The Well of Loneliness
The book is about an upper-class English lesbian called Stephen Gordon. They find love with Mary Llewellyn, whom they meet while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. Their happiness together is spoilt by social isolation and rejection.  The novel portrays "inversion" (homosexuality) and androgyny as a natural, God-given state and makes a plea: "Give us also the right to our existence".