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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Checklist, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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+Title: Checklist
+       A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and
+       homosexual fiction, in English or available in English
+       translation, with supplements of related material, for the
+       use of collectors, students and librarians.
+
+Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley
+
+Release Date: March 17, 2012 [EBook #39184]
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+Language: English
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+Marion Zimmer Bradley
+
+
+_CHECKLIST_
+
+
+  A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian,
+  variant and homosexual fiction, in English
+  or available in English translation, with
+  supplements of related material, for the use
+  of collectors, students and librarians.
+
+
+table of contents
+
+
+  Editorial; History and purpose of the Checklist           2
+
+  List of symbols and abbreviations                         6
+
+  The complete cumulative Checklist, indexed by author      7
+
+  The poetry of Lesbiana; chronological reference
+    list (compiled by Gene Damon)                          58
+
+  Variant Films                                            61
+
+  Related Publications; the homosexual Press               63
+
+  For Collectors Only; a list of book services             64
+
+  Paperback Publishers; addresses                          65
+
+  Hardcover Publishers; addresses                          66
+
+  Behind the scenes; meet the editors                      68
+
+
+  Edited and Published by: MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
+  Associate Editor: GENE DAMON
+  Cover design and layouts by Kerry Dame
+
+
+  Entire contents copyright, May 1960, by Marion Zimmer Bradley,
+  Box 158, Rochester, Texas. All rights reserved.
+
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+
+editorial
+
+THE PURPOSE AND HISTORY OF THE CHECKLIST
+
+
+Here, in a single volume, it has been our intention to list, document
+and review every novel dealing, however slightly, with female variance,
+lesbianism or intense emotional relationships between women. We have
+also included a majority of the better known novels which, dealing
+primarily with male homosexuality, are of interest to the collector of
+variant fiction in general.
+
+In related supplements we have compiled lists of variant poetry, variant
+films, of the major book services and publishing houses where these
+books can be obtained, and of the homosexual press.
+
+The titles in the major portion of the Checklist are listed in a single
+comprehensive index by author. Information includes date published,
+number of reprints and publisher’s name. Brief reviews are included of
+most titles. An effort has been made in each case to distinguish whether
+the work under discussion is a novel about lesbianism, whether the
+variant content has been included mostly for shock effect, or whether
+(as in some excellent modern novels) homosexual characters appear
+incidentally to the other main themes of action in the book.
+
+In such a comprehensive listing, reviews must of necessity be brief. For
+further discussion of many of the titles listed here, with excellent and
+complete critical analysis of their variant content, the serious student
+or collector is earnestly urged to invest in the definitive and major
+work on the subject:
+
+  FOSTER, Jeannette Howard; _Sex Variant Women in
+    Literature._ N. Y. Vantage Press, 1956.
+
+
+Although now officially out of print, this book can occasionally be
+obtained second hand, and copies will soon be offered for sale through
+the Daughters of Bilitis publication, THE LADDER. (See appendix.) We
+have made no effort to give more than cursory reviews of titles which
+are discussed at length in Dr. Foster’s work. However, since the
+publication of the Foster book, many new novels of lesbianism have been
+published, and the diligent search of many collectors, working with the
+Checklist editors, has brought many old ones to light.
+
+We have tried to review in some detail the novels which were omitted
+from Dr. Foster’s work, and to strive for completeness, even at the
+expense of discriminatory judgment about the excellence or otherwise of
+the works included. Therefore this Checklist includes many works whose
+lesbian content was too slight, too subtle—or too “trashy”—to have
+come within the scope of the scholarly studies of Dr. Foster or the
+running column, _Lesbiana_, conducted by junior editor Gene Damon in
+the pages of THE LADDER.
+
+It is our further contention that many novels dealing with male
+homosexuality come also within the province of the serious collector of
+lesbiana. We make, however, no claim for completeness for novels which
+fall within the homosexual, rather than the lesbian province. In
+general, the male titles included in this list—clearly defined, in each
+case, by the sign (m)—have been included because they were of special
+interest to the editors and therefore are presumably of interest to
+other collectors of lesbiana.
+
+For those who wish a complete list of works dealing with male
+homosexuality, we suggest the comprehensive bibliography compiled by
+Noel I. Garde, discussed in the Appendix of Related Publications. Mr.
+Garde has indexed virtually every homosexual work from antiquity to the
+latest paperback shocker, and has also performed the mighty task of
+separating them into categories ... a task from which the Checklist
+editors have shrunk, though we have made some attempt at classification
+in our reviews and by awarding a plus sign to books of exceptional
+value. (For further discussion of this division, please consult the
+“List of Symbols and Abbreviations” on page 2.)
+
+Most of the reviews in the present listing were written by one of the
+editors; no attempt has been made to divide the reviews written by MZB
+from those written by Damon. In general, these reviews have been
+gathered from so many sources that the awarding of individual credit
+would be impossible.
+
+This Checklist, 1960, is the last of the cumulative Checklists. Plans at
+present are to publish brief supplements annually, listing only new
+titles, new reprints of old titles, or new discoveries of overlooked
+titles. Since this is the case, we feel that some brief history of the
+Checklist might be of interest to the readers.
+
+Nearly 10 years ago, in the mailing of the Fantasy Amateur Press
+Association, a very bitter discussion was raging on the subject of
+censorship—pro and con. Complicating this discussion, a man who is now
+dead, and shall therefore be nameless, published a scathing attack on
+homosexuals. By way of subtle reproof, and partially as a deadpan joke
+on this man, your senior editor, with Royal Drummond (whose “Digression”
+was highly praised by Checklist readers last year ...) published a
+12-page offset leaflet, with editorials attacking censorship, and
+extensive reviews of perhaps a dozen of the best known homosexual
+novels. This leaflet had a cartoon cover and the general light-hearted
+tone of the publication was indicated by the title, which was _Fairy
+Tales for Fabulous Faps_. Reaction to this leaflet was mixed, but in
+general the readers enjoyed it, and said, “Do this again some time — ”.
+However, soon after this, Mr. Drummond dropped out of the Fantasy
+Amateur Press Association, and your present editor had no impetus to
+continue the series single-handed.
+
+Early in the history of the publication known as THE LADDER, your senior
+editor had the privilege of reviewing the Foster book mentioned above,
+while the junior editor was in charge of the _Lesbiana_ column. After
+reading the Foster work, your editor (MZB) resolved to publish a list of
+the omitted titles; when I began cutting the mimeograph stencils,
+however, I resolved to review not only the titles which Dr. Foster had
+omitted, but all of those which I had read, for the purpose of putting
+into print my own personal opinions and reactions. This first Checklist
+was called _Astra’s Tower #2_, and the number 2 seems to have baffled a
+good many people—they all wrote in, inquiring about #1. Number 1,
+however, was a mimeographed booklet of my own fiction, published during
+my late teens for the FAPA, mentioned above.
+
+Through this first Checklist, I came into contact with Miss Damon, and
+because paperback lesbiana was blossoming on all the stands, we quickly
+resolved to publish another Checklist. I had fully intended to give Miss
+Damon full credit for her work last year; however, the mimeograph work
+on last year’s list was so poor, the quality of the paper so bad, and
+some unreliable reviewers fouled me up so badly on data, that I refused
+to foist off any portion of the blame on other shoulders.
+
+The relaxing of censorship of recent years—as documented in the Supreme
+Court judgment relevant to _Lady Chatterley’s over_, etc.—has meant,
+in recent fiction, fewer taboos and in general a franker treatment of
+sexual themes. On the whole this is a good thing. However and
+unfortunately, it has also released a flood of trash and borderline
+erotica, of no literary worth and “interesting” only for the sexual
+content. Your editors have conscientiously waded through all this
+newsstand slush (and believe me, we get no kick out of it) because
+experience has taught us that even the worst peddlers of commercialized
+sex-trash sometimes come up with exceptionally well-written, honest and
+sincere work. For instance, Beacon Books (a subsidiary of Universal
+Publishing and Distributing Company)—some of whose paperback originals
+can be called printable only by the uttermost charity,—are currently
+also publishing the work of Artemis Smith, one of the major writers in
+the variant field today.
+
+However, actually reviewing the majority of this stuff is impossible.
+Most of these books are not novels at all. They have impossibly complex
+plots—or no plots at all—since the story exists only as an excuse for
+the characters to jump into amorous exercise with the closest male, or
+female, or sometimes both. This sort of thing, “lesbian” only remotely,
+belongs more properly to the field of curiosa. One can, of course,
+display a Place Pigalle post card in a gallery with the Botticelli
+Venus, and classify them both as “nudes”. I personally consider this an
+insult to the Venus, and the devotee of “feelthy peectures” will find
+the restraint and taste of fine art too tame for his jaded tastes.
+
+We are unalterably opposed to most censorship—but after wading through
+almost a hundred books whose only excuse for existence is to provide
+phony “thrills” for people too inhibited, too ignorant or too fearful to
+provide their own, well—we think wistfully of some self-imposed
+standards of taste.
+
+We also realize, flatly and realistically, that too much license in this
+stuff is going to bring on a wave of public reaction which may impose a
+sure-enough censorship—making the standards of the 1940s and 1950s look
+liberal.
+
+Now obviously the field of homosexual literature is going to place a
+certain emphasis on the sexual problems of humanity which will be
+quantitatively greater than that of—say—the Western novel, or the
+detective story. Sex alone has not been made an excuse for consigning
+any novel to the trashbin. If the treatment is honest, the characters
+even remotely believable and the purpose of the book seems reasonably
+genuine, then the quantity of sex is purely a matter for the author’s
+discretion; and be it much, as in the works of March Hastings, Artemis
+Smith or Henry Miller, or little, as in Iris Murdoch’s delicate and
+subtle THE BELL, or Shirley Jackson’s THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE,—we
+give the book judgment only on its merits as a book.
+
+However, in self-defense, we have had to find a way to dispose of the
+more repetitive rubbish. Allowing for differences in taste, and granting
+that many people like their books well-spiced, if there is a reasonably
+well-written story along with the sex we have called it “Evening
+waster”—on the grounds that it may very well provide pleasant
+entertainment for anyone not a hopeless prude. But if the story is just
+a peg on which to hang up a lot of poorly written, gamy erotic episodes,
+with no literary value, and just evasive enough to keep the printer out
+of jail, then we have given it short shrift with the abbreviation
+“scv”—which cryptic letters are editorial shorthand for “Short Course
+in Voyeurism”—and have been the basis of a lot of jokes in the tedious
+business of passing reviews around the editorial staff (The junior and
+senior editors live a thousand miles apart and have never met; the
+others who occasionally contribute reviews are scattered from Alabama to
+Oregon.). So we have to have some fun in the endless correspondence—and
+“scv” books are fair game.
+
+Regrettably, we are well aware that some people are going to use this
+designation in precisely the opposite fashion than we intended—go
+through the list picking out the sexy books and carefully avoiding the
+others. Well—we shan’t spoil your fun. Each to her own taste, as the
+old lady said when she kissed the cow.
+
+We wish here to give some slight acknowledgment to all those who, over
+the years since the initiation of this endeavor, have contributed
+overlooked titles, pointed out our errors, sent comments, criticisms and
+sometimes cash, laboriously tracked down elusive data, worked as unpaid
+researchers and stencil-cutters, and in general helped us to feel we
+were not working in a vacuum.
+
+Special acknowledgments are due to Dr. Jeannette Howard Foster,
+unfailingly generous and gracious in allowing us to pick her brains; to
+Leslie Laird Winston, of the Winston Book Service; to the editors of THE
+LADDER, Del Martin in particular, for helping us to publicize our
+Checklist, and for allowing us to use reviews run in the _Lesbiana_
+column; to Forrest Ackerman, for endless help and encouragement; and to
+Kerry Dame, whose generous gift of stamps proved invaluable to the heavy
+load of correspondence necessary to keep this one-woman publishing house
+rolling. And to all those others, anonymous by choice, who have sent
+small gifts of cash and stamps, turned up elusive paperbacks for me in
+news-standless West Texas, contributed reviews and data, and, above all,
+provided cheer and encouraging support. We hope this Checklist is half
+as much fun for you to read as it was for us—all things considered—to
+prepare.
+
+And here at the end I take off my editorial “We” for a special, personal
+THANK YOU to my collaborator and co-editor, GENE DAMON.
+
+And now, until the first Supplement time, it’s time to turn the
+Checklist over to you. Comments and criticisms are invited.
+
+  Marion Z Bradley
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+List of Symbols and Abbreviations
+
+
+  pbo—paperbacked original; first published in paperback
+        or first English edition in paperback.
+
+  pbr—paperbacked reprint.
+
+  n.d.—no date listed or date unknown.
+
+  ss—short story.
+
+  qpb—quality paperback book (as, Grove Press or Vintage).
+
+  tct—title changed to (as, _Torchlight to Valhalla_, pbr
+        tct _The Strange Path_).
+
+  fco—for completists only; variant content either extremely
+        slight or problematical.
+
+  + before a title indicates a book of considerable value.
+        Occasionally used to call attention to a fine new
+        release or the discovery of an old title overlooked
+        in previous bibliographies. In general, the plus
+        sign has been reserved for books of honest purpose,
+        sincere if not always entirely favorable treatment of
+        the homosexual theme, and some genuine literary merit.
+        In one or two cases, a plus has been given to a book
+        of little intrinsic worth because of some major and
+        exceptional contribution to thought on the variant
+        theme; or to an occasional book for being extremely
+        good entertainment of its kind, even if no masterpiece.
+        We have tried to avoid including only our favorites.
+
+  (m) indicates a novel concerned mostly with male homosexuality.
+        A very large proportion of such novels,
+        however, contain some discussion of female variance,
+        or lesbian characters, as well.
+
+  BAYOR—Buy at your own risk ... either no accurate data is
+        available or the editors find themselves in hopeless
+        disagreement about its relevance.
+
+  Evening Waster—good solid entertainment and reasonably
+        well-written, though worthless as literature.
+
+  scv—see editorial for complete discussion of this term.
+        This is the literary ghetto, the gutter books, the
+        commercialized sex trash as distinguished from honest
+        erotic realism.
+
+
+
+
+THE COMPLETE, CUMULATIVE CHECKLIST OF LESBIAN FICTION
+
+
+    ACKWORTH, ROBERT C. _The Moments Between._ pbo, Hillman Books
+      1959. Characters in a college novel include an
+      instructor—male—who is homosexual, very sympathetically
+      portrayed. Also a subtle, but sympathetic attachment between an
+      unlovely, unloved student and an older woman; the relationship is
+      shown as constructive for both in the end.
+
+  + ADAMS, FAY. _Appointment in Paris._ pbo, N. Y., Gold Medal 1952.
+      An American girl in Paris has a brief affair with a French woman
+      and is thereby enabled to break the hold of her old-maid aunt. She
+      later marries.
+
+    ADDAMS, KAY. _Queer Patterns._ pbo, Beacon, 1959. scv. Trashy
+      shocker about young Nora Card, who briefly forsakes her boy
+      friend, Roger, for a corrupt lesbian employer.
+
+      _Warped Desires._ pbo, Beacon, 1960. scv. Teen-age Doris goes to a
+      boarding school and is seduced by everyone on the premises, male
+      and female.
+
+    ALDRICH, ANN (pseud.)
+
+      _We Too Must Love._ pbo Gold Medal 1958.
+
+      _We Walk Alone._ pbo, Gold Medal 1955.
+
+      Non-fiction studies of the lesbian world, highly subjective,
+      mostly vignettes of gay life in and around Greenwich Village, with
+      some added data about the manners, customs and language of the
+      “gay” world. Good reading, if somewhat biased.
+
+      see also VIN PACKER
+
+    ALEXANDER, DAVID. _Madhouse in Washington Square._ Lippincott,
+      1958. Mystery novel of high quality, introducing a pair of
+      lesbians for window-dressing.
+
+    ANDERSON, HELEN. _Pity for Women._ N. Y., Doubleday, 1937. An
+      unhappy and tense relationship among three women, inhabitants of a
+      women’s residence club in New York.
+
+    ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. _Dark Laughter._ N. Y., Boni & Liveright, 1925,
+      pbr Pocket Books, 1952. Very slight.
+
+      _Poor White_; N. Y., B. W. Huebsch, 1920, hcr in The Portable
+      Sherwood Anderson, qpb Viking Press P42. In the course of a novel
+      about the rise of a “shantytown boy’s” rise to prosperity, there
+      is a brief but extremely sympathetic portrait of the lesbian, Kate
+      Chancellor; the hero’s wife, Clara, is briefly captivated by Kate
+      during her college days.
+
+    ANDREYA, GUY. _Tormented Venus._ N. Y. Key Pub. Co 1958. scv.
+
+    ANONYMOUS. _Adam and Two Eves._ Macauley Co, N. Y., 1934, pbr Beacon
+      Books 1956. Evening waster. Neurotically heartbroken woman
+      mourning her dead lover becomes entangled with a married woman
+      because a woman’s love does not constitute infidelity to the dead;
+      once initiated she becomes entangled in a long affair _a trois_,
+      from which she is eventually extricated (somewhat the worse for
+      wear) by a man she later marries.
+
+    ANTHOLZ, PEYSON. _All Shook Up._ pbo, Ace Books, 1958, (m). Alan,
+      small-town teen-age rowdy, fights against his friendship with
+      newcomer Howard Sirche, because it is rumored that Howard, who
+      avoids women, is homosexual. Very good of its kind.
+
+    ANTON, CAL. _The Private Life of a Strip Tease Girl._ pbo, Beacon
+      1959, scv. Just what it sounds like. Among her many “affairs” is a
+      brief episode with another girl.
+
+    ASQUITH, CYNTHIA. “The Lovely Voice”. ss, in _This Mortal Coil._
+      Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin. Fantasy, 1947
+
+    BAKER, DENYS VAL. _A Journey With Love._ Bridgehead Books, 1955,
+      pbr Crest Books 1956. fco. The hero’s first marriage fails because
+      of his wife’s insistence that a woman friend shall share their
+      home. Nothing is explicit.
+
+    BAKER, DOROTHY. _Trio._ Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1943, hcr Sun
+      Dial 1945, pbr Penguin Books 1946. Tells of the captivation of a
+      young woman by an unscrupulous literary agent who also happens to
+      be a lesbian. Highly defamatory.
+
+      _Young Man with A Horn._ Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1938, pbr
+      Signet 1953. Very minor lesbian incident in a jazz novel.
+
+  + BALDWIN, JAMES. _Giovanni’s Room._ Dial 1956, pbr Signet 1959,
+      (m). An American boy in Paris fights against his affair with a
+      young Italian, Giovanni; his fear and resistance to this
+      relationship leads to separation, tragedy and their separate
+      destruction. A powerful, tender and tragic book.
+
+    BALDWIN, MONICA. _The Called and the Chosen._ Farrar, Straus _&_
+      Cudahy, N. Y., 1957, pbr Signet 1958. A good study of repression and
+      frustration in convent life, containing passim the story of Sister
+      Helena, novice-mistress; although her behavior was strictly
+      correct even for a nun, she once inspired such violent passions in
+      her juniors that she was removed from this office. The heroine
+      refers to Sister Helena, after her death, as “the one human being
+      I ever loved”.
+
+    BALZAC, HONORÉ DE. _Cousin Bette._ Classic; many standard editions
+      and translations. The story of a neurotic spinster’s half-realised
+      passion for a woman friend.
+
+      _The Girl with the Golden Eyes._ Many standard editions and
+      translations, including pbr Avon Books 1957, (trans. Ernest
+      Dowson.) Shocker of the 19th century, dealing with the passion of
+      the Chevalier de Marsay for a strange, unspoilt girl, Paquita—who
+      is virtually enslaved to a sinister lesbian Countess.
+
+      _Seraphita._ London, J.W. Dent & Sons, 1897; also as above. A
+      romance of an angelic hermaphrodite. All of these are classics of
+      world literature, as well as the literature of variance, and are
+      apt to be available even in small libraries.
+
+  + BANNON, ANN.
+
+      _Odd Girl Out._ pbo, Gold Medal, 1957, 1960.
+
+      _I am a Woman._ pbo, Gold Medal, 1959.
+
+      _Women in the Shadows._ pbo, Gold Medal, 1959.
+
+      These three form a single, connected narrative, although any of
+      the three novels can be read as a self-contained story. The first
+      volume introduces the heroine of the series, Laura Landon, at
+      college; where, in undergoing an affair with her roommate, lovely
+      but frigid Beth, she discovers her homosexuality. Softened by the
+      affair, Beth marries, and Laura runs away. In the second book,
+      Laura, in Greenwich Village, is sharing an apartment, with Marcie,
+      a divorcee, entirely “straight” who plays Laura along strictly for
+      kicks; Laura suffers under this treatment for a long time, then
+      runs away again to shack up with a butch-type Village character,
+      Beebo. In the third book, Laura and Beebo have been living
+      together for two years; Laura is tiring of this lengthy affair and
+      cheats on Beebo with a colored dancer named Tris, while Beebo, to
+      win Laura back, resorts to such trickery as staging a phony “rape”
+      ... inflicting wounds on herself in search of sympathy. Tiring of
+      this life, Laura runs away again, this, time to marry a male
+      homosexual friend, Jack, in a search for stability and permanence.
+      The whole story invites comparison with Weiraugh’s THE SCORPION:
+      homosexuality per se is not attacked, but the drawbacks of the
+      life, and the dangers and difficulties to anyone trying to adjust
+      him-or-herself to that life, are frankly and brutally delineated;
+      there is a pervasive air of dissatisfaction, or resignation, and
+      gradual withdrawal; and the ending of the third book is
+      unsatisfactory and hardly complete. Nevertheless, the impact of
+      these books, particularly when read all together, is considerable;
+      Miss Bannon’s grasp of character, technique and construction
+      improve with each novel. Despite wild improbabilities and
+      gimmicky, contrived situations, these are perhaps the major
+      contribution to lesbian literature in the paperback field
+      anywhere.
+
+  + BARNES, DJUNA. “Dusie”, ss in _American Esoterica_, NY,
+      Macy-Masius, 1927. This collection also contains short stories of
+      (m) interest.
+
+      _Nightwood._ N. Y., Harcourt 1937, hcr New Directions n.d. A
+      well-known and excellent lesbian novel laid in Paris.
+
+  + BARR, JAMES. _Derricks._ NY, Greenberg 1951, (m) hcr Pan, 1957.
+      Although those short stories all deal with male homosexuality,
+      their coherent, fresh and constructive philosophy make this a book
+      of primary importance for every reader.
+
+      _Quatrefoil._ N. Y., Greenberg, 1950, (m).
+
+      _Game of Fools._ ONE, 1954, 1955.
+
+    BARRY, JEROME. _Malignant Stars._ N. Y., Doubleday, 1960. Signe, a
+      handsome Valkyrie-type girl, is found dead, and the note beside
+      her body is apparently a love letter from her roommate Lyn; the
+      suspicion that Lyn is her lover and murderer forms the main theme
+      of the plot. Well done.
+
+    BAUM, VICKI. _Theme for Ballet._ N. Y., Doubleday 1958, pbr Dell
+      1959, (m). Minor but excellent.
+
+      _The Mustard Seed._ Dial 1953, pbr Pyramid 1956 (m minor).
+
+    BEER, THOMAS. _Mrs Egg and Other Barbarians._ Knopf, 1933. Rarer
+      than hen’s teeth—lesbian humor.
+
+    BELLAMANN, HENRY. _King’s Row._ N. Y., Simon & Schuster, 1940, (m).
+
+    BELOT, ADOLPHE. _Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife._ Paris, Dentu 1870,
+      Chicago, Laird & Lee 1891. The wife remains a “miss”, refusing her
+      husband’s approaches because of her attachment to another woman.
+      Typically the husband drowns this monstrous creature (other woman)
+      during an ostensible seaside rescue.
+
+    BENNETT, ARNOLD. _Elsie and the Child._ N. Y., Doran, 1924. “Common
+      sense” treatment of an attachment between Elsie the housemaid, and
+      a girl of twelve, which subsides when the little girl is sent to
+      school.
+
+      _The Pretty Lady._ N. Y., Doran 1918. A subtle picture of indirect
+      variance between two women in wartorn Paris.
+
+    BERKMAN, SYLVIA. _Blackberry Wilderness._ N. Y., Doubleday, 1959.
+      Esoteric, melancholy, beautifully written short stories, of which
+      two are overtly lesbian in content.
+
+    BERTIN, SYLVIA. _The Last Innocence._ (Trans. by Marjorie Dean). N
+      Y McGraw Hill, 1955. Story of Paula, a member of a French
+      provincial family. “The refreshing thing is that Paula is treated
+      as a matter of course ... that she wears trousers, hates men, etc.
+      is presented with no more excuse or explanation than the
+      individual foibles of the rest of the family.”
+
+    BESTER, ALFRED. _Who He?_ N. Y., Doubleday 1955, pbr Berkley 1956,
+      (m) tct. _The Rat Race_. Tense, tightly plotted novel of split
+      personality. The hero’s housemate is a deeply sublimated
+      homosexual who cracks up when Jake gets a girl; this episode snaps
+      the high pitch of tightrope tension and precipitates the
+      denouement of the novel. Excellent.
+
+    BISHOP, LEONARD. _Creep Into thy Narrow Bed._ Dial 1954, pbr
+      Pyramid 1956. Story of a vicious abortion racket; woven into the
+      story is the sympathetically treated story of a young lesbian’s
+      self-realization. Very good of kind.
+
+    BODIN, PAUL. _All Woman’s Flesh_ (trans. from the French of Le
+      Voyage Sentimental, by Lowell Bair.) pbo Berkley 1957.
+
+      _The Sign of Eros_ (trans. from French) Putnam 1953, pbr Berkley
+      1955.
+
+      Both of these involve a man’s attachment to two women who have
+      some homosexual contact, but the emphasis is heterosexual, rather
+      than lesbian.
+
+    BOLTON, ISABEL. “Ruth and Irma”, ss in The New Yorker, Jan 26,
+      1947; also in Donald Webster Cory’s _21 Variations on a Theme_.
+
+    BOTTOME, PHYLLIS. _Jane._ Vanguard, 1957. Story of a street
+      urchin, including lesbian episodes in a girl’s reformatory.
+
+    BOURDET, ÉDOUARD. _The Captive._ N. Y., Brentano’s 1926. Drama based
+      on a triangle—man, wife, and a woman who is winning the
+      affections of the latter.
+
+    BOURJAILY, VANCE. _The End of My Life._ Scribner’s 1947, pbr
+      Bantam 1952, (m).
+
+      _The Violated._ Dial 1958, pbr Bantam 1959, (m).
+
+      _The Hound of Earth._ Scribner 1955, pbr Permabooks, 1956, (m).
+      Also includes a minor, and unsympathetic lesbian character.
+
+    BOWEN, ELIZABETH. _The Hotel._ N. Y. Dial 1928. A shy young girl
+      sent to catch a husband at a fashionable hotel is, instead,
+      captivated by a sophisticated woman.
+
+    BOWLES, JANE. _Two Serious Ladies._ N. Y. Knopf, 1943. The
+      emancipation of an inhibited American housewife.
+
+    BOYLE, KAY. “The Bridegroom’s Body” ss in _The Crazy Hunter_,
+      Harcourt 1938, 1940. Also qpb, Beacon Press, 1958, (m).
+
+      _Gentlemen, I Address you Privately._ NY, Smith 1933, (m).
+
+      _Monday Night._ N. Y. Harcourt 1938, hcr New Directions, n.d. Brief
+      account of a lesbian affair through the eyes of a child.
+
+    BRADLEY, MARION Z. “Centaurus Changeling” in The Magazine of
+      Fantasy and Science Fiction, April, 1954. Science Fiction novel;
+      intensely emotional relationship between three wives of alien
+      bureaucrat leads to jealousy and tragedy when the eldest,
+      Cassiana, takes an outsider into their home and makes a favorite
+      of her.
+
+      _The Planet Savers_, in Amazing Stories, Dec. 1958, (m). Science
+      fiction of split personality, one equivocally homosexual.
+
+    BRAND, MAX. (pseud of Frederick Faust). _The Night Horseman._ G.P.
+      Putnam’s Sons, 1920, hcr Dodd, Mead 1952, pbr Pocket Books 1954,
+      (m). Unusual Western story of a strange cowboy who has an almost
+      supernatural influence on horses and other men; his foster father
+      mysteriously declines when he leaves, makes a miraculous recovery
+      when he returns home. Subtle and good of its kind.
+
+    BRINIG, MYRON. _The Looking Glass Heart._ Sagamore, 1958. One
+      lesbian episode, treated vaguely. (Minority report says that
+      nevertheless it is so clearly and well done that the book is worth
+      anyone’s reading.)
+
+    BRITAIN, SLOAN. _The Needle._ pbo Beacon Books, 1959. Overly
+      contrived shocker about Gina, a young girl who falls
+      simultaneously into narcotics, lesbianism, prostitution and the
+      hands of a weird couple dabbling in incest. Evening waster, rather
+      better than most but leaves a bitter taste.
+
+      + _First Person, Third Sex._ pbo Newsstand Library 1959. Very
+      well-written novel of Paula Harman, young schoolteacher coming to
+      terms with her life as a lesbian through bitter experience. Don’t
+      let the lurid paperback covers and blurb scare you off, this is a
+      NOVEL—well worth hard covers and a steal at 35¢.
+
+    BROCK, LILYAN. _Queer Patterns._ Greenberg 1935, pbr Avon 1951,
+      1952. Purple-patched sloppily sentimental tale of Sheila,
+      beautiful young actress with a perfect husband who nevertheless
+      loses her heart to Nicoli, a stereotype lesbian complete with
+      tuxedo. They part to avoid gossip and live unhappily ever after.
+
+    BROMFIELD, LOUIS. _The Rains Came._ N. Y. Collier 1937, pbr Bantam
+      1952. In a long novel of India there is a brief but important
+      episode involving two old missionary ladies. The elder, an
+      engaging old battleax, muses as she tucks the younger and sillier
+      into bed that her friend had never understood why they had been
+      driven out of the school where they had, as young girls, been
+      teaching. Ironically, the nice old grim one is killed in a flood
+      while the silly one remains to pester everybody.
+
+      _Mister Smith_, Harper, 1951; no pbr on record, but your editor
+      has owned one—perhaps an “Armed Forces” edition? (m). Four men,
+      marooned on a desert island in WW2.
+
+  + BROPHY, BRIGID. _King of a Rainy Country._ Knopf. 1957. Poignant
+      novel of a young girl who lives with Neale, a young male
+      homosexual, out of wedlock. They both become enamored with a
+      portrait of Cynthia, a girl out of the childhood of the
+      heroine....
+
+    BROWN, WENZELL. _Prison Girl._ pbo, Pyramid, 1958. One of many
+      books documenting in painful detail the abuses prevalent in the
+      women’s prison system, with special attention to the undeniable
+      fact that the system breeds various sexual aberrations. A few of
+      these books are excellent. This one isn’t.
+
+    BROWNRIGG, GAWEN. _Star Against Star._ N. Y., Macaulay, 1936. Story
+      of a girl conditioned from childhood to lesbian affairs, first by
+      an overly seductive mother, then by a school friend. The book has
+      the doom-ridden atmosphere of its day, and is emotional and
+      somewhat over-written.
+
+    BURNS, VINCENT G. _Female Convict._ Macaulay 1934, pbr Pyramid
+      1959. More women in prison and the unfortunate relationships
+      developing among them.
+
+    BURT, STRUTHERS. _Entertaining the Islanders._ N. Y. Scribners,
+      1933. Sophisticated, satirical, novel in which a man becomes aware
+      that his ex-sweetheart has been captivated by another woman.
+
+  + BUSSY, DOROTHY. _Olivia._ (by Olivia). Wm. Sloane Associates,
+      1949, Berkley pbr 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959. An English schoolgirl,
+      sent to boarding school in Paris, becomes an unwitting third party
+      to a long-standing affair between Julie and Cara, the two
+      schoolmistresses. Julie’s response to the girl, and Cara’s
+      jealousy, and suicide, form the main events of the story, which is
+      told with delicate restraint, after a retrospect of many years, as
+      Olivia, now herself a lesbian, has come to understand the
+      procession of events.
+
+    CAIN, JAMES M. _Serenade._ Knopf 1937, pbr Signet ca. 1953, (m).
+
+    CAINE, HALL. _The Bondsman._ R.F. Fenno & Co, ca. 1890; other
+      editions available, frequently very cheap secondhand. Called a
+      “Modern Saga”, this is laid in 18th-Century Iceland. Two
+      half-brothers, Jason the Red and Michael Sunlocks, sons of the
+      same man by different mothers, grow up knowing of one another’s
+      existence, but unknown to each other personally. Through a series
+      of saga-like coincidences, they fall in love with the same woman,
+      and are eventually exiled together to the sulphur mines—Iceland’s
+      prison colony—still unaware of each other’s real identity. There
+      Jason undergoes a psychological and emotional upheaval which can
+      only be described as “falling in love” with Michael, who is still
+      known to him only as Prisoner A-25, not as his hated brother. This
+      story is probably more explicit, emotionally, than anything
+      written before the 20th century and the freedom given by Freud to
+      the emotions of novelists. Recommended.
+
+      _The Deemster._ Rand McNally, 1888, Chicago; D. Appleton, 1888;
+      numerous other editions, (m). A glorified friendship between two
+      cousins ends in murder.
+
+    CALDWELL, ERSKINE. _Tragic Ground._ Little, Brown & Co, 1944, pbr
+      Signet 1948, fco.
+
+    CAPOTE, TRUMAN. _Breakfast at Tiffany’s._ Random House 1958, pbr
+      Signet 1959. In the story of a promiscuous, rather pathetic girl,
+      a sadistic lesbian neighbor brings on violent events. Everything
+      very subtle and indirect.
+
+      _Other Voices, Other Rooms._ Random House 1948, pbr Signet 1959.
+      Young boy slowly falling under the influence of a decadent uncle
+      who is a transvestite. Macabre.
+
+    CARCO, FRANCIS. _Depravity._ pbo Berkley 1957.
+
+      _Infamy._ pbo Berkley 1958.
+
+      Both of these books hint at lesbianism on the cover blurbs, but
+      are, rather, highly risque French novels with brief, irrelevant
+      and heterosexually oriented contact between women characters
+      strictly for voyeuristic effect.
+
+    CARPENTER, EDWARD. _Iolaus_; _an Anthology of Friendship._ N. Y.,
+      Albert & Charles Boni, 1935, (m). Listed as “the first of its
+      kind”, this is said also to be “very vague and old-fashioned.”
+
+  + CASAL, MARY. _The Stone Wall. An Autobiography._ Chicago,
+      Eyncourt Press, 1930. In casual, conversational and entirely
+      frank form, a woman born in 1865 (and therefore, at the time of
+      writing, in her sixties) tells the story of her entire life as a
+      lesbian. With the exception of “slightly autobiographical”—and
+      always greatly disguised—fiction, this is probably the earliest
+      such memoir in the literature. The writing is highly competent and
+      professional, (subtly denying the author’s insistence that she was
+      not a writer;) and filled with most interesting revelations about
+      the lesbian world of New York and Paris at the turn of this
+      century. Unfortunately the book is rare and expensive, but it
+      stands alone as a classic of its kind.
+
+    CHAMALES, TOM T. _Go Naked in the World._ N. Y. Scribners 1959. Nick
+      Stratton, wounded veteran, returns to find that his girl friend is
+      a call-girl and a lesbian.
+
+    CHANDLER, RAYMOND. _The Big Sleep._ Knopf 1939, pbr Pocket Books
+      1950, and others. (m). The bizarre murder of a homosexual hoodlum,
+      and the interrogation of his boy friend, form important sequences
+      in this hard-boiled murder mystery.
+
+    CHEEVER, JOHN. “Clancy in the Tower of Babel”, ss in _The Enormous
+      Radio_, Funk 1953, pbr Berkley 1958, (m).
+
+  + CHRISTIAN, PAULA. _The Edge of Twilight._ pbo Crest 1959.
+      Airline stewardess Val, in an alcoholic haze, allows herself to
+      make love to a young girl friend, Toni. Fearing her own response
+      to this “abnormal” love, she redoubles her promiscuous
+      sleeping-around, but the girls end up together. The treatment,
+      though sensational, is honest and constructive; the book will win
+      no literary prizes, but whatever the reader’s sympathies and
+      prejudices, he will approve the stand that happy adjustment to
+      love and affection—even homosexual—is a more constructive
+      solution than promiscuity. Very good of its kind.
+
+    CHRISTIE, AGATHA. _A Murder is Announced._ Dodd, Mead 1950, fco.
+      Suspects include a pair of problematical lesbians.
+
+    CLARK, DORENE. _The Exotic Affair._ Magnet Books, 1959, scv. “I
+      really think this one should be Maggot Books,” wrote my reviewer.
+      “One of those fastmoving sloppy jobs where two men and two women
+      on an exotic cruise complete with mis-spelled and misapplied
+      foreign phrases spend most of their time trying all of the
+      printable and some of the unprintable variations on an old old
+      theme. All sex and no sentiment makes Jack and Jill sickening (and
+      the reviewer sick) or, for that matter, Jack and Jack or Jill and
+      Jill.”
+
+  + CLAYTON, JOHN. _Dew in April._ Kendall & Sharpe, 1935. Romance
+      of the Middle Ages, laid in the Convent of St. Lazarus of the
+      Butterflies. Dolores, a homeless vagabond, is given shelter by
+      Mother Leonor, a mystic, repressed, white-hot and deeply tender
+      woman whose passionate emotional attachments to her young novices
+      are never explicit but pervade the entire book. Much of the story
+      is concerned with a subtle, sweet and innocently sensual
+      blossoming of adolescent emotions into homo-erotic form under the
+      pressures of convent life; the interplay of delicate love
+      relationships between Dolores, Mother Leonor, and the young
+      novices Dezirada and Clarisse, and their fluctuation between
+      despair, self-sacrifice and compassionate love when Dolores finds
+      a knightly lover, Pedro, is probably unmatched in studies of
+      feminine variance.
+
+      _Gold of Toulouse._ Kendall & Sharpe, 1935. Sequel to _Dew in
+      April_, but laid chronologically six or seven years earlier.
+      Though mostly concerned with the adventures of Don Marcos, the
+      Spanish knight, it also tells the story of Leonor, and shows the
+      beginning of her relationship with Dezirada.
+
+    CLIFTON, BUD. _Muscle Boy._ pbo Ace Books, 1958, (m). Teen-age
+      athlete inveigled into posing for dirty pictures. Good evening
+      waster.
+
+    COLE, JERRY. _Secrets of a Society Doctor._ Greenberg, 1935. pbr
+      Universal Publishing & Distributing, ca. 1953, (m).
+
+  + COLEMAN, LONNIE. _Ship’s Company._ Little, Brown & Co, 1955, pbr
+      Dell, 1957. Collection of short stories, of which two are
+      homosexual.
+
+      _Sam._ David McKay, 1959, pbr Pyramid, 1960, (m). Major, excellent,
+      important. Don’t waste time reading reviews, just go out and buy
+      it.
+
+    COLETTE, SIDONIE-GABRIELLE. _Claudine at School._ _Claudine in
+      Paris._ _The Indulgent Husband_ (in The Short Novels of Colette).
+      “Bella Vista” in _The Tender Shoot._ “Gitanette” in _Music Hall
+      Sidelights._
+
+      All of these are currently in print in excellent, uniform English
+      translation of the standard “Fleuron” edition of Colette’s
+      complete works, from Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, of recent date. The
+      two “Claudine” novels have had recent Avon pbr editions under the
+      titles of _Diary of a 15 Year Old French Girl_, and _Claudine_.
+
+      Much of the work of this important French novelist was variant.
+      Only the most explicit are named above. The first three form a
+      connected narrative, telling of Claudine’s school crushes, her
+      friendship with a male-homosexual cousin, and her “indulgent
+      husband” who connives at her lesbian affair with a woman friend,
+      in order to enjoy it secondhand. “Bella Vista” tells of a vacation
+      spent at a hotel managed by two middle-aged lesbians; the
+      narrator’s fascinated interest in the couple vanishes when one of
+      the “ladies” turns out to be, actually, a disguised man.
+
+    CONNOLLY, CYRIL. _The Rock Pool._ Scribner 1936, hcr New
+      Directions n.d. Very well written novel of a group of expatriates
+      in the South of France. Nearly all are homosexuals; the story is
+      told without comment or judgment.
+
+    CONSTANTINE, MURRAY, and Margaret Goldsmith. _Venus in Scorpio._
+      John Lane, 1940. Heavily fictionalized biography, (erroneously
+      listed elsewhere as a novel) of Marie Antoinette, suggesting
+      lesbianism in her adolescence.
+
+  + CORY, DONALD WEBSTER. _21 Variations on a Theme._ N. Y., Greenberg
+      1953. The classic anthology of short stories about homosexuals;
+      four deal with feminine variance.
+
+    COUPEROUS, LOUIS. _The Comedians_, N. Y. Doran 1926. Variant
+      couple in a novel of Imperial Rome.
+
+    COURAGE, JAMES. _A Way of Love._ G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1959, (m).
+
+    COWLIN, DOROTHY. _Winter Solstice._ Macmillan, 1943. A brief
+      variant relationship proves beneficial to a hysterical invalid.
+
+    CRADOCK, PHYLLIS. _Gateway to Remembrance._ Andrew Dakers, London
+      1950. fco. Very brief mention of a lesbian couple in a sappy
+      metaphysical novel about Lost Atlantis.
+
+    CRAIG, JONATHAN. _Case of the Village Tramp._ pbo Gold Medal 1959.
+      Fast, well-written mystery introduces a pair of lesbians among the
+      suspects; _good_ entertainment.
+
+  + CRAIGIN, ELISABETH. _Either is Love._ Harcourt, Brace, 1937, pbr
+      Lion Books, 1952, 1956, Pyramid 1960. After the death of her
+      husband the narrator re-reads the letters she had written him
+      about her intense love affair with another woman. Almost
+      unequalled treatment of a lesbian _romance_.
+
+    CREAL, MARGARET. _A Lesson in Love._ Simon & Schuster 1957. A
+      Canadian orphan’s passion for a beautiful schoolmate ends in
+      disillusion when the older girl, Tammy, tries to force Nicola into
+      a distasteful affair with a boy, the better to deceive her mother
+      about a similar affair of her own.
+
+    CROUZAT, HENRI. _The Island at the End of the World._ Duell, Sloan
+      and Pearce, 1959. An ex-schoolteacher, Patrice, is marooned on a
+      sub-Antarctic island with three nurses; Joan, a nymphomanic;
+      Victoria, a lesbian, and Kathleen, a quite ordinary girl. Due to
+      fortuitous circumstances, they manage to assure themselves the
+      necessities of life, and between Robinson-Crusoe-ish struggles,
+      embark on a round of excesses gradually diminished by the horrible
+      deaths of Kathleen, then Victoria. Fascinating, slightly macabre.
+
+  + CUSHING, MARY WATKINS. _The Rainbow Bridge._ G P Putnam’s Sons,
+      1954. This book is included for the light it sheds on another
+      novel in this list, Marcia Davenport’s _Of Lena Geyer_, and not
+      for the sake of any impertinent conclusions about the real people
+      involved. Mrs. Cushing served for seven years as companion and
+      buffer against the world for the famous prima donna, Olive
+      Fremstad, and Mme. Fremstad’s reclusive, fantastically disciplined
+      personality seems to have served, at least in part, as model for
+      Lena Geyer. At any rate, both books become more interesting when
+      read together.
+
+    DANE, CLEMENCE. (pseud. of Winifred Ashton); _Regiment of Women._
+      Macmillan, 1917. Possibly the earliest novel of variance. A
+      lengthy book of the subtle sadism of the domineering headmistress
+      of a girl’s school.
+
+    DARIUS, MICHEL. _I, Sappho of Lesbos._ Castle Books, May 1960.
+      Supposedly translated from a Medieval Latin manuscript
+      conveniently lost on the Andrea Doria. In first-person, this
+      weaves the better-known traditions about Sappho into a racy,
+      fast-moving novel. The lesbian content is not emphasized, unduly.
+      Writing-wise, this invites comparison with the work of Pierre
+      Louys. The “scholarship” is completely tongue-in-cheekish, of
+      course, as with the _Songs of Bilitis_. In general, this should
+      prove the Title of the Year for those who wonder why they don’t
+      write like Pierre Louys anymore. (Department of Unpaid
+      Advertising; this one can NOW be ordered through Winston Book
+      Service; see Appendix.)
+
+    DAVENPORT, MARCIA. _Of Lena Geyer._ Scribner, 1936. Well-known
+      novel of the life of an opera singer. Lena has a young satellite
+      and adorer, but Elsie is careful to say that while “gossip has had
+      many cruel things to say of this friendship ... there was,
+      needless to say, not a word of truth in the essential accusation.”
+      The two women remain together, even after Lena’s marriage, until
+      her death.
+
+    DAVEY, WILLIAM. _Dawn Breaks the Heart._ Howell Soskin & Co, 1941.
+      A lengthy episode involves the sensitive hero’s elopement with
+      Vivian, an irresponsible girl who turns out to be a lesbian and
+      leaves him for another woman. Excellent.
+
+    DAVIES, RHYS. “Orestes”, ss in _The Trip to London._ N. Y. Howell
+      Soskin & Co, 1946. A lesbian manages to free the protagonist of a
+      mother-complex, because her attitude is free of feminine
+      seductiveness.
+
+  + DAVIS, FITZROY. _Quicksilver._ Harcourt, Brace, 1942. Hilarious
+      novel of the theatre, supposedly based on actual personalities
+      recognizable to the initiate; my reviewer wrote that some
+      theatrical people “literally turn purple at the mere mention of
+      this book ... most real pro actors detest portrayal of
+      homosexuality in theatre fiction, bad publicity and all that ...
+      can’t say I blame them much.”
+
+    DAY, MAX. _So Nice, So Wild._ pbo, Stanley Library Inc, 1959.
+      Evening waster; an impossibly complicated murder-story plot with a
+      hero who, trying to prove he didn’t murder his own uncle, is
+      pestered by all sorts of girls crawling into his bunk, blondes,
+      brunettes and a few lesbians trying hard to convert themselves to
+      heterosexuality. Funny, real fun.
+
+    DEAN, RALPH. _One Kind of Woman._ pbo, Beacon, 1959. Evening
+      waster.
+
+      _Forbidden Thrills._ pbo Bedtime Books 1959. Scv.
+
+    DEBUSSY, ROY.
+
+      —and Jay Arpage; _Non Stop Flight_, Brookwood 1958.
+
+      —and Cleo Dorene; _Fountain of Youth_, Brookwood 1958.
+
+      —and Arthur Maurier; _Wicked Curves_, Brookwood 1958.
+
+      —and Les Maxime; _Eye Lust_, Brookwood 1959.
+
+      —and Les Maxime; _The Golden Nymph_, Brookwood 1958.
+
+      These are all hardcover risque novels retailing for about $3 in
+      bookstores which deal in that sort of thing for the adult trade
+      only; I don’t know, not being a postal inspector, whether they
+      can legally be sent through the U S Mails. On the whole I would
+      think not. They are all fairly well written for books of their
+      kind, amusing and entertaining, and bear about the same
+      relationship to the paperback scv—evening wasters that ESQUIRE
+      does to the average cheaper girly magazine. They are, however,
+      strictly for a male audience; the “lesbian” content in all of them
+      is presented from a strip-tease point of view and in every case
+      the girl involved is “cured” of this perversion by male
+      seduction—in some cases, by brutality. The plot of _Non Stop
+      Flight_ is typical; hero Eric Leighton discovers his wife dallying
+      with a lesbian, so he beats up and rapes the lesbian (juicily
+      described) whereupon his wife commits suicide. Then Eric gets
+      involved with Celia, a stereotype “dish” with an ineffectual
+      husband; when Celia tires of him he beats her up and rapes her
+      (juicily described) then runs across the lesbian who has seduced
+      his wife _and_ Celia, so he beats her up and rapes her again
+      (juicily described) after which Eric and the lesbian get married
+      and live very happily forever after. I don’t know precisely what
+      to call these books, but lesbiana is hardly descriptive. You have
+      been warned.
+
+    DEISS, JAY. _The Blue Chips._ Simon & Schuster 1957, pbr Bantam
+      1958. fco. In an excellent novel of medical laboratory workers, a
+      very very minor lesbian character.
+
+    DE FORREST, MICHAEL. _The Gay Year._ N. Y., Woodford Press, 1949,
+      (m). Happily untypical of this publisher’s racy trash, this story
+      of a young man searching for self-knowledge in New York’s Bohemia
+      is very good of its kind.
+
+    DELL, FLOYD. _Diana Stair._ Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. Long novel of
+      the early 19th century. Diana is a woman writer, but also explores
+      life as mill-girl, schoolteacher and abolitionist. Though
+      attracted to, and attractive to men, she is never without “some
+      older woman to adore and emulate, or some younger woman to teach
+      and inspire.” Delightful, ironic novel of the trouble women can
+      get into when they refuse to fall neatly into the ruts laid down
+      by conventional society for women’s lives.
+
+    DE MEJO, OSCAR. _Diary of a Nun._ pbo Pyramid 1955. Just what it
+      sounds like—fictional diary of a young girl in a convent warding
+      off scandalous advances. Mediocre.
+
+  + DENNIS, NIGEL FORBES. _Cards of Identity._ Vanguard, 1955.
+      Hilarious novel of confused identity, dealing with both male and
+      female homosexuality.
+
+    DES CARS, GUY. _The Damned One._ pbo Pyramid, 1956. A member of
+      French aristocracy, ambiguously sexed enough to be classified as
+      female at birth, grows up unequivocally male but retains the name,
+      dress and character of a female to avoid scandal—which comes
+      anyhow when _she_ carries on with an eccentric Englishwoman.
+
+    DEUTSCH, DEBORAH. _The Flaming Heart._ Boston, Bruce Humphries,
+      1959, (m).
+
+    DEVLIN, BARRY. Acapulco Nocturne. Vixen Press, 1952.
+
+      Cheating Wives. Beacon pbo 1959 (copyright 1955).
+
+      Fire and Ice. Vixen Press, 1952.
+
+      Golf Widow. Vixen Press, 1953.
+
+      Lovers and Madmen. Vixen Press 1952.
+
+      Madame Big. Vixen Press 1953.
+
+      Moon Kissed. Green Farms, Conn. Modern Pubs 1957, Vixen Press
+      1953, pbr tct _Forbidden Pleasures_ Beacon Books 1959.
+
+      Too Many Women. Vixen(?) 1953, Beacon pbr 1959.
+
+      These are all the same sort of thing, evening wasters or scv,
+      depending on taste. Big handsome men of incredible stamina,
+      engaging incessantly in that one activity besides which all else
+      is as naught, with a succession of beautiful women, blonde,
+      brunette and redhead. Now and then this procession of affairs is
+      varied a little by letting the girls sport with one another to
+      give the heroes a breathing spell. In short, sexy books for people
+      who like reading sexy books. Adults only, please.
+
+    DE VOTO, BERNARD. _Mountain Time._ Little, Brown & Co 1946—47,
+      fco. One very brief overt lesbian episode.
+
+    DE VRIES, PETER. _The Tents of Wickedness._ Little, Brown & Co,
+      1959, Minor episode in a very funny literary satire—Army colonel
+      who talks pure Hemingway turns out to be a WAC in disguise.
+
+    DIBNER, MARTIN. _The Deep Six._ Doubleday 1953, pbr Permabooks
+      1957, (m).
+
+    DIDEROT, DENIS. _Memoirs of a Nun._ (trans from French by Frances
+      Birrell). London, Rutledge & Sons 1928, hcr London, Elek Books,
+      Book Centre Ltd, N. Circular Road, Neasden, London, N. W. 10,
+      England. Classic French novel _La Religieuse_, written in 1760,
+      published in 1796. Reflects the very bitter anti-clerical
+      sentiment of the times just before the Revolution. A “cornerstone”
+      title.
+
+    DINESEN, ISAK. _Seven Gothic Tales._ N. Y., Smith & Haas, 1943, hcr
+      Modern Library n.d.
+
+      “The Invincible Slave Owners”, ss in _A Winter’s Tales_, Random
+      House 1942.
+
+    DIXON, CLARISSA. _Janet and her dear Phebe._ Stokes, 1909. Girls
+      story of two loving little chums, separated by a misunderstanding
+      between their families, and re-united as women. Though never
+      explicit, the story is emotional and intense. It is highly
+      unlikely the author was quite aware of the type of attachment she
+      was portraying.
+
+    DJEBAR, ASSIA. _The Mischief._ Simon & Schuster 1958, pbr Avon
+      1959 tct _Nadia_. Very brief but well-written novel of a young
+      girl who falls in love with a former schoolgirl friend, now
+      married.
+
+  + DONISTHORPE, SHEILA. _Loveliest of Friends_, Claude Kendall
+      1931, pbr Berkley 1956, 1957, 1958, due for another. Boyish Kim
+      captivates young happy-housewife Audrey and wrecks her life.
+      Preachy outburst against lesbians toward the end. Read it with a
+      hanky handy. (Curiously enough, in spite of the anti-lesbian bias
+      of the ending, and the overdone sentimentality of the Swinburnian
+      writing, everybody seems to enjoy this one—all the Checklist
+      editors included.)
+
+    DOWD, HARRISON. _The Night Air._ Dial Press, 1950, (m).
+
+    DRESSER, DAVID. _Mardigras Madness._ Godwin 1934. One lesbian
+      episode in an evening waster about Carnival.
+
+    DRUON, MAURICE. _The Rise of Simon Lachaume._ Dutton, 1952; hcr as
+      part of the trilogy _The Curtain Falls_, Scribner 1960. One
+      episode in lengthy novel of a French family involves the duping of
+      an elderly roue by a pair of young lesbians.
+
+  + DU MAURIER, ANGELA. _The Little Legs._ Doubleday, 1941. Sad and
+      devastating results from a long variant enslavement. “This is a
+      lovely book if you enjoy crying, and I do,” says one reviewer.
+
+    DURRELL, LAWRENCE. _Justine._ N. Y., Dutton, 1957.
+
+      _Balthazar._ N. Y., Dutton, 1958, (m).
+
+      _Mountolive._ N. Y., Dutton, 1959, (m).
+
+      _Clea._ N. Y. Dutton, 1960. The last volume of now-famous tetralogy,
+      just released, winds up all of the loose ends of the other three.
+      The lesbian element is minor, but all four novels are excellent.
+
+    EICHRODT, JOHN. “Nadia Devereaux”, ss in _Sextet_, ed by Whit &
+      Hallie Burnett. N. Y., McKay Co. 1951.
+
+    EISNER, SIMON. (pseud of Cyril Kornbluth). _The Naked Storm._ pbo,
+      Lion Library, 1952, 1956. Mixed bag of passengers on a
+      transcontinental train, including a lesbian who tries to captivate
+      a young girl and is murdered by another passenger to give her
+      intended victim “a chance at real happiness with a man.”
+
+    ENGSTRAND, STUART. _More Deaths than One._ Julian Messner 1955,
+      pbr Signet 1957. Mannish woman defending effeminate husband
+      against charge of rape by kidnapping his victim and hiding her
+      out, goes through a nervous breakdown involving a morbid and
+      macabre attachment to the girl; horrible.
+
+      _Sling and the Arrow._ Creative Age 1947, hcr Sun Dial n.d., pbr
+      Signet ca. 1951, (m).
+
+    EMERY, CAROL. _Queer Affair._ pbo Beacon Books, 1957. Dancer Draga
+      moves in with mannish Jo, runs into complications when she tries
+      to desert Jo for a man. Evening waster but very good nevertheless
+      ... the author got in some good attitudes and philosophies when
+      the publisher wasn’t looking.
+
+    ENTERS, ANGNA. _Among the Daughters._ Coward McCann, 1955.
+      Autobiographical novel of a girl who, like the author, finally
+      becomes a dancer and choreographer. A good deal of space is
+      devoted to a friendship between Lucy and another girl; the story
+      is tinged with variance but never explicit.
+
+    ESTEY, NORBERT. _All My Sins._ A. A. Wyn, 1954. pbr Crest 1956.
+      fco. Few very minor variant episodes in a long novel of the French
+      courtesan Ninon l’Enclos.
+
+    EUSTIS, HELEN. _The Horizontal Man._ Harper 1946, pbr Pocket Books
+      1955. Offbeat psychological murder mystery.
+
+    EVANS, LESLEY. _Strange are the Ways of Love._ pbo Crest 1959.
+      Love among the guitar-playing, folk-singing beatniks, with the
+      lesbians playing Musical Beds. Evening waster.
+
+    EVANS, JOHN (pseud. of Howard Browne). _Halo in Brass._
+      Bobbs-Merrill 1949, pbr Bantam 1958. Hardboiled detective story;
+      private eye Paul Pine is hired to locate runaway girl with no boy
+      friends and many girl friends. Suspenseful, nice way to spend (not
+      waste) a lazy evening.
+
+    EWERS, HANNS HEINZ. _Alraune._ John Day, 1929. Alraune is Evil
+      incarnate—symbol of the Mandrake Root, destroying love in
+      everyone with whom she comes in contact, bringing out their innate
+      evil. Among those destroyed by Alraune are a pair of lesbian
+      lovers. High-quality fantasy, unfortunately rare and rather
+      expensive.
+
+    FADIMAN, EDWIN JR. _The 21 Inch Screen._ Doubleday 1958, pbr
+      Signet 1960. TV bigshot Rex Lundy has woman trouble—his wife, his
+      mistress, and his teen-age daughter. The latter is seeking the
+      love she doesn’t get at home from a Greenwich Village lesbian
+      friend. Excellent modern fiction.
+
+      _The Glass Play Pen._ pbo Signet 1956. Rich girl loses her
+      parents, loses her money, and turns expensive call girl. One
+      lesbian episode, treated with tenderness and sympathy.
+
+      see also EDWINA MARK.
+
+    FAIR, ELIZABETH. _Bramton Wick._ Funk & Wagnalls 1954. fco. Cozy
+      little story of cozy little English village, including two maiden
+      ladies who have lived together for many years. “It is all very
+      light and airy and your old-maid aunt wouldn’t think it at all
+      odd.” Apt to be in libraries.
+
+    FAREWELL, NINA. _Someone to Love._ Messner 1959, pbr Popular
+      Library, 1960. One brief, incomplete lesbian episode in a long,
+      interesting novel of a woman’s continual search for real love in a
+      life filled with fleeting liaisons.
+
+  + FERGUSON, MARGARET. _The Sign of the Ram._ London, Philadelphia,
+      The Blakiston Co, 1944-45. Sherida comes as companion-secretary to
+      crippled Leah, passionately adored by her whole family including
+      sixteen-year-old Christine. Subtly playing on Christine’s
+      emotions, Leah spurs her to the point where she attempts to murder
+      Sherida. On the surface, the motivation is simply the love of
+      power, but Christine’s emotions are clearly variant; when the book
+      was filmed, they carefully cast Christine as a girl of eleven, to
+      make it unmistakable that her adoration was only “childish.”
+
+    FIRBANK, RONALD. _The Flower Beneath the Foot._ in Five Novels,
+      New Directions, 1949. “Light and fluffy ... pure fun”.
+
+      _Inclinations._ in Three Novels. New Directions 1951, (m).
+
+    FITZROY, A.T. _Despised and Rejected._ London, C W Daniel, 1918.
+      Lesbian incidents in a novel which is, however, mainly about
+      persecution of Conscientious Objectors in World War I.
+
+    FISHER, MARY (PARRISH). _Not Now but NOW._ Viking 1947. Novel of
+      an ageless, ruthless woman. A long episode on a college campus is
+      lesbian in emphasis.
+
+    FISHER, VARDIS. _The Darkness and the Deep._ Vanguard, 1943, fco,
+      a novel of the Stone Age.
+
+    FLAGG, JOHN. _Dear, Deadly Beloved._ Gold Medal pbo 1954.
+
+      _Murder in Monaco._ pbo Gold Medal 1957.
+
+      Both of these are fast-moving mysteries, in Mediterranean setting,
+      both involving lesbian characters.
+
+    FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE. _Salammbo._ Classic French Novel in many
+      editions and translations. A very long novel of a Babylonian High
+      Priestess; some psychological and literary authorities consider it
+      variant. The editors all say with one voice that it isn’t. BAYOR.
+
+    FLEMING, IAN. _Goldfinger._ Macmillan 1959. No data, BAYOR.
+
+    FLORA, FLETCHER. _Desperate Asylum._ pbo Lion Library 1955, pbr
+      Pyramid 1959, tct _Whisper of Love_. An unhappy lesbian and a
+      neurotic man who hates women because his mother was promiscuous,
+      marry to find a mutual “asylum”. Predictably the marriage is
+      unsuccessful, ending in murder and suicide.
+
+      _Strange Sisters_, pbo Lion Library 1954, pbr Pyramid 1960. Weird
+      novel of a girl’s mental breakdown, indirectly blamed on her
+      affairs with three cruel and sadistic women.
+
+      _Take me Home._ Monarch Books, pbo 1959. A young writer’s slow
+      captivation with a strange girl just escaping from the domination
+      of an evil lesbian cousin. All three of these books, though
+      anti-lesbian in bias, are very well and slickly written, and
+      entertaining.
+
+    FORREST, FELIX. _Carola._ Duell, 1948. Brief recall of a lesbian
+      episode in the heroine’s girlhood.
+
+    FORTUNE, DION. (pseud. of Violet B. Firth). _Moon Magic._ London,
+      Aquarian Press, 1958, fco. Fascinating, funny novel of a modern
+      sorceress and an inhibited, bad-tempered doctor. It is implied
+      that his marriage failed because his wife, a hysteric shamming
+      invalidism, prefers being cosseted by her faithful companion to
+      reassuming marital duties.
+
+    FOSTER, GERALD. _Strange Marriage._ N. Y., Godwin 1943.
+      Transvestite, rather than lesbian; heroine in man’s clothing
+      actually marries a fantastically naive girl.
+
+    FOWLER, ELLEN T. _The Farringdons._ N. Y., Appleton, 1900. Three
+      intense variant attachments by a motherless girl under twenty,
+      which subside when she falls in love with a man.
