The Well of Loneliness

An upper-class Englishwoman named Stephen who was meant to be a boy, her ambulance service in the war, and the woman she loves. Published in 1928, tried for obscenity and ordered destroyed in Britain, where it was banned for over twenty years - the first English novel to argue openly for the right of a lesbian to exist. Fifty-eight paintings by Walter Sickert and John Constable, among others, trace the streets, shops and coasts of the world Stephen moves through between 1819 and 1919.