Radclyffe Hall The Well of Loneliness review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de spraakmakende Engelse lesbische roman uit 1928. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The Well of Loneliness van de uit Engeland afkomstige auteur Radclyffe Hall. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling verkrijgbaar van de roman.
Radclyffe Hall The Well of Loneliness review en recensie
- “One of the first and most influential contributions of gay and lesbian literature” (New Statesman)
- “The archetypal lesbian novel.” (Times Literary Supplement)
The Well of Loneliness
- Auteur: Radclyffe Hall (Engeland)
- Soort boek: Engelse lesbische roman uit 1928
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Penguin
- Omvang: 512 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 9,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de lesbische roman uit 1928 van Radclyffe Hall
The seminal work of gay literature that sparked an infamous legal trial for obscenity and went on to become a bestseller.
The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears trousers and cuts her hair short – and who gradually comes to realise that she is attracted to women. Charting her romantic and professional adventures during the First World War and beyond, the novel provoked a furore on first publication in 1928 for its lesbian heroine and led to a notorious legal trial for obscenity. Hall herself, however, saw the book as a pioneer work and today it is recognised as a landmark work of gay fiction.
This Penguin edition includes a new introduction by Maureen Duffy.
Radclyffe Hall was born on 12 August 1880 in Bournemouth, 
Hampshire, England. After an unhappy childhood, she inherited her father’s estate and from then on was free to travel and live as she chose. She fell in love and lived with an older woman before settling down with Una Troubridge, a married sculptor. Hall wrote many books but is best known for The Well of Loneliness, first published in 1928. She died in 7 October 1943 in London, 63 years of age due to cancer of the rectum and is buried in Highgate Cemetery in London.