Volume Is Suppressed, Indianapolis Times (Article, 1929)
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Volume Is Suppressed
Miss Radclyffe Hall of Great [Britain] wrote a book last year called "The Well of Loneliness," dealing with a delicate subject, which, however, is freely discussed in medical books. It is a beautiful piece of literary work, compassionate, [dignified], exquisite.
The Society for the Suppression of Vice, however, hustled it off the book stalls, arrested the publisher and so for several months the volume was "suppressed."
Everybody became eager to read it. It was bootlegged over the country and sold for from $10 to $15 a volume. Last week a decision was handed down by the court of special sessions in New York that the [publisher] had violated no law. "The Well of Loneliness" goes back on our virtuous shelves.
