Editing Radclyffe Hall (section)

====''The Girls of Radcliff Hall''====
{{Main|The Girls of Radcliff Hall}}

British composer and bon vivant [[Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners]], wrote a [[roman à clef]] titled ''[[The Girls of Radcliff Hall]]'', in which he depicts himself and his circle of friends, including [[Cecil Beaton]] and [[Oliver Messel]], as lesbian schoolgirls at a school named Radcliff Hall. The novel was written under the pseudonym Adela Quebec and published and distributed privately; the indiscretions to which it alluded created an uproar among Berners' intimates and acquaintances, making the whole affair widely discussed in the 1930s. Cecil Beaton attempted to have all the copies destroyed.<ref>Florence Tamagne, "History of Homosexuality in Europe, 1919–1939", Algora Publishing, 2004; {{ISBN|0-87586-356-6}}, p 124</ref><ref>Bryony Jones, ''The music of Lord Berners (1883–1950): the versatile peer'', Ashgate Publishing, 2003; {{ISBN|0-7546-0852-2}}, pp 9, 101, 143</ref><ref>Beverly Lyon Clark, ''Regendering the school story: sassy sissies and tattling tomboys'', Routledge, 2001; {{ISBN|0-415-92891-5}}, p 143</ref> The book subsequently disappeared from circulation, making it extremely rare. The story is, however, included in Berners' ''Collected Tales and Fantasies''.