The Well of Loneliness
Hall's novel about the life of an Englishwoman who loves women.
Why it was banned: Ruled obscene by a British magistrate in 1928, and copies were ordered destroyed; it was not openly published in Britain again until 1949.
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At a glance
- Shelf status
- In print
- Banned by
- A court
- Banned in
- United Kingdom
- Why it was banned
- Ruled obscene by a British magistrate in 1928, and copies were ordered destroyed; it was not openly published in Britain again until 1949.
- Author
- Radclyffe Hall
- Topics
- Lesbians, Social conditions, Fiction, lesbian, England, fiction, Fiction, lgbtq+, lesbian, Scholars
- First published
- 1928
- Shelf note
- In print; ban history from the public record.
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