Radclyffe Hall
Born: 01-01-1880
Radclyffe Hall was an influential British author born in 1880, renowned for her groundbreaking work in LGBTQ+ literature. Her most famous novel, "The Well of Loneliness" (1928), faced legal challenges due to its lesbian themes, sparking significant controversy and dialogue about censorship and queer rights. Hall's writing often explored themes of identity and societal norms, establishing her as a pivotal figure in early 20th-century literary and cultural landscapes.
Book summaries for books written by Radclyffe Hall
Quotes
The world is interested in doing one thing only: making money.
Pain and pleasure, like light, are substances that differ merely in their vibratory rate.
We are in our gender and happiness consists in understanding the limitations of one's environment.
What can I do against the monster that is within me? Will it consume me utterly until the end?
Tears have risen to my eyes and voice broken. For all my valiant efforts, my weary generosity, it all comes back to break the work of my hands. I have taken Life and stamped on it.
A fiercely lonely person, a traveller, an inhabitant of the limbo between the worlds of men and women.
When a creature must walk on all-fours it can't carry its burden on its heart.
The world seems to me excruciatingly boring when I think of my fellow beings.
A false environment has been created and through it we try to find the way home.
Love is stronger than Life. It reaches beyond the dark shadow of Death.
It is better to love and lose than never to love at all. The choicest thing this side of death, is to lose yourself in love and joy, and thus make yourself more and more capable of hearty affection.
She would never be normal, nor would the world be the same to her as it had been in her earlier days.