+
+    FRANKEN, ROSE. _Intimate Story._ Doubleday, 1955. A novel by the
+      author of the popular Claudia series.
+
+  + FREDERICS, DIANA. (pseud); _Diana, a Strange Autobiography._
+      Dial 1939, pbr Berkley Books 1955, 1957, 1958. Well known story of
+      a young musician/teacher’s discovery and slow acceptance and
+      adjustment to her lesbian personality.
+
+    FRANK, WALDO. _The Dark Mother._ N. Y., Boni & Liveright, 1920, (m).
+      A too-possessive mother ruins her son’s life.
+
+    FRIEDMAN, STUART. _Nikki._ Monarch Books, 1960, scv.
+
+      _The Revolt of Jill Braddock._ Monarch Books 1960. scv. Male and
+      female homosexuality in a ballet company, with Jill in the middle.
+      “Not as bad as _Nikki_, but still a pretty raw evening waster.”
+
+    GARLAND, RODNEY. _The Heart in Exile._ Coward McCann 1954, pbr
+      Lion 1956, (m). Because of courageous approach to the basic problem
+      of relations between the homosexual and his family, this story of
+      a young homosexual in an unconventional household deserves
+      shelfspace everywhere.
+
+    GARNETT, DAVID. _A Shot in the Dark._ Little, Brown 1959, pbr tct
+      _The Ways of Desire_. Popular Library 1960. Complex, fast-moving
+      adventure story, involving a great number of lesbians.
+
+    GARRETT, ZENA. _The House in the Mulberry Tree._ Random House,
+      1959 Sensitive story of a girl of eleven, fascinated by an
+      innocently appealing neighbor, a married woman. The mother,
+      observing innocent caresses between the two, separates them.
+
+  + GARRIGUE, JEAN. “The Other One” ss in _Cross Section_, ed. by E.
+      Seaver, Simon & Schuster, 1947.
+
+    GAUTIER, THÉOPHILE. _Mademoiselle de Maupin._ Many editions,
+      including Modern Library, n. d. also pbr Pyramid Books 1956, 1957,
+      1958. Classic novel of lesbianism.
+
+    GENET, JEAN. _The Maids._ Grove Press qpb 1954. Offbeat
+      existentialist drama; involuted love among women.
+
+    GEORGIE, LEYLA. _The Establishment of Madame Antonia._ Liveright,
+      1932. Light entertainment about inhabitants of a high-class
+      European bordello, including a young recruit protected by an older
+      woman.
+
+    GIDE, ANDRÉ. _The School for Wives._ N. Y., Knopf, 1950
+
+      _The Immoralist._ Knopf 1930, hcr 1948, (m).
+
+      _The Counterfeiters._ Knopf 1927, (m).
+
+    GILBERT, EDWIN. _The Hot and the Cool._ Doubleday 1953, pbr tct
+
+      _See How They Burn_, Popular Library, 1959, (m). Minor and subtle
+      homosexual overtones in a novel of jazz musicians.
+
+    GODDEN, RUMER. _The Greengage Summer._ Viking 1957, fco.
+
+      _A Candle for St. Jude_, Viking 1948, fco.
+
+    GOLDMAN, WILLIAM. _The Temple of Gold._ Knopf 1957, pbr Bantam
+      1958, (m) minor fco.
+
+    GOLDSTON, ROBERT. _The Catafalque._ Rinehart 1957, 1958.
+      High-quality thriller about ill-fated archaeological expedition to
+      Spain; crisis precipitated when a sinister Countess takes young
+      Stephanie, the expedition leader’s daughter, to a grotto where a
+      pagan goddess has been worshipped with lesbian rites and attempts
+      to seduce her there.
+
+    GREENE, GRAHAM. _The Orient Express._ Doubleday 1933, pbr Bantam
+      1955. Trainful of mixed adventurers includes a lesbian between
+      girl-friends but still trying.
+
+    GUDMUNDSSON, KRISTMANN. _Winged Citadel._ Holt, 1940, (m). Brief
+      but very explicit homosexual interlude in a fine historical novel
+      of Crete and the Bull-dancers.
+
+    GUNTER, ARCHIBALD. _A Florida Enchantment._ Home Pubs 1892. No
+      data available, BAYOR.
+
+    HACKETT, PAUL. _Children of the Stone Lions._ G. P. Putnam 1955.
+      An important lesbian character in a novel which has had good
+      reviews.
+
+  + HAGGARD, SIR HENRY RIDER. _Allan’s Wife._ First published, 1889;
+      now in print in Five Novels of H. Rider Haggard, Dover Press,
+      1951. A strange story, and this year’s special “find”. Allan, hero
+      of the famous adventure-novelist’s KING SOLOMON’S MINES, is here
+      shown as a young man, in love with Stella Carson—an English girl
+      reared in the unspoilt beauty of a lost valley in Darkest Africa.
+      The romance is complicated by the passionate jealousy of
+      Hendrika—stolen in infancy by gorillas, reared as a female
+      Tarzan, and rescued to be Stella’s companion, foster-sister and
+      adorer. Hendrika first attempts to murder Allan; the scene in
+      which she rages insanely at Allan for stealing Stella’s love, and
+      Allan’s quiet acceptance of the “curious” fact that the strongest
+      loves are not always between those of different sexes, places this
+      book almost alone in forthright English treatment of variance for
+      its date. From this high level of psychological realism, the story
+      reverts to Haggard-type melodrama; Stella is kidnapped by
+      Hendrika’s gorilla friends; dramatically rescued in a thrilling
+      jungle battle; her death from exposure and Hendrika’s remorseful
+      suicide complete the story. Strange, romantic, and quite in a
+      class by itself.
+
+    HALES, CAROL. _Wind Woman._ Woodford Press 1953, pbr tct _Such is
+      My Beloved_, Berkley 1958. Sad, sad, sad story of the
+      psychoanalysis of a young lesbian such as was never seen on sea or
+      land. Harmless and nitwitted ... read it and weep, or giggle.
+
+      see also LORA SELA.
+
+  + HALL, RADCLYFFE. _The Well of Loneliness._ Many editions, some
+      cheap hcr (Sun Dial ed, still in print, n. d.) also Permabooks pbr
+      n. d. The classic first novel of a lesbian, written soon after
+      WWI. Stephen Gordon, male in physique, temperament and character,
+      seeks for lasting love and some measure of acceptance from a
+      rejecting world.
+
+      _The Unlit Lamp._ N. Y., Jonathan Cape 1924; the endless sacrifice
+      of a daughter into a sterile, wasted life because her mother
+      cannot accept her right to live her own life.
+
+      _Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself._ Harcourt, Brace 1934. A lesbian finds
+      her true destiny after a lifetime of serving her country.
+      Overtones of science fiction.
+
+      _A Saturday Life._ London, Falcon Press, 1952 (orig. pub 1925). An
+      attempt at farce, not overt anywhere.
+
+    HALL, OAKLEY M. _Corpus of Joe Bailey._ Viking 1953, Permabooks
+      1955, (m). Also contains a pathetic pair of lesbians, one
+      camouflaging her true leanings by pretending to be the campus
+      whore.
+
+    HARDY, THOMAS. _Desperate Remedies._ Harper 1896; still in print,
+      London, the Macmillan Co, 1951 ($3.00). Brief but relevant episode
+      in a novel by a classic English novelist.
+
+  + HARRIS, SARA. _The Wayward Ones._ Crown 1952, pbr Signet 1956,57
+      One of the few really good treatments of lesbian attachments in a
+      girl’s reform school. Bessie, a wayward girl, is sent to a “good”
+      reform school; at this stage she is naive, fairly innocent and
+      presumably redeemable. The loneliness, the sadistic persecution by
+      the corrupt or hardened matrons, and the “racket”—the enforced
+      division of the school into “moms” and “pops”, by hardened young
+      girl hooligans who like the power it gives them, and permitted by
+      the matrons under the self-deception that these attachments are
+      normal, schoolgirlish crushes—finally complete the girl’s
+      corruption until it is certain that she will come out of school a
+      confirmed young criminal, Sara Harris is herself a social worker;
+      this painfully accurate picture of what our juvenile authorities
+      contend with may, at least, give some insight into why the police
+      and social agencies tend to be so violently anti-lesbian. It is
+      hard to forget the picture painted in this book of the frightened
+      Bessie insisting “I don’t never do no lovin’ with girls.’”—and
+      the threats made to her. An absolute MUST book—on the other side.
+
+    HARRIS, WILLIAM HOWARD. _The Golden Jungle._ Doubleday 1957, pbr
+      Berkley 1958. Brittle novel about a wall street banker; his
+      beautiful wife is a lesbian, but he naively believes her faithful
+      because she prefers the company of women.
+
+  + HASTINGS, MARCH. _Demands of the Flesh._ Newsstand Library pbo,
+      1959. Ellen, a young widow suffering from physical frustration,
+      goes through a period of promiscuity involving several men and a
+      brief affair with a lesbian, Nita. Oddly enough for this sort of
+      borderline-risque stuff, the lesbian character is well and
+      realistically drawn; realizing that Ellen is basically normal, she
+      helps keep her on an even keel until she remarries. Good of kind.
+
+      _Three Women._ pbo Beacon Books 1958. Good and sympathetic story
+      of a young girl involved with a basically decent older woman, a
+      lesbian, Byrne. Unfortunately Byrne is deeply involved with, and
+      obligated to, her insane cousin Greta, and the affair ends in
+      tragedy, leaving young Paula to marry her faithful boy friend. The
+      lesbian interlude, however, is treated not as a “twisted love in
+      the shadows” or any such cliche matter, but simply as a human
+      relationship, in its total effect on Paula’s personality; and she
+      always remembers Byrne with affectionate regret. Excellent of
+      kind.
+
+      _The Obsessed._ Newstand Library Magenta Books, 1959. The
+      psychoanalysis of a nymphomaniac, including an affair with her
+      boy-friend’s lesbian sister. Not nearly as good as March Hastings'
+      other books, and much more dedicated to sexy scenes at the expense
+      of character and situation. Evening waster—almost scv. (It should
+      be noted that some paperback publishers insist on a specified
+      number of sex scenes, and in such a book as this one can almost
+      hear the weary sigh with which the author abandons his story,
+      which is going well, and stops everything for another measured
+      dose of sexy writing for the nitwit audience.)
+
+    HECHT, BEN. _The Sensualists._ Messner, 1959, pbr Dell 1959. A
+      great deal of advance publicity built this up to a best-seller.
+      Highly sensational shock-stuff; a supposedly happily-married woman
+      discovers her husband is having an affair with a singer, Liza.
+      When she comes in contact with Liza, however, she realizes that
+      Liza is a lesbian, having affairs with men for camouflage
+      purposes, and is soon herself captivated by Liza. From here events
+      build up to highly shocking climaxes, including a ghastly murder.
+      Not to be read after dark.
+
+    HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. “The Sea Change” ss in _The Fifth Column and
+      the First 49 Stories_, P. F. Collier & Son, 1938. This volume also
+      contains two stories dealing with male homosexuality: “A Simple
+      Inquiry” and “Mother of a Queen.”
+
+    HELLMAN, LILLIAN. _The Children’s Hour._ Knopf, 1934. Also Random
+      House 1942; also in Burns-Mantle, Best Plays of 1934-35. A rumor
+      of lesbianism (unfounded) wrecks a school, and the lives of the
+      women who own and manage it.
+
+    HENRY, JOAN. _Women in Prison._ Doubleday 1952, pbr Permabooks
+      1953. This is non-fiction, autobiographical account of a woman’s
+      experience in two English prisons. Very good.
+
+    HEPPENSTALL, RAYNER. _The Blaze Of Noon._ Alliance 1940, pbr
+      Berkley 1956, (m) minor, fco and BAYOR.
+
+    HESSE, HERMAN. _Steppenwolf._ Henry Holt 1929. qpb Frederick
+      Ungar, 1960. Symbolic (and classic) novel of man’s disintegration,
+      caused by society’s ignorance. Contains highly sympathetic
+      homosexual characters (male and female).
+
+    HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA. _The Talented Mr. Ripley._ Coward, 1955, pbr
+      Dell 1959. (m, minor)
+
+      _Strangers on a Train._ Harper & Bros. 1950. (m, minor)
+
+      see also CLAIRE MORGAN
+
+    HILL, PATI. _The Nine Mile Circle._ Houghton, Mifflin 1957 fco.
+      Dreamy story of two teen-age girls and an idyllic summer during
+      which they constantly pretend to be man and wife, on a girlish,
+      unerotic level. Very nice.
+
+    HIMMEL, RICHARD. _Soul of Passion._ Star Pub, Co 1950. pbr tct.
+
+      _Strange Desires_, Croydon Pub. 1952, pbr Avon, tct.
+
+
+      _The Shame_, 1959, (m). No masterpiece but an interesting story
+      about a man spending a week with his dead Army friend’s wife and
+      recalling his long relationship with the dead man; over the week
+      he slowly comes to acknowledge, and come to terms with the fact
+      that their relationship had had overtones of homosexuality.
+
+    HITT, ORRIE. _Girl’s Dormitory._ Beacon pbo 1958 scv.
+
+      _Trapped._ Beacon pbo 1954. scv.
+
+      _Wayward Girl._ Beacon pbo 1960 scv.
+
+    HOLK, AGNETE. _The Straggler._ (Trans, from the Danish by Anthony
+      Hinton). London, Arco Pub. 1954, pbr tct.
+
+      _Strange Friends_, Pyramid Books 1955, very slightly abridged.
+      Boyish Scandinavian Vita adopts a “little sister” but is quite
+      unaware of the nature of her attraction to Hilda. In her late
+      teens Hilda, stirred but unsatisfied by this attachment, makes an
+      unwise marriage, and Vita undergoes a period of rootless drifting,
+      a brief affair ending in separation, and finally makes a permanent
+      arrangement with Hilda, whose unsuccessful marriage ended in
+      divorce. Valuable for a portrait of European gay life, very unlike
+      the American.
+
+    HOLLIDAY, DON. _The Wild Night._ Nightstand Books 1960 (no
+      publisher’s address listed). Composite novel of six lives which
+      converge on New Year’s Eve in a cheap Greenwich Village strip
+      joint. “One of those unexpectedly good stories one finds among the
+      floods of paperback trash.” One of the six characters is a
+      lesbian.
+
+    HOLMES, (JOHN) CLELLON. _Go._ Scribner 1952, pbr Ace Books 1958,
+      (m).
+
+      _The Horn._ Random House 1953, Crest pbr 1958, (m).
+
+    HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. _Elsie Venner._ Burt, 1859; many editions,
+      a classic novel of a very strange girl, psychologically akin to
+      poisonous snakes. In the course of this novel a curious and
+      intense relationship develops between Elsie and a young
+      schoolmistress named Helen; a compulsive domination, attraction
+      and revulsion. One might suspect Dr. Holmes, whose medical
+      writings and observations place him far ahead of his era
+      psychologically, of genteelly camouflaging a portrait of variance,
+      100 years ago, by making the girl a creature of macabre fantasy.
+
+  + HORNBLOW, LEONORA. _The Love Seekers._ Random 1957, pbr Signet
+      1958. The heroine’s hesitation between marriage with a steady and
+      reliable man, and insecure excitement with a hoodlum, is resolved
+      when her affairs are interrupted by concern for the daughter of a
+      friend; the young lesbian, Mab, whose life has become entangled
+      with some very shady characters.
+
+  + HULL, HELEN R. “The Fire” ss in Century Magazine, Nov 1917;
+      Excellent story of a small-town girl’s love for a middle-aged
+      spinster who awakens her to a world beyond her small one.
+
+      “With One Coin for Fee”, novelette in _Experiment_, Coward-McCann
+      1938, 1939, 1940. An introspective spinster and a lifelong friend,
+      trapped in a New England house during the 1939 hurricane; subtle
+      but good.
+
+      _The Quest._ Macmillan, 1922. An over-emotional girl, seeking
+      escape from home tensions, develops crushes on a classmate and on
+      a teacher: her mother’s over-reaction turns the girl against
+      variant attachments just as her unhappy home turned her against
+      marriage.
+
+      _The Labyrinth._ Macmillan, 1923. Variant attachments, among
+      others, in a novel of a woman unhappy in domesticity and trying to
+      find creative outlets.
+
+      _Landfall._ N. Y. Coward-McCann 1953. In a brittle and sarcastic
+      novel of a brittle and sarcastic woman, the heroine, a capable
+      businesswoman, alternately repulses and warms toward her adoring
+      secretary—though she secretly scorns the girl’s devotion, she
+      feels it would be a nuisance to break in a new secretary, so
+      wishes to keep her captivated.
+
+    HUNEKER, JAMES. _Painted Veils._ Liveright 1920 (still in print);
+      pbr Avon 1928. Unpleasant novel of the theatrical and literary
+      world of that day; the heroine, Easter, (an opera singer) has a
+      mannish satellite.
+
+    HURST, FANNIE. _The Lonely Parade._ N. Y. Harper 1942. Very minor
+      mention of lesbians in a novel of lonely women at hotels.
+
+  + HUTCHINS, MAUDE PHELPS McVEIGH. _A Diary of Love._ New
+      Directions, 1950, pbr Pyramid 1952, 1960. Weird stuff, written
+      with a detachment and delicacy reminiscent of the Colette novels.
+      A teen-age girl, Noel, goes through a bizarre series of
+      experiences in a strange household where her grandfather seduces
+      his (male) music pupils and a nymphomanic, neurotic housemaid,
+      Freida, successively seduces everyone from Grandpa down to Noel.
+      Beautifully done.
+
+      _Georgiana._ New Directions, 1948. The second section of a
+      sensitive, well-written novel is laid in a girl’s school; there
+      are three important variant attachments, and as a result one of
+      Georgiana’s classmates is expelled. In later life Georgiana blames
+      her failure to find happiness on a “lesbian complex.”
+
+      _My Hero._ New Directions, 1953, (m).
+
+    ILTON, PAUL. _The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah._ pbo, Signet,
+      1956, 1957, (m). Historical, Biblical setting.
+
+    JACKSON, CHARLES. _The Fall of Valor._ Rinehart & Co, 1946, pbr
+      Signet, 1950, (m).
+
+      _The Lost Weekend._ Farrar & Rinehart 1944, pbr Berkley 1955 and
+      others.
+
+      “Palm Sunday” ss in collection _The Sunnier Side_, pbr Berkley nd
+      and others, also in Cory, _21 Variations_.
+
+  + JACKSON, SHIRLEY. _Hangsaman._ Farrar, 1951. Frightening,
+      macabre story of a lonely girl who conjures up a thrilling
+      companion—who looks and acts like a boy but is clearly a girl.
+      They meet secretly and engage in wild conversation and loveplay,
+      and only slowly, with dawning horror, does the reader realize that
+      the child is a split personality and the two girls are one and the
+      same.
+
+      _The Haunting of Hill House._ Viking, 1959. During the
+      investigation of a reputed “haunted house”, two of the
+      investigating party—Theo, an admitted lesbian, and Eleanor, a
+      lonely, inhibited spinster—go through a curious, subtly
+      delineated relationship wavering, with the intensity of the
+      “haunting” of the house, from attraction to intense love to
+      unexplained revulsion. Macabre; good of its kind.
+
+    JAMES, HENRY. _Turn of the Screw._ Macmillan 1898, hcr Modern
+      Library n d, Pocket Books and other editions. Available
+      everywhere. Some authorities consider subtle and understated
+      lesbianism to be the mysterious motivations behind the scenes of
+      this curious psychological ghost story of the struggle of a
+      governess for the souls of two young children.
+
+      _The Bostonians._ Century Magazine 1885, hcr Dial 1945.
+
+    JOHNSON, KAY. _My Name is Rusty._ Castle Books, 1958. Allegedly a
+      novel of a woman’s prison, complete with glossary of “prison
+      slang”—but if the author has ever been inside a woman’s prison,
+      or even done any authentic research, your editors will eat a copy
+      of the book, complete with cover jackets. Brief plot; butchy Rusty
+      makes a pass at prison newcomer Marcia, in order to share her
+      commissary credits. When Rusty gets out of prison she marries and
+      goes straight and Marcia kills herself. Read it and weep.
+
+    JONES, JAMES. _From Here to Eternity._ Scribners 1951, pbr Signet
+      ca. 1952, (m).
+
+    KASTLE, HERBERT D. _Koptic Court._ Simon & Schuster 1958, pbr tct
+      _Seven Keys to Koptic Court_, Crest 1959, (m).
+
+    KEENE, DAY and Leonard Pruyn. _World Without Women._ pbo Gold
+      Medal, 1960, Science-fictional evening waster; all the women in
+      the world die off, except a few, who must be carefully protected
+      as potential mothers of the human race. One episode involves all
+      the surviving lesbians, who barricade themselves in a prison. Good
+      of type.
+
+    KENNEDY, JAY RICHARD. _Short Term._ World, 1959. This one is just
+      out; reviews indicate some lesbian content, but this could be
+      anything from a paragraph to three chapters. BAYOR.
+
+    KENT, JUSTIN. _Mavis._ Vixen Press 1953, pbr Beacon 1960. scv.
+      “Mavis is married to a lush, so she dallies and so does he, and
+      they are really a pair of dillies dallying....”
+
+  + KENT, NIAL. (pseud of William LeRoy Thomas) _The Divided Path_,
+      (m). Greenberg 1949, Pyramid pbr 1951, 1952, 1959. For once the
+      plus is used to promote personal prejudice; various authorities
+      call this book overly sentimental. But when this hardened reviewer
+      finds herself in tears, she’s apt to think there must be something
+      to it. Childhood, adolescence and manhood of Michael, a young
+      homosexual, and his long-continued, scrupulously self-denying
+      relationship with a boyhood friend who does not suspect his
+      friend’s “difference”.
+
+    KENYON, THEDA. _That Skipper from Stonington._ Messner, 1946. A
+      juvenile novel, strangely enough, found in a high school library.
+      The hero runs away to sea as a small boy and is protected by a man
+      who is obviously homosexual, though the boy does not know it; the
+      other men on the ship, suspecting that this relationship is
+      unhealthy (it isn’t) hound the boy’s protector to suicide.
+
+    KEOGH, THEODORA. _Meg._ Creative Age Press 1950, pbr Signet 1952,
+      1956. Sublimated lesbianism in a very young girl.
+
+      _The Double Door._ Creative Age 1950, pbr Signet 1952, (m).
+
+    KESSEL, JOSEPH. _The Lion._ (trans. from French by Peter Green).
+      N. Y. Knopf 1959. One editor saw subtle variant emotion in the
+      mother’s attachment to a school friend.
+
+    KING, DON. _The Bitter Love._ Newsstand Library Magenta Book,
+      1959. Rather good evening waster about a supposed double murder,
+      gradually solved by the slow revelation of the affair between
+      Brenda and her 16 year old stepdaughter.
+
+    KING, MARY JACKSON. _The Vine of Glory._ Bobbs-Merrill, 1948. This
+      won a prize as the best novel on race relations by a Southern
+      writer for its year. A repressed, inhibited, small-town girl,
+      Lavinia, at the mercy of elderly tyrannical relatives, forms a
+      close friendship with a Negro man who was her only childhood
+      friend. The friendship between Lavinia and Augustus is purely
+      platonic; she attends a school he has set up for colored girls who
+      wish to improve themselves, and he helps to find her a job; but
+      enraged small-minded bigots bring on a lynching. Early in the book
+      a preparation is laid for Lavinia’s lack of friends of her own sex
+      and status by her unfortunate friendship with Dixie Murdoch,
+      teen-age daughter of a Holy-roller preacher. While spending the
+      night, Dixie attempts to make homosexual advances to the younger
+      girl, and Lavinia becomes hysterical. The episode is brief,
+      condemnatory and very realistic.
+
+    KIN, DAVID GEORGE. _Women Without Men._ Brookwood, 1958. The
+      author calls this “True stories of lesbian life in Greenwich
+      Village”. It represents a roundup of a dozen or so famous literary
+      and artistic figures, presented as case histories. They are
+      presented, picture after sordid picture, without a glimmer of
+      understanding or real insight, though he sometimes shows smug
+      sympathy for a few he claims to have reformed by something he
+      calls “cultural therapy”. He baldly states in the preface: “I take
+      my mental hygiene from Moses, rather than Freud, and have the
+      Mosaic horror of homosexuality”. Despite this vicious slanting,
+      the book is explicit, funny in places, and presumably
+      verifiable—but certainly makes homosexuality look like a Fate
+      Worse Than Death. The writing is straight from the tabloid
+      newspapers.
+
+    KINSEY, CHET. _Kate._ pbo, Beacon 1959. scv.
+
+    KOESTLER, ARTHUR. _Arrival and Departure._ Macmillan 1943. A man
+      makes the most important decision of his life on the rebound of
+      disillusion after discovering that a woman who risked her life to
+      save him is a lesbian.
+
+  + KRAMER, N. MARTIN (pseud. of Beatrice Ann Wright). _Hearth and
+      The Strangeness._ Macmillan 1956, pbr Pyramid 1957. An excellent
+      novel of the fear of inherited insanity in a family. The youngest
+      child, Aliciane, becomes a lesbian; this is one of the few
+      realistic and unromanticized portraits of the factors in the
+      development of homosexuality from childhood.
+
+      _Sons of the Fathers._ Macmillan 1959, (m).
+
+    LACRETELLE, JACQUES DE. _Marie Bonifas._ (trans. from the French
+      of La Bonifas) London & N. Y., G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1929. Classic
+      novel of feminine variance. Exclusively lesbian characters are
+      rare in French literature (although bisexual women are relatively
+      common), and this was one of the best known; it follows the
+      heroine from childhood to old age.
+
+    LACY, ED. _Room to Swing._ Harper Bros. 1957, pbr Pyramid 1958. A
+      colored detective is retained by a pair of lesbians to solve a
+      murder; is instead accused of committing it. Good.
+
+  + LANDON, MARGARET. _Never Dies the Dream._ Doubleday, 1949. An
+      unmarried woman missionary in Siam incurs criticism and suspicion
+      when she shows marked favor to an unfortunate American girl at the
+      mercy of the Orient; later, when she risks her own life by
+      isolating herself to nurse Angela through typhoid, she loses her
+      own position. Neither the author nor the heroine of the novel
+      admit the faintest tinge of lesbianism to the relationship, which
+      is full of warmth and selfless sacrifice, and India angrily denies
+      the accusation when it is made; but the high emotional intensity
+      of the whole story bring it well within the boundaries of the
+      field and place it high on the list.
+
+    LA FARGE, CHRISTOPHER. _The Sudden Guest._ Coward-McCann, 1946.
+      The human driftwood blown up by a hurricane includes a pair of
+      lesbians, stirring latent memories in the novel’s heroine—an
+      embittered, abandoned spinster.
+
+  + LAPSLEY, MARY. _Parable of the Virgins._ R. R. Smith, 1931.
+      High-keyed novel of many emotional fevers, hetero and homosexual,
+      in a woman’s college.
+
+    LAWRENCE, D. H. “The Fox”, ss in Dial Magazine 1922, also in hcr
+      but NOT in pbr edition of _The Captain’s Doll_, Thomas Seltzer,
+      1923.
+
+      _The Rainbow._ Modern Library 1915, 1943, pbr Avon 1959, 1960. In
+      a long, three-generation novel of the Brangwyn family, one variant
+      episode between young Ursula and a teacher.
+
+    LAURENT-TAILHADE, MARIE LOUISE. _Courtesans, Princesses,
+      Lesbians._ (Trans. from French by G. M. C.) Paris, Libraire Astra.
+      Casanova-ish memoir; French pamphleteering of Pre-revolutionary
+      days. Bitter, explicit and mildly disgusting; mentioned mostly to
+      state emphatically that the French Libraire Astra, and the Astra’s
+      Tower Checklist, have NO connection.
+
+    LE CLERQ, JACQUES. _Show Cases._ Macy-Masius, 1928. Offbeat short
+      stories, dealing with male and female homosexuality.
+
+    LEAR-HEAP, WINIFRED. _The Shady Cloister._ Macmillan, 1950. Quiet,
+      understated and sympathetic story of feminine relationships in a
+      school setting—but without the melodramatic atmosphere of tragedy
+      which usually surrounds such stories.
+
+  + LEE, MARJORIE. _The Lion House._ Rinehart, 1959. Well-written
+      attempt to capture and document the confused and shifting morals
+      of modern suburban living. Brad, husband of Jo, starts the story
+      by flirting with Frannie; this backfires when Frannie and Jo
+      become friends. As the relationship grows more intense, it proves
+      so disturbing that even after Frannie has admitted its nature Jo
+      cannot accept it; Frannie attempts to solve her problems via
+      psychoanalysis, while Jo continues floundering in her unresolved
+      conflicts. This year’s best new novel.
+
+    LEE, GYPSY ROSE. _Gypsy, a Memoir._ Harper Bros. 1959, pbr Dell
+      1959. In a fascinating, probably largely fictional autobiography,
+      the ex-burlesque queen/novelist shows one thoroughly comical
+      lesbian character. This is really minor, but marvelously funny,
+      and anyone who plows through all the crud we mention will get a
+      real break from this.
+
+    LE FANU, SHERIDAN. “Carmilla” in _Green Tea and Other Ghost
+      Stories._ Also in Vol III of “The Forgotten Classics of Mystery”,
+      entitled _Sheridan Le Fanu, the Diabolical Genius_. Also in
+      _Strange and Fantastic Stories_, ed. by Joseph Margolies, McGraw
+      Hill, 1946. Fantastic lesbian vampire.
+
+    LEIBER, FRITZ. “The Ship Sails at Midnight”, in _The Outer
+      Reaches_, ed. August Derleth, Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisc. 1951.
+      Science-fiction or fantasy of a strange, unusual woman who
+      captivates a whole group of college students; tragedy is touched
+      off by their jealous rage when it is discovered that she has been
+      making love to all of them—not simultaneously of course.
+      Extremely well done, hint of allegory.
+
+    LEGRAND, NADIA. _The Rainbow Has Seven Colors._ N. Y. St Martins,
+      1958. After the death of the heroine her life is reviewed by seven
+      people who loved her (as with _Of Lena Geyer_) including a lesbian
+      who loved her and a young girl who wanted to.
+
+  + LEHMANN, ROSAMOND. _Dusty Answer._ N. Y., Holt, 1927. Still in
+      print. Well-known novel in which the heroine’s whole life is
+      conditioned by her love for a college classmate. Delicate,
+      beautifully written.
+
+    LENGEL, FRANCES. _Helen and Desire._ Olympia Press, Paris, 1954.
+      scv, and you can’t buy it in this country legally. If you locate a
+      copy you’ll know why we say you aren’t missing a thing. Seamy
+      novel of a nymphomanic ——ing her way around the world. (It’s not
+      worth going to Paris to read.)
+
+    LESLIE, DAVID STUART. _The Man on the Beach._ London, Hutchinson
+      1957, (m).
+
+    LEVAILLANT, MAURICE. _The Passionate Exiles._ (trans. Malcolm
+      Barnes.) Farrar, Straus & Cudahy 1958. Historical “dual biography”
+      of Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier.
+
+  + LEVIN, MEYER. _Compulsion._ Simon & Schuster 1956. pbr Pocket
+      Books 1958, (m).
+
+    LEWIS, SINCLAIR. _Ann Vickers._ Doubleday, 1933. One important
+      lesbian episode in a novel of woman suffrage, viciously
+      condemnatory.
+
+    LEVERIDGE, RALPH. _Walk on the Water._ Farrar, 1951, pbr tct _The
+      Last Combat_, Signet 1952, Pyramid 1959, (m).
+
+    LEWIS, WYNDHAM. _The Apes of God._ N. Y., R. M. McBride & Co, 1932,
+      London, Arthur Press 1950, London, Arco, 1955. Satire, including
+      sharp studies of homosexuality, male and female.
+
+    LIN, HAZEL. _The Moon Vow._ Pageant Press, 1958. A Chinese woman
+      psychiatrist, attempting to solve a patient’s problems, is led
+      into seamy byways of Peking, including a somewhat gruesome lesbian
+      cult.
+
+    LINDOPS, AUDREY ERSKINE. _The Outer Ring._ Appleton 1955, pbr
+      Popular Library tct _The Tormented_. (m)
+
+    LINGSTROM, FREDA. _Axel._ Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1939.
+      Wealthy man adopts two boys and a girl. One boy, Valentine, has
+      homosexual affair with an older boy, Teddy, who later commits
+      suicide; the girl, Auriol, studying music in Germany, lives with 2
+      older women, one of whom is very innocently but very ardently in
+      love with her. Well-written.
+
+    LIPSKY, ELEAZAR. _The Scientists._ Appleton-Century-Crofts 1959,
+      pbr Pocket Books, 1960. Minor character in a long novel is a
+      vaguely treated, but explicit lesbian.
+
+    LIPTON, LAWRENCE. _The Holy Barbarians._ Messner, 1959. Love among
+      the beat generation, including all kinds of homosexuality.
+
+    LITTLE, JAY. _Somewhere between the Two._ Pageant, 1956, (m).
+
+      _Maybe Tomorrow._ Pageant, 1952, (m). Amusing.
+
+    LIVINGSTON, MARJORIE. _Delphic Echo._ London, Andrew Dakers, 1948,
+      (m). Minor, in a novel of ancient Greece.
+
+    LODGE, LOIS. _Love Like a Shadow._ Phoenix Press, 1935.
+      Purple-passaged novel of a lesbian seeking true love.
+
+  + LOFTS, NORAH. _Jassy._ Knopf 1945, pbr Signet 1948, others.
+      Roughly a third of this novel, about a young English girl who,
+      herself innocent, brings tragedy on everyone, is lesbian in
+      emphasis. In a girl’s school she comes between Mrs. Twysdale, a
+      rather slimy, neurotic woman who has adored her boyish cousin,
+      Katherine, for years. Katherine, chafing at this adoration, turns
+      to Jassy for undemanding friendship and Mrs. Twysdale connives to
+      have her expelled—which spurs Katherine to precipitate a
+      long-desired break with her.
+
+      _The Lute Player._ Doubleday, 1951; pbr Bantam 1951, (m). Fine
+      historical of Richard III, based on the thesis that he was
+      homosexual.
+
+  + LONG, MARGARET. _Louisville Saturday._ Random 1950, pbr Bantam
+      1951, 53, 56, 57, 59. A study of women in wartime includes a brief
+      study of a woman’s acceptance of a variant friendship (the
+      sections titled GLADYS).
+
+    LORD, SHELDON. _A Strange Kind of Love._ N. Y., Midwood-Tower Pubs
+      pbo 1959. Evening waster about a writer who discovers that two of
+      his (dozens of) girl friends are involved with one another.
+
+      _69 Barrow Street._ Midwood-Tower pbo 1959, scv. Love, if you can
+      call it that, in Greenwich Village.
+
+  + LOUŸS, PIERRE. _Aphrodite._ (Many editions, of which the
+      standard English translation seems to be The Collected Works of
+      Pierre Louys, Liveright, 1926, still in print. Also various Avon
+      paperbacks.) The beautifully written story of an Alexandrian
+      courtesan also includes the story of two young Greek girls, Rhodis
+      and Myrtocleia, no more than children, who wish to marry one
+      another.
+
+      _The Adventures of King Pausole._ As above. Fine, funny, highly
+      risque story of the king of a strange country, who has a thousand
+      wives, like Solomon, and believes in freedom for everybody except
+      his daughter, Aline—who eventually runs away with a “boy” who is
+      really a girl.
+
+      _The Songs of Bilitis._ As above. Prose or poetry, depending on
+      translation, and perhaps the classic story of lesbianism in an
+      ancient setting.
+
+    LUCAS, RICK. _Dreamboat._ pbo, Berkley, 1956, 1957. scv.
+
+    LYNDON, BAREE, and Jimmie Sangster. _The Man who Could Cheat
+      Death_, based on the screenplay, for the recent movie, which in
+      turn was based on a play, The Man in Half Moon Street. Without
+      the fantastic photography which made the movie superb, this is a
+      remarkably silly pseudo-science thing about a man who finds away
+      to survive indefinitely by glandular transplants. To camouflage
+      his deathlessness he pulls up his roots and moves every ten years
+      and during one such interlude he falls for beautiful Avril Barnes,
+      who turns out to be a lesbian. He converts her, and she becomes
+      such a pest that he murders her. Shocker, silly.
+
+    MacCOWN, EUGENE. _The Siege of Innocence._ Doubleday, 1950, (m).
+      And minor lesbian element.
+
+    MacKENZIE, COMPTON. _Extraordinary Women._ Martin Secker, London;
+      Macy-Masius N. Y. 1928, hcr New Adelphi 1932. The Winston Book
+      Service offered this for sale quite recently. Amusing, satirical
+      and well-known novel of lesbians.
+
+      _The Vestal Fire._ N. Y. Doran, 1927, (m). However, in this novel
+      of Americans living abroad, there are also important lesbian
+      characters.
+
+    MacRAE, KEVIN. _Nikki._ Vantage. 1955. Not to be confused with the
+      rubbishy book by the same title by Stuart Friedman, this is a
+      story of Nikki, who loses her beloved in an air raid in London and
+      nearly cracks up before finding a home in a lesbian “colony” in
+      Southern California; silly, but a lot of fun.
+
+  + MacINNES, COLIN. _Absolute Beginners._ London, MacGibbon & Rae,
+      1959. A novel about London teen-agers, told in Soho idiom—a sort
+      of bastard hip-talk. The characters in this novel include several
+      male homosexuals, and one lesbian, Big Jill. Enough space is
+      devoted to social problems, by an author who is quite obviously
+      one of the “angry young men”, to give this novel real status.
+
+    McMINNIES, MARY. _The Visitors._ Harcourt, Brace 1958. A
+      diplomat’s wife abroad, fancying herself as Madame Bovary,
+      attempts to use everyone around her for her own purposes. She has
+      an affair with an American correspondent and also captivates
+      Sophie, a countess, and an extremely well-portrayed character. One
+      of the most sympathetic portraits of a lesbian in recent fiction,
+      as well as a ruthless portrayal of women who enjoy flirting in
+      both fields.
+
+  + MAHYERE, EVELINE. _I Will not Serve._ Dutton 1959, 1960. This
+      book, boycotted by many major reviewers, was written by a young
+      Frenchwoman who committed suicide before its publication.
+      Precocious, nonconformist Sylvie has been expelled from a convent
+      for writing, in a letter, that she loves one of the nuns. The
+      story deals with the unfolding pattern of Sylvie’s meetings with
+      Julienne, an older novice in the convent. The conflict is clear;
+      Sylvie’s creed is “I will not serve”—a statement of her refusal
+      to become a good wife and mother—and she wants nothing of life
+      but Julienne. Julienne, has given herself to God. Refusing to
+      accept this, Sylvie commits suicide. The book is profound and
+      sincere, and on the basis of this one work the author’s premature
+      death was a loss to the field of literature.
+
+    MAINE, CHARLES ERIC. _World Without Men._ pbo, Ave Books 1958.
+      Science fiction of a world thousands of years in the future, where
+      the men have all died out, reproduction is scientific and the
+      women, having no one else to love, love one another. In defiance
+      of all conceivable theories of heredity and environment, a few
+      women still think this state of affairs is “unnatural” and band
+      together to create a male birth, assuming everyone will turn
+      normal overnight. Silly.
+
+    MALLET, FRANÇOISE. _The Illusionist._ (Trans. by Herma Briffault).
+      Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1952 tct _The Loving and the Daring_,
+      Popular 1953. (pbr). Now well-known novel, by a young French
+      writer, of a girl captivated by her father’s mistress.
+
+      _The Red Room._ (trans. by Herma Briffault). Farrar, Strauss &
+      Cudahy 1956, pbr Popular 1958. Sequel to the above.
+
+    MALLOY, FRED. _The End of the Road._ Woodford Press 1952, pbr
+      Berkley tct _Wicked Woman_, 1959. Good evening waster about a girl
+      who is picked up by Charlotte, a truck-driver “dike” type;
+      Charlotte gives Alice a home, but eventually Alice runs off with a
+      man who is worse than she is. Surprisingly, for this type of
+      thing, the author implies that there _is_ a fate worse than
+      lesbianism.
+
+    MANNING, BRUCE. _Triangle of Sin._ Intimate Novel (Universal Pub.)
+      1952, pbr Beacon Books 1959; same title, but author listed as
+      Manning Stokes. Evening waster.
+
+    MANNIX, DANIEL P. _The Beast._ pbo Ballantine Books 1959, (m).
+
+    MARECHAL, LUCIE. _The Mesh_ (trans. by Virgilia Peterson.)
+      Appleton 1949, pbr Bantam, 1951, 1953, 1959. Excellent novel of a
+      Belgian family; the weakling son marries, brings his bride into
+      home dominated by his mother, shadowed by his lonely sister.
+      Eventually sister takes the young woman away from her brother.
+
+    MARLOWE, STEPHEN. _Homicide is My Game._ Gold Medal 1959 pbo.
+      Hardboiled murder mystery involving a teen-age sex club—a
+      businessman is involved of running it, but the real culprit is his
+      daughter, Liz. She is also a lesbian. Evening waster.
+
+    MARK, EDWINA. (pseud of Edwin Fadiman jr). _My Sister, my
+      Beloved._ Citadel 1955, pbr Berkley 1956. Two young sisters,
+      daughters of a drunken lush of a mother, fall into a too-close
+      relationship as Eve, the older, protects young Sheila from their
+      mother’s beatings and tantrums. Sheila plays around and gets
+      pregnant; mother, at the stage where alcohol will kill her, is
+      given a big drink by Eve, who then arranges for Sheila to have an
+      abortion and the two of them to live happily ever after; instead,
+      Sheila marries the boy and Eve is whipped half to death by one of
+      her mother’s gigolos. One of _those_ books—where anything from
+      abortion to rape is preferable to lesbianism.
+
+      + _The Odd Ones._ Berkley pbo, 1959. Jean, small-town girl running
+      away, comes to New York and falls in with Sherri, tied to a crazy
+      husband. Rather good and not condemnatory at all; rather
+      restrained for a pbo, although of course it has the obligatory
+      sexy stuff.
+
+    MARR, REED. _Women without Men._ Gold Medal pbo, 1956. Naive, if
+      not too intelligent girl sent to a woman’s reformatory, encounters
+      the usual hardening experiences—corrupt matrons,
+      police-court-type lesbians, trusties and well-meaning officials
+      who have their lives to live and can’t or won’t do anything to
+      better conditions. Good of its kind.
+
+    MARSHE, RICHARD. _A Woman Called Desire._ (Orig. pub. 1950 under
+      title of _Wicked Woman_) Berkley pbr 1959, scv.
+
+    MARSTON, JOHN. _Venus With Us; a Tale of the Caesars._ N. Y.
+      Sears, 1932. pbr Universal Pub. 1953 tct _The Private Life of
+      Julius Caesar_. Fast, funny, risque historical novel—or
+      romance—with approximately six historical errors per chapter, but
+      a lot of fun nevertheless. The scenes laid in the College of
+      Vestals are exclusively lesbian; there are both serious, emotional
+      affairs between women, and funny light-hearted ones in the manner
+      of King Pausole. Good of kind.
+
+  + MARTIN, KENNETH. _Aubade._ London, Chapman & Hall 1957, (m).
+
+    MASEFIELD, JOHN. _Multitude and Solitude._ Macmillan 1909, 1916.
+
+    MASSIE, CHRIS. _The Incredible Truth._ Random, N. Y., 1958, pbr
+      Berkley 1959. Victorian husband narrates, many years afterward,
+      his wife’s successive attachment to two woman friends.
+
+    MAUGHAM, SOMERSET. _Theatre._ Doubleday 1937, Bantam pbr tct
+      _Woman of the World_, 1951, pbr Bantam tct _Theatre_ 1959.
+      Theatrical novel of a worldly actress, Julia, contains brief
+      mention of a fat, elderly lesbian admirer who finances her works;
+      one amusing scene where Julia’s husband advises her on how to
+      manipulate Dolly’s feelings. Smart, brittle.
+
+    MAUPASSANT, GUY DE. _Paul’s Mistress._ ss in various collections
+      including Cory, _21 Variations on a Theme_.
+
+    MAYHALL, JANE. _Cousin to Human._ Harcourt, Brace 1960. Valeda,
+      friend of the heroine, has a sad, depressing affair with an
+      adolescent schoolgirl athlete friend, named Mildred.
+
+    MEAGHER, MAUDE. _The Green Scamander._ Houghton Mifflin, 1933. A
+      novel of the Trojan war, largely concerned with the passionate
+      friendship between Penthesilea, co-queen with the Amazon tribe,
+      and her co-ruler Camilla. Beautifully written, available in most
+      medium-sized libraries.
+
+    MEEKER, RICHARD. _The Better Angel._ Greenberg 1933, pbr Universal
+      Pub. tct _Torment_ ca. 1952, (m).
+
+  + MEREZOWSKII, DMITRI. (Trans. from Russian by Natalia A.
+      Duddington) London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1925, 1926. _Birth of the
+      Gods._ A fine novel of Crete and the bull-dancers (and perhaps the
+      first of its kind). Dio, a strangely bisexual young girl,
+      priestess of the Great Mother, though attracted and attractive to
+      men, is vowed to remain a virgin in the service of the Goddess;
+      much of the novel is devoted to her passionate friendship for her
+      young novice, Eoia. One of Dio’s rejected lovers, believing that
+      the “little witch” has cast a spell on Dio to prevent her loving
+      him, plots to have Eoia killed in the ring; instead Eoia’s death
+      nearly destroys Dio as well.
+
+      _Akhnaton, King of Egypt._ (as above) London, Dent, 1927.
+      Continues and concludes the story of Dio.
+
+    MERGENDAHL, CHARLES. _The Girl Cage._ pbo Gold Medal 1953, 1959.
+      Brief, minor lesbian episode in a novel about war widows.
+
+    MERRITT, A(braham); _The Metal Monster._ Copyright Munsey
+      Magazines, (this ran serially in Argosy ca. 1920) Revised version,
+      Frank A. Munsey 1941, pbr Avon, 1946. Offbeat variant episode in
+      an adventure-fantasy; Norhala, pagan slave of the “metal people”
+      steals the explorer’s sister, Ruth, to “play with her”; after her
+      death Ruth weeps, saying “she loved me dearly, dearly,” but
+      significantly can remember nothing of their time together. Wildly
+      fantastic, good of type.
+
+    METALIOUS, GRACE. _Return to Peyton Place._ Messner 1959, pbr Dell
+      1959. Another sexy “expose” of a small town. In one episode, the
+      unpleasant wife of a local boy recalls her schooldays, when she
+      taunted and enslaved a lesbian schoolmate.
+
+    MEYER, GLADYS ELEANOR, _The Magic Circle._ Knopf, 1944. fco Subtle
+      novel of close friendship between two women; never explicit, and
+      on the borderline for variant interest.
+
+  + MILLAY, KATHLEEN. _Against the Wall._ Macaulay, 1929. College
+      novel by the sister of the well-known poet (see poetry
+      supplement).
+
+    MILLER, WALTER M. “The Lineman” ss in Fantasy and Science Fiction,
+      August 1957, (m). Excellent attitudes on homosexuality in general,
+      in short story of isolated men.
+
+    MILLER, HENRY. _Plexus._ Paris, Olympia Press 1953, 2 vols.
+      Chapter 16 of the 2nd Volume is supposed to be devoted to a
+      variant affair. Most of Henry Miller’s books cannot be legally
+      imported into the USA—this is one—and your editors haven’t been
+      to Paris yet. When you go, tell us.
+
+    MISHIMA, YUKIO. _Confessions of a Mask._ New Directions 1958, (m).
+
+  + MITCHELL, S. WEIR. _Constance Trescott._ N. Y., Century 1900. The
+      plus is to draw attention to an old, overlooked title. Major (for
+      its date) treatment of variant enslavement between two half
+      sisters.
+
+  + MITCHISON, NAOMI. _The Delicate Fire._ Harcourt, N. Y. 1932. A
+      major writer, and scholar, presents a collection of lovely short
+      stories of ancient Greece; the title story deals with Sappho and
+      her group of girl lovers.
+
+      _The Corn King and the Spring Queen._ Harcourt, 1931, (m).
+
+      “Black Sparta” and “Krypteia” in _Greek Stories_, Harcourt, 1928,
+      (m).
+
+    MORAVIA, ALBERTO. _The Conformist._ Farrar, Straus & Young 1951,
+      pbr Signet 1954. Penetrating study of a fascist whose compulsive
+      drive for power destroys everyone he loves. An interlude between
+      his wife and a friend provides a brief diversion before the
+      macabre ending.
+
+    MOORE, HAL. _The Naked and the Fair._ pbo, Beacon, 1958, scv.
+
+    MOORE, PAMELA. _Chocolates for Breakfast._ Rinehart 1956, pbr
+      Bantam 1957. Candid, shocking story of a young girl’s
+      disintegration; the opening episodes involve her rejection by a
+      teacher on whom she has a crush, and there are variant overtones
+      in her prolonged friendship with a school roommate, Janet’s
+      suicide being the spur which makes Courtney resolve to pull
+      herself together.
+
+    MORELL, LEE. _Mimi._ pbo Beacon Books 1959. Unusually good evening
+      waster about night-club and theatrical people, with both male and
+      female homosexual episodes; handled with subtlety and lightness
+      almost unknown in this publisher’s paperbacks.
+
+  + MORGAN, CLAIRE. (pseud of Patricia Highsmith) _The Price of
+      Salt._ Coward-McCann, 1952, pbr Bantam 1953, 1959. Fine novel of
+      an affair between two very nice, very courageous, very
+      well-adjusted women whose initial attraction becomes the
+      mainspring of both their lives. The author does not use one single
+      stereotype or cliche; this is probably _the_ American novel of the
+      lesbian.
+
+    MORGAN, NANCY. _City of Women_, pbo Gold Medal 1952, 1959. Lesbian
+      episodes in a novel of women living in barracks at Pearl Harbor.
+
+    MORLEY, IRIS. _The Proud Paladin._ N. Y. Morrow 1936. Lesbian
+      content vague and doubtful, BAYOR and fco.
+
+    MORRO, DON. _The Virgin._ pbo Beacon 1955, released in 1959. scv.
+
+    MOSS, GEOFFREY. _That Other Love._ Doubleday, 1930. A
+      long-continued affair between Phillida and an older friend breaks
+      off because of the younger woman’s desire for children.
+
+    MOTLEY, WILLARD. _Knock on Any Door._ N. Y., Appleton-Century,
+      1947, pbr Signet 1953, (m).
+
+  + MURDOCH, IRIS. _The Bell._ N. Y. Viking 1958, (m). A fine,
+      occasionally funny novel of an Anglican lay church-community
+      centers around Michael Meade, a man of honor, intelligence, and
+      integrity—and a homosexual. His hopes of being ordained as a
+      priest were destroyed when, as a schoolteacher, he became
+      entangled with young Nick; Nick’s appearance at the community
+      destroys Michael’s peace of mind thoroughly, and an obliquely
+      handled relationship between Nick, Michael and a guileless
+      youngster, Toby, spending the summer at the community, eventually
+      destroys the community entirely. But it isn’t all gloom and doom;
+      the level of the writing is highly competent, sometimes wildly
+      hilarious, and through all his difficulties Michael is able to
+      realize that eventually he will “experience again ... that
+      infinitely extended requirement which one human being makes on
+      another.” A book which emphasizes the triumph of love, and one of
+      the recent best. ((Editor’s note; why are the best novels of male
+      homosexuality written by women? Mesdames Renault and Murdoch are
+      giving their best to the men. Is it a question of detachment?))
+
+    MURPHY, DENNIS. _The Sergeant._ Viking 1958, pbr Crest 1959, (m).
+
+    MURRAY, WILLIAM. _The Fugitive Romans._ pbo, Popular Library 1955.
+      Brief variant episode among a Hollywood location crew abroad.
+
+    NEILSEN, HELEN. _The Fifth Caller._ Morrow, 1959. Dr. Lillian
+      Whitehall, metaphysician, is murdered; as each of her five callers
+      is interviewed to find the guilty party, it develops that the dead
+      woman was a cruel, domineering repressed lesbian. Well written,
+      though unsympathetic.
+
+    NEFF, WANDA FRAIKEN. _We Sing Diana._ Boston, Houghton 1928. Story
+      of a girl too inhibited to face her own nature.
+
+    NILES, BLAIR. _Strange Brother._ N. Y. Liveright 1931, pbr Harris
+      Publications 1949, pbr Avon 1952, 1958, 1959.
+
+    NIN, ANAIS. _Winter of Artifice._ Paris, Obelisk Press 1939, also
+      in _Under a Glass Bell_, Dutton, 1948. The first edition has 100
+      pages or so, not included in later editions, in which she recounts
+      her liaison with a famous American writer and his wife, all
+      disguised, of course. (All of this writer’s work seems to be
+      vaguely tinged with variance.)
+
+      _Ladders to Fire._ Dutton, 1945, 1946.
+
+    NORDAY, MICHAEL. _Stage for Fools._ Vixen Press 1955. pbr tct
+      _Strange Thirsts_, Beacon 1959. Evening waster about a lush
+      actress making a comeback on a college campus, who revenges
+      herself on an indifferent male by entrapping his girl into a
+      drunken lesbian episode and inviting him to watch the show. A
+      shocker.
+
+      _Warped._ Beacon pbo 1955, 1960. Very apt title; evening waster
+      about a crooked fight game. One sympathetically portrayed lesbian
+      character in the many mixed affairs.
+
+    NORMANDIE, ROGER. _The Lion’s Den._ N. Y., Key 1957. scv.
+
+  + O’BRIEN, KATE. _As Music and Splendor._ Harper. 1958. Novel of
+      two very different young Irish girls sent to study music on the
+      Continent during the great age of Italian opera; their personal
+      lives differ as widely as their careers. One, Clare Halvey, drifts
+      into a love affair with Luisa Carriaga, a Spanish contralto; their
+      relationship is treated delicately, but with warmth and impersonal
+      sympathy. Excellent for opera lovers and for those who are tired
+      to death of books where every last detail is spelled out as
+      frankly as the law allows.
+
+  + O’DONOVAN, JOAN. _Dangerous Worlds._ Morrow, 1958. Collection of
+      excellent short stories.
+
+    O’HIGGINS, HARVEY. _The Story of Julie Cane._ Harper, 1924.
+      Explicit, for its day, story of an intense relationship between a
+      schoolmistress and her ward.
+
+    OLIVIA (see DOROTHY BUSSY).
+
+    O’NEILL, ROSE. _The Goblin Woman._ N. Y. Doubleday 1930. Fey,
+      symbolic novel of Helga, the Goblin Woman (who represents purity)
+      set down in a society far from pure. There are many lesbian
+      episodes and references to inter-feminine love. (see poetry
+      supplement.)
+
+    O’HARA, NOEL. _The Last Virgin._ Chariot Books pb 1959. This is a
+      reprint of David George Kin’s “Women Without Men”, containing six
+      of the ten stories; new title, new author, even new copyright
+      date—who’s kidding who? It does not contain the damning
+      introduction, and without it, appears fairly sympathetic. Curious
+      little item.
+
+    PACKER, VIN (pseud; see also ANN ALDRICH) _Spring Fire._ pbo Gold
+      Medal 1952. Now well-known and rather gamy novel of sorority house
+      life and an unhappy lesbian affair between naive freshman Mitch
+      and neurotic Lana.
+
+      _Whisper His Sin._ Gold Medal pbo 1954, (m).
+
+      + _The Evil Friendship._ pbo Crest 1958. Viciously condemnatory
+      novel of two little girls of fourteen who, consequent to their
+      lesbianish attachment, plot together and carry out “a murder
+      club”. Shuddersome, but, alas, well written. (Editorial query; why
+      must so many of the detractors of lesbianism write such good
+      books, while those who defend it are, all to often, of the Carol
+      Hales “quality”?)
+
+      _The Twisted Ones._ pbo, Gold Medal 1959, (m).
+
+    PARK, JORDAN. (pseud of Cyril Kornbluth). _Valerie._ pbo, Lion,
+      1953, 1957. Minor lesbian episodes in a novel of witch-hunting;
+      the episodes occur at a Witches Sabbat. Evening waster.
+
+    PARKER, DOROTHY. “Glory in the Daytime” in _After Such Pleasures_,
+      N. Y., Viking 1934.
+
+    PATTON, MARION. _Dance on the Tortoise._ N. Y., Dial 1930.
+      Boarding-school novel; the heroine, repelled by the emotional
+      friendships around her, throws herself with relief into the arms
+      of a man.
+
+    PAVESE, CESARE. _Among Women Only._ Noonday Press, qpb 1959
+      ($1.75). Recommended, highly tragic, novel by a writer considered,
+      until his untimely death, one of Italy’s best.
+
+  + PETERS, FRITZ. _Finistere._ Farrar, Straus & Co 1951, pbr Signet
+      1953, (m).
+
+  + PETRONIUS, _The Satyricon._ (the earliest known novel, written
+      about the time of Christ; the last flush of the pagan world.)
+      Trans. William Arrowsmith, University of Michigan Press, 1959.
+      This is also available in a highly expurgated Modern Library
+      edition, n. d. Male, of course, and the Arrowsmith translation is
+      hilarious and _very_ readable.
+
+    PEN, JOHN. _Temptation._ (trans. from the Hungarian by John
+      Manheim,) Avon Red and Gold, 1959, (m). Fine picaresque.
+
+    PEYREFITTE, ROGER. _Special Friendships._ NY, Vanguard 1950, (m).
+
+  + PHELPS, ROBERT. _Heroes and Orators._ N. Y., McDowell & Oblensky
+      1958. Fine modern novel of family relationships, containing a
+      lesbian character described as the most real, human and
+      sympathetic in recent years; Margot, in love with her ex-husband’s
+      sister Elizabeth. The two women live together, but any intimate
+      relationship between them is disclaimed.
+
+    PHILLIPS, THOMAS HAL. _The Bitterweed Path._ Rinehart 1949, pbr
+      Avon 1954, 1959, (m).
+
+    POWELL, DAWN. _A Cage for Lovers._ Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1957.
+      Mannish, wealthy hypochondriac keeps her nurse-companion in
+      virtual slavery until the younger girl breaks away and marries.
+      Competent novel by a popular author.
+
+    PRIEST, J. C. _Private School._ Beacon pbo 1959 scv.
+
+    PRITCHARD, JANET. _Warped Women._ Beacon pbo 1951, 1956, 1959.
+      Despite the lurid blurb and cover, this is a nice evening waster
+      about an innocent young girl who goes to work for a woman’s health
+      club which is, behind the scenes, an abortion mill run by
+      gangsters. Fronting for the group, an attractive lesbian takes a
+      fancy to the heroine, eventually protects her against the gangster
+      boss at the risk of her own life. The heroine then marries a nice
+      boy who’s been telling her all along that the place is rotten.
+      Suspenseful, interesting.
+
+    PROUST, MARCEL. _Remembrance of Things Past_, the great work of
+      the well-known French homosexual author, is available in many
+      (virtually all except rural-provincial) libraries, numerous
+      college editions, etc. Long sections are variant, male-homosexual
+      or lesbian; bibliography would occupy entirely too much space. Try
+      a stray volume in qpb and see if Proust is your cup of tea—he
+      isn’t everyone’s.
+
+    PURTSCHER, NORA. _Woman Astride._ Appleton-Century, 1934. Woman
+      spends almost her entire life in male disguise. Offbeat, variant
+      rather than explicitly lesbian.
+
+    PYKE, RICHARD. _The Lives and Deaths of Roland Greer._ NY, Boni
+      1929, (m). Horrifying.
+
+    RAVEN, SIMON. _The Feathers of Death._ London, A. Blond, 1959,
+      Simon & Schuster 1960, (m).
+
+    RAYTER, JOE (pseud. of Mary McChesney). _Asking for Trouble._
+      Morrow 1955, pbr Pocket Books 1959. Murder mystery. A mannish,
+      hard-boiled lesbian plays an important part.
+
+    REHDER, JESSIE. _Remembrance Way._ G P Putnam’s Sons 1956.
+      Retrospective tale in which the heroine recalls a summer in girl’s
+      camp, when she was enslaved simultaneously to a domineering
+      director (woman) and her daughter.
+
+    REMARQUE, ERICH MARIA. _Arch of Triumph_ Appleton 1945, pbr Signet
+      1950, 1959.
+
+  + RENAULT, MARY. _Promise of Love._ Morrow, 1939. Novel, in a
+      hospital background, contains variant relationship, lightly
+      treated.
+
+      _The Middle Mist._ Morrow, 1945. Excellent, humorous novel,
+      featuring the boyish Leo (Leonora) who, with her friend Helen,
+      lives on a houseboat quite happily ("It only makes sense for the
+      surplus women to arrange themselves one way or another.") This is,
+      beyond a doubt, the wittiest, most refreshing book on the list;
+      the girls have problems, but they have them, and solve them,
+      without any well-of-loneliness agonizing. The story is resolved in
+      Leo’s gradual feminization and marriage.
+
+      _The Last of the Wine._ Pantheon, 1956 (m; Greek.).
+
+      _The King Must Die._ Pantheon 1958, pbr Pocket Books 1959. Minor
+      male and female homosexuality in Cretan setting.
+
+      _The Charioteer._ Longmans, 1953, Pantheon hcr 1959. Male, major,
+      femininely delicate. Virtually all of this writer’s work contains
+      some reference, though sometimes remote and slight, to variance.
+
+    RENAULT, PAUL. _Raw Interludes._ Brookwood, 1957, scv. _No_
+      relation to Mary Renault; since Renault, Mary, has a double plus,
+      the editors agree we should invent a double minus.
+
+    RICE, CRAIG. _Having Wonderful Crime._ Simon & Schuster, 1943.
+      Hilarious murder mystery leads into the byways and gay bars of
+      Greenwich village.
+
+    RICHARDSON, HENRY HANDEL. _The End of a Childhood._ London,
+      Reinemann, 1934, hcr N. Y. Norton.
+
+      _The Getting of Wisdom._ N. Y. Duffield, 1910. Both are volumes of
+      loosely connected variant short stories.
+
+    ROLLAND, ROMAINE. _Annette and Sylvie._ Holt, 1925. The first
+      volume of a trilogy, this deals with an intense attachment between
+      two young (adolescent) half sisters who meet for the first time in
+      their teens.
