![]() She fell in love and lived with an older woman before settling down with Una Troubridge, a married sculptor. After an unhappy childhood, she inherited her father's estate and from then on was free to travel and live as she chose. ![]() ![]() This Penguin edition includes a new introduction by Maureen Duffy. Hall herself, however, saw the book as a pioneer work and today it is recognised as a landmark work of gay fiction. 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.Ĭharting 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. ![]()
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