Mary Casal, pseudonym of Ruth Fuller Field (1864-1935): The 1930 Autobiography of an American Lesbian, by Jonathan Ned Katz

The Stone Wall, the autobiography of Ruth Fuller Field, was published under the name "Mary Casal" in Chicago in 1930. The text presents the extraordinarily frank sexual and affectional life history of an American lesbian. OutHistory presents an introduction to the memoir, a long excerpt from it, a bibliography of sources about Field, and a chronology of her life by Francisco Araujo da Costa. Last Edit November 23, 2020.