How long does it take to read The Well of Loneliness?
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall takes about 9 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 8 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1928. 498 pages, about 136,950 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 86 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parentsa fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions.
Subjects: Lesbians, Fiction, Social conditions, Fiction, lesbian, England, fiction, Fiction, lgbtq+, lesbian
