Act (1857), 190–92 202, 205

  Observer (newspaper), 172–3

  Octopi see Unlit Lamp, The

  O’Leary, Con, 173

  ‘Out of the Night’ (RH; story), 63

  Pankhurst, Emily, 52

  Paris: lesbian scene in, 124–5; RH visits with Una, 124, 222, 258, 261–5; Evguenia in, 275–7, 281, 289, 293, 295–6, 303, 308; occupied (1940), 330

  Parkin, Father, 333

  Parry, Hubert, 28

  Parsons, Father, 343

  Paterson, Mr (of Rye), 252

  Pegasus Press (Paris), 188–91, 356

  PEN Club, 122, 130, 147

  Penn, William, 359

  Perry, John, 254

  Pettit, Charles: Le Grand Eunuque, 140

  Phillpotts, Eden, 195

  Piccone, Fonfi, 369

  Pidgeon, Mrs (Lynton hotel proprietor), 328

  Pierre (French driver), 230, 233

  Pinchon, Dr Scott, 237

  Pius X, Pope, 54

  Pius XI, Pope, 319

  Pius XII, Pope (Eugenio Pacelli), 319–20

  Poems of the Past and Present (RH), 49

  Polignac, Winnaretta, Princesse de (née Singer), 52, 147, 167

  Pound, Ezra, 230

  Pouynayou, Dr, 291

  Poynter, Edward, 39, 69

  Prior, Miss (Andrea Troubridge’s fosterparent), 74–5

  Procter, Dod, 331

  Prothero, Chief Inspector John, 192, 203–4, 206, 116

  Queensberry, Percy Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of, 108

  Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur, 57

  Quilter (servant), 244

  Radclyffe-Hall, Charles (RH’s grandfather), 5–6

  Radclyffe-Hall, Esther (formerly Westhead; RH’s grandmother), 5, 14

  Radclyffe-Hall, Florence Maud (RH’s sister): birth and death, 6

  Radclyffe-Hall, Mary Jane (RH’s mother) see Viserti, Mary Jane

  Radclyffe-Hall, Radclyffe (RH’s father; ‘Rat’): marriage relations, 4–7; character and behaviour, 5–6, 295; separation and divorce, 7, 9, 13–14; relations with RH, 13–15; death and will, 24; in RH’s fiction, 64

  Randolph, Jane (later Caruth), 29–32, 118, 359

  Randolph, Winifred, 31, 147, 152

  Rayleigh, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron, 88

  Reade, James, 5

  ‘Recording Angel, The’ (RH; story), 63

  Rees, Leonard, 135, 139

  Richardson, Sister, 248

  Ricketts, Charles, 195

  Ries, Dr, 315

  Riesz, Johann, 188

  Rinder, Olive, 159, 250, 367

  Roeregger, Norberto, 297

  Roman Catholic Church: RH converts to, 40, 54; Una Troubridge converts to, 69 and RH’s psychic beliefs, 97

  Rome, 54–5

  Romeike and Curtice (cuttings agency), 127, 135

  Romer, Frank, 40, 61

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 315

  Ross, Mrs (Rye neighbour), 252

  Ross, Patience, 219

  Rossi-Lemeni, Nicola, 373–7

  Rowse, A.L., 362

  Ruand, Dr, 281

  Rubinstein, Harold: and suppression of The Well Of Loneliness, 188, 190–1, 194, 197, 198–201, 209, 214, 217, 221, 229; and dramatization of The Well of Loneliness, 235, 239–40; and Andrea Troubridge, 244; and RH’s fan mail, 246; and Mrs Visetti, 249, 295, 360, 362; and RH’s complaint against Father Bonaventura, 252; and Evguenia’s naturalization, 275, 293–4, 314; and proposed life of Visetti, 294; and RH’s Will, 314, 332, 346, 356–7, 360; reads Una’s memoir of RH, 362

  Rubinstein, Ida, 122

  Rubinstein, Stanley, 356–8, 369, 375–7

  Rye, Sussex: RH and Una in, 174, 187, 192, 213, 219, 238, 240–7, 249, 251–5, 257–8, 280, 304–5, 313; church consecrated, 254–5; Evguenia visits, 273, 323; in RH’s fiction, 280; RH sells house in, 322–3, 325; Una stays in after war, 366

