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At Home with Radclyffe Hall

Queer Britain
2 Granary Square, London, N1C 4BH (view map)

Saturday 24th May 2025 at 2:00 PM

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At Home with Radclyffe Hall

Join Dr Hannah Roche from the University of York as she explores the domestic life and legacy of Radclyffe Hall, author of the most famous banned book in LGBTQ+ history.

As the so-called ‘Lesbian Bible’, The Well of Loneliness (1928) has provided a refuge for almost a century of queer readers while alienating and even repelling others.

This talk will examine ways in which The Well has both shaped and disturbed identities, families, communities, and living spaces in Britain and beyond.

What does Hall’s unlikely hobby of homemaking tell us about her writing? Why do feelings of homesickness haunt so many of Hall’s characters? How does queer reading become queer living?

With a focus on houses and homes both real and fictional, the talk will address questions about how and why we continue to accommodate Radclyffe Hall.

London Events Queer Britain Books Talk

The Lineup

Hannah Roche is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of York.

She is the author of The Outside Thing: Modernist Lesbian Romance (Columbia University Press, 2019) and co-editor, with Jana Funke, of the Oxford World’s Classics edition of Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (Oxford University Press, 2024).