Location: Highgate Cemetery (West), London, England.
Cause of death: Cancer - Colon
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English novelist, best known for The Well of Loneliness. Her father, Radclyffe Radclyffe Hall, left her mother before John, as Radclyffe Hall preferred to be known, was born.
Aged twenty-one Hall was left money by her grandfather and began travelling. Aged twenty-eight she met Mabel Veronica Batten, Ladye, with whom she lived until Ladye's death in 1915. Ladye encouraged Hall’s writing first with poetry and then fiction. Through Layde, Hall met Una, Lady Troubridge and shortly before Ladye's death in 1915, Hall and Una became lovers.
In 1928 Hall published The Well of Loneliness, which was the first undisguised lesbian novel. It was banned from publication in Britain as it was deemed obscene, but it continued to be published abroad and was translated into eleven languages and sold a million copies during Hall’s lifetime. Hall died in 1943 due to stomach cancer and was buried with Layde at Highgate. Although The Well of Loneliness now seems dated, due to the stereotypical images of the characters, it is still considered a classic of Lesbian literature.
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