+
+    RONALD, JAMES. _The Angry Woman._ Lippincott 1948, Bantam pbr
+      1950. A businesswoman keeps a young girl reluctantly captivated
+      until the girl commits suicide.
+
+    RONNS, EDWARD. _The State Department Murders._ pbo, Gold Medal
+      1952, (m) fco.
+
+    ROSMANITH, OLGA. _Unholy Flame._ pbo Gold Medal 1952, (m) fco. (But
+      I like this personally very much. A modern Svengali.)
+
+  + ROSS, WALTER. _The Immortal._ Simon & Schuster 1958, Pocket
+      Books Cardinal Edition 1959, (m).
+
+    ROYDE-SMITH, NAOMI. _The Tortoiseshell Cat._ Boni & Liveright
+      1925. An unworldly girl’s capture by a predatory lesbian.
+
+      _The Island._ Harper, 1930. Sad, tense book about an ugly, unhappy
+      girl nicknamed “Goosey” and a clinging cousin who will neither
+      love her nor let her go.
+
+    RUARK, ROBERT. _Something of Value._ Doubleday 1955, pbr Pocket
+      Books 1958. Very minor.
+
+    RYAN, MARK. _Twisted Loves._ Bedside Books 1959, pbo, scv.
+
+    SABATIER, ROBERT. _Boulevard._ (Prix de Paris award novel, trans.
+      from French by Lowell Blair). David McKay 1958, pbr Dell 59, (m).
+      marginal.
+
+    SACKVILLE-WEST, VICTORIA. _The Dark Island._ Doubleday, 1934.
+      Shirin is the over-emotional, unconventional wife of Venn, dour
+      owner of the “dark island”, Storn. He treats Shirin so badly that
+      she seeks companionship, love and affection from Christina, her
+      husband’s secretary; through jealousy (not unmixed with pure
+      sadism) Venn arranges for Christina to be drowned in a boating
+      “accident”. Haunting.
+
+  + SALEM, RANDY. _Chris._ Beacon pbo, 1959. The plus indicates good
+      of kind, not intrinsic merit. An interesting story of a lesbian
+      triangle—Chris, Dizz, and young Carol. One reader commented that
+      this story was a sort of lesbian dreamworld—these women seemed to
+      live in a society, and a world, completely unmixed with ordinary
+      life at all. Certainly they are all treated as quite the ordinary
+      thing, and there are almost no hints that there is a heterosexual
+      world outside the gay one, which must be taken into account.
+      Certainly it makes no incursions into the novel. Chris, a
+      conchologist, her life complicated by her frigid girl-friend Dizz,
+      suffers and drinks too much and sleeps around until Carol, one of
+      her random pick-ups, decides to stick to her, and eventually frees
+      Chris from this attachment. Good but unreal.
+
+  + SANDBURG, HELGA. _The Wheel of Earth._ McDowell, Oblensky 1958.
+      Roughly a third of a long novel of Midwestern rural life deals
+      with the lengthy attachment between Frankie Gaddy and an older
+      woman, Genevieve.
+
+    SARTON, MAY. _A Shower of Summer Days._ Rinehart, 1952.
+
+    SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL. _No Exit._ Knopf 1947, qpb Vintage 1955. Play.
+
+    SAVAGE, KIM. _Girl’s Dorm._ Vixen Press 1952.
+
+      _Baby Makes Three._ Vixen, 1953. No reports on either of these,
+      but in view of the publisher they are probably evening wasters at
+      best.
+
+    SAYERS, DOROTHY L. _The Dawson Pedigree._ Harcourt 1928, fco.
+
+  + SCHIDDEL, EDMUND. _Girl with the Golden Yo-Yo._ pbo Berkley
+      1955, 1959, (m). Also contains some brief analysis of lesbian jazz
+      circles in Germany after WWI.
+
+      _The Other Side of the Night._ pbo Avon 1954-5, Berkley 1959, (m).
+
+    SCHMITT, GLADYS. _Confessors of the Name._ Dial, 1952, pbr
+      Permabooks ca. 1953-55. A relatively minor lesbian character in a
+      long novel of ancient Rome, with explicit lesbian scenes during a
+      Saturnalia orgy.
+
+      _A Small Fire._ Dial 1958. (m.) minor.
+
+      _Alexandra._ Dial 1947, pbr Pocket Books 1949. Very vague and
+      minor threads of contact in a novel of intense friendship between
+      two women. Emotionally high.
+
+    SCOTT, LES. _Twilight Women._ Arco 1952, pbr Beacon 1956.
+      Evening-waster suspenseful adventure story of a chase-type
+      kidnapping: Rance, the hero, pleasantly entangled with two
+      beautiful Polynesian girls, who eventually take him to a Utopian
+      tropical island where he happily marries both of them. The contact
+      between the girls is incidental and included simply to heighten
+      excitement for male readers, but it’s good fun in a Sax Rohmer-ish
+      way.
+
+      _Three Can Love._ Arco, 1952.
+
+      _Touchable._ Arco, 1951. Probably much the same as above.
+
+    SCULLY, ROBERT. _A Scarlet Pansy._ N. Y., Faro, 1933, Hesor 1937,
+      hcr. Reprinted and completely rewritten by Royal, no pub. no date,
+      Baltimore, Oppenheimer, 30s and 40s. In 1950, D W Cory called this
+      “the low point of the homosexual novel”. A lot of trash has been
+      written since, which makes this look simply silly. (m). A
+      confusing novel of the “gay” world, including some butchy and
+      peculiar lesbians.
+
+    SEELEY, E. S. _Sorority Sin._ Beacon pbo, 1959. scv.
+
+    SELA, LORA. (pseud of Carol Hales) _I Am a Lesbian._ Saber pbo,
+      1959. Would-be shocker about a poor innocent girl being pushed
+      into love affairs with brutal boys, raped, etc, by cruel relatives
+      and friends, when all that God wants of her, according to the
+      author, is for her to be a Happy Well-Adjusted Noble Lesbian. This
+      isn’t even scv, since the writers of sexy trash usually know
+      something about sex or trash or both. Read it and snicker.
+
+    SETON, ANYA. _Katherine._ Houghton, 1954. (m. minor)
+
+    SHAW, WILENE. _The Fear and the Guilt._ pbo, Ace, 1954.
+      Softball-playing Ruby brings sweet-leech Christy to her Tobacco
+      Road home. There, to disarm suspicion, Christy allows herself to
+      be first seduced, then married, by Ruby’s father. Sympathetic for
+      a shocker, but oh, my!
+
+    SIDGWICK, ETHEL. _A Lady of Leisure._ Boston, Small, 1914. A
+      passionate, but quite innocent, attachment between women in their
+      twenties.
+
+    SIMENON, GEORGES. _In Case of Emergency._ Doubleday 1958, pbr Dell
+      1959. A common theme—a good man enslaved by a worthless girl—is
+      treated here by a very good European writer. A subplot deals with
+      the attachment between the girl and her maidservant.
+
+    SINCLAIR, JO. (pseud. of Ruth Seid) _Wasteland._ Harper Bros.
+      1946. This is the excellent and heavily lauded Harper prize novel
+      of that year. Told on the psychiatrist’s couch, it concerns the
+      failure of Jewish Jake Braunowitz to live up to his manhood ...
+      which forces this job onto the shoulders of his sister Debbie, a
+      lesbian. The psychiatrist discovers that he ran from his
+      responsibilities in the first place due to feeling weaker than the
+      masterful intelligent Debbie; then, after forcing her to take a
+      man’s role in the family, he turns around and feels guilt and
+      shame at her adjustment to the situation. Excellently done.
+
+    SPEERS, MARY. _We Are Fires Unquenchable._ Murray and Gee,
+      Hollywood 1946. fco. A badly written, almost illiterate novel, the
+      first few scenes of which are laid in a girl’s college swarming
+      with luridly treated lesbians and in an assortment of Bohemian
+      settings.
+
+  + SMITH, ARTEMIS. _Odd Girl._ Beacon pbo, 1959. The blurb reads
+      “Life and love among warped women”, but don’t let it scare you.
+      This is one of the better and more serious approaches to the
+      writing of a serious novel of lesbians through the stereotyped
+      pattern of the paperback novel. The basic plot concerns Anne, and
+      her experiences in trying to find out for herself, the hard way,
+      whether she is a lesbian or whether she can successfully adjust to
+      life as a normal woman. The story ends with the surprising, but
+      growingly popular affirmation that “adjustment” is not always to
+      be desired at all costs. The cover also calls this a story of
+      “society’s greatest curse”, meaning homosexuality; but for once it
+      isn’t treated that way.
+
+      _The Third Sex._ pbo, Beacon, 1959. Most of the remarks made above
+      also apply to this one, though the heroine is Joan, a college girl
+      who fears that she is becoming a lesbian, and fights it by
+      redoubling her affairs with men. Slightly more sensational than
+      “Odd Girl”, but well written, well thought out and generally
+      excellent.
+
+    SMITH, DOROTHY EVELYN. _The Lovely Day._ N. Y., Dutton, 1957.
+      Interesting novel of an English village on a choir outing,
+      contains a minor but funny account of an unconscious lesbian’s
+      decisions.
+
+    SMITH, SHELLEY. (pseud. of Nancy Bodington.) _The Lord Have
+      Mercy_, Harper 1956, pbr tct _The Shrew is Dead_, Dell 1959.
+      English mystery story; a major subplot involves a pair of
+      lesbians.
+
+    SNEDEKER, CAROLINE DALE. _The Perilous Seat._ Doubleday, Doran
+      1929, marginal (m) in a juvenile of ancient Greece; the hero,
+      being sold into slavery, attempts to disfigure himself to escape
+      “the fate of handsome boys among the Persians.”
+
+    STAFFORD, JEAN. _Boston Adventure._ Harcourt, 1944.
+
+    STEIN, GERTRUDE. _Things as They Are._ Banyan Press, Pawlet,
+      Vermont. (Very rare; $25 and up second hand.) A novel by the
+      well-known surrealist poet ... possibly her only coherent work ...
+      dealing with lesbianism.
+
+    STONE, SCOTT. _The Divorcees._ Beacon pbo 1955, released 1959
+      Evening waster about a racketeer who specializes in quick
+      divorces, and his girl-friend who flirts with all the women as he
+      disengages them from their husbands.
+
+      _Margo._ Beacon pbo 1955, released 1959. scv.
+
+      _Blaze._ Berkley pbo or pbr, n. d. no data except “trash”.
+
+    SOUBIRAN, ANDRÉ. _Bedlam._ Putnam 1957, pbr Pyramid 1959, (m)
+      minor.
+
+    STONEBRAKER, FLORENCE. _Sinful Desires._ pbr Bedside Books, 1959.
+      (previous paperback, publisher unknown, ca. 1951). Silly novel
+      about a married woman briefly captivated by a stereotyped lesbian.
+
+  + STURGEON, THEODORE. (pseud. of Edward Hamilton Waldo). “Affair
+      with a Green Monkey”. Venture Science Fiction May 1957; also in _A
+      Touch of Strange_, Doubleday 1959.
+
+      “The Sex Opposite”. in _E. Pluribus Unicorn_, Abelard 1952,
+      Ballantine pbr 1953.
+
+      “The World Well Lost” in _E Pluribus Unicorn._ Many of Sturgeon’s
+      other short stories and novelettes touch on extremely strange,
+      offbeat relationships.
+
+  + SWADOS, FELICE. _House of Fury._ Doubleday 1941, pbr Lion 1955,
+      Berkley 1959. One of the better paperbacks, dealing with racial
+      tensions and muted lesbian attachments in a girl’s reformatory.
+
+    SWINBURNE, ALGERNON. _Lesbia Brandon._ Falcon Press 1952, edited
+      and annotated by Randolph Hughes. A famous incomplete novel by the
+      well-known poet, for students rather than readers. Really only a
+      handful of scattered chapters, too scrappy to judge; see also
+      poetry supplement.
+
+    SYDNEY, GALE. _Strange Circle._ Beacon Books pbo 1959, 1960. Grace
+      Garney, feeling unwanted, gets a job with Mrs. Flocke, a repulsive
+      lesbian, and repels a pass; this, however, revives childhood
+      memories, and during a rift in her affairs with a man, she has a
+      brief affair with Inez, a friend with an unsatisfactory husband.
+      Evening waster.
+
+    SYKES, GERALD. _The Center of the Stage._ N. Y., Farrar 1952, pbr
+      Signet 1954. Witty novel of the theatre, with a minor lesbian
+      character.
+
+    TAYLOR, DYSON. _Bitter Love._ orig. copyright 1952, Pyramid 1958,
+      (m). Worldly woman marries a homosexual who wants her for a
+      “front”.
+
+    TAYLOR, JOHN. _Shadows of Shame._ Pyramid 1956, 1959, (m).
+
+    TAYLOR, VALERIE. _Whisper Their Love._ Crest pbo 1957.
+      Unsympathetic college novel of a girl suffering through a lesbian
+      affair while all around her the other girls suffer through rape,
+      incest and abortion. Over-written.
+
+      _Girls in 3-B._ Crest pbo 1959. One of three young girls who come
+      to the city to find jobs or careers, Barby drifts into a lesbian
+      relationship, mostly out of revulsion against two unfortunate
+      experiences with men. Excellent, sympathetic.
+
+      + _Stranger on Lesbos._ Crest pbo 1959. A married woman with a
+      grown son and indifferent husband, returning to college for work
+      on a college degree, is ripe for an affair with “Bake”, a
+      confirmed lesbian. The affair is told with sufficient skill and
+      restraint to make it believable; even Frankie’s eventual return to
+      her old life is not a cliche “happy ending” but well prepared and
+      well characterized. Remarkably good; the degree of progress from
+      the first to the third of these novels makes your editors anxious
+      to see where Miss Taylor goes from here.
+
+    TELLIER, ANDRÉ. _Twilight Men._ Greenberg 1931, pbr Lion 1950, 52,
+      56, Pyramid 1959, (m). Well known.
+
+  + TEY, JOSEPHINE. (pseud. of Elizabeth MacKintosh.) _Miss Pym
+      Disposes._ Macmillan 1948; also in _Three by Tey_, Macmillan 1954.
+      Slowly built-up, excellently constructed mystery of a girl’s
+      school, where a close attachment between two seniors provides
+      solution and motivation for a murder. The level of mystification
+      is so high that even on the last page the reader is gasping with
+      the final, shocking surprise.
+
+      _To Love and be Wise._ Macmillan 1951. Another well done mystery,
+      with a variant attachment also providing motive and solution and a
+      high level of suspense and surprise.
+
+    TESCH, GERALD. _Never The Same Again._ G P Putnam’s Sons 1956, pbr
+      Pyramid 1958, (m). Not for the squeamish, but a well-done novel of
+      an affair between a teen age boy and an older man.
+
+  + TIMPERLEY, ROSEMARY. _Child in the Dark._ Crowell 1956. Two of
+      the three stories in this book involve intense attachments,
+      variant but not explicitly lesbian, between an English
+      schoolmistress and a young girl.
+
+    THAYER, TIFFANY. _Thirteen Women._ Claude Kendall, 1932. Mildly
+      nasty shock-story of a murder, involving thirteen women, one mixed
+      up with a lesbian; she eventually commits suicide.
+
+      _Thirteen Men._ Claude Kendall 1930, (m). Much the same stuff as
+      above only masculine in emphasis. Thayer is a good writer, but not
+      everyone’s choice.
+
+    THOMPSON, JOHN B. _Girls of the French Quarter._ Beacon pbo 1954.
+
+      _Frenzy of Desire._ Encore Press 1957. Evening wasters.
+
+    THOMPSON, MORTON. _Not as a Stranger._ Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1954
+      pbr Pocket Books 1955. fco, very minor episodes.
+
+  + THORNE, ANTHONY. _Delay in the Sun._ Literary Guild, 1934. A
+      “heartening idyll” of two friends who, during a long stopover in
+      Spain, resolve their relationship.
+
+  + TORRES, TERESKA. _Woman’s Barracks._ Gold Medal pbo 1950, 51,
+      52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and probably every year from now
+      on, for a while anyhow. Gold Medal’s most popular title so far is
+      the story of a group of women with the Free French women’s army,
+      at loose ends and disassociated from family, friends and personal
+      attachments. Among the many threads of the plot is the story of
+      naive young Ursula, who, through her relationship with warm,
+      tough, friendly Claude is helped to maturity and eventually to
+      readjustment to normal life.
+
+      _Dangerous Games._ Dial 1957, pbr Crest 1958. A married woman,
+      discovering her husband is having an affair with her closest
+      friend, briefly becomes infatuated with her too.
+
+      _Not Yet._ Crown 1957, pbr Crest 1958. The story of four young
+      girls in a French school; not children but “not yet” women, and
+      their adjustment to life and love. The narrator, the least mature,
+      is as yet infatuated only with Mother Nathalie, her teacher; no
+      overt behavior is implied except kisses, but the nun’s reaction
+      when the heroine begins to be interested in boys brings this under
+      the scope of the study.
+
+      _The Golden Cage._ Dial 1959. (trans. from French by Meyer Levin).
+      A group of refugees in wartime, waiting for visas in Portugal,
+      undergo various transient attachments. Among the group are several
+      lesbians, treated with sympathy and sensitivity.
+
+    TRAVIS, BEN. _The Strange Ones._ Beacon pbo 1959, (m). Evening
+      waster about a young no-good who earns his living as a paid
+      escort/gigolo and relaxes with boy friends but still loudly
+      insists he is normal. Your editor enjoyed this out of sheer
+      perversity; usually novels treating of male homosexuality engage
+      the subject with deadly seriousness, while the paperback originals
+      reek with drooling voyeuristic strip-teases about lesbians, for
+      the sake of men who like to enjoy pipe-dreams about lesbians
+      making love, and about some Big Handsome Hero who eventually
+      converts the girls to “normality” with some secret formula of
+      caresses. So it is a nice change to see the gay BOYS getting the
+      in-and-out-of-the-sheets treatment for once.
+
+    TRYON, MARK. _The Fire that Burns._ Berkley pbo 1959 scv.
+
+      _Take it Off._ Vixen Press 1953, Modern Press 1956, scv.
+
+    UNTERMEYER, LOUIS. (Editor). _The Treasury of Ribaldry._ Doubleday
+      1956, pbr Popular Library 1959 (v. 1). This contains Lucian’s
+      “Dialogues of Courtesans”, entitled in this translation “The
+      Lesbian” and “A Curious Deception”. The hardcover edition also
+      contains some of the Songs of Bilitis.
+
+    VAIL, AMANDA (pseud. of Warren Miller). _The Bright Young Things._
+      Little, Brown, 1958. pbr Crest 1960.
+
+      In a story of two worldly young college girls experimenting with
+      life and love, a subplot involves two of their friends, lesbians.
+      Minor but fun.
+
+    VANEER, WILLIAM. _Love Starved Wife._ Bedside Books Inc, 1959.
+      scv.
+
+    VAN HELLER, MARCUS. _The House of Borgia_, Paris, Olympia Press,
+      1957. Volume #16 in The Traveler’s Companion, straight scv.
+
+    VAN ROYEN, ASTRID. _Awake, Monique._ Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1957,
+      pbr Crest 1958. Astrid, an orphaned child in some unnamed European
+      country (Holland, Belgium, Sweden?) is sent to live with her uncle
+      Rainier; she lives upstairs with Rainier (eventually with a
+      Lolita-like intimacy) while Rainier’s wife lives downstairs with a
+      lesbian friend, Dini. Despite a “broadminded” plea for
+      understanding, Rainier strictly forbids Astrid to have anything to
+      do with the girls. The book is well-written, tasteful, and
+      certainly candid.
+
+    VAUGHAN, HILDA. _The Curtain Rises._ N. Y., Chas Scribner 1935. A
+      young girl, Nest, in London, falls in with a fiftyish spinster
+      with a reputation for aiding young and pretty girls who also have
+      talent. Miss Fremlyn invites Nest to live with her as her
+      companion, showering her with education, attention and
+      restrictions; Nest is naive, Miss Fremlyn unaware, at least
+      consciously, of her own emotions. They travel and live together
+      for some time, but the affair breaks up when Nest, who has always
+      kept in touch with her boy friend, is discovered with him and Miss
+      Fremlyn, considering this a betrayal, dismisses her. Explicit,
+      well done.
+
+    VERNE, CHARLES. _The Wheel of Passion._ N. Y., Key 1957. scv.
+
+    VIDAL, GORE. _The City and the Pillar._ E P Dutton 1948, pbr
+      Signet ca. 1950, (m).
+
+      _The Season of Comfort._ E P Dutton 1949, (m).
+
+    WAHL, LOREN. _The Invisible Glass._ Greenberg, 1950, pbr tct _If
+      This be Sin_, Avon 1952, pbr tct _Take Me as I Am_, Berkley 1959,
+      (m).
+
+    WALFORD, FRANK. _Twisted Clay._ Claude Kendall, 1934. fco. A young
+      girl, a psychotic sadist ... is bisexual and has one big affair
+      with an older woman. It must be marked for people with very
+      complete collections only; it is depressing, inaccurate, etc. “The
+      writing, etc, are excellent, but oh my, what a plot!”
+
+  + WARD, ERIC. _Uncharted Seas._ Paris, Obelisk Press 1937. (Fairly
+      easy to obtain second hand, and not at all like most of the sexy
+      trash tagged Paris elsewhere in this list.) An excellent,
+      perceptive and controlled story of Diana Bellew, a young married
+      woman with children, a childish husband and too much money and
+      time on her hands, and her successive affairs with three women.
+      The writing is unusually good for male authorship.
+
+    WEBB, JON EDGAR. _Four Steps to the Wall._ Dial 1948, pbr Bantam
+      1953, (m). Prison novel.
+
+  + WEIRAUGH, ANNA ELISABET. _The Scorpion._ Greenberg 1932, Willey
+      Book co, 1948, pbr Avon Books 1957, complete; pbr tct _Of Love
+      Forbidden_, greatly abridged, 1958. Well-known novel of well-bred
+      German girl, Metta (in some translations, Myra) who, in her late
+      teens, falls in love with a worldly lesbian, Olga, who does much
+      to free her from her stuffy background, but repudiates her
+      painfully in a family crisis. After Olga’s suicide Metta seeks for
+      her real self and real destiny, first in the Bohemian
+      drink-drugs-sex merrygoround of Berlin between the wars, then
+      hides from life in a stuffy middle-class setting; when even here
+      she finds herself pursued by a lesbian tease, Gwen, who flirts
+      with Metta to inveigle her into a sordid party _a trois_, Metta
+      resolves to go away and come to terms with her own soul.
+
+      _The Outcast._ Greenberg 1933, Willey Book Co 1948. The sequel to
+      the above, this finds the heroine of _The Scorpion_ living quietly
+      in the country. She undergoes a painful and unsatisfactory affair
+      with Fiametta, a dancer, but when this proves unsatisfactory
+      settles down sadly but peacefully with a couple of sexless men
+      friends.
+
+    WEISS, JOE, and Ralph Dean. _Anything Goes._ Bedside Books pbo,
+      1959. Fast-moving evening waster with a minor lesbian angle.
+
+    WELCH, DENTON. _Maiden Voyage._ L. B. Fischer 1945, (m) minor.
+
+      _In Youth is Pleasure._ L. B. Fischer 1946, (m) minor.
+
+  + WELLS, CATHERINE. “The Beautiful House” Harpers, March 1912. An
+      idyll of two women ends tragically with the marriage of the
+      younger.
+
+    WELLS, KERMIT. _Reformatory Women._ Bedside Books pbo 1959.
+      Surprisingly good for this publisher of rubbish. After escaping
+      from a sadistic lesbian matron in the reformatory, Noreen works as
+      a fake butch in a Greenwich Village Gay bar and tourist trap;
+      later goes to work for gangsters in a roadhouse, falls for a nice
+      boy and goes back to serve her reformatory sentence and marry him
+      when she gets out. Pleasant evening waster.
+
+    WETHERELL, ELIZABETH (pseud of Susan Warner). _The Wide Wide
+      World._ Many editions, very easily obtained, a well-known girls
+      story of the 1880s or thereabout, dealing with Ellen, an orphan of
+      twelve. Much of the first half of the novel is devoted to a very
+      innocent, but exceptionally intense, close relationship between
+      Ellen and her beloved “Miss Alice”, daughter of the local
+      minister. Good of kind, and distinctly relevant on an adolescent
+      level.
+
+    WHEELER, HUGH. _The Crippled Muse._ Rinehart, 1952. A “sparkling
+      comedy” of Capri contains the story of two women who have lived
+      together for ten years; the younger girl is tired of the
+      arrangement, and the older uses her feelings of guilt and shame to
+      hold her captive. In the course of the novel she manages to free
+      herself.
+
+    WHITE, PATRICK. _The Aunt’s Story._ Viking Press 1948. fco.
+
+    WIMBERLEY, GWYNNE. _One Touch of Ecstasy._ Frederick Fell, 1959. A
+      lesbian affair gives “one touch of ecstasy” to a woman’s
+      inhibited, unhappy life, allowing her to return to her husband
+      with wakened perceptions.
+
+    WILDER, ROBERT. _Wait for Tomorrow._ Putnam 1950, Bantam 1953. A
+      girl’s unwilling entanglement with a predatory lesbian, in a
+      romance of an imaginary Balkan country, leads to all sorts of
+      violence and cloak-and-dagger stuff. Good.
+
+  + WILHELM, GALE. _Torchlight to Valhalla._ Random, 1938, pbr tct
+
+      _The Strange Path_, Lion 1953, Berkley 1958, 1959. Morgen,
+      rootless and drifting after the death of her artist father, to
+      whom she had been childishly close, is loved by two fine young
+      men, but finds her happiness with a strange young girl, Toni.
+      Major, well known.
+
+      _We Too Are Drifting._ Triangle Books 1938-39; Modern Library
+      1935. pbr Lion Books 1951, Berkley 1957, 58, 59, 60. Probably the
+      major novel of the thirties to deal with lesbians; perhaps the
+      best of all time. In substance it deals with the boyish, but
+      feminine Jan Morale; her struggle to escape a slightly sordid
+      affair with Madelaine, a married woman, and to find happiness,
+      despite family complications, with a young girl, Victoria. Told
+      with fairness, restraint, and skill—not to mention that this is
+      one of the dozen or so books on this entire list to display not
+      only _some_, but _exceptional_ literary merit.
+
+    WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. “Something Unspoken” in _27 Wagons Full of
+      Cotton._ New Directions, 1953. Also in Best Short Plays of
+      1955-56, Dodd, Mead, 1956. A play; I marked this for fco, received
+      a protest: “Everybody will enjoy this.” Compromise; everybody will
+      enjoy this who likes Tennessee Williams.
+
+    WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS. _The Knife of the Times._ Dragon Press,
+      1932, hcr tct _Make Light of It_, Random House 1950, (m). The title
+      story is in DWCory, _21 Variations_.
+
+    WILLIAMS, ISABEL. _Hellcat._ Greenberg 1934, pbr Dell 1952.
+      Unpleasant girl who uses everyone for her own purposes includes a
+      lesbian among her victims.
+
+    WILLINGHAM, CALDER. (pseud). _End as a Man._ Vanguard 1947, pbr
+      Signet co. 1957, (m).
+
+    WILLIS, GEORGE. _Little Boy Blues._ Dutton, 1947. Concerns the
+      machinations of a lesbian to achieve marriage and motherhood as a
+      “front”.
+
+    WILSON, ETHEL D. _Hetty Dorval._ Macmillan 1948, fco.
+
+    WINDHAM, DONALD. _The Hitchhiker._ Florence, Italy, priv. print.
+      (m).
+
+      _Servants with Torches._ N. Y. 1955 priv. print. (m).
+
+      _Dog Star._ Doubleday, 1950, (m).
+
+    WINSLOE, CHRISTA. _The Child Manuela._ (Trans. Agnes Scott Farrar,
+      1933.) Motherless Manuela, sent to a strict boarding-school
+      because of supposed misconduct with a boy (actually she was only
+      fascinated with his mother) falls in love with Elizabeth von
+      Bernberg, one of the teachers. The woman’s behavior is strictly
+      correct, but her warmth of personality attracts all the
+      love-starved, inhibited children; Manuela, exhilarated and
+      slightly drunk at a school party, babbles of her love for the
+      Fraulein, and is punished so severely that she throws herself from
+      a top-floor window.
+
+      _Girl Alone._ (Trans. Agnes Scott). Farrar 1936. A girl in
+      difficulties finds temporary refuge with a lesbian friend.
+
+    WINSTON, DAOMA. _The Golden Tramp._ pbo Beacon Books 1959. Evening
+      waster about a woman writer trying it both ways.
+
+    WOLLER, OLGA. _Strange Conflict._ Pageant, 1955. Purple-passaged
+      and would-be-horrifying story about a Eurasian
+      hermaphrodite—supposedly as she is because of her mother’s
+      intercourse with demons before her birth—who inspires love and
+      brings death to everyone she knows, male or female.
+
+    WOODFORD, JACK. _Male and Female._ Woodford Press, 1935.
+
+      _Unmoral._ Woodford Press, 1938. Both of these are evening
+      wasters—racy stuff, not bad at all when compared with the current
+      crop of trashy paperbacks. The “lesbian” content, of course, is
+      strictly for fun.
+
+    WOOD, CLEMENT. _Strange Fires._ Woodford Press, 1951. “Shipwreck
+      on Lesbos” in his _Desire_, Berkeley n. d. 1958 (copyright 1950,
+      perhaps Woodford Press?) Clement Wood is either a pen name for, or
+      a successor to, Jack Woodford, a popular writer of racy, risque,
+      sexy books of little literary merit but relatively innocuous even
+      for teen-agers ... the trash of the thirties and forties was a
+      very different thing from the scv of the fifties.
+
+    WOOD, CLEMENT, and Gloria Goddard. _Fair Game._ Woodford Press,
+      1949, pbr Beacon 1958. Evening waster about girls coming to the
+      wicked big city, and we all know what happens to such girls in
+      this kind of book. One of them falls in with the dangerous women
+      instead of the dangerous men.
+
+  + WOOLF, VIRGINIA. _Orlando._ _To The Lighthouse._
+
+      _Mrs. Dalloway._ All of these are classics easily available in
+      small, medium and large libraries, college bookstores, and the
+      like. The lesbian content is vague and subtle, but good; one of
+      the best woman writers.
+
+    WOUK, HERMAN. _Marjorie Morningstar._ Doubleday 1955, pbr 1956.
+      The variant element in this is minor and problematical. In
+      conversation, it occurred to a group of reviewers that the
+      developing relationship between Marjorie and Marsha “resembled a
+      love affair”, that Marsha’s attack of hysterics at her wedding,
+      and her outcry that all she had ever wanted was a friend, and now
+      she’d always be alone, was of distinct significance. BAYOR.
+
+    WYLIE, PHILIP. _The Disappearance._ Rinehart 1951, pbr Pocket
+      Books 1958. Science fiction; for men, all women vanish; for women,
+      all men vanish. The problem of lesbianism arises in the women’s
+      world; Wylie, though technically and superficially approving of
+      homosexuality, has his heroine reject it for herself, saying “I’m
+      not a child.”
+
+      _Opus 21._ Rinehart 1949, pbr Signet 1952, 1960. The hero,
+      rewriting a book in a hotel during a weekend of crisis, runs
+      across many unusual characters; among them a woman, shaken because
+      her husband is having a homosexual affair, is shamed into
+      tolerance by dallying with a lesbian prostitute. Wylie, again
+      superficially approving, has his hero act in a skirt-withdrawing
+      way, refusing such things for himself at the last minute in every
+      book.
+
+    WYNDHAM, JOHN. “Consider her Ways” in _Sometime, Never_,
+      Ballantine 1956-57. Science Fiction; a woman experimenting with
+      strange drugs goes into the future, where all men have perished
+      and society resembles that of the ant. Good.
+
+      _The Midwich Cuckoos._ Ballantine, 1957. Science Fiction. Alien
+      visitation from outer space leaves every nubile female in
+      Midwich—married or single, young or old—pregnant. Hilariously
+      funny situations arise; one of the funniest involves a pair of
+      lesbians. Wonderful fun.
+
+    YAFFE, JAMES. _Nothing But the Night._ Little, Brown & Co, 1957,
+      pbr Bantam 1959, (m). More fake Leopold-Loeb. Good.
+
+    YOURCENAR, MARGUERITE. _Hadrian’s Memoirs._ Farrar, 1954, qpb
+      Anchor 1954, (m).
+
+    ZOLA, ÉMILE. _Nana._ Literally dozens of hardcover and paperback
+      editions of a shocker about a street girl who, in addition to all
+      her affairs with men, also has an affair with Satin, a
+      streetwalker.
+
+      _A Lesson in Love._ Abridged edition of Pot Bouille. Pyramid,
+      1959.
+
+    ZUGSMITH, ALBERT. _The Beat Generation._ Bantam pbo based on
+      screenplay by Richard Mathesen, (m) minor.
+
+
+
+
+_The Poetry of Lesbiana_
+
+
+An index of Poems and Poets of interest to Collectors of Lesbiana
+
+_Compiled by Gene Damon_
+
+
+   Briefly, this includes variant as well as overtly lesbian
+   poetry, written in English or available in English
+   translation. The arrangement is chronological, rather than
+   alphabetical. All of these are easily available in public
+   libraries, unless otherwise indicated.
+
+
+THE ANCIENT WORLD:
+
+  _Erinna_—only one fragment left. Available in the Greek Anthology
+    and other miscellaneous collections of that type.
+
+  _Nossis_—Various variant poems and fragments. Greek Anthology,
+    Putnam, 1915-26 (5 vol.). Also in similar collections.
+
+  _Sappho_—The classic poet of lesbianism. Over 50 editions available
+    in hard covers. New translation by Mary Barnard, University of
+    California Press, 1958, qpb $1.25. An attractive edition is also
+    published for $2.50 by the Pater Pauper Press, on display in most
+    bookstores.
+
+  _Juvenal_—Satires. Many editions in hardcover and qpb. (Rolfe
+    Humphries trans. and ed. the Indiana University Press, 1958, $1.50;
+    also number 997 in Everyman’s Library, $1.85.) The Sixth Satire.
+
+  _Martial_—His “Epigrams” contain various references to lesbians.
+    Cambridge University Press, 1924, $2.75.
+
+
+THE MIDDLE AGES:
+
+  _Ariosto, Ludovico_—Orlando Furioso. London, Bell, 1907.
+
+  _Labe, Louise_—Love Sonnets (trans. by Frederick Prokosch), New
+    Directions, 1947, $2.50, still in print.
+
+  _Shakespeare, William_—The first 27 of the “Sonnets” are generally
+    adjudged to be male-homosexual in emphasis and are therefore of
+    interest to collectors in this field.
+
+
+THE ROMANTIC POETS—19th CENTURY:
+
+  _Coleridge, Samuel T._—Christabel. Long narrative poem of a curious
+    attachment between a guileless young girl and a female demon;
+    available in virtually every anthology of English literature.
+
+  _Rossetti, Christina_—Goblin Market. Lovely and fantastic poem with
+    distinctly variant overtones. See anthologies of English literature.
+
+  _Romani, Felice_—Norma. Italian libretto for the opera by Vincenzo
+    Bellini, generally adjudged to be subtly lesbian in overtones. Many
+    translations are available in collections of opera libretti, but
+    most English translations edit out the variant content or alter the
+    emphasis.
+
+  _Baudelaire, Charles_—The Flowers of Evil, (trans. from the French
+    of Les Fleurs du Mal by Edna St. Vincent Millay and George Dillon)
+    N. Y., Harper, 1936, also New Directions, pbr, 1958. Many other
+    editions and translations available.
+
+  _Swinburne, Algernon Charles_—Poems and Ballads, 2 vols, London,
+    Chatto & Windus, 1893, 1895. Many of the poems in this series are
+    explicitly or implicitly lesbian. In the interests of space
+    limitation, only the major titles will be listed for those who want
+    to sift through anthologies; Anactoria, Fragoletta, Sapphics, At
+    Eleusis, Sonnet with a copy of Mlle. de Maupin, The Masque of Queen
+    Bersabe, Erotion. The entire series of Poems and Ballads is
+    available in hcr no. 961, Everyman’s Library, Dutton, 1940, 50, for
+    $1.95.
+
+  _Louÿs, Pierre_—Songs of Bilitis. Many editions available, the most
+    easily located probably being the Liveright “Collected works of
+    Pierre Louys”, $3.50. There is also a paperback edition, Avon Red
+    and Gold Library, no date. The “Songs” have been published singly in
+    numerous privately printed and illustrated editions, some of which
+    are very beautiful collector’s items.
+
+  _Brontë, Emily_—Complete Poems. N. Y. Columbia University Press,
+    1941 (still in print at $4.00). A scattering of these poems are (or
+    can be interpreted as) vaguely variant.
+
+  _Mencken, Idah Isaacs_—Infelicia. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1875.
+    (Rare, and expensive.)
+
+  _Field, Michael_—(pseud. of two Englishwomen.) Entire work of
+    lesbian interest and a “must” for completists. Most medium to large
+    public libraries have some of their work.
+
+  _Dickinson, Emily_—Bolts of Melody. N. Y. Harper, 1945. Also variant
+    poems are scattered throughout her earlier editions. (Selected
+    Poems, Modern Library, 1948, $1.65.)
+
+
+THE MODERN POETS:
+
+  _Lowell, Amy_—No one volume of her work can be singled out; her
+    poems are perhaps the most openly variant of any of the English or
+    American poets. Her “Complete Poetical Works” is still in print;
+    Boston, Houghton & Mifflin Co., 1955; Introduction by Louis
+    Untermeyer, $6.00.
+
+  _O’Neill, Rose_—The Master Mistress. N. Y., Knopf, 1922. The creator
+    of the “Kewpies” also was the writer of these sensitive,
+    occasionally erotic poems. Perhaps a dozen are explicitly lesbian.
+
+  _Hall, Radclyffe_—Poems of the Past and Present, London, Chapman &
+    Hall, 1910. Songs of Three Counties, Chapman & Hall, 1913. The
+    Forgotten Island, London, Chapman & Hall, 1915. Sheaf of Verses,
+    London, Chapman & Hall, 1905. Twixt Earth and Stars, London, Chapman
+    & Hall, 1906.
+
+    These poems by the author of “Well of Loneliness” are so overt that
+    it is almost unbelievable that they were printed at all, but they
+    were, and I have the books to prove it ... she managed to get away
+    with it, I guess, because she talks in these poems as if she were a
+    man, writing to a woman.
+
+  _Millay, Edna St. Vincent_—Collected Poems, N. Y., Harper, 1956,
+    $6.00. This is the favored anthology of Millay for this purpose,
+    since it contains everything of hers which is variant in tone.
+    However, there are many single volumes of her poetry available, and
+    also pbrs; Collected Lyrics (Washington Square, 50¢), and Collected
+    Sonnets (Washington Square, 50¢).
+
+  _Sackville-West, Victoria_—King’s Daughter, N. Y., Doubleday, 1930.
+
+  _Sterling, George_—Strange Waters. Privately printed, n.d., also in
+    American Esoterica, N. Y. Macy-Masius, 1927. Lengthy narrative poem
+    of supposed incestuous lesbianism ... shocker.
+
+  _Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.)_—Red Roses for Bronze, London, Lord,
+    Chatto & Windus. Also the Grove Press qpb, Selected Poems of H.D.,
+    1957; this, however, does not contain the best-known of Sappho
+    paraphrases, “Fragment Thirty-six”. Also “Collected Poems”,
+    Liveright, $2.50.
+
+  _Pitter, Ruth_—English poetess, whose work is rather difficult to
+    locate in this country. Many of her early poems are tinged with
+    variance and well worth the effort of locating them in large
+    libraries.
+
+  _Smith, Alicia Kay_—Only in Whispers. Privately printed; Falmouth,
+    Rockport, Maine. This is the hardest book on this list to obtain,
+    and of course, the most overt. Ardently but in good taste, this
+    tells of a lengthy and beautiful lesbian affair. A “must” book for
+    serious collectors who like poetry.
+
+  _Wright, James_—The Green Wall. Yale University Press, 1957, $3.00.
+    Two overt poems in an excellent and sensitive collection.
+
+
+_Variant Films_
+
+compiled by LauraJean Ermayne and Gene Damon
+
+
+   With the exception of a few privately filmed and circulated
+   stag films, which of course do not come within the scope of
+   this study, lesbianism is treated only vaguely and by
+   indirection in motion pictures. Hollywood codes (which
+   regulate distribution even of foreign films in this country)
+   state unequivocally that homosexuality may not be portrayed
+   _or suggested._ (Italics mine). Even when the predominantly
+   homosexual novel COMPULSION was filmed, the script—though
+   including a rape scene—was fudged so that the relationship
+   between the two boys was never hinted at—except vaguely in
+   one scene, where Orson Welles as the great lawyer said that
+   the opposition might find “something fishy” in the fact that
+   they had no other friends. Your editor has since been informed
+   that the movie NEVER SO FEW portrayed recognizable
+   homosexuals. Hollywood codes are growing less stringent by the
+   day, with the general relaxation of censorship, and by next
+   year there should be some additions to this list. Thanks are
+   due to Miss Ermayne for allowing us to reprint the material
+   used in her article on The Sapphic Cinema in THE LADDER for
+   March, 1959 ... the Editors.
+
+
+THE ADVENTURES OF KING PAUSOLE. Filmed in France in 1932, with Emil
+Jannings. Based on the Pierre Louys novel, this starred 366 models and
+dancers from the Folies Bergère; among these near-nude and nubile
+nymphs was one disguised as a male ballet dancer, with whom the King’s
+daughter Aline had a romance even after discovering that they were of
+the same sex.
+
+ALL ABOUT EVE took the Academy Award in 1950. There is a very lesbian
+situation used to introduce the main protagonist into the movie; later
+events proved the woman only pretending lesbian-type devotion, but the
+inference, in the beginning, is clear and unmistakable. (GD)
+
+THE BARKER 1928. A short silent picture which was banned in many cities
+because it featured a scene in which a very butchy type in men’s pajamas
+got into bed with a fluffy blonde type; caused a lot of critical
+hoop-la. (GD)
+
+THE CHILDREN’S HOUR, a film based on the Lillian Hellman play reviewed
+in this Checklist, bears a question mark; will someone who has seen the
+picture please let us know whether lesbian content was implicit in the
+movie?
+
+CHILDREN OF LONELINESS, outright anti-homophile propaganda, was mostly
+male-oriented, but did contain a gay night-club scene, and picture and
+office butch whose offer of affection and protection drove one girl to a
+psychiatrist’s couch—where she was counselled against “abnormal love”.
+
+DARK VICTORY. 1939, recently shown on TV, concerns a talented, charming
+woman (Bette Davis) dying of a brain tumor; her constant companion and
+secretary is clearly in love with her, and there were numerous beautiful
+and heartbreaking scenes, some of which would be impossible in a movie
+not dealing with such a sad situation.
+
+CLUB DES FEMMES (Girl’s Club in English) an admirable French film
+starring Danielle Darieux, reviewed at length in THE LADDER. The lesbian
+element is treated explicitly and with taste and charm.
+
+ESCAPE TO YESTERDAY, a French film with one brief sequence in a cabaret,
+where recognizably lesbian types were portrayed.
+
+MAEDCHEN IN UNIFORM, a classic German film of the thirties, reviewed at
+length in J H Foster’s book, starring Hertha Thiele as Manusia and
+Dorothea Wieck as her teacher. The film has recently been re-made but
+has not yet reached the USA.
+
+THE GODDESS, an art film released about a year ago, starring Kim
+Stanley, shows the life of an unwanted child who grows up to be a movie
+queen and ends up living with her secretary, obviously a lesbian; the
+relationship is portrayed with unusual frankness. This movie is still
+playing in specialty theatres around the big cities.
+
+NO EXIT, a French film of the play by Jean-Paul Sartre; setting, limbo;
+one of the characters, a lesbian who fell in love with a married woman
+and drove her to suicide by spooking her.
+
+OPEN CITY, realistic Italian film of 10 years or so ago, had a
+recognizable lesbian type-cast in it.
+
+PIT OF LONELINESS, a French film based on the novel OLIVIA and starring
+Simone Simon. “Something of a disappointment” says LJE.
+
+QUEEN CHRISTINA, 1934. This famous screen classic starred Greta Garbo;
+the variant bits were minor, but they were there. (GD)
+
+ROSE OF WASHINGTON SQUARE 1939. Now-dated tear-jerker starring Alice
+Faye; in one long scene the heroine sings standing by a piano, while a
+clearly seen, very mannish and extremely obvious “type” drools over her.
+Not imagination; this one was the veddy veddy correct, monocled type.
+(GD)
+
+SIGN OF THE RAM, a filming circa 1947 of the Margaret Ferguson novel,
+starred Susan Peters as the wheelchaired heroine; the “crush” between
+Leah and Christine was treated vaguely but recognizably to anyone who
+had read the book.
+
+TIME OF DESIRE. “Much has been made of the Uranian aspect of this film
+but personally I couldn’t see it....” LJE
+
+TORST ("Thirst") directed by Ingmar Bergman, is supposed to tell the
+lives of three women strangely in love, including a lesbian. As yet none
+of your editors or contributors have seen the film.
+
+TURNABOUT, the Thorne Smith sex-farce where a man’s ego is transmuted
+into a woman’s body.
+
+TITLE UNKNOWN; 1950 or 1951; French with English subtitles; action took
+place in a girl’s reformatory, much reference to lesbianism and some
+overt scenes; one where a girl caressed the breast of another and
+whispered love words to her, another where a tough street type tells a
+young innocent “See these marks on my thighs, they are each the marks of
+a lover, the left leg for boys and the right for girls.” I don’t see any
+other way to interpret that scene. (GD)
+
+  THE END, OF COURSE, IS NOT YET.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+Related Publications
+
+
+Information about the following publishers in the field of homosexual
+studies was supplied by the editors; we at the Checklist assume no
+responsibility for this information. We have, however, been constant
+readers of all three of these magazines and can recommend them as
+dignified, worthwhile and occasionally scholarly pioneering in a
+neglected field; they deserve support.
+
+ONE, INCORPORATED. 232 South Hill Street, Los Angeles 12, California.
+Non-profit organization, established in 1952, concerned with the
+problems and interests of homosexual men and women; publishers of:
+
+  ONE Magazine, monthly. Five dollars per year, fifty cents per
+    copy. Sent first class, sealed. Editor Don Slater; Woman’s
+    editor, Alison Hunter. Editorials, fiction, poetry, articles,
+    book reviews, letters, artwork. Special attention given to the
+    Feminine Viewpoint. Fiction, articles, poetry by and about the
+    lesbian.
+
+  ONE Institute Quarterly; Homophile Studies. Official Organ of
+    One Institute, a university-level facility presenting classes
+    on the history, biology, sociology and psychology of
+    homosexuality. Articles include scholarly evaluation of
+    literary figures such as Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman,
+    homosexuality and religion, etc. Five dollars per year, $1.50
+    single copy. Editor James Kepner, Jr.
+
+  THE DAUGHTERS OF BILITIS, INC. 165 O’Farrell St, Room 405, San
+    Francisco, Calif. A woman’s organization for promoting the
+    integration of the homosexual into society; membership limited to
+    woman. Emphasis on education of the variant to promote adjustment
+    and self-understanding, and education of the public at large through
+    acceptance of the individual. Publishers of:
+
+  THE LADDER. Monthly, $4.00 a year, 50¢ single copy, mailed
+    first class sealed. Editor, Del Martin. Fiction and poetry of
+    special interest, letters from readers, book reviews and a
+    running column of lesbiana managed by Gene Damon, reports on
+    special study and discussion groups, and the conductors of a
+    recent survey on lesbians personally.
+
+  THE MATTACHINE SOCIETY, 693 Mission Street, San Francisco, California.
+    Founded 1950, Incorporated 1954; purpose, to conduct projects of
+    education, research and social service in sex problems, particularly
+    those of homosexual adults. Publishers of:
+
+  MATTACHINE REVIEW, monthly, offset printed, circulation 2250;
+    $5 a year, 50¢ single copy, mailed sealed; issued annually in
+    bound volumes, indexed at end of each year. Reflects the
+    policies and purpose of the Mattachine Society with scientific
+    articles, research reports, news of sexological trends, book
+    reviews, letters from readers, a small amount of fiction and
+    annual poetry supplement. Hal Call, Editor.
+
+  DORIAN BOOK QUARTERLY. $2 a year, 50¢ per copy. Primarily
+    concerned with books and periodicals on socio-sexual themes,
+    particularly fiction and non fiction dealing with
+    homosexuality and related themes. Purpose: to fight censorship
+    and encourage publishing in this field. Advertising accepted,
+    reviews and news of books in the field solicited. Controlled
+    circulation. Harold L. Call, Editor.
+
+
+SEE ALSO FOR COLLECTORS ONLY
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+collectors only
+
+
+Every year, following the publication of the Checklist, we receive a
+number of queries. Where, they want to know, can we buy these books? We
+can only tell you where we buy books; and have therefore assembled the
+following list of reputable dealers, mail order, who handle these books
+and many others.
+
+  WINSTON BOOK SERVICE, 250 Fulton Avenue; Hempstead, New York.
+    Successor to the famous Cory Book Service which was founded by
+    Donald Webster Cory, author of “The Homosexual in America”. This is
+    perhaps the best American source for current novels in hard covers
+    and non-fiction. They issue catalogs and lists, give a sizable
+    discount for large orders, and will also locate hard-to-find or
+    out-of-print books. Leslie Laird Winston, who is the presiding
+    genius here, is one of the nicest people to deal with that we have
+    ever known. Every month they feature some new or special book in the
+    field, at a special price. Getting on their mailing list is the
+    _best_ thing that can happen to a collector.
+
+  DORIAN BOOK SERVICE, 693 Mission Street, San Francisco 5,
+    California. A subsidiary of the Mattachine Review and the
+    Pan-Graphic Press. They publish the Dorian Book Quarterly, dealt
+    with elsewhere, and also a fat, fascinating catalogue listing
+    several hundred titles of current hardcover and paperback fiction.
+    They can also furnish, or will locate, many out-of-print titles. My
+    experience with them: prompt service, fast shipment, up-to-date
+    information on cheap reprints of rare titles.
+
+  VILLAGE BOOKS AND PRESS, 114-116 Christopher Street, New York 14,
+    New York. This is the outfit behind the Noel Garde bibliography of
+    Homosexual Literature, mentioned in the editorial. They can still
+    supply this biblio list for $1.50. They also issue lists at frequent
+    intervals, and will search for hard-to-find and out-of-print titles.
+    Prices seem reasonable considering the scarcity of some of the
+    paperbacks he handles. The proprietor, Howard Frisch, is one of the
+    most co-operative dealers in the business.
+
+  ONE Magazine, listed in “Related Publications” has published one
+    volume of short stories, and is soon to do more publishing; they
+    also list several dozen books sold by mail order.
+
+  THE LADDER, listed in “Related Publications”, is soon to set up a
+    book service; their first special release will be Jeannette Howard
+    Foster’s “Sex Variant Women in Literature”, so keep your eyes open.
+
+  THE TENTH MUSE, bookshop managed by Julia Newman, 326 West 15th St,
+    New York 11, New York, also does some mail order business. Write for
+    a list.
+
+  A POINTS NORTHE, unusual bookshop at 15 Robinson Street, in Oklahoma
+    City, managed by James Neill Northe, into which your senior editor
+    virtually stumbled during a rainstorm, specializes in very rare,
+    esoteric and scholarly titles, curiosa, etc. He can supply even the
+    most fantastically rare stuff; prices are in line with the rarity of
+    the items wanted. (It was Mr. Northe who, with disinterested
+    kindness, supplied some biblio data on the real rarities on the
+    list; he has our thanks and endorsement.)
+
+  BOOKPOST, C. Rogers, Box 3251, San Diego 3, California. This outfit
+    specializes in Americana, but can supply almost anything. The prices
+    here are the most reasonable I’ve ever encountered; if Rogers quotes
+    you a price, there’s no point in shopping around for a lower one.
+
+  INTERNATIONAL BOOKFINDERS, P O Box 3003, Beverly Hills, California.
+    These people are the out-of-print bookfinders par excellence. I’ve
+    ordered many books from them; their prices are reasonable, never
+    exorbitant; their service is good, the books they supply are always
+    of high quality. They’re nice to deal with. I’ve never had a
+    complaint in ten years of bookhunting.
+
+  RAYMOND TRANFIELD, Antiquarian Book Dealer, 31 Hart Street,
+    Henley-Upon-Thames, Oxon, England, is probably the best source for
+    older books published in England. His prices are reasonable, his
+    service is fast (he quotes by airmail and sends his parcels insured,
+    which is a blessing for anything which has to travel across the
+    ocean).
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+paperbacks
+
+
+Paperbacks. We hate them and we love them. The worst rubbish, and the
+best literature brought within the reach of a slim budget. If you missed
+it on the news-stands, all is not lost....
+
+
+  ACE BOOKS Inc., 23 West 47th Street, New York 36, New York. (25¢)
+
+  AVON Books; Avon Publications, Inc., 575 Madison Ave, N. Y. 22, N. Y.
+    (35¢ & 50¢)
+
+  BALLANTINE BOOKS, Inc., 101 Fifth Ave, New York 3, N. Y.(35¢)
+
+  BEACON BOOKS, 117 East 31st St, New York 16, N. Y. (35¢ or 3 for one
+    dollar)
+
+  BERKLEY Publishing Corp., 146 West 57th St, New York 19, N. Y.
+
+  CREST and GOLD MEDAL books; Fawcett Publications, Greenwich,
+    Connecticut.
+
+  CARDINAL editions, POCKET BOOKS and PERMABOOKS, Pocket Books, Inc, 630
+    Fifth Avenue, New York 20, N. Y. Free catalogue on request.
+
+  NEWSSTAND LIBRARY EDITIONS, (Magenta Books, and others) 3143 Diversey
+    Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Free lists sent on request.
+
+  BANTAM BOOKS, 25 West 45th Street, New York 36, N. Y.
+
+  DELL BOOKS, Dell Publishing Corp. Inc, 750 Third Avenue, New York 17,
+    NY
+
+  PYRAMID BOOKS, 444 Madison Avenue, New York 22, New York.
+
+  POPULAR LIBRARY, Hillman Books and others, do not print their address
+    in the books and evidently don’t want to bother with mail orders. If
+    you miss them on the news-stands, you’ll have to root in secondhand
+    stores. Saber and Fabian Books can be ordered through the Dorian Book
+    Service, and some secondhand book dealers will locate paperbacks,
+    including Village Books and Press, above.
+
+  BEDSIDE and BEDTIME books, (50¢ each) 200 West 34th Street, New York,
+    N. Y.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+  _hardcover publishers_
+
+  Compiled by Kerry Dame
+
+  A list of all obtainable addresses of the publishers of hardcover
+  books mentioned in the Checklist. (Paperback publishers listed
+  elsewhere.)
+
+
+  Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc—35 W. 32nd St, NYC 1, N. Y.
+
+  Arco Publishing Co, Inc.—480 Lexington Ave. NYC 17, NY
+
+  Arkham House; Publishers.—Sauk City, Wisconsin.
+
+  A. S. Barnes & Co.—11 E. 36th St, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Barnes & Noble, Inc.—105 Fifth Ave. NYC 3, NY
+
+  Beacon _Press_, Inc.—25 Beacon St, Boston 8, Mass.
+
+  Blakiston Co.—(see McGraw-Hill Book Co, Inc.)
+
+  Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc.—717 Fifth Avenue, NY 22, NY
+
+  Borden Publishing Co.—3077 Wabash Avenue, Los Angeles 63, Cal.
+
+  Boxwood Press—Box 7171, Pittsburgh 13, Penna.
+
+  C. F. Braun & Co.—1000 S. Fremont Ave, Alhambra, Calif.
+
+  Citadel Press—222 Fourth Ave, NYC 3, NY
+
+  Clarion Press—510 Madison Avenue, Room 700, NYC 22, NY
+
+  P. F. Collier & Son—Library Division, 640 Fifth Avenue, NYC 19
+
+  Comet Press Books—200 Varick St, NYC 14, N. Y.
+
+  F. E. Compton & Co.,—1000 N. Dearborn St, Chicago 10, Illinois
+
+  Coward-McCann, Inc.—210 Madison Avenue, N. Y. C. 16, NY
+
+  Creative Age Press—(see “Farrar, Straus & Cudahy”)
+
+  Criterion Books—257 Fourth Ave, NYC 10, NY
+
+  Thomas Y. Crowell Co.—432 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Crown Publishers, Inc.—419 Fourth Avenue, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Dial Press, Inc.—461 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Dodd, Mead & Co.—432 Fourth Avenue, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Dorrance & Co., Inc.—131 N. 20th St, Philadelphia 3, Penna.
+
+  Doubleday & Co., Inc.—mail orders; Garden City, New York.
+
+  Dover Publications, Inc.—180 Varick Street, NYC 14, NY
+
+  Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Inc.—19 W. 40th St, NYC 18, NY
+
+  E. P. Dutton & Co.,—300 Fourth Avenue, NYC 10, NY
+
+  Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, Inc.—101 Fifth Avenue, NYC 3, NY
+
+  Frederick Fell, Inc.—386 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Fleet Publishing Corp.—70 E. 45th St, NYC 17, NY
+
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+    Philadelphia 39, Penna.—what became of Greenberg; NY?)
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+  Grosset & Dunlap, Inc.—mail orders; 227 E. Center St, Kingsport,
+    Tennessee.
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+
+  World Publishing Co.—2231 W. 110th St, Cleveland 2, Ohio.
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+
+[Illustration]
+
+ADDENDA
+
+
+Misfiled, dropped in copyright or, we goofed;
+
+
+    BRANDEL, MARC. _The Choice._ New York, Dial, 1950. no data.
+
+    CATTO, MAX. _The Killing Frost._ London, Wm. Heinemann, 1950, (m).
+      Tense relationship between two circus performers motivates an
+      unusual, and excellent mystery novel.
+
+    RAY, SANFORD. _Satan’s Harvest._ Saber Books pbo ca. 1957. Evening
+      waster; a Mexican girl, Lupe, from a broken home, goes—with her
+      older sister—into a brothel, but is “protected” from the advances
+      of the men by the fact that the lesbian madame has taken a fancy
+      to her. Lupe’s older sister burns the place down to free Lupe from
+      this fate.
+
+    SAYRE, GORDON. (pseud. of Jack Woodford.) _Wife to Trade._ N. Y.
+      Godwin, 1936. No reviews available, but probably racy stuff, not
+      too badly written.
+
+    WILLINGHAM, CALDER. “The Sum of two Angles”, ss in _The Gates OF
+      Hell._ N. Y. Vanguard, 1951.
+
+    YOUNG, FRANCES BRETT. _White Ladies._ NY, Harper 1935. A
+      boarding-school tomboy, infatuated with a schoolteacher, finally
+      comes to see her as a vampire, feeding on the emotions of the
+      young.
+
+
+behind the scenes
+
+Introducing the editors and contributors....
+
+
+  MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY, Editor and publisher of the Checklist, who
+    attends to such minor chores as editorial format and manhandling the
+    mimeograph, is by profession a writer of science fiction. Her work
+    has appeared in virtually every science fiction magazine on the
+    market. She is thirty years-old, lives in a small town in Texas, and
+    her other interests are Italian opera, acrobatics and mountain
+    climbing.
+
+  GENE DAMON, whose competent brain does the bibliographical work for the
+    Checklist, is in her mid-twenties, lives in the midwest, and is a
+    librarian; she previously worked as a book-keeper and on a large
+    city newspaper. Her chief interests are classical music and the
+    collecting of variant literature; her private library contains over
+    600 titles of lesbiana alone. It was the untiring, perfectionist
+    efforts of Miss Damon which checked every biblio reference in this
+    list; she also supplied a summary or precis for every title which
+    the senior editor had not read. In general, Damon is the brains of
+    the Checklist; MZB merely the brawn.
+
+  KERRY DAME, stencil-cutter, artist and printer’s devil, is in her early
+    twenties and lives in New England with her mother and many cats. She
+    is no stranger to the readers of the _Ladder_, who all know her gay,
+    airy cover drawings.
+
+  LAURAJEAN ERMAYNE, contributor to _Vice Versa_, collector of lesbiana,
+    specialist in films, and tireless hunter of the news-stands, lives
+    in California and, under her own name, is a well-known editor and
+    writer.
+
+
+HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT: In a forgotten closet, your editor has just
+discovered a stack of copies of the ASTRA’S TOWER Checklist #3. We
+thought they’d all been destroyed. This is the last-year’s list,
+containing Royal Drummond’s “Digression”, and my account of a hassle
+with the fascinatin' Miss Apple. I want to get these things out of my
+broom closet, and my soul revolts at the thought of tossing the things
+into the trash burner for the edification of the garbage collector.
+Therefore, we will make the following offer. Mailing these things out by
+printed-matter, fourth class mail costs 7-1/2 cents. By first class
+mail, 12 cents postage is required. Envelopes cost something. If anyone
+wants these (who knows, they might be valuable as examples of
+prehistoric lesbiana some day) you can have then for a quarter (first
+class mail) or six for a dollar to pass around among your friends. Hurry
+up—I’m going to need my broom closet for the mimeograph when I get
+finished with this year’s Checklist. You’ll find the address on the
+titlepage.—And this is it—The End—Marion.
+
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Checklist, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: Checklist
+       A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and
+       homosexual fiction, in English or available in English
+       translation, with supplements of related material, for the
+       use of collectors, students and librarians.
+
+Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley
+
+Release Date: March 17, 2012 [EBook #39184]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHECKLIST ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by David Starner, Turgut Dincer and the Online
+Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
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+
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+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Transcriber's note: Extensive research found no evidence that
+the copyright for this book had been renewed.]
+
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+
+
+
+Marion Zimmer Bradley
+
+
+_CHECKLIST_
+
+
+  A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian,
+  variant and homosexual fiction, in English
+  or available in English translation, with
+  supplements of related material, for the use
+  of collectors, students and librarians.
