The Well of Loneliness · Chapter
Author's Note explained
The author disclaims any intentional reference to real persons or events, clarifying that all characters are imaginary and that the motor ambulance unit depicted in the book is entirely fictional, despite the historical existence of similar
What happens
The author disclaims any intentional reference to real persons or events, clarifying that all characters are imaginary and that the motor ambulance unit depicted in the book is entirely fictional, despite the historical existence of similar units.
Key passages
“All the characters in this book are purely imaginary, and if the author in any instance has used names that may suggest a reference to living persons, she has done so inadvertently.”
The author states that every character is fictional, and any resemblance to real people is accidental.
Standard disclaimer of fictionality.
“A motor ambulance unit of British women drivers did very fine service upon the Allied front in France during the later months of the war, but although the unit mentioned in this book, of which Stephen Gordon becomes a member, operates in much the same area, it has never had any existence save in the author’s imagination.”
While real British women drove ambulances in France late in the war, the specific unit Stephen Gordon joins is entirely invented.
Acknowledges historical inspiration while asserting fictional creation.