Your John: The Love Letters of Radclyffe Hall - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0814731252 ISBN 13: 9780814731253

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 1999

Riassunto

This landmark book represents the first publication of original writing by Radclyffe Hall, author ofThe Well of Loneliness, in over 50 years.

One of the most famous and influential lesbian novelists of the twentieth century, Hall became a cause clbre in 1928, upon the publication of her novelThe Well of Loneliness, when the British government brought action on behalf of the Crown to declare the book obscene. Probably the most widely read lesbian novel ever written, the book has been continuously in print since its first publication and remains to this day an important part of the literary landscape. 

Expertly deciphered and edited by Hall scholar and biographer Joanne Glasgow, Your John is a selection of Hall's love letters to Evguenia Souline, a White Russian èmigrè with whom Hall fell completely and passionately in love in the summer of 1934. Written between this first meeting and the onset of Hall's last illness in 1942, these letters detail Hall's growing obsession, the pain to her life partner Una Troubridge of this betrayal, and the poignant hopelessness of a happy resolution for any of the three women. It was ultimately this relationship, Glasgow argues, which tragically precipitated the decline in Hall's creative work and her health. The letters also provide important new information about her views on lesbianism and take us well beyond the artistic limits she imposed on the characters inThe Well of Loneliness. They shed light on her views on religion, politics, war, and the literary and artistic scene. Illuminating both the nature of her relationships and her views on the current politics of the time,Your John will greatly extend the range of our knowledge about Radclyffe Hall.

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A collection of letters written between 1934 and 1942 by the lesbian novelist, Radclyffe Hall, to Evguenia Souline, a White Russian emigree. They provide a detailed, intimate record of Hall's personal life and convictions, and of how politics, money and geography undermined these women's dreams.

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• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0814731252
• ISBN 13: 9780814731253
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Redattore: Glasgow Joanne