The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall

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The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall, 1928, England, NOVEL

"...While Radcliffe Hall delivers a powerful message that lesbianism is natural, she also asks the reader to have pity on Stephen Gordon—for, along with the popular psychoanalysts of her day, Radclyffe Hall describes lesbianism as an "inversion."...Nonetheless, The Well of Loneliness is worth reading because it shattered the silence of oppression and conveys a message about homophobia and internalized shame relevant to lesbians even today."

(H.D., p. 175)