The Children’s Hour

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The Children’s Hour (Censorship (Ready Reference series))

The Work

The Children’s Hour is a combative play that challenged the moral values of contemporary American society. Its story is about two women who run a private school for girls. When they are unjustly accused by a pupil of being lesbians, outraged community members withdraw their children, forcing the school to close. When one of the women realizes that she is sexually attracted to her colleague, she commits suicide.

Before Lillian Hellman wrote The Children’s Hour, several Broadway plays had addressed lesbianism; however, her own play struck harder...

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• Lillian Hellman (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Lillian Hellman (Dictionary of World Biography)
• Lillian Hellman (Identities and Issues)
• Lillian Hellman (Drama)