The Well of Loneliness

‘As a man loved a woman, that was how I loved…It was good, good, good…’Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents – a fencer,a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be awar hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover.But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As herambitions drive her, andsociety confines her, Stephen isforced into desperate actions.The Well of Loneliness was banned for obscenity whenpublished in 1928. It became an international bestseller,and for decades was the single most famous lesbian novel.It has influenced how love betweenwomen is understood,for the twentieth century and beyond.