Your John: The Love Letters of Radclyffe Hall Revised Edition Contributor(s): Glasgow, Joanne (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0814731252 ISBN-13: 9780814731253 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1999 Annotation: This book represents the first publication of original writing by Radclyffe Hall, author of The Well of Loneliness, in over fifty years. 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 emigre 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, that tragically precipitated the decline in Hall's creative work and in 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 in The Well. They shed light on her thinking about religion, politics, war, and the literary and artistic scene. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Literary Collections | Letters |
Dewey: B |
Series: Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature |
Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.76" W x 8.76" (0.86 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1930's - Chronological Period - 1940's - Sex & Gender - Lesbian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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Publisher Description: Passionate and revealing love letters from the iconic lesbian novelist . . . Radclyffe Hall is getting a fresh look. . . . Glasgow has chosen these letters well and provides helpful context. |
Contributor Bio(s): Glasgow, Joanne: - Joanne Glasgow is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Bergen Community College in Paramus, New Jersey, and coeditor of Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions, also available from NYU Press. |