Contested

The Well of Loneliness

by Radclyffe Hall

Stephen Gordon, born into an English county family and named for the son her father wanted, grows up knowing she will love women. In 1928 a London magistrate condemned Radclyffe Hall’s novel as obscene and ordered the copies destroyed, though its boldest line is “and that night they were not divided.” A New York court cleared it the following year.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 11 hr 5 min

Where to find it

The Unwelcome Spines, beyond the Restricted Catalogue

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #73042. In the public domain in the United States.