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Radclyffe Hall

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Radclyffe Hall


Born
in Bournemouth, Hampshire (now Dorset), The United Kingdom
August 12, 1880

Died
October 07, 1943

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People in Great Britain and the United States originally banned The Well of Loneliness (1928), obscene novel of British writer Marguerite Radclyffe Hall.

Mother on the south coast of England perhaps battered Radclyffe Hall, whose father, a playboy, known as 'Rat', meanwhile ignored her. In the drawing rooms of Edwardian society, Marguerite made a small name as a poet and librettist. In 1907, she met a middle-aged fashionable singer, Mrs Mabel Batten, known as 'Ladye", who introduced her to influential people. Batten and Radclyffe Hall entered into a long-term relationship. But before Batten died in 1916, Radclyffe-Hall, known in private as 'John', had taken up with the second love of her life, Una, Lady Troubridge, who gave up her own c
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Twixt Earth and Stars

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The Forge

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“The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth. ”
Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.”
Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.”
Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

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