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A Marriage Below Zero by Alan Dale (1889) is one of the earliest novels in English to portray a homosexual male character at the center of a tragic story. Told through the eyes of Elsie Bouverie, the book follows her seemingly respectable Victorian marriage to Arthur Ravener—until she discovers that her husband’s true romantic attachment lies with another man.
As secrecy, repression, and societal expectations collide, the marriage grows cold and unsustainable. Bold and controversial for its time, A Marriage Below Zero remains a powerful early work in LGBTQ literary history.