The time when lesbian ‘obscenity’ reading was suppressed.

Radclyffe Hall, by Charles Buchel c. 1918. (Photo: Wiki Commons.)

On 9 November 1928 Bow Street Magistrates Court was crowded. D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow had been successfully prosecuted for obscenity in the same courtroom 13 years earlier. Now it was the turn of The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall. 

The perceived obscenity…