The well of loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
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"The Well of Loneliness" by Radclyffe Hall is a novel published in 1928. It follows Stephen Gordon, an upper-class Englishwoman whose homosexuality is evident from childhood. She finds love with Mary Llewellyn while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their relationship faces social rejection and isolation. Hall portrays homosexuality as natural and pleads for acceptance, but the novel was banned in Britain as obscene until 1949. For decades,
it remained the most widely known lesbian novel in English and a controversial touchstone of queer literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Hall, Radclyffe, 1886-1943 |
|---|---|
| Commentator | Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939 |
| Title | The well of loneliness |
| Original Publication | United States: Blue Ribbon Books, 1928, reprint 1940. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well_of_Loneliness |
| Credits | This ebook was produced by: Al Haines, Jen Haines & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at pgdpcanada.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 76.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Lesbians -- England -- Social conditions -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 73042 |
| Release Date | Feb 26, 2024 |
| Last Update | Mar 20, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1022 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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