![]() Just six years earlier, in 1921, Conservative MP Lieutenant Colonel John Moore-Brabazon suggested to parliament that lesbians should face the death penalty, life imprisonment as “lunatics” or, at the very least, complete social ostracising in order to “stamp out” their existence. It was certainly groundbreaking at the time. Lady Troubridge (l) and lesbian author Radclyffe Hall (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis/Getty)įuelled by the desire to write lesbians into the fabric of English literature, in 1928 she told her editor Jonathan Cape: “I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world.” Decades on, with four successful novels under her belt and a long term-partner, Lady Troubridge, Una Vincenzo, she felt the world was ready to confront “sexual inversion”, aka queerness. Abandoned by her father and left with an emotionally absent mother, she soon committed herself to writing. ![]() Born in 1880, wealth replaced parental love in Radclyffe Hall’s life. ![]()
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