Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Radclyffe Hall NPG x136620

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown photographer

Hall's semi-autobiographical novel The Well of Lonliness (1928) became immediately famous for her frank portrayal of its lesbian central relationship. It was banned, despite protests from Virginia Woolf and other writers, and was not reprinted in Britain until 1949. Hall previously published five volumes of poetry under her full name Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall. She received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for the novel Adam's Breed (1926). Hall was courageously controversial. Her first name was Marguerite but she preferred to be called 'John'. At a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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