+
+
+table of contents
+
+
+  Editorial; History and purpose of the Checklist           2
+
+  List of symbols and abbreviations                         6
+
+  The complete cumulative Checklist, indexed by author      7
+
+  The poetry of Lesbiana; chronological reference
+    list (compiled by Gene Damon)                          58
+
+  Variant Films                                            61
+
+  Related Publications; the homosexual Press               63
+
+  For Collectors Only; a list of book services             64
+
+  Paperback Publishers; addresses                          65
+
+  Hardcover Publishers; addresses                          66
+
+  Behind the scenes; meet the editors                      68
+
+
+  Edited and Published by: MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
+  Associate Editor: GENE DAMON
+  Cover design and layouts by Kerry Dame
+
+
+  Entire contents copyright, May 1960, by Marion Zimmer Bradley,
+  Box 158, Rochester, Texas. All rights reserved.
+
+
+
+
+editorial
+
+THE PURPOSE AND HISTORY OF THE CHECKLIST
+
+
+Here, in a single volume, it has been our intention to list, document
+and review every novel dealing, however slightly, with female variance,
+lesbianism or intense emotional relationships between women. We have
+also included a majority of the better known novels which, dealing
+primarily with male homosexuality, are of interest to the collector of
+variant fiction in general.
+
+In related supplements we have compiled lists of variant poetry, variant
+films, of the major book services and publishing houses where these
+books can be obtained, and of the homosexual press.
+
+The titles in the major portion of the Checklist are listed in a single
+comprehensive index by author. Information includes date published,
+number of reprints and publisher's name. Brief reviews are included of
+most titles. An effort has been made in each case to distinguish whether
+the work under discussion is a novel about lesbianism, whether the
+variant content has been included mostly for shock effect, or whether
+(as in some excellent modern novels) homosexual characters appear
+incidentally to the other main themes of action in the book.
+
+In such a comprehensive listing, reviews must of necessity be brief. For
+further discussion of many of the titles listed here, with excellent and
+complete critical analysis of their variant content, the serious student
+or collector is earnestly urged to invest in the definitive and major
+work on the subject:
+
+  FOSTER, Jeannette Howard; _Sex Variant Women in
+    Literature._ N. Y. Vantage Press, 1956.
+
+
+Although now officially out of print, this book can occasionally be
+obtained second hand, and copies will soon be offered for sale through
+the Daughters of Bilitis publication, THE LADDER. (See appendix.) We
+have made no effort to give more than cursory reviews of titles which
+are discussed at length in Dr. Foster's work. However, since the
+publication of the Foster book, many new novels of lesbianism have been
+published, and the diligent search of many collectors, working with the
+Checklist editors, has brought many old ones to light.
+
+We have tried to review in some detail the novels which were omitted
+from Dr. Foster's work, and to strive for completeness, even at the
+expense of discriminatory judgment about the excellence or otherwise of
+the works included. Therefore this Checklist includes many works whose
+lesbian content was too slight, too subtle--or too "trashy"--to have
+come within the scope of the scholarly studies of Dr. Foster or the
+running column, _Lesbiana_, conducted by junior editor Gene Damon in
+the pages of THE LADDER.
+
+It is our further contention that many novels dealing with male
+homosexuality come also within the province of the serious collector of
+lesbiana. We make, however, no claim for completeness for novels which
+fall within the homosexual, rather than the lesbian province. In
+general, the male titles included in this list--clearly defined, in each
+case, by the sign (m)--have been included because they were of special
+interest to the editors and therefore are presumably of interest to
+other collectors of lesbiana.
+
+For those who wish a complete list of works dealing with male
+homosexuality, we suggest the comprehensive bibliography compiled by
+Noel I. Garde, discussed in the Appendix of Related Publications. Mr.
+Garde has indexed virtually every homosexual work from antiquity to the
+latest paperback shocker, and has also performed the mighty task of
+separating them into categories ... a task from which the Checklist
+editors have shrunk, though we have made some attempt at classification
+in our reviews and by awarding a plus sign to books of exceptional
+value. (For further discussion of this division, please consult the
+"List of Symbols and Abbreviations" on page 2.)
+
+Most of the reviews in the present listing were written by one of the
+editors; no attempt has been made to divide the reviews written by MZB
+from those written by Damon. In general, these reviews have been
+gathered from so many sources that the awarding of individual credit
+would be impossible.
+
+This Checklist, 1960, is the last of the cumulative Checklists. Plans at
+present are to publish brief supplements annually, listing only new
+titles, new reprints of old titles, or new discoveries of overlooked
+titles. Since this is the case, we feel that some brief history of the
+Checklist might be of interest to the readers.
+
+Nearly 10 years ago, in the mailing of the Fantasy Amateur Press
+Association, a very bitter discussion was raging on the subject of
+censorship--pro and con. Complicating this discussion, a man who is now
+dead, and shall therefore be nameless, published a scathing attack on
+homosexuals. By way of subtle reproof, and partially as a deadpan joke
+on this man, your senior editor, with Royal Drummond (whose "Digression"
+was highly praised by Checklist readers last year ...) published a
+12-page offset leaflet, with editorials attacking censorship, and
+extensive reviews of perhaps a dozen of the best known homosexual
+novels. This leaflet had a cartoon cover and the general light-hearted
+tone of the publication was indicated by the title, which was _Fairy
+Tales for Fabulous Faps_. Reaction to this leaflet was mixed, but in
+general the readers enjoyed it, and said, "Do this again some time -- ".
+However, soon after this, Mr. Drummond dropped out of the Fantasy
+Amateur Press Association, and your present editor had no impetus to
+continue the series single-handed.
+
+Early in the history of the publication known as THE LADDER, your senior
+editor had the privilege of reviewing the Foster book mentioned above,
+while the junior editor was in charge of the _Lesbiana_ column. After
+reading the Foster work, your editor (MZB) resolved to publish a list of
+the omitted titles; when I began cutting the mimeograph stencils,
+however, I resolved to review not only the titles which Dr. Foster had
+omitted, but all of those which I had read, for the purpose of putting
+into print my own personal opinions and reactions. This first Checklist
+was called _Astra's Tower #2_, and the number 2 seems to have baffled a
+good many people--they all wrote in, inquiring about #1. Number 1,
+however, was a mimeographed booklet of my own fiction, published during
+my late teens for the FAPA, mentioned above.
+
+Through this first Checklist, I came into contact with Miss Damon, and
+because paperback lesbiana was blossoming on all the stands, we quickly
+resolved to publish another Checklist. I had fully intended to give Miss
+Damon full credit for her work last year; however, the mimeograph work
+on last year's list was so poor, the quality of the paper so bad, and
+some unreliable reviewers fouled me up so badly on data, that I refused
+to foist off any portion of the blame on other shoulders.
+
+The relaxing of censorship of recent years--as documented in the Supreme
+Court judgment relevant to _Lady Chatterley's over_, etc.--has meant,
+in recent fiction, fewer taboos and in general a franker treatment of
+sexual themes. On the whole this is a good thing. However and
+unfortunately, it has also released a flood of trash and borderline
+erotica, of no literary worth and "interesting" only for the sexual
+content. Your editors have conscientiously waded through all this
+newsstand slush (and believe me, we get no kick out of it) because
+experience has taught us that even the worst peddlers of commercialized
+sex-trash sometimes come up with exceptionally well-written, honest and
+sincere work. For instance, Beacon Books (a subsidiary of Universal
+Publishing and Distributing Company)--some of whose paperback originals
+can be called printable only by the uttermost charity,--are currently
+also publishing the work of Artemis Smith, one of the major writers in
+the variant field today.
+
+However, actually reviewing the majority of this stuff is impossible.
+Most of these books are not novels at all. They have impossibly complex
+plots--or no plots at all--since the story exists only as an excuse for
+the characters to jump into amorous exercise with the closest male, or
+female, or sometimes both. This sort of thing, "lesbian" only remotely,
+belongs more properly to the field of curiosa. One can, of course,
+display a Place Pigalle post card in a gallery with the Botticelli
+Venus, and classify them both as "nudes". I personally consider this an
+insult to the Venus, and the devotee of "feelthy peectures" will find
+the restraint and taste of fine art too tame for his jaded tastes.
+
+We are unalterably opposed to most censorship--but after wading through
+almost a hundred books whose only excuse for existence is to provide
+phony "thrills" for people too inhibited, too ignorant or too fearful to
+provide their own, well--we think wistfully of some self-imposed
+standards of taste.
+
+We also realize, flatly and realistically, that too much license in this
+stuff is going to bring on a wave of public reaction which may impose a
+sure-enough censorship--making the standards of the 1940s and 1950s look
+liberal.
+
+Now obviously the field of homosexual literature is going to place a
+certain emphasis on the sexual problems of humanity which will be
+quantitatively greater than that of--say--the Western novel, or the
+detective story. Sex alone has not been made an excuse for consigning
+any novel to the trashbin. If the treatment is honest, the characters
+even remotely believable and the purpose of the book seems reasonably
+genuine, then the quantity of sex is purely a matter for the author's
+discretion; and be it much, as in the works of March Hastings, Artemis
+Smith or Henry Miller, or little, as in Iris Murdoch's delicate and
+subtle THE BELL, or Shirley Jackson's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE,--we
+give the book judgment only on its merits as a book.
+
+However, in self-defense, we have had to find a way to dispose of the
+more repetitive rubbish. Allowing for differences in taste, and granting
+that many people like their books well-spiced, if there is a reasonably
+well-written story along with the sex we have called it "Evening
+waster"--on the grounds that it may very well provide pleasant
+entertainment for anyone not a hopeless prude. But if the story is just
+a peg on which to hang up a lot of poorly written, gamy erotic episodes,
+with no literary value, and just evasive enough to keep the printer out
+of jail, then we have given it short shrift with the abbreviation
+"scv"--which cryptic letters are editorial shorthand for "Short Course
+in Voyeurism"--and have been the basis of a lot of jokes in the tedious
+business of passing reviews around the editorial staff (The junior and
+senior editors live a thousand miles apart and have never met; the
+others who occasionally contribute reviews are scattered from Alabama to
+Oregon.). So we have to have some fun in the endless correspondence--and
+"scv" books are fair game.
+
+Regrettably, we are well aware that some people are going to use this
+designation in precisely the opposite fashion than we intended--go
+through the list picking out the sexy books and carefully avoiding the
+others. Well--we shan't spoil your fun. Each to her own taste, as the
+old lady said when she kissed the cow.
+
+We wish here to give some slight acknowledgment to all those who, over
+the years since the initiation of this endeavor, have contributed
+overlooked titles, pointed out our errors, sent comments, criticisms and
+sometimes cash, laboriously tracked down elusive data, worked as unpaid
+researchers and stencil-cutters, and in general helped us to feel we
+were not working in a vacuum.
+
+Special acknowledgments are due to Dr. Jeannette Howard Foster,
+unfailingly generous and gracious in allowing us to pick her brains; to
+Leslie Laird Winston, of the Winston Book Service; to the editors of THE
+LADDER, Del Martin in particular, for helping us to publicize our
+Checklist, and for allowing us to use reviews run in the _Lesbiana_
+column; to Forrest Ackerman, for endless help and encouragement; and to
+Kerry Dame, whose generous gift of stamps proved invaluable to the heavy
+load of correspondence necessary to keep this one-woman publishing house
+rolling. And to all those others, anonymous by choice, who have sent
+small gifts of cash and stamps, turned up elusive paperbacks for me in
+news-standless West Texas, contributed reviews and data, and, above all,
+provided cheer and encouraging support. We hope this Checklist is half
+as much fun for you to read as it was for us--all things considered--to
+prepare.
+
+And here at the end I take off my editorial "We" for a special, personal
+THANK YOU to my collaborator and co-editor, GENE DAMON.
+
+And now, until the first Supplement time, it's time to turn the
+Checklist over to you. Comments and criticisms are invited.
+
+  Marion Z Bradley
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+List of Symbols and Abbreviations
+
+
+  pbo--paperbacked original; first published in paperback
+        or first English edition in paperback.
+
+  pbr--paperbacked reprint.
+
+  n.d.--no date listed or date unknown.
+
+  ss--short story.
+
+  qpb--quality paperback book (as, Grove Press or Vintage).
+
+  tct--title changed to (as, _Torchlight to Valhalla_, pbr
+        tct _The Strange Path_).
+
+  fco--for completists only; variant content either extremely
+        slight or problematical.
+
+  + before a title indicates a book of considerable value.
+        Occasionally used to call attention to a fine new
+        release or the discovery of an old title overlooked
+        in previous bibliographies. In general, the plus
+        sign has been reserved for books of honest purpose,
+        sincere if not always entirely favorable treatment of
+        the homosexual theme, and some genuine literary merit.
+        In one or two cases, a plus has been given to a book
+        of little intrinsic worth because of some major and
+        exceptional contribution to thought on the variant
+        theme; or to an occasional book for being extremely
+        good entertainment of its kind, even if no masterpiece.
+        We have tried to avoid including only our favorites.
+
+  (m) indicates a novel concerned mostly with male homosexuality.
+        A very large proportion of such novels,
+        however, contain some discussion of female variance,
+        or lesbian characters, as well.
+
+  BAYOR--Buy at your own risk ... either no accurate data is
+        available or the editors find themselves in hopeless
+        disagreement about its relevance.
+
+  Evening Waster--good solid entertainment and reasonably
+        well-written, though worthless as literature.
+
+  scv--see editorial for complete discussion of this term.
+        This is the literary ghetto, the gutter books, the
+        commercialized sex trash as distinguished from honest
+        erotic realism.
+
+
+
+
+THE COMPLETE, CUMULATIVE CHECKLIST OF LESBIAN FICTION
+
+
+    ACKWORTH, ROBERT C. _The Moments Between._ pbo, Hillman Books
+      1959. Characters in a college novel include an
+      instructor--male--who is homosexual, very sympathetically
+      portrayed. Also a subtle, but sympathetic attachment between an
+      unlovely, unloved student and an older woman; the relationship is
+      shown as constructive for both in the end.
+
+  + ADAMS, FAY. _Appointment in Paris._ pbo, N. Y., Gold Medal 1952.
+      An American girl in Paris has a brief affair with a French woman
+      and is thereby enabled to break the hold of her old-maid aunt. She
+      later marries.
+
+    ADDAMS, KAY. _Queer Patterns._ pbo, Beacon, 1959. scv. Trashy
+      shocker about young Nora Card, who briefly forsakes her boy
+      friend, Roger, for a corrupt lesbian employer.
+
+      _Warped Desires._ pbo, Beacon, 1960. scv. Teen-age Doris goes to a
+      boarding school and is seduced by everyone on the premises, male
+      and female.
+
+    ALDRICH, ANN (pseud.)
+
+      _We Too Must Love._ pbo Gold Medal 1958.
+
+      _We Walk Alone._ pbo, Gold Medal 1955.
+
+      Non-fiction studies of the lesbian world, highly subjective,
+      mostly vignettes of gay life in and around Greenwich Village, with
+      some added data about the manners, customs and language of the
+      "gay" world. Good reading, if somewhat biased.
+
+      see also VIN PACKER
+
+    ALEXANDER, DAVID. _Madhouse in Washington Square._ Lippincott,
+      1958. Mystery novel of high quality, introducing a pair of
+      lesbians for window-dressing.
+
+    ANDERSON, HELEN. _Pity for Women._ N. Y., Doubleday, 1937. An
+      unhappy and tense relationship among three women, inhabitants of a
+      women's residence club in New York.
+
+    ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. _Dark Laughter._ N. Y., Boni & Liveright, 1925,
+      pbr Pocket Books, 1952. Very slight.
+
+      _Poor White_; N. Y., B. W. Huebsch, 1920, hcr in The Portable
+      Sherwood Anderson, qpb Viking Press P42. In the course of a novel
+      about the rise of a "shantytown boy's" rise to prosperity, there
+      is a brief but extremely sympathetic portrait of the lesbian, Kate
+      Chancellor; the hero's wife, Clara, is briefly captivated by Kate
+      during her college days.
+
+    ANDREYA, GUY. _Tormented Venus._ N. Y. Key Pub. Co 1958. scv.
+
+    ANONYMOUS. _Adam and Two Eves._ Macauley Co, N. Y., 1934, pbr Beacon
+      Books 1956. Evening waster. Neurotically heartbroken woman
+      mourning her dead lover becomes entangled with a married woman
+      because a woman's love does not constitute infidelity to the dead;
+      once initiated she becomes entangled in a long affair _a trois_,
+      from which she is eventually extricated (somewhat the worse for
+      wear) by a man she later marries.
+
+    ANTHOLZ, PEYSON. _All Shook Up._ pbo, Ace Books, 1958, (m). Alan,
+      small-town teen-age rowdy, fights against his friendship with
+      newcomer Howard Sirche, because it is rumored that Howard, who
+      avoids women, is homosexual. Very good of its kind.
+
+    ANTON, CAL. _The Private Life of a Strip Tease Girl._ pbo, Beacon
+      1959, scv. Just what it sounds like. Among her many "affairs" is a
+      brief episode with another girl.
+
+    ASQUITH, CYNTHIA. "The Lovely Voice". ss, in _This Mortal Coil._
+      Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin. Fantasy, 1947
+
+    BAKER, DENYS VAL. _A Journey With Love._ Bridgehead Books, 1955,
+      pbr Crest Books 1956. fco. The hero's first marriage fails because
+      of his wife's insistence that a woman friend shall share their
+      home. Nothing is explicit.
+
+    BAKER, DOROTHY. _Trio._ Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1943, hcr Sun
+      Dial 1945, pbr Penguin Books 1946. Tells of the captivation of a
+      young woman by an unscrupulous literary agent who also happens to
+      be a lesbian. Highly defamatory.
+
+      _Young Man with A Horn._ Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1938, pbr
+      Signet 1953. Very minor lesbian incident in a jazz novel.
+
+  + BALDWIN, JAMES. _Giovanni's Room._ Dial 1956, pbr Signet 1959,
+      (m). An American boy in Paris fights against his affair with a
+      young Italian, Giovanni; his fear and resistance to this
+      relationship leads to separation, tragedy and their separate
+      destruction. A powerful, tender and tragic book.
+
+    BALDWIN, MONICA. _The Called and the Chosen._ Farrar, Straus _&_
+      Cudahy, N. Y., 1957, pbr Signet 1958. A good study of repression and
+      frustration in convent life, containing passim the story of Sister
+      Helena, novice-mistress; although her behavior was strictly
+      correct even for a nun, she once inspired such violent passions in
+      her juniors that she was removed from this office. The heroine
+      refers to Sister Helena, after her death, as "the one human being
+      I ever loved".
+
+    BALZAC, HONOR� DE. _Cousin Bette._ Classic; many standard editions
+      and translations. The story of a neurotic spinster's half-realised
+      passion for a woman friend.
+
+      _The Girl with the Golden Eyes._ Many standard editions and
+      translations, including pbr Avon Books 1957, (trans. Ernest
+      Dowson.) Shocker of the 19th century, dealing with the passion of
+      the Chevalier de Marsay for a strange, unspoilt girl, Paquita--who
+      is virtually enslaved to a sinister lesbian Countess.
+
+      _Seraphita._ London, J.W. Dent & Sons, 1897; also as above. A
+      romance of an angelic hermaphrodite. All of these are classics of
+      world literature, as well as the literature of variance, and are
+      apt to be available even in small libraries.
+
+  + BANNON, ANN.
+
+      _Odd Girl Out._ pbo, Gold Medal, 1957, 1960.
+
+      _I am a Woman._ pbo, Gold Medal, 1959.
+
+      _Women in the Shadows._ pbo, Gold Medal, 1959.
+
+      These three form a single, connected narrative, although any of
+      the three novels can be read as a self-contained story. The first
+      volume introduces the heroine of the series, Laura Landon, at
+      college; where, in undergoing an affair with her roommate, lovely
+      but frigid Beth, she discovers her homosexuality. Softened by the
+      affair, Beth marries, and Laura runs away. In the second book,
+      Laura, in Greenwich Village, is sharing an apartment, with Marcie,
+      a divorcee, entirely "straight" who plays Laura along strictly for
+      kicks; Laura suffers under this treatment for a long time, then
+      runs away again to shack up with a butch-type Village character,
+      Beebo. In the third book, Laura and Beebo have been living
+      together for two years; Laura is tiring of this lengthy affair and
+      cheats on Beebo with a colored dancer named Tris, while Beebo, to
+      win Laura back, resorts to such trickery as staging a phony "rape"
+      ... inflicting wounds on herself in search of sympathy. Tiring of
+      this life, Laura runs away again, this, time to marry a male
+      homosexual friend, Jack, in a search for stability and permanence.
+      The whole story invites comparison with Weiraugh's THE SCORPION:
+      homosexuality per se is not attacked, but the drawbacks of the
+      life, and the dangers and difficulties to anyone trying to adjust
+      him-or-herself to that life, are frankly and brutally delineated;
+      there is a pervasive air of dissatisfaction, or resignation, and
+      gradual withdrawal; and the ending of the third book is
+      unsatisfactory and hardly complete. Nevertheless, the impact of
+      these books, particularly when read all together, is considerable;
+      Miss Bannon's grasp of character, technique and construction
+      improve with each novel. Despite wild improbabilities and
+      gimmicky, contrived situations, these are perhaps the major
+      contribution to lesbian literature in the paperback field
+      anywhere.
+
+  + BARNES, DJUNA. "Dusie", ss in _American Esoterica_, NY,
+      Macy-Masius, 1927. This collection also contains short stories of
+      (m) interest.
+
+      _Nightwood._ N. Y., Harcourt 1937, hcr New Directions n.d. A
+      well-known and excellent lesbian novel laid in Paris.
+
+  + BARR, JAMES. _Derricks._ NY, Greenberg 1951, (m) hcr Pan, 1957.
+      Although those short stories all deal with male homosexuality,
+      their coherent, fresh and constructive philosophy make this a book
+      of primary importance for every reader.
+
+      _Quatrefoil._ N. Y., Greenberg, 1950, (m).
+
+      _Game of Fools._ ONE, 1954, 1955.
+
+    BARRY, JEROME. _Malignant Stars._ N. Y., Doubleday, 1960. Signe, a
+      handsome Valkyrie-type girl, is found dead, and the note beside
+      her body is apparently a love letter from her roommate Lyn; the
+      suspicion that Lyn is her lover and murderer forms the main theme
+      of the plot. Well done.
+
+    BAUM, VICKI. _Theme for Ballet._ N. Y., Doubleday 1958, pbr Dell
+      1959, (m). Minor but excellent.
+
+      _The Mustard Seed._ Dial 1953, pbr Pyramid 1956 (m minor).
+
+    BEER, THOMAS. _Mrs Egg and Other Barbarians._ Knopf, 1933. Rarer
+      than hen's teeth--lesbian humor.
+
+    BELLAMANN, HENRY. _King's Row._ N. Y., Simon & Schuster, 1940, (m).
+
+    BELOT, ADOLPHE. _Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife._ Paris, Dentu 1870,
+      Chicago, Laird & Lee 1891. The wife remains a "miss", refusing her
+      husband's approaches because of her attachment to another woman.
+      Typically the husband drowns this monstrous creature (other woman)
+      during an ostensible seaside rescue.
+
+    BENNETT, ARNOLD. _Elsie and the Child._ N. Y., Doran, 1924. "Common
+      sense" treatment of an attachment between Elsie the housemaid, and
+      a girl of twelve, which subsides when the little girl is sent to
+      school.
+
+      _The Pretty Lady._ N. Y., Doran 1918. A subtle picture of indirect
+      variance between two women in wartorn Paris.
+
+    BERKMAN, SYLVIA. _Blackberry Wilderness._ N. Y., Doubleday, 1959.
+      Esoteric, melancholy, beautifully written short stories, of which
+      two are overtly lesbian in content.
+
+    BERTIN, SYLVIA. _The Last Innocence._ (Trans. by Marjorie Dean). N
+      Y McGraw Hill, 1955. Story of Paula, a member of a French
+      provincial family. "The refreshing thing is that Paula is treated
+      as a matter of course ... that she wears trousers, hates men, etc.
+      is presented with no more excuse or explanation than the
+      individual foibles of the rest of the family."
+
+    BESTER, ALFRED. _Who He?_ N. Y., Doubleday 1955, pbr Berkley 1956,
+      (m) tct. _The Rat Race_. Tense, tightly plotted novel of split
+      personality. The hero's housemate is a deeply sublimated
+      homosexual who cracks up when Jake gets a girl; this episode snaps
+      the high pitch of tightrope tension and precipitates the
+      denouement of the novel. Excellent.
+
+    BISHOP, LEONARD. _Creep Into thy Narrow Bed._ Dial 1954, pbr
+      Pyramid 1956. Story of a vicious abortion racket; woven into the
+      story is the sympathetically treated story of a young lesbian's
+      self-realization. Very good of kind.
+
+    BODIN, PAUL. _All Woman's Flesh_ (trans. from the French of Le
+      Voyage Sentimental, by Lowell Bair.) pbo Berkley 1957.
+
+      _The Sign of Eros_ (trans. from French) Putnam 1953, pbr Berkley
+      1955.
+
+      Both of these involve a man's attachment to two women who have
+      some homosexual contact, but the emphasis is heterosexual, rather
+      than lesbian.
+
+    BOLTON, ISABEL. "Ruth and Irma", ss in The New Yorker, Jan 26,
+      1947; also in Donald Webster Cory's _21 Variations on a Theme_.
+
+    BOTTOME, PHYLLIS. _Jane._ Vanguard, 1957. Story of a street
+      urchin, including lesbian episodes in a girl's reformatory.
+
+    BOURDET, �DOUARD. _The Captive._ N. Y., Brentano's 1926. Drama based
+      on a triangle--man, wife, and a woman who is winning the
+      affections of the latter.
+
+    BOURJAILY, VANCE. _The End of My Life._ Scribner's 1947, pbr
+      Bantam 1952, (m).
+
+      _The Violated._ Dial 1958, pbr Bantam 1959, (m).
+
+      _The Hound of Earth._ Scribner 1955, pbr Permabooks, 1956, (m).
+      Also includes a minor, and unsympathetic lesbian character.
+
+    BOWEN, ELIZABETH. _The Hotel._ N. Y. Dial 1928. A shy young girl
+      sent to catch a husband at a fashionable hotel is, instead,
+      captivated by a sophisticated woman.
+
+    BOWLES, JANE. _Two Serious Ladies._ N. Y. Knopf, 1943. The
+      emancipation of an inhibited American housewife.
+
+    BOYLE, KAY. "The Bridegroom's Body" ss in _The Crazy Hunter_,
+      Harcourt 1938, 1940. Also qpb, Beacon Press, 1958, (m).
+
+      _Gentlemen, I Address you Privately._ NY, Smith 1933, (m).
+
+      _Monday Night._ N. Y. Harcourt 1938, hcr New Directions, n.d. Brief
+      account of a lesbian affair through the eyes of a child.
+
+    BRADLEY, MARION Z. "Centaurus Changeling" in The Magazine of
+      Fantasy and Science Fiction, April, 1954. Science Fiction novel;
+      intensely emotional relationship between three wives of alien
+      bureaucrat leads to jealousy and tragedy when the eldest,
+      Cassiana, takes an outsider into their home and makes a favorite
+      of her.
+
+      _The Planet Savers_, in Amazing Stories, Dec. 1958, (m). Science
+      fiction of split personality, one equivocally homosexual.
+
+    BRAND, MAX. (pseud of Frederick Faust). _The Night Horseman._ G.P.
+      Putnam's Sons, 1920, hcr Dodd, Mead 1952, pbr Pocket Books 1954,
+      (m). Unusual Western story of a strange cowboy who has an almost
+      supernatural influence on horses and other men; his foster father
+      mysteriously declines when he leaves, makes a miraculous recovery
+      when he returns home. Subtle and good of its kind.
+
+    BRINIG, MYRON. _The Looking Glass Heart._ Sagamore, 1958. One
+      lesbian episode, treated vaguely. (Minority report says that
+      nevertheless it is so clearly and well done that the book is worth
+      anyone's reading.)
+
+    BRITAIN, SLOAN. _The Needle._ pbo Beacon Books, 1959. Overly
+      contrived shocker about Gina, a young girl who falls
+      simultaneously into narcotics, lesbianism, prostitution and the
+      hands of a weird couple dabbling in incest. Evening waster, rather
+      better than most but leaves a bitter taste.
+
+      + _First Person, Third Sex._ pbo Newsstand Library 1959. Very
+      well-written novel of Paula Harman, young schoolteacher coming to
+      terms with her life as a lesbian through bitter experience. Don't
+      let the lurid paperback covers and blurb scare you off, this is a
+      NOVEL--well worth hard covers and a steal at 35c.
+
+    BROCK, LILYAN. _Queer Patterns._ Greenberg 1935, pbr Avon 1951,
+      1952. Purple-patched sloppily sentimental tale of Sheila,
+      beautiful young actress with a perfect husband who nevertheless
+      loses her heart to Nicoli, a stereotype lesbian complete with
+      tuxedo. They part to avoid gossip and live unhappily ever after.
+
+    BROMFIELD, LOUIS. _The Rains Came._ N. Y. Collier 1937, pbr Bantam
+      1952. In a long novel of India there is a brief but important
+      episode involving two old missionary ladies. The elder, an
+      engaging old battleax, muses as she tucks the younger and sillier
+      into bed that her friend had never understood why they had been
+      driven out of the school where they had, as young girls, been
+      teaching. Ironically, the nice old grim one is killed in a flood
+      while the silly one remains to pester everybody.
+
+      _Mister Smith_, Harper, 1951; no pbr on record, but your editor
+      has owned one--perhaps an "Armed Forces" edition? (m). Four men,
+      marooned on a desert island in WW2.
+
+  + BROPHY, BRIGID. _King of a Rainy Country._ Knopf. 1957. Poignant
+      novel of a young girl who lives with Neale, a young male
+      homosexual, out of wedlock. They both become enamored with a
+      portrait of Cynthia, a girl out of the childhood of the
+      heroine....
+
+    BROWN, WENZELL. _Prison Girl._ pbo, Pyramid, 1958. One of many
+      books documenting in painful detail the abuses prevalent in the
+      women's prison system, with special attention to the undeniable
+      fact that the system breeds various sexual aberrations. A few of
+      these books are excellent. This one isn't.
+
+    BROWNRIGG, GAWEN. _Star Against Star._ N. Y., Macaulay, 1936. Story
+      of a girl conditioned from childhood to lesbian affairs, first by
+      an overly seductive mother, then by a school friend. The book has
+      the doom-ridden atmosphere of its day, and is emotional and
+      somewhat over-written.
+
+    BURNS, VINCENT G. _Female Convict._ Macaulay 1934, pbr Pyramid
+      1959. More women in prison and the unfortunate relationships
+      developing among them.
+
+    BURT, STRUTHERS. _Entertaining the Islanders._ N. Y. Scribners,
+      1933. Sophisticated, satirical, novel in which a man becomes aware
+      that his ex-sweetheart has been captivated by another woman.
+
+  + BUSSY, DOROTHY. _Olivia._ (by Olivia). Wm. Sloane Associates,
+      1949, Berkley pbr 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959. An English schoolgirl,
+      sent to boarding school in Paris, becomes an unwitting third party
+      to a long-standing affair between Julie and Cara, the two
+      schoolmistresses. Julie's response to the girl, and Cara's
+      jealousy, and suicide, form the main events of the story, which is
+      told with delicate restraint, after a retrospect of many years, as
+      Olivia, now herself a lesbian, has come to understand the
+      procession of events.
+
+    CAIN, JAMES M. _Serenade._ Knopf 1937, pbr Signet ca. 1953, (m).
+
+    CAINE, HALL. _The Bondsman._ R.F. Fenno & Co, ca. 1890; other
+      editions available, frequently very cheap secondhand. Called a
+      "Modern Saga", this is laid in 18th-Century Iceland. Two
+      half-brothers, Jason the Red and Michael Sunlocks, sons of the
+      same man by different mothers, grow up knowing of one another's
+      existence, but unknown to each other personally. Through a series
+      of saga-like coincidences, they fall in love with the same woman,
+      and are eventually exiled together to the sulphur mines--Iceland's
+      prison colony--still unaware of each other's real identity. There
+      Jason undergoes a psychological and emotional upheaval which can
+      only be described as "falling in love" with Michael, who is still
+      known to him only as Prisoner A-25, not as his hated brother. This
+      story is probably more explicit, emotionally, than anything
+      written before the 20th century and the freedom given by Freud to
+      the emotions of novelists. Recommended.
+
+      _The Deemster._ Rand McNally, 1888, Chicago; D. Appleton, 1888;
+      numerous other editions, (m). A glorified friendship between two
+      cousins ends in murder.
+
+    CALDWELL, ERSKINE. _Tragic Ground._ Little, Brown & Co, 1944, pbr
+      Signet 1948, fco.
+
+    CAPOTE, TRUMAN. _Breakfast at Tiffany's._ Random House 1958, pbr
+      Signet 1959. In the story of a promiscuous, rather pathetic girl,
+      a sadistic lesbian neighbor brings on violent events. Everything
+      very subtle and indirect.
+
+      _Other Voices, Other Rooms._ Random House 1948, pbr Signet 1959.
+      Young boy slowly falling under the influence of a decadent uncle
+      who is a transvestite. Macabre.
+
+    CARCO, FRANCIS. _Depravity._ pbo Berkley 1957.
+
+      _Infamy._ pbo Berkley 1958.
+
+      Both of these books hint at lesbianism on the cover blurbs, but
+      are, rather, highly risque French novels with brief, irrelevant
+      and heterosexually oriented contact between women characters
+      strictly for voyeuristic effect.
+
+    CARPENTER, EDWARD. _Iolaus_; _an Anthology of Friendship._ N. Y.,
+      Albert & Charles Boni, 1935, (m). Listed as "the first of its
+      kind", this is said also to be "very vague and old-fashioned."
+
+  + CASAL, MARY. _The Stone Wall. An Autobiography._ Chicago,
+      Eyncourt Press, 1930. In casual, conversational and entirely
+      frank form, a woman born in 1865 (and therefore, at the time of
+      writing, in her sixties) tells the story of her entire life as a
+      lesbian. With the exception of "slightly autobiographical"--and
+      always greatly disguised--fiction, this is probably the earliest
+      such memoir in the literature. The writing is highly competent and
+      professional, (subtly denying the author's insistence that she was
+      not a writer;) and filled with most interesting revelations about
+      the lesbian world of New York and Paris at the turn of this
+      century. Unfortunately the book is rare and expensive, but it
+      stands alone as a classic of its kind.
+
+    CHAMALES, TOM T. _Go Naked in the World._ N. Y. Scribners 1959. Nick
+      Stratton, wounded veteran, returns to find that his girl friend is
+      a call-girl and a lesbian.
+
+    CHANDLER, RAYMOND. _The Big Sleep._ Knopf 1939, pbr Pocket Books
+      1950, and others. (m). The bizarre murder of a homosexual hoodlum,
+      and the interrogation of his boy friend, form important sequences
+      in this hard-boiled murder mystery.
+
+    CHEEVER, JOHN. "Clancy in the Tower of Babel", ss in _The Enormous
+      Radio_, Funk 1953, pbr Berkley 1958, (m).
+
+  + CHRISTIAN, PAULA. _The Edge of Twilight._ pbo Crest 1959.
+      Airline stewardess Val, in an alcoholic haze, allows herself to
+      make love to a young girl friend, Toni. Fearing her own response
+      to this "abnormal" love, she redoubles her promiscuous
+      sleeping-around, but the girls end up together. The treatment,
+      though sensational, is honest and constructive; the book will win
+      no literary prizes, but whatever the reader's sympathies and
+      prejudices, he will approve the stand that happy adjustment to
+      love and affection--even homosexual--is a more constructive
+      solution than promiscuity. Very good of its kind.
+
+    CHRISTIE, AGATHA. _A Murder is Announced._ Dodd, Mead 1950, fco.
+      Suspects include a pair of problematical lesbians.
+
+    CLARK, DORENE. _The Exotic Affair._ Magnet Books, 1959, scv. "I
+      really think this one should be Maggot Books," wrote my reviewer.
+      "One of those fastmoving sloppy jobs where two men and two women
+      on an exotic cruise complete with mis-spelled and misapplied
+      foreign phrases spend most of their time trying all of the
+      printable and some of the unprintable variations on an old old
+      theme. All sex and no sentiment makes Jack and Jill sickening (and
+      the reviewer sick) or, for that matter, Jack and Jack or Jill and
+      Jill."
+
+  + CLAYTON, JOHN. _Dew in April._ Kendall & Sharpe, 1935. Romance
+      of the Middle Ages, laid in the Convent of St. Lazarus of the
+      Butterflies. Dolores, a homeless vagabond, is given shelter by
+      Mother Leonor, a mystic, repressed, white-hot and deeply tender
+      woman whose passionate emotional attachments to her young novices
+      are never explicit but pervade the entire book. Much of the story
+      is concerned with a subtle, sweet and innocently sensual
+      blossoming of adolescent emotions into homo-erotic form under the
+      pressures of convent life; the interplay of delicate love
+      relationships between Dolores, Mother Leonor, and the young
+      novices Dezirada and Clarisse, and their fluctuation between
+      despair, self-sacrifice and compassionate love when Dolores finds
+      a knightly lover, Pedro, is probably unmatched in studies of
+      feminine variance.
+
+      _Gold of Toulouse._ Kendall & Sharpe, 1935. Sequel to _Dew in
+      April_, but laid chronologically six or seven years earlier.
+      Though mostly concerned with the adventures of Don Marcos, the
+      Spanish knight, it also tells the story of Leonor, and shows the
+      beginning of her relationship with Dezirada.
+
+    CLIFTON, BUD. _Muscle Boy._ pbo Ace Books, 1958, (m). Teen-age
+      athlete inveigled into posing for dirty pictures. Good evening
+      waster.
+
+    COLE, JERRY. _Secrets of a Society Doctor._ Greenberg, 1935. pbr
+      Universal Publishing & Distributing, ca. 1953, (m).
+
+  + COLEMAN, LONNIE. _Ship's Company._ Little, Brown & Co, 1955, pbr
+      Dell, 1957. Collection of short stories, of which two are
+      homosexual.
+
+      _Sam._ David McKay, 1959, pbr Pyramid, 1960, (m). Major, excellent,
+      important. Don't waste time reading reviews, just go out and buy
+      it.
+
+    COLETTE, SIDONIE-GABRIELLE. _Claudine at School._ _Claudine in
+      Paris._ _The Indulgent Husband_ (in The Short Novels of Colette).
+      "Bella Vista" in _The Tender Shoot._ "Gitanette" in _Music Hall
+      Sidelights._
+
+      All of these are currently in print in excellent, uniform English
+      translation of the standard "Fleuron" edition of Colette's
+      complete works, from Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, of recent date. The
+      two "Claudine" novels have had recent Avon pbr editions under the
+      titles of _Diary of a 15 Year Old French Girl_, and _Claudine_.
+
+      Much of the work of this important French novelist was variant.
+      Only the most explicit are named above. The first three form a
+      connected narrative, telling of Claudine's school crushes, her
+      friendship with a male-homosexual cousin, and her "indulgent
+      husband" who connives at her lesbian affair with a woman friend,
+      in order to enjoy it secondhand. "Bella Vista" tells of a vacation
+      spent at a hotel managed by two middle-aged lesbians; the
+      narrator's fascinated interest in the couple vanishes when one of
+      the "ladies" turns out to be, actually, a disguised man.
+
+    CONNOLLY, CYRIL. _The Rock Pool._ Scribner 1936, hcr New
+      Directions n.d. Very well written novel of a group of expatriates
+      in the South of France. Nearly all are homosexuals; the story is
+      told without comment or judgment.
+
+    CONSTANTINE, MURRAY, and Margaret Goldsmith. _Venus in Scorpio._
+      John Lane, 1940. Heavily fictionalized biography, (erroneously
+      listed elsewhere as a novel) of Marie Antoinette, suggesting
+      lesbianism in her adolescence.
+
+  + CORY, DONALD WEBSTER. _21 Variations on a Theme._ N. Y., Greenberg
+      1953. The classic anthology of short stories about homosexuals;
+      four deal with feminine variance.
+
+    COUPEROUS, LOUIS. _The Comedians_, N. Y. Doran 1926. Variant
+      couple in a novel of Imperial Rome.
+
+    COURAGE, JAMES. _A Way of Love._ G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1959, (m).
+
+    COWLIN, DOROTHY. _Winter Solstice._ Macmillan, 1943. A brief
+      variant relationship proves beneficial to a hysterical invalid.
+
+    CRADOCK, PHYLLIS. _Gateway to Remembrance._ Andrew Dakers, London
+      1950. fco. Very brief mention of a lesbian couple in a sappy
+      metaphysical novel about Lost Atlantis.
+
+    CRAIG, JONATHAN. _Case of the Village Tramp._ pbo Gold Medal 1959.
+      Fast, well-written mystery introduces a pair of lesbians among the
+      suspects; _good_ entertainment.
+
+  + CRAIGIN, ELISABETH. _Either is Love._ Harcourt, Brace, 1937, pbr
+      Lion Books, 1952, 1956, Pyramid 1960. After the death of her
+      husband the narrator re-reads the letters she had written him
+      about her intense love affair with another woman. Almost
+      unequalled treatment of a lesbian _romance_.
+
+    CREAL, MARGARET. _A Lesson in Love._ Simon & Schuster 1957. A
+      Canadian orphan's passion for a beautiful schoolmate ends in
+      disillusion when the older girl, Tammy, tries to force Nicola into
+      a distasteful affair with a boy, the better to deceive her mother
+      about a similar affair of her own.
+
+    CROUZAT, HENRI. _The Island at the End of the World._ Duell, Sloan
+      and Pearce, 1959. An ex-schoolteacher, Patrice, is marooned on a
+      sub-Antarctic island with three nurses; Joan, a nymphomanic;
+      Victoria, a lesbian, and Kathleen, a quite ordinary girl. Due to
+      fortuitous circumstances, they manage to assure themselves the
+      necessities of life, and between Robinson-Crusoe-ish struggles,
+      embark on a round of excesses gradually diminished by the horrible
+      deaths of Kathleen, then Victoria. Fascinating, slightly macabre.
+
+  + CUSHING, MARY WATKINS. _The Rainbow Bridge._ G P Putnam's Sons,
+      1954. This book is included for the light it sheds on another
+      novel in this list, Marcia Davenport's _Of Lena Geyer_, and not
+      for the sake of any impertinent conclusions about the real people
+      involved. Mrs. Cushing served for seven years as companion and
+      buffer against the world for the famous prima donna, Olive
+      Fremstad, and Mme. Fremstad's reclusive, fantastically disciplined
+      personality seems to have served, at least in part, as model for
+      Lena Geyer. At any rate, both books become more interesting when
+      read together.
+
+    DANE, CLEMENCE. (pseud. of Winifred Ashton); _Regiment of Women._
+      Macmillan, 1917. Possibly the earliest novel of variance. A
+      lengthy book of the subtle sadism of the domineering headmistress
+      of a girl's school.
+
+    DARIUS, MICHEL. _I, Sappho of Lesbos._ Castle Books, May 1960.
+      Supposedly translated from a Medieval Latin manuscript
+      conveniently lost on the Andrea Doria. In first-person, this
+      weaves the better-known traditions about Sappho into a racy,
+      fast-moving novel. The lesbian content is not emphasized, unduly.
+      Writing-wise, this invites comparison with the work of Pierre
+      Louys. The "scholarship" is completely tongue-in-cheekish, of
+      course, as with the _Songs of Bilitis_. In general, this should
+      prove the Title of the Year for those who wonder why they don't
+      write like Pierre Louys anymore. (Department of Unpaid
+      Advertising; this one can NOW be ordered through Winston Book
+      Service; see Appendix.)
+
+    DAVENPORT, MARCIA. _Of Lena Geyer._ Scribner, 1936. Well-known
+      novel of the life of an opera singer. Lena has a young satellite
+      and adorer, but Elsie is careful to say that while "gossip has had
+      many cruel things to say of this friendship ... there was,
+      needless to say, not a word of truth in the essential accusation."
+      The two women remain together, even after Lena's marriage, until
+      her death.
+
+    DAVEY, WILLIAM. _Dawn Breaks the Heart._ Howell Soskin & Co, 1941.
+      A lengthy episode involves the sensitive hero's elopement with
+      Vivian, an irresponsible girl who turns out to be a lesbian and
+      leaves him for another woman. Excellent.
+
+    DAVIES, RHYS. "Orestes", ss in _The Trip to London._ N. Y. Howell
+      Soskin & Co, 1946. A lesbian manages to free the protagonist of a
+      mother-complex, because her attitude is free of feminine
+      seductiveness.
+
+  + DAVIS, FITZROY. _Quicksilver._ Harcourt, Brace, 1942. Hilarious
+      novel of the theatre, supposedly based on actual personalities
+      recognizable to the initiate; my reviewer wrote that some
+      theatrical people "literally turn purple at the mere mention of
+      this book ... most real pro actors detest portrayal of
+      homosexuality in theatre fiction, bad publicity and all that ...
+      can't say I blame them much."
+
+    DAY, MAX. _So Nice, So Wild._ pbo, Stanley Library Inc, 1959.
+      Evening waster; an impossibly complicated murder-story plot with a
+      hero who, trying to prove he didn't murder his own uncle, is
+      pestered by all sorts of girls crawling into his bunk, blondes,
+      brunettes and a few lesbians trying hard to convert themselves to
+      heterosexuality. Funny, real fun.
+
+    DEAN, RALPH. _One Kind of Woman._ pbo, Beacon, 1959. Evening
+      waster.
+
+      _Forbidden Thrills._ pbo Bedtime Books 1959. Scv.
+
+    DEBUSSY, ROY.
+
+      --and Jay Arpage; _Non Stop Flight_, Brookwood 1958.
+
+      --and Cleo Dorene; _Fountain of Youth_, Brookwood 1958.
+
+      --and Arthur Maurier; _Wicked Curves_, Brookwood 1958.
+
+      --and Les Maxime; _Eye Lust_, Brookwood 1959.
+
+      --and Les Maxime; _The Golden Nymph_, Brookwood 1958.
+
+      These are all hardcover risque novels retailing for about $3 in
+      bookstores which deal in that sort of thing for the adult trade
+      only; I don't know, not being a postal inspector, whether they
+      can legally be sent through the U S Mails. On the whole I would
+      think not. They are all fairly well written for books of their
+      kind, amusing and entertaining, and bear about the same
+      relationship to the paperback scv--evening wasters that ESQUIRE
+      does to the average cheaper girly magazine. They are, however,
+      strictly for a male audience; the "lesbian" content in all of them
+      is presented from a strip-tease point of view and in every case
+      the girl involved is "cured" of this perversion by male
+      seduction--in some cases, by brutality. The plot of _Non Stop
+      Flight_ is typical; hero Eric Leighton discovers his wife dallying
+      with a lesbian, so he beats up and rapes the lesbian (juicily
+      described) whereupon his wife commits suicide. Then Eric gets
+      involved with Celia, a stereotype "dish" with an ineffectual
+      husband; when Celia tires of him he beats her up and rapes her
+      (juicily described) then runs across the lesbian who has seduced
+      his wife _and_ Celia, so he beats her up and rapes her again
+      (juicily described) after which Eric and the lesbian get married
+      and live very happily forever after. I don't know precisely what
+      to call these books, but lesbiana is hardly descriptive. You have
+      been warned.
+
+    DEISS, JAY. _The Blue Chips._ Simon & Schuster 1957, pbr Bantam
+      1958. fco. In an excellent novel of medical laboratory workers, a
+      very very minor lesbian character.
+
+    DE FORREST, MICHAEL. _The Gay Year._ N. Y., Woodford Press, 1949,
+      (m). Happily untypical of this publisher's racy trash, this story
+      of a young man searching for self-knowledge in New York's Bohemia
+      is very good of its kind.
+
+    DELL, FLOYD. _Diana Stair._ Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. Long novel of
+      the early 19th century. Diana is a woman writer, but also explores
+      life as mill-girl, schoolteacher and abolitionist. Though
+      attracted to, and attractive to men, she is never without "some
+      older woman to adore and emulate, or some younger woman to teach
+      and inspire." Delightful, ironic novel of the trouble women can
+      get into when they refuse to fall neatly into the ruts laid down
+      by conventional society for women's lives.
+
+    DE MEJO, OSCAR. _Diary of a Nun._ pbo Pyramid 1955. Just what it
+      sounds like--fictional diary of a young girl in a convent warding
+      off scandalous advances. Mediocre.
+
+  + DENNIS, NIGEL FORBES. _Cards of Identity._ Vanguard, 1955.
+      Hilarious novel of confused identity, dealing with both male and
+      female homosexuality.
+
+    DES CARS, GUY. _The Damned One._ pbo Pyramid, 1956. A member of
+      French aristocracy, ambiguously sexed enough to be classified as
+      female at birth, grows up unequivocally male but retains the name,
+      dress and character of a female to avoid scandal--which comes
+      anyhow when _she_ carries on with an eccentric Englishwoman.
+
+    DEUTSCH, DEBORAH. _The Flaming Heart._ Boston, Bruce Humphries,
+      1959, (m).
+
+    DEVLIN, BARRY. Acapulco Nocturne. Vixen Press, 1952.
+
+      Cheating Wives. Beacon pbo 1959 (copyright 1955).
+
+      Fire and Ice. Vixen Press, 1952.
+
+      Golf Widow. Vixen Press, 1953.
+
+      Lovers and Madmen. Vixen Press 1952.
+
+      Madame Big. Vixen Press 1953.
+
+      Moon Kissed. Green Farms, Conn. Modern Pubs 1957, Vixen Press
+      1953, pbr tct _Forbidden Pleasures_ Beacon Books 1959.
+
+      Too Many Women. Vixen(?) 1953, Beacon pbr 1959.
+
+      These are all the same sort of thing, evening wasters or scv,
+      depending on taste. Big handsome men of incredible stamina,
+      engaging incessantly in that one activity besides which all else
+      is as naught, with a succession of beautiful women, blonde,
+      brunette and redhead. Now and then this procession of affairs is
+      varied a little by letting the girls sport with one another to
+      give the heroes a breathing spell. In short, sexy books for people
+      who like reading sexy books. Adults only, please.
+
+    DE VOTO, BERNARD. _Mountain Time._ Little, Brown & Co 1946--47,
+      fco. One very brief overt lesbian episode.
+
+    DE VRIES, PETER. _The Tents of Wickedness._ Little, Brown & Co,
+      1959, Minor episode in a very funny literary satire--Army colonel
+      who talks pure Hemingway turns out to be a WAC in disguise.
+
+    DIBNER, MARTIN. _The Deep Six._ Doubleday 1953, pbr Permabooks
+      1957, (m).
+
+    DIDEROT, DENIS. _Memoirs of a Nun._ (trans from French by Frances
+      Birrell). London, Rutledge & Sons 1928, hcr London, Elek Books,
+      Book Centre Ltd, N. Circular Road, Neasden, London, N. W. 10,
+      England. Classic French novel _La Religieuse_, written in 1760,
+      published in 1796. Reflects the very bitter anti-clerical
+      sentiment of the times just before the Revolution. A "cornerstone"
+      title.
+
+    DINESEN, ISAK. _Seven Gothic Tales._ N. Y., Smith & Haas, 1943, hcr
+      Modern Library n.d.
+
+      "The Invincible Slave Owners", ss in _A Winter's Tales_, Random
+      House 1942.
+
+    DIXON, CLARISSA. _Janet and her dear Phebe._ Stokes, 1909. Girls
+      story of two loving little chums, separated by a misunderstanding
+      between their families, and re-united as women. Though never
+      explicit, the story is emotional and intense. It is highly
+      unlikely the author was quite aware of the type of attachment she
+      was portraying.
+
+    DJEBAR, ASSIA. _The Mischief._ Simon & Schuster 1958, pbr Avon
+      1959 tct _Nadia_. Very brief but well-written novel of a young
+      girl who falls in love with a former schoolgirl friend, now
+      married.
+
+  + DONISTHORPE, SHEILA. _Loveliest of Friends_, Claude Kendall
+      1931, pbr Berkley 1956, 1957, 1958, due for another. Boyish Kim
+      captivates young happy-housewife Audrey and wrecks her life.
+      Preachy outburst against lesbians toward the end. Read it with a
+      hanky handy. (Curiously enough, in spite of the anti-lesbian bias
+      of the ending, and the overdone sentimentality of the Swinburnian
+      writing, everybody seems to enjoy this one--all the Checklist
+      editors included.)
+
+    DOWD, HARRISON. _The Night Air._ Dial Press, 1950, (m).
+
+    DRESSER, DAVID. _Mardigras Madness._ Godwin 1934. One lesbian
+      episode in an evening waster about Carnival.
+
+    DRUON, MAURICE. _The Rise of Simon Lachaume._ Dutton, 1952; hcr as
+      part of the trilogy _The Curtain Falls_, Scribner 1960. One
+      episode in lengthy novel of a French family involves the duping of
+      an elderly roue by a pair of young lesbians.
+
+  + DU MAURIER, ANGELA. _The Little Legs._ Doubleday, 1941. Sad and
+      devastating results from a long variant enslavement. "This is a
+      lovely book if you enjoy crying, and I do," says one reviewer.
+
+    DURRELL, LAWRENCE. _Justine._ N. Y., Dutton, 1957.
+
+      _Balthazar._ N. Y., Dutton, 1958, (m).
+
+      _Mountolive._ N. Y., Dutton, 1959, (m).
+
+      _Clea._ N. Y. Dutton, 1960. The last volume of now-famous tetralogy,
+      just released, winds up all of the loose ends of the other three.
+      The lesbian element is minor, but all four novels are excellent.
+
+    EICHRODT, JOHN. "Nadia Devereaux", ss in _Sextet_, ed by Whit &
+      Hallie Burnett. N. Y., McKay Co. 1951.
+
+    EISNER, SIMON. (pseud of Cyril Kornbluth). _The Naked Storm._ pbo,
+      Lion Library, 1952, 1956. Mixed bag of passengers on a
+      transcontinental train, including a lesbian who tries to captivate
+      a young girl and is murdered by another passenger to give her
+      intended victim "a chance at real happiness with a man."
+
+    ENGSTRAND, STUART. _More Deaths than One._ Julian Messner 1955,
+      pbr Signet 1957. Mannish woman defending effeminate husband
+      against charge of rape by kidnapping his victim and hiding her
+      out, goes through a nervous breakdown involving a morbid and
+      macabre attachment to the girl; horrible.
+
+      _Sling and the Arrow._ Creative Age 1947, hcr Sun Dial n.d., pbr
+      Signet ca. 1951, (m).
+
+    EMERY, CAROL. _Queer Affair._ pbo Beacon Books, 1957. Dancer Draga
+      moves in with mannish Jo, runs into complications when she tries
+      to desert Jo for a man. Evening waster but very good nevertheless
+      ... the author got in some good attitudes and philosophies when
+      the publisher wasn't looking.
+
+    ENTERS, ANGNA. _Among the Daughters._ Coward McCann, 1955.
+      Autobiographical novel of a girl who, like the author, finally
+      becomes a dancer and choreographer. A good deal of space is
+      devoted to a friendship between Lucy and another girl; the story
+      is tinged with variance but never explicit.
+
+    ESTEY, NORBERT. _All My Sins._ A. A. Wyn, 1954. pbr Crest 1956.
+      fco. Few very minor variant episodes in a long novel of the French
+      courtesan Ninon l'Enclos.
+
+    EUSTIS, HELEN. _The Horizontal Man._ Harper 1946, pbr Pocket Books
+      1955. Offbeat psychological murder mystery.
+
+    EVANS, LESLEY. _Strange are the Ways of Love._ pbo Crest 1959.
+      Love among the guitar-playing, folk-singing beatniks, with the
+      lesbians playing Musical Beds. Evening waster.
+
+    EVANS, JOHN (pseud. of Howard Browne). _Halo in Brass._
+      Bobbs-Merrill 1949, pbr Bantam 1958. Hardboiled detective story;
+      private eye Paul Pine is hired to locate runaway girl with no boy
+      friends and many girl friends. Suspenseful, nice way to spend (not
+      waste) a lazy evening.
+
+    EWERS, HANNS HEINZ. _Alraune._ John Day, 1929. Alraune is Evil
+      incarnate--symbol of the Mandrake Root, destroying love in
+      everyone with whom she comes in contact, bringing out their innate
+      evil. Among those destroyed by Alraune are a pair of lesbian
+      lovers. High-quality fantasy, unfortunately rare and rather
+      expensive.
+
+    FADIMAN, EDWIN JR. _The 21 Inch Screen._ Doubleday 1958, pbr
+      Signet 1960. TV bigshot Rex Lundy has woman trouble--his wife, his
+      mistress, and his teen-age daughter. The latter is seeking the
+      love she doesn't get at home from a Greenwich Village lesbian
+      friend. Excellent modern fiction.
+
+      _The Glass Play Pen._ pbo Signet 1956. Rich girl loses her
+      parents, loses her money, and turns expensive call girl. One
+      lesbian episode, treated with tenderness and sympathy.
+
+      see also EDWINA MARK.
+
+    FAIR, ELIZABETH. _Bramton Wick._ Funk & Wagnalls 1954. fco. Cozy
+      little story of cozy little English village, including two maiden
+      ladies who have lived together for many years. "It is all very
+      light and airy and your old-maid aunt wouldn't think it at all
+      odd." Apt to be in libraries.
+
+    FAREWELL, NINA. _Someone to Love._ Messner 1959, pbr Popular
+      Library, 1960. One brief, incomplete lesbian episode in a long,
+      interesting novel of a woman's continual search for real love in a
+      life filled with fleeting liaisons.
+
+  + FERGUSON, MARGARET. _The Sign of the Ram._ London, Philadelphia,
+      The Blakiston Co, 1944-45. Sherida comes as companion-secretary to
+      crippled Leah, passionately adored by her whole family including
+      sixteen-year-old Christine. Subtly playing on Christine's
+      emotions, Leah spurs her to the point where she attempts to murder
+      Sherida. On the surface, the motivation is simply the love of
+      power, but Christine's emotions are clearly variant; when the book
+      was filmed, they carefully cast Christine as a girl of eleven, to
+      make it unmistakable that her adoration was only "childish."
+
+    FIRBANK, RONALD. _The Flower Beneath the Foot._ in Five Novels,
+      New Directions, 1949. "Light and fluffy ... pure fun".
+
+      _Inclinations._ in Three Novels. New Directions 1951, (m).
+
+    FITZROY, A.T. _Despised and Rejected._ London, C W Daniel, 1918.
+      Lesbian incidents in a novel which is, however, mainly about
+      persecution of Conscientious Objectors in World War I.
+
+    FISHER, MARY (PARRISH). _Not Now but NOW._ Viking 1947. Novel of
+      an ageless, ruthless woman. A long episode on a college campus is
+      lesbian in emphasis.
+
+    FISHER, VARDIS. _The Darkness and the Deep._ Vanguard, 1943, fco,
+      a novel of the Stone Age.
+
+    FLAGG, JOHN. _Dear, Deadly Beloved._ Gold Medal pbo 1954.
+
+      _Murder in Monaco._ pbo Gold Medal 1957.
+
+      Both of these are fast-moving mysteries, in Mediterranean setting,
+      both involving lesbian characters.
+
+    FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE. _Salammbo._ Classic French Novel in many
+      editions and translations. A very long novel of a Babylonian High
+      Priestess; some psychological and literary authorities consider it
+      variant. The editors all say with one voice that it isn't. BAYOR.
+
+    FLEMING, IAN. _Goldfinger._ Macmillan 1959. No data, BAYOR.
+
+    FLORA, FLETCHER. _Desperate Asylum._ pbo Lion Library 1955, pbr
+      Pyramid 1959, tct _Whisper of Love_. An unhappy lesbian and a
+      neurotic man who hates women because his mother was promiscuous,
+      marry to find a mutual "asylum". Predictably the marriage is
+      unsuccessful, ending in murder and suicide.
+
+      _Strange Sisters_, pbo Lion Library 1954, pbr Pyramid 1960. Weird
+      novel of a girl's mental breakdown, indirectly blamed on her
+      affairs with three cruel and sadistic women.
+
+      _Take me Home._ Monarch Books, pbo 1959. A young writer's slow
+      captivation with a strange girl just escaping from the domination
+      of an evil lesbian cousin. All three of these books, though
+      anti-lesbian in bias, are very well and slickly written, and
+      entertaining.
+
+    FORREST, FELIX. _Carola._ Duell, 1948. Brief recall of a lesbian
+      episode in the heroine's girlhood.
+
+    FORTUNE, DION. (pseud. of Violet B. Firth). _Moon Magic._ London,
+      Aquarian Press, 1958, fco. Fascinating, funny novel of a modern
+      sorceress and an inhibited, bad-tempered doctor. It is implied
+      that his marriage failed because his wife, a hysteric shamming
+      invalidism, prefers being cosseted by her faithful companion to
+      reassuming marital duties.
+
+    FOSTER, GERALD. _Strange Marriage._ N. Y., Godwin 1943.
+      Transvestite, rather than lesbian; heroine in man's clothing
+      actually marries a fantastically naive girl.
+
+    FOWLER, ELLEN T. _The Farringdons._ N. Y., Appleton, 1900. Three
+      intense variant attachments by a motherless girl under twenty,
+      which subside when she falls in love with a man.
+
+    FRANKEN, ROSE. _Intimate Story._ Doubleday, 1955. A novel by the
+      author of the popular Claudia series.
+
+  + FREDERICS, DIANA. (pseud); _Diana, a Strange Autobiography._
+      Dial 1939, pbr Berkley Books 1955, 1957, 1958. Well known story of
+      a young musician/teacher's discovery and slow acceptance and
+      adjustment to her lesbian personality.
+
+    FRANK, WALDO. _The Dark Mother._ N. Y., Boni & Liveright, 1920, (m).
+      A too-possessive mother ruins her son's life.
+
+    FRIEDMAN, STUART. _Nikki._ Monarch Books, 1960, scv.
+
+      _The Revolt of Jill Braddock._ Monarch Books 1960. scv. Male and
+      female homosexuality in a ballet company, with Jill in the middle.
