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UNPUBLISHED WORKS BY RADCLYFFE HALL (IN TEXAS)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
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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
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