![]() ![]() He wrote to several doctors asking for a clinical analysis of what he called 'homo-sexualists'. ![]() Its publisher, Jonathan Cape, launched an appeal which proved abortive.ĭocuments show how Sir Archibald Bodkin, Director of Public Prosecutions, feared that the publisher would mobilise eminent writers to defend the book. Sir Chartres Biron, the chief magistrate at Bow Street, ruled that the novel was an 'obscene libel' and all copies should be destroyed. She attended the trial in November 1928 dressed in a leather driving coat and Spanish riding hat. Hall, a flamboyant lesbian, wrote The Well of Loneliness to 'put my pen at the service of some of the most misunderstood people in the world'. Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, his Chancellor, Winston Churchill, and Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks went to great lengths to suppress the book. ![]()
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