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_Title:_ The Well of Loneliness
_Date of first publication:_ 1928
_Author:_ Marguerite Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943)
_Date first posted:_ Nov. 18, 2018
_Date last updated:_ Apr. 20, 2024
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[Cover Illustration]
Dedicated to
_OUR THREE SELVES_
Other novels by Radclyffe Hall
THE UNLIT LAMP
ADAM’S BREED
THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE
The Well of
LONELINESS
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By _RADCLYFFE HALL_
With a =C=ommentary
by =H=avelock =E=llis
[Illustration]
Blue Ribbon Books, Garden City, New York
Copyright 1928
By Radclyffe Hall
CL
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
COMMENTARY
I_ HAVE_ _read_ The Well of Loneliness _with great interest
because—apart from its fine qualities as a novel by a writer of
accomplished art—it possesses a notable psychological and sociological
significance. So far as I know, it is the first English novel which
presents, in a completely faithful and uncompromising form, one
particular aspect of sexual life as it exists among us to-day. The
relation of certain people—who while different from their fellow human
beings, are sometimes of the highest character and the finest
aptitudes—to the often hostile society in which they move, presents
difficult and still unsolved problems. The poignant situations which
thus arise are here set forth so vividly, and yet with such complete
absence of offence, that we must place Radclyffe Hall’s book on a high
level of distinction._
Havelock Ellis
AUTHOR’S NOTE
A_LL_ _the characters in this book are purely imaginary, and if the
author in any instance has used names that may suggest a reference to
living persons, she has done so inadvertently._
_A motor ambulance unit of British women drivers did very fine service
upon the Allied front in France during the later months of the war, but
although the unit mentioned in this book, of which Stephen Gordon
becomes a member, operates in much the same area, it has never had any
existence save in the author’s imagination._
BOOK ONE
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