Stephen Gordon always felt different. A talent for sport, a hatred of dresses and a preference for solitude was not considered suitable for a young lady of the Victorian upper-class. But when she grows up and falls passionately in love with another woman, her standing in the county and her place at the home she loves become untenable.
A ground-breaking and moving lesbian novel that was banned in the UK on first publication.
Stephen Gordon was a little girl who always felt different. A talent for sport, a hatred of dresses and a preference for horses and solitude was not considered appropriate for a young lady of the Victorian upper-classes. But when Stephen grows up and falls passionately in love with a woman, her standing in the county and her place at the home she loves become untenable. Stephen must set off to discover whether there is anywhere in the world that will have her.
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Passionately felt and courageous * Spectator * A pioneering lesbian novel * Daily Telegraph * Beautifully written and constructed, with delightful prose. It is the standard-bearer; the lesbian The Grapes of Wrath -- Lee Lynch
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A ground-breaking and moving lesbian novel that was banned in Britain on first publication
Radclyffe Hall, the pen name of Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall, was born in Bournemouth on 12 August 1880. She was educated at Kings 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). Adams 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 68 from cancer.
