Just a novelist
Radclyffe Hall’s 1928 novel about love between women is almost a curiosity today, little read and even less understood. Her sixth novel, following Adam’s Breed, for which she had won … Continue reading
August 5, 2019 · Leave a comment
It was the best of Dickens, it was the worst of Dickens
As no lady or gentleman, with any claims to polite breeding, can possibly sympathise with the Chuzzlewit Family without being first assured of the extreme antiquity of the race, it … Continue reading
January 4, 2018 · Leave a comment
The first modern novel
There are books everyone puts off reading, either because they are too long or because you expect to find them too difficult or too boring. You know you should read … Continue reading
August 21, 2013 · 1 Comment