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The Well of Loneliness

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Stephen Gordon grows up in an English country house, a girl who is not like other girls. From a first heartbreak to the ambulance lines of the First World War and the cafés of Paris, this is the best-known early English novel about love between women, banned in 1928. By Radclyffe Hall (1928). A public-domain classic.

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How it begins Not very far from Upton-on-Severn—between it, in fact, and the Malvern Hills—stands the country seat of the Gordons of Bramley; well-timbered, well-cottaged, well-fenced and well-watered, having, in this latter respect, a stream that forks in exactly the right position to feed two large lakes in the grounds.The house itself is of Georgian red brick, with charming circular windows near the roof. It has dignity and pride without ostentation, self-assurance without arrogance, repose without inertia; and a gentle aloofness that, to those who know its spirit, but adds to its value as a home. It is indeed like certain lovely women who, now old, belong to a bygone generation—women who in youth were passionate but seemly; difficult to win but when won, all-fulfilling. They are passing away, but their homesteads remain, and such an homestead is Morton. Keep reading →

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