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by Radclyffe Hall
| Thick paperback in Good condition, light wear. Crease in bottom right corner front cover. Light wear on spine edges. Name in ink on inside front cover.
First published 1928.
Published by Virago Press 1982.
This is a 1991 reprint.
Virago Modern Classic No. 76.
458 pages.
12.9cm x 19.9cm x 3cm.
Weight: 375gms.
Cover price: £4.99.
The cover shows a detail from 'Medallion' by Gluck.
Cover design by The Senate Fiction.
Marguerite Radclyffe Hall - Born: 12th August 1880, Durley Road, Bournemouth, - Died: 7th October 1943 (63), London.
'I am one of those whom God marked on the forehead, like Cain ... If you come to me, Mary, the world will abhor you ... Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean'
Living in the baronial splendour of Morton Hall, Sir Philip and Lady Gordon long for a son and heir. But their only child is born a girl - and they baptise her Stephen. It becomes apparent that Stephen is not like other girls: she learns to fence and hunt, wears breeches and longs to cut her hair. As she grows up, the people of Great Malvern draw away from her, aware of some indefinable thing that sets her apart. And when Stephen Gordon reaches maturity, she falls passionately in love - with another woman.
Radclyffe Hall created a sensation with this powerful crie de coeur which was banned as obscene on its 1928 publication after a notorious and dramatic trial. It remains a classic story of lesbian love.
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Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 0860682544
Condition: Good |
Issue No.: 76
1991
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