28 laura doan and jay prosser 42 Gordon, Daily News and Westminster Gazette, p 66 in this volume 43 Cline, Radclyffe Hall, p 243 44 Beverley Nichols, The Sweet and Twenties (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1958), p 106, and James Douglas, “Back to the Puritans,” Sunday Express, November 4, 1928, p 14 45 Diana Souhami, The Trials of Radclyffe Hall (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998), p 183 46 Connolly too observed that “in August, the reviewer’s desert, [novels] loom up larger than they are.” See New Statesman, August 25, 1928, p 614 47 Raymond Williams, The Long Revolution (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980), p 233, and John Stevenson, British Society 1914–1945 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984), p 405 48 Tatler, November 28, 1928, p 408 49 Arnold Dawson, “The Literary Censorship Danger,” Clarion no 1861 (September 1928): 15 50 Nicholas Rance, “British Newspapers in the Early Twentieth Century,” in Clive Bloom, ed., Literature and Culture in Modern Britain, vol 1, 1900–1929 (London and New York: Longman, 1993), p 122 51 Stephen Koss, The Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain, vol 2, The Twentieth Century (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984), p 389, and Baker, Our Three Selves, pp 223 and 224 52 Daily Express, August 18, 1928, p 53 Sunday Express, August 19, 1928, p 54 Brittain, Radclyffe Hall, p 52 55 Sunday Express, August 26, 1928, p 56 Yorkshire Post, August 24, 1928, p As a result of the publicity the Newcastle Daily Journal and North Star reported the book “must have been pretty well sold out Queues lined up for it at all the booksellers” (August 24, 1928, p 8) and the Manchester Daily Dispatch noted that it “would be difficult, if not impossible, to buy a copy in the city at the moment.” August 22, 1928, p 57 Nation & Athenaeum, September 1, 1928, p 696 58 See People, August 19, 1928, p and Sunday Chronicle, August 19, 1928, p 59 See, for example, Evening Standard, August 20, 1928, p 6; Manchester Daily Dispatch, August 22, 1928, p 4; Newcastle Daily Journal and North Star, August 24, 1928, p 8; and Daily Mirror, November 20, 1928, p 60 Nancy K Miller, “Feminist Literary Criticism,” Graduate Seminar, City University of New York Graduate School, Spring 1992