by Jane Rule
Bible, 19. See also Old Testament
Bisexuality, 35-36 ff. See also specific authors
Bloomsbury group, 53-54
Bonmariage, M., 128
Book of Thank You, The, 69
Bowen, Elizabeth, 115-25
Brazil, 16
Brewsie and Willie, 73
Bridgman, Richard, 68-69, 69-70
Brittain, Vera, 59-60
Bromfield, Louis, 62
Brothels, as treatment, 34
Brown, Rita Mae, 194-95, 203, 205
Burning
with iron bar, as test of guilt, 23
as punishment, 22
Butler, Lady Eleanor, 136-37
Canada, the law in, 25
Caprio, Frank, 46
Caruso, Dorothy, 154, 155
Cassandra at the Wedding, 157, 158, 161-63
Catching Saradove, 193
Cather, Willa, 74-87, 166
Catholic Hospital Association, 30
Catholicism (the Church). See also Christianity; specific followers
Willa Cather and, 86-87
Celibacy, 14, 24 ff.
Christ’s, 20
Challenge, 96-98
Chesler, Phyllis, 44
Children, 14, 17, 20, 22
left-handed, 46-47
Christ and the Homosexual, 28
Christianity (Christians), 14, 19-30, 44. See also specific sects
Christina of Sweden, 100
Church, the. See Christianity
Claudine at School, 128-29
Claudine in Paris, 129
Claudine Married, 129-31
Clitoris, 35-36, 38, 40
removal of, 22
Cocteau, Jean, 145
Colette, 126-38, 155, 175, 188
May Sarton and, 173
Colette (Marks), 132
Compton-Burnett, Ivy, 105-14
Confessions of Cherubino, 193
Cory, Donald Webster, 61
Courtly love, 22-23
Craigin, Elisabeth, 188
Crosland, Margaret, 128
Dark Island, The, 101-4
Daughter of France, 90
Daughters Inc., 183, 194
Daughters of Bilitis, 198-99
Daughters of the Moon, 190-91
Day We Were Mostly Butterflies, The, 194
Death. See also Suicide
punishment by, 13, 17, 18
result of aversion therapy, 44
Death Comes for the Archbishop, 86-87
Death of the Heart, The, 119, 121
Degeneracy (degeneration), 32 ff.
Demeter, 16
Desert of the Heart, The, 1
Deutsch, Helene, 37-38
Devil, the, 22 ff.
Dickens, Charles, 106
Diderot, Denis, 24
Dionysus, 16
Divorce, 13
Doctors, 31-49
Doerner, Professor, 39
Dora (Freud’s patient), 36
Double negative, 13
Dreams, 35, 36-37
Drinking, as treatment, 34
Duffy, Maureen, 175-82
Duncan, Isadora, 155
Educating Our Daughters, 6
Education, Greek, 14
Edwardes, Allen, 15-16
Edwardians, The, 98, 100
Ego, 40
Egypt, 23
Either Is Love, 187-88
Eleusinian mysteries, 16
Eliot, T. S., 187
Ellis, Havelock, 31, 33-34
and Well of Loneliness, 52
Emetics, in aversion therapy, 44
England, 25, 26. See also specific writers
and publication of Well of Loneliness, 52-53
Eskimo, 16
Esquire, 206
Eva Trout, 121-25
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, 46
Family and a Fortune, A, 107
Father and His Fate, A, 107
Father fixation. See Psychology; specific authors
Female Homosexuality, 46
Fiery Fountains, The, 148, 149
Finlayson, Judith, 8
Flagellation, 20
Flanner, Janet, 133
Ford, Clellan, 41
Ford, Father John, 30
Fornication, Presbyterian Church and, 28
Forster, E. M., 53
France. See also specific writers and Well of Loneliness, 52
Fremstad, Olive, 75, 84
Freud, Sigmund (Freudians), 30, 31, 34, 37 ff.
