Her grief
The Life and Death of RH
10 The eternal triangle
85
I have a great
RH to Cara Harris, June 1916 (CL)
It was lonely
The Life and Death of RH
86
She is so very
RH to Cara Harris, June 1916 (CL)
87
I should think
Oliver Lodge, Raymond or Life and Death with Examples of the Evidence for Survival of Memory and Affection After Death (Methuen 1916)
Great happenings
ibid
The King and Queen
ibid
88
made from emanations
ibid
The idle apprentice
The Life and Death of RH
89
I understood then
Gladys Osborne Leonard, My Life in Two Worlds (Cassell 1931)
90
heaps and heaps
RH Notes on Leonard sittings, October 1916 (SPR)
92
Tell my Ladye
ibid, 3 October 1916
94
I often wonder
UVT Diary, July 1917 (Ottawa)
11 A very grave slander
97
So very interesting
UVT Diary, 11 January 1917 (Ottawa)
as an educated woman
The Life and Death of RH
99
Their offence to me
UVT Daybook, 31 March 1931 (Texas)
100
Mrs Salter now
RH to Sir Oliver Lodge, 2 July 1918 (SPR)
102
He could not take the child
RH Notes on Leonard sittings, 26 March 1919 (SPR)
I think it so damnably
UVT Diary, 17 November 1919 (Ottawa)
103
It is my misfortune
Hugh Crichton-Miller to UVT, 15 January 1920 (Ottawa)
12 A grossly immoral woman
105
Miss Radclyffe Hall
The Times, 19 November 1920
106
Miss Radclyffe Hall
ibid
Admiral Troubridge
ibid
107
as horrible an
ibid
109
You say that
ibid
What did you pay
ibid
112
I feel I can
UVT Diary, December 1920 (Ottawa)
RADCLYFFE HALL
13 Octopi
115
Miss Hall had
Winifred Hales to Monica Still
Why in the name
UVT, Beds, mss (Ottawa)
116
Writing, it was like
The Well of Loneliness
unmarried daughters
The Unlit Lamp (Cassell 1924)
117
They wither away
undated notes (Texas)
I’m not a woman
The Unlit Lamp
plenty of work
The Life and Death of RH
118
I wonder why it is
The Memoirs of Ethel Smyth, introduction by Ronald Crichton (Viking 1987)
119
Olaf went over
UVT Diary, February 1920 (Ottawa)
‘The Fitz-John Dachshunds’
The Queen, 23 August 1923
120
The minute my house
RH ‘How Other Women Run Their Houses’, Daily Mail, 11 May 1927
122
All between members
UVT Letters to John, 24 February 1946
One always feels
RH to ES, 6 September 1934 (Texas)
14 Octopi and chains
124
My plans depend
Romaine Brooks to RH, 11 Septembern 1921 (Ottawa)
We had both
The Life and Death of RH
We could lunch
Romaine Brooks to RH, 23 December 1921 (Ottawa)
125
Paris ones
Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare and Company (Faber and Faber 1960)
127
One of the women
RH The Forge (J. W. Arrowsmith 1924)
128
Long hours
The Life and Death of RH
15 How to treat a genius
129
It is pleasant
RH ‘First-Nighters’, Sketch, February 1924
130
a bedlam afternoon
UVT Diary, 12 June 1923 (Ottawa)
131
the life that proudly
The Life and Death of RH
132
Yes your portrait
Romaine Brooks to UVT, undated (Ottawa)
This involved
The Life and Death of RH
133
I ask you to kiss
RH A Saturday Life (J. W. Arrowsmith 1925)
16 Books about ourselves
138
If we cannot
RH Novel Writing, The Taylorian Institute Oxford, 27 February 1933
It is wiser
RH Adam’s Breed (Cassell & Co. 1926)
139
If our literary
Novel Writing
141
A boy’s first love
Adam’s Breed
Firmly rejecting
The Life and Death of RH
143
We followed
ibid
144
Don’t repress my
James L. Garvin to UVT, 22 December 1926 (Ottawa)
145
His subsequent
The Times, 30 January 1926
146
I wished to offer
RH letter to Gorham Munson 2 June 1934 (Texas)
148
it is far
RH to Winifred Macy, 22 January and 13 June 1926 (Texas)
STEPHEN GORDON
17 Something of the acorn about her
