This captivating tale is brought to life in a series of 45 illustrations, including photographs of Hall, Coward, and others in their social circle, along with cartoon renditions of the two from the popular press. The first look at the literary and biographical link between these influential contemporaries, Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall recounts a forgotten literary friendship and shows that Coward and Hall even make subtle, "ghostly" appearances in each others' works. Yet as Terry Castle displays in her provocative new study, the two had much more in common than critics have been willing to concede. Where she throws her head back in despair, he merely lifts an eyebrow. Coward's writing is playful, sarcastic, absurd Hall's is brooding and melancholic, rife with misery and suffering. At first glance, it seems difficult to imagine two more different literary personalities than Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall.
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