  Sachs, Dr Alfred, 77, 101–2, 120–1, 153, 172, 237, 247

  Sackville-West, Vita, 185–6, 198, 250, 305

  Sager, Wallace (Mary Jane Visetti’s first husband), 5

  Sailes, Nurse, 346

  St George’s school, Harpenden, 144

  St John, Christopher (Christabel Marshall), 241–2, 250, 305

  St Odile (religious retreat), 293–4

  Salter, Helen, 100, 106, 110

  Sargent, John Singer, 39, 136, 213

  Saturday Life, The (RH; novel), 131–4, 140

  Scales, Mrs (medium), 86

  Scott, Sir Leslie, 73

  Secker, Martin, 168, 171

  Serafin, Vittoria (Rossi-Lemeni’s first wife), 373–4

  Serpell, Norman, 61, 66

  Seymour, Dr, 147

  Shackleton, Miss (artist), 139

  Shakespeare and Co. (Paris bookshop), 214

  Shaw, George Bernard, 194, 198, 239

  Sheaf of Verses, A (RH), 42–3

  Shoemaker of Merano, The (RH; novel), 303–4, 310–330, 344, 347, 354

  Sidgwick, Eleanor, 105–6, 118

  Simpson, Wallis (later Duchess of Windsor), 297

  Sincair, Upton, 228

  Sinclair, May, 121, 139, 148

  Sink of Solitude, The (lampoon), 219–20, 234

  Sirmione, Italy, 263–7, 274, 284

  Sitwell, (Dame) Edith, 129–30

  Sixth Beatitude, The (RH; novel), 282, 286, 288, 290–1, 294

  Smith, Mrs (housekeeper), 182

  Smyth, Dame Ethel, 52, 118, 250, 305

  Society for Psychical Research, 86–9, 99–100, 105, 108, 118, 136; Journal, 95

  Society for the Suppression of Vice, New York, 220, 223

  Solomon, Justice (USA), 224

  Songs of Three Counties (RH; poetry), 51, 55

  Souline, Evguenia (later Makaroff): RH’s infatuation with, 262–72, 277–80, 283, 289, 302, 305–6, 308, 319; financial gift from RH, 267, 271, 279, 317, 319; visits RH in England, 273, 287–8, 307, 323; relations with RH and Una, 274–8, 281–7, 289–96, 298, 302, 304, 307–8, 309, 312–15; naturalization difficulties, 275, 293–4, 304, 312, 314–15, 371; Una’ abuse olf, 278, 289, 302, 329–33, 338; on Riviera with RH and Una, 282–4; ill-health, 285, 29–1, 294; RH wrecks Paris flat, 293; recovers health, 295–6; in Italy, 296–8, 308, 309–11; quarrels with Una, 296–77 318, 323, 324–5, 336; seeks freedom from RH, 296, 316, 319, 321, 322; dependence on RH, 304, 310, 331, 334, 336; granted English visa, 306; and RH’s fall and illness, 307; fails entrance to Sorbonne, 312; in RH’s will, 314–15, 319, 345–7, 355–7, 364; visits to RH in Florence, 317–18, 320; acquires motor car, 322; returns Easter gift from Una, 322; position and work in England during war, 325–33, 335–6, 340–3; suffers rash, 326–8, 330; nursing and studying in Exeter, 329–30; takes short break in Oxford, 333; and RH’s wartime illnesses, 338–45; and dyi
ng RH’s injunction, 347; letters from RH, 348; letters to RH burned by Una, 354; Una deprives of RH’s posthumous benefits, 355–7, 370–4; in Una’s memoir of RH, 361–2; refused post-war Paris resident’s permit, 364; marriage to Makaroff, 365; leases London house, 370; in Lynton with husband, 370; cancer, 375–6; types out RH’s letters, 376–7; death, 377

