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42. Gordon, Daily News and Westminster Gazette, p. 66 in this volume.
43. Cline, Radclyffe Hall, p. 243.
44. Beverley Nichols, The Sweet and Twenties (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
1958), p. 106, and James Douglas, “Back to the Puritans,” Sunday Express, November
4, 1928, p. 14.
45. Diana Souhami, The Trials of Radclyffe Hall (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
1998), p. 183.
46. Connolly too observed that “in August, the reviewer’s desert, [novels] loom up
larger than they are.” See New Statesman, August 25, 1928, p. 614.
47. Raymond Williams, The Long Revolution (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980), p.
233, and John Stevenson, British Society 1914–1945 (Harmondsworth: Penguin,
1984), p. 405.
48. Tatler, November 28, 1928, p. 408.
49. Arnold Dawson, “The Literary Censorship Danger,” Clarion no. 1861 (September
1928): 15.
50. Nicholas Rance, “British Newspapers in the Early Twentieth Century,” in Clive
Bloom, ed., Literature and Culture in Modern Britain, vol. 1, 1900–1929 (London and
New York: Longman, 1993), p. 122.
51. Stephen Koss, The Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain, vol. 2, The
Twentieth Century (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984), p. 389, and Baker, Our Three
Selves, pp. 223 and 224.
52. Daily Express, August 18, 1928, p. 1.
53. Sunday Express, August 19, 1928, p. 1.
54. Brittain, Radclyffe Hall, p. 52.
55. Sunday Express, August 26, 1928, p. 6.
56. Yorkshire Post, August 24, 1928, p. 8. As a result of the publicity the Newcastle
Daily Journal and North Star reported the book “must have been pretty well sold

out. Queues lined up for it at all the booksellers” (August 24, 1928, p. 8) and the
Manchester Daily Dispatch noted that it “would be difficult, if not impossible, to
buy a copy in the city at the moment.” August 22, 1928, p. 4.
57. Nation & Athenaeum, September 1, 1928, p. 696.
58. See People, August 19, 1928, p. 2 and Sunday Chronicle, August 19, 1928, p. 1.
59. See, for example, Evening Standard, August 20, 1928, p. 6; Manchester Daily
Dispatch, August 22, 1928, p. 4; Newcastle Daily Journal and North Star, August 24,
1928, p. 8; and Daily Mirror, November 20, 1928, p. 9.
60. Nancy K. Miller, “Feminist Literary Criticism,” Graduate Seminar, City
University of New York Graduate School, Spring 1992.