"[T]his trivial and vulgar occasion": P.R. Stephensen's Lampoons of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness.
Within two years after the publication of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928), P.R. Stephensen wrote three lampoons, published in England, that took as their subject matter Hall's novel: The Sink of Solitude (1928), The Well of Sleevelessness: A Tale for the Least of These Little Ones (19...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 20 - 39 |
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