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Caroline Derry
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Aug 19, 2026
‘Born this way’: Sexual Inversion, Obscenity and The Well of Loneliness (Prof Caroline Derry)
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Erica RackleyHOST
And I wondered, was this part of the ongoing effect of the trial and what happened as a result of this?

Caroline DerryGUEST
Radcliffe Hall was very influenced by sexology, which had developed in the late 19th century as a sort of medical slash scientific discipline.

Caroline DerryGUEST
And some of the early work in sexology was really judgmental and aimed really at assisting the police.

Caroline DerryGUEST
But other sexologists were much more sympathetic to the people they described.

Sharon ThompsonHOST
Could you talk a little bit more about that and about how the impact has become more apparent over time and the ongoing impact now on understandings of lesbians and lesbianism? Yeah, so