![]() ![]() Hall was also interested in spiritualism. Hall and Troubridge were deeply religious (Roman Catholic-Hall had converted in 1912) they left their money to the church upon death. ![]() After Batten’s death in 1916, Una and “John” started living together and stayed together until Hall’s death (despite Hall’s numerous lesbian affairs in between). In 1915 Hall fell in love with Una Troubridge (1887–1963), a cousin of Batten’s, also married and a mother, who was an accomplished sculptor and translator of Colette’s works from French into English. In 1907 she met the singer Mabel Batten, then 51 and married with kids and grandkids moved in with her after Batten’s husband died.Called herself a “congenital invert,” adopting the term by Havelock Ellis and other sexologists.Educated in London (King’s College) and in Germany.Radclyffe Hall: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall, preferred to be called John 1880-1943, English writer. ![]() Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness (1928) ![]()
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