Violette Leduc and, 141, 144
May Sarton and, 166, 173
Leonard and Virginia Woolfs’ English publication of, 54
Friedan, Betty, 202-3, 204
Frigidity, 32, 40
Gauthier-Villars, Henri (Willy), 127-28
“Gay is Good,” 205
Gearhart, Sally, 29
Genet, Jean, 145
“Gentle Lena, The,” 68
Gertrude Stein in Pieces (Bridgman), 68-69, 69-70
Gigi, 138
Glide Publications, 198
God and His Gifts, A, 106-7
Gods and goddesses, 15 ff.
Goldman, Emma, 148
Gomorrah, 18-19
“Good Anna, The,” 68
Goudeket, Maurice (third husband of Colette), 132
Greece (Greeks), 14-15, 16, 19, 20
Greer, Germaine, 206
Gurdjieff, G. I., 149, 150, 153, 154
“Habit,” 132
Haggerty, Joan, 190-91
Hall, Radclyffe, 3, 50-61
Hambourg, Isabelle McClung, 74 ff., 84
Hambourg, Jan, 76, 77
Harris, Bertha, 193
Heap, Jane, 149-52, 155, 156
Heat of the Day, 118
Hemingway, Ernest, 154
Heredity. See Psychology
Heresy, 22-23
Heritage and Its History, A, 107-8
Hirschfeld (psychologist), 31, 33
Homosexuality: A Contemporary View of the Biblical Perspective, 27-28
Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition, 26
Hormones, 41
The Hotel, 115-18, 119, 121
Howard, Elizabeth Jane, 191-93
Hypnosis, 33
Hypothalamus, 39
Indulgent Husband, The, 129-31
Israelites, 16-19
James, Henry, 87
Jesus Christ, 19, 20, 22
Jewel in the Lotus, The, 15-16
Jews, 16-19
Willa Cather and anti-Semitism, 75
John, St., 20
John Chrysostom, St., 21
Johnston, Jill, 201, 202, 205-8, 209
Jones, Bruce, 28
Jones, H. Kimball, 26-27
Josephus, Flavius, 19
Jourdain, Margaret, 105, 109-10, 113
Journal of a Solitude, 164
Jouvenel, Henri de (second husband of Colette), 132
Joyce, James, 147, 151
Judgment of Got (test), 23
Kelly, Father Gerald, 30
Kennedy, Flo, 204
Kidd, Roger, 109-10
Kinds of Love, 174
King, Louise, 194
Kinsey, Alfred C., 41-43, 45
Klein, Marcus, 79
Knole (English house), 88-89 ff., 96
Korner, John, 9
Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, 31, 32
Hall and, 50, 55
Ladder, The, 157, 198
Ladders to Fire, 188
Language, 13
Last of Chéri, The, 132-33
Latent homosexuality, Freud and, 35, 36
Law, sources of, 12 ff.
Lawrence, D. H., 50
Margaret Anderson and, 151
Willa Cather and, 87
Leblanc, Georgette, 150, 152-54 ff., 156
Leduc, Violette, 139-46
Left-handedness, 46-47
Leonardo da Vinci, 41
Lesbian in American Society, The, 61
Lesbian Nation, 205-8
Lesbian/Woman, 29, 198, 199-201, 202
on Well of Loneliness, 61
Lesbos, 14
“Letter from Mary, A,” 205
Leviticus, 17
Lewis, Edith, 74-75 ff.
Lifting Belly, 69, 71
Little Girls, The, 115, 119-21, 125
Little Review, The, 147 ff.
