One Night in Maidenhead
Jean McNicol, 30 October 1997
Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits
by Terry Castle.
Columbia, 150 pp., £15.95, November 1996,0 231 10596 7 Show More
by Terry Castle.
Columbia, 150 pp., £15.95, November 1996,
Your John: The Love Letters of Radclyffe Hall
edited by Joanne Glasgow.
New York, 273 pp., £20, March 1997,0 8147 3092 2 Show More
edited by Joanne Glasgow.
New York, 273 pp., £20, March 1997,
Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John
by Sally Cline.
Murray, 434 pp., £25, June 1997,9780719554087 Show More
by Sally Cline.
Murray, 434 pp., £25, June 1997,
“... an unmistakable resemblance to Coward. Hall’s heroine Stephen Gordon (Radclyffe Hall was called John for most of her adult life) knows that Brockett, a playwright with soft white hands and an effeminate voice, is a man ‘who would never require more of her than she could give’. When they visit Versailles together he talks to her about Marie Antoinette ... ”
