Beyond the Well of Loneliness by Claudia Stillman Franks
Beyond the Well of Loneliness: The Fiction of Radclyffe Hall by Claudia Stillman Franks. 1982 Avebury, paperback edition, 175 pages. Radclyffe Hall was the author of the The Well of Loneliness, an early explicitly lesbian novel that was deemed illegal for obscenity. Here Franks makes an argument not just for Hall's historical contribution but her literary one as well.
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"She never makes a virtue of passivity or of mechanical acceptance of the conditions of one's life, and all her characters, whether they succeed or fail, are engaged in the conscious or unconscious struggle to live by the deepest rhythms of their nature."
Beyond the Well of Loneliness: The Fiction of Radclyffe Hall by Claudia Stillman Franks. 1982 Avebury, paperback edition, 175 pages. Radclyffe Hall was the author of the The Well of Loneliness, an early explicitly lesbian novel that was deemed illegal for obscenity. Here Franks makes an argument not just for Hall's historical contribution but her literary one as well.
Condition: Good+, dampstain on bottom front matter
"She never makes a virtue of passivity or of mechanical acceptance of the conditions of one's life, and all her characters, whether they succeed or fail, are engaged in the conscious or unconscious struggle to live by the deepest rhythms of their nature."