+      "Not as bad as _Nikki_, but still a pretty raw evening waster."
+
+    GARLAND, RODNEY. _The Heart in Exile._ Coward McCann 1954, pbr
+      Lion 1956, (m). Because of courageous approach to the basic problem
+      of relations between the homosexual and his family, this story of
+      a young homosexual in an unconventional household deserves
+      shelfspace everywhere.
+
+    GARNETT, DAVID. _A Shot in the Dark._ Little, Brown 1959, pbr tct
+      _The Ways of Desire_. Popular Library 1960. Complex, fast-moving
+      adventure story, involving a great number of lesbians.
+
+    GARRETT, ZENA. _The House in the Mulberry Tree._ Random House,
+      1959 Sensitive story of a girl of eleven, fascinated by an
+      innocently appealing neighbor, a married woman. The mother,
+      observing innocent caresses between the two, separates them.
+
+  + GARRIGUE, JEAN. "The Other One" ss in _Cross Section_, ed. by E.
+      Seaver, Simon & Schuster, 1947.
+
+    GAUTIER, TH�OPHILE. _Mademoiselle de Maupin._ Many editions,
+      including Modern Library, n. d. also pbr Pyramid Books 1956, 1957,
+      1958. Classic novel of lesbianism.
+
+    GENET, JEAN. _The Maids._ Grove Press qpb 1954. Offbeat
+      existentialist drama; involuted love among women.
+
+    GEORGIE, LEYLA. _The Establishment of Madame Antonia._ Liveright,
+      1932. Light entertainment about inhabitants of a high-class
+      European bordello, including a young recruit protected by an older
+      woman.
+
+    GIDE, ANDR�. _The School for Wives._ N. Y., Knopf, 1950
+
+      _The Immoralist._ Knopf 1930, hcr 1948, (m).
+
+      _The Counterfeiters._ Knopf 1927, (m).
+
+    GILBERT, EDWIN. _The Hot and the Cool._ Doubleday 1953, pbr tct
+
+      _See How They Burn_, Popular Library, 1959, (m). Minor and subtle
+      homosexual overtones in a novel of jazz musicians.
+
+    GODDEN, RUMER. _The Greengage Summer._ Viking 1957, fco.
+
+      _A Candle for St. Jude_, Viking 1948, fco.
+
+    GOLDMAN, WILLIAM. _The Temple of Gold._ Knopf 1957, pbr Bantam
+      1958, (m) minor fco.
+
+    GOLDSTON, ROBERT. _The Catafalque._ Rinehart 1957, 1958.
+      High-quality thriller about ill-fated archaeological expedition to
+      Spain; crisis precipitated when a sinister Countess takes young
+      Stephanie, the expedition leader's daughter, to a grotto where a
+      pagan goddess has been worshipped with lesbian rites and attempts
+      to seduce her there.
+
+    GREENE, GRAHAM. _The Orient Express._ Doubleday 1933, pbr Bantam
+      1955. Trainful of mixed adventurers includes a lesbian between
+      girl-friends but still trying.
+
+    GUDMUNDSSON, KRISTMANN. _Winged Citadel._ Holt, 1940, (m). Brief
+      but very explicit homosexual interlude in a fine historical novel
+      of Crete and the Bull-dancers.
+
+    GUNTER, ARCHIBALD. _A Florida Enchantment._ Home Pubs 1892. No
+      data available, BAYOR.
+
+    HACKETT, PAUL. _Children of the Stone Lions._ G. P. Putnam 1955.
+      An important lesbian character in a novel which has had good
+      reviews.
+
+  + HAGGARD, SIR HENRY RIDER. _Allan's Wife._ First published, 1889;
+      now in print in Five Novels of H. Rider Haggard, Dover Press,
+      1951. A strange story, and this year's special "find". Allan, hero
+      of the famous adventure-novelist's KING SOLOMON'S MINES, is here
+      shown as a young man, in love with Stella Carson--an English girl
+      reared in the unspoilt beauty of a lost valley in Darkest Africa.
+      The romance is complicated by the passionate jealousy of
+      Hendrika--stolen in infancy by gorillas, reared as a female
+      Tarzan, and rescued to be Stella's companion, foster-sister and
+      adorer. Hendrika first attempts to murder Allan; the scene in
+      which she rages insanely at Allan for stealing Stella's love, and
+      Allan's quiet acceptance of the "curious" fact that the strongest
+      loves are not always between those of different sexes, places this
+      book almost alone in forthright English treatment of variance for
+      its date. From this high level of psychological realism, the story
+      reverts to Haggard-type melodrama; Stella is kidnapped by
+      Hendrika's gorilla friends; dramatically rescued in a thrilling
+      jungle battle; her death from exposure and Hendrika's remorseful
+      suicide complete the story. Strange, romantic, and quite in a
+      class by itself.
+
+    HALES, CAROL. _Wind Woman._ Woodford Press 1953, pbr tct _Such is
+      My Beloved_, Berkley 1958. Sad, sad, sad story of the
+      psychoanalysis of a young lesbian such as was never seen on sea or
+      land. Harmless and nitwitted ... read it and weep, or giggle.
+
+      see also LORA SELA.
+
+  + HALL, RADCLYFFE. _The Well of Loneliness._ Many editions, some
+      cheap hcr (Sun Dial ed, still in print, n. d.) also Permabooks pbr
+      n. d. The classic first novel of a lesbian, written soon after
+      WWI. Stephen Gordon, male in physique, temperament and character,
+      seeks for lasting love and some measure of acceptance from a
+      rejecting world.
+
+      _The Unlit Lamp._ N. Y., Jonathan Cape 1924; the endless sacrifice
+      of a daughter into a sterile, wasted life because her mother
+      cannot accept her right to live her own life.
+
+      _Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself._ Harcourt, Brace 1934. A lesbian finds
+      her true destiny after a lifetime of serving her country.
+      Overtones of science fiction.
+
+      _A Saturday Life._ London, Falcon Press, 1952 (orig. pub 1925). An
+      attempt at farce, not overt anywhere.
+
+    HALL, OAKLEY M. _Corpus of Joe Bailey._ Viking 1953, Permabooks
+      1955, (m). Also contains a pathetic pair of lesbians, one
+      camouflaging her true leanings by pretending to be the campus
+      whore.
+
+    HARDY, THOMAS. _Desperate Remedies._ Harper 1896; still in print,
+      London, the Macmillan Co, 1951 ($3.00). Brief but relevant episode
+      in a novel by a classic English novelist.
+
+  + HARRIS, SARA. _The Wayward Ones._ Crown 1952, pbr Signet 1956,57
+      One of the few really good treatments of lesbian attachments in a
+      girl's reform school. Bessie, a wayward girl, is sent to a "good"
+      reform school; at this stage she is naive, fairly innocent and
+      presumably redeemable. The loneliness, the sadistic persecution by
+      the corrupt or hardened matrons, and the "racket"--the enforced
+      division of the school into "moms" and "pops", by hardened young
+      girl hooligans who like the power it gives them, and permitted by
+      the matrons under the self-deception that these attachments are
+      normal, schoolgirlish crushes--finally complete the girl's
+      corruption until it is certain that she will come out of school a
+      confirmed young criminal, Sara Harris is herself a social worker;
+      this painfully accurate picture of what our juvenile authorities
+      contend with may, at least, give some insight into why the police
+      and social agencies tend to be so violently anti-lesbian. It is
+      hard to forget the picture painted in this book of the frightened
+      Bessie insisting "I don't never do no lovin' with girls.'"--and
+      the threats made to her. An absolute MUST book--on the other side.
+
+    HARRIS, WILLIAM HOWARD. _The Golden Jungle._ Doubleday 1957, pbr
+      Berkley 1958. Brittle novel about a wall street banker; his
+      beautiful wife is a lesbian, but he naively believes her faithful
+      because she prefers the company of women.
+
+  + HASTINGS, MARCH. _Demands of the Flesh._ Newsstand Library pbo,
+      1959. Ellen, a young widow suffering from physical frustration,
+      goes through a period of promiscuity involving several men and a
+      brief affair with a lesbian, Nita. Oddly enough for this sort of
+      borderline-risque stuff, the lesbian character is well and
+      realistically drawn; realizing that Ellen is basically normal, she
+      helps keep her on an even keel until she remarries. Good of kind.
+
+      _Three Women._ pbo Beacon Books 1958. Good and sympathetic story
+      of a young girl involved with a basically decent older woman, a
+      lesbian, Byrne. Unfortunately Byrne is deeply involved with, and
+      obligated to, her insane cousin Greta, and the affair ends in
+      tragedy, leaving young Paula to marry her faithful boy friend. The
+      lesbian interlude, however, is treated not as a "twisted love in
+      the shadows" or any such cliche matter, but simply as a human
+      relationship, in its total effect on Paula's personality; and she
+      always remembers Byrne with affectionate regret. Excellent of
+      kind.
+
+      _The Obsessed._ Newstand Library Magenta Books, 1959. The
+      psychoanalysis of a nymphomaniac, including an affair with her
+      boy-friend's lesbian sister. Not nearly as good as March Hastings'
+      other books, and much more dedicated to sexy scenes at the expense
+      of character and situation. Evening waster--almost scv. (It should
+      be noted that some paperback publishers insist on a specified
+      number of sex scenes, and in such a book as this one can almost
+      hear the weary sigh with which the author abandons his story,
+      which is going well, and stops everything for another measured
+      dose of sexy writing for the nitwit audience.)
+
+    HECHT, BEN. _The Sensualists._ Messner, 1959, pbr Dell 1959. A
+      great deal of advance publicity built this up to a best-seller.
+      Highly sensational shock-stuff; a supposedly happily-married woman
+      discovers her husband is having an affair with a singer, Liza.
+      When she comes in contact with Liza, however, she realizes that
+      Liza is a lesbian, having affairs with men for camouflage
+      purposes, and is soon herself captivated by Liza. From here events
+      build up to highly shocking climaxes, including a ghastly murder.
+      Not to be read after dark.
+
+    HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. "The Sea Change" ss in _The Fifth Column and
+      the First 49 Stories_, P. F. Collier & Son, 1938. This volume also
+      contains two stories dealing with male homosexuality: "A Simple
+      Inquiry" and "Mother of a Queen."
+
+    HELLMAN, LILLIAN. _The Children's Hour._ Knopf, 1934. Also Random
+      House 1942; also in Burns-Mantle, Best Plays of 1934-35. A rumor
+      of lesbianism (unfounded) wrecks a school, and the lives of the
+      women who own and manage it.
+
+    HENRY, JOAN. _Women in Prison._ Doubleday 1952, pbr Permabooks
+      1953. This is non-fiction, autobiographical account of a woman's
+      experience in two English prisons. Very good.
+
+    HEPPENSTALL, RAYNER. _The Blaze Of Noon._ Alliance 1940, pbr
+      Berkley 1956, (m) minor, fco and BAYOR.
+
+    HESSE, HERMAN. _Steppenwolf._ Henry Holt 1929. qpb Frederick
+      Ungar, 1960. Symbolic (and classic) novel of man's disintegration,
+      caused by society's ignorance. Contains highly sympathetic
+      homosexual characters (male and female).
+
+    HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA. _The Talented Mr. Ripley._ Coward, 1955, pbr
+      Dell 1959. (m, minor)
+
+      _Strangers on a Train._ Harper & Bros. 1950. (m, minor)
+
+      see also CLAIRE MORGAN
+
+    HILL, PATI. _The Nine Mile Circle._ Houghton, Mifflin 1957 fco.
+      Dreamy story of two teen-age girls and an idyllic summer during
+      which they constantly pretend to be man and wife, on a girlish,
+      unerotic level. Very nice.
+
+    HIMMEL, RICHARD. _Soul of Passion._ Star Pub, Co 1950. pbr tct.
+
+      _Strange Desires_, Croydon Pub. 1952, pbr Avon, tct.
+
+
+      _The Shame_, 1959, (m). No masterpiece but an interesting story
+      about a man spending a week with his dead Army friend's wife and
+      recalling his long relationship with the dead man; over the week
+      he slowly comes to acknowledge, and come to terms with the fact
+      that their relationship had had overtones of homosexuality.
+
+    HITT, ORRIE. _Girl's Dormitory._ Beacon pbo 1958 scv.
+
+      _Trapped._ Beacon pbo 1954. scv.
+
+      _Wayward Girl._ Beacon pbo 1960 scv.
+
+    HOLK, AGNETE. _The Straggler._ (Trans, from the Danish by Anthony
+      Hinton). London, Arco Pub. 1954, pbr tct.
+
+      _Strange Friends_, Pyramid Books 1955, very slightly abridged.
+      Boyish Scandinavian Vita adopts a "little sister" but is quite
+      unaware of the nature of her attraction to Hilda. In her late
+      teens Hilda, stirred but unsatisfied by this attachment, makes an
+      unwise marriage, and Vita undergoes a period of rootless drifting,
+      a brief affair ending in separation, and finally makes a permanent
+      arrangement with Hilda, whose unsuccessful marriage ended in
+      divorce. Valuable for a portrait of European gay life, very unlike
+      the American.
+
+    HOLLIDAY, DON. _The Wild Night._ Nightstand Books 1960 (no
+      publisher's address listed). Composite novel of six lives which
+      converge on New Year's Eve in a cheap Greenwich Village strip
+      joint. "One of those unexpectedly good stories one finds among the
+      floods of paperback trash." One of the six characters is a
+      lesbian.
+
+    HOLMES, (JOHN) CLELLON. _Go._ Scribner 1952, pbr Ace Books 1958,
+      (m).
+
+      _The Horn._ Random House 1953, Crest pbr 1958, (m).
+
+    HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. _Elsie Venner._ Burt, 1859; many editions,
+      a classic novel of a very strange girl, psychologically akin to
+      poisonous snakes. In the course of this novel a curious and
+      intense relationship develops between Elsie and a young
+      schoolmistress named Helen; a compulsive domination, attraction
+      and revulsion. One might suspect Dr. Holmes, whose medical
+      writings and observations place him far ahead of his era
+      psychologically, of genteelly camouflaging a portrait of variance,
+      100 years ago, by making the girl a creature of macabre fantasy.
+
+  + HORNBLOW, LEONORA. _The Love Seekers._ Random 1957, pbr Signet
+      1958. The heroine's hesitation between marriage with a steady and
+      reliable man, and insecure excitement with a hoodlum, is resolved
+      when her affairs are interrupted by concern for the daughter of a
+      friend; the young lesbian, Mab, whose life has become entangled
+      with some very shady characters.
+
+  + HULL, HELEN R. "The Fire" ss in Century Magazine, Nov 1917;
+      Excellent story of a small-town girl's love for a middle-aged
+      spinster who awakens her to a world beyond her small one.
+
+      "With One Coin for Fee", novelette in _Experiment_, Coward-McCann
+      1938, 1939, 1940. An introspective spinster and a lifelong friend,
+      trapped in a New England house during the 1939 hurricane; subtle
+      but good.
+
+      _The Quest._ Macmillan, 1922. An over-emotional girl, seeking
+      escape from home tensions, develops crushes on a classmate and on
+      a teacher: her mother's over-reaction turns the girl against
+      variant attachments just as her unhappy home turned her against
+      marriage.
+
+      _The Labyrinth._ Macmillan, 1923. Variant attachments, among
+      others, in a novel of a woman unhappy in domesticity and trying to
+      find creative outlets.
+
+      _Landfall._ N. Y. Coward-McCann 1953. In a brittle and sarcastic
+      novel of a brittle and sarcastic woman, the heroine, a capable
+      businesswoman, alternately repulses and warms toward her adoring
+      secretary--though she secretly scorns the girl's devotion, she
+      feels it would be a nuisance to break in a new secretary, so
+      wishes to keep her captivated.
+
+    HUNEKER, JAMES. _Painted Veils._ Liveright 1920 (still in print);
+      pbr Avon 1928. Unpleasant novel of the theatrical and literary
+      world of that day; the heroine, Easter, (an opera singer) has a
+      mannish satellite.
+
+    HURST, FANNIE. _The Lonely Parade._ N. Y. Harper 1942. Very minor
+      mention of lesbians in a novel of lonely women at hotels.
+
+  + HUTCHINS, MAUDE PHELPS McVEIGH. _A Diary of Love._ New
+      Directions, 1950, pbr Pyramid 1952, 1960. Weird stuff, written
+      with a detachment and delicacy reminiscent of the Colette novels.
+      A teen-age girl, Noel, goes through a bizarre series of
+      experiences in a strange household where her grandfather seduces
+      his (male) music pupils and a nymphomanic, neurotic housemaid,
+      Freida, successively seduces everyone from Grandpa down to Noel.
+      Beautifully done.
+
+      _Georgiana._ New Directions, 1948. The second section of a
+      sensitive, well-written novel is laid in a girl's school; there
+      are three important variant attachments, and as a result one of
+      Georgiana's classmates is expelled. In later life Georgiana blames
+      her failure to find happiness on a "lesbian complex."
+
+      _My Hero._ New Directions, 1953, (m).
+
+    ILTON, PAUL. _The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah._ pbo, Signet,
+      1956, 1957, (m). Historical, Biblical setting.
+
+    JACKSON, CHARLES. _The Fall of Valor._ Rinehart & Co, 1946, pbr
+      Signet, 1950, (m).
+
+      _The Lost Weekend._ Farrar & Rinehart 1944, pbr Berkley 1955 and
+      others.
+
+      "Palm Sunday" ss in collection _The Sunnier Side_, pbr Berkley nd
+      and others, also in Cory, _21 Variations_.
+
+  + JACKSON, SHIRLEY. _Hangsaman._ Farrar, 1951. Frightening,
+      macabre story of a lonely girl who conjures up a thrilling
+      companion--who looks and acts like a boy but is clearly a girl.
+      They meet secretly and engage in wild conversation and loveplay,
+      and only slowly, with dawning horror, does the reader realize that
+      the child is a split personality and the two girls are one and the
+      same.
+
+      _The Haunting of Hill House._ Viking, 1959. During the
+      investigation of a reputed "haunted house", two of the
+      investigating party--Theo, an admitted lesbian, and Eleanor, a
+      lonely, inhibited spinster--go through a curious, subtly
+      delineated relationship wavering, with the intensity of the
+      "haunting" of the house, from attraction to intense love to
+      unexplained revulsion. Macabre; good of its kind.
+
+    JAMES, HENRY. _Turn of the Screw._ Macmillan 1898, hcr Modern
+      Library n d, Pocket Books and other editions. Available
+      everywhere. Some authorities consider subtle and understated
+      lesbianism to be the mysterious motivations behind the scenes of
+      this curious psychological ghost story of the struggle of a
+      governess for the souls of two young children.
+
+      _The Bostonians._ Century Magazine 1885, hcr Dial 1945.
+
+    JOHNSON, KAY. _My Name is Rusty._ Castle Books, 1958. Allegedly a
+      novel of a woman's prison, complete with glossary of "prison
+      slang"--but if the author has ever been inside a woman's prison,
+      or even done any authentic research, your editors will eat a copy
+      of the book, complete with cover jackets. Brief plot; butchy Rusty
+      makes a pass at prison newcomer Marcia, in order to share her
+      commissary credits. When Rusty gets out of prison she marries and
+      goes straight and Marcia kills herself. Read it and weep.
+
+    JONES, JAMES. _From Here to Eternity._ Scribners 1951, pbr Signet
+      ca. 1952, (m).
+
+    KASTLE, HERBERT D. _Koptic Court._ Simon & Schuster 1958, pbr tct
+      _Seven Keys to Koptic Court_, Crest 1959, (m).
+
+    KEENE, DAY and Leonard Pruyn. _World Without Women._ pbo Gold
+      Medal, 1960, Science-fictional evening waster; all the women in
+      the world die off, except a few, who must be carefully protected
+      as potential mothers of the human race. One episode involves all
+      the surviving lesbians, who barricade themselves in a prison. Good
+      of type.
+
+    KENNEDY, JAY RICHARD. _Short Term._ World, 1959. This one is just
+      out; reviews indicate some lesbian content, but this could be
+      anything from a paragraph to three chapters. BAYOR.
+
+    KENT, JUSTIN. _Mavis._ Vixen Press 1953, pbr Beacon 1960. scv.
+      "Mavis is married to a lush, so she dallies and so does he, and
+      they are really a pair of dillies dallying...."
+
+  + KENT, NIAL. (pseud of William LeRoy Thomas) _The Divided Path_,
+      (m). Greenberg 1949, Pyramid pbr 1951, 1952, 1959. For once the
+      plus is used to promote personal prejudice; various authorities
+      call this book overly sentimental. But when this hardened reviewer
+      finds herself in tears, she's apt to think there must be something
+      to it. Childhood, adolescence and manhood of Michael, a young
+      homosexual, and his long-continued, scrupulously self-denying
+      relationship with a boyhood friend who does not suspect his
+      friend's "difference".
+
+    KENYON, THEDA. _That Skipper from Stonington._ Messner, 1946. A
+      juvenile novel, strangely enough, found in a high school library.
+      The hero runs away to sea as a small boy and is protected by a man
+      who is obviously homosexual, though the boy does not know it; the
+      other men on the ship, suspecting that this relationship is
+      unhealthy (it isn't) hound the boy's protector to suicide.
+
+    KEOGH, THEODORA. _Meg._ Creative Age Press 1950, pbr Signet 1952,
+      1956. Sublimated lesbianism in a very young girl.
+
+      _The Double Door._ Creative Age 1950, pbr Signet 1952, (m).
+
+    KESSEL, JOSEPH. _The Lion._ (trans. from French by Peter Green).
+      N. Y. Knopf 1959. One editor saw subtle variant emotion in the
+      mother's attachment to a school friend.
+
+    KING, DON. _The Bitter Love._ Newsstand Library Magenta Book,
+      1959. Rather good evening waster about a supposed double murder,
+      gradually solved by the slow revelation of the affair between
+      Brenda and her 16 year old stepdaughter.
+
+    KING, MARY JACKSON. _The Vine of Glory._ Bobbs-Merrill, 1948. This
+      won a prize as the best novel on race relations by a Southern
+      writer for its year. A repressed, inhibited, small-town girl,
+      Lavinia, at the mercy of elderly tyrannical relatives, forms a
+      close friendship with a Negro man who was her only childhood
+      friend. The friendship between Lavinia and Augustus is purely
+      platonic; she attends a school he has set up for colored girls who
+      wish to improve themselves, and he helps to find her a job; but
+      enraged small-minded bigots bring on a lynching. Early in the book
+      a preparation is laid for Lavinia's lack of friends of her own sex
+      and status by her unfortunate friendship with Dixie Murdoch,
+      teen-age daughter of a Holy-roller preacher. While spending the
+      night, Dixie attempts to make homosexual advances to the younger
+      girl, and Lavinia becomes hysterical. The episode is brief,
+      condemnatory and very realistic.
+
+    KIN, DAVID GEORGE. _Women Without Men._ Brookwood, 1958. The
+      author calls this "True stories of lesbian life in Greenwich
+      Village". It represents a roundup of a dozen or so famous literary
+      and artistic figures, presented as case histories. They are
+      presented, picture after sordid picture, without a glimmer of
+      understanding or real insight, though he sometimes shows smug
+      sympathy for a few he claims to have reformed by something he
+      calls "cultural therapy". He baldly states in the preface: "I take
+      my mental hygiene from Moses, rather than Freud, and have the
+      Mosaic horror of homosexuality". Despite this vicious slanting,
+      the book is explicit, funny in places, and presumably
+      verifiable--but certainly makes homosexuality look like a Fate
+      Worse Than Death. The writing is straight from the tabloid
+      newspapers.
+
+    KINSEY, CHET. _Kate._ pbo, Beacon 1959. scv.
+
+    KOESTLER, ARTHUR. _Arrival and Departure._ Macmillan 1943. A man
+      makes the most important decision of his life on the rebound of
+      disillusion after discovering that a woman who risked her life to
+      save him is a lesbian.
+
+  + KRAMER, N. MARTIN (pseud. of Beatrice Ann Wright). _Hearth and
+      The Strangeness._ Macmillan 1956, pbr Pyramid 1957. An excellent
+      novel of the fear of inherited insanity in a family. The youngest
+      child, Aliciane, becomes a lesbian; this is one of the few
+      realistic and unromanticized portraits of the factors in the
+      development of homosexuality from childhood.
+
+      _Sons of the Fathers._ Macmillan 1959, (m).
+
+    LACRETELLE, JACQUES DE. _Marie Bonifas._ (trans. from the French
+      of La Bonifas) London & N. Y., G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. Classic
+      novel of feminine variance. Exclusively lesbian characters are
+      rare in French literature (although bisexual women are relatively
+      common), and this was one of the best known; it follows the
+      heroine from childhood to old age.
+
+    LACY, ED. _Room to Swing._ Harper Bros. 1957, pbr Pyramid 1958. A
+      colored detective is retained by a pair of lesbians to solve a
+      murder; is instead accused of committing it. Good.
+
+  + LANDON, MARGARET. _Never Dies the Dream._ Doubleday, 1949. An
+      unmarried woman missionary in Siam incurs criticism and suspicion
+      when she shows marked favor to an unfortunate American girl at the
+      mercy of the Orient; later, when she risks her own life by
+      isolating herself to nurse Angela through typhoid, she loses her
+      own position. Neither the author nor the heroine of the novel
+      admit the faintest tinge of lesbianism to the relationship, which
+      is full of warmth and selfless sacrifice, and India angrily denies
+      the accusation when it is made; but the high emotional intensity
+      of the whole story bring it well within the boundaries of the
+      field and place it high on the list.
+
+    LA FARGE, CHRISTOPHER. _The Sudden Guest._ Coward-McCann, 1946.
+      The human driftwood blown up by a hurricane includes a pair of
+      lesbians, stirring latent memories in the novel's heroine--an
+      embittered, abandoned spinster.
+
+  + LAPSLEY, MARY. _Parable of the Virgins._ R. R. Smith, 1931.
+      High-keyed novel of many emotional fevers, hetero and homosexual,
+      in a woman's college.
+
+    LAWRENCE, D. H. "The Fox", ss in Dial Magazine 1922, also in hcr
+      but NOT in pbr edition of _The Captain's Doll_, Thomas Seltzer,
+      1923.
+
+      _The Rainbow._ Modern Library 1915, 1943, pbr Avon 1959, 1960. In
+      a long, three-generation novel of the Brangwyn family, one variant
+      episode between young Ursula and a teacher.
+
+    LAURENT-TAILHADE, MARIE LOUISE. _Courtesans, Princesses,
+      Lesbians._ (Trans. from French by G. M. C.) Paris, Libraire Astra.
+      Casanova-ish memoir; French pamphleteering of Pre-revolutionary
+      days. Bitter, explicit and mildly disgusting; mentioned mostly to
+      state emphatically that the French Libraire Astra, and the Astra's
+      Tower Checklist, have NO connection.
+
+    LE CLERQ, JACQUES. _Show Cases._ Macy-Masius, 1928. Offbeat short
+      stories, dealing with male and female homosexuality.
+
+    LEAR-HEAP, WINIFRED. _The Shady Cloister._ Macmillan, 1950. Quiet,
+      understated and sympathetic story of feminine relationships in a
+      school setting--but without the melodramatic atmosphere of tragedy
+      which usually surrounds such stories.
+
+  + LEE, MARJORIE. _The Lion House._ Rinehart, 1959. Well-written
+      attempt to capture and document the confused and shifting morals
+      of modern suburban living. Brad, husband of Jo, starts the story
+      by flirting with Frannie; this backfires when Frannie and Jo
+      become friends. As the relationship grows more intense, it proves
+      so disturbing that even after Frannie has admitted its nature Jo
+      cannot accept it; Frannie attempts to solve her problems via
+      psychoanalysis, while Jo continues floundering in her unresolved
+      conflicts. This year's best new novel.
+
+    LEE, GYPSY ROSE. _Gypsy, a Memoir._ Harper Bros. 1959, pbr Dell
+      1959. In a fascinating, probably largely fictional autobiography,
+      the ex-burlesque queen/novelist shows one thoroughly comical
+      lesbian character. This is really minor, but marvelously funny,
+      and anyone who plows through all the crud we mention will get a
+      real break from this.
+
+    LE FANU, SHERIDAN. "Carmilla" in _Green Tea and Other Ghost
+      Stories._ Also in Vol III of "The Forgotten Classics of Mystery",
+      entitled _Sheridan Le Fanu, the Diabolical Genius_. Also in
+      _Strange and Fantastic Stories_, ed. by Joseph Margolies, McGraw
+      Hill, 1946. Fantastic lesbian vampire.
+
+    LEIBER, FRITZ. "The Ship Sails at Midnight", in _The Outer
+      Reaches_, ed. August Derleth, Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisc. 1951.
+      Science-fiction or fantasy of a strange, unusual woman who
+      captivates a whole group of college students; tragedy is touched
+      off by their jealous rage when it is discovered that she has been
+      making love to all of them--not simultaneously of course.
+      Extremely well done, hint of allegory.
+
+    LEGRAND, NADIA. _The Rainbow Has Seven Colors._ N. Y. St Martins,
+      1958. After the death of the heroine her life is reviewed by seven
+      people who loved her (as with _Of Lena Geyer_) including a lesbian
+      who loved her and a young girl who wanted to.
+
+  + LEHMANN, ROSAMOND. _Dusty Answer._ N. Y., Holt, 1927. Still in
+      print. Well-known novel in which the heroine's whole life is
+      conditioned by her love for a college classmate. Delicate,
+      beautifully written.
+
+    LENGEL, FRANCES. _Helen and Desire._ Olympia Press, Paris, 1954.
+      scv, and you can't buy it in this country legally. If you locate a
+      copy you'll know why we say you aren't missing a thing. Seamy
+      novel of a nymphomanic ----ing her way around the world. (It's not
+      worth going to Paris to read.)
+
+    LESLIE, DAVID STUART. _The Man on the Beach._ London, Hutchinson
+      1957, (m).
+
+    LEVAILLANT, MAURICE. _The Passionate Exiles._ (trans. Malcolm
+      Barnes.) Farrar, Straus & Cudahy 1958. Historical "dual biography"
+      of Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier.
+
+  + LEVIN, MEYER. _Compulsion._ Simon & Schuster 1956. pbr Pocket
+      Books 1958, (m).
+
+    LEWIS, SINCLAIR. _Ann Vickers._ Doubleday, 1933. One important
+      lesbian episode in a novel of woman suffrage, viciously
+      condemnatory.
+
+    LEVERIDGE, RALPH. _Walk on the Water._ Farrar, 1951, pbr tct _The
+      Last Combat_, Signet 1952, Pyramid 1959, (m).
+
+    LEWIS, WYNDHAM. _The Apes of God._ N. Y., R. M. McBride & Co, 1932,
+      London, Arthur Press 1950, London, Arco, 1955. Satire, including
+      sharp studies of homosexuality, male and female.
+
+    LIN, HAZEL. _The Moon Vow._ Pageant Press, 1958. A Chinese woman
+      psychiatrist, attempting to solve a patient's problems, is led
+      into seamy byways of Peking, including a somewhat gruesome lesbian
+      cult.
+
+    LINDOPS, AUDREY ERSKINE. _The Outer Ring._ Appleton 1955, pbr
+      Popular Library tct _The Tormented_. (m)
+
+    LINGSTROM, FREDA. _Axel._ Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1939.
+      Wealthy man adopts two boys and a girl. One boy, Valentine, has
+      homosexual affair with an older boy, Teddy, who later commits
+      suicide; the girl, Auriol, studying music in Germany, lives with 2
+      older women, one of whom is very innocently but very ardently in
+      love with her. Well-written.
+
+    LIPSKY, ELEAZAR. _The Scientists._ Appleton-Century-Crofts 1959,
+      pbr Pocket Books, 1960. Minor character in a long novel is a
+      vaguely treated, but explicit lesbian.
+
+    LIPTON, LAWRENCE. _The Holy Barbarians._ Messner, 1959. Love among
+      the beat generation, including all kinds of homosexuality.
+
+    LITTLE, JAY. _Somewhere between the Two._ Pageant, 1956, (m).
+
+      _Maybe Tomorrow._ Pageant, 1952, (m). Amusing.
+
+    LIVINGSTON, MARJORIE. _Delphic Echo._ London, Andrew Dakers, 1948,
+      (m). Minor, in a novel of ancient Greece.
+
+    LODGE, LOIS. _Love Like a Shadow._ Phoenix Press, 1935.
+      Purple-passaged novel of a lesbian seeking true love.
+
+  + LOFTS, NORAH. _Jassy._ Knopf 1945, pbr Signet 1948, others.
+      Roughly a third of this novel, about a young English girl who,
+      herself innocent, brings tragedy on everyone, is lesbian in
+      emphasis. In a girl's school she comes between Mrs. Twysdale, a
+      rather slimy, neurotic woman who has adored her boyish cousin,
+      Katherine, for years. Katherine, chafing at this adoration, turns
+      to Jassy for undemanding friendship and Mrs. Twysdale connives to
+      have her expelled--which spurs Katherine to precipitate a
+      long-desired break with her.
+
+      _The Lute Player._ Doubleday, 1951; pbr Bantam 1951, (m). Fine
+      historical of Richard III, based on the thesis that he was
+      homosexual.
+
+  + LONG, MARGARET. _Louisville Saturday._ Random 1950, pbr Bantam
+      1951, 53, 56, 57, 59. A study of women in wartime includes a brief
+      study of a woman's acceptance of a variant friendship (the
+      sections titled GLADYS).
+
+    LORD, SHELDON. _A Strange Kind of Love._ N. Y., Midwood-Tower Pubs
+      pbo 1959. Evening waster about a writer who discovers that two of
+      his (dozens of) girl friends are involved with one another.
+
+      _69 Barrow Street._ Midwood-Tower pbo 1959, scv. Love, if you can
+      call it that, in Greenwich Village.
+
+  + LOUYS, PIERRE. _Aphrodite._ (Many editions, of which the
+      standard English translation seems to be The Collected Works of
+      Pierre Louys, Liveright, 1926, still in print. Also various Avon
+      paperbacks.) The beautifully written story of an Alexandrian
+      courtesan also includes the story of two young Greek girls, Rhodis
+      and Myrtocleia, no more than children, who wish to marry one
+      another.
+
+      _The Adventures of King Pausole._ As above. Fine, funny, highly
+      risque story of the king of a strange country, who has a thousand
+      wives, like Solomon, and believes in freedom for everybody except
+      his daughter, Aline--who eventually runs away with a "boy" who is
+      really a girl.
+
+      _The Songs of Bilitis._ As above. Prose or poetry, depending on
+      translation, and perhaps the classic story of lesbianism in an
+      ancient setting.
+
+    LUCAS, RICK. _Dreamboat._ pbo, Berkley, 1956, 1957. scv.
+
+    LYNDON, BAREE, and Jimmie Sangster. _The Man who Could Cheat
+      Death_, based on the screenplay, for the recent movie, which in
+      turn was based on a play, The Man in Half Moon Street. Without
+      the fantastic photography which made the movie superb, this is a
+      remarkably silly pseudo-science thing about a man who finds away
+      to survive indefinitely by glandular transplants. To camouflage
+      his deathlessness he pulls up his roots and moves every ten years
+      and during one such interlude he falls for beautiful Avril Barnes,
+      who turns out to be a lesbian. He converts her, and she becomes
+      such a pest that he murders her. Shocker, silly.
+
+    MacCOWN, EUGENE. _The Siege of Innocence._ Doubleday, 1950, (m).
+      And minor lesbian element.
+
+    MacKENZIE, COMPTON. _Extraordinary Women._ Martin Secker, London;
+      Macy-Masius N. Y. 1928, hcr New Adelphi 1932. The Winston Book
+      Service offered this for sale quite recently. Amusing, satirical
+      and well-known novel of lesbians.
+
+      _The Vestal Fire._ N. Y. Doran, 1927, (m). However, in this novel
+      of Americans living abroad, there are also important lesbian
+      characters.
+
+    MacRAE, KEVIN. _Nikki._ Vantage. 1955. Not to be confused with the
+      rubbishy book by the same title by Stuart Friedman, this is a
+      story of Nikki, who loses her beloved in an air raid in London and
+      nearly cracks up before finding a home in a lesbian "colony" in
+      Southern California; silly, but a lot of fun.
+
+  + MacINNES, COLIN. _Absolute Beginners._ London, MacGibbon & Rae,
+      1959. A novel about London teen-agers, told in Soho idiom--a sort
+      of bastard hip-talk. The characters in this novel include several
+      male homosexuals, and one lesbian, Big Jill. Enough space is
+      devoted to social problems, by an author who is quite obviously
+      one of the "angry young men", to give this novel real status.
+
+    McMINNIES, MARY. _The Visitors._ Harcourt, Brace 1958. A
+      diplomat's wife abroad, fancying herself as Madame Bovary,
+      attempts to use everyone around her for her own purposes. She has
+      an affair with an American correspondent and also captivates
+      Sophie, a countess, and an extremely well-portrayed character. One
+      of the most sympathetic portraits of a lesbian in recent fiction,
+      as well as a ruthless portrayal of women who enjoy flirting in
+      both fields.
+
+  + MAHYERE, EVELINE. _I Will not Serve._ Dutton 1959, 1960. This
+      book, boycotted by many major reviewers, was written by a young
+      Frenchwoman who committed suicide before its publication.
+      Precocious, nonconformist Sylvie has been expelled from a convent
+      for writing, in a letter, that she loves one of the nuns. The
+      story deals with the unfolding pattern of Sylvie's meetings with
+      Julienne, an older novice in the convent. The conflict is clear;
+      Sylvie's creed is "I will not serve"--a statement of her refusal
+      to become a good wife and mother--and she wants nothing of life
+      but Julienne. Julienne, has given herself to God. Refusing to
+      accept this, Sylvie commits suicide. The book is profound and
+      sincere, and on the basis of this one work the author's premature
+      death was a loss to the field of literature.
+
+    MAINE, CHARLES ERIC. _World Without Men._ pbo, Ave Books 1958.
+      Science fiction of a world thousands of years in the future, where
+      the men have all died out, reproduction is scientific and the
+      women, having no one else to love, love one another. In defiance
+      of all conceivable theories of heredity and environment, a few
+      women still think this state of affairs is "unnatural" and band
+      together to create a male birth, assuming everyone will turn
+      normal overnight. Silly.
+
+    MALLET, FRAN�OISE. _The Illusionist._ (Trans. by Herma Briffault).
+      Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1952 tct _The Loving and the Daring_,
+      Popular 1953. (pbr). Now well-known novel, by a young French
+      writer, of a girl captivated by her father's mistress.
+
+      _The Red Room._ (trans. by Herma Briffault). Farrar, Strauss &
+      Cudahy 1956, pbr Popular 1958. Sequel to the above.
+
+    MALLOY, FRED. _The End of the Road._ Woodford Press 1952, pbr
+      Berkley tct _Wicked Woman_, 1959. Good evening waster about a girl
+      who is picked up by Charlotte, a truck-driver "dike" type;
+      Charlotte gives Alice a home, but eventually Alice runs off with a
+      man who is worse than she is. Surprisingly, for this type of
+      thing, the author implies that there _is_ a fate worse than
+      lesbianism.
+
+    MANNING, BRUCE. _Triangle of Sin._ Intimate Novel (Universal Pub.)
+      1952, pbr Beacon Books 1959; same title, but author listed as
+      Manning Stokes. Evening waster.
+
+    MANNIX, DANIEL P. _The Beast._ pbo Ballantine Books 1959, (m).
+
+    MARECHAL, LUCIE. _The Mesh_ (trans. by Virgilia Peterson.)
+      Appleton 1949, pbr Bantam, 1951, 1953, 1959. Excellent novel of a
+      Belgian family; the weakling son marries, brings his bride into
+      home dominated by his mother, shadowed by his lonely sister.
+      Eventually sister takes the young woman away from her brother.
+
+    MARLOWE, STEPHEN. _Homicide is My Game._ Gold Medal 1959 pbo.
+      Hardboiled murder mystery involving a teen-age sex club--a
+      businessman is involved of running it, but the real culprit is his
+      daughter, Liz. She is also a lesbian. Evening waster.
+
+    MARK, EDWINA. (pseud of Edwin Fadiman jr). _My Sister, my
+      Beloved._ Citadel 1955, pbr Berkley 1956. Two young sisters,
+      daughters of a drunken lush of a mother, fall into a too-close
+      relationship as Eve, the older, protects young Sheila from their
+      mother's beatings and tantrums. Sheila plays around and gets
+      pregnant; mother, at the stage where alcohol will kill her, is
+      given a big drink by Eve, who then arranges for Sheila to have an
+      abortion and the two of them to live happily ever after; instead,
+      Sheila marries the boy and Eve is whipped half to death by one of
+      her mother's gigolos. One of _those_ books--where anything from
+      abortion to rape is preferable to lesbianism.
+
+      + _The Odd Ones._ Berkley pbo, 1959. Jean, small-town girl running
+      away, comes to New York and falls in with Sherri, tied to a crazy
+      husband. Rather good and not condemnatory at all; rather
+      restrained for a pbo, although of course it has the obligatory
+      sexy stuff.
+
+    MARR, REED. _Women without Men._ Gold Medal pbo, 1956. Naive, if
+      not too intelligent girl sent to a woman's reformatory, encounters
+      the usual hardening experiences--corrupt matrons,
+      police-court-type lesbians, trusties and well-meaning officials
+      who have their lives to live and can't or won't do anything to
+      better conditions. Good of its kind.
+
+    MARSHE, RICHARD. _A Woman Called Desire._ (Orig. pub. 1950 under
+      title of _Wicked Woman_) Berkley pbr 1959, scv.
+
+    MARSTON, JOHN. _Venus With Us; a Tale of the Caesars._ N. Y.
+      Sears, 1932. pbr Universal Pub. 1953 tct _The Private Life of
+      Julius Caesar_. Fast, funny, risque historical novel--or
+      romance--with approximately six historical errors per chapter, but
+      a lot of fun nevertheless. The scenes laid in the College of
+      Vestals are exclusively lesbian; there are both serious, emotional
+      affairs between women, and funny light-hearted ones in the manner
+      of King Pausole. Good of kind.
+
+  + MARTIN, KENNETH. _Aubade._ London, Chapman & Hall 1957, (m).
+
+    MASEFIELD, JOHN. _Multitude and Solitude._ Macmillan 1909, 1916.
+
+    MASSIE, CHRIS. _The Incredible Truth._ Random, N. Y., 1958, pbr
+      Berkley 1959. Victorian husband narrates, many years afterward,
+      his wife's successive attachment to two woman friends.
+
+    MAUGHAM, SOMERSET. _Theatre._ Doubleday 1937, Bantam pbr tct
+      _Woman of the World_, 1951, pbr Bantam tct _Theatre_ 1959.
+      Theatrical novel of a worldly actress, Julia, contains brief
+      mention of a fat, elderly lesbian admirer who finances her works;
+      one amusing scene where Julia's husband advises her on how to
+      manipulate Dolly's feelings. Smart, brittle.
+
+    MAUPASSANT, GUY DE. _Paul's Mistress._ ss in various collections
+      including Cory, _21 Variations on a Theme_.
+
+    MAYHALL, JANE. _Cousin to Human._ Harcourt, Brace 1960. Valeda,
+      friend of the heroine, has a sad, depressing affair with an
+      adolescent schoolgirl athlete friend, named Mildred.
+
+    MEAGHER, MAUDE. _The Green Scamander._ Houghton Mifflin, 1933. A
+      novel of the Trojan war, largely concerned with the passionate
+      friendship between Penthesilea, co-queen with the Amazon tribe,
+      and her co-ruler Camilla. Beautifully written, available in most
+      medium-sized libraries.
+
+    MEEKER, RICHARD. _The Better Angel._ Greenberg 1933, pbr Universal
+      Pub. tct _Torment_ ca. 1952, (m).
+
+  + MEREZOWSKII, DMITRI. (Trans. from Russian by Natalia A.
+      Duddington) London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1925, 1926. _Birth of the
+      Gods._ A fine novel of Crete and the bull-dancers (and perhaps the
+      first of its kind). Dio, a strangely bisexual young girl,
+      priestess of the Great Mother, though attracted and attractive to
+      men, is vowed to remain a virgin in the service of the Goddess;
+      much of the novel is devoted to her passionate friendship for her
+      young novice, Eoia. One of Dio's rejected lovers, believing that
+      the "little witch" has cast a spell on Dio to prevent her loving
+      him, plots to have Eoia killed in the ring; instead Eoia's death
+      nearly destroys Dio as well.
+
+      _Akhnaton, King of Egypt._ (as above) London, Dent, 1927.
+      Continues and concludes the story of Dio.
+
+    MERGENDAHL, CHARLES. _The Girl Cage._ pbo Gold Medal 1953, 1959.
+      Brief, minor lesbian episode in a novel about war widows.
+
+    MERRITT, A(braham); _The Metal Monster._ Copyright Munsey
+      Magazines, (this ran serially in Argosy ca. 1920) Revised version,
+      Frank A. Munsey 1941, pbr Avon, 1946. Offbeat variant episode in
+      an adventure-fantasy; Norhala, pagan slave of the "metal people"
+      steals the explorer's sister, Ruth, to "play with her"; after her
+      death Ruth weeps, saying "she loved me dearly, dearly," but
+      significantly can remember nothing of their time together. Wildly
+      fantastic, good of type.
+
+    METALIOUS, GRACE. _Return to Peyton Place._ Messner 1959, pbr Dell
+      1959. Another sexy "expose" of a small town. In one episode, the
+      unpleasant wife of a local boy recalls her schooldays, when she
+      taunted and enslaved a lesbian schoolmate.
+
+    MEYER, GLADYS ELEANOR, _The Magic Circle._ Knopf, 1944. fco Subtle
+      novel of close friendship between two women; never explicit, and
+      on the borderline for variant interest.
+
+  + MILLAY, KATHLEEN. _Against the Wall._ Macaulay, 1929. College
+      novel by the sister of the well-known poet (see poetry
+      supplement).
+
+    MILLER, WALTER M. "The Lineman" ss in Fantasy and Science Fiction,
+      August 1957, (m). Excellent attitudes on homosexuality in general,
+      in short story of isolated men.
+
+    MILLER, HENRY. _Plexus._ Paris, Olympia Press 1953, 2 vols.
+      Chapter 16 of the 2nd Volume is supposed to be devoted to a
+      variant affair. Most of Henry Miller's books cannot be legally
+      imported into the USA--this is one--and your editors haven't been
+      to Paris yet. When you go, tell us.
+
+    MISHIMA, YUKIO. _Confessions of a Mask._ New Directions 1958, (m).
+
+  + MITCHELL, S. WEIR. _Constance Trescott._ N. Y., Century 1900. The
+      plus is to draw attention to an old, overlooked title. Major (for
+      its date) treatment of variant enslavement between two half
+      sisters.
+
+  + MITCHISON, NAOMI. _The Delicate Fire._ Harcourt, N. Y. 1932. A
+      major writer, and scholar, presents a collection of lovely short
+      stories of ancient Greece; the title story deals with Sappho and
+      her group of girl lovers.
+
+      _The Corn King and the Spring Queen._ Harcourt, 1931, (m).
+
+      "Black Sparta" and "Krypteia" in _Greek Stories_, Harcourt, 1928,
+      (m).
+
+    MORAVIA, ALBERTO. _The Conformist._ Farrar, Straus & Young 1951,
+      pbr Signet 1954. Penetrating study of a fascist whose compulsive
+      drive for power destroys everyone he loves. An interlude between
+      his wife and a friend provides a brief diversion before the
+      macabre ending.
+
+    MOORE, HAL. _The Naked and the Fair._ pbo, Beacon, 1958, scv.
+
+    MOORE, PAMELA. _Chocolates for Breakfast._ Rinehart 1956, pbr
+      Bantam 1957. Candid, shocking story of a young girl's
+      disintegration; the opening episodes involve her rejection by a
+      teacher on whom she has a crush, and there are variant overtones
+      in her prolonged friendship with a school roommate, Janet's
+      suicide being the spur which makes Courtney resolve to pull
+      herself together.
+
+    MORELL, LEE. _Mimi._ pbo Beacon Books 1959. Unusually good evening
+      waster about night-club and theatrical people, with both male and
+      female homosexual episodes; handled with subtlety and lightness
+      almost unknown in this publisher's paperbacks.
+
+  + MORGAN, CLAIRE. (pseud of Patricia Highsmith) _The Price of
+      Salt._ Coward-McCann, 1952, pbr Bantam 1953, 1959. Fine novel of
+      an affair between two very nice, very courageous, very
+      well-adjusted women whose initial attraction becomes the
+      mainspring of both their lives. The author does not use one single
+      stereotype or cliche; this is probably _the_ American novel of the
+      lesbian.
+
+    MORGAN, NANCY. _City of Women_, pbo Gold Medal 1952, 1959. Lesbian
+      episodes in a novel of women living in barracks at Pearl Harbor.
+
+    MORLEY, IRIS. _The Proud Paladin._ N. Y. Morrow 1936. Lesbian
+      content vague and doubtful, BAYOR and fco.
+
+    MORRO, DON. _The Virgin._ pbo Beacon 1955, released in 1959. scv.
+
+    MOSS, GEOFFREY. _That Other Love._ Doubleday, 1930. A
+      long-continued affair between Phillida and an older friend breaks
+      off because of the younger woman's desire for children.
+
+    MOTLEY, WILLARD. _Knock on Any Door._ N. Y., Appleton-Century,
+      1947, pbr Signet 1953, (m).
+
+  + MURDOCH, IRIS. _The Bell._ N. Y. Viking 1958, (m). A fine,
+      occasionally funny novel of an Anglican lay church-community
+      centers around Michael Meade, a man of honor, intelligence, and
+      integrity--and a homosexual. His hopes of being ordained as a
+      priest were destroyed when, as a schoolteacher, he became
+      entangled with young Nick; Nick's appearance at the community
+      destroys Michael's peace of mind thoroughly, and an obliquely
+      handled relationship between Nick, Michael and a guileless
+      youngster, Toby, spending the summer at the community, eventually
+      destroys the community entirely. But it isn't all gloom and doom;
+      the level of the writing is highly competent, sometimes wildly
+      hilarious, and through all his difficulties Michael is able to
+      realize that eventually he will "experience again ... that
+      infinitely extended requirement which one human being makes on
+      another." A book which emphasizes the triumph of love, and one of
+      the recent best. ((Editor's note; why are the best novels of male
+      homosexuality written by women? Mesdames Renault and Murdoch are
+      giving their best to the men. Is it a question of detachment?))
+
+    MURPHY, DENNIS. _The Sergeant._ Viking 1958, pbr Crest 1959, (m).
+
+    MURRAY, WILLIAM. _The Fugitive Romans._ pbo, Popular Library 1955.
+      Brief variant episode among a Hollywood location crew abroad.
+
+    NEILSEN, HELEN. _The Fifth Caller._ Morrow, 1959. Dr. Lillian
+      Whitehall, metaphysician, is murdered; as each of her five callers
+      is interviewed to find the guilty party, it develops that the dead
+      woman was a cruel, domineering repressed lesbian. Well written,
+      though unsympathetic.
+
+    NEFF, WANDA FRAIKEN. _We Sing Diana._ Boston, Houghton 1928. Story
+      of a girl too inhibited to face her own nature.
+
+    NILES, BLAIR. _Strange Brother._ N. Y. Liveright 1931, pbr Harris
+      Publications 1949, pbr Avon 1952, 1958, 1959.
+
+    NIN, ANAIS. _Winter of Artifice._ Paris, Obelisk Press 1939, also
+      in _Under a Glass Bell_, Dutton, 1948. The first edition has 100
+      pages or so, not included in later editions, in which she recounts
+      her liaison with a famous American writer and his wife, all
+      disguised, of course. (All of this writer's work seems to be
+      vaguely tinged with variance.)
+
+      _Ladders to Fire._ Dutton, 1945, 1946.
+
+    NORDAY, MICHAEL. _Stage for Fools._ Vixen Press 1955. pbr tct
+      _Strange Thirsts_, Beacon 1959. Evening waster about a lush
+      actress making a comeback on a college campus, who revenges
+      herself on an indifferent male by entrapping his girl into a
+      drunken lesbian episode and inviting him to watch the show. A
+      shocker.
+
+      _Warped._ Beacon pbo 1955, 1960. Very apt title; evening waster
+      about a crooked fight game. One sympathetically portrayed lesbian
+      character in the many mixed affairs.
+
+    NORMANDIE, ROGER. _The Lion's Den._ N. Y., Key 1957. scv.
+
+  + O'BRIEN, KATE. _As Music and Splendor._ Harper. 1958. Novel of
+      two very different young Irish girls sent to study music on the
+      Continent during the great age of Italian opera; their personal
+      lives differ as widely as their careers. One, Clare Halvey, drifts
+      into a love affair with Luisa Carriaga, a Spanish contralto; their
+      relationship is treated delicately, but with warmth and impersonal
+      sympathy. Excellent for opera lovers and for those who are tired
+      to death of books where every last detail is spelled out as
+      frankly as the law allows.
+
+  + O'DONOVAN, JOAN. _Dangerous Worlds._ Morrow, 1958. Collection of
+      excellent short stories.
+
+    O'HIGGINS, HARVEY. _The Story of Julie Cane._ Harper, 1924.
+      Explicit, for its day, story of an intense relationship between a
+      schoolmistress and her ward.
+
+    OLIVIA (see DOROTHY BUSSY).
+
+    O'NEILL, ROSE. _The Goblin Woman._ N. Y. Doubleday 1930. Fey,
+      symbolic novel of Helga, the Goblin Woman (who represents purity)
+      set down in a society far from pure. There are many lesbian
+      episodes and references to inter-feminine love. (see poetry
+      supplement.)
+
+    O'HARA, NOEL. _The Last Virgin._ Chariot Books pb 1959. This is a
+      reprint of David George Kin's "Women Without Men", containing six
+      of the ten stories; new title, new author, even new copyright
+      date--who's kidding who? It does not contain the damning
+      introduction, and without it, appears fairly sympathetic. Curious
+      little item.
+
+    PACKER, VIN (pseud; see also ANN ALDRICH) _Spring Fire._ pbo Gold
+      Medal 1952. Now well-known and rather gamy novel of sorority house
+      life and an unhappy lesbian affair between naive freshman Mitch
+      and neurotic Lana.
+
+      _Whisper His Sin._ Gold Medal pbo 1954, (m).
+
+      + _The Evil Friendship._ pbo Crest 1958. Viciously condemnatory
+      novel of two little girls of fourteen who, consequent to their
+      lesbianish attachment, plot together and carry out "a murder
+      club". Shuddersome, but, alas, well written. (Editorial query; why
+      must so many of the detractors of lesbianism write such good
+      books, while those who defend it are, all to often, of the Carol
+      Hales "quality"?)
+
+      _The Twisted Ones._ pbo, Gold Medal 1959, (m).
+
+    PARK, JORDAN. (pseud of Cyril Kornbluth). _Valerie._ pbo, Lion,
+      1953, 1957. Minor lesbian episodes in a novel of witch-hunting;
+      the episodes occur at a Witches Sabbat. Evening waster.
+
+    PARKER, DOROTHY. "Glory in the Daytime" in _After Such Pleasures_,
+      N. Y., Viking 1934.
+
+    PATTON, MARION. _Dance on the Tortoise._ N. Y., Dial 1930.
+      Boarding-school novel; the heroine, repelled by the emotional
+      friendships around her, throws herself with relief into the arms
+      of a man.
+
+    PAVESE, CESARE. _Among Women Only._ Noonday Press, qpb 1959
+      ($1.75). Recommended, highly tragic, novel by a writer considered,
+      until his untimely death, one of Italy's best.
+
+  + PETERS, FRITZ. _Finistere._ Farrar, Straus & Co 1951, pbr Signet
+      1953, (m).
+
+  + PETRONIUS, _The Satyricon._ (the earliest known novel, written
+      about the time of Christ; the last flush of the pagan world.)
+      Trans. William Arrowsmith, University of Michigan Press, 1959.
+      This is also available in a highly expurgated Modern Library
+      edition, n. d. Male, of course, and the Arrowsmith translation is
+      hilarious and _very_ readable.
+
+    PEN, JOHN. _Temptation._ (trans. from the Hungarian by John
+      Manheim,) Avon Red and Gold, 1959, (m). Fine picaresque.
+
+    PEYREFITTE, ROGER. _Special Friendships._ NY, Vanguard 1950, (m).
+
+  + PHELPS, ROBERT. _Heroes and Orators._ N. Y., McDowell & Oblensky
+      1958. Fine modern novel of family relationships, containing a
+      lesbian character described as the most real, human and
+      sympathetic in recent years; Margot, in love with her ex-husband's
+      sister Elizabeth. The two women live together, but any intimate
+      relationship between them is disclaimed.
+
+    PHILLIPS, THOMAS HAL. _The Bitterweed Path._ Rinehart 1949, pbr
+      Avon 1954, 1959, (m).
+
+    POWELL, DAWN. _A Cage for Lovers._ Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1957.
+      Mannish, wealthy hypochondriac keeps her nurse-companion in
+      virtual slavery until the younger girl breaks away and marries.
+      Competent novel by a popular author.
+
+    PRIEST, J. C. _Private School._ Beacon pbo 1959 scv.
+
+    PRITCHARD, JANET. _Warped Women._ Beacon pbo 1951, 1956, 1959.
+      Despite the lurid blurb and cover, this is a nice evening waster
+      about an innocent young girl who goes to work for a woman's health
+      club which is, behind the scenes, an abortion mill run by
+      gangsters. Fronting for the group, an attractive lesbian takes a
+      fancy to the heroine, eventually protects her against the gangster
+      boss at the risk of her own life. The heroine then marries a nice
+      boy who's been telling her all along that the place is rotten.
+      Suspenseful, interesting.
+
+    PROUST, MARCEL. _Remembrance of Things Past_, the great work of
+      the well-known French homosexual author, is available in many
+      (virtually all except rural-provincial) libraries, numerous
+      college editions, etc. Long sections are variant, male-homosexual
+      or lesbian; bibliography would occupy entirely too much space. Try
+      a stray volume in qpb and see if Proust is your cup of tea--he
+      isn't everyone's.
+
+    PURTSCHER, NORA. _Woman Astride._ Appleton-Century, 1934. Woman
+      spends almost her entire life in male disguise. Offbeat, variant
+      rather than explicitly lesbian.
+
+    PYKE, RICHARD. _The Lives and Deaths of Roland Greer._ NY, Boni
+      1929, (m). Horrifying.
+
+    RAVEN, SIMON. _The Feathers of Death._ London, A. Blond, 1959,
+      Simon & Schuster 1960, (m).
+
+    RAYTER, JOE (pseud. of Mary McChesney). _Asking for Trouble._
+      Morrow 1955, pbr Pocket Books 1959. Murder mystery. A mannish,
+      hard-boiled lesbian plays an important part.
+
+    REHDER, JESSIE. _Remembrance Way._ G P Putnam's Sons 1956.
+      Retrospective tale in which the heroine recalls a summer in girl's
+      camp, when she was enslaved simultaneously to a domineering
+      director (woman) and her daughter.
+
+    REMARQUE, ERICH MARIA. _Arch of Triumph_ Appleton 1945, pbr Signet
+      1950, 1959.
+
+  + RENAULT, MARY. _Promise of Love._ Morrow, 1939. Novel, in a
+      hospital background, contains variant relationship, lightly
+      treated.
+
+      _The Middle Mist._ Morrow, 1945. Excellent, humorous novel,
+      featuring the boyish Leo (Leonora) who, with her friend Helen,
+      lives on a houseboat quite happily ("It only makes sense for the
+      surplus women to arrange themselves one way or another.") This is,
+      beyond a doubt, the wittiest, most refreshing book on the list;
+      the girls have problems, but they have them, and solve them,
+      without any well-of-loneliness agonizing. The story is resolved in
+      Leo's gradual feminization and marriage.
+
+      _The Last of the Wine._ Pantheon, 1956 (m; Greek.).
+
+      _The King Must Die._ Pantheon 1958, pbr Pocket Books 1959. Minor
+      male and female homosexuality in Cretan setting.
+
+      _The Charioteer._ Longmans, 1953, Pantheon hcr 1959. Male, major,
+      femininely delicate. Virtually all of this writer's work contains
+      some reference, though sometimes remote and slight, to variance.
+
+    RENAULT, PAUL. _Raw Interludes._ Brookwood, 1957, scv. _No_
+      relation to Mary Renault; since Renault, Mary, has a double plus,
+      the editors agree we should invent a double minus.
+
+    RICE, CRAIG. _Having Wonderful Crime._ Simon & Schuster, 1943.
+      Hilarious murder mystery leads into the byways and gay bars of
+      Greenwich village.
+
+    RICHARDSON, HENRY HANDEL. _The End of a Childhood._ London,
+      Reinemann, 1934, hcr N. Y. Norton.
+
+      _The Getting of Wisdom._ N. Y. Duffield, 1910. Both are volumes of
+      loosely connected variant short stories.
+
+    ROLLAND, ROMAINE. _Annette and Sylvie._ Holt, 1925. The first
+      volume of a trilogy, this deals with an intense attachment between
+      two young (adolescent) half sisters who meet for the first time in
+      their teens.
+
+    RONALD, JAMES. _The Angry Woman._ Lippincott 1948, Bantam pbr
+      1950. A businesswoman keeps a young girl reluctantly captivated
+      until the girl commits suicide.
+
+    RONNS, EDWARD. _The State Department Murders._ pbo, Gold Medal
+      1952, (m) fco.
+
+    ROSMANITH, OLGA. _Unholy Flame._ pbo Gold Medal 1952, (m) fco. (But
+      I like this personally very much. A modern Svengali.)
+
+  + ROSS, WALTER. _The Immortal._ Simon & Schuster 1958, Pocket
+      Books Cardinal Edition 1959, (m).
+
+    ROYDE-SMITH, NAOMI. _The Tortoiseshell Cat._ Boni & Liveright
+      1925. An unworldly girl's capture by a predatory lesbian.
+
+      _The Island._ Harper, 1930. Sad, tense book about an ugly, unhappy
+      girl nicknamed "Goosey" and a clinging cousin who will neither
+      love her nor let her go.
