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
Radclyffe Hall, 1880 - 1943, novelist and poet, lived here, 1924 - 1929. Engl...
Established in the disused St Giles workhouse buildings during WW1 under the ...
Founded by Edith How-Martyn to "perpetuate the memory of the pioneers and out...
The first gay rights demonstration in Britain took place in Highbury Fields w...
Pioneer of the women's suffrage movement but she advocated a non-violent, gra...
