another novel about "inversion". Advance sales were strong, and the book made No. 1 on The Observers bestseller list, but it received poor reviews in several key periodicals, and sales soon dropped off. In the United States reviewers treated the book more kindly, but shortly after the book's publication, all copies were seized - not by the police, but by creditors; Hall's American publisher had gone bankrupt. Houghton Mifflin took over the rights, but by the time the book could be republished, its sales momentum was lost. Later years and death Hall lived with Troubridge in London and, during the 1930s, in the small town of Rye, East Sussex, noted for its many writers, including her contemporary the novelist E. F. Benson. Hall also was involved in affairs with other women throughout the years, including the actress Ethel Waters. In 1930, Hall received the Gold Medal of the Eichelbergher Humane Award. She was a member of the PEN club, the council of the Society for Psychical Research and a fellow of the Zoological Society. Hall was listed at No. 16 in the top 500 lesbian and gay heroes in The Pink Paper. On holiday around 1934, Troubridge contracted enteritis. Evguenia Souline, a Russian nurse, was hired to care for her. Hall and Souline ended up having an affair, which Troubridge knew about and painfully tolerated. It unsettled Troubridge deeply, but she remained with Hall. In 1943, Hall was diagnosed with cancer of the rectum. Operations were unsuccessful and she died at the age of 63. Her body is buried in a vault in the Circle of Lebanon on the western side of Highgate Cemetery at the entrance of the chamber of the Batten family, where Mabel is also buried. Works Novels The Forge (1924) The Unlit Lamp (1924) A Saturday Life (1925) Adam's Breed (1926) Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself (1926) - short stories The Well of Loneliness (1928) The Master of the House (1932) The Sixth Beatitude (William Heineman Ltd, London, 1936) Poetry Dedicated to Sir Arthur Sullivan (England: s.n., 1894) Twixt Earth and Stars (London: John and Edward Bumpus Ltd., 1906) A Sheaf of Verses : Poems (London: J. and E. Bumpus, 1908) Poems of the Past & Present (London: Chapman And Hall, 1910) Songs of Three Counties and Other Poems (London: Chapman & Hall, 1913) The Forgotten Island (London: Chapman & Hall, 1915) Rhymes and Rhythms (Milan, 1948)