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Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes by Phillip Herring

Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes | Phillip Herring | Recalls the early family life, affairs with both men and women, alcoholism, and creative rage of the author of the satirical novel ‘Nightwood’

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Mary Renault by David Sweetman

Mary Renault | David Sweetman | The author of The Charioteer and The King Must Die, Renault studied at Oxford but eventually abandoned the academic world and England for South Africa

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Mary Renault by David Sweetman

Mary Renault | David Sweetman | A biography of the author of ‘The King must die’ discusses her harsh upbringing, her scholarship years at Oxford, her work as a nurse during World War

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Mary Renault by David Sweetman

Mary Renault | David Sweetman | The author of The Charioteer and The King Must Die, Renault studied at Oxford but eventually abandoned the academic world and England for South Africa

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Charlotte Mew and Her Friends: With a Selection of Her Poems (Radcliffe Biography Series) by Penelope Fitzgerald

Charlotte Mew and Her Friends: With a Selection of Her Poems (Radcliffe Biography Series) | Penelope Fitzgerald | Penelope Fitzgerald’s fascinating porttrait of Bloomsbury’s saddest poet. Charlotte Mew (1869–1928) was a poet with a formidable reputation who, as V

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Una Troubridge, the Friend of Radclyffe Hall by Richard Ormrod

Una Troubridge, the Friend of Radclyffe Hall | Richard Ormrod | When Una Troubridge died at the age of seventy-six, part of the inscription she had instructed her executors to put on her coffin read: ‘The Friend of

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Una Troubridge by Richard Ormrod

Una Troubridge | Richard Ormrod | When Una Troubridge died at the age of seventy-six, part of the inscription she had instructed her executors to put on her coffin read: ‘The Friend of

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Days of Masquerade by Claudia Schoppmann

Days of Masquerade | Claudia Schoppmann | In Days of Masquerade Claudia Schoppmann offers the first in-depth account of lesbians living in Germany during the Third Reich. Through a series of i

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Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall by Michael Baker

Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall | Michael Baker | This biography of Radclyffe Hall, the woman who broke the literary taboo against lesbianism with the 1928 publication of ‘The Well of Loneliness,’ is

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Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall by Michael Baker

Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall | Michael Baker | This biography of Radclyffe Hall, the woman who broke the literary taboo against lesbianism with the 1928 publication of ‘The Well of Loneliness,’ is