The Lesbian Hero Bound: Radclyffe Hall's Portrait of Sapphic Daughters and Their Mothers

Radclyffe Hall wrote her first novel, The Unlit Lamp (1924), about lesbian love but did not become famous for defending the infamous until she published The Well of Loneliness in 1928. This novel was banned in England, translated into eleven languages, and became “the one novel that every literate lesbian in the four decades between 1928 and the late 1960s would certainly have read.” ¹