The Trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami (Hardcover, 1998),......

The Trials of Radclyffe Hall Diana Souhami Hardback LGBT Non-Fiction Biography\n\n--\n\nThe extraordinary life of a great English eccentric and author, as seen by one of England's leading biographers.\n\nA\n fascinating figure of English literary and political history, Radclyffe\n Hall was born in 1880 in Bournemouth, England. Hall suffered through an\n exceedingly unhappy childhood until her father's death. With her \ninheritance, Hall leased a house in Kensington and began to live the way\n she pleased. She started dressing in chappish clothes, called herself \nPeter, then John, and wrote her first collection of verse. She was a \npolitical reactionary, a reformed Catholic, a member of the Society for \nPsychical Research, fussy about food and obsessive about work. She got \nher pipes from Dunhill's, wore brocade smoking jackets, spats in winter,\n and had her hair cropped off at the barber's.\n\nHall is most \nfamous today for her book, The Well of Loneliness, which she wrote in \n