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Baer, Brian James and Yingmei Liu. “The Case of Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of
Loneliness.” TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies (2022):
n. pag.

This article explores the notion of queering translation in relation to Radclyffe

Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928), often described as the first lesbian novel,
focusing on two key terms related to sexual identity, the word queer, which was
semantically unstable at this historical moment, and the quasi-scientific term
invert. Hall's provocative use of queer against the minoritizing invert, which
presages queer critiques of identitarian politics by several decades, complicates
the field of sexuality in the novel, presenting special challenges for translators.
Those challenges are analyzed in the early French translation of the novel and in
later Chinese translations, from both Taiwan and mainland China.

Bauer, Heike. “In the Canine Archives of Sex: Radclyffe Hall, Una Troubridge
and their Dogs.” Gender & History (2022): n. pag.

Lamontagne, Kathryn G.. “‘Our Three Selves:’ Radclyffe Hall and Mabel
Batten’s Lived Catholicism.” Ecclesial Practices (2022): n. pag.

For British Catholic women, conversion was an empowering choice for oneself, rather
than a path towards gaining institutionalized power. Lay female converts at the
turn of the century were generally privileged, with a worldly understanding of the
role of women in British society. Many converts drew on the spirit of female
independence at the end of the 19th century to contest their place in British
society. For some, their social and financial capital offered an additional
position of power from which to push on notions of traditional Britishness and
femininity. To have the freedom to choose conversion at all exemplifies this
feeling of bodily and mental autonomy rarely exhibited by many women during the
late 19th century and early 20th century. This article sheds new light on the
expansiveness of the lived, lay Catholic experience in Britain in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries through the examples of Mabel Batten (1857–1916) and Radclyffe
Hall (1880–1943).

Preda, Alina. “Boundaries and Desire: Censorship and the Articulation of

Romantic Encounters in the Works of Radclyffe Hall.” Revista Canaria de Estudios
Ingleses (2022): n. pag. 2022

Radclyffe Hall suscitated vigorous antagonistic reactions among her contemporaries,

readers and critics alike, through her rendering of same-sex romantic encounters,
which often provoked heated disputes on the literary stage and in society at large,
ultimately leading to obscenity charges materialised in the banning of the books
under investigation. This article focuses on the articulation of love and desire
between women in the works that this author wrote and/or published in the 1920s,
pointing to the narrative manifestation of self-censorship, as well as to the
workings of external censorship and to the effects of these personally inflicted
and socially imposed boundaries.

Karschay, Stephan. “Decadent Echoes, the Language of Censorship and Radclyffe

Hall’s The Well of Loneliness.” Symbolism (2021): n. pag.
 “Chapter 4 THE TABOO OF INVERSION Radclyffe Hall and Literary
Censorship.” Dirty Works (2021): n. pag.

Sonzini, Valentina. “Orsa Maggiore, editrice di Radclyffe

Hall.” Bibliothecae.it 10 (2021): 328-351.

In 1946, the Edizioni dell’Orsa maggiore started to publish all the Radlyffe Hall’s
books. The Author has been censored in England and her first literary work, The
Well of Loneliness, became an incredible success (the first edition in England has
been published in 1928 and in Italy in 1930 by the publisher Modernissima). In
Italy, Hall is known thanks to two traslators (both are linked to Gian Dauli and
the publisher Corbaccio): Annie Lami and, above all, Mimi Oliva Lentati (the leader
of Editrice dell’Orsa maggiore). The present article is about the little publisher
Orsa and its brief, but very important for italian lesbian movement, history.

Stokoe, Ash Kayte. “Sexological Discourses and the Self in Rachilde’s

Monsieur Vénus (1884) and Radclyffe Hall’s the Well of Loneliness (1928).” Global
Queer Politics (2021): n. pag.