151
To encourage inverts
RH, letter to Gorham Munson (Texas)
152
I arrived
RH to Winifred Macy, 23 January 1927 (Texas)
I can only say
ibid, 15 February 1927
153
He assured me
ibid
154
What have
ibid
155
Congenital inversion
RH handwritten notes for a lecture on the trial of The Well of Loneliness, given 25 January 1929 to Southend Young Socialists
156
The invert’s most
RH ‘The Well of Loneliness’. Draft of unpublished article, undated, 1931 or 1932, retrieved from the wastepaper basket by Winifred Hales (Monica Still)
18 She kissed her full on the lips
158
the deadly campaign
RH ‘The Well of Loneliness’, unpublished article
159
having had many
Havelock Ellis to RH, 21 April 1928 (Texas)
THE TRIAL OF RADCLYFFE HALL
19 Aspects of sexual inversion
167
could not consent
RH to Newman Flower 10 April 1928 (Ottawa)
168
and inevitably
Charles Evans to Audrey Heath, 27 April 1928 (Ottawa)
portrait of a publisher
quoted in Michael S. Howard, Jonathan Cape (Jonathan Cape 1971)
I wrote the book
RH to Jonathan Cape, 17 April 1928 (Ottawa)
170
The thought of your
RH to Havelock Ellis, 4 June 1928 (Texas)
the friend who has
ibid
The mate of the
ibid, 2 December 1928
My patience is
RH to Carl Brandt, 21 June 1928 (Ottawa)
17
1
the best and wisest
RH to Jonathan Cape, 29 June 1928 (Ottawa)
Hitherto the subject
ibid, 17 April 1928
172
I know you will
RH to James Garvin, 15 July 1928 (Texas)
173
lively sense
Sunday Times, 5 August 1928
174
failure, lacking form
The Nation, 4 August 1928
long, tedious
New Statesman, 25 August 1928
notable psychological
Evening Standard, 9 August 1928
20 Depraved practice
176
They all wanted
Michael S. Howard, Jonathan Cape
179
This was the first
RH to Havelock Ellis, 25 April 1929 (Texas)
His were the sins
RH to Harold Rubinstein, 25 April 1929 (Ottawa)
I have not anywhere
Havelock Ellis to RH, 28 August 1929 (Texas)
dour fanatic
Herbert Hensley Henson, Retrospect of an Unimportant Life (Oxford University Press 1944). Quoted in Jennie Cooper Frye, A Study in Censorship: Radclyffe Hall’s ‘The Well of Loneliness’, mss
180
One’s mind reels
RH handwritten notes for lecture on the trial
The book has been
memorandum from Sir George Stephenson to Sir William Joynson-Hicks, 20 August 1928 (PRO)
long private conference
memorandum from Sir William Joynson-Hicks to Sir George Stephenson, 21 August 1928 (PRO)
182
All day at telephone
UVT Diary, 23 August 1928 (Ottawa)
21 Sapphism and censorship
183
I set violently
The Journal of Arnold Bennett, 24 August 1928 (London 1933)
Unnatural practices
transcript of The Director of Public Prosecutions v. Jonathan Cape and Leopold Hill, Bow Street Police Court, 16 November 1928 (Ottawa)
184
I hate inaction
RH handwritten notes for lecture on the trial
light up the principle
Havelock Ellis to RH, 3 November 1928 (Texas)
I, as nothing
RH handwritten notes for lecture on the trial
185
For many days
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 28 August 1928 (Berg). See: A Change of Perspective: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, vol. III, ed. Nigel Nicolson (Hogarth Press 1977)
not in the least
Vita Sackville-West to Harold Nicolson, 31 August 1928 (Berg)
186
meritorious dull
The Diary of Virginia Woolf vol. III, ed. Anne Olivier Bell (Hogarth Press 1980). 31 August 1928
The dulness
Virginia Woolf to Lady Ottoline Morrell, early November 1928, A Change of Perspective
screamed like a
Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 2 September 1928, ibid
Sapphism disgusting