Lost Lady, A, 81
Lot, 18
Louis XIII, 100
Love, Barbara, 202-3, 204
Love Between Women, 38-39
Love Child, 181-82
Lowell, Amy, 148
Lucy Gayheart, 81-83
Lyon, Phyllis, 29, 198, 199-201, 202
and Well of Loneliness, 61
Lysergic acid, 44
McCall Publishing Company, 198
McClung, Judge, 76, 77
McClung, Isabelle, 74 ff., 84
McGovern, George, 204
Mad in Pursuit, 139, 140
Mailer, Norman, 206
Making of Americans, 70
Male homosexuality, 13 ff., 25 ff. See also specific authors
Mansfield, Katherine, 79
Marks, Elaine, 132
Marriage, 5-6. See also Law, sources of; specific authors
Martin, Del, 29, 198, 199-201, 202, 204
and Well of Loneliness, 61
Martyrdom, 20
Mary, the Virgin, 20
Masochism, 37
Masturbation, 32, 40, 55
Violette Leduc and, 140, 144
Maurice, 53
Meakers, Marijane, 193-94
“Melanctha,” 63-64, 68
Memoirs of a Nun, 24
Mental illness, 44-45
Microcosm, The, 175-78, 181
Middle East, 15-16
Millett, Kate, 203
Moll (psychologist), 31
Monasteries, 20, 21
Morality, 12-30
More Women than Men, 110-13
Morgan, Claire, 189-90
Morgan, Robin, 201-2, 205, 208-9
Morris, Desmond, 41
Mother-fixation. See Psychology; specific authors
Mother of Us All, The, 73
Mrs. Stevens hears the mermaids singing, 164, 166, 168-73
Muir, Edwin, 106
Murray Scott, Sir John, 89
Mutilation, as punishment, 22
My Antonia, 75, 77, 80, 81
“My Friend Valentine,” 133
My Mortal Enemy, 79, 80-81, 86
My Thirty Years’ War, 147-48, 155
Narcissism, 37, 42
Narration, 73
N.O.W., 194, 199, 200, 202-3, 204
New York, 201, 204. See also specific authors
Nicolson, Harold, 88-89 ff., 99-100, 101, 104
Nicolson, Nigel, 90, 95, 96
Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West. See Sackville-West, Vita
Nightwood, 186-87
Nin, Anaïs, 188
North America, 25. See also United States
“Notes on Homosexuality,” 45
“Nuit Blanch,” 132
Nunneries (nuns, religious orders), 20, 21, 24
Obedience experiments, 43
Odd Girl Out, 191-93
Old Testament, 18, 22. See also Jews
Leviticus, 17
Orgasm, 36, 40, 42-43
Orlando, 53, 96
Orleans, 22
Orléans, Anne-Marie Louise d’, 90, 100
Out of the Closets, Voices of Gay Liberation, 204-5
Palestine, 19
Paradox Players, The, 182
Paranoid tendencies, 40
Passivity, 37
Patience and Sarah (A Place for Us), 183-84, 190
Paul, St., 19
Penis, 36
envy, 34, 37, 38
Penitentials, 21
Persia, 22
Philo, 19
Picasso, Pablo, 73
Pinney, Hester, 110
Place for Us, A, 183-84, 190
Plato, 16
Polaire, 128
Portrait of a Marriage. See Nicolson, Nigel
Pound, Ezra, 147, 148
Power, Gertrude Stein on, 72-73
Presbyterian Church, 28
Price of Salt, The, 189-90
Primitive tribes, 35
Professor’s House, The, 75, 84-85
Prostitution (prostitutes), 16, 19, 20
brothels for treatment, 34
Presbyterian Church and, 28
David Reuben on, 46
Psychology, 31-49
Psychopathia Sexualis, 50
Pure and the Impure, The, 127, 131, 133-38
Q.E.D., 62-68, 71-73
Quakers, 28
Radicalesbians, 204, 205
Randall, John H., III, 75, 79
Religion, 16 ff. See also Christianity
and left-handedness, 47
Religion and the Decline of Magic, 23-24
Reuben, David, 46
Right-handedness, 46-47
Rites, 178-79
Roman Empire, 21
Routsong, Alma, 183-84
Rubyfruit Jungle, 194-95
Sackville-West, Lionel, 88, 89
Sackville-West, Victoria, 88 ff.
