Radclyffe Hall

Broschiertes Buch

The Well of Loneliness

The Classic of Lesbian Fiction

Beschreibung

First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall's own life, it was banned outright upon publication and almost ruined her literary career.

Autor

Radclyffe Hall, the pen name of Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall, was born in Bournemouth on August 12, 1880. She was educated at King's College, London, and later undertook further studies in Germany. Hall was renowned for her open homosexuality, a subject dealt with in her best-known novel, The Well of Loneliness (1928), a semi-autobiographical work and the only one of her eight novels to deal with overt lesbian themes. Her open treatment of lesbianism in The Well of Loneliness occasioned a trial for obscenity; it was banned and an appeal refused, which resulted in all copies in Britain being destroyed. The United States allowed its publication after a long court battle. She also published several volumes of verse including Twixt Earth and Stars: Poems (1906) and Songs of Three Counties and Other Poems  (1913). Adam's Breed (1926), a sensitive novel about the life of a restaurant keeper, won the Prix Femina and the 1927 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. Hall died in 1943 at the age of sixty-eight from cancer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 134mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9780385416092
• ISBN-10: 0385416091
• Artikelnr.: 21516221