Marguerite Radclyffe Hall

The Unlit Lamp

Novel portraying a young woman's stifled artistic ambitions and repressed sexuality

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Marguerite Radclyffe Hall

Hall was a novelist and poet best known for The Well of Loneliness, the first serious English-language novel of lesbian identity, which was prosecuted for obscenity in 1928. Her courage in publishing it changed the culture.

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