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Posted on February 18, 2021 by Aoife

S4 E7 Sexual inversion: Hall ‘The Well of Loneliness’ (1928)

Hall’s queer text was at the centre of a moral panic and censorship show trial in England. Why did the Irish censor ban it, when an English prohibition meant Irish booksellers couldn’t source the book?

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Categories20th century, America, Blog, Episode, Ireland, Podcast TagsProf Jana Funke, Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness, Una Troubridge

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