The unlit lamp

By Radclyffe Hall

Book Overview

Joan has a right to love whom she likes, and to go where she likes and to work and be independent and happy, and if she can't be happy then she has a right to make her own unhappiness; it's a thousand... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3368941887
• ISBN13: 9783368941888
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Outlook Verlag
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Unutterably sad, but how very real

In my own recent coming out experience, I've been soaking up lesbian literature. This book is helping me move from married to divorced. The story brings the reader painfully, achingly along with the protagonist, as all of her potential (vibrant physical health, powerful intellect, passion) is slowly killed off. Lacking any socially-approved way to leave her stultifying life, she slowly withers, while the reader witnesses it. Painful, yes, but inspirational as well. I do not want to wither on the vine.

Hall's greatest work

The Unlit Lamp has long remained hidden while Hall's lesser work, The Well of Loneliness, has gained a cult fame in lesbian circles. What a shame that this book should be so under-read. It's an excruciating story, in many ways, but told with such an intensely controlled fury that one is left in no doubt as to Hall's own rage over the huge personal losses incurred by prejudice.