
Trials of Radclyffe Hall
Radclyffe Hall was born in 1880 in Bournemouth in a house inappropriately named ''Sunny Lawn''. Her mother drank gin in an attempt to terminate the pregnancy, and her father fled the family home.
At the mercy of a violent mother and sexually abusive stepfather, her life changed when at the age of eighteen she inherited her father''s estate of £100,000. She was free to travel, pursue women and wri...
Radclyffe Hall was born in 1880 in Bournemouth in a house inappropriately named ''Sunny Lawn''. Her mother drank gin in an attempt to terminate the pregnancy, and her father fled the family home.
At the mercy of a violent mother and sexually abusive stepfather, her life changed when at the age of eighteen she inherited her father''s estate of £100,000. She was free to travel, pursue women and wri...