Educated at King's College London where she studied for a year, Hall was a lesbian and spent much of her time in the early 1900s seeking out women of the same persuasion. In 1906, she published Twixt Earth and Stars, a volume of verse that was well-received. While in Germany in 1907, she met and fell in love with Mabel Batten, many years her senior. After Batten's husband died, the two lived together. In 1915, she met Batten's cousin, Una Troubridge, and by 1917 they were living together. Hall wrote a number of novels and volumes of poetry, but is best remembered for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928), which supported lesbianism and, although not in any way obscene, was banned in the UK.Hall continued to live with Troubridge until her death from colon cancer in 1943. Troubridge published The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall in 1961. Hall's other works include A Sheaf of Verses: Poems (1908), Poems of the Past and Present (1910), Songs of Three Counties and Other Poems (1913), The Forgotten Island (1915), The Forge (1924), The Unlit Lamp (1924), A Saturday Life (1925), Adam's Breed (1926), Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself (1926), The Master of the Hours (1932), The Sixth Beatitude (1936) and Rhymes and Rhythms (1948 Posthumous). |
