The Master of the House

The Master of the House - Paperback

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The Master of the House - Paperback

The Master of the House - Paperback

by Radclyffe Hall
$59.02
$59.02

Book Overview

This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1932 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Master of the House' is a novel with a deeply religious theme. Hall actually claimed to have suffered from stigmata while writing it. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.
ISBN9781473311886
Author Radclyffe Hall
PublisherWylie Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2013
LanguageENG- English
Pages398
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Radclyffe Hall

Radclyffe Hall, the pen name of Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall, was born in Bournemouth on August 12, 1880. She was educated at King's College, London, and later undertook further studies in Germany. Hall was renowned for her open homosexuality, a subject dealt with in her best-known novel, The Well of Loneliness (1928), a semi-autobiographical work and the only one of her eight novels to deal with overt lesbian themes. Her open treatment of lesbianism in The Well of Loneliness occasioned a trial for obscenity; it was banned and an appeal refused, which resulted in all copies in Britain being destroyed. The United States allowed its publication after a long court battle. She also published several volumes of verse including Twixt Earth and Stars: Poems (1906) and Songs of Three Counties and Other Poems (1913). Adam's Breed (1926), a sensitive novel about the life of a restaurant keeper, won the Prix Femina and the 1927 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. Hall died in 1943 at the age of sixty-eight from cancer.

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