Radclyffe Hall, the pen name of Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall, was born in Bournemouth on 12 August 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 68 from cancer.
Un uomo e una donna in un viaggio in nave intorno al mondo. Un bancario di Londra e la segretaria di un uomo d’affari. Forse domani un avventuriero nelle colonie e un’imprenditrice. Stephen Winter – impiegato di banca riformato dalla Grande Guerra per un brutto asma – decide di usare...
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