This chapter examines the mobilization of sexological discourses of ‘inversion’ in

Rachilde’s Monsieur Venus and Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness. It argues
that, given the temporal distance…

“3. "A Writer of Misfits": John Radclyffe Hall and the Discourse of
Inversion.” Female Masculinity (2020): n. pag.

Subedi, Shankar Nand. “Female Masculinity in Radclyffe Hall's Novel The Well
of Loneliness.” Molung Educational Frontier (2020): n. pag.

This paper aims to analyze Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness from the
perspective of female masculinity. For that purpose, it uses the concept of female
masculinity developed by Judith Halberstam. Seen from the angle of female
masculinity forwarded by Habersham, the present paper comes to the conclusion that
masculinity falls into crisis as we compare it to how it was defined and understood
traditionally. Most of the female characters in the novel show boldness, strength
and ability to face and tackle different situations filled with danger and
hopelessness. A young woman named Stephen Gordon pursues her passions and embarks
on her own subjective world. Her activities and choices are anomalous to the
established mores concerning the role and position of women. This is what goes
against the conventional paradigm of gender and supports the idea of subversive
female masculinity.

D’Stair, Sarah. ““That rare gift: perfect hands on a horse”: Radclyffe Hall’s
eros of cross-species communion.” Feminist Modernist Studies 3 (2020): 1 - 15.

ABSTRACT Scholars of Radclyffe Hall’s fiction have focused primarily on her

advocacy for human gender and sexual freedom; however, closer attention to human-
animal connections in her work reveals concern for equity across species lines as
well. The Well of Loneliness (1928) in many ways challenges the human-animal binary
just as powerfully as it does gender and sexual binaries. By narrating multi-
species relationships marked by kinetic body play, the novel suggests that
eroticism can be a harmonizing force that traverses deeply-ingrained social
boundaries between animals of all kinds. By examining the protagonist’s
interactions with her animal friends, I argue that Hall’s text privileges intimate,
unspoken gestures of body and voice over the more confining structures of human
language. Hall also implements grammatical constructs in animal scenes that open
possibilities for co-forming, co-shaping interrelationality, a narrative move that
acknowledges and appreciates, rather than ignores, radical alterity between
species. Ultimately, I argue, Hall envisions a rehabilitative ecological vision for
human and nonhuman animals, writing all creatures as co-constitutive actors within
the intimate spaces they share

Arbuet Osuna, Camila. “«Preferiría verte (muerta) a mis pies». Eróticas

maternas e infancias butch en Radclyffe Hall.” (2020).

We will analyze the counterpoint versions of motherhood and butch childhoods in

those novels by Radclyffe Hall addressing “sexual inversion,” the lesbian
bestseller The Well of Loneliness (1928) and The Unlit Lamp (1924), which present
significant differences regarding the conditions of possibility and the misfortunes
of a queer life. We will concern ourselves with the representations of maternal
abjection, in the light of the importance that Radclyffe assigns to this deeply
disturbing erotic bond (whether aversion or attraction) for the development of
butch childhoods. We will argue that a careful reading of the perversions of this
bond makes clear that Radclyffe’s perspective –for all of its morality, sexual
shame and desire to be admitted within the privileges of heterosexuality– allows
for a critique of exclusivist, monogamous, and unconditional emotional pacts, as
well as of the conception of happiness they give rise to

Watts, Jarica Linn. “Of Dashes, Gashes, and Wounds: Radclyffe Hall and the
Medieval Devotion of "Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself".” Religion & Literature (2020): n.
pag.

Schneider, Ralf. “Hall, Marguerite Radclyffe: The Well of Loneliness.”

(2020).

Roche, Hannah Elizabeth. “3. STRANGE SOIL AND NOVEL GROUND: RADCLYFFE HALL’S
ROMANCE PLOTS.” (2019).

Klein, Kathryn. “The Well of Inspiration: Radclyffe Hall and the Growth of
Popular Lesbian Fiction in America.” The Journal of Popular Culture (2019): n. pag.

