Episode 3: Radclyffe Hall & The Well of Loneliness

Hiiiiiii we did it again!  Sorry for the delay but there's a pandemic going on, so, you know. In this episode we jump all over the place but mostly, we talk about the light and the dark sides of the early 20th century classic lesbian novel "The Well of Loneliness" by Radclyffe Hall.  We're up, we're down, I forgot important details, I also have opinions I don't get into and I live google the Hicklin Test.  It's the gentlest wild ride of your life.

SOURCES:

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America: Lambda Literary Award winning book by Lillian Faderman

The Well of Loneliness

Radclyffe Hall

The Hicklin Test

Femme: Feminists, Lesbians & Bad Girls - Ed. Laura Harris & Elizabeth Crocker

Clare Hemmings (2001). ""All My Life I've Been Waiting For Something..." Theorizing Femme Narrative in The Well of Loneliness". In Doan, Laura; Prosser, Jay (eds.). Palatable Poison: Critical Perspectives on The Well of Loneliness. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-231-11874-3.

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