+
+    RUARK, ROBERT. _Something of Value._ Doubleday 1955, pbr Pocket
+      Books 1958. Very minor.
+
+    RYAN, MARK. _Twisted Loves._ Bedside Books 1959, pbo, scv.
+
+    SABATIER, ROBERT. _Boulevard._ (Prix de Paris award novel, trans.
+      from French by Lowell Blair). David McKay 1958, pbr Dell 59, (m).
+      marginal.
+
+    SACKVILLE-WEST, VICTORIA. _The Dark Island._ Doubleday, 1934.
+      Shirin is the over-emotional, unconventional wife of Venn, dour
+      owner of the "dark island", Storn. He treats Shirin so badly that
+      she seeks companionship, love and affection from Christina, her
+      husband's secretary; through jealousy (not unmixed with pure
+      sadism) Venn arranges for Christina to be drowned in a boating
+      "accident". Haunting.
+
+  + SALEM, RANDY. _Chris._ Beacon pbo, 1959. The plus indicates good
+      of kind, not intrinsic merit. An interesting story of a lesbian
+      triangle--Chris, Dizz, and young Carol. One reader commented that
+      this story was a sort of lesbian dreamworld--these women seemed to
+      live in a society, and a world, completely unmixed with ordinary
+      life at all. Certainly they are all treated as quite the ordinary
+      thing, and there are almost no hints that there is a heterosexual
+      world outside the gay one, which must be taken into account.
+      Certainly it makes no incursions into the novel. Chris, a
+      conchologist, her life complicated by her frigid girl-friend Dizz,
+      suffers and drinks too much and sleeps around until Carol, one of
+      her random pick-ups, decides to stick to her, and eventually frees
+      Chris from this attachment. Good but unreal.
+
+  + SANDBURG, HELGA. _The Wheel of Earth._ McDowell, Oblensky 1958.
+      Roughly a third of a long novel of Midwestern rural life deals
+      with the lengthy attachment between Frankie Gaddy and an older
+      woman, Genevieve.
+
+    SARTON, MAY. _A Shower of Summer Days._ Rinehart, 1952.
+
+    SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL. _No Exit._ Knopf 1947, qpb Vintage 1955. Play.
+
+    SAVAGE, KIM. _Girl's Dorm._ Vixen Press 1952.
+
+      _Baby Makes Three._ Vixen, 1953. No reports on either of these,
+      but in view of the publisher they are probably evening wasters at
+      best.
+
+    SAYERS, DOROTHY L. _The Dawson Pedigree._ Harcourt 1928, fco.
+
+  + SCHIDDEL, EDMUND. _Girl with the Golden Yo-Yo._ pbo Berkley
+      1955, 1959, (m). Also contains some brief analysis of lesbian jazz
+      circles in Germany after WWI.
+
+      _The Other Side of the Night._ pbo Avon 1954-5, Berkley 1959, (m).
+
+    SCHMITT, GLADYS. _Confessors of the Name._ Dial, 1952, pbr
+      Permabooks ca. 1953-55. A relatively minor lesbian character in a
+      long novel of ancient Rome, with explicit lesbian scenes during a
+      Saturnalia orgy.
+
+      _A Small Fire._ Dial 1958. (m.) minor.
+
+      _Alexandra._ Dial 1947, pbr Pocket Books 1949. Very vague and
+      minor threads of contact in a novel of intense friendship between
+      two women. Emotionally high.
+
+    SCOTT, LES. _Twilight Women._ Arco 1952, pbr Beacon 1956.
+      Evening-waster suspenseful adventure story of a chase-type
+      kidnapping: Rance, the hero, pleasantly entangled with two
+      beautiful Polynesian girls, who eventually take him to a Utopian
+      tropical island where he happily marries both of them. The contact
+      between the girls is incidental and included simply to heighten
+      excitement for male readers, but it's good fun in a Sax Rohmer-ish
+      way.
+
+      _Three Can Love._ Arco, 1952.
+
+      _Touchable._ Arco, 1951. Probably much the same as above.
+
+    SCULLY, ROBERT. _A Scarlet Pansy._ N. Y., Faro, 1933, Hesor 1937,
+      hcr. Reprinted and completely rewritten by Royal, no pub. no date,
+      Baltimore, Oppenheimer, 30s and 40s. In 1950, D W Cory called this
+      "the low point of the homosexual novel". A lot of trash has been
+      written since, which makes this look simply silly. (m). A
+      confusing novel of the "gay" world, including some butchy and
+      peculiar lesbians.
+
+    SEELEY, E. S. _Sorority Sin._ Beacon pbo, 1959. scv.
+
+    SELA, LORA. (pseud of Carol Hales) _I Am a Lesbian._ Saber pbo,
+      1959. Would-be shocker about a poor innocent girl being pushed
+      into love affairs with brutal boys, raped, etc, by cruel relatives
+      and friends, when all that God wants of her, according to the
+      author, is for her to be a Happy Well-Adjusted Noble Lesbian. This
+      isn't even scv, since the writers of sexy trash usually know
+      something about sex or trash or both. Read it and snicker.
+
+    SETON, ANYA. _Katherine._ Houghton, 1954. (m. minor)
+
+    SHAW, WILENE. _The Fear and the Guilt._ pbo, Ace, 1954.
+      Softball-playing Ruby brings sweet-leech Christy to her Tobacco
+      Road home. There, to disarm suspicion, Christy allows herself to
+      be first seduced, then married, by Ruby's father. Sympathetic for
+      a shocker, but oh, my!
+
+    SIDGWICK, ETHEL. _A Lady of Leisure._ Boston, Small, 1914. A
+      passionate, but quite innocent, attachment between women in their
+      twenties.
+
+    SIMENON, GEORGES. _In Case of Emergency._ Doubleday 1958, pbr Dell
+      1959. A common theme--a good man enslaved by a worthless girl--is
+      treated here by a very good European writer. A subplot deals with
+      the attachment between the girl and her maidservant.
+
+    SINCLAIR, JO. (pseud. of Ruth Seid) _Wasteland._ Harper Bros.
+      1946. This is the excellent and heavily lauded Harper prize novel
+      of that year. Told on the psychiatrist's couch, it concerns the
+      failure of Jewish Jake Braunowitz to live up to his manhood ...
+      which forces this job onto the shoulders of his sister Debbie, a
+      lesbian. The psychiatrist discovers that he ran from his
+      responsibilities in the first place due to feeling weaker than the
+      masterful intelligent Debbie; then, after forcing her to take a
+      man's role in the family, he turns around and feels guilt and
+      shame at her adjustment to the situation. Excellently done.
+
+    SPEERS, MARY. _We Are Fires Unquenchable._ Murray and Gee,
+      Hollywood 1946. fco. A badly written, almost illiterate novel, the
+      first few scenes of which are laid in a girl's college swarming
+      with luridly treated lesbians and in an assortment of Bohemian
+      settings.
+
+  + SMITH, ARTEMIS. _Odd Girl._ Beacon pbo, 1959. The blurb reads
+      "Life and love among warped women", but don't let it scare you.
+      This is one of the better and more serious approaches to the
+      writing of a serious novel of lesbians through the stereotyped
+      pattern of the paperback novel. The basic plot concerns Anne, and
+      her experiences in trying to find out for herself, the hard way,
+      whether she is a lesbian or whether she can successfully adjust to
+      life as a normal woman. The story ends with the surprising, but
+      growingly popular affirmation that "adjustment" is not always to
+      be desired at all costs. The cover also calls this a story of
+      "society's greatest curse", meaning homosexuality; but for once it
+      isn't treated that way.
+
+      _The Third Sex._ pbo, Beacon, 1959. Most of the remarks made above
+      also apply to this one, though the heroine is Joan, a college girl
+      who fears that she is becoming a lesbian, and fights it by
+      redoubling her affairs with men. Slightly more sensational than
+      "Odd Girl", but well written, well thought out and generally
+      excellent.
+
+    SMITH, DOROTHY EVELYN. _The Lovely Day._ N. Y., Dutton, 1957.
+      Interesting novel of an English village on a choir outing,
+      contains a minor but funny account of an unconscious lesbian's
+      decisions.
+
+    SMITH, SHELLEY. (pseud. of Nancy Bodington.) _The Lord Have
+      Mercy_, Harper 1956, pbr tct _The Shrew is Dead_, Dell 1959.
+      English mystery story; a major subplot involves a pair of
+      lesbians.
+
+    SNEDEKER, CAROLINE DALE. _The Perilous Seat._ Doubleday, Doran
+      1929, marginal (m) in a juvenile of ancient Greece; the hero,
+      being sold into slavery, attempts to disfigure himself to escape
+      "the fate of handsome boys among the Persians."
+
+    STAFFORD, JEAN. _Boston Adventure._ Harcourt, 1944.
+
+    STEIN, GERTRUDE. _Things as They Are._ Banyan Press, Pawlet,
+      Vermont. (Very rare; $25 and up second hand.) A novel by the
+      well-known surrealist poet ... possibly her only coherent work ...
+      dealing with lesbianism.
+
+    STONE, SCOTT. _The Divorcees._ Beacon pbo 1955, released 1959
+      Evening waster about a racketeer who specializes in quick
+      divorces, and his girl-friend who flirts with all the women as he
+      disengages them from their husbands.
+
+      _Margo._ Beacon pbo 1955, released 1959. scv.
+
+      _Blaze._ Berkley pbo or pbr, n. d. no data except "trash".
+
+    SOUBIRAN, ANDR�. _Bedlam._ Putnam 1957, pbr Pyramid 1959, (m)
+      minor.
+
+    STONEBRAKER, FLORENCE. _Sinful Desires._ pbr Bedside Books, 1959.
+      (previous paperback, publisher unknown, ca. 1951). Silly novel
+      about a married woman briefly captivated by a stereotyped lesbian.
+
+  + STURGEON, THEODORE. (pseud. of Edward Hamilton Waldo). "Affair
+      with a Green Monkey". Venture Science Fiction May 1957; also in _A
+      Touch of Strange_, Doubleday 1959.
+
+      "The Sex Opposite". in _E. Pluribus Unicorn_, Abelard 1952,
+      Ballantine pbr 1953.
+
+      "The World Well Lost" in _E Pluribus Unicorn._ Many of Sturgeon's
+      other short stories and novelettes touch on extremely strange,
+      offbeat relationships.
+
+  + SWADOS, FELICE. _House of Fury._ Doubleday 1941, pbr Lion 1955,
+      Berkley 1959. One of the better paperbacks, dealing with racial
+      tensions and muted lesbian attachments in a girl's reformatory.
+
+    SWINBURNE, ALGERNON. _Lesbia Brandon._ Falcon Press 1952, edited
+      and annotated by Randolph Hughes. A famous incomplete novel by the
+      well-known poet, for students rather than readers. Really only a
+      handful of scattered chapters, too scrappy to judge; see also
+      poetry supplement.
+
+    SYDNEY, GALE. _Strange Circle._ Beacon Books pbo 1959, 1960. Grace
+      Garney, feeling unwanted, gets a job with Mrs. Flocke, a repulsive
+      lesbian, and repels a pass; this, however, revives childhood
+      memories, and during a rift in her affairs with a man, she has a
+      brief affair with Inez, a friend with an unsatisfactory husband.
+      Evening waster.
+
+    SYKES, GERALD. _The Center of the Stage._ N. Y., Farrar 1952, pbr
+      Signet 1954. Witty novel of the theatre, with a minor lesbian
+      character.
+
+    TAYLOR, DYSON. _Bitter Love._ orig. copyright 1952, Pyramid 1958,
+      (m). Worldly woman marries a homosexual who wants her for a
+      "front".
+
+    TAYLOR, JOHN. _Shadows of Shame._ Pyramid 1956, 1959, (m).
+
+    TAYLOR, VALERIE. _Whisper Their Love._ Crest pbo 1957.
+      Unsympathetic college novel of a girl suffering through a lesbian
+      affair while all around her the other girls suffer through rape,
+      incest and abortion. Over-written.
+
+      _Girls in 3-B._ Crest pbo 1959. One of three young girls who come
+      to the city to find jobs or careers, Barby drifts into a lesbian
+      relationship, mostly out of revulsion against two unfortunate
+      experiences with men. Excellent, sympathetic.
+
+      + _Stranger on Lesbos._ Crest pbo 1959. A married woman with a
+      grown son and indifferent husband, returning to college for work
+      on a college degree, is ripe for an affair with "Bake", a
+      confirmed lesbian. The affair is told with sufficient skill and
+      restraint to make it believable; even Frankie's eventual return to
+      her old life is not a cliche "happy ending" but well prepared and
+      well characterized. Remarkably good; the degree of progress from
+      the first to the third of these novels makes your editors anxious
+      to see where Miss Taylor goes from here.
+
+    TELLIER, ANDR�. _Twilight Men._ Greenberg 1931, pbr Lion 1950, 52,
+      56, Pyramid 1959, (m). Well known.
+
+  + TEY, JOSEPHINE. (pseud. of Elizabeth MacKintosh.) _Miss Pym
+      Disposes._ Macmillan 1948; also in _Three by Tey_, Macmillan 1954.
+      Slowly built-up, excellently constructed mystery of a girl's
+      school, where a close attachment between two seniors provides
+      solution and motivation for a murder. The level of mystification
+      is so high that even on the last page the reader is gasping with
+      the final, shocking surprise.
+
+      _To Love and be Wise._ Macmillan 1951. Another well done mystery,
+      with a variant attachment also providing motive and solution and a
+      high level of suspense and surprise.
+
+    TESCH, GERALD. _Never The Same Again._ G P Putnam's Sons 1956, pbr
+      Pyramid 1958, (m). Not for the squeamish, but a well-done novel of
+      an affair between a teen age boy and an older man.
+
+  + TIMPERLEY, ROSEMARY. _Child in the Dark._ Crowell 1956. Two of
+      the three stories in this book involve intense attachments,
+      variant but not explicitly lesbian, between an English
+      schoolmistress and a young girl.
+
+    THAYER, TIFFANY. _Thirteen Women._ Claude Kendall, 1932. Mildly
+      nasty shock-story of a murder, involving thirteen women, one mixed
+      up with a lesbian; she eventually commits suicide.
+
+      _Thirteen Men._ Claude Kendall 1930, (m). Much the same stuff as
+      above only masculine in emphasis. Thayer is a good writer, but not
+      everyone's choice.
+
+    THOMPSON, JOHN B. _Girls of the French Quarter._ Beacon pbo 1954.
+
+      _Frenzy of Desire._ Encore Press 1957. Evening wasters.
+
+    THOMPSON, MORTON. _Not as a Stranger._ Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1954
+      pbr Pocket Books 1955. fco, very minor episodes.
+
+  + THORNE, ANTHONY. _Delay in the Sun._ Literary Guild, 1934. A
+      "heartening idyll" of two friends who, during a long stopover in
+      Spain, resolve their relationship.
+
+  + TORRES, TERESKA. _Woman's Barracks._ Gold Medal pbo 1950, 51,
+      52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and probably every year from now
+      on, for a while anyhow. Gold Medal's most popular title so far is
+      the story of a group of women with the Free French women's army,
+      at loose ends and disassociated from family, friends and personal
+      attachments. Among the many threads of the plot is the story of
+      naive young Ursula, who, through her relationship with warm,
+      tough, friendly Claude is helped to maturity and eventually to
+      readjustment to normal life.
+
+      _Dangerous Games._ Dial 1957, pbr Crest 1958. A married woman,
+      discovering her husband is having an affair with her closest
+      friend, briefly becomes infatuated with her too.
+
+      _Not Yet._ Crown 1957, pbr Crest 1958. The story of four young
+      girls in a French school; not children but "not yet" women, and
+      their adjustment to life and love. The narrator, the least mature,
+      is as yet infatuated only with Mother Nathalie, her teacher; no
+      overt behavior is implied except kisses, but the nun's reaction
+      when the heroine begins to be interested in boys brings this under
+      the scope of the study.
+
+      _The Golden Cage._ Dial 1959. (trans. from French by Meyer Levin).
+      A group of refugees in wartime, waiting for visas in Portugal,
+      undergo various transient attachments. Among the group are several
+      lesbians, treated with sympathy and sensitivity.
+
+    TRAVIS, BEN. _The Strange Ones._ Beacon pbo 1959, (m). Evening
+      waster about a young no-good who earns his living as a paid
+      escort/gigolo and relaxes with boy friends but still loudly
+      insists he is normal. Your editor enjoyed this out of sheer
+      perversity; usually novels treating of male homosexuality engage
+      the subject with deadly seriousness, while the paperback originals
+      reek with drooling voyeuristic strip-teases about lesbians, for
+      the sake of men who like to enjoy pipe-dreams about lesbians
+      making love, and about some Big Handsome Hero who eventually
+      converts the girls to "normality" with some secret formula of
+      caresses. So it is a nice change to see the gay BOYS getting the
+      in-and-out-of-the-sheets treatment for once.
+
+    TRYON, MARK. _The Fire that Burns._ Berkley pbo 1959 scv.
+
+      _Take it Off._ Vixen Press 1953, Modern Press 1956, scv.
+
+    UNTERMEYER, LOUIS. (Editor). _The Treasury of Ribaldry._ Doubleday
+      1956, pbr Popular Library 1959 (v. 1). This contains Lucian's
+      "Dialogues of Courtesans", entitled in this translation "The
+      Lesbian" and "A Curious Deception". The hardcover edition also
+      contains some of the Songs of Bilitis.
+
+    VAIL, AMANDA (pseud. of Warren Miller). _The Bright Young Things._
+      Little, Brown, 1958. pbr Crest 1960.
+
+      In a story of two worldly young college girls experimenting with
+      life and love, a subplot involves two of their friends, lesbians.
+      Minor but fun.
+
+    VANEER, WILLIAM. _Love Starved Wife._ Bedside Books Inc, 1959.
+      scv.
+
+    VAN HELLER, MARCUS. _The House of Borgia_, Paris, Olympia Press,
+      1957. Volume #16 in The Traveler's Companion, straight scv.
+
+    VAN ROYEN, ASTRID. _Awake, Monique._ Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1957,
+      pbr Crest 1958. Astrid, an orphaned child in some unnamed European
+      country (Holland, Belgium, Sweden?) is sent to live with her uncle
+      Rainier; she lives upstairs with Rainier (eventually with a
+      Lolita-like intimacy) while Rainier's wife lives downstairs with a
+      lesbian friend, Dini. Despite a "broadminded" plea for
+      understanding, Rainier strictly forbids Astrid to have anything to
+      do with the girls. The book is well-written, tasteful, and
+      certainly candid.
+
+    VAUGHAN, HILDA. _The Curtain Rises._ N. Y., Chas Scribner 1935. A
+      young girl, Nest, in London, falls in with a fiftyish spinster
+      with a reputation for aiding young and pretty girls who also have
+      talent. Miss Fremlyn invites Nest to live with her as her
+      companion, showering her with education, attention and
+      restrictions; Nest is naive, Miss Fremlyn unaware, at least
+      consciously, of her own emotions. They travel and live together
+      for some time, but the affair breaks up when Nest, who has always
+      kept in touch with her boy friend, is discovered with him and Miss
+      Fremlyn, considering this a betrayal, dismisses her. Explicit,
+      well done.
+
+    VERNE, CHARLES. _The Wheel of Passion._ N. Y., Key 1957. scv.
+
+    VIDAL, GORE. _The City and the Pillar._ E P Dutton 1948, pbr
+      Signet ca. 1950, (m).
+
+      _The Season of Comfort._ E P Dutton 1949, (m).
+
+    WAHL, LOREN. _The Invisible Glass._ Greenberg, 1950, pbr tct _If
+      This be Sin_, Avon 1952, pbr tct _Take Me as I Am_, Berkley 1959,
+      (m).
+
+    WALFORD, FRANK. _Twisted Clay._ Claude Kendall, 1934. fco. A young
+      girl, a psychotic sadist ... is bisexual and has one big affair
+      with an older woman. It must be marked for people with very
+      complete collections only; it is depressing, inaccurate, etc. "The
+      writing, etc, are excellent, but oh my, what a plot!"
+
+  + WARD, ERIC. _Uncharted Seas._ Paris, Obelisk Press 1937. (Fairly
+      easy to obtain second hand, and not at all like most of the sexy
+      trash tagged Paris elsewhere in this list.) An excellent,
+      perceptive and controlled story of Diana Bellew, a young married
+      woman with children, a childish husband and too much money and
+      time on her hands, and her successive affairs with three women.
+      The writing is unusually good for male authorship.
+
+    WEBB, JON EDGAR. _Four Steps to the Wall._ Dial 1948, pbr Bantam
+      1953, (m). Prison novel.
+
+  + WEIRAUGH, ANNA ELISABET. _The Scorpion._ Greenberg 1932, Willey
+      Book co, 1948, pbr Avon Books 1957, complete; pbr tct _Of Love
+      Forbidden_, greatly abridged, 1958. Well-known novel of well-bred
+      German girl, Metta (in some translations, Myra) who, in her late
+      teens, falls in love with a worldly lesbian, Olga, who does much
+      to free her from her stuffy background, but repudiates her
+      painfully in a family crisis. After Olga's suicide Metta seeks for
+      her real self and real destiny, first in the Bohemian
+      drink-drugs-sex merrygoround of Berlin between the wars, then
+      hides from life in a stuffy middle-class setting; when even here
+      she finds herself pursued by a lesbian tease, Gwen, who flirts
+      with Metta to inveigle her into a sordid party _a trois_, Metta
+      resolves to go away and come to terms with her own soul.
+
+      _The Outcast._ Greenberg 1933, Willey Book Co 1948. The sequel to
+      the above, this finds the heroine of _The Scorpion_ living quietly
+      in the country. She undergoes a painful and unsatisfactory affair
+      with Fiametta, a dancer, but when this proves unsatisfactory
+      settles down sadly but peacefully with a couple of sexless men
+      friends.
+
+    WEISS, JOE, and Ralph Dean. _Anything Goes._ Bedside Books pbo,
+      1959. Fast-moving evening waster with a minor lesbian angle.
+
+    WELCH, DENTON. _Maiden Voyage._ L. B. Fischer 1945, (m) minor.
+
+      _In Youth is Pleasure._ L. B. Fischer 1946, (m) minor.
+
+  + WELLS, CATHERINE. "The Beautiful House" Harpers, March 1912. An
+      idyll of two women ends tragically with the marriage of the
+      younger.
+
+    WELLS, KERMIT. _Reformatory Women._ Bedside Books pbo 1959.
+      Surprisingly good for this publisher of rubbish. After escaping
+      from a sadistic lesbian matron in the reformatory, Noreen works as
+      a fake butch in a Greenwich Village Gay bar and tourist trap;
+      later goes to work for gangsters in a roadhouse, falls for a nice
+      boy and goes back to serve her reformatory sentence and marry him
+      when she gets out. Pleasant evening waster.
+
+    WETHERELL, ELIZABETH (pseud of Susan Warner). _The Wide Wide
+      World._ Many editions, very easily obtained, a well-known girls
+      story of the 1880s or thereabout, dealing with Ellen, an orphan of
+      twelve. Much of the first half of the novel is devoted to a very
+      innocent, but exceptionally intense, close relationship between
+      Ellen and her beloved "Miss Alice", daughter of the local
+      minister. Good of kind, and distinctly relevant on an adolescent
+      level.
+
+    WHEELER, HUGH. _The Crippled Muse._ Rinehart, 1952. A "sparkling
+      comedy" of Capri contains the story of two women who have lived
+      together for ten years; the younger girl is tired of the
+      arrangement, and the older uses her feelings of guilt and shame to
+      hold her captive. In the course of the novel she manages to free
+      herself.
+
+    WHITE, PATRICK. _The Aunt's Story._ Viking Press 1948. fco.
+
+    WIMBERLEY, GWYNNE. _One Touch of Ecstasy._ Frederick Fell, 1959. A
+      lesbian affair gives "one touch of ecstasy" to a woman's
+      inhibited, unhappy life, allowing her to return to her husband
+      with wakened perceptions.
+
+    WILDER, ROBERT. _Wait for Tomorrow._ Putnam 1950, Bantam 1953. A
+      girl's unwilling entanglement with a predatory lesbian, in a
+      romance of an imaginary Balkan country, leads to all sorts of
+      violence and cloak-and-dagger stuff. Good.
+
+  + WILHELM, GALE. _Torchlight to Valhalla._ Random, 1938, pbr tct
+
+      _The Strange Path_, Lion 1953, Berkley 1958, 1959. Morgen,
+      rootless and drifting after the death of her artist father, to
+      whom she had been childishly close, is loved by two fine young
+      men, but finds her happiness with a strange young girl, Toni.
+      Major, well known.
+
+      _We Too Are Drifting._ Triangle Books 1938-39; Modern Library
+      1935. pbr Lion Books 1951, Berkley 1957, 58, 59, 60. Probably the
+      major novel of the thirties to deal with lesbians; perhaps the
+      best of all time. In substance it deals with the boyish, but
+      feminine Jan Morale; her struggle to escape a slightly sordid
+      affair with Madelaine, a married woman, and to find happiness,
+      despite family complications, with a young girl, Victoria. Told
+      with fairness, restraint, and skill--not to mention that this is
+      one of the dozen or so books on this entire list to display not
+      only _some_, but _exceptional_ literary merit.
+
+    WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. "Something Unspoken" in _27 Wagons Full of
+      Cotton._ New Directions, 1953. Also in Best Short Plays of
+      1955-56, Dodd, Mead, 1956. A play; I marked this for fco, received
+      a protest: "Everybody will enjoy this." Compromise; everybody will
+      enjoy this who likes Tennessee Williams.
+
+    WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS. _The Knife of the Times._ Dragon Press,
+      1932, hcr tct _Make Light of It_, Random House 1950, (m). The title
+      story is in DWCory, _21 Variations_.
+
+    WILLIAMS, ISABEL. _Hellcat._ Greenberg 1934, pbr Dell 1952.
+      Unpleasant girl who uses everyone for her own purposes includes a
+      lesbian among her victims.
+
+    WILLINGHAM, CALDER. (pseud). _End as a Man._ Vanguard 1947, pbr
+      Signet co. 1957, (m).
+
+    WILLIS, GEORGE. _Little Boy Blues._ Dutton, 1947. Concerns the
+      machinations of a lesbian to achieve marriage and motherhood as a
+      "front".
+
+    WILSON, ETHEL D. _Hetty Dorval._ Macmillan 1948, fco.
+
+    WINDHAM, DONALD. _The Hitchhiker._ Florence, Italy, priv. print.
+      (m).
+
+      _Servants with Torches._ N. Y. 1955 priv. print. (m).
+
+      _Dog Star._ Doubleday, 1950, (m).
+
+    WINSLOE, CHRISTA. _The Child Manuela._ (Trans. Agnes Scott Farrar,
+      1933.) Motherless Manuela, sent to a strict boarding-school
+      because of supposed misconduct with a boy (actually she was only
+      fascinated with his mother) falls in love with Elizabeth von
+      Bernberg, one of the teachers. The woman's behavior is strictly
+      correct, but her warmth of personality attracts all the
+      love-starved, inhibited children; Manuela, exhilarated and
+      slightly drunk at a school party, babbles of her love for the
+      Fraulein, and is punished so severely that she throws herself from
+      a top-floor window.
+
+      _Girl Alone._ (Trans. Agnes Scott). Farrar 1936. A girl in
+      difficulties finds temporary refuge with a lesbian friend.
+
+    WINSTON, DAOMA. _The Golden Tramp._ pbo Beacon Books 1959. Evening
+      waster about a woman writer trying it both ways.
+
+    WOLLER, OLGA. _Strange Conflict._ Pageant, 1955. Purple-passaged
+      and would-be-horrifying story about a Eurasian
+      hermaphrodite--supposedly as she is because of her mother's
+      intercourse with demons before her birth--who inspires love and
+      brings death to everyone she knows, male or female.
+
+    WOODFORD, JACK. _Male and Female._ Woodford Press, 1935.
+
+      _Unmoral._ Woodford Press, 1938. Both of these are evening
+      wasters--racy stuff, not bad at all when compared with the current
+      crop of trashy paperbacks. The "lesbian" content, of course, is
+      strictly for fun.
+
+    WOOD, CLEMENT. _Strange Fires._ Woodford Press, 1951. "Shipwreck
+      on Lesbos" in his _Desire_, Berkeley n. d. 1958 (copyright 1950,
+      perhaps Woodford Press?) Clement Wood is either a pen name for, or
+      a successor to, Jack Woodford, a popular writer of racy, risque,
+      sexy books of little literary merit but relatively innocuous even
+      for teen-agers ... the trash of the thirties and forties was a
+      very different thing from the scv of the fifties.
+
+    WOOD, CLEMENT, and Gloria Goddard. _Fair Game._ Woodford Press,
+      1949, pbr Beacon 1958. Evening waster about girls coming to the
+      wicked big city, and we all know what happens to such girls in
+      this kind of book. One of them falls in with the dangerous women
+      instead of the dangerous men.
+
+  + WOOLF, VIRGINIA. _Orlando._ _To The Lighthouse._
+
+      _Mrs. Dalloway._ All of these are classics easily available in
+      small, medium and large libraries, college bookstores, and the
+      like. The lesbian content is vague and subtle, but good; one of
+      the best woman writers.
+
+    WOUK, HERMAN. _Marjorie Morningstar._ Doubleday 1955, pbr 1956.
+      The variant element in this is minor and problematical. In
+      conversation, it occurred to a group of reviewers that the
+      developing relationship between Marjorie and Marsha "resembled a
+      love affair", that Marsha's attack of hysterics at her wedding,
+      and her outcry that all she had ever wanted was a friend, and now
+      she'd always be alone, was of distinct significance. BAYOR.
+
+    WYLIE, PHILIP. _The Disappearance._ Rinehart 1951, pbr Pocket
+      Books 1958. Science fiction; for men, all women vanish; for women,
+      all men vanish. The problem of lesbianism arises in the women's
+      world; Wylie, though technically and superficially approving of
+      homosexuality, has his heroine reject it for herself, saying "I'm
+      not a child."
+
+      _Opus 21._ Rinehart 1949, pbr Signet 1952, 1960. The hero,
+      rewriting a book in a hotel during a weekend of crisis, runs
+      across many unusual characters; among them a woman, shaken because
+      her husband is having a homosexual affair, is shamed into
+      tolerance by dallying with a lesbian prostitute. Wylie, again
+      superficially approving, has his hero act in a skirt-withdrawing
+      way, refusing such things for himself at the last minute in every
+      book.
+
+    WYNDHAM, JOHN. "Consider her Ways" in _Sometime, Never_,
+      Ballantine 1956-57. Science Fiction; a woman experimenting with
+      strange drugs goes into the future, where all men have perished
+      and society resembles that of the ant. Good.
+
+      _The Midwich Cuckoos._ Ballantine, 1957. Science Fiction. Alien
+      visitation from outer space leaves every nubile female in
+      Midwich--married or single, young or old--pregnant. Hilariously
+      funny situations arise; one of the funniest involves a pair of
+      lesbians. Wonderful fun.
+
+    YAFFE, JAMES. _Nothing But the Night._ Little, Brown & Co, 1957,
+      pbr Bantam 1959, (m). More fake Leopold-Loeb. Good.
+
+    YOURCENAR, MARGUERITE. _Hadrian's Memoirs._ Farrar, 1954, qpb
+      Anchor 1954, (m).
+
+    ZOLA, �MILE. _Nana._ Literally dozens of hardcover and paperback
+      editions of a shocker about a street girl who, in addition to all
+      her affairs with men, also has an affair with Satin, a
+      streetwalker.
+
+      _A Lesson in Love._ Abridged edition of Pot Bouille. Pyramid,
+      1959.
+
+    ZUGSMITH, ALBERT. _The Beat Generation._ Bantam pbo based on
+      screenplay by Richard Mathesen, (m) minor.
+
+
+
+
+_The Poetry of Lesbiana_
+
+
+An index of Poems and Poets of interest to Collectors of Lesbiana
+
+_Compiled by Gene Damon_
+
+
+   Briefly, this includes variant as well as overtly lesbian
+   poetry, written in English or available in English
+   translation. The arrangement is chronological, rather than
+   alphabetical. All of these are easily available in public
+   libraries, unless otherwise indicated.
+
+
+THE ANCIENT WORLD:
+
+  _Erinna_--only one fragment left. Available in the Greek Anthology
+    and other miscellaneous collections of that type.
+
+  _Nossis_--Various variant poems and fragments. Greek Anthology,
+    Putnam, 1915-26 (5 vol.). Also in similar collections.
+
+  _Sappho_--The classic poet of lesbianism. Over 50 editions available
+    in hard covers. New translation by Mary Barnard, University of
+    California Press, 1958, qpb $1.25. An attractive edition is also
+    published for $2.50 by the Pater Pauper Press, on display in most
+    bookstores.
+
+  _Juvenal_--Satires. Many editions in hardcover and qpb. (Rolfe
+    Humphries trans. and ed. the Indiana University Press, 1958, $1.50;
+    also number 997 in Everyman's Library, $1.85.) The Sixth Satire.
+
+  _Martial_--His "Epigrams" contain various references to lesbians.
+    Cambridge University Press, 1924, $2.75.
+
+
+THE MIDDLE AGES:
+
+  _Ariosto, Ludovico_--Orlando Furioso. London, Bell, 1907.
+
+  _Labe, Louise_--Love Sonnets (trans. by Frederick Prokosch), New
+    Directions, 1947, $2.50, still in print.
+
+  _Shakespeare, William_--The first 27 of the "Sonnets" are generally
+    adjudged to be male-homosexual in emphasis and are therefore of
+    interest to collectors in this field.
+
+
+THE ROMANTIC POETS--19th CENTURY:
+
+  _Coleridge, Samuel T._--Christabel. Long narrative poem of a curious
+    attachment between a guileless young girl and a female demon;
+    available in virtually every anthology of English literature.
+
+  _Rossetti, Christina_--Goblin Market. Lovely and fantastic poem with
+    distinctly variant overtones. See anthologies of English literature.
+
+  _Romani, Felice_--Norma. Italian libretto for the opera by Vincenzo
+    Bellini, generally adjudged to be subtly lesbian in overtones. Many
+    translations are available in collections of opera libretti, but
+    most English translations edit out the variant content or alter the
+    emphasis.
+
+  _Baudelaire, Charles_--The Flowers of Evil, (trans. from the French
+    of Les Fleurs du Mal by Edna St. Vincent Millay and George Dillon)
+    N. Y., Harper, 1936, also New Directions, pbr, 1958. Many other
+    editions and translations available.
+
+  _Swinburne, Algernon Charles_--Poems and Ballads, 2 vols, London,
+    Chatto & Windus, 1893, 1895. Many of the poems in this series are
+    explicitly or implicitly lesbian. In the interests of space
+    limitation, only the major titles will be listed for those who want
+    to sift through anthologies; Anactoria, Fragoletta, Sapphics, At
+    Eleusis, Sonnet with a copy of Mlle. de Maupin, The Masque of Queen
+    Bersabe, Erotion. The entire series of Poems and Ballads is
+    available in hcr no. 961, Everyman's Library, Dutton, 1940, 50, for
+    $1.95.
+
+  _Lou�s, Pierre_--Songs of Bilitis. Many editions available, the most
+    easily located probably being the Liveright "Collected works of
+    Pierre Louys", $3.50. There is also a paperback edition, Avon Red
+    and Gold Library, no date. The "Songs" have been published singly in
+    numerous privately printed and illustrated editions, some of which
+    are very beautiful collector's items.
+
+  _Bront�, Emily_--Complete Poems. N. Y. Columbia University Press,
+    1941 (still in print at $4.00). A scattering of these poems are (or
+    can be interpreted as) vaguely variant.
+
+  _Mencken, Idah Isaacs_--Infelicia. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1875.
+    (Rare, and expensive.)
+
+  _Field, Michael_--(pseud. of two Englishwomen.) Entire work of
+    lesbian interest and a "must" for completists. Most medium to large
+    public libraries have some of their work.
+
+  _Dickinson, Emily_--Bolts of Melody. N. Y. Harper, 1945. Also variant
+    poems are scattered throughout her earlier editions. (Selected
+    Poems, Modern Library, 1948, $1.65.)
+
+
+THE MODERN POETS:
+
+  _Lowell, Amy_--No one volume of her work can be singled out; her
+    poems are perhaps the most openly variant of any of the English or
+    American poets. Her "Complete Poetical Works" is still in print;
+    Boston, Houghton & Mifflin Co., 1955; Introduction by Louis
+    Untermeyer, $6.00.
+
+  _O'Neill, Rose_--The Master Mistress. N. Y., Knopf, 1922. The creator
+    of the "Kewpies" also was the writer of these sensitive,
+    occasionally erotic poems. Perhaps a dozen are explicitly lesbian.
+
+  _Hall, Radclyffe_--Poems of the Past and Present, London, Chapman &
+    Hall, 1910. Songs of Three Counties, Chapman & Hall, 1913. The
+    Forgotten Island, London, Chapman & Hall, 1915. Sheaf of Verses,
+    London, Chapman & Hall, 1905. Twixt Earth and Stars, London, Chapman
+    & Hall, 1906.
+
+    These poems by the author of "Well of Loneliness" are so overt that
+    it is almost unbelievable that they were printed at all, but they
+    were, and I have the books to prove it ... she managed to get away
+    with it, I guess, because she talks in these poems as if she were a
+    man, writing to a woman.
+
+  _Millay, Edna St. Vincent_--Collected Poems, N. Y., Harper, 1956,
+    $6.00. This is the favored anthology of Millay for this purpose,
+    since it contains everything of hers which is variant in tone.
+    However, there are many single volumes of her poetry available, and
+    also pbrs; Collected Lyrics (Washington Square, 50c), and Collected
+    Sonnets (Washington Square, 50c).
+
+  _Sackville-West, Victoria_--King's Daughter, N. Y., Doubleday, 1930.
+
+  _Sterling, George_--Strange Waters. Privately printed, n.d., also in
+    American Esoterica, N. Y. Macy-Masius, 1927. Lengthy narrative poem
+    of supposed incestuous lesbianism ... shocker.
+
+  _Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.)_--Red Roses for Bronze, London, Lord,
+    Chatto & Windus. Also the Grove Press qpb, Selected Poems of H.D.,
+    1957; this, however, does not contain the best-known of Sappho
+    paraphrases, "Fragment Thirty-six". Also "Collected Poems",
+    Liveright, $2.50.
+
+  _Pitter, Ruth_--English poetess, whose work is rather difficult to
+    locate in this country. Many of her early poems are tinged with
+    variance and well worth the effort of locating them in large
+    libraries.
+
+  _Smith, Alicia Kay_--Only in Whispers. Privately printed; Falmouth,
+    Rockport, Maine. This is the hardest book on this list to obtain,
+    and of course, the most overt. Ardently but in good taste, this
+    tells of a lengthy and beautiful lesbian affair. A "must" book for
+    serious collectors who like poetry.
+
+  _Wright, James_--The Green Wall. Yale University Press, 1957, $3.00.
+    Two overt poems in an excellent and sensitive collection.
+
+
+_Variant Films_
+
+compiled by LauraJean Ermayne and Gene Damon
+
+
+   With the exception of a few privately filmed and circulated
+   stag films, which of course do not come within the scope of
+   this study, lesbianism is treated only vaguely and by
+   indirection in motion pictures. Hollywood codes (which
+   regulate distribution even of foreign films in this country)
+   state unequivocally that homosexuality may not be portrayed
+   _or suggested._ (Italics mine). Even when the predominantly
+   homosexual novel COMPULSION was filmed, the script--though
+   including a rape scene--was fudged so that the relationship
+   between the two boys was never hinted at--except vaguely in
+   one scene, where Orson Welles as the great lawyer said that
+   the opposition might find "something fishy" in the fact that
+   they had no other friends. Your editor has since been informed
+   that the movie NEVER SO FEW portrayed recognizable
+   homosexuals. Hollywood codes are growing less stringent by the
+   day, with the general relaxation of censorship, and by next
+   year there should be some additions to this list. Thanks are
+   due to Miss Ermayne for allowing us to reprint the material
+   used in her article on The Sapphic Cinema in THE LADDER for
+   March, 1959 ... the Editors.
+
+
+THE ADVENTURES OF KING PAUSOLE. Filmed in France in 1932, with Emil
+Jannings. Based on the Pierre Louys novel, this starred 366 models and
+dancers from the Folies Berg�re; among these near-nude and nubile
+nymphs was one disguised as a male ballet dancer, with whom the King's
+daughter Aline had a romance even after discovering that they were of
+the same sex.
+
+ALL ABOUT EVE took the Academy Award in 1950. There is a very lesbian
+situation used to introduce the main protagonist into the movie; later
+events proved the woman only pretending lesbian-type devotion, but the
+inference, in the beginning, is clear and unmistakable. (GD)
+
+THE BARKER 1928. A short silent picture which was banned in many cities
+because it featured a scene in which a very butchy type in men's pajamas
+got into bed with a fluffy blonde type; caused a lot of critical
+hoop-la. (GD)
+
+THE CHILDREN'S HOUR, a film based on the Lillian Hellman play reviewed
+in this Checklist, bears a question mark; will someone who has seen the
+picture please let us know whether lesbian content was implicit in the
+movie?
+
+CHILDREN OF LONELINESS, outright anti-homophile propaganda, was mostly
+male-oriented, but did contain a gay night-club scene, and picture and
+office butch whose offer of affection and protection drove one girl to a
+psychiatrist's couch--where she was counselled against "abnormal love".
+
+DARK VICTORY. 1939, recently shown on TV, concerns a talented, charming
+woman (Bette Davis) dying of a brain tumor; her constant companion and
+secretary is clearly in love with her, and there were numerous beautiful
+and heartbreaking scenes, some of which would be impossible in a movie
+not dealing with such a sad situation.
+
+CLUB DES FEMMES (Girl's Club in English) an admirable French film
+starring Danielle Darieux, reviewed at length in THE LADDER. The lesbian
+element is treated explicitly and with taste and charm.
+
+ESCAPE TO YESTERDAY, a French film with one brief sequence in a cabaret,
+where recognizably lesbian types were portrayed.
+
+MAEDCHEN IN UNIFORM, a classic German film of the thirties, reviewed at
+length in J H Foster's book, starring Hertha Thiele as Manusia and
+Dorothea Wieck as her teacher. The film has recently been re-made but
+has not yet reached the USA.
+
+THE GODDESS, an art film released about a year ago, starring Kim
+Stanley, shows the life of an unwanted child who grows up to be a movie
+queen and ends up living with her secretary, obviously a lesbian; the
+relationship is portrayed with unusual frankness. This movie is still
+playing in specialty theatres around the big cities.
+
+NO EXIT, a French film of the play by Jean-Paul Sartre; setting, limbo;
+one of the characters, a lesbian who fell in love with a married woman
+and drove her to suicide by spooking her.
+
+OPEN CITY, realistic Italian film of 10 years or so ago, had a
+recognizable lesbian type-cast in it.
+
+PIT OF LONELINESS, a French film based on the novel OLIVIA and starring
+Simone Simon. "Something of a disappointment" says LJE.
+
+QUEEN CHRISTINA, 1934. This famous screen classic starred Greta Garbo;
+the variant bits were minor, but they were there. (GD)
+
+ROSE OF WASHINGTON SQUARE 1939. Now-dated tear-jerker starring Alice
+Faye; in one long scene the heroine sings standing by a piano, while a
+clearly seen, very mannish and extremely obvious "type" drools over her.
+Not imagination; this one was the veddy veddy correct, monocled type.
+(GD)
+
+SIGN OF THE RAM, a filming circa 1947 of the Margaret Ferguson novel,
+starred Susan Peters as the wheelchaired heroine; the "crush" between
+Leah and Christine was treated vaguely but recognizably to anyone who
+had read the book.
+
+TIME OF DESIRE. "Much has been made of the Uranian aspect of this film
+but personally I couldn't see it...." LJE
+
+TORST ("Thirst") directed by Ingmar Bergman, is supposed to tell the
+lives of three women strangely in love, including a lesbian. As yet none
+of your editors or contributors have seen the film.
+
+TURNABOUT, the Thorne Smith sex-farce where a man's ego is transmuted
+into a woman's body.
+
+TITLE UNKNOWN; 1950 or 1951; French with English subtitles; action took
+place in a girl's reformatory, much reference to lesbianism and some
+overt scenes; one where a girl caressed the breast of another and
+whispered love words to her, another where a tough street type tells a
+young innocent "See these marks on my thighs, they are each the marks of
+a lover, the left leg for boys and the right for girls." I don't see any
+other way to interpret that scene. (GD)
+
+  THE END, OF COURSE, IS NOT YET.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+Related Publications
+
+
+Information about the following publishers in the field of homosexual
+studies was supplied by the editors; we at the Checklist assume no
+responsibility for this information. We have, however, been constant
+readers of all three of these magazines and can recommend them as
+dignified, worthwhile and occasionally scholarly pioneering in a
+neglected field; they deserve support.
+
+ONE, INCORPORATED. 232 South Hill Street, Los Angeles 12, California.
+Non-profit organization, established in 1952, concerned with the
+problems and interests of homosexual men and women; publishers of:
+
+  ONE Magazine, monthly. Five dollars per year, fifty cents per
+    copy. Sent first class, sealed. Editor Don Slater; Woman's
+    editor, Alison Hunter. Editorials, fiction, poetry, articles,
+    book reviews, letters, artwork. Special attention given to the
+    Feminine Viewpoint. Fiction, articles, poetry by and about the
+    lesbian.
+
+  ONE Institute Quarterly; Homophile Studies. Official Organ of
+    One Institute, a university-level facility presenting classes
+    on the history, biology, sociology and psychology of
+    homosexuality. Articles include scholarly evaluation of
+    literary figures such as Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman,
+    homosexuality and religion, etc. Five dollars per year, $1.50
+    single copy. Editor James Kepner, Jr.
+
+  THE DAUGHTERS OF BILITIS, INC. 165 O'Farrell St, Room 405, San
+    Francisco, Calif. A woman's organization for promoting the
+    integration of the homosexual into society; membership limited to
+    woman. Emphasis on education of the variant to promote adjustment
+    and self-understanding, and education of the public at large through
+    acceptance of the individual. Publishers of:
+
+  THE LADDER. Monthly, $4.00 a year, 50c single copy, mailed
+    first class sealed. Editor, Del Martin. Fiction and poetry of
+    special interest, letters from readers, book reviews and a
+    running column of lesbiana managed by Gene Damon, reports on
+    special study and discussion groups, and the conductors of a
+    recent survey on lesbians personally.
+
+  THE MATTACHINE SOCIETY, 693 Mission Street, San Francisco, California.
+    Founded 1950, Incorporated 1954; purpose, to conduct projects of
+    education, research and social service in sex problems, particularly
+    those of homosexual adults. Publishers of:
+
+  MATTACHINE REVIEW, monthly, offset printed, circulation 2250;
+    $5 a year, 50c single copy, mailed sealed; issued annually in
+    bound volumes, indexed at end of each year. Reflects the
+    policies and purpose of the Mattachine Society with scientific
+    articles, research reports, news of sexological trends, book
+    reviews, letters from readers, a small amount of fiction and
+    annual poetry supplement. Hal Call, Editor.
+
+  DORIAN BOOK QUARTERLY. $2 a year, 50c per copy. Primarily
+    concerned with books and periodicals on socio-sexual themes,
+    particularly fiction and non fiction dealing with
+    homosexuality and related themes. Purpose: to fight censorship
+    and encourage publishing in this field. Advertising accepted,
+    reviews and news of books in the field solicited. Controlled
+    circulation. Harold L. Call, Editor.
+
+
+SEE ALSO FOR COLLECTORS ONLY
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+collectors only
+
+
+Every year, following the publication of the Checklist, we receive a
+number of queries. Where, they want to know, can we buy these books? We
+can only tell you where we buy books; and have therefore assembled the
+following list of reputable dealers, mail order, who handle these books
+and many others.
+
+  WINSTON BOOK SERVICE, 250 Fulton Avenue; Hempstead, New York.
+    Successor to the famous Cory Book Service which was founded by
+    Donald Webster Cory, author of "The Homosexual in America". This is
+    perhaps the best American source for current novels in hard covers
+    and non-fiction. They issue catalogs and lists, give a sizable
+    discount for large orders, and will also locate hard-to-find or
+    out-of-print books. Leslie Laird Winston, who is the presiding
+    genius here, is one of the nicest people to deal with that we have
+    ever known. Every month they feature some new or special book in the
+    field, at a special price. Getting on their mailing list is the
+    _best_ thing that can happen to a collector.
+
+  DORIAN BOOK SERVICE, 693 Mission Street, San Francisco 5,
+    California. A subsidiary of the Mattachine Review and the
+    Pan-Graphic Press. They publish the Dorian Book Quarterly, dealt
+    with elsewhere, and also a fat, fascinating catalogue listing
+    several hundred titles of current hardcover and paperback fiction.
+    They can also furnish, or will locate, many out-of-print titles. My
+    experience with them: prompt service, fast shipment, up-to-date
+    information on cheap reprints of rare titles.
+
+  VILLAGE BOOKS AND PRESS, 114-116 Christopher Street, New York 14,
+    New York. This is the outfit behind the Noel Garde bibliography of
+    Homosexual Literature, mentioned in the editorial. They can still
+    supply this biblio list for $1.50. They also issue lists at frequent
+    intervals, and will search for hard-to-find and out-of-print titles.
+    Prices seem reasonable considering the scarcity of some of the
+    paperbacks he handles. The proprietor, Howard Frisch, is one of the
+    most co-operative dealers in the business.
+
+  ONE Magazine, listed in "Related Publications" has published one
+    volume of short stories, and is soon to do more publishing; they
+    also list several dozen books sold by mail order.
+
+  THE LADDER, listed in "Related Publications", is soon to set up a
+    book service; their first special release will be Jeannette Howard
+    Foster's "Sex Variant Women in Literature", so keep your eyes open.
+
+  THE TENTH MUSE, bookshop managed by Julia Newman, 326 West 15th St,
+    New York 11, New York, also does some mail order business. Write for
+    a list.
+
+  A POINTS NORTHE, unusual bookshop at 15 Robinson Street, in Oklahoma
+    City, managed by James Neill Northe, into which your senior editor
+    virtually stumbled during a rainstorm, specializes in very rare,
+    esoteric and scholarly titles, curiosa, etc. He can supply even the
+    most fantastically rare stuff; prices are in line with the rarity of
+    the items wanted. (It was Mr. Northe who, with disinterested
+    kindness, supplied some biblio data on the real rarities on the
+    list; he has our thanks and endorsement.)
+
+  BOOKPOST, C. Rogers, Box 3251, San Diego 3, California. This outfit
+    specializes in Americana, but can supply almost anything. The prices
+    here are the most reasonable I've ever encountered; if Rogers quotes
+    you a price, there's no point in shopping around for a lower one.
+
+  INTERNATIONAL BOOKFINDERS, P O Box 3003, Beverly Hills, California.
+    These people are the out-of-print bookfinders par excellence. I've
+    ordered many books from them; their prices are reasonable, never
+    exorbitant; their service is good, the books they supply are always
+    of high quality. They're nice to deal with. I've never had a
+    complaint in ten years of bookhunting.
+
+  RAYMOND TRANFIELD, Antiquarian Book Dealer, 31 Hart Street,
+    Henley-Upon-Thames, Oxon, England, is probably the best source for
+    older books published in England. His prices are reasonable, his
+    service is fast (he quotes by airmail and sends his parcels insured,
+    which is a blessing for anything which has to travel across the
+    ocean).
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+paperbacks
+
+
+Paperbacks. We hate them and we love them. The worst rubbish, and the
+best literature brought within the reach of a slim budget. If you missed
+it on the news-stands, all is not lost....
+
+
+  ACE BOOKS Inc., 23 West 47th Street, New York 36, New York. (25c)
+
+  AVON Books; Avon Publications, Inc., 575 Madison Ave, N. Y. 22, N. Y.
+    (35c & 50c)
+
+  BALLANTINE BOOKS, Inc., 101 Fifth Ave, New York 3, N. Y.(35c)
+
+  BEACON BOOKS, 117 East 31st St, New York 16, N. Y. (35c or 3 for one
+    dollar)
+
+  BERKLEY Publishing Corp., 146 West 57th St, New York 19, N. Y.
+
+  CREST and GOLD MEDAL books; Fawcett Publications, Greenwich,
+    Connecticut.
+
+  CARDINAL editions, POCKET BOOKS and PERMABOOKS, Pocket Books, Inc, 630
+    Fifth Avenue, New York 20, N. Y. Free catalogue on request.
+
+  NEWSSTAND LIBRARY EDITIONS, (Magenta Books, and others) 3143 Diversey
+    Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Free lists sent on request.
+
+  BANTAM BOOKS, 25 West 45th Street, New York 36, N. Y.
+
+  DELL BOOKS, Dell Publishing Corp. Inc, 750 Third Avenue, New York 17,
+    NY
+
+  PYRAMID BOOKS, 444 Madison Avenue, New York 22, New York.
+
+  POPULAR LIBRARY, Hillman Books and others, do not print their address
+    in the books and evidently don't want to bother with mail orders. If
+    you miss them on the news-stands, you'll have to root in secondhand
+    stores. Saber and Fabian Books can be ordered through the Dorian Book
+    Service, and some secondhand book dealers will locate paperbacks,
+    including Village Books and Press, above.
+
+  BEDSIDE and BEDTIME books, (50c each) 200 West 34th Street, New York,
+    N. Y.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+  _hardcover publishers_
+
+  Compiled by Kerry Dame
+
+  A list of all obtainable addresses of the publishers of hardcover
+  books mentioned in the Checklist. (Paperback publishers listed
+  elsewhere.)
+
+
+  Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc--35 W. 32nd St, NYC 1, N. Y.
+
+  Arco Publishing Co, Inc.--480 Lexington Ave. NYC 17, NY
+
+  Arkham House; Publishers.--Sauk City, Wisconsin.
+
+  A. S. Barnes & Co.--11 E. 36th St, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Barnes & Noble, Inc.--105 Fifth Ave. NYC 3, NY
+
+  Beacon _Press_, Inc.--25 Beacon St, Boston 8, Mass.
+
+  Blakiston Co.--(see McGraw-Hill Book Co, Inc.)
+
+  Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc.--717 Fifth Avenue, NY 22, NY
+
+  Borden Publishing Co.--3077 Wabash Avenue, Los Angeles 63, Cal.
+
+  Boxwood Press--Box 7171, Pittsburgh 13, Penna.
+
+  C. F. Braun & Co.--1000 S. Fremont Ave, Alhambra, Calif.
+
+  Citadel Press--222 Fourth Ave, NYC 3, NY
+
+  Clarion Press--510 Madison Avenue, Room 700, NYC 22, NY
+
+  P. F. Collier & Son--Library Division, 640 Fifth Avenue, NYC 19
+
+  Comet Press Books--200 Varick St, NYC 14, N. Y.
+
+  F. E. Compton & Co.,--1000 N. Dearborn St, Chicago 10, Illinois
+
+  Coward-McCann, Inc.--210 Madison Avenue, N. Y. C. 16, NY
+
+  Creative Age Press--(see "Farrar, Straus & Cudahy")
+
+  Criterion Books--257 Fourth Ave, NYC 10, NY
+
+  Thomas Y. Crowell Co.--432 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Crown Publishers, Inc.--419 Fourth Avenue, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Dial Press, Inc.--461 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Dodd, Mead & Co.--432 Fourth Avenue, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Dorrance & Co., Inc.--131 N. 20th St, Philadelphia 3, Penna.
+
+  Doubleday & Co., Inc.--mail orders; Garden City, New York.
+
+  Dover Publications, Inc.--180 Varick Street, NYC 14, NY
+
+  Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Inc.--19 W. 40th St, NYC 18, NY
+
+  E. P. Dutton & Co.,--300 Fourth Avenue, NYC 10, NY
+
+  Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, Inc.--101 Fifth Avenue, NYC 3, NY
+
+  Frederick Fell, Inc.--386 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Fleet Publishing Corp.--70 E. 45th St, NYC 17, NY
+
+  Funk & Wagnalls Co.--153 E. 24th St, NYC 10, NY
+
+  Greenberg--(see Chilton Co, Book Division, 56th & Chestnut St,
+    Philadelphia 39, Penna.--what became of Greenberg; NY?)
+
+  Grosset & Dunlap, Inc.--mail orders; 227 E. Center St, Kingsport,
+    Tennessee.
+
+  Grove Press, Inc.--64 University Place, NYC 3, NY
+
+  Harper & Brothers--49 E. 33rd St, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Hastings House, Publishers--151 E. 50th St, NYC 22, NY
+
+  Henry Holt & Co.--383 Madison Ave, NYC 17, NY
+
+  Houghton, Mifflin Co.--2 Park St, Boston 7, Mass.
+
+  Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana.
+
+  Alfred E. Knopf Inc.--501 Madison Avenue, NYC 22, NY
+
+  Lane Publishing Co.--Menlo Park, Calif.
+
+  J. B. Lippincott Co.--East Washington Square, Philadelphia 5, Penna.
+
+  Little, Brown & Co.--34 Beacon Street, Boston 6, Mass.
+
+  Liveright Publishing Corp.--386 Fourth St, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Robert M. McBride--235 Fourth Avenue, NYC 3, NY
+
+  McDowell, Oblensky, Inc.--219 E. 61st St, NYC (no zone listed)
+
+  McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.--330 West 42nd St, NYC 36, NY
+
+  David McKay Co., Inc.--119 West 40th St, NYC 18, NY
+
+  Macauley Co.--(Book Sales, Inc, 352 Fourth Ave, NYC 10, NY)
+
+  Macmillan Co.--60 Fifth Avenue, NYC 11, NY
+
+  Julian Messner, Inc.--8 W. 40th St, NYC 18, NY
+
+  Wm. Morrow & Co., Inc.--425 Fourth Avenue, NYC 16, NY
+
+  New Directions--333 Sixth Avenue, NYC 14, NY
+
+  Noonday Press, Inc.--80 E. 11th St, NYC 3, NY
+
+  Ottenheimer Publishers--4805 Nelson Avenue, Baltimore 15, Md.
+
+  Pageant Press, Inc.--101 Fifth Avenue, NYC 3, NY
+
+  G. P. Putnam's Sons--210 Madison Avenue, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Rand McNally & Co.--Box 7600, Chicago 80, Illinois
+
+  Random House, Inc.--457 Madison Avenue, NYC 22, NY
+
+  Rinehart & Co, Inc.--232 Madison Avenue, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Simon & Schuster, Inc.--Mail Orders; 136 West 52nd St, NYC 19, NY
+
+  Sagamore Press, Inc.--11 E. 36th St, NYC 16, NY
+
+  St. Martin's Press, Inc.--175 Fifth Avenue, NYC 10, NY
+
+  Charles Scribners Sons--597 Fifth Avenue, NYC 17, NY
+
+  Tudor Publishing Co.--(Order From; Harlem Book Co, 221 Fourth Ave. NYC
+    3, NY)
+
+  University of California Press, Berkeley 4, Calif.
+
+  Vanguard Press, Inc.--424 Madison Ave. NYC 17, NY
+
+  Vantage Press, Inc.--120 West 31st St, NYC 1, NY
+
+  Viking Press--625 Madison Avenue, NYC 22, NY
+
+  Wm. Sloane Associates--(see Wm. Morrow & Co)
+
+  World Publishing Co.--2231 W. 110th St, Cleveland 2, Ohio.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ADDENDA
+
+
+Misfiled, dropped in copyright or, we goofed;
+
+
+    BRANDEL, MARC. _The Choice._ New York, Dial, 1950. no data.
+
+    CATTO, MAX. _The Killing Frost._ London, Wm. Heinemann, 1950, (m).
+      Tense relationship between two circus performers motivates an
+      unusual, and excellent mystery novel.
+
+    RAY, SANFORD. _Satan's Harvest._ Saber Books pbo ca. 1957. Evening
+      waster; a Mexican girl, Lupe, from a broken home, goes--with her
+      older sister--into a brothel, but is "protected" from the advances
+      of the men by the fact that the lesbian madame has taken a fancy
+      to her. Lupe's older sister burns the place down to free Lupe from
+      this fate.
+
+    SAYRE, GORDON. (pseud. of Jack Woodford.) _Wife to Trade._ N. Y.
+      Godwin, 1936. No reviews available, but probably racy stuff, not
+      too badly written.
+
+    WILLINGHAM, CALDER. "The Sum of two Angles", ss in _The Gates OF
+      Hell._ N. Y. Vanguard, 1951.
+
+    YOUNG, FRANCES BRETT. _White Ladies._ NY, Harper 1935. A
+      boarding-school tomboy, infatuated with a schoolteacher, finally
+      comes to see her as a vampire, feeding on the emotions of the
+      young.
+
+
+behind the scenes
+
+Introducing the editors and contributors....
+
+
+  MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY, Editor and publisher of the Checklist, who
+    attends to such minor chores as editorial format and manhandling the
+    mimeograph, is by profession a writer of science fiction. Her work
+    has appeared in virtually every science fiction magazine on the
+    market. She is thirty years-old, lives in a small town in Texas, and
+    her other interests are Italian opera, acrobatics and mountain
+    climbing.
+
+  GENE DAMON, whose competent brain does the bibliographical work for the
+    Checklist, is in her mid-twenties, lives in the midwest, and is a
+    librarian; she previously worked as a book-keeper and on a large
+    city newspaper. Her chief interests are classical music and the
+    collecting of variant literature; her private library contains over
+    600 titles of lesbiana alone. It was the untiring, perfectionist
+    efforts of Miss Damon which checked every biblio reference in this
+    list; she also supplied a summary or precis for every title which
+    the senior editor had not read. In general, Damon is the brains of
+    the Checklist; MZB merely the brawn.
+
+  KERRY DAME, stencil-cutter, artist and printer's devil, is in her early
+    twenties and lives in New England with her mother and many cats. She
+    is no stranger to the readers of the _Ladder_, who all know her gay,
+    airy cover drawings.
+
+  LAURAJEAN ERMAYNE, contributor to _Vice Versa_, collector of lesbiana,
+    specialist in films, and tireless hunter of the news-stands, lives
+    in California and, under her own name, is a well-known editor and
+    writer.
