Author : Radclyffe Hall
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ISBN 13 : 9781521744147
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (441 download)
Book Synopsis The Well of Loneliness ***** the Unlit Lamp by : Radclyffe Hall
Download or read book The Well of Loneliness ***** the Unlit Lamp written by Radclyffe Hall and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the first novel; as well as the most famous novel, by author Marguerite Radclyffe Hall.Hall's first novel, The Unlit Lamp, is the story of Joan Ogden, a young girl who dreams of setting up a flat in London with her friend Elizabeth (a so-called Boston marriage) and studying to become a doctor, but feels trapped by her manipulative mother's emotional dependence on her.The other novel in this volume is Hall's best known work, The Well of Loneliness, the only one of her eight novels to have overt lesbian themes. Published in 1928, was the subject of an obscenity trial and forbidden at the time in England. It deals with the life of Stephen Gordon, a masculine lesbian who, like Hall herself, identifies as an invert. Although Gordon's attitude toward her own sexuality is anguished, the novel presents lesbianism as natural and makes a plea for greater tolerance.