The Well of Loneliness

After publication in 1928, it was banned for obscenity before going on to become an international bestseller.

It tells the story of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family who is ostracised for falling in love with another woman, Mary Llewellyn.

Groundbreaking in its day, Radclyffe Hall’s story ultimately makes a very clear plea in regards to homosexuality - ‘Give us also the right to our existence’.