![]() ![]() ![]() Following the story of Stephen Gordon, an upper-class woman who finds love with one Mary Llewellyn and is consequently shunned by society, the work was groundbreaking in its lesbian subject matter.Īlthough it was received favourably by many publications including the Daily Heraldand Lady’s Pictorial, Sunday Express editor James Douglas began a campaign on 18 August 1928 to have Hall’s book banned – naming The Well of Loneliness as the ‘Book That Should Be Suppressed.’Īs we continue to celebrate Pride Month here at The Archive, we take a look at the reaction towards Radclyffe Hall’s pioneering work, and the persecution it faced at the hands of the English legal system, using newspapers to be found in the British Newspaper Archive. In 1928, novelist Radclyffe Hall published her seminal LGBTQ work The Well of Loneliness. ![]()
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