The Girls of Radcliff Hall
- Hardcover
- London: Montcalm & The Cygnet Press, 2000
London: Montcalm & The Cygnet Press, 2000. Hardcover. vii, 99p., frontis-portrait, frontis-photo of original publication cover, introduction, key to real personages at rear, fine first edition thus limited to 750 copies green cloth backstrip over decorative boards, gilt titles on spine, in fine, unclipped dj. Originally privately printed in 1934 by Lord Berners under the pseudonym of Adela Quebec. Most copies were destroyed. The "girls" of the humorous tale are actually real male personages such as Cecil Beaton, Oliver Messel, Pavel Tchelitchew, Peter Watson and the author himself (Miss Carfax!) Key to the characters at rear. Gay parody of "The Well of Loneliness
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Title
The Girls of Radcliff Hall
Author
Lord Berners [Gerald Hugh Tyrwitt-Wilson writing as Adela Quebec] edited by John Byrne, frontis by Emilio Coia
Binding
Hardcover
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
Montcalm & The Cygnet Press: London
Date
2000