The Radclyffe Hall Galleria

    Compiling these photos has not been an easy task.  I have made them so that the thumbnail will download as fast as possible.  You may have noticed that they popped up almost immediately.  All of these I have scanned personally.  Please download them and enjoy them.   Photos of Radclyffe Hall and the principle characters in her life are hard to find on the internet.  ..In some casers, it is nearly unheard of.  This page is for all of you that are Radclyffe Hall fans that are hungry for something like this.  If you have any pictures that I did not include in this page.  Please let me know.  I would love to put more  and more photos on this page.

    You may be wondering about the background that I have chosen for this page.  It came from the hard front cover of the 1934 Covici-Friede edition of The Well of Loneliness.  It has been magnified to a great degree.  But ..  I thought it might be neat to have this be made of 100% Radclyffe Hall matieral.  *S*

    Please sign my guestbook when you are finished.  I am open to your comments and suggestions of how I can make this site better and better.  If you think I am doing alot of things right on the mark ..  let me know too ..  so that i won't change it!  *S*

    Thank you so much for visiting my site.   I hope that you have a wonderful stay!

    ~BREN~
 
 

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Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall
1880-1906


John as a toddler with her mother, Marie Diehl Vissetti (right),
her great-grandmother Elijah Jones (left), and her beloved
grandmother Sarah Diehl (standing).


A famous portrait of Marguerite. circa 1885
 Presently owned by the nephew of Una, Lady Troubridge in Italy.


Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall as a debutante'.
circa 1898.


Marguerite and her cousins, circa 1903: Marie Diehl Visetti (in flowered hat);
Marguerite with hr arm around her cousin-lover Jane Randolph;
Jane's sons Thomas and Decan Randolph (in sailor suits);
Aunt Emma Jones Reade: and Aunt Lode Diehl.
 

Ladye & John
August 12, 1908-May 25, 1916


"Ladye" Mabel Veronica Batten as she appeared around 1900.
 


Ladye & Radclyffe Hall on the
Porch of their White Cottage in Malvern, England.
circa 1912.


The White Cottage.
 


Ladye & John at the beach.
 


Radclyffe Hall at the beginning
of her literary career.
 

1916-1943  Una & John
 


Una as she appeared in the Tatler magazine.  1914.
 


Portrait by Charles Buchel. Oil on canvas, 1918
On display at the National Portrait Gallery (Room 31);
 London, UK.
 


John and her partner Una, Lady Troubridge
at the Ladies' Kennel Dog Show at Ranelagh, May 1920.


1921
 


Una & John at Crufts, 1923.
 


Una Troubridige and her bust of Nijinsky.
circa 1923


Radclyffe Hall: the budding seductress.
1926


John and Una at their home on 37 Holland Street.
August 1927.
 


John's profile.
 


John wearing an astrakhan collar.
1930s.


A rare photo by Howard Coster of John smiling while
doing a promotional photoshoot for her then most
recent novel Master of the House.
1932.


Held by the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Currently it is not on display.
 
 


John with one of her many dogs.
Circa 1930s.
 


John & Una at a "first nights", 1933.
 


John with Naomi "Mickie" Jacob in Sirmione, Italy.
1934.


The Forecastle Cottage in Rye where John and Una
lived throughout the 1930s.


John's study at the Forecastle.
circa 1930s.


John's bedroom at the Forecastle.
circa 1930s.
 


Evguenia Souline as a young woman.
 


The guestroom where Souline might have slept at the Forecastle;
circa 1930s.


John smoking and wearing a beret'.
 


Signed photograph to Souline, 1936.
 


John reading the newspaper during the Second World War.
 
 


John with her last dog Fido near the end of her life.
1942.


A letter written on the back of the above photograph.
 


Radclyffe Hall's New York Times obituary;
October 12, 1943.


Highgate Cemetary, London; where both
Ladye & John are entombed together.
 
 

After John
1943-1963


Una in Levanto, Italy long after John's death.
 
 
 

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