  Spanish Civil War, 297

  Stein, Gertrude, 290

  Stephenson, Sir George, 180–1

  Stephenson, P.R., 220

  Stern, Rabbi Joseph Frederick, 197

  Stopes, Marie, 216

  Strachey, Sir John, 37

  Strachey, Katherine, Lady (née Batten), 37, 50

  suffragettes, 52, 64

  Sullivan, Sir Arthur, 18, 25

  Sumner, John S., 220–21, 223–4

  Sunday Express, 175, 176, 179, 196, 221

  Sutherland, Joan, 196

  Sykes, Mrs (of Rye), 252

  Taylor, Harry (Una Troubridge’s father), 67–9

  Taylor, Sir Henry, 69, 206

  Taylor, Minna (Una Troubridge’s mother): RH meets, 67; background, 68; and Una’s title, 103; and Una’s lifestyle, 118; visits RH and Una, 140; praises RH’s Adam’s Breed, 142; and Andrea’s romances, 144; Una’s intolerance of, 145; relations with Una, 169, 303, 305, 322; dislikes Una’s relations with RH, 173, 219; and Una’s hysterectomy, 247; visits Rye, 249; intervenes over Andrea’s marriage plans, 256; cancer, 303, 322; in Slough, 305; Una visits after war, 367; death, 370

  Tealdi family, 68–9, 311

  Tealdi, Sandra, 321, 369

  Temple, Ida, 98, 136, 142, 144, 188

  Tenerife, 48

  Terry, Ellen, 240

  Theodore, Sister, 119

  Thesiger, Ernest, 55, 63, 66, 148, 253

  Thomson, Dr, 142

  Thorndyke, (Dame) Sybil, 148, 305

  Thurston, Father, 97

  Tizzard, Dr, 334–5

  Toklas, Alice B., 290

  Tomlinson, Clarence Samuel, 237

  Trefusis, Violet (née Keppel), 147, 186

  Troubridge, Andrea Theodosia (later Warren; then Turnbull; Una’s daughter): birth, 70; mother fosters out, 74–5; RH proposes taking abroad, 78; holiday visits to mother 94, 98, 136, 140–1; father’s separation from, 99; in father’s will, 101–2; schooling, 102, 119, 123, 144; relations with mother, 118–19, 136, 140, 142, 144–5, 174, 238, 244–5, 255–7; rebuked over boyfriend, 142, 144; and father’s death, 145; visits Rye, 218, 238, 244–5, 305; Oxford scholarship, 236; visits mother and RH in Paris, 236; appearance and dress, 244–5; romance with actor, 244–5; and mother’s stay in hospital, 247–8; grandmother pleads for help for, 249; marriage to Toby Warren, 255–7; son born, 287; and grandmother’s cancer, 303; marriage breakdown, 305, 323; informs Evguenia of RH’s illness, 307; and son’s ill-health, 322; leaves Catholic Church, 323; disinherited, 367; second marriage (to Turnbull), 370

  Troubridge, Edith (née Duffus; Ernest’s first wife), 69

  Troubridge, Admiral Sir Ernest (Una’s husband): marriage, 67, 69–70, 76–8, 98; naval investigation into conduct, 72–3; at Mabel Batten’s requiem mass, 79; and Una’s preoccupation with RH, 98–9, 101, 105, 184; separation and divorce from Una, 101–2, 161; will, 101; pays maintenance for daughter Andrea, 102; knighthood, 103; accuses RH of immorality, 105–8, 112; relations with Andrea, 140, 144; death, 144–5

