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| - | <div style="float:left;margin-right:0.9em"> Stephen begins to dress in masculine clothes made by a tailor rather than a dress-maker. At twenty-one she falls in love with Angela Crossby, the American wife of a new neighbor. Angela uses Stephen as an "[[anodyne]] against [[boredom]]", allowing her "a few rather schoolgirlish kisses". Then Stephen discovers that Angela is having an affair with a man. Fearing exposure, Angela shows a letter from Stephen to her husband, who sends a copy to Stephen's mother. Lady Anna denounces Stephen for "presum[ing] to use the word love in connection with... these [[unnatural]] [[craving]]s of your unbalanced mind and undisciplined body". Stephen replies, "As my father loved you, I loved.... It was good, good, ''[[good]]'' — I'd have laid down my life a thousand times over for Angela Crossby." After the argument, Stephen goes to her father's study and for the first time opens his locked bookcase. She finds a book by [[Krafft-Ebing]] — assumed by critics to be ''[[Psychopathia Sexualis]]'', a text about [[homosexuality]] and [[paraphilias]] — and, reading it, learns that she is an [[invert]]. --''[[The Well of Loneliness]]'' | + | <div style="float:left;margin-right:0.9em"> Stephen begins to dress in masculine clothes made by a tailor rather than a dress-maker. At twenty-one she falls in love with Angela Crossby, the American wife of a new neighbor. Angela uses Stephen as an "[[anodyne]] against [[boredom]]", allowing her "a few rather schoolgirlish kisses". Then Stephen discovers that Angela is having an affair with a man. Fearing exposure, Angela shows a letter from Stephen to her husband, who sends a copy to Stephen's mother. Lady Anna denounces Stephen for "presum[ing] to use the word love in connection with... these [[unnatural]] [[craving]]s of your unbalanced mind and undisciplined body". Stephen replies, "As my father loved you, I loved.... It was good, good, ''[[good]]'' — I'd have laid down my life a thousand times over for Angela Crossby." After the argument, Stephen goes to her father's study and for the first time opens his locked bookcase. She finds a book by [[Krafft-Ebing]] — assumed by critics to be ''[[Psychopathia Sexualis]]'', a text about [[homosexuality]] and [[paraphilias]] — and, reading it, learns that she is an [[Sexual inversion (sexology)|invert]]. --''[[The Well of Loneliness]]'' |
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Stephen begins to dress in masculine clothes made by a tailor rather than a dress-maker. At twenty-one she falls in love with Angela Crossby, the American wife of a new neighbor. Angela uses Stephen as an "anodyne against boredom", allowing her "a few rather schoolgirlish kisses". Then Stephen discovers that Angela is having an affair with a man. Fearing exposure, Angela shows a letter from Stephen to her husband, who sends a copy to Stephen's mother. Lady Anna denounces Stephen for "presum[ing] to use the word love in connection with... these unnatural cravings of your unbalanced mind and undisciplined body". Stephen replies, "As my father loved you, I loved.... It was good, good, good — I'd have laid down my life a thousand times over for Angela Crossby." After the argument, Stephen goes to her father's study and for the first time opens his locked bookcase. She finds a book by Krafft-Ebing — assumed by critics to be Psychopathia Sexualis, a text about homosexuality and paraphilias — and, reading it, learns that she is an invert. --The Well of Loneliness
