X-Nico

2 unusual facts about The Well of Loneliness


Havelock Ellis

She later referred to herself as a sexual invert and wrote of female "sexual inverts" in Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself and The Well of Loneliness.

When Ellis bowed out as the star witness in the trial of The Well of Loneliness on 14 May 1928, Norman Haire was set to replace him but no witnesses were called.


Radclyffe

:This article is about the contemporary writer Radclyffe; for the author of The Well of Loneliness see Radclyffe Hall.

William Melville

Had successfully defended anarchists; also unsuccessfully acted in appeal against the obscenity decision re: Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness.


see also

Radclyffe Hall

Lovat Dickson (1975): Radclyffe Hall and the Well of Loneliness: A Sapphic Chronicle (HarperCollins)