Radclyffe Hall: A Life in the Writing

The Well of Loneliness is probably the most famous lesbian novel ever written, and certainly the most widely read. It contains no explicit sex scenes, yet in 1928, the year in which the novel was published, it was deemed obscene in a British court of law for its defense of sexual inversion and was forbidden for sale or import into England. Its author, Radclyffe Hall, was already well—known as a writer and West End celebrity, but the fame and notoriety of that one book has all but eclipsed a...