Radclyffe Hall

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RH is best-known today for her landmark lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness, 1928. But she herself explained that she waited until she had made a name for myself as an author . . . because I felt that it would . . . be difficult for an unknown writer to get a novel on congenital sexual inversion published.
Hall, Radclyffe. Radclyffe Hall’s 1934 Letter About The Well of Loneliness. Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation.
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Her literary reputation was based first on her poetry but later, and more substantially, on her novels, particularly Adam's Breed.
Black and white photograph of Radclyffe Hall, shown from the waist up. She is wearing a man's suit and tie, and her short hair is slicked back. In her left hand she holds a small black dog.

Milestones

12 August 1880

RH was born Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall at Bournemouth in Hampshire.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
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Summer 1906

RH 's first publication appeared, a collection of poems entitled 'Twixt Earth and Stars, which she issued under her birth name, Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall .
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
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27 July 1928

RH 's landmark lesbian novel, The Well of Loneliness, was published by Jonathan CapeJonathan Cape after having been rejected by several other publishers.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
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7 October 1943

RH died of bowel cancer at 502 Hood House, Dolphin Square, Pimlico, London.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
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Biography

Birth and Influences

12 August 1880

RH was born Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall at Bournemouth in Hampshire.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
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