+
+
+HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT: In a forgotten closet, your editor has just
+discovered a stack of copies of the ASTRA'S TOWER Checklist #3. We
+thought they'd all been destroyed. This is the last-year's list,
+containing Royal Drummond's "Digression", and my account of a hassle
+with the fascinatin' Miss Apple. I want to get these things out of my
+broom closet, and my soul revolts at the thought of tossing the things
+into the trash burner for the edification of the garbage collector.
+Therefore, we will make the following offer. Mailing these things out by
+printed-matter, fourth class mail costs 7-1/2 cents. By first class
+mail, 12 cents postage is required. Envelopes cost something. If anyone
+wants these (who knows, they might be valuable as examples of
+prehistoric lesbiana some day) you can have then for a quarter (first
+class mail) or six for a dollar to pass around among your friends. Hurry
+up--I'm going to need my broom closet for the mimeograph when I get
+finished with this year's Checklist. You'll find the address on the
+titlepage.--And this is it--The End--Marion.
+
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Checklist, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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+Title: Checklist
+       A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and
+              homosexual fiction, in English or available in English
+              translation, with supplements of related material, for the
+              use of collectors, students and librarians.
+
+Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley
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+<p>
+<br /><br /><br />
+[Transcriber's note: Extensive research found no evidence that
+the copyright for this book had been renewed.]
+<br /><br /><br />
+</p>
+
+<table width="100%" summary="original title" border="1">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"><img src="images/title.png" width="500" height="752" alt=
+"TITLE PAGE." title="" /></div>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">1</a></span></p>
+<h3>Marion Zimmer Bradley</h3>
+
+<h1><i>CHECKLIST</i></h1>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"><img src="images/fig01.png" width="500" height="31" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian,
+variant and homosexual fiction, in English
+or available in English translation, with
+supplements of related material, for the use
+of collectors, students and librarians.
+</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"><img src="images/fig01.png" width="500" height="31" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div>
+
+<h2><a name="table_of_contents" id="table_of_contents"></a>table of contents</h2>
+
+<table width="100%" summary="TOC">
+<tr>
+<td class="left90">Editorial; History and purpose of the Checklist</td>
+<td class="right10"><a href="#Page_2">2</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="left90">List of symbols and abbreviations</td>
+<td class="right10"><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="left90">The complete cumulative Checklist, indexed by author</td>
+<td class="right10"><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="left90">The poetry of Lesbiana; chronological reference list (compiled by Gene Damon)</td>
+<td class="right10"><a href="#Page_58">58</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="left90">Variant Films</td>
+<td class="right10"><a href="#Page_61">61</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="left90">Related Publications; the homosexual Press</td>
+<td class="right10"><a href="#Page_63">63</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="left90">For Collectors Only; a list of book services</td>
+<td class="right10"><a href="#Page_64">64</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="left90">Paperback Publishers; addresses</td>
+<td class="right10"><a href="#Page_65">65</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="left90">Hardcover Publishers; addresses</td>
+<td class="right10"><a href="#Page_66">66</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="left90">Behind the scenes; meet the editors</td>
+<td class="right10"><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"><img src="images/fig01.png" width="500" height="31" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div>
+
+<h4>Edited and Published by: MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY<br />
+Associate Editor: GENE DAMON<br />
+Cover design and layouts by Kerry Dame<br />
+</h4>
+
+<h4>Entire contents copyright, May 1960, by Marion Zimmer
+Bradley, Box 158, Rochester, Texas. All rights
+reserved.</h4>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 99px;"><img src="images/fig02.png" width="99" height="31" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">2</a></span></p>
+
+<h1>editorial</h1>
+
+<h4>THE PURPOSE AND HISTORY OF THE CHECKLIST</h4>
+
+<p>Here, in a single volume, it has been our intention to
+list, document and review every novel dealing, however slightly,
+with female variance, lesbianism or intense emotional relationships
+between women. We have also included a majority of the
+better known novels which, dealing primarily with male homosexuality,
+are of interest to the collector of variant fiction in
+general.</p>
+
+<p>In related supplements we have compiled lists of variant
+poetry, variant films, of the major book services and publishing
+houses where these books can be obtained, and of the homosexual
+press.</p>
+
+<p>The titles in the major portion of the Checklist are listed
+in a single comprehensive index by author. Information includes
+date published, number of reprints and publisher&#8217;s name. Brief
+reviews are included of most titles. An effort has been made in
+each case to distinguish whether the work under discussion is a
+novel about lesbianism, whether the variant content has been included
+mostly for shock effect, or whether (as in some excellent
+modern novels) homosexual characters appear incidentally to the
+other main themes of action in the book.</p>
+
+<p>In such a comprehensive listing, reviews must of necessity
+be brief. For further discussion of many of the titles listed
+here, with excellent and complete critical analysis of their
+variant content, the serious student or collector is earnestly
+urged to invest in the definitive and major work on the subject:</p>
+
+<p class="indent2b">
+FOSTER, Jeannette Howard; <i>Sex Variant Women in
+Literature</i>. N. Y. Vantage Press, 1956.
+</p>
+
+<p>Although now officially out of print, this book can occasionally
+be obtained second hand, and copies will soon be offered for
+sale through the Daughters of Bilitis publication, THE LADDER.
+(See appendix.) We have made no effort to give more than cursory
+reviews of titles which are discussed at length in Dr. Foster&#8217;s
+work. However, since the publication of the Foster book, many
+new novels of lesbianism have been published, and the diligent
+search of many collectors, working with the Checklist editors,
+has brought many old ones to light.</p>
+
+<p>We have tried to review in some detail the novels which
+were omitted from Dr. Foster&#8217;s work, and to strive for completeness,
+even at the expense of discriminatory judgment about the
+excellence or otherwise of the works included. Therefore this
+Checklist includes many works whose lesbian content was too
+slight, too subtle&mdash;or too &#8220;trashy&#8221;&mdash;to have come within the
+scope of the scholarly studies of Dr. Foster or the running
+column, <i>Lesbiana</i>, conducted by junior editor Gene Damon in the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">3</a></span>
+pages of THE LADDER.</p>
+
+<p>It is our further contention that many novels dealing with
+male homosexuality come also within the province of the serious
+collector of lesbiana. We make, however, no claim for completeness
+for novels which fall within the homosexual, rather than
+the lesbian province. In general, the male titles included in
+this list&mdash;clearly defined, in each case, by the sign (m)&mdash;have
+been included because they were of special interest to
+the editors and therefore are presumably of interest to other
+collectors of lesbiana.</p>
+
+<p>For those who wish a complete list of works dealing with
+male homosexuality, we suggest the comprehensive bibliography
+compiled by Noel I. Garde, discussed in the Appendix of Related
+Publications. Mr. Garde has indexed virtually every homosexual
+work from antiquity to the latest paperback shocker, and has also
+performed the mighty task of separating them into categories ...
+a task from which the Checklist editors have shrunk, though we
+have made some attempt at classification in our reviews and by
+awarding a plus sign to books of exceptional value. (For further
+discussion of this division, please consult the &#8220;List of Symbols
+and Abbreviations&#8221; on page 2.)</p>
+
+<p>Most of the reviews in the present listing were written by
+one of the editors; no attempt has been made to divide the reviews
+written by MZB from those written by Damon. In general, these
+reviews have been gathered from so many sources that the awarding
+of individual credit would be impossible.</p>
+
+<p>This Checklist, 1960, is the last of the cumulative Checklists.
+Plans at present are to publish brief supplements annually, listing
+only new titles, new reprints of old titles, or new discoveries of
+overlooked titles. Since this is the case, we feel that some brief
+history of the Checklist might be of interest to the readers.</p>
+
+<p>Nearly 10 years ago, in the mailing of the Fantasy Amateur
+Press Association, a very bitter discussion was raging on the
+subject of censorship&mdash;pro and con. Complicating this discussion,
+a man who is now dead, and shall therefore be nameless, published
+a scathing attack on homosexuals. By way of subtle reproof, and
+partially as a deadpan joke on this man, your senior editor, with
+Royal Drummond (whose &#8220;Digression&#8221; was highly praised by Checklist
+readers last year ...) published a 12-page offset leaflet, with
+editorials attacking censorship, and extensive reviews of perhaps
+a dozen of the best known homosexual novels. This leaflet had
+a cartoon cover and the general light-hearted tone of the publication
+was indicated by the title, which was <i>Fairy Tales for
+Fabulous Faps</i>. Reaction to this leaflet was mixed, but in general
+the readers enjoyed it, and said, &#8220;Do this again some time&mdash;&#8221;.
+However, soon after this, Mr. Drummond dropped out of the Fantasy
+Amateur Press Association, and your present editor had no impetus
+to continue the series single-handed.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">4</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Early in the history of the publication known as THE LADDER,
+your senior editor had the privilege of reviewing the Foster book
+mentioned above, while the junior editor was in charge of the
+<i>Lesbiana</i> column. After reading the Foster work, your editor (MZB)
+resolved to publish a list of the omitted titles; when I began
+cutting the mimeograph stencils, however, I resolved to review
+not only the titles which Dr. Foster had omitted, but all of those
+which I had read, for the purpose of putting into print my own
+personal opinions and reactions. This first Checklist was called
+<i>Astra&#8217;s Tower #2</i>, and the number 2 seems to have baffled a good
+many people&mdash;they all wrote in, inquiring about #1. Number 1,
+however, was a mimeographed booklet of my own fiction, published
+during my late teens for the FAPA, mentioned above.</p>
+
+<p>Through this first Checklist, I came into contact with Miss
+Damon, and because paperback lesbiana was blossoming on all the
+stands, we quickly resolved to publish another Checklist. I had
+fully intended to give Miss Damon full credit for her work last
+year; however, the mimeograph work on last year&#8217;s list was so
+poor, the quality of the paper so bad, and some unreliable reviewers
+fouled me up so badly on data, that I refused to foist off
+any portion of the blame on other shoulders.</p>
+
+<p>The relaxing of censorship of recent years&mdash;as documented
+in the Supreme Court judgment relevant to <i>Lady Chatterley&#8217;s Lover</i>,
+etc.&mdash;has meant, in recent fiction, fewer taboos and in general
+a franker treatment of sexual themes. On the whole this is a good
+thing. However and unfortunately, it has also released a flood
+of trash and borderline erotica, of no literary worth and
+&#8220;interesting&#8221; only for the sexual content. Your editors have
+conscientiously waded through all this newsstand slush (and
+believe me, we get no kick out of it) because experience has
+taught us that even the worst peddlers of commercialized sex-trash
+sometimes come up with exceptionally well-written, honest and
+sincere work. For instance, Beacon Books (a subsidiary of Universal
+Publishing and Distributing Company)&mdash;some of whose
+paperback originals can be called printable only by the uttermost
+charity,&mdash;are currently also publishing the work of Artemis
+Smith, one of the major writers in the variant field today.</p>
+
+<p>However, actually reviewing the majority of this stuff is
+impossible. Most of these books are not novels at all. They have
+impossibly complex plots&mdash;or no plots at all&mdash;since the story
+exists only as an excuse for the characters to jump into amorous
+exercise with the closest male, or female, or sometimes both.
+This sort of thing, &#8220;lesbian&#8221; only remotely, belongs more properly
+to the field of curiosa. One can, of course, display a Place
+Pigalle post card in a gallery with the Botticelli Venus, and
+classify them both as &#8220;nudes&#8221;. I personally consider this an
+insult to the Venus, and the devotee of &#8220;feelthy peectures&#8221; will
+find the restraint and taste of fine art too tame for his jaded
+tastes.</p>
+
+<p>We are unalterably opposed to most censorship&mdash;but after<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">5</a></span>
+wading through almost a hundred books whose only excuse for
+existence is to provide phony &#8220;thrills&#8221; for people too inhibited,
+too ignorant or too fearful to provide their own, well&mdash;- we
+think wistfully of some self-imposed standards of taste.</p>
+
+<p>We also realize, flatly and realistically, that too much
+license in this stuff is going to bring on a wave of public
+reaction which may impose a sure-enough censorship&mdash;making the
+standards of the 1940s and 1950s look liberal.</p>
+
+<p>Now obviously the field of homosexual literature is going
+to place a certain emphasis on the sexual problems of humanity
+which will be quantitatively greater than that of&mdash;say&mdash;the
+Western novel, or the detective story. Sex alone has not been
+made an excuse for consigning any novel to the trashbin. If the
+treatment is honest, the characters even remotely believable
+and the purpose of the book seems reasonably genuine, then the
+quantity of sex is purely a matter for the author&#8217;s discretion;
+and be it much, as in the works of March Hastings, Artemis Smith
+or Henry Miller, or little, as in Iris Murdoch&#8217;s delicate and
+subtle THE BELL, or Shirley Jackson&#8217;s THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE,&mdash;- we
+give the book judgment only on its merits as a book.</p>
+
+<p>However, in self-defense, we have had to find a way to dispose
+of the more repetitive rubbish. Allowing for differences
+in taste, and granting that many people like their books well-spiced,
+if there is a reasonably well-written story along with
+the sex we have called it &#8220;Evening waster&#8221;&mdash;on the grounds
+that it may very well provide pleasant entertainment for anyone
+not a hopeless prude. But if the story is just a peg on which
+to hang up a lot of poorly written, gamy erotic episodes, with
+no literary value, and just evasive enough to keep the printer
+out of jail, then we have given it short shrift with the abbreviation
+&#8220;scv&#8221;&mdash;which cryptic letters are editorial shorthand
+for &#8220;Short Course in Voyeurism&#8221;&mdash;and have been the basis of a
+lot of jokes in the tedious business of passing reviews around
+the editorial staff (The junior and senior editors live a thousand
+miles apart and have never met; the others who occasionally contribute
+reviews are scattered from Alabama to Oregon.). So we
+have to have some fun in the endless correspondence&mdash;and &#8220;scv&#8221;
+books are fair game.</p>
+
+<p>Regrettably, we are well aware that some people are going
+to use this designation in precisely the opposite fashion than
+we intended&mdash;- go through the list picking out the sexy books
+and carefully avoiding the others. Well&mdash;we shan&#8217;t spoil your
+fun. Each to her own taste, as the old lady said when she kissed
+the cow.</p>
+
+<p>We wish here to give some slight acknowledgment to all
+those who, over the years since the initiation of this endeavor,
+have contributed overlooked titles, pointed out our errors,
+sent comments, criticisms and sometimes cash, laboriously
+tracked down elusive data, worked as unpaid researchers and
+stencil-cutters, and in general helped us to feel we were not
+working in a vacuum.</p>
+
+<p>Special acknowledgments are due to Dr. Jeannette Howard
+Foster, unfailingly generous and gracious in allowing us to
+pick her brains; to Leslie Laird Winston, of the Winston Book
+Service; to the editors of THE LADDER, Del Martin in particular,
+for helping us to publicize our Checklist, and for allowing us
+to use reviews run in the <i>Lesbiana</i> column; to Forrest Ackerman,
+for endless help and encouragement; and to Kerry Dame, whose
+generous gift of stamps proved invaluable to the heavy load of
+correspondence necessary to keep this one-woman publishing
+house rolling. And to all those others, anonymous by choice,
+who have sent small gifts of cash and stamps, turned up elusive
+paperbacks for me in news-standless West Texas, contributed
+reviews and data, and, above all, provided cheer and encouraging
+support. We hope this Checklist is half as much fun for you to
+read as it was for us&mdash;all things considered&mdash;to prepare.</p>
+
+<p>And here at the end I take off my editorial &#8220;We&#8221; for a
+special, personal THANK YOU to my collaborator and co-editor,
+GENE DAMON.</p>
+
+<p>And now, until the first Supplement time, it&#8217;s time to
+turn the Checklist over to you. Comments and criticisms are
+invited.</p>
+
+<div class="quotsig"><p>Marion Z Bradley</p></div>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"><img src="images/fig03.png" width="500" height="39" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">6</a></span></p>
+
+<h4>List of Symbols and Abbreviations</h4>
+
+<table width="100%" summary="Abreviations" border="0">
+<tr>
+<td class="right10">pbo&mdash;</td>
+<td class="left90"><p class="indent5">paperbacked original; first published in paperback
+or first English edition in paperback.</p></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="right10">pbr&mdash;</td>
+<td class="left90"><p class="indent5">paperbacked reprint.</p></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="right10">n.d.&mdash;</td>
+<td class="left90"><p class="indent5">no date listed or date unknown.</p></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="right10">ss&mdash;</td>
+<td class="left90"><p class="indent5">short story.</p></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="right10">qpb&mdash;</td>
+<td class="left90"><p class="indent5">quality paperback book (as, Grove Press or Vintage).</p></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="right10">tct&mdash;</td>
+<td class="left90"><p class="indent5">title changed to (as, <i>Torchlight to Valhalla</i>, pbr
+tct <i>The Strange Path</i>).</p></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="right10">fco&mdash;</td>
+<td class="left90"><p class="indent5">for completists only; variant content either extremely
+slight or problematical.</p></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="right10">+&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+<td class="left90"><p class="indent5">before a title indicates a book of considerable value.
+Occasionally used to call attention to a fine new
+release or the discovery of an old title overlooked
+in previous bibliographies. In general, the plus
+sign has been reserved for books of honest purpose,
+sincere if not always entirely favorable treatment of
+the homosexual theme, and some genuine literary merit.
+In one or two cases, a plus has been given to a book
+of little intrinsic worth because of some major and
+exceptional contribution to thought on the variant
+theme; or to an occasional book for being extremely
+good entertainment of its kind, even if no masterpiece.
+We have tried to avoid including only our favorites.</p></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="right10">(m)&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+<td class="left90"><p class="indent5">indicates a novel concerned mostly with male homosexuality.
+A very large proportion of such novels,
+however, contain some discussion of female variance,
+or lesbian characters, as well.</p></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="right10">BAYOR&mdash;</td>
+<td class="left90"><p class="indent5">By at your own risk ... either no accurate data is
+available or the editors find themselves in hopeless
+disagreement about its relevance.</p></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="right10">Evening&nbsp;</td>
+<td class="left90"  colspan="2"><p class="indent5">Waster&mdash;good solid entertainment and reasonably
+well-written, though worthless as literature.</p></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="right10">scv&mdash;</td>
+<td class="left90"><p class="indent5">see editorial for complete discussion of this term.
+This is the literary ghetto, the gutter books, the
+commercialized sex trash as distinguished from honest
+erotic realism.</p></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"><img src="images/fig04.png" width="500" height="63" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">7</a></span></p>
+
+<h3>THE COMPLETE, CUMULATIVE CHECKLIST
+OF LESBIAN FICTION</h3>
+
+<p class="indent">ACKWORTH, ROBERT C. <i>The Moments Between.</i> pbo, Hillman Books 1959.
+Characters in a college novel include an instructor&mdash;male&mdash;who
+is homosexual, very sympathetically portrayed.
+Also a subtle, but sympathetic attachment between an unlovely,
+unloved student and an older woman; the relationship is
+shown as constructive for both in the end.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ ADAMS, FAY. <i>Appointment in Paris</i>. pbo, N. Y., Gold Medal 1952.
+An American girl in Paris has a brief affair with a
+French woman and is thereby enabled to break the hold of her
+old-maid aunt. She later marries.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">ADDAMS, KAY. <i>Queer Patterns</i>. pbo, Beacon, 1959. scv.
+Trashy shocker about young Nora Card, who briefly
+forsakes her boy friend, Roger, for a corrupt lesbian employer.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Warped Desires.</i> pbo, Beacon, 1960. scv. Teenage
+Doris goes to a boarding school and is seduced by everyone
+on the premises, male and female.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">ALDRICH, ANN (pseud.)</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>We Too Must Love.</i> pbo Gold Medal 1958.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>We Walk Alone.</i> pbo, Gold Medal 1955.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">Non-fiction
+studies of the lesbian world, highly subjective, mostly
+vignettes of gay life in and around Greenwich Village, with
+some added data about the manners, customs and language of
+the &#8220;gay&#8221; world. Good reading, if somewhat biased.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">
+see also VIN PACKER
+</p>
+
+<p class="indent">ALEXANDER, DAVID. <i>Madhouse in Washington Square.</i> Lippincott,
+1958. Mystery novel of high quality, introducing a
+pair of lesbians for window-dressing.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">ANDERSON, HELEN. <i>Pity for Women</i>. N. Y., Doubleday, 1937.
+An unhappy and tense relationship among three women,
+inhabitants of a women&#8217;s residence club in New York.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. <i>Dark Laughter</i>. N. Y., Boni &amp; Liveright, 1925,
+pbr Pocket Books, 1952. Very slight.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Poor White</i>; N. Y., B. W. Huebsch, 1920, hcr in The Portable
+Sherwood Anderson, qpb Viking Press P42. In the course of
+a novel about the rise of a &#8220;shantytown boy&#8217;s&#8221; rise to
+prosperity, there is a brief but extremely sympathetic
+portrait of the lesbian, Kate Chancellor; the hero&#8217;s wife,
+Clara, is briefly captivated by Kate during her college days.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">8</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">ANDREYA, GUY. <i>Tormented Venus</i>. N. Y. Key Pub. Co 1958. scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">ANONYMOUS. <i>Adam and Two Eves</i>. Macauley Co, N. Y., 1934, pbr
+Beacon Books 1956. Evening waster. Neurotically
+heartbroken woman mourning her dead lover becomes entangled
+with a married woman because a woman&#8217;s love does not
+constitute infidelity to the dead; once initiated she becomes
+entangled in a long affair <i>a trois</i>, from which she
+is eventually extricated (somewhat the worse for wear) by
+a man she later marries.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">ANTHOLZ, PEYSON. <i>All Shook Up.</i> pbo, Ace Books, 1958, (m).
+Alan, small-town teen-age rowdy, fights against his
+friendship with newcomer Howard Sirche, because it is rumored
+that Howard, who avoids women, is homosexual. Very good
+of its kind.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">ANTON, CAL. <i>The Private Life of a Strip Tease Girl.</i> pbo, Beacon
+1959, scv. Just what it sounds like. Among her many
+&#8220;affairs&#8221; is a brief episode with another girl.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">ASQUITH, CYNTHIA. &#8220;The Lovely Voice&#8221;. ss, in <i>This Mortal Coil</i>.
+Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin. Fantasy, 1947</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BAKER, DENYS VAL. <i>A Journey With Love</i>. Bridgehead Books, 1955,
+pbr Crest Books 1956. fco. The hero&#8217;s first marriage
+fails because of his wife&#8217;s insistence that a woman
+friend shall share their home. Nothing is explicit.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BAKER, DOROTHY. <i>Trio.</i> Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1943, hcr
+Sun Dial 1945, pbr Penguin Books 1946. Tells of the
+captivation of a young woman by an unscrupulous literary
+agent who also happens to be a lesbian. Highly defamatory.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Young Man with A Horn.</i> Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1938,
+pbr Signet 1953. Very minor lesbian incident in a jazz novel.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ BALDWIN, JAMES. <i>Giovanni&#8217;s Room.</i> Dial 1956, pbr Signet 1959, (m).
+An American boy in Paris fights against his affair
+with a young Italian, Giovanni; his fear and resistance to
+this relationship leads to separation, tragedy and their
+separate destruction. A powerful, tender and tragic book.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BALDWIN, MONICA. <i>The Called and the Chosen.</i> Farrar, Straus <i>&amp;</i>
+Cudahy, N. Y., 1957, pbr Signet 1958. A good study
+of repression and frustration in convent life, containing
+passim the story of Sister Helena, novice-mistress; although
+her behavior was strictly correct even for a nun, she once
+inspired such violent passions in her juniors that she was
+removed from this office. The heroine refers to Sister
+Helena, after her death, as &#8220;the one human being I ever loved&#8221;.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">9</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">BALZAC, HONORE DE. <i>Cousin Bette</i>. Classic; many standard
+editions and translations. The story of a neurotic
+spinster&#8217;s half-realised passion for a woman friend.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Girl with the Golden Eyes.</i> Many standard
+editions and translations, including; pbr Avon Books 1957,
+(trans. Ernest Dowson.) Shocker of the 19th century, dealing
+with the passion of the Chevalier de Marsay for a strange,
+unspoilt girl, Paquita&mdash;who is virtually enslaved to a
+sinister lesbian Countess.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Seraphita.</i> London, J.W. Dent &amp; Sons, 1897; also as
+above. A romance of an angelic hermaphrodite. All of these
+are classics of world literature, as well as the literature
+of variance, and are apt to be available even in small
+libraries.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ BANNON, ANN.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Odd Girl Out</i>. pbo, Gold Medal, 1957, 1960.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>I am a Woman.</i> pbo, Gold Medal, 1959.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Women in the Shadows.</i> pbo, Gold Medal, 1959.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">These three
+form a single, connected narrative, although any of the
+three novels can be read as a self-contained story. The
+first volume introduces the heroine of the series, Laura
+Landon, at college; where, in undergoing an affair with
+her room-mate, lovely but frigid Beth, she discovers her
+homosexuality. Softened by the affair, Beth marries, and
+Laura runs away. In the second book, Laura, in Greenwich
+Village, is sharing an apartment, with Marcie, a divorcee,
+entirely &#8220;straight&#8221; who plays Laura along strictly for
+kicks; Laura suffers under this treatment for a long time,
+then runs away again to shack up with a butch-type Village
+character, Beebo. In the third book, Laura and Beebo have
+been living together for two years; Laura is tiring of this
+lengthy affair and cheats on Beebo with a colored dancer
+named Tris, while Beebo, to win Laura back, resorts to
+such trickery as staging a phony &#8220;rape&#8221; ... inflicting wounds
+on herself in search of sympathy. Tiring of this life,
+Laura runs away again, this, time to marry a male homosexual
+friend, Jack, in a search for stability and permanence. The
+whole story invites comparison with Weiraugh&#8217;s THE SCORPION:
+homosexuality per se is not attacked, but the drawbacks
+of the life, and the dangers and difficulties to anyone
+trying to adjust him-or-herself to that life, are frankly
+and brutally delineated; there is a pervasive air of
+dissatisfaction, or resignation, and gradual withdrawal;
+and the ending of the third book is unsatisfactory and hardly
+complete. Nevertheless, the impact of these books, particularly
+when read all together, is considerable; Miss Bannon&#8217;s
+grasp of character, technique and construction improve with
+each novel. Despite wild improbabilities and gimmicky,
+contrived situations, these are perhaps the major contribution
+to lesbian literature in the paperback field anywhere.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">10</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ BARNES, DJUNA. &#8220;Dusie&#8221;, ss in <i>American Esoterica</i>, NY, Macy-Masius,
+1927. This collection also contains short
+stories of (m) interest.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Nightwood.</i> N. Y., Harcourt 1937, her New Directions n. d.
+A well-known and excellent lesbian novel laid in Paris.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ BARR, JAMES. <i>Derricks.</i> NY, Greenberg 1951, (m) hcr Pan, 1957.
+Although those short stories all deal with male homosexuality,
+their coherent, fresh and constructive philosophy
+make this a book of primary importance for every reader.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Quatrefoil.</i> N. Y., Greenberg, 1950, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Game of Fools.</i> ONE, 1954, 1955.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BARRY, JEROME. <i>Malignant Stars.</i> N. Y., Doubleday, 1960.
+Signe, a handsome Valkyrie-type girl, is found dead,
+and the note beside her body is apparently a love letter
+from her roommate Lyn; the suspicion that Lyn is her lover
+and murderer forms the main theme of the plot. Well done.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BAUM, VICKI. <i>Theme for Ballet.</i> N. Y., Doubleday 1958, pbr Dell
+1959, (m). Minor but excellent.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Mustard Seed.</i> Dial 1953, pbr Pyramid 1956 (m minor).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BEER, THOMAS. <i>Mrs Egg and Other Barbarians.</i> Knopf, 1933.
+Rarer than hen&#8217;s teeth&mdash;lesbian humor.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BELLAMANN, HENRY. <i>King&#8217;s Row.</i> N. Y., Simon &amp; Schuster, 1940, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BELOT, ADOLPHE. <i>Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife.</i> Paris, Dentu
+1870, Chicago, Laird &amp; Lee 1891. The wife remains a
+&#8220;miss&#8221;, refusing her husband&#8217;s approaches because of her
+attachment to another woman. Typically the husband drowns
+this monstrous creature (other woman) during an ostensible
+seaside rescue.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BENNETT, ARNOLD. <i>Elsie and the Child.</i> N. Y., Doran, 1924.
+&#8220;Common sense&#8221; treatment of an attachment between
+Elsie the housemaid, and a girl of twelve, which subsides
+when the little girl is sent to school.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Pretty Lady.</i> N. Y., Doran 1918. A subtle picture
+of indirect variance between two women in wartorn Paris.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BERKMAN, SYLVIA. <i>Blackberry Wilderness.</i> N. Y., Doubleday, 1959.
+Esoteric, melancholy, beautifully written short
+stories, of which two are overtly lesbian in content.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BERTIN, SYLVIA. <i>The Last Innocence.</i> (Trans. by Marjorie Dean).
+N. Y. McGraw Hill, 1955. Story of Paula, a member of a
+French provincial family. &#8220;The refreshing thing is that
+Paula is treated as a matter of course ... that she wears
+trousers, hates men, etc. is presented with no more excuse
+or explanation than the individual foibles of the rest of
+the family.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">11</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">BESTER, ALFRED. <i>Who He?</i> N. Y., Doubleday 1955, pbr Berkley 1956,
+(m) tct. <i>The Rat Race</i>. Tense, tightly plotted novel of
+split personality. The hero&#8217;s housemate is a deeply sublimated
+homosexual who cracks up when Jake gets a girl; this
+episode snaps the high pitch of tightrope tension and
+precipitates the denouement of the novel. Excellent.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BISHOP, LEONARD. <i>Creep Into thy Narrow Bed.</i> Dial 1954, pbr
+Pyramid 1956. Story of a vicious abortion racket;
+woven into the story is the sympathetically treated story
+of a young lesbian&#8217;s self-realization. Very good of kind.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BODIN, PAUL. <i>All Woman&#8217;s Flesh</i> (trans. from the French of Le
+Voyage Sentimental, by Lowell Bair.) pbo Berkley 1957.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Sign of Eros</i> (trans. from French) Putnam
+1953, pbr Berkley 1955.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">Both of these involve a man&#8217;s
+attachment to two women who have some homosexual contact,
+but the emphasis is heterosexual, rather than lesbian.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BOLTON, ISABEL. &#8220;Ruth and Irma&#8221;, ss in The New Yorker, Jan 26,
+1947; also in Donald Webster Cory&#8217;s <i>21 Variations on a Theme</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BOTTOME, PHYLLIS. <i>Jane.</i> Vanguard, 1957.
+Story of a street urchin,
+including lesbian episodes in a girl&#8217;s reformatory.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BOURDET, EDOUARD. <i>The Captive.</i> N. Y., Brentano&#8217;s 1926.
+Drama based on a triangle&mdash;man, wife, and a woman who
+is winning the affections of the latter.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BOURJAILY, VANCE. <i>The End of My Life.</i> Scribner&#8217;s 1947, pbr
+Bantam 1952, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Violated.</i> Dial 1958, pbr Bantam 1959, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Hound of Earth.</i> Scribner 1955, pbr Permabooks,
+1956, (m). Also includes a minor, and unsympathetic lesbian
+character.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BOWEN, ELIZABETH. <i>The Hotel.</i> N. Y. Dial 1928.
+A shy young girl sent to catch a husband at a fashionable
+hotel is, instead, captivated by a sophisticated woman.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BOWLES, JANE. <i>Two Serious Ladies.</i> N. Y.. Knopf, 1943.
+The emancipation of an inhibited American housewife.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BOYLE, KAY. &#8220;The Bridegroom&#8217;s Body&#8221; ss in <i>The Crazy Hunter</i>,
+Harcourt 1938, 1940. Also qpb, Beacon Press, 1958, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Gentlemen, I Address you Privately.</i> NY, Smith 1933, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Monday Night.</i> N. Y. Harcourt 1938, her New Directions. n.d.
+Brief account of a lesbian affair through the eyes of a child.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BRADLEY, MARION Z. &#8220;Centaurus Changeling&#8221; in The Magazine of
+Fantasy and Science Fiction, April, 1954. Science
+Fiction novel; intensely emotional relationship between
+three wives of alien bureaucrat leads to jealousy and<span class='pagenum2'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">12</a></span>
+tragedy when the eldest, Cassiana, takes an outsider into
+their home and makes a favorite of her.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Planet Savers</i>, in Amazing Stories, Dec. 1958, (m).
+Science fiction of split personality, one equivocally
+homosexual.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BRAND, MAX. (pseud of Frederick Faust). <i>The Night Horseman.</i>
+G.P. Putnam&#8217;s Sons, 1920, hcr Dodd, Mead 1952, pbr
+Pocket Books 1954, (m).
+Unusual Western story of a strange
+cowboy who has an almost supernatural influence on horses
+and other men; his foster father mysteriously declines when
+he leaves, makes a miraculous recovery when he returns home.
+Subtle and good of its kind.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BRINIG, MYRON. <i>The Looking Glass Heart.</i> Sagamore, 1958.
+One lesbian episode, treated vaguely. (Minority report
+says that nevertheless it is so clearly and well done that
+the book is worth anyone&#8217;s reading.)</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BRITAIN, SLOAN. <i>The Needle.</i> pbo Beacon Books, 1959.
+Overly contrived shocker about Gina, a young girl who
+falls simultaneously into narcotics, lesbianism, prostitution
+and the hands of a weird couple dabbling in incest. Evening
+waster, rather better than most but leaves a bitter taste.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">+ <i>First Person, Third Sex.</i> pbo Newsstand.Library 1959.
+Very well-written novel of Paula Harman, young school-teacher
+coming to terms with her life as a lesbian through
+bitter experience. Don&#8217;t let the lurid paperback covers
+and blurb scare you off, this is a NOVEL&mdash;well worth hard
+covers and a steal at 35&cent;.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BROCK, LILYAN. <i>Queer Patterns.</i> Greenberg 1935, pbr Avon 1951,
+1952. Purple-patched sloppily sentimental tale of
+Sheila, beautiful young actress with a perfect husband who
+nevertheless loses her heart to Nicoli, a stereotype lesbian
+complete with tuxedo. They part to avoid gossip and
+live unhappily ever after.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BROMFIELD, LOUIS. <i>The Rains Came.</i> N. Y. Collier 1937, pbr Bantam
+1952. In a long novel of India there is a brief but
+important episode involving two old missionary ladies. The
+elder, an engaging old battleax, muses as she tucks the
+younger and sillier into bed that her friend had never understood
+why they had been driven out of the school where they
+had, as young girls, been teaching. Ironically, the nice old
+grim one is killed in a flood while the silly one remains to
+pester everybody.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Mister Smith</i>, Harper, 1951; no pbr oh record, but your
+editor has owned one&mdash;perhaps an &#8220;Armed Forces&#8221; edition? (m).
+Four men, marooned on a desert island in WW2.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">13</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ BROPHY, BRIGID. <i>King of a Rainy Country.</i> Knopf. 1957.
+Poignant novel of a young girl who lives with Neale, a
+young male homosexual, out of wedlock. They both become
+enamored with a portrait of Cynthia, a girl out of the
+childhood of the heroine....</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BROWN, WENZELL. <i>Prison Girl.</i> pbo, Pyramid, 1958.
+One of many books documenting in painful detail the
+abuses prevalent in the women&#8217;s prison system, with special
+attention to the undeniable fact that the system breeds various
+sexual aberrations. A few of these books are excellent.
+This one isn&#8217;t.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BROWNRIGG, GAWEN. <i>Star Against Star.</i> N. Y., Macaulay, 1936.
+Story of a girl conditioned from childhood to lesbian
+affairs, first by an overly seductive mother, then by a
+school friend. The book has the doom-ridden atmosphere of
+its day, and is emotional and somewhat over-written.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BURNS, VINCENT G. <i>Female Convict.</i> Macaulay 1934, pbr Pyramid
+1959. More women in prison and the unfortunate
+relationships developing among them.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BURT, STRUTHERS. <i>Entertaining the Islanders.</i> N. Y. Scribners,
+1933. Sophisticated, satirical, novel in which a man
+becomes aware that his ex-sweetheart has been captivated by
+another woman.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ BUSSY, DOROTHY. <i>Olivia.</i> (by Olivia). Wm. Sloane Associates, 1949,
+Berkley pbr 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959.
+An English schoolgirl, sent to boarding school in Paris,
+becomes an unwitting third party to a long-standing affair
+between Julie and Cara, the two schoolmistresses. Julie&#8217;s
+response to the girl, and Cara&#8217;s jealousy, and suicide, form
+the main events of the story, which is told with delicate
+restraint, after a retrospect of many years, as Olivia, now
+herself a lesbian, has come to understand the procession of
+events.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">CAIN, JAMES M. <i>Serenade.</i> Knopf 1937, pbr Signet ca.  1953, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">CAINE, HALL. <i>The Bondsman.</i> R.F. Fenno &amp; Co., ca. 1890; other
+editions available, frequently very cheap secondhand.
+Called a &#8220;Modern Saga&#8221;, this is laid in 18th-Century Iceland.
+Two half-brothers, Jason the Red and Michael Sunlocks, sons
+of the same man by different mothers, grow up knowing of one
+another&#8217;s existence, but unknown to each other personally.
+Through a series of saga-like coincidences, they fall in
+love with the same woman, and are eventually exiled together
+to the sulphur mines&mdash;Iceland&#8217;s prison colony&mdash;still
+unaware of each other&#8217;s real identity. There Jason undergoes
+a psychological and emotional upheaval which can only be
+described as &#8220;falling in love&#8221; with Michael, who is still
+known to him only as Prisoner A-25, not as his hated brother.
+This story is probably more explicit, emotionally, than<span class='pagenum2'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">14</a></span>
+anything written before the 20th century and the freedom
+given by Freud to the emotions of novelists. Recommended.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Deemster.</i> Rand McNally, 1888, Chicago; D. Appleton,
+1888; numerous other editions. (m). A glorified friendship
+between two cousins ends in murder.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">CALDWELL, ERSKINE. <i>Tragic Ground.</i> Little, Brown &amp; Co, 1944,
+pbr Signet 1948, fco.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">CAPOTE, TRUMAN. <i>Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s.</i> Random House 1958,
+pbr Signet 1959. In the story of a promiscuous,
+rather pathetic girl, a sadistic lesbian neighbor brings on
+violent events. Everything very subtle and indirect.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Other Voices, Other Rooms.</i> Random House 1948, pbr
+Signet 1959. Young boy slowly falling under the influence
+of a decadent uncle who is a transvestite. Macabre.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">CARCO, FRANCIS. <i>Depravity</i>. pbo Berkley 1957.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Infamy</i>. pbo Berkley 1958.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">Both, of these books
+hint at lesbianism on the cover blurbs, but are, rather,
+highly risque French novels with brief, irrelevant and
+heterosexually oriented contact between women characters
+strictly for voyeuristic effect.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">CARPENTER, EDWARD. <i>Iolaus</i>; <i>an Anthology of Friendship.</i> N. Y.,
+Albert &amp; Charles Boni, 1935, (m). Listed as &#8220;the
+first of its kind&#8221; this is said also to be &#8220;very vague
+and old-fashioned.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ CASAL, MARY. <i>The Stone Wall. An Autobiography.</i> Chicago, Eyncourt,
+Press, 1930. In casual, conversational and entirely
+frank form, a woman born in 1865 (and therefore, at the
+time of writing, in her sixties) tells the story of her
+entire life as a lesbian. With the exception of &#8220;slightly
+autobiographical&#8221;&mdash;and always greatly disguised&mdash;fiction,
+this is probably the earliest such memoir in the literature.
+The writing is highly competent and professional, (subtly
+denying the author&#8217;s insistence that she was not a writer;)
+and filled with most interesting revelations about the
+lesbian world of New York and Paris at the turn of this
+century. Unfortunately the book is rare and expensive, but
+it stands alone as a classic of its kind.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">CHAMALES, TOM T. <i>Go Naked in the World.</i> N. Y. Scribners 1959.
+Nick Stratton, wounded veteran, returns to find that
+his girl friend is a call-girl and a lesbian.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">CHANDLER, RAYMOND. <i>The Big Sleep.</i> Knopf 1939, pbr Pocket Books
+1950, and others. (m) The bizarre murder of a homosexual
+hoodlum, and the interrogation of his boy friend,
+form important sequences in this hard-boiled murder mystery.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">15</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">CHEEVER, JOHN. &#8220;Clancy in the Tower of Babel&#8221;, ss in <i>The
+Enormous Radio</i>, Funk 1953, pbr Berkley 1958, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ CHRISTIAN, PAULA. <i>The Edge of Twilight.</i> pbo Crest 1959.
+Airline stewardess Val, in an alcoholic haze, allows
+herself to make love to a young girl friend, Toni. Fearing
+her own response to this &#8220;abnormal&#8221; love, she redoubles her
+promiscuous sleeping-around, but the girls end up together.
+The treatment, though sensational, is honest and constructive;
+the book will win no literary prizes, but whatever the
+reader&#8217;s sympathies and prejudices, he will approve the
+stand that happy adjustment to love and affection&mdash;even
+homosexual&mdash;is a more constructive solution than promiscuity.
+Very good of its kind.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">CHRISTIE, AGATHA. <i>A Murder is Announced.</i> Dodd, Mead 1950, fco.
+Suspects include a pair of problematical lesbians.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">CLARK, DORENE. <i>The Exotic Affair.</i> Magnet Books, 1959, scv.
+&#8220;I really think this one should be Maggot Books,&#8221; wrote
+my reviewer. &#8220;One of those fastmoving sloppy jobs where
+two men and two women on an exotic cruise complete with
+mis-spelled and misapplied foreign phrases spend most of
+their time trying all of the printable and some of the
+unprintable variations on an old old theme. All sex and no
+sentiment makes Jack and Jill sickening (and the reviewer
+sick) or, for that matter, Jack and Jack or Jill and Jill.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ CLAYTON, JOHN. <i>Dew in April.</i> Kendall &amp; Sharpe, 1935.
+Romance of the Middle Ages, laid in the Convent of St.
+Lazarus of the Butterflies. Dolores, a homeless vagabond,
+is given shelter by Mother Leonor, a mystic, repressed, white-hot
+and deeply tender woman whose passionate emotional attachments
+to her young novices are never explicit but pervade the
+entire book. Much of the story is concerned with a subtle,
+sweet and innocently sensual blossoming of adolescent emotions
+into homo-erotic form under the pressures of convent life;
+the interplay of delicate love relationships between Dolores,
+Mother Leonor, and the young novices Dezirada and Clarisse,
+and their fluctuation between despair, self-sacrifice and
+compassionate love when Dolores finds a knightly lover, Pedro,
+is probably unmatched in studies of feminine variance.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Gold of Toulouse.</i> Kendall &amp; Sharpe, 1935. Sequel to
+<i>Dew in April</i>, but laid chronologically six or seven years
+earlier. Though mostly concerned with the adventures of Don
+Marcos, the Spanish knight, it also tells the story of Leonor,
+and shows the beginning of her relationship with Dezirada.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">CLIFTON, BUD. <i>Muscle Boy.</i> pbo Ace Books, 1958, (m).
+Teen-age athlete inveigled into posing for dirty pictures.
+Good evening waster.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">COLE, JERRY. <i>Secrets of a Society Doctor.</i> Greenberg, 1935.
+pbr Universal Publishing &amp; Distributing, ca. 1953, (m).</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">16</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ COLEMAN, LONNIE. <i>Ship&#8217;s Company.</i> Little, Brown &amp; Co, 1955,
+pbr Dell, 1957. Collection of short stories, of
+which two are homosexual.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Sam.</i> David McKay, 1959, pbr Pyramid, 1960, (m).
+Major, excellent, important. Don&#8217;t waste time reading
+reviews, just go out and buy it.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">COLETTE, SIDONIE-GABRIELLE.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Claudine at School</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Claudine in Paris</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Indulgent Husband</i> (in The Short Novels of Colette).
+&#8220;Bella Vista&#8221; in <i>The Tender Shoot</i>.
+&#8220;Gitanette&#8221; in <i>Music Hall Sidelights</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">All of these are
+currently in print in excellent, uniform English translation
+of the standard &#8220;Fleuron&#8221; edition of Colette&#8217;s complete
+works, from Farrar, Straus &amp; Cudahy, of recent date. The
+two &#8220;Claudine&#8221; novels have had recent Avon pbr editions
+under the titles of <i>Diary of a 15 Year Old French Girl</i>,
+and <i>Claudine</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">Much of the work of this important French
+novelist was variant. Only the most explicit are named
+above. The first three form a connected narrative, telling
+of Claudine&#8217;s school crushes, her friendship with a male-homosexual
+cousin, and her &#8220;indulgent husband&#8221; who connives
+at her lesbian affair with a woman friend, in order to enjoy
+it secondhand. &#8220;Bella Vista&#8221; tells of a vacation spent, at
+a hotel managed by two middle-aged lesbians; the narrator&#8217;s
+fascinated interest in the couple vanishes when one of the
+&#8220;ladies&#8221; turns out to be, actually, a disguised man.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">CONNOLLY, CYRIL. <i>The Rock Pool.</i> Scribner 1936, her New Directions
+n. d. Very well written novel of a group of expatriates
+in the South of France. Nearly all are homosexuals;
+the story is told without comment or judgment.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">CONSTANTINE, MURRAY, and Margaret Goldsmith. <i>Venus in Scorpio.</i>
+John Lane, 1940. Heavily fictionalized biography,
+(erroneously listed elsewhere as a novel) of Marie
+Antoinette, suggesting lesbianism in her adolescence.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ CORY, DONALD WEBSTER. <i>21 Variations on a Theme.</i> N. Y., Greenberg
+1953. The classic anthology of short stories about
+homosexuals; four deal with feminine variance.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">COUPEROUS, LOUIS. <i>The Comedians</i>, N. Y. Doran 1926.
+Variant couple in a novel of Imperial Rome.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">COURAGE, JAMES. <i>A Way of Love.</i> G.P. Putnam&#8217;s Sons, 1959, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">COWLIN, DOROTHY. <i>Winter Solstice.</i> Macmillan, 1943.
+A brief variant relationship proves beneficial to
+a hysterical invalid.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">17</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">CRADOCK, PHYLLIS. <i>Gateway to Remembrance.</i> Andrew Dakers, London
+1950. fco. Very brief mention of a lesbian couple in
+a sappy metaphysical novel about Lost Atlantis.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">CRAIG, JONATHAN. <i>Case of the Village Tramp.</i> pbo Gold Medal 1959.
+Fast, well-written mystery introduces a pair of
+lesbians among the suspects; <i>good</i> entertainment.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ CRAIGIN, ELISABETH. <i>Either is Love.</i> Harcourt, Brace, 1937, pbr
+Lion Books, 1952, 1956, Pyramid 1960. After the death
+of her husband the narrator re-reads the letters she had
+written him about her intense love affair with another woman.
+Almost unequalled treatment of a lesbian <i>romance</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">CREAL, MARGARET. <i>A Lesson in Love.</i> Simon &amp; Schuster 1957.
+A Canadian orphan&#8217;s passion for a beautiful schoolmate
+ends in disillusion when the older girl, Tammy, tries to
+force Nicola into a distasteful affair with a boy, the better
+to deceive her mother about a similar affair of her own.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">CROUZAT, HENRI. <i>The Island at the End of the World.</i> Duell, Sloan
+and Pearce, 1959. An ex-schoolteacher, Patrice, is
+marooned on a sub-Antarctic island with three nurses; Joan,
+a nymphomanic; Victoria, a lesbian, and Kathleen, a quite
+ordinary girl. Due to fortuitous circumstances, they manage
+to assure themselves the necessities of life, and between
+Robinson-Crusoe-ish struggles, embark on a round of excesses
+gradually diminished by the horrible deaths of Kathleen, then
+Victoria. Fascinating, slightly macabre.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ CUSHING, MARY WATKINS. <i>The Rainbow Bridge</i>. G P Putnam&#8217;s Sons,
+1954. This book is included for the light it sheds on
+another novel in this list, Marcia Davenport&#8217;s <i>Of Lena
+Geyer</i>, and not for the sake of any impertinent conclusions
+about the real people involved. Mrs. Cushing served for
+seven years as companion and buffer against the world for
+the famous prima donna, Olive Fremstad, and Mme. Fremstad&#8217;s
+reclusive, fantastically disciplined personality seems to
+have served, at least in part, as model for Lena Geyer. At
+any rate, both books become more interesting when read
+together.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DANE, CLEMENCE. (pseud. of Winifred Ashton); <i>Regiment of Women</i>.
+Macmillan, 1917. Possibly the earliest novel of
+variance. A lengthy book of the subtle sadism of the domineering
+headmistress of a girl&#8217;s school.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DARIUS, MICHEL. <i>I, Sappho of Lesbos.</i> Castle Books, May 1960.
+Supposedly translated from a Medieval Latin manuscript
+conveniently lost on the Andrea Doria. In first-person, this
+weaves the better-known traditions about Sappho into a racy,
+fast-moving novel. The lesbian content is not emphasized,<span class='pagenum2'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">18</a></span>
+unduly. Writing-wise, this invites comparison with the
+work of Pierre Louys. The &#8220;scholarship&#8221; is completely
+tongue-in-cheekish, of course, as with the <i>Songs of Bilitis</i>.
+In general, this should prove the Title of the Year for
+those who wonder why they don&#8217;t write like Pierre Louys
+anymore. (Department of Unpaid Advertising; this one can NOW
+be ordered through Winston Book Service; see Appendix.)</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DAVENPORT, MARCIA. <i>Of Lena Geyer</i>. Scribner, 1936.
+Well-known novel of the life of an opera singer. Lena
+has a young satellite and adorer, but Elsie is careful to
+say that while &#8220;gossip has had many cruel things to say of
+this friendship ... there was, needless to say, not a word
+of truth in the essential accusation.&#8221; The two women
+remain together, even after Lena&#8217;s marriage, until her death.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DAVEY, WILLIAM. <i>Dawn Breaks the Heart</i>. Howell Soskin &amp; Co, 1941.
+A lengthy episode involves the sensitive hero&#8217;s
+elopement with Vivian, an irresponsible girl who turns out
+to be a lesbian and leaves him for another woman. Excellent.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DAVIES, RHYS. &#8220;Orestes&#8221;, ss in <i>The Trip to London</i>. N. Y. Howell
+Soskin &amp; Co, 1946. A lesbian manages to free the
+protagonist of a mother-complex, because her attitude is
+free of feminine seductiveness.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ DAVIS, FITZROY. <i>Quicksilver.</i> Harcourt, Brace, 1942.
+Hilarious novel of the theatre, supposedly based on
+actual personalities recognizable to the initiate; my
+reviewer wrote that some theatrical people &#8220;literally turn
+purple at the mere mention of this book ... most real pro
+actors detest portrayal of homosexuality in theatre fiction,
+bad publicity and all that ... can&#8217;t say I blame them much.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DAY, MAX. <i>So Nice, So Wild.</i> pbo, Stanley Library Inc, 1959.
+Evening waster; an impossibly complicated murder-story
+plot with a hero who, trying to prove he didn&#8217;t murder his
+own uncle, is pestered by all sorts of girls crawling into
+his bunk, blondes, brunettes and a few lesbians trying hard
+to convert themselves to heterosexuality. Funny, real fun.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DEAN, RALPH. <i>One Kind of Woman.</i> pbo, Beacon, 1959. Evening waster.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Forbidden Thrills.</i> pbo Bedtime Books 1959. Scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DEBUSSY, ROY.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">&mdash;and Jay Arpage; <i>Non Stop Flight</i>, Brookwood 1958.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">&mdash;and Cleo Dorene; <i>Fountain of Youth</i>, Brookwood 1958.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">&mdash;and Arthur Maurier; <i>Wicked Curves</i>, Brookwood 1958.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">&mdash;and Les Maxime; <i>Eye Lust</i>, Brookwood 1959.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">&mdash;and Les Maxime; <i>The Golden Nymph</i>, Brookwood 1958.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">These are
+all hardcover risque novels retailing for about $3 in bookstores
+which deal in that sort of thing for the adult trade
+only; I don&#8217;t know, not being a postal inspector, whether they<span class='pagenum3'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">19</a></span>
+can legally be sent through the U S Mails. On the whole I
+would think not. They are all fairly well written for books
+of their kind, amusing and entertaining, and bear about the
+same relationship to the paperback scv&mdash;evening wasters that
+ESQUIRE does to the average cheaper girly magazine. They
+are, however, strictly for a male audience; the &#8220;lesbian&#8221;
+content in all of them is presented from a strip-tease point
+of view and in every case the girl involved is &#8220;cured&#8221; of
+this perversion by male seduction&mdash;in some cases, by brutality.
+The plot of <i>Non Stop Flight</i> is typical; hero Eric
+Leighton discovers his wife dallying with a lesbian, so he
+beats up and rapes the lesbian (juicily described) whereupon
+his wife commits suicide. Then Eric gets involved with Celia,
+a stereotype &#8220;dish&#8221; with an ineffectual husband; when Celia
+tires of him he beats her up and rapes her (juicily described)
+then runs across the lesbian who has seduced his wife <i>and</i>
+Celia, so he beats her up and rapes her again (juicily
+described) after which Eric and the lesbian get married and
+live very happily forever after. I don&#8217;t know precisely
+what to call these books, but lesbiana is hardly descriptive.
+You have been warned.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DEISS, JAY. <i>The Blue Chips.</i> Simon &amp; Schuster 1957, pbr Bantam
+1958. fco. In an excellent novel of medical laboratory
+workers, a very very minor lesbian character.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DE FORREST, MICHAEL. <i>The Gay Year.</i> N. Y., Woodford Press, 1949,
+(m). Happily untypical of this publisher&#8217;s racy trash,
+this story of a young man searching for self-knowledge in
+New York&#8217;s Bohemias is very good of its&#8217; kind.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DELL, FLOYD. <i>Diana Stair.</i> Farrar &amp; Rinehart, 1932.
+Long novel of the early 19th century. Diana is a
+woman writer, but also explores life as mill-girl, school-teacher
+and abolitionist. Though attracted to, and attractive
+to men, she is never without &#8220;some older woman to adore and
+emulate, or some younger woman to teach and inspire.&#8221;
+Delightful, ironic novel of the trouble women can get into when
+they refuse to fall neatly into the ruts laid down by
+conventional society for women&#8217;s lives.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DE MEJO, OSCAR. <i>Diary of a Nun.</i> pbo Pyramid 1955.
+Just what it sounds like&mdash;fictional diary of a young
+girl in a convent warding off scandalous advances. Mediocre.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ DENNIS, NIGEL FORBES. <i>Cards of Identity.</i> Vanguard, 1955.
+Hilarious novel of confused identity, dealing with
+both male and female homosexuality.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DES CARS, GUY. <i>The Damned One.</i> pbo Pyramid, 1956.
+A member of French aristocracy, ambiguously sexed
+enough to be classified as female at birth, grows up unequivocally
+male but retains the name, dress and character
+of a female to avoid scandal&mdash;which comes anyhow when <i>she</i>
+carries on with an eccentric Englishwoman.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">20</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">DEUTSCH, DEBORAH. <i>The Flaming Heart.</i> Boston, Bruce Humphries,
+1959, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DEVLIN, BARRY.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Acapulco Nocturne.</i> Vixen Press, 1952.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Cheating Wives.</i> Beacon pbo 1959 (copyright 1955).</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Fire and Ice.</i> Vixen Press, 1952.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Golf Widow.</i> Vixen Press, 1953.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Lovers and Madmen.</i> Vixen Press 1952.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Madame Big.</i> Vixen Press 1953.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Moon Kissed.</i> Green Farms, Conn. Modern Pubs 1957,
+Vixen Press 1953, pbr tct <i>Forbidden Pleasures</i>
+Beacon Books 1959.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Too Many Women.</i> Vixen(?) 1953, Beacon pbr 1959.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">These
+are all the same sort of thing, evening wasters or scv,
+depending on taste. Big handsome men of incredible stamina,
+engaging incessantly in that one activity besides which all
+else, is as naught, with a succession of beautiful women,
+blonde, brunette and redhead. Now and then this procession
+of affairs is varied a little by letting the girls sport
+with one another to give the heroes a breathing spell. In
+short sexy books for people who like reading sexy books.
+Adults only, please.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DE VOTO, BERNARD. <i>Mountain Time.</i> Little, Brown &amp; Co 1946&mdash;47,
+fco. One very brief overt lesbian episode.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DE VRIES, PETER. <i>The Tents of Wickedness.</i> Little, Brown &amp; Co,
+1959, Minor episode in a very funny literary satire&mdash;Army
+colonel who talks pure Hemingway turns out to be a
+WAC in disguise.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DIBNER, MARTIN. <i>The Deep Six.</i> Doubleday 1953, pbr Permabooks
+1957, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DIDEROT, DENIS. <i>Memoirs of a Nun.</i> (trans from French by
+Frances Birrell). London, Rutledge &amp; Sons 1928,
+hcr London, Elek Books, Book Centre Ltd, N. Circular Road,
+Neasdon, London, N. T. 10, England. Classic French novel
+<i>La Religieuse</i>, written in 1760, published in 1796, Reflects
+the very bitter anti-clerical sentiment of the times just
+before the Revolution. A &#8220;cornerstone&#8221; title.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DINESEN, ISAK. <i>Seven Gothic Tales.</i> N. Y., Smith &amp; Haas, 1943,
+hcr Modern Library n.d.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">&#8220;The Invincible Slave Owners&#8221;, ss in <i>A Winter&#8217;s Tales</i>,
+Random House 1942.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DIXON, CLARISSA. <i>Janet and her dear Phebe.</i> Stokes, 1909.
+Girls story of two loving little chums, separated by
+a misunderstanding between their families, and re-united
+as women. Though never explicit, the story is emotional
+and intense. It is highly unlikely the author was quite,
+aware of the type of attachment she was portraying.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">21</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">DJEBAR, ASSIA. <i>The Mischief.</i> Simon &amp; Schuster 1958, pbr Avon
+1959 tct <i>Nadia</i>. Very brief but well-written novel of
+a young girl who falls in love with a former schoolgirl
+friend, now married.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ DONISTHORPE, SHEILA. <i>Loveliest of Friends</i>, Claude Kendall 1931,
+pbr Berkley 1956, 1957, 1958, due for another. Boyish
+Kim captivates young happy-housewife Audrey and wrecks her
+life. Preachy outburst against lesbians toward the end.
+Read it with a hanky handy. (Curiously enough, in spite
+of the anti-lesbian bias of the ending, and the overdone
+sentimentality of the Swinburnian writing, everybody seems
+to enjoy this one&mdash;all the Checklist editors included.)</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DOWD, HARRISON. <i>The Night Air.</i> Dial Press, 1950, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DRESSER, DAVID. <i>Mardigras Madness.</i> Godwin 1934.
+One lesbian episode in an evening waster about Carnival.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DRUON, MAURICE. <i>The Rise of Simon Lachaume.</i> Dutton, 1952; hcr
+as part of the trilogy <i>The Curtain Falls</i>, Scribner 1960.
+One episode in lengthy novel of a French family involves the
+duping of an elderly roue by a pair of young lesbians.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ DU MAURIER, ANGELA. <i>The Little Legs.</i> Doubleday, 1941.
+Sad and devastating results from a long variant enslavement.
+&#8220;This is a lovely book if you enjoy crying, and
+I do,&#8221; says one reviewer.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DURRELL, LAWRENCE.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Justine.</i> N. Y., Dutton, 1957.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Balthazar.</i> N. Y., Dutton, 1958, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Mountolive.</i> N. Y., Dutton, 1959, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Clea.</i> N. Y. Dutton, 1960.
+The last volume of now-famous
+tetralogy, just released, winds up all of the loose ends of
+the other three. The lesbian element is minor, but all four
+novels are excellent.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">EICHRODT, JOHN. &#8220;Nadia Devereaux&#8221;, ss in <i>Sextet</i>, ed by Whit &amp;
+Hallie Burnett. N. Y., McKay Co. 1951.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">EISNER, SIMON. (pseud of Cyril Kornbluth). <i>The Naked Storm.</i> pbo,
+Lion Library, 1952, 1956. Mixed bag of passengers on a
+transcontinental train, including a lesbian who tries to
+captivate a young girl and is murdered by another passenger
+to give her intended victim &#8220;a chance at real happiness with
+a man.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p class="indent">ENGSTRAND, STUART. <i>More Deaths than One.</i> Julian Messner 1955,
+pbr Signet 1957. Mannish woman defending effeminate
+husband against charge of rape by kidnapping his victim and
+hiding her out, goes through a nervous breakdown involving a
+morbid and macabre attachment to the girl; horrible.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Sling and the Arrow.</i> Creative Age 1947, hcr Sun Dial
+n.d., pbr Signet ca. 1951, (m).</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">22</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">EMERY, CAROL. <i>Queer Affair.</i> pbo Beacon Books, 1957.
+Dancer Draga moves in with mannish Jo, runs into complications
+when she tries to desert Jo for a man. Evening
+waster but very good nevertheless ... the author got in some
+good attitudes and philosophies when the publisher wasn&#8217;t looking.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">ENTERS, ANGNA. <i>Among the Daughters.</i> Coward McCann, 1955.
+Autobiographical novel of a girl who, like the author,
+finally becomes a dancer and choreographer. A good deal of
+space is devoted to a friendship between Lucy and another
+girl; the story is tinged with variance but never explicit.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">ESTEY, NORBERT. <i>All My Sins.</i> A. A. Wyn, 1954. pbr Crest 1956.
+fco. Few very minor variant episodes in a long novel
+of the French courtesan Ninon l&#8217;Enclos.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">EUSTIS, HELEN. <i>The Horizontal Man.</i> Harper 1946, pbr Pocket Books
+1955. Offbeat psychological murder mystery.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">EVANS, LESLEY. <i>Strange are the Ways of Love.</i> pbo Crest 1959.
