This author wrote about thirty year old Hannah Bullen and her poor family in her final novel The Sixth Beatitude.
This author wrote about thirty year old Hannah Bullen and her poor family in her final novel The Sixth Beatitude. This writer of poetry collections like Twixt Earth and Stars and The Forgotten Island depicts the illegitimate Gian Luca, who rises to headwaiter at an Italian restaurant, only to sicken of that life and become a hermit in the woods where he tragically befriends a pony in the novel Adam's Breed. She tells the story of Julia Ogden in The Unlit Lamp, but is more famous for a book in which a woman is courted by the Canadian Martin Hallam and meets Angela Crossby. That woman is born to parents who had wanted a boy, and thus saddled with the name Stephen Gordon; the book ends with her memorable plea "give us also the right to our existence!" FTP, name this author of The Well of Loneliness, an early 20th century English writer famous for being lesbian.
This author wrote about thirty year old Hannah Bullen and her poor family in her final novel The Sixth Beatitude.
Radclyffe {Hall} (Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall)