RADCLYFFE-HALL (Marguerite Antonia, 1880-1943, Novelist & Poet)

Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Frances, explaining that her “reason for not writing sooner is a good one - I am working again. But now I must tell you how perfectly ripping I think the Show Card for A.B. I never saw a more effective card, so much so that I think it would be a good stroke of business to send it to all London books Shops, these holiday folk are going to collect books. Such people often like a book that deals in some way with the country, I think. Please send it everywhere you can because I love it. I do feel grateful for all the trouble you take to keep the ship afloat. I am off to France in about 12 days, but any letters sent here will eventually reach me...”, 3 sides 8vo., 37 Holland Street, Kensington, 31st July

Between 1906 and 1936 she published five volumes of poetry, seven novels, and a number of short stories. The book for which she is best remembered - The Well of Loneliness came out in 1928 - a novel about lesbianism which won the gold medal of the Eichelbergher humane award but which was prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act. She wrote The Unlit Lamp in 1924, A Saturday Life in 1925 and Adam’s Breed in 1926

Item Date:  1926

Stock No:  42933      £325

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