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M. Forster for his 1924 A Passage to India). The volume’s physical appearance and high price worked in tandem to establish the project’s credentials as serious and significant: the novel “was produced in a large format, in sombre black binding with a plain wrapper, and priced at fifteen shillings, twice the average price for a new novel. . ” Cape pitched the publicity, pricing and reviews not to Hall’s usual middlebrow following but to a more highbrow readership—a strategy that was, initially anyway, successful: between July 27 (the date of publication) and August 19 (the date of the Douglas editorial) the novel was reviewed in fourteen of the so-called quality newspapers and journals: “serious and authoritative critics .
A powerful example of the social climate. . ”15 Thanks to Douglas’s overblown invective such cultural myths continue to haunt our own reading of this cultural moment. To challenge these myths I first survey in greater detail the literary reviews of The Well of Loneliness prior to and after the Douglas attack to propose that the infamous “poison” quotation may itself be the aberration. Most reviewers were generally united in their sympathetic attitudes toward lesbianism and, even when critical of the tendentiousness of Hall’s project, dealt with its subject matter as simply another aspect of the novel, such as characterization or narrative form.
120 In this context the designation “ignorant” signified the absence of enlightened acceptance rather than lack of awareness.
