The Well of Loneliness

by Radclyffe Hall

Overview

A ground-breaking and moving lesbian novel that was banned in the UK on first publication.
     Stephen Gordon was a little girl who always felt different. A talent for sport, a hatred of dresses and a preference for horses and solitude was not considered appropriate for a young lady of the Victorian upper-classes. But when Stephen grows up and falls passionately in love with a woman, her standing in the county and her place at the home she loves become untenable. Stephen must set off to discover whether there is anywhere in the world that will have her.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781840224559
Publisher:	Wordsworth Editions, Limited
Publication date:	02/01/2006
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	280,464
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

RADCLYFFE HALL, the pen name of MARGUERITE RADCLYFFE-HALL, was born in Bournemouth on August 12, 1880. She was educated at King's College, London and later undertook further studies in Germany. Hall was renowned for her open homosexuality, a subject dealt with in her best-known novel, The Well of Loneliness (1928), a semi-autobiographical work and the only one of her eight novels to deal with overt lesbian themes. Her open treatment of lesbianism in The Well of Loneliness occasioned a trial for obscenity; it was banned and an appeal refused, which resulted in all copies in Britain being destroyed. The United States allowed its publication after a long court battle. She also published several volumes of verse including Twixt Earth and Stars: Poems (1906) and Songs of Three Counties and Other Poems (1913). Adam's Breed (1926), a sensitive novel about the life of a restaurant keeper won the Prix Femina and the 1927 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. Hall died in 1943 at the age of sixty-eight from cancer.