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| Title Statement | The well of loneliness / Radclyffe Hall ; with an introduction by Maureen Duffy. |
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| Series | Penguin modern classics |
| Author | Hall, Radclyffe |
| Additional Contributors | Duffy, Maureen |
| Publication | London: Penguin Books,2015. |
| Extent of Item | xix, 483 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9780141191836 (trade paperback) |
| Other Number | pr01040648 |
| General Notes | First published: London : Jonathan Cape, 1928. |
| Summary | "New to Penguin Modern Classics, the seminal work of gay literature that sparked an infamous legal trial for obscenity and went on to become a bestseller. The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears trousers and cuts her hair short-and who gradually comes to realise that she is attracted to women. Charting her romantic and professional adventures during the First World War and beyond, the novel provoked a furore on first publication in 1928 for its lesbian heroine and led to a notorious legal trial for obscenity. Hall herself, however, saw the book as a pioneer work and today it is recognised as a landmark work of gay fiction."-- |
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| By Topic | Lesbians--Fiction--Social conditions--England |
| By Genre | Lesbian fiction |
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