5/27/2023 0 Comments The wells of lonelinessIn the United States, the book survived legal challenges in New York state and in Customs Court. Douglas wrote that "I would rather give a healthy boy or a healthy girl a phial of prussic acid than this novel." A British court judged it obscene because it defended "unnatural practices between women" In England, it would not be published again for another three decades, in 1959. Shortly after the book's publication, it had become the target of a campaign by James Douglas, editor of the Sunday Express. The novel portrays "inversion" as a natural, God-given state and makes an explicit plea: "Give us also the right to our existence". She finds love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their happiness together is marred by social isolation and rejection, which Hall depicts as typically suffered by "inverts", with predictably debilitating effects. It follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose " sexual inversion" ( homosexuality) is apparent from an early age. The Well of Loneliness is a lesbian novel by British author Radclyffe Hall that was first published in 1928 by Jonathan Cape.
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