![]() Like many writers, Hall inserted aspects of her experience into her novels. ![]() However, The Well, as a whole, is not a roman à clef, and this chapter provides invaluable insight into the cultural and social backdrop against which authors of Sapphic modernist romans à clef were working. 1 There is little doubt that Hall’s own life, and the lives of friends and acquaintances provided material and inspiration for The Well of Loneliness, published in 1928. ![]() Reflecting upon Radclyffe Hall’s decision to write a novel about the suffering of the female homosexual, Hall’s lover of almost three decades, Una Troubridge, wrote that: ‘it was her absolute conviction that such a book could only be written by a sexual invert, who alone could be qualified by personal knowledge and experience to speak on behalf of a misunderstood and misjudged minority’. ![]()
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