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...biography of Radclyffe Hall, Sally Cline has decided not to take the easy path, and steps away from making The Well the central focus of Hall's life. Instead, Cline takes the long view, exploring Hall's entire life from beginning to end within the context of the history in which she lived her life and wrote her books. The result is an exhaustively informative, if occasionally tedious, literary biography. It takes a lot of effort to get through it, but the life it explores is a genuinely fascinating...
...great strengths of Cline's book is that very richness of context: in her hands, our journey through Radclyffe Hall's life becomes a journey through half a century of political, literary, and cultural history. The picture we derive from her biography is that of a writer who, far from existing for only a single moment of historical controversy, lived richly and fully--and in very interesting times. We whirl with the young Hall through the wild nightlife of Jazz Age London, watch her early involvement with the women's suffrage movement, and chafe with her when, at the outbreak...
...Cline is also serious about analyzing all of Hall's literary output, and she offers interesting discussions of Hall's poetry and short stories, the later and less successful novels, and the great early books. The latter are often overshadowed by the subsequent notoriety of The Well. For example, Adam's Breed, Hall's remarkable fourth novel, first rocketed her to the top of the bestseller lists and swept the English literary awards...
...council, joined by the Harvard College Librarian Nancy M. Cline, revisited the library's "digital initiative" and discussed the renovation of Widener Library, which lacks air conditioning and humidity control...
...country-music impresario and creator of the "Nashville sound," which helped push the genre into the mainstream; in Nashville, Tenn. In 1955 Bradley opened the first recording studio in Nashville, where he later crafted some of country music's most enduring tunes, including I Fall to Pieces with Patsy Cline and Coal Miner's Daughter with Loretta Lynn...