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Radclyffe Hall

1880 - 1943

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Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe Hall (12 August 1880 – 7 October 1943) was an English poet and author, best known for the novel The Well of Loneliness, a groundbreaking work in lesbian literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Radclyffe Hall has received more than 543,143 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Radclyffe Hall is the 4,405th most popular writer (down from 3,613th in 2019), the 3,146th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,660th in 2019) and the 356th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 540k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Adam's breed
Fiction, Orphans
1926
The unlit lamp
1924
A Saturday life
Fiction, Identity, Interpersonal relations
1930
The well of loneliness
Lesbians, Fiction
Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parentsa fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions.
1928

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Radclyffe Hall ranks 4,405 out of 7,302. Before her are Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, Norman Lear, Vladimir Dudintsev, David Baldacci, Yuri Bondarev, and Paul Bekker. After her are Géza Csáth, Philip Reeve, Anna Katharine Green, Gerardo Diego, Abdul Rahman Munif, and Kikkuli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Radclyffe Hall ranks 152. Before her are Jesse L. Lasky, Seán O'Casey, Oswald Veblen, Fred Alexander, Louis Hémon, and Viggo Larsen. After her are Lawrence Oates, Hans Moser, Xhafer Ypi, Kullervo Manner, Francis de Miomandre, and Knud Kristensen. Among people deceased in 1943, Radclyffe Hall ranks 152. Before her are Lucien Démanet, Rihard Jakopič, Ruth Belville, Estella Agsteribbe, Adolf Urban, and Vittorio Sella. After her are Helen Herron Taft, Milutin Ivković, Nils Dardel, Elise Richter, Wilhelm Geiger, and Attila Petschauer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Radclyffe Hall ranks 3,146 out of 8,785. Before her are John Steel (1941), Max Newman (1897), Graham Swift (1949), Alan Baddeley (1934), Oliver Sykes (1986), and Ian Stewart (1945). After her are Laura Muntz Lyall (1860), Philip Reeve (1966), Cilla Black (1943), Mark Hughes (1963), Lawrence Oates (1880), and John Sims (1749).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Radclyffe Hall ranks 356. Before her are Brian O'Nolan (1911), M. R. James (1862), Raphael Holinshed (1529), Anne Bradstreet (1612), Robert Chambers (1802), and Graham Swift (1949). After her are Philip Reeve (1966), Sophie Kinsella (1969), Rosemary Sutcliff (1920), Quentin Crisp (1908), Arthur Ransome (1884), and Joe Abercrombie (1974).

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