Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary . Pages: 45. Chapters: Carmilla, The Well of Loneliness, Tipping the Velvet, The Hours, The Night Watch, Annie on My Mind, Fingersmith, The IHOP Papers, Babyji, Patience and Sarah, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Beebo Brinker, Spring Fire, I Am a Woman, Les Guerilleres, Nightwood, Journey to a Woman, Odd Girl Out, Women in the Shadows, Torchlight to Valhalla, The Price of Salt, Rubyfruit Jungle, Ash, Affinity, Sputnik Sweetheart, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Quicksand, A Door into Ocean, Like, Le Corps Lesbien, Empress of the World, Finding H.F., Rage: A Love Story, The Teahouse Fire, The Girls of Radcliff Hall, Gold, Keeping You a Secret, Of Drag Kings and the Wheel of Fate, Girl Meets Boy, Between Mom and Jo, Trouble and Her Friends, The Year of Freaking Out. Excerpt: The Well of Loneliness is a 1928 lesbian novel by the British author Radclyffe Hall. It follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose "sexual inversion" is apparent from an early age. 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 having a debilitating effect on inverts. The novel portrays inversion as a natural, God-given state and makes an explicit plea: "Give us also the right to our existence." The Well became the target of a campaign by James Douglas, editor of the Sunday Express newspaper, who wrote "I would rather give a healthy boy or a healthy girl a phial of prussic acid than this novel." Although its only sexual reference consists of the words "and that night, they were not divided," a British court judged it obscene because it defended "unnatural practices between women." In the United States the...
Language
English
Pages
46
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Books LLC, Wiki Series
Release
August 14, 2011
ISBN
1156847141
ISBN 13
9781156847145
Lesbian Novels (Book Guide): Carmilla, the Well of Loneliness, Tipping the Velvet, the Hours, the Night Watch, Annie on My Mind, Fingersmith
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary . Pages: 45. Chapters: Carmilla, The Well of Loneliness, Tipping the Velvet, The Hours, The Night Watch, Annie on My Mind, Fingersmith, The IHOP Papers, Babyji, Patience and Sarah, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Beebo Brinker, Spring Fire, I Am a Woman, Les Guerilleres, Nightwood, Journey to a Woman, Odd Girl Out, Women in the Shadows, Torchlight to Valhalla, The Price of Salt, Rubyfruit Jungle, Ash, Affinity, Sputnik Sweetheart, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Quicksand, A Door into Ocean, Like, Le Corps Lesbien, Empress of the World, Finding H.F., Rage: A Love Story, The Teahouse Fire, The Girls of Radcliff Hall, Gold, Keeping You a Secret, Of Drag Kings and the Wheel of Fate, Girl Meets Boy, Between Mom and Jo, Trouble and Her Friends, The Year of Freaking Out. Excerpt: The Well of Loneliness is a 1928 lesbian novel by the British author Radclyffe Hall. It follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose "sexual inversion" is apparent from an early age. 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 having a debilitating effect on inverts. The novel portrays inversion as a natural, God-given state and makes an explicit plea: "Give us also the right to our existence." The Well became the target of a campaign by James Douglas, editor of the Sunday Express newspaper, who wrote "I would rather give a healthy boy or a healthy girl a phial of prussic acid than this novel." Although its only sexual reference consists of the words "and that night, they were not divided," a British court judged it obscene because it defended "unnatural practices between women." In the United States the...