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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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