Person    | Female  Born 12/8/1880  Died 7/10/1943

Radclyffe Hall

Novelist and poet. Born as Marguerite Radclyffe Hall in Bournemouth into a wealthy family. From 1917 until her death Hall lived with Una Troubridge but had a number of affairs with other women. The treatment of lesbianism in her 1928 novel 'The Well of Lonliness' caused a scandal and the book was banned.

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Radclyffe Hall

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Radclyffe Hall

Radclyffe Hall, 1880 - 1943, novelist and poet, lived here, 1924 - 1929. Engl...

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