Foyle Special Collections Library, Rare Books Collection PR6015.A33S54<\/p>\n
Hall is best known today for her novel The well of loneliness <\/em>(1928), a work whose open treatment of lesbianism caused a furore upon publication and resulted in its being banned for obscenity, with all copies ordered to be withdrawn and destroyed. However, she was also a talented lyric poet, as this volume, now of considerable rarity, reveals.<\/p>\n This copy of A sheaf of verses<\/em> is of particular interest for its association with the leading educationalist, Lilian Faithfull (1865-1952), vice-principal of the Ladies\u2019 Department at King\u2019s College, London from 1894 to 1906 and subsequently principal of Cheltenham Ladies\u2019 College.<\/p>\n Radclyffe Hall was briefly a student at King\u2019s during Faithfull\u2019s tenure and, although she did not complete a degree, she clearly developed a lasting respect for Faithfull, to whom she sent this copy of her book, inscribing the fly-leaf \u2018To Miss Faithfull from Marguerite Radclyffe Hall\u2019. That Faithfull likewise retained an interest in her erstwhile student is apparent from the fact that she inserted a cutting from The Times<\/em>, dated 11 October 1943 and containing Hall\u2019s obituary, in the volume.<\/p>\n By Katie Sambrook, Head of Special Collections Radclyffe Hall. A sheaf of verses. London: John and Edward Bumpus Ltd., 1908 Foyle Special Collections Library, Rare Books Collection PR6015.A33S54 The Foyle Special Collections Library is delighted to acquire an important association copy of this collection of poems by the novelist Marguerite Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943). Hall is … <\/p>\n![\"A](\"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/140\/files\/2017\/08\/verses2-300x186.jpg\")
<\/a>The Foyle Special Collections Library is delighted to acquire an important association copy of this collection of poems by the novelist Marguerite Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943).<\/p>\n![\"A](\"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/140\/files\/2017\/08\/verses-235x300.jpg\")
<\/a>Faithfull\u2019s time at the helm of the Ladies\u2019 Department at King\u2019s saw a considerable rise in academic standards, as she sought to transform the department from a place where women students merely came to hear lectures to a fully functioning university, whose students could and did work systematically towards University of London degrees.\u00a0 An interesting and informative account of her time at King\u2019s can be found in her memoirs, In the house of my pilgrimage<\/span><\/em><\/a> (London, 1924), a copy of which is also held in the Foyle Special Collections Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"