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The Well of Loneliness
The Well of Loneliness is a 1928 lesbian novel by the English author Radclyffe Hall. It follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose "sexual inversion" (that is, homosexuality) is apparent from an early age. Hall wrote The Well of Loneliness in part to popularize the ideas of sexologists such as Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Havelock Ellis, who regarded homosexuality as an inborn and inalterable trait The character finds love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their happiness together is marred by social isolation and rejection, which Hall depicts as having a debilitating effect on inverts. The novel portrays inversion as a natural, God-given state and makes an explicit plea: "Give us also the right to our existence". The Well became the target of a campaign by the editor of the Sunday Express newspaper, who wrote "I would rather give a healthy boy or a healthy girl a phial of prussic acid than this novel." Although its only sex scene consists of the words "and that night, they were not divided", a British court judged it obscene because it defended "unnatural practices between women". In the United States the book survived legal challenges in New York state and in Customs Court. Publicity over The Well's legal battles increased the visibility of lesbians in British and American culture. For decades it was the best-known lesbian novel in English, and often the first source of information about lesbianism that young lesbians could find.
Oxford English Dictionary: How the Lesbians finally muscled in
Sexual intercourse may have begun between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP, but the lesbian variety didn't made its debut until 1976. During the four decades it took to create the 12-volume Oxford English Dictionary, completed in 1928, Lesbian appeared only in reference to the island. During preparations for its 1933 Supplement, one lexicographer averred: "Lesbianism is no doubt a very disagreeable thing, but the word is in regular use, & no serious Supplement to our work should omit it." Omitted it was, though. Readers were left with Sapphism - which the Lancet in 1901 likened to morphiomania (opium craving). Lesbian surfaced only with 1976's Supplement, as an 1890 synonym for Tribadism. It became plain then that a full reworking of the dictionary was needed. Although the online edition is continually updated, digital searches still suggest that examples for many continuing usages petered out almost a century ago. The paucity of citations from 18th-century works is a reflection of Victorian taste waiting to be rectified. The first, 1930s supplement quickly absorbed cricket's bodyline controversy, but editors demurred over "muscle in". One of them reported: "My informant tells me that this phrase seems to be used in America by gangsters, and you may not wish to encourage them."

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