Radclyffe Hall
2 books
- You follow Giovanni, an Italian waiter worn down by the humiliations of serving wealthy Londoners, into a strange, fervent search for a life stripped of appetite and status. It’s austere and sometimes eccentric, but its sensory writing and spiritual unease stay with you if you’re patient with its intensity.
- Stephen Gordon, raised on horses and fencing at an English estate, spends her whole life asking to exist, and Hall writes her ache with total earnestness. It's heavy going and often bleak, but if you want to feel where queer fiction started fighting, start here.