Talk:The Well of Loneliness

message: Why isn't there a plot summary ("Spoilers follow...")?
Nuttyskin 03:37, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You haven't written one yet. --Aim Here 07:12, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old comments 

message: I changed the rating of this page from 'stub' class to 'A' class - it looks extremely concise and well referenced.--HisSpaceResearch 06:48, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Although I agree in principle, I feel that an article should at least have undergone a peer review before it can be awarded with A-status. Without such a review, POV issues are much more likely to exist (in general). Errabee 14:30, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion moved from [[Talk:The Well of Loneliness/Comments]]

message: This shows that the publicity surrounding the book and the trial put the authorities off trying to ban other books. Worth a mention? Malick78 (talk) 19:18, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Impact

message: on your featured article! 
Can I suggest that the word "invert" should be consistently used in quote marks, starting at the sentence in the Intro: She finds love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their happiness together is marred by social isolation and rejection, which Hall depicts as having a debilitating effect on "inverts".  
The reason for this is that it is an historic term no longer in common parlance.  The casual reader is only to understand what an "invert" is by reference to "inverted sexuality" in the intro.  
Amandajm (talk) 01:12, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Congratulations....

message: I added the Portal bar to the bottom of the article, and it was subsequently moved to the See also section. I understand Portals often appear in the See also section, but I typically see Portal bar at the bottom of articles. What does the MoS say re: Portal bars? Also, is a See also section necessary when its only contents is a bar?  I find the bar in a section, as opposed to the bottom of an article distracting. Sorry to use this article's talk page for discussion about a portal bar. --Another Believer (Talk) 21:47, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portal bar 

message: "Little of Hall's novel can be discerned in its story of a butch lesbian who is blinded with acid and run over by a truck, freeing the naïve young roommate she seduced to find love with a fullback." The grammatical construction here is totally ambiguous. It can be read as either the butch lesbian seduced the roommate because her roommate was a fullback, or the roommate was free to pursue a relationship with a fullback after the butch lesbian died. Kaldari (talk) 02:14, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar problem 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: This is not a topic I know much about, so I don't plan to do this myself, but there's a letter of protest against the legal judgment in the Daily Telegraph, 22 Nov 1928, p10, signed by Vera Brittain, T S Eliot, E M Forster, John Buchan, Bernard Shaw, A P Herbert, Lytton Strachey, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, and many others, that deserves mention here. GrindtXX (talk) 18:39, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Daily Telegraph letter 

message: The article has some issues with the FA criteria. It has been tagged for citation needed or original research in some areas. Additionally, I was able to find more recent academic sources. Some of them pointed to gaps in the article's coverage, for example the quality of writing; "Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness has long been read as stylistically inferior to novels by Hall's ‘experimental’ peers. Led by Virginia and Leonard Woolf, the dominant opinion has, to quote Terry Castle, sentenced Hall to a reputation of ‘bad, bad, bad’ writing." (t · c) buidhe 19:56, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:URFA/2020|FA sweeps]] 

message: At the end of the first paragraph it says: 
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Although critics differ as to the value of The Well of Loneliness as a work of literature, its treatment of sexuality and gender continues to inspire study and debate.
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should we factor in here that (a) criticism is dominated by entrenched values in any given era and therefore prejudice against LGBTQ+ people may influence criticism? also (b) prejudice against women may also influence criticism?  Are we in danger of resinscribing such prejudices in such remarks? 
eg can we find male equivalents where in the first paragraph there is a similar claim made? - in terms of seminal queer writing it would have to be eg The Picture of Dorian Grey etc. 
Reading the entry for The Picture of Dorian Grey it says: 
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Wilde's only novel, it was subject to much controversy and criticism in its time but has come to be recognized as a classic of Gothic literature.
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Perhaps this might be a more equable way to describe The Well of Loneliness also?  eg something like 
Hall's only novel, it was subject to great criticism in its time (some of which may have been motivated by anti-queer prejudice) but has come to be recognised as a classic of queer literature. 
Thanks for any help and guidance! 
MiloQuest (talk) 06:33, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Literary quality question?