Stone, Aaron J.. “Taste and the Tasteful: Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, and the
Culture of Queer Elitism.” Virginia Woolf and the World of Books (2019): n. pag.

This chapter considers Woolf's belief that 'high art' should deal only indirectly
with sex (let alone queer sex), and how this helped shape a culture of queer
elitism among modernists. Stone uses Woolf's less than enthusiastic involvement
in Hall's obscenity trial to argue that she considered such reformist literature as
decidedly middlebrow

MacNamara, Stephen R.. “Martyrdom and masculinity: ideology and masculine

identity in the work of Radclyffe Hall.” (2018).

This thesis explores the depiction of masculinity by one of literature’s most

famous female masculine writers, Radclyffe Hall. Chapters One and Two discuss two
extremes in the reception of Hall’s work: one a successful poem, ‘The Blind
Ploughman’ (1913); and the other, The Master of the House (1932), a novel that was
a commercial and critical failure for Hall. Both ‘The Blind Ploughman’ and The
Master of the House depict spiritual, sensitive working class men who are
different. While these texts are often mentioned in Hall scholarship, they have
rarely been discussed individually. Chapter One addresses the impact of ‘The Blind
Ploughman’ and its success as poem/song through association with the war wounded
and how this, in turn, influenced Hall’s depiction of damaged/different masculinity
and its relationship to homosexuality. Chapter Two explores Hall’s engagement with
themes that were also being explored by modernist writers, in particular D. H.
Lawrence’s reimagining of the Christ story in his novella, ‘The Escaped Cock’
(1928); the chapter argues that The Master of the House uses Christianity to
disguise the homoromantic subtext of the novel. In contrast, Chapter Three explores
the more familiar topic of female masculinity in relation to Hall, but instead of
focusing on male masculine identities, it presents evidence that Joan of Arc, one
of history’s most famous crossdressing women, was a female masculine role model
for Hall. The influence of Joan of Arc is present both in Hall’s understanding of
her own female masculine identity and in the representation of her female
characters. The aim of all three chapters in this thesis is to present a new way of
viewing Hall and her work in order to demonstrate that she is more than just a
writer of lesbian fiction

Terradillos, Tina. “Le Sale comme ressort d'une éthique de l'altérité dans
les romans de Radclyffe Hall.” (2018).

Montrer comment Radclyffe Hall construit la notion de Sale dans ses romans et

comment cette notion affecte la relation aux autres et a soi des personnages.
Proposer une rehabilitation de Radclyffe Hall et de son oeuvre. Voir
comment Radclyffe Hall propose une ethique de l'alterite qui s'appuie sur le Sale

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Hovey, Jaime E.. “Gallantry and its discontents: Joan of Arc and virtuous
transmasculinity in Radclyffe Hall and Vita Sackville-West.” Feminist Modernist
Studies 1 (2018): 113 - 137.

ABSTRACT The medieval crossdressing warrior Joan of Arc became a popular figure
during World War I and its aftermath, appearing in silent films, political posters,
plays, novels, and speculative biographies. Her youthful idealism, chivalry, and
courage associated her with young soldiers sacrificed on the field of battle, and
her canonization in 1920 made official the centuries-old veneration of her as a
virgin martyr. Modern figurations of Joan emphasize the ethical dimensions of her
transmasculinity, where queer gender identity and desire are actively engaged in
the struggle to build a more tolerant world. Looking at Cecil B. DeMille’s film
Joan the Woman (1916), Radclyffe Hall’s novels The Unlit Lamp (1924) and The Well
of Loneliness (1928), and Vita Sackville-West’s biography Saint Joan of Arc (1936),
I argue that Joan’s chivalry and saintliness model an ethical transmasculine gender
that emerges in wartime, but gradually shows up elsewhere in modernism to insist on
queer social justice, fighting “for the good of all.

Lane, Hannah M.. “Queer Citizenship: Lesbian and National Identities in

Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Loneliness" and Compton Mackenzie's "Extraordinary
Women".” (2018).

