The Trials of Radcliffe Hall

Biography is a strange art of piecing together lives and relationships from whatever shrads remain. Behind these baffling clues of the tomb lies a lesbian psycho drama that far outrivals the well of loneliness. Radcliffe hall was 25 in 19 o six when she first met mabel and george batton in homburg at a woman's tennis tournament. They set up home together with dogs and a parakeet, and vowed eternal love for each other. But by 19 15, lady was over weight and infirm, and john was spending most of her time with lady's cousin, una,. 28, married to rear admiral, sir ernest truebridge. Lady