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profsarahparker.bsky.social
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Radclyffe Hall and Lady Una Troubridge rendered in papier-mâché. A masterpiece, I'm sure you will agree.
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
sownow.bsky.social
It is the birthday in 1880 of the English writer named Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe Hall. She dressed as a man and took the name John. Hall is best known for the novel "The Well of Loneliness," considered a groundbreaking work of Sapphic literature.

#WriterSky #BookSky #LGBTQ+ #History #BOTD
Author Radclyffe Hall, circa 1930 Public Domain
August 12, 2026 at 12:37 PM
oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social
not this girl reading Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Loneliness" in Mervyn LeRoy's BIG CITY BLUES (1932)
February 23, 2026 at 4:39 AM
unwantednarrator.bsky.social
Italian Spring by Radclyffe Hall
July 7, 2026 at 12:00 AM
bergamax.bsky.social
Britain’s oldest wedding bed, dating back to the 1570s, was rediscovered at an auction in London in 2014. 🛌

Originally belonging to the Radclyffe family of Salford, the ornate bed once stood in Ordsall Hall and was crafted for Sir John Radclyffe and Lady Anne Asshawe.

#bed #furniture #history
September 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
spellingisfunlor13.bsky.social
Oh god don’t get me going on the significance of Radclyffe Hall bsky.app/profile/spel...
spellingisfunlor13.bsky.social Hey kids🏳️‍🌈Spelling is fun! @spellingisfunlor13.bsky.social · Jul 22
In honor of all the Selena talk lately and her birthday I want to bring up something that I never see anyone talk about but I think about ALL the time. And it’s Selena wearing a coat with a Well of Loneliness patch on it to her premiere on the same day as the Ivy outfit/Marni shirt papwalk.
April 21, 2026 at 12:58 AM
spellingisfunlor13.bsky.social
You know who was considered the quintessential literary libertine, and who Taylor has seemingly egged before before?? it might make me spiral about Oscar Wilde, dandies, Radclyffe Hall, etc. again 

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spellingisfunlor13.bsky.social Hey kids🏳️‍🌈Spelling is fun! @spellingisfunlor13.bsky.social · Jul 22
Oscar Wilde wrote The Portrait of Dorian Gray, which also feels very connected to everything ever seen from Taylor lately but also because she recently indirectly referenced it.
September 29, 2026 at 4:38 PM
gwillow.me
She reminds me a little bit of Radclyffe Hall, the aristocratic British lesbian who wrote The Well of Loneliness. Despite living w a longterm female lover, she identified as staunchly conservative, anti-union, and for a time pro-fascist. Absolutely yearning to be let into the old-boys' club.
February 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
bertsbooks.bsky.social
And we turn the page into a new book.

Looks to be a frosty one, don hat and gloves to read today! - Michael
Writing, it was like a heavenly balm. - Radclyffe Hall
February 3, 2025 at 8:36 AM
karinaschaapman.bsky.social
Ik lees een boek uit 1930 van Radclyffe Hall “Adam’s kinderen” op de flaptekst staat deze vooruitstrevende recensie van een eerder boek van deze dappere schrijfster: “Waar geleden wordt, verheft de mensch zijn stem. Hier spreekt een Mensch; Radclyffe Hall”
February 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
unwantednarrator.bsky.social
To -- by Radclyffe Hall
October 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lfc1389.bsky.social
Oh my god fantastic!! Radclyffe hall, the writer of what is considered the first lesbian novel, is also buried there.
April 21, 2026 at 12:45 AM
oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social
have now made this a list on @letterboxd.social
February 23, 2026 at 10:47 PM
gutenberg.org
#OTD in 1880 Radclyffe Hall was born. She was the author of the pioneering lesbian novel "The Well of Loneliness" and was also a poet.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radclyf...

Books by Hall at PG:

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc...

#books #literature #lgbtq
Painting of Radclyffe Hall by Charles Buchel
August 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
unwantednarrator.bsky.social
My Rose by Radclyffe Hall
July 21, 2026 at 3:38 AM
firecrackerx.bsky.social
La novela en cuestión, por si os pica, era "El Pozo de la Soledad" de Radclyffe Hall, el primer libro en inglés en referirse abiertamente a una relación lésbica, publicado en 1928 e inmediatamente prohibido en un chorro de sitios.
March 4, 2026 at 6:05 PM
wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy
"You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else."

