Radclyffe Hall, known in her circle as John, whose novel, The Well of Loneliness, was condemned for “obscene libel” in 1928, had become a Catholic in 1912, under the influence of her first big flame, Mabel Batten

It was a pleasant surprise to find the old pew label for Radclyffe Hall still there at Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, on the edge of Covent Garden. The church has been restored and lost its grubbiness, and I feared it might have lost incidental eccentricities too.

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