The Stone Wall. An Autobiography
Mary Casal
In casual, conversational and entirely frank form, a woman born in 1865 (and therefore, at the time of writing, in her sixties) tells the story of her entire life as a lesbian. With the exception of “slightly autobiographical”–and always greatly disguised–fiction, this is probably the earliest such memoir in the literature. The writing is highly competent and professional, (subtly denying the author’s insistence that she was not a writer;) and filled with most interesting revelations about the lesbian world of New York and Paris at the turn of this century. It stands alone as a classic of its kind.
The book generally believed to have been the inspiration for New York City’s Stonewall Inn, site of the 1969 Stonewall Riots which ushered in the American gay rights movement.
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| Genre | Autobiography/Biography |
| Publication Date | 1930 |
| Publisher | Eyncourt Press |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 227 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Great |
| BookID | 13066 |
