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Has anyone looked at the influence of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness on Claudine? It seems to me that the eponymous main character is partly influenced by Hall's protagonist, Stephen Gordon. Given the period setting, I wonder, too, whether we are meant to interpret Claudine as trans in the modern sense, or as what sexologists of the 1920s-30s, as referenced by Hall, called an "invert" or "third sex"? Claudine's psychiatrist's speeches would fit that context, too. A comparison with The Well of Loneliness would be interesting. Silverwhistle (talk) 09:37, 6 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Could very well be true, but we would need to find and cite some publications for the analysis (or an interview etc with the author about their influences, maybe). I didn't actually find much at all on the internet (even in Japanese) when searching for reliable sources to use in this article - mainly the reviews I listed on this talk page - so it might be difficult without access to Japanese print media from when the series came out.--Alexandra IDVtalk10:42, 6 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
