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In 1928 Radclyffe Hall published a novel about a woman who loved women, and asked the world for nothing but tolerance. Within weeks the Home Secretary had moved against it, the publisher had withdrawn it, and a magistrate had ordered every copy burned.
The Well of Loneliness follows Stephen Gordon from a Worcestershire estate where she was born the wrong kind of daughter, through the ambulance columns of the Western Front, to the bars and salons of Paris, where she finds a life and a love the law will not let her keep.
This edition restores the novel to the storm that met it. Fifty-six short epigraphs, drawn from the press of 1928, open the chapters in the order the case against the book actually unfolded. Reviewers, moralists, magistrates, Bernard Shaw, and Hall herself all speak in these pages, so the controversy builds alongside the story rather than around it as a separate afterword. It closes with Hall's own defense, "Why I Wrote *The Well of Loneliness*," in her words.
Nearly a century later, the arguments made for and against this novel, about obscenity, art, and who gets to tell their own story, remain unsettled. This edition puts the reader back in the room where they were first made.
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Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) was an English poet and novelist whose 1928 book The Well of Loneliness became one of the most consequential censorship cases in British publishing history. Born Marguerite Radclyffe Hall in Bournemouth, she began her literary career as a poet before turning to fiction, winning acclaim for novels including Adam's Breed, which received both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina. She lived openly with her partner Una Troubridge for much of her adult life and adopted the name "John" among friends, presenting in the masculine style that shaped her fiction and her public image.The Well of Loneliness, a sober and unflinching portrait of a woman's love for another woman, was prosecuted for obscenity within months of publication; a British court ordered every copy destroyed, and the ban held in the UK until 1949, six years after Hall's death. The trial drew public defense from figures including Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster, and the novel went on to become one of the most widely read lesbian novels of the twentieth century, smuggled, reprinted, and passed hand to hand for decades after its suppression. Hall died in London in 1943. The Well of Loneliness remains in print worldwide and is recognized as a landmark of LGBTQ+ literature and a pivotal moment in the history of literary censorship.
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In 1928 Radclyffe Hall published a novel about a woman who loved women, and asked the world for nothing but tolerance. Within weeks the Home Secretary had moved against it, the publisher had withdrawn it, and a magistrate had ordered every copy burned.The Well of Loneliness follows Stephen Gordon from a Worcestershire estate where she was born the wrong kind of daughter, through the ambulance columns of the Western Front, to the bars and salons of Paris, where she finds a life and a love the law will not let her keep.This edition restores the novel to the storm that met it. Fifty-six short epigraphs, drawn from the press of 1928, open the chapters in the order the case against the book actually unfolded. Reviewers, moralists, magistrates, Bernard Shaw, and Hall herself all speak in these pages, so the controversy builds alongside the story rather than around it as a separate afterword. It closes with Hall's own defense, "Why I Wrote *The Well of Loneliness*," in her words.Nearly a century later, the arguments made for and against this novel, about obscenity, art, and who gets to tell their own story, remain unsettled. This edition puts the reader back in the room where they were first made. In 1928, Radclyffe Hall's novel about a woman who loved women was banned and burned. This edition surrounds Stephen Gordon's story with the press dispatches and testimonies that met it, with 56 epigraphs of scandal, defense, and survival. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781998648849
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In 1928 Radclyffe Hall published a novel about a woman who loved women, and asked the world for nothing but tolerance. Within weeks the Home Secretary had moved against it, the publisher had withdrawn it, and a magistrate had ordered every copy burned.The Well of Loneliness follows Stephen Gordon from a Worcestershire estate where she was born the wrong kind of daughter, through the ambulance columns of the Western Front, to the bars and salons of Paris, where she finds a life and a love the law will not let her keep.This edition restores the novel to the storm that met it. Fifty-six short epigraphs, drawn from the press of 1928, open the chapters in the order the case against the book actually unfolded. Reviewers, moralists, magistrates, Bernard Shaw, and Hall herself all speak in these pages, so the controversy builds alongside the story rather than around it as a separate afterword. It closes with Hall's own defense, "Why I Wrote *The Well of Loneliness*," in her words.Nearly a century later, the arguments made for and against this novel, about obscenity, art, and who gets to tell their own story, remain unsettled. This edition puts the reader back in the room where they were first made. In 1928, Radclyffe Hall's novel about a woman who loved women was banned and burned. This edition surrounds Stephen Gordon's story with the press dispatches and testimonies that met it, with 56 epigraphs of scandal, defense, and survival. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781998648849
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