Sackville-West, Vita, 53, 88-104
Sappho, 14, 15, 16, 174
Ann Aldrich and, 197
Sappho Was a Right-On Woman, 202-3
Sarton, May, 164-74
Saturday Review Press, 198
Schroeter, James, 75
Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley, 74, 77, 79
Sexual Politics, 203
Shadows on the Rock, 86
Shelly, Martha, 205
Shockproof Sydney Skate, 193-94
Shock treatment, 44
Sickness, 31-49
Sissinghurst Castle, 88-90, 96
Sisterhood Is Powerful, 201
Skinner, B. F., 43
Small Room, The, 166-68
Sodom, 18-19
Song of the Lark, The, 75, 81, 83-84
Sparta, 14
Stein, Gertrude, 62-73, 154
and Margaret Anderson, 155
and Willa Cather, 87
Stein, Leo, 70-71
Strachey, Lytton, 53
Strange Necessity, The, 148
Suicide, 20
Summa Theologica, 21-22
Suyin, Han, 2, 189
Szasz, Thomas, 31, 38, 44-45
“Take a Lesbian to Lunch,” 194, 203
Tender Buttons, 69
That’s How It Was, 180-81
Therese and Isabelle, 140-41
Thielicke, Helmut, 26
Things as They Are. See Q.E.D.
Thomas, Keith, 23-24
Thomas Aquinas, St., 21-22, 30
Thompson, Clara, 45
Three Lives, 63, 68
Time, 203
Toklas, Alice B., 63, 69-71, 72, 154
Torchlight to Valhalla, 185-86
Toward a Christian Understanding of the Homosexual, 26
Toward a Quaker View of Sex, 28
Treese, Robert L., 27-28
Trefusis, Denys, 94, 95
Trefusis, Violet, 90, 92-95 ff.
Trilling, Diana, 206
Trilling, Lionel, 75
Trio, 157-61
Troubadours, 22-23
Troubridge, Una, Lady, 51, 52, 54
Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich, 31-32
Radclyffe Hall and, 50-51, 55
Ulysses, 147
United Presbyterian Church, 28
United States, 25. See also specific writers
Challenge published in, 97
and publication of Well of Loneliness, 52
Vagabond, The, 131
Vagina, 38
Vaginal orgasm, 36, 40
Van de Haag, Ernest, 45
Venus of Cyprus, 16
Village Voice, The, 205
Vinci, Leonardo da, 41
Vivien, Renee, 135-36
Vomiting, induced, in aversion therapy, 44
Vote, Gertrude Stein
and women’s, 73
Walker, Marion, 63, 72
Weisstein, Naomi, 43
Well of Loneliness, The, 3, 4, 50-51, 52-61
West Coast Lesbian-Feminist Conference, 201
Westphal (psychologist), 31, 32-33
We Too Are Drifting, 185
We, Too, Must Love, 197
We Walk Alone, 197
What Is Remembered, 70, 71, 154
Wilhelm, Gale, 185-86
Willy. See Gauthier-Villars, Henri
Willy, Colette et Moi, 128
Winter Love, 2, 189
Witchcraft (witches), 23-24, 44
Wolbarst, Ellis agrees with, 34
Wolff, Charlotte, 38-41
“Woman-Identified Woman, The,” 205
Women and Madness, 44
Women’s Liberation (women’s movement), 9-10, 198-209
Wood, Robert W., 28
Woodress, James, 76
Woolf, Leonard, 96
and Radclyffe Hall, 54
Woolf, Virginia, 90, 95-96, 101, 104
and Well of Loneliness, 53, 54
World of Love, A, 118, 121
Wounds, 179-80
Youth and the Bright Medusa, 81
Zanzibar, 16
Zoroaster, 22
About the Author
Jane Rule (1931–2007) was the author of several novels and essay collections, including the groundbreaking lesbian love story Desert of the Heart (1964), which was made into the feature film Desert Hearts. She was inducted into the Order of Canada in 2007. Born in New Jersey, Rule moved to Canada in 1956, and lived on Galiano Island, British Columbia, until her death at the age of seventy-six.
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