Radclyffe Hall

Radclyffe Hall was an English poet and novelist whose work often examined identity, social convention, isolation, and the struggle for personal dignity. Born Marguerite Radclyffe Hall in 1880, she became one of the most prominent and controversial literary figures of the early twentieth century.Hall published poetry, short fiction, and several novels, including Adam's Breed, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse. Her enduring reputation rests largely upon The Well of Loneliness, a groundbreaking work that brought lesbian identity into public literary discussion and became the subject of a highly publicized obscenity trial.