The Well of Loneliness
Автор:
Radclyffe HallЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2024-10-24Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
163
Description
Confident of a son, Sir Philip and Lady Anna Gordon plan to name their first child Stephen. Instead they receive a daughter—but they decide to keep the name anyway. Young Stephen Gordon continues to surprise her parents with her boisterous play, demands for shorter hair, and insistence on riding her horse astride. After a childhood crush on a housemaid, Stephen begins to realize for herself that she is different than the world expects. As Stephen grows into adulthood and leaves her home and then England, her life is continually shaped by her love and affection for other women.
Radclyffe Hall, like her protagonist, had a number of romantic relationships with other women,...
