1938 The Well of Loneliness

Description

Early Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

The Pegasus Edition of this work. 

'The Well of Loneliness' was a controversial work when first published, the editor of the Sunday Express James Douglas attacking the novel, and campaigning against it. Being forced to withdraw the publication, Jonathan Cape secretly leased the rights of the novel to Pegasus Press. These editions, published in France in the English language, made their way to the U.K.

The novel focuses on the upper-class woman Stephen Gordon, who is a lesbian living her live during the first couple of decades of the twentieth century.

By Radclyffe Hall, who is best known for this ground breaking novel.

With a commentary by Havelock Ellis, imbuing the novel with his own studies of human sexuality.