— Radclyffe Hall

https://twp.ai/9OVbU7
#trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #writing #lgbtq #fediverse #books #newsletter #writing #history #climate #herbalism
A picture of Radclyffe Hall and his wife.
April 22, 2026 at 4:11 PM
mdstamper.bsky.social
Radclyffe Hall by Charles Buchel (German British) - Oil on canvas / 1918 - National Portrait Gallery (London, England) #WomenInArt #art #Artwork #Portrait #ArtText #BritishArtist #CharlesBuchel #RadclyffeHall #KarlAugustBüchel #lgbtqArt #OilPainting #BritishArt #1910s #NationalPortraitGallery
In this portrait, novelist Radclyffe Hall (Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe-Hall) is portrayed with short, cropped, dusty brown hair, wearing a tailored midnight black jacket and coffee brown trousers, with a cravat and monocle. Believing herself to be a man trapped in a woman’s body, Hall cultivated a sophisticated masculine appearance whilst proclaiming her defiance of convention. At the time this portrait was painted, she stopped using her birth name, Marguerite preferring the name “John,” while adopting another family name, “Radclyffe,” for her books. Hall took a great professional risk with her semi-autobiographical 1928 novel “The Well of Loneliness” in which she portrayed a central lesbian relationship in order to gain acceptance for those she described as “my people.” The book sparked great controversy, was immediately banned, despite protests from Virginia Woolf and other writers, and was not reprinted in Britain until 1949. Hall previously published five volumes of poetry under her full name Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall. She received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for the 1926 novel Adam's Breed. At a time when homosexuality was generally illegal, Hall had fallen in love with a woman, Una Elena Vincenzo (née Taylor), Lady Troubridge. The pair lived together openly until Hall’s death in 1943. Una, Lady Troubridge bequeathed this wonderful Buchel portrait to the National Portrait Gallery in 1963. Charles Buchel (Karl August Büchel) was born in Mainz, Germany, but came to England as a child. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools and, in 1898, he began to work for the actor-manager, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, with whom he was closely associated for the next 16 years. He painted many portraits of Tree, as well as posters, programmes and other theatrical works. As a result of this connection Buchel became well known in theatrical circles and painted many leading stars of the day and also illustrated several theatrical magazines.
June 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
jackshoulder.bsky.social
#TodayInQueerHistory
August 12 (1880)
Happy birthday to writer Radclyffe Hall.

Hall is best remembered for The Well of Loneliness, a groundbreaking piece of sapphic literature and the subject of an obscenity trial.

In her personal life, Hall went by John, a name bestowed on her by Mabel Batten.
Radclyffe Hall and a dog
August 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
ghirlandia.bsky.social
I saw a row of hollyhocks,
Demure and stately-tall,
They peep'd above a hedge of box,
Like maidens in brocaded frocks,
Who nodded one and all.

Hollyhocks / Radclyffe Hall

Barbara Cleary #BookWormSat
July 11, 2026 at 11:04 AM
fatedmates.net
The transcript for our Radclyffe trailblazer episode is now available. You can link directly to specific moments in audio and text via the website.

This was transcribed by a human person who understands what words mean, but if you spot a mistake, please let us know.
Radclyffe: Trailblazer — Fated Mates: Romance Books for Novel People
This week, we’re continuing our Trailblazer episodes with Radclyffe—author of lesbian romances and founder of the LGBTQIA+ publisher, Bold Strokes Books. We talk about her path to romance as a reader ...
fatedmates.net
April 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
storygroup.bsky.social
Radclyffe Hall - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
August 12, 2024 at 5:25 PM
grey85.bsky.social
Current listen 🎧 @jaeauthor.bsky.social
Current read 📖 Radclyffe & Julie Cannon.
#sapphicfiction
November 15, 2024 at 8:15 PM
unwantednarrator.bsky.social
Sunlight on Distant Hills by Radclyffe Hall
May 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
axiisstowaakii.bsky.social
Das älteste Bett Englands...
ein atemberaubendes
Himmelbett-Meisterwerk aus
den 1570er Jahren, das für den berühmten Sir John Radclyffe &
seine Frau angefertigt wurde.
Es verschwand um 1650 & wurde
erst im 20. Jahrhundert wiederentdeckt .

#Infoskeet
Ein massives mit Schnitzereien verziertes Himmelbett aus dunklem Holz. Netzfund
December 10, 2024 at 12:42 PM