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 31 August 1928
187
gently and just
Endnote to E. M. Forster Maurice, begun 1913, finished 1914, dedicated to a Happier Year, first published 1971
A heavenly haven
The Life and Death of RH
188
better type
Blanche Knopf to RH, 27 September 1928 (Ottawa)
189
John mobbed
UVT Diary, 3 October 1928 (Ottawa)
Pending consideration
Notes on the suppression of The Well of Loneliness (PRO)
I hereby authorise
Joynson-Hicks to Postmaster General, 3 October 1928 (PRO)
190
so that our clients
Harold Rubinstein to Custom House, London, 10 October 1928 (Ottawa)
were according it
Harold Rubinstein, ‘Scotland Yard and The Well of Loneliness’ (Ottawa)
memorandum from Sir Francis Floud to the Chancellor of the Excheqeur, 9 October 1928 (PRO)
192
The government was bent
RH handwritten notes for lecture on trial
22 A serious psychological subject
194
They generally
Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, I November 1928. A Change of Perspective
195
I have never
Havelock Ellis to RH, 20 October 1928 (Ottawa)
brimming with
Harold Rubinstein, ‘Scotland Yard and The Well of Loneliness’ (Ottawa)
198
The company grew bolder
Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, 3 November 1928 (Berg)
made a long
ibid
199
we, neither you
RH supplementary notes for Counsel (Texas)
23 I have read the book
201
an assemblage which might
Sheila Kaye-Smith, All the Books of My Life (Harper 1956)
All London
Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 1 November 1928. A Change of Perspective
eminent men
RH handwritten notes for lecture on the trial
fidgeting
E. M. Forster, Abinger Harvest (Harcourt 1936)
lemon yellow
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 10 November 1928
the pale tepid
ibid
something like
ibid
202
deprave and corrupt those
transcript of The Director of Public Prosecutions v. Jonathan Cape and Leopold Hill, Bow Street Police Court, 9 November 1928 (Ottawa)
‘Podsnappery’
see: Jenny Cooper Frye, A Study in Censorship
203
substantial question
ibid
deadly campaign
RH draft of letter for the press, 1931
The policeman might
RH handwritten notes for lecture on the trial
205
too indifferent
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 10 November 1928
We could not
ibid
207
impressed by
ibid
shamed and degraded
RH to the novelist Gerard Hopkins, 14 November 1928 (Berg)
In the eyes
RH to Havelock Ellis, 2 December 1928 (Texas)
209
He made of my book
RH handwritten notes for lecture on the trial
210
so much respect
ibid
211
perpetual sexual
UVT Letters to John, 24 February 1946
24 Depress! Repress! Suppress!
213
This is the End
Daily Express, 17 November 1928
Also, I am
RH to Havelock Ellis, 2 December 1928 (Texas)
214
as high as
Janet Flanner (Genêt), Paris was Yesterday (Angus & Robertson 1973)
for the sake
RH handwritten lecture notes on the trial
215
With reference
A. H. Bodkin, Director of Public Prosecution Department to Rubinstein, 27 November 1928 (Ottawa)
His aged mind
RH handwritten lecture notes on the trial
I received
Retrospect of an Unimportant Life
I asked him
Charles Carrington Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work (London 1955)
216
I shall have to
transcript of The Director of Public Prosecutions v. Rubinstein and Leopold Hill, Bow Street Police Court, 16 November 1928 (Ottawa)
propaganda for vice
ibid
He was very absurd
RH handwritten lecture notes on the trial
217
The bewildered
Harold Rubinstein ‘Scotland Yard and The Well of Loneliness’ (Ottawa)