Radclyffe Hall
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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. Her literary reputation was based first on her poetry but later, and more substantially, on her novels, particularly Adam's Breed.
is best-known today for her landmark lesbian novel - BirthName: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall
- Nickname: JohnJohn, or the more intimate Johnnie, from .earned the nickname
- Self-constructed: Radclyffe HallShe began using this name with her first published novel, in 1924.