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Explores the connections between the writings and colorful lifestyle of Radclyffe Hall, a best-selling lesbian poet and novelist whose flamboyant antics raised many eyebrows during the early twentieth century
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A biography of poet and novelist Hall, who became a literary cause cTlFbre when her fifth novel, The Well of Loneliness (one of the first novels to openly discuss lesbianism) was banned for obscenity. The author discusses how Hall's lesbian relationships, infidelities, staunch Catholicism, and willingness to possibly martyr her literary career by publishing The Well of Loneliness affected her writing and vice versa. She also finds that the novel and the furor that surrounded it didn't represent the break with earlier work as some writers have portrayed it, and that Hall was not the loner that her reputation makes her out to be. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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