“Radclyffe Hall and The Well of Loneliness (1928–29).” Homintern (2017): n.

pag.

Rose, James. “Sapphism and Gender in Virginia Woolf and Radclyffe Hall.”
(2017).

Turner, Ellen. “Anti-Fox Hunting, Female Novelists, and the First World War:
Mary Webb's Gone to Earth (1917), Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (1928),
and Winifred Holtby’s South Riding (1936).” (2017).

Roche, Hannah Elizabeth. “An ‘ordinary novel’: genre trouble in Radclyffe

Hall's The Well of Loneliness.” Textual Practice 32 (2016): 101 - 117.

ABSTRACT Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness has long been read as

stylistically inferior to novels by Hall's ‘experimental’ peers. Led by Virginia
and Leonard Woolf, the dominant opinion has, to quote Terry Castle,
sentenced Hall to a reputation of ‘bad, bad, bad’ writing. This article takes issue
with Hall's exclusion from modernism, raising questions about the relationship
between political radicalism and stylistic familiarity. Was Hall cleverly turning
to a Victorian mode in order to critique the politics of modernism, challenging the
value of aesthetic experiment and obscurity? I argue not only that The Well was
stylistically as impressive as the most celebrated of ‘difficult’ 1920s novels, but
also that, by boldly appropriating an accepted (and heteronormative)
genre, Hall makes a statement about the rightful position of lesbian writing that
dares to strike its readers in ways more direct and profound than the audaciously
avant-garde.

Hill, Emily S.. “God’s Miserable Army: Love, Suffering, and Queer Faith in
Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness.” Literature and Theology 30 (2016): 359-
374.

Funke, Jana. “'The World' and other unpublished works of Radclyffe Hall.”
(2016).

Terradillos, Tina. “Radclyffe Hall : de l’engagement à une ouverture éthique

dans The Sixth Beatitude.” (2016).

Partant du principe que l’engagement appelle son pendant, l’autonomie, et qu’Adorno

a montre que les deux termes n’entrent pas en opposition stricte mais forment les
bornes d’une dialectique, cet article examine comment Radclyffe Hall se positionne
a l’interieur de cet intervalle moins dans Le puits de solitude comme l’on pourrait
s’y attendre, que dans The Sixth Beatitude. Dans ce roman, le traitement de la
pauvrete qui se manifeste a travers le motif du Sale exige une double negociation,
d’une part avec la realite telle que Hall entend la representer, d’autre part avec
le lecteur auquel elle la soumet. La technique de va-et-vient qui rapproche puis
eloigne le lecteur de la realite est cependant remise en cause par la precarite des
personnages qui conduit a interroger la possibilite meme du choix a l’origine de
l’engagement et pose la question de l’agentivite. Malgre l’absence d’emprise des
personnages sur le reel, il apparaitra qu’ils n’en sont pas moins transgressifs et
que leur transgression involontaire ouvre a de nouvelles formes d’engagement qui
inscrivent le jeu entre engagement et autonomie dans une ethique de l’alterite ou
la multiplicite et la collaboration prevalent sur les oppositions binaires

Macpike, Loralee, Lori Lefkowitz, Michael Levine and Linda Smolak. “A

Geography of Radclyffe Hall's Lesbian Country.” (2016).

To what extent do sex and sexuality affect what writers write and how they write
it? How might the critic examine where and how sexuality complicates writing?
Contemporary attempts to delineate literary genderings and sexualities have made it
impossible to consider literature apart from its writers' assumptions, anxieties,
and location regarding gender and sexuality. Yet, as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick has
pointed out, "[e]very single theoretically or politically interesting project of
postwar thought has finally had the effect of delegitimating our space for asking
or thinking in detail about the multiple, unstable ways in which people may be like
or different from each other. "2 I believe current critical interpretations
of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness,3 which focus on Stephen Gordon's
sexuality as the "meaning" of the book, do indeed delegitimate critical space by
disallowing the "multiple, unstable ways" in which people may be both alike and
different. To expand this critical space, I want to examine Stephen Gordon's
sexuality

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Abt, Anne. “Apply Here for Full Access to Radclyffe Hall At The Well Of
Loneliness A.” (2016).

