The Well of Loneliness: The Classic of Lesbian Fiction
Jan 2015 · Sold by Anchor
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Michelle Williams
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July 19, 2017
This is one of my most favorite books of all time. I first read this while in college. It's the torrid love affairs (in many areas) from her parents to another love that is also heartbreaking. I cried with her, I felt empathy for the mother. while the father's unconditional devotion was exemptional always. A long read .enjoy !
Kelechi Maggie
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September 7, 2020
This was honestly a ride for me. I will say that I did not like not understand the ending, but the journey to the end was something else. I was reading this book for college, so I didn't think much of it, but I has exceeded my expectations. Even though this book is from 1928, the themes it tackles and speaks about are relevant today. I could feel for Stephen during her whole journey. I could only wish for her happiness in the end.
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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.
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