This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1925 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ‘A Saturday Life’ is a novel about a girl named Sardonia who hops from one obsession to another.
Subjects: Fiction / General
Publication History
| Copyright Date | 1925 |
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| Publication Date | 1925 |
| Publisher | Arrowsmith |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Language | English |
| Copyright Date | 1928 |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 1928 |
| Publisher | Arrowsmith |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Language | English |
| Copyright Date | 1930 |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 1930 |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Language | English |
| Copyright Date | 1925 |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 1952 |
| Publisher | Falcon |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 224 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Great |
| Copyright Date | 1925 |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 1952 |
| Publisher | Hammond Hammond |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 224 |
| Language | English |
| Notes | May not be 1952. Edition unstated. |
| Rating | Great |
| Copyright Date | 1925 |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 1952 |
| Publisher | Falcon |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 224 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Great |
| ISBN | 9780860687948 |
|---|---|
| Copyright Date | 1987 |
| Publication Date | October 5, 1987 |
| Publisher | Virgo Press |
| Format | Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 238 |
| Language | English |
| Copyright Date | 1925 |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 1989 |
| Publisher | Virago Press |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 224 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Great |
| ISBN | 9781473311893 |
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| Copyright Date | 2013 |
| Publication Date | 2013 |
| Publisher | Wylie Press |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
Comment
A Saturday Life is Radclyffe Hall's third novel, a comedy published by Arrowsmith in 1925, three years before The Well of Loneliness. It follows Sidonia Shore, a gifted and exasperating girl who throws herself into dancing, sculpture and then singing, and the title comes from an Eastern idea of reincarnation, in which a soul in its last life rehearses the talents of earlier ones. Recent readers have been struck by how light and funny it is compared with the book that made Hall famous.
Its interest for lesbian readers lies in Lady Frances Reide, the friend of Sidonia's mother who guides the girl through her many enthusiasms. Frances lives alone, dresses in masculine clothes and is quietly devoted to Sidonia's mother, and modern readers have seen her as a lesbian character and the real centre of the novel. The Well of Loneliness is Hall's only novel with overt lesbian themes, so A Saturday Life shows her approaching the subject indirectly a few years earlier. Virago later reissued the book in its Modern Classics series.