The Well of Loneliness by Radcliffe Hall

As a writer, radcliffe hall achieved success in 19 26. Her novel, adams breed was a prize winning best seller. Emboldened, she began her most memorable book. She took from the works of contemporary sexologists like havelock ellis and magnus herschfield,. mixed their views with catholicism, spiritualism and odd ball ideas on endo chronology, and came up with the well of loneliness. Jonathan cape, its publisher, took pains to present the book as a serious tome of no interest to the prurient. Condemned as an obscene libel, the lonely well was then burned in the king's furnace. Radcliffe hall felt her country