Radclyff HallRadclyffe Hall (Aug. 12, 1880-Oct. 7, 1943). She was an English author whose book The Well of Loneliness (1928) caused a scandal and was banned for a period in England for its treatment of lesbianism. She started her literary career by writing poems,which were later collected as five volumes of poetry. The Blind Ploughman is one of her most popular works. She had written her first two novels by 1924. The Forge and The Unlit Lamp The latter book was her first to treat lesbian love. Adam's Variety (1926), a sensitive book about the life of a restaurant keeper, won the coveted Prix Fémina and the 1927 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Her more popular works include Twixt Earth and Stars: Poems (1906), Songs of Three Counties and other poems (1913), The Master of the House in 1932, and The Sixth Beatitude (1936). A book on which she was working in her declining years was damaged, at her request, after her death. Read More Read Less