Luksh, Isabella. “Reading and reassessing the construction of gender and

sexuality in Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando:
A Biography.” (2016).

Reynier, Christine. “Exploring the Modernist State of England Novel by Women

Novelists: Rebecca West, Radclyffe Hall and Winifred Holtby.” (2015).

Cet article se concentre sur trois romancieres britanniques des annees 1920

et 1930, Rebecca West, Radclyffe Hall et Winifred Holtby, et sur trois de leurs
romans. Alors que South Riding (1936) de Holtby semble correspondre a la definition
du roman victorien dit « Condition of England novel », les autres sont plus
difficiles a saisir. South Riding offre en effet une description satirique de
l’Angleterre de l’entre-deux-guerres et se confronte directement aux problemes
socio-politiques du moment. The Return of the Soldier (1918) de West evoque pour sa
part, comme le titre le suggere, le retour d’un veteran et a ete essentiellement
analyse comme une etude pionniere du « Shell Shock » ou obusite et de l’experience
traumatisante de la Premiere Guerre mondiale. Adam’s Breed (1926)
de Radclyffe Hall a quant a lui, ete eclipse par le scandale de la publication de
The Well of Loneliness (1928) et le proces qui suivit tant et si bien qu’il compte
parmi les romans oublies du debut du vingtieme siecle. Cet article tente de montrer
que ces romans qui portent sur l’etat de l’Angleterre sont des « State of England
novels » mais d’une nouvelle sorte. Sous couvert de s’interesser a l’experience
traumatisante de la Premiere Guerre, les romans de West et Hall analysent leur
propre societe. Tout en adoptant une technique narrative differente de celle du
roman victorien dit « Condition of England novel », tout en s’inspirant du « roman
sur l’etat de l’Angleterre » d’E. M. Forster (ou en le critiquant), tout en
s’eloignant du type de satire pratique par Holtby (qu’elles rejoignent pourtant
dans une certaine mesure), ces romancieres offrent, depuis leur propre arriere-plan
social et leur point de vue privilegie, leur vision de la richesse et de la
pauvrete, des classes sociales, de la condition des femmes ou des immigres. Dans
l’ensemble, elles repensent le role de la guerre et des femmes tout en evaluant
l’etat de l’Angleterre et en mettant a nu les mecanismes de la societe anglaise de
leur temps. Il s’agit ici de relire, voire de reevaluer, ces romans et de montrer
comment, de maniere a la fois originale et comparable, ils reinventent le genre du
« Condition or State of England novel » : references intertextuelles, utopies et
diverses formes d’indirection se conjuguent pour dessiner les contours d’une
anatomie originale de la nation anglaise

https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/2635

Schneider, Ralf. “Marguerite Radclyffe Hall.” (2015).

1901 finanzielle Unabhangigkeit durch eine Erbschaf; ab 1906 Veroffentlichung von

Gedichten; 1907 Bekanntschaf mit der langjahrigen Geliebten Mabel Veronica Batten
(›Ladye‹); 1915 Tod Battens und Beziehung mit Una Lady Troubridge; 1926 Adam’s
Breed (Roman), mehrfach preisgekront, weitere Romane; ab 1934 Liaison mit Evgenia
Souline.

Terradillos, Tina. “Les appellations et l’émancipation des étiquettes :

Radclyffe Hall et The Well of Loneliness revisités.” (2014).

