Books of Lesbian Interest

The Master of the House
Radclyffe Hall
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
London, UK

Year


 		1932 1st edition, signed       
Cover / size: hardback / h 25.8 cm * w 17.2 cm / 490 pp

Dustjacket?   no

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   001265

Condition Good

No 25 of 172 copies, signed by author. Boards (yellow and vellum with gilt lettering): staining and discolouring (see pictures - others available). Early flyleaf has pencil notes (including erased notes). Page edges unevenly cut. Slight mottling on very few pages, but pages generally clean and in very good condition.

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Hall: The Master of the House (1st ed, signed)

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Plot / Content:                              Rating: N

Hall's first novel following The Well of Loneliness was this religious-themed story involving Jóusè Bénédit, a craftsman-builder, and his conflict with a businessman in a small Provençal town. The builder's son, Christophe, has visions of Christ. The story is deep but the style is portentous and the book was not well received.



Background / Biography:

Radclyffe Hall (Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall: 12 August 1880 - 7 October 1943) was an English poet and author, best known for the lesbian classic The Well of Loneliness. continued on Wikipedia

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"In a quiet curve of the coast of Provence, on a stretch of that coast which before the war was seldom if ever visited by strangers, lies the small seaport town of Saint-Loup-sur-mer, cleased by strong winds and purified by sunshine. Its Patron - if one may credit report - was a awarrior-bishop of no mean attainments, since of him it is told that he checked the advance of Attila, Mighty Scourge of the Lord, though by what precise method remains somewhat uncertain. But his memory is mellowed by gentler legends even as the years have mellowed his statues, so that of him it is also told that he felt great concern for the sorrows of women, and a great tenderness towards newborn things, having once restored its life to a fledgling. And since this bird was a nightingale it would come with the darkness to sing in his garden: 'Praise God in His Golden Saints,' it would sing, as everyone knew very well at the time - that is to say, in the year 400, when Saint Loup had not yet been privileged to hear the harps and angelic songs of heaven."
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