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 The Unlit Lamp Radclyffe Hall 'Centuries of custom, centuries of precedent! They pressed, they crushed, they suffocated. If you gave in to them you might venture to hope to live somehow, but if you opposed them you broke yourself to pieces against their iron flanks...' Joan Ogden is the clever elder daughter of retired middle-class parents living in a stultifying English seaside town. Into her life comes Elizabeth, first as governess, then as passionate friend. As Joan grows to womanhood, Elizabeth offers^ier the world: the freedom of Cambridge, a room of her own, absolute love. Joan's mother - a gentle tyrant, brilliantly portrayed - strangles each opportunity at birth. In the name of love she binds her daughter to her with hoops of steel, a trap which nothing can spring - no career, no man, and certainly no woman... Radclyffe Hall is a novelist with exceptional narrative skill. This absorbing and compellingly readable novel is one of the strongest descriptions in English fiction of the love - and hate - which can exist between women, between mother and daughter, lover and beloved. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall (1883-1943) published this, her'second novel", in 1924 although it was the first she actually wrote. Its themes foreshadow her later and most famous work, The Well of Loneliness. This Virago paperback is in good condition. 320pp. Year first published: 1924 This edition:1981 ISBN: 0860681653
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