Cet article examine comment le double etiquetage diegetique et historique du roman

The Well of Loneliness de Radclyffe Hall rend compte de l’experience individuelle
et collective de l’« inversion », terme designant alors l’homosexualite, et quelles
relations a la realite il semble convoquer. Contrairement a la relation
d’identification qui emerge d’abord, il apparait que Radclyffe Hall deconstruit
« la » realite, notamment en detournant l’abject attache a l’homosexualite et en
reutilisant ce motif pour mettre a distance cette realite. Son projet ne se limite
donc pas a une reconnaissance des homosexuels comme la posterite critique le laisse
penser, mais a une reflexion sur les modalites du rapport a l’Autre, d’ou
l’ouverture necessaire a The Forge et The Unlit Lamp publies anterieurement. Cette
esquisse d’une ethique de l’alterite qui s’appuie sur un questionnement du feminin
est alors mise en regard avec la philosophie contemporaine de Malabou qui demonte
elle aussi les mecanismes des appellations pour proposer un depassement du
binarisme de l’alterite en suggerant, comme le pressentait Radclyffe Hall, un
troisieme terme dans la relation afin que chacun, homme et/ou femme, puisse exister
en propre. 

https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/1229

Lewis, Brian. “Radclyffe Hall: A Life in the Writing by Richard Dellamora

(review).” Journal of the History of Sexuality 23 (2014): 303 - 305.

Schmidt, Michael. “36. ENCHANTMENT AND DISENCHANTMENT: Vladimir Nabokov, Ayn

Rand, Radclyffe Hall, Ivy Compton- Burnett, Elizabeth Taylor, Muriel Spark, Gabriel
Josipovici, Christine Brooke- Rose, B. S. Johnson, William Gass, John Barth, Harry
Mathews, Walter Abish, Thomas Pynchon, Jonathan Franzen.” (2014).

Bauer, Heike. “Radclyffe Hall: a life in the writingRICHARD

DELLAMORA.” Women's History Review 23 (2014): 143 - 144.

Hall, Radclyffe. “Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself.” (2013).

Krainitzki, Eva L. “A figura da “invertida” congénita em 'The Well of

Loneliness' (1928) de Radclyffe Hall e as origens da lésbica “máscula”.” (2013).
Extensamente lido, incessantemente criticado, amado e odiado, o romance The Well of
Loneliness (1928), de Radclyffe Hall pode ser considerado um classico da literatura
lesbica. Apesar de ter sido alvo de criticas violentas ao longo dos anos, apresenta
a oportunidade de um discurso “em troca” no sentido foucaultiano, dando voz a uma
subjectividade homoerotica feminina, a “invertida congenita” dos sexologos. Uma
reflexao sobre o romance The Well e incontornavel no quadro dos estudos sobre a
representacao da identidade e visibilidade lesbicas. Discute-se neste artigo a
influencia dos discursos da sexologia do seculo XIX e a problematica do binarismo
heterssexista na construcao da proto-identidade lesbica contida neste romance.

Stephenson, Mimosa. “Book Review: Radclyffe Hall: A Life in the

WritingRadclyffe Hall: A Life in the Writing. By DellamoraRichard. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8122-4346-8. Pp. xxii + 319.
$34.95.” Christianity and Literature 62 (2013): 306-309.

Stetz, Margaret D.. “Radclyffe Hall: A Life in the Writing by Richard

Dellamora (review).” Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 30 (2013): 472 - 474.

Hall, Radclyffe. “The Sixth Beatitude.” (2013).

Funke, Jana. “richard dellamora. Radclyffe Hall: A Life in the Writing.” The

Review of English Studies 63 (2012): 522-523.

Nair, Sashi N. “‘Moral poison’: Radclyffe Hall and The Well of Loneliness.”
(2012).

Nair, Sashi N. “‘Moral poison’: Radclyffe Hall and The Well of Loneliness.” (2012).

Nair, Sashi N. “‘Moral poison’: Radclyffe Hall and The Well of Loneliness.” (2012).

Nair, Sashi N. “‘Moral poison’: Radclyffe Hall and The Well of Loneliness.” (2012).