![]() ![]() ![]() It would have seemed to the casual observer in the late 1920s that what had hitherto been a taboo subject was finally, thanks to modern frankness, being treated openly.īy then, as I have observed elsewhere, widespread acceptance of love between women, as manifested in the institutions of romantic friendship and Boston marriage, was long since dead. In that same year a number of other fairly explicit novels dealing with lesbianism were also published. ![]() In his 1928 preface to The Well of Loneliness, Havelock Ellis described Radclyffe Hall's book as "the first English novel which presents, in a completely faithful and uncompromising form," a study of love between women. Love Between Women in 1928: Why Progressivism Is Not Always Progress Lillian Faderman Love Between Women in 1928: Why Progressivism Is Not Always Progress - Lillian Faderman - Lodestar Quarterly Lodestar Quarterly ![]()
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