Beyond The Well of Loneliness by Claudia Stillman Franks

The first general critical assessment and full-length study of Radclyffe Hall’s novels and short stories, in which she experimented successfully with a wide range of themes and character types. Claudia Stillman Franks sees it as important to view the “novels and stories within the complex texture of her experience, rather than to treat them as an extension of one part of her life. . . [and] to discuss her as a writer of talent, one whose books are still worth reading today, rather than as part of a particular movement or as an early advocate of attitudes which she may not have foreseen.”