  Troubridge, Mary (Ernest’s daughter), 70, 77

  Troubridge, Thomas (Ernest’s son), 71, 77, 145, 244, 255–7

  Troubridge, Una, Lady (née Taylor): and Visetti’s advances to RH, 16–17; on Mabel Batten, 36, 273; background and marriage, 67–73, 76–8; meets RH, 67, 73; syphilis, 67, 70, 77, 101–2, 136; health complaints, 68, 70, 81, 85, 94, 121, 124, 146–7, 172, 244, 247, 250, 262, 275; artistic activities, 69, 71–2, 75; converts to Catholicism, 69; birth of daughter Andrea, 70; attitude to daughter Andrea, 71, 119, 135–6, 141–2, 144–5, 136, 138, 144–5. 155–7, 305; psychotherapy, 71, 77, 101–2, 120; relations with RH, 74–8, 85, 92–4, 98–9, 102–4, 112, 115, 125, 131–2, 135, 140, 142, 161, 306–8; usurps Ladye, 74, 124, 302; diary, 81, 93–4, 140, 347, 354, 364; and Mabel Batten’s death, 81; aids RH’s spiritualist pursuits, 88–93, 95–7, 99–100, 102, 105; moves house, 93–4, 98; nurses RH, 93; Dolly Clarke criticises, 98; separation and divorce from Ernest, 101–2, 161; adopts title, 103; in Bowden House, 103; in RH immorality case, 107–11; in Society for Psychical Research, 118; reading, 120, 141, 155, 158, 171, 213, 222, 234; in Italy with RH, 123–4, 308; encourages and helps RH’s novel-writing, 126–8, 135, 138–40, 245–6, 280, 282; appearance and dress, 129, 132, 244, 358, 367, 369, 371; and lesbian social life, 130–1; Romaine Brooks portrait of, 132; receives electric treatment, 136; writing and translating, 140, 238, 140, 242, 371, 373; pension following Troubridge’s death, 144–5; and RH’s theories of inversion, 156; and RHs Well of Loneliness, 159, 161, 167–8, 172–3; relations with mother, 169, 303, 305, 322; Compton Mackenzie satirizes 171; and prosecution of The Well of Loneliness, 181–2, 186, 193, 198, 219; at hearing against The Well of Loneliness, 201, 207; and RH’s hurt at cartoon in The Sink of Loneliness, 220; in Paris with RH, 222, 230, 289; and US case against The Well of Loneliness, 224; French holiday with RH, 230, 233–5; and dramatization of The Well of Loneliness, 234; RH buys Rye house for (Black Boy), 238; life in Rye, 241–5, 252–3, 280; and RH’s health problems, 243, 334–43; hysterectomy, 247–9; on Mrs Visetti’s ill-health, 249; opposes Andrea’s marriage to Toby, 255–7; and RH’s involvement with Evguenia, 263–71, 273–86, 288–95, 302, 304, 307–10, 313–17, 323, 331, 377; belittles RH’s Emblem Hurlstone, 274, 280, 308, 310; abuses Evguenia, 278, 289, 302, 323, 330–3, 338; admires Mussolini and Italian fascism, 285, 297, 301, 311, 316; and birth of Andrea’s son, 287; quarrels with Evguenia, 296–7, 324–5, 336; Christmas gift to Evguenia, 298; and RH’s fall and injury, 306–8; belittles RH’s The Shoemaker of Merano, 308, 310; in Florence, 309–11, 316–18; benefits under RH’s will, 314; humiliated by RH, 314; tyrannizes RH, 321; and Evguenia’s freedom from RH, 323; and Evguenia’s position at outbreak of war, 326–7; on Evguenia’s Exeter hospital, 329; dominates RH during war, 332–4, 338–43; religious worship, 332–3; cares for invalid RH, 334–47; and RH’s eye operation, 334–5; made executrix and beneficiary of RH’s revised will, 346–7, 349, 353, 357; and dying RH, 347–9; posthumous manipulation of RH’s image, 353–4, 358–9; burns manuscript of The Shoemaker of Merano, 354; destroys Evguenia’s letters to RH, 354; controls and limits RH’s posthumous allowance to Evguenia, 355–8, 363–5, 370–4, 376–7; memoir of RH, 360–2; withholds payments to Mrs Visetti, 360, 362–3; and Evguenia’s marriage, 365; post-war return to Florence, 369–71; and Rossi-Lemeni, 373–7; and Evguenia’s illness, 375–6; will, 376; and Evguenia’s death, 377–8; The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall, 360, 363

  Turnbull, Brigadier Douglas John Tulloch (Andrea’s second husband), 370

  Twixt Earth and Stars (RH; poetry), 32

  Unlit Lamp, The (RH; earlier Octopi; novel), 116–17, 124, 126, 130, 132, 135, 139, 310

