Summary
Radclyffe Hall was born in 1880 in Bournemouth in a house inappropriately named ‘Sunny Lawn’. Her mother drank gin in an attempt to terminate the pregnancy, and her father fled the family home.
At the mercy of a violent mother and sexually abusive stepfather, her life changed when at the age of eighteen she inherited her father’s estate of 100,000. She was free to travel, pursue women and write - most notably The Well of Loneliness, her famous novel about ‘congenital inverts’, which w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780878782 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780878788 |
| Author: | Diana Souhami |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 25 March 2013 |
| Weight: | 490g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 40mm |
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About The Author
Diana Souhami
Diana Souhami is the author of Selkirk’s Island (winner of the Whitbread Biography award), the bestselling Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter (also winner of the Lambda Literary Award and a New York Times ‘Notable Book of the Year’). Her latest book is Murder at Wrotham Hill. She lives in London and Devon.
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