The Stone Wall - Softcover

Casal, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1998648621 ISBN 13: 9781998648627

Verlag: Lavender Octavo, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

In 1930, a woman calling herself Mary Casal published the story of her life: her childhood in rural Massachusetts, the men who abused her, the women she loved, and the private marriage ceremony she shared with the woman she called Juno. It was the first known lesbian autobiography published in the United States. Then the book disappeared, and the woman behind the pseudonym vanished with it.

Her name was Ruth Fuller Field, and her identity remained unknown for seventy years. This edition returns her extraordinary memoir to print, accompanied by three companion essays on the social world she navigated, the trauma she refused to let define her, and the pseudonym that protected her voice and erased her legacy.

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Mary Casal was the pseudonym of Ruth Fuller Field (1864-1935), an American teacher, commercial artist, and writer born in Deerfield, Massachusetts. In 1930, she published The Stone Wall, the first known lesbian autobiography in the United States, drawing on a lifetime of experience she could recount only under a false name. The book recounts her childhood, her survival of sexual abuse, her failed marriage, and her enduring love for the woman she called Juno. Field's true identity remained unknown until 2003, when researcher Sherry Ann Darling connected the memoir to its author through archival records. Field died in California in 1935.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lavender Octavo
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1998648621
• ISBN 13: 9781998648627
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 222
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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