  Vincenzo family, 68

  Visetti, Alberto Antonio (RH’s stepfather): marriage to RH’s mother, 15–19; music teaching, 15, 21–3; makes advances to RH, 16–17, 269; extravagance and debts, 25, 53, 152–3; stays with RH, 53; ill health, 123, 154; death, 172; proposed biography of, 294

  Visetti, Mary Jane (née Diehl; then Sager; then Radclyffe-Hall; RH’s mother): relations with RH, 4–5, 7–10, 12, 17, 27, 31–2, 42, 53, 116, 151–4, 172, 287; marriage to Radclyffe, 4–7; character and behaviour, 7–8, 11–13, 17, 153; separation, divorce and settlement, 7, 9, 13–14, 25; at Marlow, 11; marriage to Visetti, 15–19; contests Raddyffe’s will, 25, 27; allowance from RH, 27, 66, 154; in RH s fiction, 64–5, 116–17; attends RH’s psychic reading, 100; dismisses servants, 151–2; on The Well of Loneliness, 151; debts, 152–4; and Viserti’s illness, 153–4; requests money for operation, 236; ill-health, 249, 287; breaks hip, 295; in old age, 303; learns of RH’s death, 359; Una withho
lds money from, 360, 362–3; in Una’s memoir of RH, 361; stroke and death, 362–3

  Vivien, Renee, 147

  Wallace, Sir Robert, 214–15, 217–18

  Walpole, Hugh, 195, 214–15

  Wang, Nadine, 276, 279

  Warren, Lady (mother of Toby), 255–6

  Warren, Nicholas Vincenzo Troubridge (Andrea’s son), 287, 322

  Warren, Toby (Andrea’s husband), 155–6

  Warrender, Lady Maud, 242

  Warwick, Father, 97

  Watts, George Frederic, 69

  Waugh, Alec, 135, 139

  Waugh, Evelyn, 193

  Webber, Miss (secretary), 189

  Well of Loneliness, The (RH; earlier Stephen; novel): writing, 148, 154, 159; themes and ideas, 151, 155–7, 159–64; publication, 167–72; reception and sales, 173–6, 214, 229; suppression campaign, 175–81, 183, 189–99, 213, 239, 404; Virginia Woolf disparages, 185–6; foreign translations and sales, 187; Paris edition, 188–9, 191, 214, 222; support for, 194–7, 204–5; court case, 201–9; condemned and ordered destroyed, 209–12; US publication and sales, 213–14, 367, 369; taken to appeal court, 214–17; lampooned and criticised, 219–20; prosecuted and cleared in USA, 220–21, 223–9; dramatization, 230, 234–7, 239–40; copyright dispute, 237; dedication, 293; under ban, 357; postwar publication, 367–8

  Wells, H.G., 28, 193

  West, (Dame) Rebecca, 135, 139

  White Cottage see Malvern Wells

  Widden, Mrs (Lynton landlady), 330, 333, 342–3, 370

  Wilcox, Harry, 255

  Wilde, Dolly, 230, 276, 293

  Wilde, Oscar, 108, 171, 178, 203

  Willcox, Sir William, 215, 217

  Williams-Ellis, (Sir) Clough, 198

  Windmill Press, 368

  Wolfe, Humbert, 306

  Wolff, Herb, 223

  ‘Woman in a Crêpe Bonnet’ (RH; story), 66

  Woodbridge (solicitor), 360

  Woods, Maurice, 71

  Woods, Viola see Garvin, Viola

  Woolf, Leonard, 173, 185–6, 195, 198, 209, 213

  Woolf, Virginia: on The Well of Loneliness case, 185–6, 194–5, 198, 201, 205–7; on Edward Garnett, 196; Orlando, 186, 193

  Woolley, Doris, 331

  World, The (RH; novel), 136, 234

  World War II: outbreak, 324–5; conduct of, 330

  Wright, Dr Maurice, 218

  Wylie, Ida, 121, 135, 173, 248–9

  Wynne, Cuthbert, 52

  Yeats-Brown, Francis, 241, 246

  Zeani, Virginia, 375