| Titre : | Radclyffe-Hall : a woman called John | | Type de document : | texte imprimé | | Auteurs : | Sally Cline, Auteur | | Editeur : | London : J. Murray | | Année de publication : | 1997 | | Importance : | 434 p. | | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-7195-5408-7 | | Langues : | Anglais (eng) | | Catégories : | Littérature:Biographie
| | Tags : | biography Radclyffe-Hall Marguerite | | Résumé : | Radclyffe Hall was a legend in her own lifetime and her fame has never faded. She was also a lesbian, which became part of that legend. Christened Marguerite, a shy child with golden curls and Victorian muslin dresses, she became - at a time when men wore the trousers - a flamboyant character who smoked small green cigars, cross-dressed in Chinese silk smoking jackets, and called herself John. In 1928, when she was forty-eight, her fifth novel, The Well of Loneliness, was banned for obscenity, despite protests from leading literary and political figures, turning the book into a bestseller and bringing Hall literary fame. First a serious poet and novelist, then a cause celebre, Hall was also a sometime feminist, a member of the Natalie Barney-Djuna Barnes Paris circle, and a Catholic convert who believed in spiritualism. In this, the first major biography of this influential, ultra-flamboyant lesbian novelist, Sally Cline uses new material to explore the connections among Hall's writing, life, and milieu. |
Radclyffe-Hall : a woman called John [texte imprimé] / Sally Cline, Auteur . - London : J. Murray, 1997 . - 434 p. ISBN : 978-0-7195-5408-7 Langues : Anglais ( eng) | Catégories : | Littérature:Biographie
| | Tags : | biography Radclyffe-Hall Marguerite | | Résumé : | Radclyffe Hall was a legend in her own lifetime and her fame has never faded. She was also a lesbian, which became part of that legend. Christened Marguerite, a shy child with golden curls and Victorian muslin dresses, she became - at a time when men wore the trousers - a flamboyant character who smoked small green cigars, cross-dressed in Chinese silk smoking jackets, and called herself John. In 1928, when she was forty-eight, her fifth novel, The Well of Loneliness, was banned for obscenity, despite protests from leading literary and political figures, turning the book into a bestseller and bringing Hall literary fame. First a serious poet and novelist, then a cause celebre, Hall was also a sometime feminist, a member of the Natalie Barney-Djuna Barnes Paris circle, and a Catholic convert who believed in spiritualism. In this, the first major biography of this influential, ultra-flamboyant lesbian novelist, Sally Cline uses new material to explore the connections among Hall's writing, life, and milieu. |
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