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The Well of Loneliness
Chapitres (58)
- Dedication 0:00
- Author’s Note 0:05
- Book I: I 0:40
- II 15:41
- III 53:50
- IV 1:14:01
- V 1:33:52
- VI 1:57:51
- VII 2:24:17
- VIII 2:45:13
- IX 3:04:57
- X 3:27:57
- XI 3:44:23
- XII 3:59:35
- XIII 4:22:25
- XIV 4:41:03
- Book II: XV 4:53:58
- XVI 5:13:35
- XVII 5:32:37
- XVIII 5:52:28
- XIX 5:59:50
- XX 6:12:54
- XXI 6:37:10
- XXII 6:59:19
- XXIII 7:10:39
- XXIV 7:37:55
- XXV 7:51:18
- XXVI 8:02:37
- XXVII 8:22:25
- Book III: XVIII 8:40:50
- XXIX 9:05:56
- XXX 9:24:48
- XXXI 9:56:50
- XXXII 10:27:15
- XXXIII 10:43:33
- XXXIV 11:08:26
- Book IV: XXXV 11:32:36
- XXXVI 11:49:58
- XXXVII 12:17:51
- XXXVIII 12:44:58
- XXXIX 13:07:59
- Book V: XL 13:19:02
- XLI 13:38:29
- XLII 13:52:08
- XLIII 14:04:28
- XLIV 14:29:48
- XLV 14:54:49
- XLVI 15:16:51
- XLVII 15:33:02
- XLVIII 15:50:32
- XLIX 16:26:47
- L 16:35:58
- LI 16:56:12
- LII 17:10:43
- LIII 17:31:31
- LIV 17:45:36
- LV 18:00:47
- LVI 18:17:12
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Confident of a son, Sir Philip and Lady Anna Gordon plan to name their first child Stephen. Instead they receive a daughter—but they decide to keep the name anyway. Young Stephen Gordon continues to surprise her parents with her boisterous play, demands for shorter hair, and insistence on riding her horse astride. After a childhood crush on a housemaid, Stephen begins to realize for herself that she is different than the world expects. As Stephen grows into adulthood and leaves her home and then England, her life is continually shaped by her love and affection for other women.
Radclyffe Hall, like her protagonist, had a number of romantic relationships with other women, and identified herself as an “invert” following the theory of sexual inversion that was developing at the time. Hall wrote the novel partly to promote the theory and directly references some of its advocates within the book.
The novel caused a sensation when it was published, leading to parodies, imitators, and even a theatrical adaptation. Pressure on the publisher to censor the novel led them to stop printing it in England, only to quickly import copies from France to meet demand. Today it remains a touchstone of queer fiction.