Hall (1880–1943) lived openly as a lesbian at a time when that was heavily stigmatized. She went by John, wore monocles and bow ties, dressed in a markedly masculine style, and published a novel that was put on trial for obscenity—not for explicit content, but for depicting lesbian love without condemnation. It was this determination of hers to argue publicly for lesbian existence that made her one of the most visible sapphic figures of early 20th-century literature.
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