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The Unlit Lamp

by Radclyffe Hall · 1924

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This novel portrays the love - and hate - that can exist between women. Joan's mother binds her daughter to her with hoops of steel, a trap which nothing can spring no career, no man and certainly no woman.

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1920s1920sMore like thisLess of this
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