Author: BAKER, MICHAEL
Title: Our Three Selves - the Life of Radclyffe Hall
Description: London, Hamish Hamilton. 1985, First Edition. (ISBN: 0241115396). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiv + 386 pages. 36 illustrations. The first comprehensive biography of Radclyffe Hall, the writer whose lesbian novel 'The Well of Loneliness' was banned as obscene in a sensational court case in 1928. The book draws on much unpublished material as well as her poetry and novels. Ladye (Mabel Batten) and Una Troubridge, the wife of an admiral, formed with John, as Radclyffe liked to be called, an uneasy menage a trois, until Ladye's death in 1916, thereafter John and Una kept in touch with her through a medium. Hall saw herself as a man trapped in a woman's body. A fascinating picture of a remarkable woman and her world. 21. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: Lesbian Authors, the Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall, Mabel Batten, Una Troubridge 0241115396


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