Radclyffe Hall

MARGUERITE RADCLYFFE HALL was born in Bournemouth in 1880. After a difficult family life in childhood she used an inheritance to gain more autonomy. She published five books of poetry between 1906 and 1915. Her first two novels were published in 1924, and were followed by five more, including the groundbreaking lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness in 1928. A volume of shorter fictions was published in 1934. After an early relationship with Mabel Batten, Hall settled in London with Una Troubridge in 1917 and stayed with her for the remainder of her life. She died in 1943 at the age of 63.