Noël Coward and Radclyffe Hall by Terry Castle

Some of her own artwork can be seen on her blog, Fevered Brain Productions Instagram and SaatchiArt. She writes regularly for the London Review of Books, New Republic, New York Review of Books, Harper's, Atlantic, Slate, and other magazines and journals.Ĭastle is also a visual artist and collector of tintypes, anonymous photos, Outsider Art, vintage postcards, art zines, artists' books, and other paper ephemera. Originally published in 1928, Radclyffe Halls The Well of Loneliness is the timeless story of a lesbian couples struggle to be accepted by 'polite' society. Her 2010 collection of personal essays, The Professor, was named as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1995 her book The Female Thermometer was a finalist for the PEN Spielvogel-Diamondstein Award for the Art of the Essay.

Several of her essays have likewise won individual prizes-including the William Riley Parker Prize awarded annually by the Modern Language Association for the best critical essay of the year. She is the editor of a prize-winning anthology, The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall (2003).

She has written seven books: Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's 'Clarissa' (1982) Masquerade and Civilization: The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century English Culture and Fiction (1986) The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture (1993) The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny (1995), Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits (1996) Boss Ladies, Watch Out! Essays on Women, Sex, and Writing (2002) Courage, Mon Amie (2002), and The Professor: A Sentimental Education (2010). But she has taught a wide variety of other subjects too: the literature of the First World War, British modernism, Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, and other twentieth-century women writers, psychoanalytic theory, literature and opera, and gay and lesbian writing. She specializes in the history of the novel, especially the works of Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, and Austen. Terry Castle has taught English literature at Stanford since 1983.

Noël Coward and Radclyffe Hall by Terry Castle