Vale Press.- Browning (Elizabeth Barrett) Sonnets from the Portuguese, [one of 300 copies on paper], printed in red & black with title and first leaf ruled in red, wood-engraved decorative initials by Charles Ricketts, Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge's copy with presentation inscription from them "To our dear friend Mother Mary Clara from John [Radclyffe Hall] & Una. June 1945" on front free endpaper and their engraved book-label on front pastedown, bound in vellum with upper cover elaborately decorated in gilt and hand-painted in blue and black, decorative gilt spine, red edges, a little rubbed and soiled, slight wear to decoration of upper cover, [Watry B14], small 8vo, [Vale Press], 1897. ⁂ Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943), author of the ground-breaking lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness, published in 1928 and subsequently banned in Britain on grounds of obscenity. She was given the nickname "John" by her earlier lover, the singer Mabel Batten, and used it for the rest of her life. In 1915 she fell in love with Batten's cousin, the sculptor Una Troubridge (1887-1963), and they lived together until Hall's death.
Vale Press.- Browning (Elizabeth Barrett) Sonnets from the Portuguese, [one of 300 copies on paper], printed in red & black with title and first leaf ruled in red, wood-engraved decorative initials by Charles Ricketts, Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge's copy with presentation inscription from them "To our dear friend Mother Mary Clara from John [Radclyffe Hall] & Una. June 1945" on front free endpaper and their engraved book-label on front pastedown, bound in vellum with upper cover elaborately decorated in gilt and hand-painted in blue and black, decorative gilt spine, red edges, a little rubbed and soiled, slight wear to decoration of upper cover, [Watry B14], small 8vo, [Vale Press], 1897. ⁂ Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943), author of the ground-breaking lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness, published in 1928 and subsequently banned in Britain on grounds of obscenity. She was given the nickname "John" by her earlier lover, the singer Mabel Batten, and used it for the rest of her life. In 1915 she fell in love with Batten's cousin, the sculptor Una Troubridge (1887-1963), and they lived together until Hall's death.
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