+Love among the guitar-playing, folk-songing beatniks,
+with the lesbians playing Musical Beds. Evening waster.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">EVANS, JOHN (pseud. of Howard Browne). <i>Halo in Brass.</i> Bobbs-Merrill
+1949, pbr Bantam 1958. Hardboiled detective
+story; private eye Paul Pine is hired to locate runaway girl
+with no boy friends and many girl friends. Suspenseful,
+nice way to spend (not waste) a lazy evening.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">EWERS, HANNS HEINZ. <i>Alraune.</i> John Day, 1929.
+Alraune is Evil incarnate&mdash;symbol of the Mandrake
+Root, destroying love in everyone with whom she comes in
+contact, bringing out their innate evil. Among those destroyed
+by Alraune are a pair of lesbian lovers. High-quality
+fantasy, unfortunately rare and rather expensive.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">FADIMAN, EDWIN JR. <i>The 21 Inch Screen.</i> Doubleday 1958, pbr
+Signet 1960. TV bigshot Rex Lundy has woman trouble&mdash;his
+wife, his mistress, and his teen-age daughter. The latter
+is seeking the love she doesn&#8217;t get at home from a Greenwich
+Village lesbian friend. Excellent modern fiction.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Glass Play Pen.</i> pbo Signet 1956. Rich girl loses
+her parents, loses her money, and turns expensive call girl.
+One lesbian episode, treated with tenderness and sympathy.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">
+see also EDWINA MARK.
+</p>
+
+<p class="indent">FAIR, ELIZABETH. <i>Bramton Wick.</i> Funk &amp; Wagnalls 1954. fco.
+Cozy little story of cozy little English village,
+including two maiden ladies who have lived together for many
+years. &#8220;It is all very light and airy and your old-maid
+aunt wouldn&#8217;t think it at all odd.&#8221; Apt to be in libraries.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">23</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">FAREWELL, NINA. <i>Someone to Love.</i> Messner 1959, pbr Popular
+Library, 1960. One brief, incomplete lesbian episode
+in a long, interesting novel of a woman&#8217;s continual search
+for real love in a life filled with fleeting liaisons.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ FERGUSON, MARGARET. <i>The Sign of the Ram.</i> London, Philadelphia,
+The Blakiston Co, 1944-45. Sherida comes as companion-secretary
+to crippled Leah, passionately adored by her whole
+family including sixteen-year-old Christine. Subtly playing
+on Christine&#8217;s emotions, Leah spurs her to the point
+where she attempts to murder Sherida. On the surface, the
+motivation is simply the love of power, but Christine&#8217;s
+emotions are clearly variant; when the book was filmed, they
+carefully cast Christine as a girl of eleven, to make it
+unmistakable that her adoration was only &#8220;childish.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p class="indent">FIRBANK, RONALD. <i>The Flower Beneath the Foot.</i> in Five Novels, New
+Directions, 1949. &#8220;Light and fluffy ... pure fun&#8221;.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Inclinations.</i> in Three Novels. New Directions 1951, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">FITZROY, A.T. <i>Despised and Rejected.</i> London, C W Daniel, 1918.
+Lesbian incidents in a novel which is, however, mainly
+about persecution of Conscientious Objectors in World War I.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">FISHER, MARY (PARRISH). <i>Not Now but NOW.</i> Viking 1947.
+Novel of an ageless, ruthless woman. A long episode on
+a college campus is lesbian in emphasis.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">FISHER, VARDIS. <i>The Darkness and the Deep.</i> Vanguard, 1943, fco,
+a novel of the Stone Age.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">FLAGG, JOHN. <i>Dear, Deadly Beloved.</i> Gold Medal pbo 1954.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Murder in Monaco.</i> pbo Gold Medal 1957.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">Both of these are fast-moving mysteries, in Mediterranean
+setting, both involving lesbian characters.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE. <i>Salammbo.</i> Classic French Novel in many
+editions and translations. A very long novel of a Babylonian
+High Priestess; some psychological and literary
+authorities consider it variant. The editors all say with
+one voice that it isn&#8217;t. BAYOR.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">FLEMING, IAN. <i>Goldfinger.</i> Macmillan 1959. No data, BAYOR.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">FLORA, FLETCHER. <i>Desperate Asylum.</i> pbo Lion Library 1955, pbr
+Pyramid 1959, tct <i>Whisper of Love</i>. An unhappy lesbian
+and a neurotic man who hates women because his mother was
+promiscuous, marry to find a mutual &#8220;asylum&#8221;. Predictably
+the marriage is unsuccessful, ending in murder and suicide.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Strange Sisters</i>, pbo Lion Library 1954, pbr Pyramid
+1960. Weird novel of a girl&#8217;s mental breakdown, indirectly
+blamed on her affairs with three cruel and sadistic women.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">24</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Take me Home.</i> Monarch Books, pbo 1959.
+A young writer&#8217;s slow captivation with a strange girl just
+escaping from the domination of an evil lesbian cousin. All
+three of these books, though anti-lesbian in bias, are very
+well and slickly written, and entertaining.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">FORREST, FELIX. <i>Carola.</i> Duell, 1948.
+Brief recall of a lesbian episode in the heroine&#8217;s girlhood.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">FORTUNE, DION. (pseud. of Violet B. Firth). <i>Moon Magic.</i> London,
+Aquarian Press, 1958, fco. Fascinating, funny novel
+of a modern sorceress and an inhibited, bad-tempered doctor.
+It is implied that his marriage failed because his wife,
+a hysteric shamming invalidism, prefers being cosseted by
+her faithful companion to reassuming marital duties.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">FOSTER, GERALD. <i>Strange Marriage.</i> N. Y., Godwin 1943.
+Transvestite, rather than lesbian; heroine in man&#8217;s
+clothing actually marries a fantastically naive girl.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">FOWLER, ELLEN T. <i>The Farringdons.</i> N. Y., Appleton, 1900.
+Three intense variant attachments by a motherless
+girl under twenty, which subside when she falls in love with
+a man.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">FRANKEN, ROSE. <i>Intimate Story</i>. Doubleday, 1955.
+A novel by the author of the popular Claudia series.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ FREDERICS, DIANA. (pseud); <i>Diana, a Strange Autobiography</i>. Dial
+1939, pbr Berkley Books 1955, 1957, 1958. Well
+known story of a young musician/teacher&#8217;s discovery and
+slow acceptance and adjustment to her lesbian personality.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">FRANK, WALDO. <i>The Dark Mother.</i> N. Y., Boni &amp; Liveright, 1920, (m).
+A too-possessive mother ruins her
+son&#8217;s life.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">FRIEDMAN, STUART. <i>Nikki.</i> Monarch Books, 1960, scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Revolt of Jill Braddock.</i> Monarch Books 1960. scv.
+Male and female homosexuality in a ballet company, with
+Jill in the middle. &#8220;Not as bad as <i>Nikki</i>, but still a pretty
+raw evening waster.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p class="indent">GARLAND, RODNEY. <i>The Heart in Exile.</i> Coward McCann 1954, pbr
+Lion 1956, (m). Because of courageous approach to
+the basic problem of relations between the homosexual and
+his family, this story of a young homosexual in an unconventional
+household deserves shelfspace everywhere.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">GARNETT, DAVID. <i>A Shot in the Dark.</i> Little, Brown 1959, pbr
+tct <i>The Ways of Desire</i>. Popular Library 1960.
+Complex, fast-moving
+adventure story, involving a great number of lesbians.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">25</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">GARRETT, ZENA. <i>The House in the Mulberry Tree.</i> Random House, 1959
+Sensitive story of a girl of eleven, fascinated by an
+innocently appealing neighbor, a married woman. The mother,
+observing, innocent caresses between the two, separates them.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ GARRIGUE, JEAN. &#8220;The Other One&#8221; ss in <i>Cross Section</i>, ed. by
+E. Seaver, Simon &amp; Schuster, 1947.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">GAUTIER, THEOPHILE. <i>Mademoiselle de Maupin.</i> Many editions,
+including Modern Library, n. d. also pbr Pyramid Books
+1956, 1957, 1958. Classic novel of lesbianism.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">GENET, JEAN. <i>The Maids.</i> Grove Press qpb 1954.
+Offbeat existentialist drama; involuted love among women.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">GEORGIE, LEYLA. <i>The Establishment of Madame Antonia.</i> Liveright,
+1932. Light entertainment about inhabitants of a
+high-class European bordello, including a young recruit
+protected by an older woman.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">GIDE, ANDRE. <i>The School for Wives.</i> N. Y., Knopf, 1950</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Immoralist.</i> Knopf 1930, hcr 1948, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Counterfeiters.</i> Knopf 1927, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">GILBERT, EDWIN. <i>The Hot and the Cool.</i> Doubleday 1953, pbr tct</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>See How They Burn</i>, Popular Library, 1959, (m). Minor
+and subtle homosexual overtones in a novel of jazz musicians.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">GODDEN, RUMER. <i>The Greengage Summer.</i> Viking 1957, fco.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>A Candle for St. Jude</i>, Viking 1948, fco.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">GOLDMAN, WILLIAM. <i>The Temple of Gold.</i> Knopf 1957, pbr Bantam
+1958, (m) minor fco.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">GOLDSTON, ROBERT. <i>The Catafalque.</i> Rinehart 1957, 1958.
+High-quality thriller about ill-fated archaeological
+expedition to Spain; crisis precipitated when a sinister
+Countess takes young Stephanie, the expedition leader&#8217;s
+daughter, to a grotto where a pagan goddess has been worshipped
+with lesbian rites and attempts to seduce her there.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">GREENE, GRAHAM. <i>The Orient Express.</i> Doubleday 1933, pbr Bantam
+1955. Trainful of mixed adventurers includes a
+lesbian between girl-friends but still trying.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">GUDMUNDSSON, KRISTMANN. <i>Winged Citadel.</i> Holt, 1940, (m).
+Brief but very explicit homosexual interlude in a
+fine historical novel of Crete and the Bull-dancers.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">GUNTER, ARCHIBALD. <i>A Florida Enchantment.</i> Home Pubs 1892.
+No data available, BAYOR.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">HACKETT, PAUL. <i>Children of the Stone Lions.</i> G. P. Putnam 1955.
+An important lesbian character in a novel which has
+had good reviews.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">26</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ HAGGARD, SIR HENRY RIDER. <i>Allan&#8217;s Wife.</i> First published, 1889;
+now in print in Five Novels of H. Rider Haggard, Dover
+Press, 1951. A strange story, and this year&#8217;s special &#8220;find&#8221;.
+Allan, hero of the famous adventure-novelist&#8217;s KING SOLOMON&#8217;S
+MINES, is here shown as a young man, in love with Stella
+Carson&mdash;an English girl reared in the unspoilt beauty of
+a lost valley in Darkest Africa. The romance is complicated
+by the passionate jealousy of Hendrika&mdash;stolen in infancy
+by gorillas, reared as a female Tarzan, and rescued to be
+Stella&#8217;s companion, foster-sister and adorer. Hendrika
+first attempts to murder Allan; the scene in which she rages
+insanely at Allan for stealing Stella&#8217;s love, and Allan&#8217;s
+quiet acceptance of the &#8220;curious&#8221; fact that the strongest
+loves are not always between those of different sexes, places
+this book almost alone in forthright English treatment of
+variance for its date. From this high level of psychological
+realism, the story reverts to Haggard-type melodrama; Stella
+is kidnapped by Hendrika&#8217;s gorilla friends; dramatically
+rescued in a thrilling jungle battle; her death from exposure
+and Hendrika&#8217;s remorseful suicide complete the story.
+Strange, romantic, and quite in a class by itself.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">HALES, CAROL. <i>Wind Woman.</i> Woodford Press 1953, pbr tct <i>Such
+is My Beloved</i>, Berkley 1958. Sad, sad, sad story of
+the psychoanalysis of a young lesbian such as was never seen
+on sea or land. Harmless and nitwitted ... read it and weep,
+or giggle.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">
+see also LORA SELA.
+</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ HALL, RADCLYFFE. <i>The Well of Loneliness.</i> Many editions, some
+cheap hcr (Sun Dial ed, still in print, n. d.) also
+Permabooks pbr n. d. The classic first novel of a lesbian,
+written soon after WWI. Stephen Gordon, male in physique,
+temperament and character, seeks for lasting love and some
+measure of acceptance from a rejecting world.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Unlit Lamp.</i> N. Y., Jonathan Cape 1924; the endless
+sacrifice of a daughter into a sterile, wasted life because
+her mother cannot accept her right to live her own life.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself.</i> Harcourt, Brace 1934. A
+lesbian finds her true destiny after a lifetime of serving
+her country. Overtones of science fiction.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>A Saturday Life.</i> London, Falcon Press, 1952 (orig.
+pub 1925). An attempt at farce, not overt anywhere.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">HALL, OAKLEY M. <i>Corpus of Joe Bailey.</i> Viking 1953, Permabooks
+1955, (m). Also contains a pathetic pair of lesbians,
+one camouflaging her true leanings by pretending to be the
+campus whore.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">HARDY, THOMAS. <i>Desperate Remedies.</i> Harper 1896; still in print,
+London, the Macmillan Co, 1951 ($3.00). Brief but
+relevant episode in a novel by a classic English novelist.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">27</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ HARRIS, SARA. <i>The Wayward Ones.</i> Crown 1952, pbr Signet 1956,57
+One of the few really good treatments of lesbian
+attachments in a girl&#8217;s reform school. Bessie, a wayward
+girl, is sent to a &#8220;good&#8221; reform school; at this stage she
+is naive, fairly innocent and presumably redeemable. The
+loneliness, the sadistic persecution by the corrupt or
+hardened matrons, and the &#8220;racket&#8221;&mdash;the enforced division
+of the school into &#8220;moms&#8221; and &#8220;pops&#8221;, by hardened young girl
+hooligans who like the power it gives them, and permitted by
+the matrons under the self-deception that these attachments
+are normal, schoolgirlish crushes&mdash;finally complete the
+girl&#8217;s corruption until it is certain that she will come out
+of school a confirmed young criminal, Sara Harris is herself
+a social worker; this painfully accurate picture of what our
+juvenile authorities contend with may, at least, give some
+insight into why the police and social agencies tend to be
+so violently anti-lesbian, It is hard to forget the picture
+painted in this book of the frightened Bessie insisting &#8220;I
+don&#8217;t never do no lovin&#8217; with girls.&#8217;&#8221;&mdash;and the threats made
+to her. An absolute MUST book&mdash;on the other side.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">HARRIS, WILLIAM HOWARD. <i>The Golden Jungle.</i> Doubleday 1957,
+pbr Berkley 1958. Brittle novel about a wall street banker;
+his beautiful wife is a lesbian, but he naively believes
+her faithful because she prefers the company of women.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ HASTINGS, MARCH. <i>Demands of the Flesh.</i> Newsstand Library pbo,
+1959. Ellen, a young widow suffering from physical
+frustration, goes through a period of promiscuity involving
+several men and a brief affair with a lesbian, Nita. Oddly
+enough for this sort of borderline-risque stuff, the lesbian
+character is well and realistically drawn; realizing that
+Ellen is basically normal, she helps keep her on an even keel
+until she remarries. Good of kind.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Three Women.</i> pbo Beacon Books 1958. Good and sympathetic
+story of a young girl involved with a basically decent
+older woman, a lesbian, Byrne. Unfortunately Byrne is deeply
+involved with, and obligated to, her Insane cousin Greta,
+and the affair ends in tragedy, leaving young Paula to marry
+her faithful boy friend. The lesbian interlude, however, is
+treated not as a &#8220;twisted love in the shadows&#8221; or any such
+cliche matter, but simply as a human relationship, in its'
+total effect on Paula&#8217;s personality; and she always remembers
+Byrne with affectionate regret. Excellent of kind.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Obsessed.</i> Newstand Library Magenta Books, 1959.
+The psychoanalysis of a nymphomaniac, including an affair
+with her boy-friend&#8217;s lesbian sister. Not nearly as good as
+March Hastings&#8217;other books, and much more dedicated to
+sexy scenes at the expense of character and situation.
+Evening waster&mdash;almost scv. (It should be noted that some
+paperback publishers insist on a specified number of sex
+scenes, and in such a book as this one can almost hear the
+weary sigh with which the author abandons his story, which
+is going well, and stops everything for another measured
+dose of sexy writing for the nitwit audience.)</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">28</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">HECHT, BEN. <i>The Sensualists.</i> Messner, 1959, pbr Dell 1959.
+A great deal of advance publicity built this up to a
+best-seller. Highly sensational shock-stuff; a supposedly
+happily-married woman discovers her husband is having an
+affair with a singer, Liza. When she comes in contact
+with Liza, however, she realizes that Liza is a lesbian,
+having affairs with men for camouflage purposes, and is
+soon herself captivated by Liza. From here events build
+up to highly shocking climaxes, including a ghastly murder.
+Not to be read after dark.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. &#8220;The Sea Change&#8221; ss in <i>The Fifth Column
+and the First 49 Stories</i>, P. F. Collier &amp; Son, 1938. This
+volume also contains two stories dealing with male homosexuality;
+&#8220;A Simple Inquiry&#8221; and &#8220;Mother of a Queen.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p class="indent">HELLMAN, LILLIAN. <i>The Children&#8217;s Hour.</i> Knopf, 1934. Also
+Random House 1942; also in Burns-Mantle, Best Plays
+of 1934-35. A rumor of lesbianism (unfounded) wrecks a
+school, and the lives of the women who own and manage it.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">HENRY, JOAN. <i>Women in Prison.</i> Doubleday 1952, pbr Permabooks
+1953. This is nonfiction, autobiographical account
+of a woman&#8217;s experience in two English prisons. Very good.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">HEPPENSTALL, RAYNER. <i>The Blaze Of Noon.</i> Alliance 1940, pbr
+Berkley 1956, (m). Minor, fco and BAYOR.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">HESSE, HERMAN. <i>Steppenwolf.</i> Henry Holt 1929. qpb Frederick
+Ungar, 1960. Symbolic (and classic) novel of man&#8217;s
+disintegration, caused by society&#8217;s ignorance. Contains
+highly sympathetic homosexual characters (male and female).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA. <i>The Talented Mr. Ripley.</i> Coward, 1955, pbr
+Dell 1959. (m, minor)</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Strangers on a Train.</i> Harper &amp; Bros. 1950. (m, minor)</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">
+see also CLAIRE MORGAN
+</p>
+
+<p class="indent">HILL, PATI. <i>The Nine Mile Circle.</i> Houghton, Mifflin 1957 fco.
+Dreamy story of two teenage girls and an idyllic
+summer during which they constantly pretend to be man and
+wife, on a girlish, unerotic level. Very nice.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">HIMMEL, RICHARD. <i>Soul of Passion.</i> Star Pub, Co 1950. pbr tct.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Strange Desires</i>, Croydon Pub. 1952, pbr Avon, tct.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Shame</i>, 1959, (m). No masterpiece but an interesting
+story about a man spending a week with his dead Army
+friend&#8217;s wife and recalling his long relationship with the
+dead man; over the week he slowly comes to acknowledge, and
+come to terms with the fact that their relationship had had
+overtones of homosexuality.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">29</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">HITT, ORRIE. <i>Girl&#8217;s Dormitory.</i> Beacon pbo 1958 scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Trapped.</i> Beacon pbo 1954. scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Wayward Girl.</i> Beacon pbo 1960 scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">HOLK, AGNETE. <i>The Straggler.</i> (Trans, from the Danish by
+Anthony Hinton). London, Arco Pub. 1954, pbr tct.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Strange Friends</i>, Pyramid Books 1955, very slightly abridged.
+Boyish Scandinavian Vita adopts a &#8220;little sister&#8221; but is
+quite unaware of the nature of her attraction to Hilda. In
+her late teens Hilda, stirred but unsatisfied by this
+attachment, makes an unwise marriage, and Vita undergoes a
+period of rootless drifting, a brief affair ending in separation,
+and finally makes a permanent arrangement with Hilda,
+whose unsuccessful marriage ended in divorce. Valuable for
+a portrait of European gay life, very unlike the American.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">HOLLIDAY, DON. <i>The Wild Night.</i> Nightstand Books 1960 (no
+publisher&#8217;s address listed). Composite novel of six
+lives which converge on New Year&#8217;s Eve in a cheap Greenwich
+Village strip joint. &#8220;One of those unexpectedly good stories
+one finds among the floods of paperback trash.&#8221; One of the
+six characters is a lesbian.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">HOLMES, (JOHN) CLELLON. <i>Go.</i> Scribner 1952, pbr Ace Books 1958, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Horn.</i> Random House 1953, Crest pbr 1958, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. <i>Elsie Venner.</i> Burt, 1859; many editions,
+a classic novel of a very strange girl, psychologically akin
+to poisonous snakes. In the course of this novel a curious
+and intense relationship develops between Elsie and a young
+schoolmistress named Helen; a compulsive domination, attraction
+and revulsion. One might suspect Dr. Holmes, whose
+medical writings and observations place him far ahead of
+his era psychologically, of gentelly camouflaging a portrait
+of variance, 100 years ago, by making the girl a creature
+of macabre fantasy.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ HORNBLOW, LEONORA. <i>The Love Seekers.</i> Random 1957, pbr Signet 1958.
+The heroine&#8217;s hesitation between marriage with a steady
+and reliable man, and insecure excitement with a hoodlum,
+is resolved when her affairs are interrupted by concern
+for the daughter of a friend; the young lesbian, Mab, whose
+life has become entangled with some very shady characters.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ HULL HELEN R. &#8220;The Fire&#8221; ss in Century Magazine, Nov 1917;
+Excellent story of a small-town girl&#8217;s love for a middle-*aged
+spinster who awakens her to a world beyond her small one.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">&#8220;With One Coin for Fee&#8221;, novelette in <i>Experiment</i>,
+Coward-McCann 1938, 1939, 1940. An introspective spinster
+and a lifelong friend, trapped in a New England house during
+the 1939 hurricane; subtle but good.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Quest.</i> Macmillan, 1922. An over-emotional girl,
+seeking escape from home tensions, develops crushes on a
+classmate and on a teacher. her mother&#8217;s over-reaction
+turns the girl against variant attachments just as her<span class='pagenum3'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">30</a></span>
+unhappy home turned her against marriage.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Labyrinth</i>. Macmillan, 1923. Variant attachments,
+among others, in a novel of a woman unhappy in domesticity
+and trying to find creative outlets.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Landfall</i>. N. Y. Coward-McCann 1953. In a brittle and
+sarcastic novel of a brittle and sarcastic woman, the heroine,
+a capable businesswoman, alternately repulses and warms toward
+her adoring secretary&mdash;though she secretly scorns the
+girl&#8217;s devotion, she feels it would be a nuisance to break
+in a new secretary, so wishes to keep her captivated.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">HUNEKER, JAMES. <i>Painted Veils</i>. Liveright 1920 (still in print);
+pbr Avon 1928. Unpleasant novel of the theatrical and
+literary world of that day; the heroine, Easter, (an opera
+singer) has a mannish satellite.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">HURST, FANNIE. <i>The Lonely Parade</i>. N. Y. Harper 1942. Very
+minor mention of lesbians in a novel of lonely women at hotels.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ HUTCHINS, MAUDE PHELPS McVEIGH. <i>A Diary of Love</i>. New Directions,
+1950, pbr Pyramid 1952, 1960. Weird stuff, written
+with a detachment and delicacy reminiscent of the Colette
+novels. A teen-age girl, Noel, goes through a bizarre series
+of experiences in a strange household where her grandfather
+seduces his (male) music pupils and a nymphomanic, neurotic
+housemaid, Freida, successively seduces everyone from Grandpa
+down to Noel. Beautifully done.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Georgiana</i>. New Directions, 1948. The second section
+of a sensitive, well-written novel is laid in a girl&#8217;s school;
+there are three important variant attachments, and as a result
+one of Georgiana&#8217;s classmates is expelled. In later life
+Georgiana blames her failure to find happiness on a &#8220;lesbian
+complex.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>My Hero</i>. New Directions, 1953, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">ILTON, PAUL. <i>The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah</i>. pbo, Signet,
+1956, 1957, (m). Historical, Biblical setting.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">JACKSON, CHARLES. <i>The Fall of Valor</i>. Rinehart &amp; Co, 1946, pbr
+Signet, 1950, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Lost Weekend</i>. Farrar &amp; Rinehart 1944, pbr Berkley
+1955 and others.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">"Palm Sunday" ss in collection <i>The Sunnier Side</i>,
+pbr Berkley nd and others, also in Cory, <i>21 Variations</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ JACKSON, SHIRLEY. <i>Hangsaman</i>. Farrar, 1951.
+Frightening, macabre story of a lonely girl who conjures
+up a thrilling companion&mdash;who looks and acts like a boy but
+is clearly a girl. They meet secretly and engage in wild
+conversation and loveplay, and only slowly, with dawning
+horror, does the reader realize that the child is a split
+personality and the two girls are one and the same.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">31</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Haunting of Hill House</i>. Viking, 1959.
+During the investigation of a reputed &#8220;haunted house&#8221;, two
+of the investigating party&mdash;Theo, an admitted lesbian, and
+Eleanor, a lonely, inhibited spinster&mdash;go through a curious,
+subtly delineated relationship wavering, with the intensity
+of the &#8220;haunting&#8221; of the house, from attraction to intense
+love to unexplained revulsion. Macabre; good of its kind.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">JAMES, HENRY. <i>Turn of the Screw</i>. Macmillan 1898, hcr Modern
+Library n d, Pocket Books and other editions. Available
+everywhere. Some authorities consider subtle and understated
+lesbianism to be the mysterious motivations behind the scenes
+of this curious psychological ghost story of the struggle
+of a governess for the souls of two young children.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Bostonians</i>. Century Magazine 1885, hcr Dial 1945.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">JOHNSON, KAY. <i>My Name is Rusty</i>. Castle Books, 1958.
+Allegedly a novel of a woman&#8217;s prison, complete with
+glossary of &#8220;prison slang&#8221;&mdash;but if the author has ever been
+inside a woman&#8217;s prison, or even done any authentic research,
+your editors will eat a copy of the book, complete with
+cover jackets. Brief plot; butchy Rusty makes a pass at
+prison newcomer Marcia, in order to share her commissary
+credits. When Rusty gets out of prison she marries and goes
+straight and Marcia kills herself. Read it and weep.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">JONES, JAMES. <i>From Here to Eternity</i>. Scribners 1951, pbr
+Signet ca. 1952, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">KASTLE, HERBERT D. <i>Koptic Court</i>. Simon &amp; Schuster 1958, pbr
+tct <i>Seven Keys to Koptic Court</i>, Crest 1959, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">KEENE, DAY and Leonard Pruyn. <i>World Without Women</i>. pbo Gold Medal,
+1960, Science-fictional evening waster; all the women
+in the world die off, except a few, who must be carefully
+protected as potential mothers of the human race. One episode
+involves all the surviving lesbians, who barricade themselves
+in a prison. Good of type.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">KENNEDY, JAY RICHARD. <i>Short Term</i>. World, 1959. This one is
+just out; reviews indicate some lesbian content, but
+this could be anything from a paragraph to three chapters.
+BAYOR.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">KENT, JUSTIN. <i>Mavis</i>. Vixen Press 1953, pbr Beacon 1960. scv.
+&#8220;Mavis is married to a lush, so she dallies and so
+does he, and they are really a pair of dillies dallying....&#8221;</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ KENT, NIAL. (pseud of William LeRoy Thomas) <i>The Divided Path</i>. (m).
+Greenberg 1949, Pyramid pbr 1951, 1952, 1959. For
+once the plus is used to promote personal prejudice; various
+authorities call this book overly sentimental. But when this
+hardened reviewer finds herself in tears, she&#8217;s apt to think
+there must be something to it. Childhood, adolescence and
+manhood of Michael, a young homosexual, and his long-continued,<span class='pagenum2'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">32</a></span>
+scrupulously self-denying relationship with a boyhood
+friend who does not suspect his friend&#8217;s &#8220;difference&#8221;.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">KENYON, THEDA. <i>That Skipper from Stonington.</i> Messner, 1946. A
+juvenile novel, strangely enough, found in a high school
+library. The hero runs away to sea as a small boy and is
+protected by a man who is obviously homosexual, though the
+boy does not know it; the other men on the ship, suspecting
+that this relationship is unhealthy (it isn&#8217;t) hound the
+boy&#8217;s protector to suicide.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">KEOGH, THEODORA. <i>Meg.</i> Creative Age Press 1950, pbr Signet
+1952, 1956. Sublimated lesbianism in a very young girl.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Double Door.</i> Creative Age 1950, pbr Signet 1952, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">KESSEL, JOSEPH. <i>The Lion.</i> (trans. from French by Peter Green).
+N. Y. Knopf 1959. One editor saw subtle variant emotion
+in the mother&#8217;s attachment to a school friend.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">KING, DON. <i>The Bitter Love.</i> Newsstand Library Magenta Book,
+1959. Rather good evening waster about a supposed
+double murder, gradually solved by the slow revelation of
+the affair between Brenda and her 16 year old stepdaughter.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">KING, MARY JACKSON. <i>The Vine of Glory.</i> Bobbs-Merrill, 1948.
+This won a prize as the best novel on race relations
+by a Southern writer for its year. A repressed, inhibited,
+small-town girl, Lavinia, at the mercy of elderly tyrannical
+relatives, forms a close friendship with a Negro man who was
+her only childhood friend. The friendship between Lavinia and
+Augustus is purely platonic; she attends a school he has
+set up for colored girls who wish to improve themselves, and
+he helps to find her a job; but enraged small-minded bigots
+bring on a lynching. Early in the book a preparation is
+laid for Lavinia&#8217;s lack of friends of her own sex and status
+by her unfortunate friendship with Dixie Murdoch, teen-age
+daughter of a Holy-roller preacher. While spending the
+night, Dixie attempts to make homosexual advances to the
+younger girl, and Lavinia becomes hysterical. The episode is
+brief, condemnatory and very realistic.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">KIN, DAVID GEORGE. <i>Women Without Men.</i> Brookwood, 1958.
+The author calls this &#8220;True stories of lesbian life in
+Greenwich Village&#8221;. It represents a roundup of a dozen or so
+famous literary and artistic figures, presented as
+case histories. They are presented, picture after sordid
+picture, without a glimmer of understanding or real insight,
+though he sometimes shows smug sympathy for a few he claims
+to have reformed by something he calls &#8220;cultural therapy&#8221;.
+He baldly states in the preface; &#8220;I take my mental hygiene
+from Moses, rather than Freud, and have the Mosaic horror of
+homosexuality&#8221;. Despite this vicious slanting, the book is
+explicit, funny in places, and presumably verifiable&mdash;but
+certainly makes homosexuality look like a Fate Worse Than
+Death. The writing is straight from the tabloid newspapers.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">33</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">KINSEY, CHET. <i>Kate.</i> pbo, Beacon 1959. scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">KOESTLER, ARTHUR. <i>Arrival and Departure.</i> Macmillan 1943.
+A man makes the most important decision of his life
+on the rebound of disillusion after discovering that a woman
+who risked her life to save him is a lesbian.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ KRAMER, N. MARTIN (pseud. of Beatrice Ann Wright). <i>Hearth and
+The Strangeness.</i> Macmillan 1956, pbr Pyramid 1957.
+An excellent novel of the fear of inherited insanity in a
+family. The youngest child, Aliciane, becomes a lesbian;
+this is one of the few realistic and unromanticized portraits
+of the factors in the development of homosexuality from
+childhood.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Sons of the Fathers.</i> Macmillan 1959, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LACRETELLE, JACQUES DE. <i>Marie Bonifas.</i> (trans. from the French
+of La Bonifas) London &amp; N. Y., G. P. Putnam&#8217;s Sons, 1929.
+Classic novel of feminine variance. Exclusively lesbian
+characters are rare in French literature (although bisexual
+women are relatively common), and this was one of the best
+known; it follows the heroine from childhood to old age.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LACY, ED. <i>Room to Swing.</i> Harper Bros. 1957, pbr Pyramid 1958,
+A colored detective is retained by a pair of lesbians
+to solve a murder; is instead accused of committing it. Good.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ LANDON, MARGARET. <i>Never Dies the Dream.</i> Doubleday, 1949.
+An unmarried woman missionary in Siam incurs criticism
+and suspicion when she shows marked favor to an unfortunate
+American girl at the mercy of the Orient; later, when she
+risks her own life by isolating herself to nurse Angela
+through typhoid, she loses her own position. Neither the
+author nor the heroine of the novel admit the faintest
+tinge of lesbianism to the relationship, which is full of
+warmth and selfless sacrifice, and India angrily denies the
+accusation when it is made; but the high emotional intensity
+of the whole story bring it well within the boundaries
+of the field and place it high on the list.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LA FARGE, CHRISTOPHER. <i>The Sudden Guest.</i> Coward-McCann, 1946.
+The human driftwood blown up by a hurricane includes
+a pair of lesbians, stirring latent memories in the novel&#8217;s
+heroine&mdash;an embittered, abandoned spinster.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ LAPSLEY, MARY. <i>Parable of the Virgins.</i> R. R. Smith, 1931.
+High-keyed novel of many emotional fevers, hetero and
+homosexual, in a woman&#8217;s college.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LAWRENCE, D. H. &#8220;The Fox&#8221;, ss in Dial Magazine 1922, also in hcr
+but NOT in pbr edition of <i>The Captain&#8217;s Doll</i>, Thomas
+Seltzer, 1923.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Rainbow.</i> Modern Library 1915, 1943, pbr Avon 1959,
+1960. In a long, three-generation novel of the Brangwyn family,
+one variant episode between young Ursula and a teacher.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">34</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">LAURENT-TAILHADE, MARIE LOUISE. <i>Courtesans, Princesses, Lesbians.</i>
+(Trans. from French by G. M. C.) Paris, Libraire Astra.
+Casanova-ish memoir; French pamphleteering of Pre-revolutionary
+days. Bitter, explicit and mildly disgusting; mentioned
+mostly to state emphatically that the French Libraire
+Astra, and the Astra&#8217;s Tower Checklist, have NO connection.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LE CLERQ, JACQUES. <i>Show Cases.</i> Macy-Masius, 1928.
+Offbeat short stories, dealing with male and female homo-*sexuality.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LEAR-HEAP, WINIFRED. <i>The Shady Cloister.</i> Macmillan, 1950.
+Quiet, understated and sympathetic story of feminine
+relationships in a school setting&mdash;but without the melodramatic
+atmosphere of tragedy which usually surrounds such
+stories.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ LEE, MARJORIE. <i>The Lion House.</i> Rinehart, 1959.
+Well-written attempt to capture and document the
+confused and shifting morals of modern suburban living.
+Brad, husband of Jo, starts the story by flirting with
+Frannie; this backfires when Frannie and Jo become friends.
+As the relationship grows more intense, it proves so
+disturbing that even after Frannie has admitted its nature
+Jo cannot accept it; Frannie attempts to solve her problems
+via psychoanalysis, while Jo continues floundering in her
+unresolved conflicts. This year&#8217;s best new novel.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LEE, GYPSY ROSE. <i>Gypsy, a Memoir.</i> Harper Bros. 1959, pbr
+Dell 1959. In a fascinating, probably largely fictional
+autobiography, the ex-burlesque queen/novelist shows
+one thoroughly comical lesbian character. This is really
+minor, but marvelously funny, and anyone who plows through
+all the crud we mention will get a real break from this.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LE FANU, SHERIDAN. &#8220;Carmilla&#8221; in <i>Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories</i>.
+Also in Vol III of &#8220;The Forgotten Classics of Mystery&#8221;,
+entitled <i>Sheridan Le Fanu, the Diabolical Genius</i>. Also in
+<i>Strange and Fantastic Stories</i>, ed. by Joseph Margolies,
+McGraw Hill, 1946. Fantastic lesbian vampire.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LEIBER, FRITZ. &#8220;The Ship Sails at Midnight&#8221;, in <i>The Outer
+Reaches</i>, ed. August Derleth, Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisc.
+1951. Science-fiction or fantasy of a strange, unusual woman
+who captivates a whole group of college students; tragedy
+is touched off by their jealous rage when it is discovered
+that she has been making love to all of them&mdash;not simultaneously
+of course. Extremely well done, hint of allegory.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LEGRAND, NADIA. <i>The Rainbow Has Seven Colors.</i> N. Y. St Martins,
+1958. After the death of The heroine her life is
+reviewed by seven people who loved her (as with <i>Of Lena
+Geyer</i>) including a lesbian who loved her and a young girl
+who wanted to.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">35</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ LEHMANN, ROSAMOND. <i>Dusty Answer.</i> N. Y., Holt, 1927. Still in print.
+Well-known novel in which the heroine&#8217;s whole life is
+conditioned by her love for a college classmate. Delicate,
+beautifully written.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LENGEL, FRANCES. <i>Helen and Desire.</i> Olympia Press, Paris, 1954.
+scv, and you can&#8217;t buy it in this country legally. If you
+locate a copy you&#8217;ll know why we say you aren&#8217;t missing a
+thing. Seamy novel of a nymphomanic&mdash;- ing her way around the
+world. (It&#8217;s not worth going to Paris to read.)</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LESLIE, DAVID STUART. <i>The Man on the Beach.</i> London, Hutchinson
+1957, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LEVAILLANT, MAURICE. <i>The Passionate Exiles.</i> (trans. Malcolm
+Barnes.) Farrar, Straus &amp; Cudahy 1958. Historical
+&#8220;dual biography&#8221; of Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ LEVIN, MEYER. <i>Compulsion.</i> Simon &amp; Schuster 1956. pbr Pocket
+Books 1958, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LEWIS, SINCLAIR. <i>Ann Vickers.</i> Doubleday, 1933.
+One important lesbian episode in a novel of woman
+suffrage, viciously condemnatory.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LEVERIDGE, RALPH. <i>Walk on the Water</i>, Farrar, 1951, pbr tct <i>The
+Last Combat</i>, Signet 1952, Pyramid 1959, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LEWIS, WYNDHAM. <i>The Apes of God.</i> N. Y. R. M. McBride &amp; Co, 1932,
+London, Arthur Press 1950, London, Arco, 1955. Satire,
+including sharp studies of homosexuality, male and female.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LIN, HAZEL. <i>The Moon Vow</i>. Pageant Press, 1958.
+A Chinese woman psychiatrist, attempting to solve a
+patient&#8217;s problems, is led into seamy byways of Peking,
+including a somewhat gruesome lesbian cult.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LINDOPS, AUDREY ERSKINE. <i>The Outer Ring.</i> Appleton 1955, pbr
+Popular Library tct <i>The Tormented</i>, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LINGSTROM, FREDA. <i>Axel.</i> Boston, Little, Brown &amp; Co., 1939.
+Wealthy man adopts two boys and a girl. One boy, Valentine,
+has homosexual affair with an older boy, Teddy, who later
+commits suicide; the girl, Auriol, studying music in Germany,
+lives with 2 older women, one of whom is very innocently
+but very ardently in love with her. Well-written.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LIPSKY, ELEAZAR. <i>The Scientists.</i> Appleton-Century-Crofts 1959,
+pbr Pocket Books, 1960. Minor character in a long
+novel is a vaguely treated, but explicit lesbian.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LIPTON, LAWRENCE. <i>The Holy Barbarians.</i> Messner, 1959.
+Love among the beat generation, including all kinds of
+homosexuality.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">36</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">LITTLE, JAY. <i>Somewhere between the Two</i>. Pageant, 1956, (m).
+<i>Maybe Tomorrow</i>. Pageant, 1952, (m). Amusing</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LIVINGSTON, MARJORIE. <i>Delphic Echo.</i> London, Andrew Dakers,
+1948, (m). Minor, in a novel of ancient Greece.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LODGE, LOIS. <i>Love Like a Shadow.</i> Phoenix Press, 1935.
+Purple-passaged novel of a lesbian seeking true love.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ LOFTS, NORAH. <i>Jassy</i>. Knopf 1945, pbr Signet 1948, others.
+Roughly a third of this novel, about a young English
+girl who, herself innocent, brings tragedy on everyone, is
+lesbian in emphasis. In a girl&#8217;s school she comes between
+Mrs. Twysdale, a rather slimy, neurotic woman who has adored
+her boyish cousin, Katherine, for years. Katherine, chafing
+at this adoration, turns to Jassy for undemanding friendship
+and Mrs, Twysdale connives to have her expelled&mdash;which
+spurs Katherine to precipitate a long-desired break with her.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Lute Player</i>. Doubleday, 1951; pbr Bantam 1951, (m).
+Fine historical of Richard III, based on the thesis that
+he was homosexual.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ LONG, MARGARET. <i>Louisville Saturday.</i> Random 1950, pbr Bantam
+1951, 53, 56, 57, 59. A study of women in wartime
+includes a brief study of a woman&#8217;s acceptance of a variant
+friendship (the sections titled GLADYS).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LORD, SHELDON. <i>A Strange Kind of Love.</i> N. Y., Midwood-Tower Pubs
+pbo 1959. Evening waster about a writer who discovers that
+two of his (dozens of) girl friends are involved with one
+another.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>69 Barrow Street.</i> Midwood-Tower pbo 1959, scv.
+Love, if you can call it that, in Greenwich Village.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ LOUYS, PIERRE. <i>Aphrodite.</i> (Many editions, of which the standard
+English translation seems to be The Collected Works of
+Pierre Louys, Liveright, 1926, still in print. Also various
+Avon paperbacks.) The beautifully written story of an
+Alexandrian courtesan also includes the story of two young
+Greek girls, Rhodis and Myrtocleia, no more than children,
+who wish to marry one another.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Adventures of King Pausole.</i> As above. Fine, funny,
+highly risque story of the king of a strange country, who
+has a thousand wives, like Solomon, and believes in freedom
+for everybody except his daughter, Aline&mdash;who eventually
+runs away with a &#8220;boy&#8221; who is really a girl.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Songs of Bilitis.</i> As above. Prose or poetry,
+depending on translation, and perhaps the classic story of
+lesbianism in an ancient setting.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LUCAS, RICK. <i>Dreamboat.</i> pbo, Berkley, 1956, 1957. scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LYNDON, BAREE, and Jimmie Sangster. <i>The Man who Could Cheat
+Death</i>, based on the screenplay, for the recent movie,
+which in turn was based on a play, The Man in Half Moon Street.<span class='pagenum2'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">37</a></span>
+Without the fantastic photography which made the movie
+superb, this is a remarkably silly pseudo-science thing
+about a man who finds away to survive indefinitely by
+glandular transplants. To camouflage his deathlessness
+he pulls up his roots and moves every ten years and during
+one such interlude he falls for beautiful Avril Barnes,
+who turns out to be a lesbian. He converts her, and she
+becomes such a pest that he murders her. Shocker, silly.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MacCOWN, EUGENE. <i>The Siege of Innocence.</i> Doubleday, 1950, (m).
+And minor lesbian element.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MacKENZIE, COMPTON. <i>Extraordinary Women.</i> Martin Secker, London;
+Macy-Masius N. Y. 1928, hcr New Adelphi 1932. The
+Winston Book Service offered this for sale quite recently.
+Amusing, satirical and well-known novel of lesbians.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Vestal Fire.</i> N. Y. Doran, 1927, (m). However,
+in this novel of Americans living abroad, there are also
+important lesbian characters.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MacRAE, KEVIN. <i>Nikki.</i> Vantage. 1955.
+Not to be confused with the rubbishy book by the same
+title by Stuart Friedman, this is a story of Nikki, who
+loses her beloved in an air raid in London and nearly
+cracks up before finding a home in a lesbian &#8220;colony&#8221; in
+Southern California; silly, but a lot of fun.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ MacINNES, COLIN. <i>Absolute Beginners.</i> London, MacGibbon &amp; Rae,
+1959. A novel about London teenagers, told in Soho
+idiom&mdash;a sort of bastard hip-talk. The characters in this
+novel include several male homosexuals, and one lesbian,
+Big Jill. Enough space is devoted to social problems, by
+an author who is quite obviously one of the &#8220;angry young men&#8221;,
+to give this novel real status.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">McMINNIES, MARY. <i>The Visitors.</i> Harcourt, Brace 1958.
+A diplomat&#8217;s wife abroad, fancying herself as Madame
+Bovary, attempts to use everyone around her for her own
+purposes. She has an affair with an American correspondent
+and also captivates Sophie, a countess, and an extremely
+well-portrayed character. One of the most sympathetic
+portraits of a lesbian in recent fiction, as well as a ruthless
+portrayal of women who enjoy flirting in both fields.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ MAHYERE, EVELINE. <i>I Will not Serve.</i> Dutton 1959, 1960.
+This book, boycotted by many major reviewers, was
+written by a young Frenchwoman who committed suicide before
+its publication. Precocious, nonconformist Sylvie has
+been expelled from a convent for writing, in a letter, that
+she loves one of the nuns. The story deals with the
+unfolding pattern of Sylvie&#8217;s meetings with Julienne, an
+older novice in the convent. The conflict is clear; Sylvie&#8217;s
+creed is &#8220;I will not serve&#8221;&mdash;a statement of her refusal
+to become a good wife and mother&mdash;and she wants nothing
+of life but Julienne. Julienne, has given herself<span class='pagenum2'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">38</a></span>
+to God. Refusing to accept this, Sylvie commits suicide.
+The book is profound and sincere, and on the basis of this
+one work the author&#8217;s premature death was a loss to the
+field of literature.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MAINE, CHARLES ERIC. <i>World Without Men.</i> pbo, Ave Books 1958.
+Science fiction of a world thousands of years in the future,
+where the men have all died out, reproduction is scientific
+and the women, having no one else to love, love one another.
+In defiance of all conceivable theories of heredity and
+environment, a few women still think this state of affairs
+is &#8220;unnatural&#8221; and band together to create a male birth,
+assuming everyone will turn normal overnight. Silly.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MALLET, FRANCOISE. <i>The Illusionist.</i> (Trans. by Herma Briffault).
+Farrar, Straus &amp; Cudahy, 1952 tct <i>The Loving and the
+Daring</i>, Popular 1953. (pbr). Now well-known novel, by a young
+French writer, of a girl captivated by her father&#8217;s mistress.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Red Room.</i> (trans. by Herma Briffault). Farrar,
+Strauss &amp; Cudahy 1956, pbr Popular 1958. Sequel to the
+above.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MALLOY, FRED. <i>The End of the Road.</i> Woodford Press 1952, pbr
+Berkley tct <i>Wicked Woman</i>, 1959. Good evening waster about
+a girl who is picked up by Charlotte, a truck-driver &#8220;dike&#8221;
+type; Charlotte gives Alice a home, but eventually Alice
+runs off with a man who is worse than she is. Surprisingly,
+for this type of thing, the author implies that there <i>is</i>
+a fate worse than lesbianism.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MANNING, BRUCE. <i>Triangle of Sin.</i> Intimate Novel (Universal Pub.)
+1952, pbr Beacon Books 1959; same title, but author listed
+as Manning Stokes. Evening waster.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MANNIX, DANIEL P. <i>The Beast.</i> pbo Ballantine Books 1959, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MARECHAL, LUCIE. <i>The Mesh</i> (trans, by Virgilia Peterson.) Appleton
+1949, pbr Bantam, 1951, 1953, 1959.
+Excellent novel of a Belgian family; the weakling son marries,
+brings his bride into home dominated by his mother, shadowed
+by his lonely sister. Eventually sister takes the young woman
+away from her brother.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MARLOWE, STEPHEN. <i>Homicide is My Game.</i> Gold Medal 1959 pbo.
+Hardboiled murder mystery involving a teenage sex club&mdash;a
+businessman is involved of running it, but the real culprit
+is his daughter, Liz. She is also a lesbian. Evening waster.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MARK, EDWINA. (pseud of Edwin Fadiman jr).
+<i>My Sister, my Beloved.</i> Citadel 1955, pbr Berkley 1956.
+Two young sisters, daughters of a drunken lush of a mother,
+fall into a too-close relationship as Eve, the older, protects
+young Sheila from their mother&#8217;s beatings and tantrums.<span class='pagenum2'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">39</a></span>
+Sheila plays around and gets pregnant; mother, at the stage
+where alcohol will kill her, is given a big drink by Eve,
+who then arranges for Sheila to have an abortion and the
+two of them to live happily ever after; instead, Sheila
+marries the boy and Eve is whipped half to death by one of
+her mother&#8217;s gigolos. One of <i>those</i> books&mdash;where anything
+from abortion to rape is preferable to lesbianism.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">+ <i>The Odd Ones.</i> Berkley pbo; 1959.
+Jean, smalltown girl running away, comes to New York and
+falls in with Sherri, tied to a crazy husband. Rather good
+and not condemnatory at all; rather restrained for a pbo,
+although of course it has the obligatory sexy stuff.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MARR, REED. <i>Women without Men.</i> Gold Medal pbo, 1956.
+Naive, if not too intelligent girl sent to a woman&#8217;s
+reformatory, encounters the usual hardening experiences&mdash;corrupt
+matrons, police-court-type lesbians, trusties and
+well-meaning officials who have their lives to live and
+can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t do anything to better conditions. Good of
+its kind.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MARSHE, RICHARD. <i>A Woman Called Desire.</i> (Orig. pub. 1950 under
+title of <i>Wicked Woman</i>) Berkley pbr 1959, scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MARSTON, JOHN. <i>Venus With Us; a Tale of the Caesars.</i> N. Y.
+Sears, 1932. pbr Universal Pub. 1953 tct <i>The Private
+Life of Julius Caesar</i>. Fast, funny, risque historical
+novel&mdash;or romance&mdash;with approximately six historical
+errors per chapter, but a lot of fun nevertheless. The
+scenes laid in the College of Vestals are exclusively lesbian;
+there are both serious, emotional affairs between
+women, and funny light-hearted ones in the manner of King
+Pausole. Good of kind.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ MARTIN, KENNETH. <i>Aubade.</i> London, Chapman &amp; Hall 1957, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MASEFIELD, JOHN. <i>Multitude and Solitude.</i> Macmillan 1909, 1916.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MASSIE, CHRIS. <i>The Incredible Truth.</i> Random, N. Y. 1958, pbr
+Berkley 1959. Victorian husband narrates, many years
+afterward, his wife&#8217;s successive attachment to two woman
+friends.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MAUGHAM, SOMERSET. <i>Theatre.</i> Doubleday 1937, Bantam pbr tct
+<i>Woman of the World</i>, 1951, pbr Bantam tct <i>Theatre</i> 1959.
+Theatrical novel of a worldly actress, Julia, contains
+brief mention of a fat, elderly lesbian admirer who finances
+her works: one amusing scene where Julia&#8217;s husband advises
+her on how to manipulate Dolly&#8217;s feelings. Smart, brittle.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MAUPASSANT, GUY DE. <i>Paul&#8217;s Mistress.</i> ss in various collections
+including Cory, <i>21 Variations on a Theme</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MAYHALL, JANE. <i>Cousin to Human.</i> Harcourt, Brace 1960.
+Valeda, friend of the heroine, has a sad, depressing affair
+with an adolescent schoolgirl athlete friend, named Mildred.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">40</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">MEAGHER, MAUDE. <i>The Green Scamander.</i> Houghton Mifflin, 1933.
+A novel of the Trojan war, largely concerned with the
+passionate friendship between Penthesilea, co-queen with the
+Amazon tribe, and her co-ruler Camilla. Beautifully written,
+available in most medium-sized libraries.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MEEKER, RICHARD. <i>The Better Angel.</i> Greenberg 1933, pbr Universal
+Pub. tct <i>Torment</i> ca. 1952, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ MEREZOWSKII, DMITRI. (Trans. from Russian by Natalia A. Duddington)
+London, J. M. Dent &amp; Co, 1925, 1926. <i>Birth of the Gods.</i>
+A fine novel of Crete and the bull-dancers (and perhaps the
+first of its kind). Dio, a strangely bisexual young girl,
+priestess of the Great Mother, though attracted and attractive
+to men, is vowed to remain a virgin in the service of the
+Goddess; much of the novel is devoted to her passionate
+friendship for her young novice, Eoia. One of Dio&#8217;s rejected
+lovers, believing that the &#8220;little witch&#8221; has cast a
+spell on Dio to prevent her loving him, plots to have Eoia
+killed in the ring; instead Eoia&#8217;s death nearly destroys
+Dio as well.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Akhnaton, King of Egypt.</i> (as above) London, Dent, 1927.
+Continues and concludes the story of Dio.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MERGENDAHL, CHARLES. <i>The Girl Cage.</i> pbo Gold Medal 1953, 1959.
+Brief, minor lesbian episode in a novel about war widows.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MERRITT, A(braham); <i>The Metal Monster.</i> Copyright Munsey Magazines,
+(this ran serially in Argosy ca. 1920) Revised version,
+Frank A. Munsey 1941, pbr Avon, 1946. Offbeat variant episode
+in an adventure-fantasy; Norhala, pagan slave of the
+&#8220;metal people&#8221; steals the explorer&#8217;s sister, Ruth, to &#8220;play
+with her&#8221;; after her death Ruth weeps, saying &#8220;she loved me
+dearly, dearly,&#8221; but significantly can remember nothing of
+their time together. Wildly fantastic, good of type.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">METALIOUS, GRACE. <i>Return to Peyton Place.</i> Messner 1959, pbr
+Dell 1959. Another sexy &#8220;expose&#8221; of a small town. In
+one episode, the unpleasant wife of a local boy recalls her
+schooldays, when she taunted and enslaved a lesbian schoolmate.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MEYER, GLADYS ELEANOR, <i>The Magic Circle.</i> Knopf, 1944. fco
+Subtle novel of close friendship between two women;
+never explicit, and on the borderline for variant interest.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ MILLAY, KATHLEEN. <i>Against the Wall.</i> Macaulay, 1929.
+College novel by the sister of the well-known poet (see
+poetry supplement).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MILLER, WALTER M. &#8220;The Lineman&#8221; ss in Fantasy and Science
+Fiction, August 1957, (m). Excellent attitudes on
+homosexuality in general, in short story of isolated men.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">41</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">MILLER, HENRY. <i>Plexus.</i> Paris, Olympia Press 1953, 2 vols.
+Chapter 16 of the 2nd Volume is supposed to be devoted
+to a variant affair. Most of Henry Miller&#8217;s books cannot
+be legally imported into the USA&mdash;this is one&mdash;and your
+editors haven&#8217;t been to Paris yet. When you go, tell us.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MISHIMA, YUKIO. <i>Confessions of a Mask.</i> New Directions 1958, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ MITCHELL, S. WEIR. <i>Constance Trescott.</i> N. Y., Century 1900.
+The plus is to draw attention to an old, overlooked
+title. Major (for its date) treatment of variant enslavement
+between two half sisters.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ MITCHISON, NAOMI. <i>The Delicate Fire.</i> Harcourt, N. Y. 1932.
+A major writer, and scholar, presents a collection of
+lovely short stories of ancient Greece; the title story
+deals with Sappho and her group of girl lovers.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Corn King and the Spring Queen.</i> Harcourt, 1931, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">&#8220;Black Sparta&#8221; and &#8220;Krypteia&#8221; in <i>Greek Stories</i>,
+Harcourt, 1928, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MORAVIA, ALBERTO. <i>The Conformist.</i> Farrar, Straus &amp; Young 1951,
+pbr Signet 1954. Penetrating study of a fascist whose
+compulsive drive for power destroys everyone he loves. An
+interlude between his wife and a friend provides a brief
+diversion before the macabre ending.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MOORE, HAL. <i>The Naked and the Fair.</i> pbo, Beacon, 1958, scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MOORE, PAMELA. <i>Chocolates for Breakfast.</i> Rinehart 1956, pbr
+Bantam 1957. Candid, shocking story of a young girl&#8217;s
+disintegration; the opening episodes involve her rejection
+by a teacher on whom she has a crush, and there are variant
+overtones in her prolonged friendship with a school roommate,
+Janet&#8217;s suicide being the spur which makes Courtney
+resolve to pull herself together.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MORELL, LEE. <i>Mimi.</i> pbo Beacon Books 1959.
+Unusually good evening waster about night-club and
+theatrical people, with both male and female homosexual
+episodes; handled with subtlety and lightness almost unknown
+in this publisher&#8217;s paperbacks.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ MORGAN, CLAIRE. (pseud of Patricia Highsmith) <i>The Price of Salt</i>.
+Coward-McCann, 1952, pbr Bantam 1953, 1959. Fine
+novel of an affair between two very nice, very courageous,
+very well-adjusted women whose initial attraction becomes
+the mainspring of both their lives. The author does not
+use one single stereotype or cliche; this is probably <i>the</i>
+American novel of the lesbian.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MORGAN, NANCY. <i>City of Women</i>, pbo Gold Medal 1952, 1959.
+Lesbian episodes In a novel of women living in barracks
+at Pearl Harbor.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">42</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">MORLEY, IRIS. <i>The Proud Paladin.</i> N. Y. Morrow 1936.
+Lesbian content vague and doubtful, BAYOR and fco.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MORRO, DON. <i>The Virgin.</i> pbo Beacon 1955, released in 1959. scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MOSS, GEOFFREY. <i>That Other Love.</i> Doubleday, 1930.
+A long-continued affair between Phillida and an older
+friend breaks off because of the younger woman&#8217;s desire
+for children.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MOTLEY, WILLARD. <i>Knock on Any Door.</i> N. Y. Appleton-Century, 1947,
+pbr Signet 1953, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ MURDOCH, IRIS. <i>The Bell.</i> N. Y. Viking 1958, (m).
+A fine, occasionally funny novel of an Anglican lay
+church-community centers around Michael Meade, a man of
+honor, intelligence, and integrity&mdash;and a homosexual. His
+hopes of being ordained as a priest were destroyed when, as
+a schoolteacher, he became entangled with young Nick; Nick&#8217;s
+appearance at the community destroys Michael&#8217;s peace of
+mind thoroughly, and an obliquely handled relationship
+between Nick, Michael and a guileless youngster, Toby,
+spending the summer at the community, eventually destroys
+the community entirely. But it isn&#8217;t all gloom and doom;
+the level of the writing is highly competent, sometimes
+wildly hilarious, and through all his difficulties Michael
+is able to realize that eventually he will &#8220;experience
+again ... that infinitely extended requirement which one human
+being makes on another.&#8221; A book which emphasizes the
+triumph of love, and one of the recent best. ((Editor&#8217;s
+note; why are the best novels of male homosexuality written
+by women? Mesdames Renault and Murdoch are giving their
+best to the men. Is it a question of detachment?))</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MURPHY, DENNIS. <i>The Sergeant</i>. Viking 1958, pbr Crest 1959, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">MURRAY, WILLIAM. <i>The Fugitive Romans.</i> pbo, Popular Library 1955.
+Brief variant episode among a Hollywood location crew abroad.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">NEILSEN, HELEN. <i>The Fifth Caller.</i> Morrow, 1959.
+Dr. Lillian Whitehall, metaphysician, is murdered; as
+each of her five callers is interviewed to find the guilty
+party, it develops that the dead woman was a cruel, domineering
+repressed lesbian. Well written, though unsympathetic.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">NEFF, WANDA FRAIKEN. <i>We Sing Diana.</i> Boston, Houghton 1928.
+Story of a girl too inhibited to face her own nature.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">NILES, BLAIR. <i>Strange Brother.</i> N. Y. Liveright 1931, pbr Harris
+Publications 1949, pbr Avon 1952, 1958, 1959.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">NIN, ANAIS. <i>Winter of Artifice.</i> Paris, Obelisk Press 1939,
+also in <i>Under a Glass Bell</i>, Dutton, 1948. The first edition
+has 100 pages or so, not included in later editions, in which
+she recounts her liaison with a famous American writer and<span class='pagenum2'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">43</a></span>
+his wife, all disguised, of course. (All of this writer&#8217;s
+work seems to be vaguely tinged with variance.)</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Ladders to Fire.</i> Dutton, 1945, 1946.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">NORDAY, MICHAEL. <i>Stage for Fools.</i> Vixen Press 1955. pbr tct
+<i>Strange Thirsts</i>, Beacon 1959. Evening waster about a lush
+actress making a comeback on a college campus, who revenges
+herself on an indifferent male by entrapping his girl into
+a drunken lesbian episode and inviting him to watch the
+show. A shocker.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Warped.</i> Beacon pbo 1955, 1960. Very apt title;
+evening waster about a crooked fight game. One sympathetically
+portrayed lesbian character in the many mixed affairs.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">NORMANDIE, ROGER. <i>The Lion&#8217;s Den.</i> N. Y. Key 1957. scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ O&#8217;BRIEN, KATE. <i>As Music and Splendor.</i> Harper. 1958.
+Novel of two very different young Irish girls sent to
+study music on the Continent during the great age of Italian
+opera; their personal lives differ as widely as their
+careers, One, Clare Halvey, drifts into a love affair
+with Luisa Carriaga, a Spanish contralto; their relationship
+is treated delicately, but with warmth and impersonal
+sympathy. Excellent for opera lovers and for those who
+are tired to death of books where every last detail is
+spelled out as frankly as the law allows.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ O&#8217;DONOVAN, JOAN. <i>Dangerous Worlds.</i> Morrow, 1958.
+Collection of excellent short stories.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">O&#8217;HIGGINS, HARVEY. <i>The Story of Julie Cane.</i> Harper, 1924.
+Explicit, for its day, story of an intense relationship
+between a schoolmistress and her ward.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">OLIVIA (see DOROTHY BUSSY).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">O&#8217;NEILL, ROSE. <i>The Goblin Woman.</i> N. Y. Doubleday 1930.
+Fey, symbolic novel of Helga, the Goblin Woman (who
+represents purity) set down in a society far from pure.
+There are many lesbian episodes and references to inter-*feminine
+love. (see poetry supplement.)</p>
+
+<p class="indent">O&#8217;HARA, NOEL. <i>The Last Virgin.</i> Chariot Books pb 1959.
+This is a reprint of David George Kin&#8217;s &#8220;Women Without Men&#8221;,
+containing six of the ten stories; new title, new author,
+even new copyright date&mdash;who&#8217;s kidding who? It does not
+contain the damning introduction, and without it, appears
+fairly sympathetic. Curious little item.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">PACKER, VIN (pseud; see also ANN ALDRICH)
+<i>Spring Fire.</i> pbo Gold Medal 1952. Now well-known
+and rather gamy novel of sorority house life and an unhappy
+lesbian affair between naive freshman Mitch and neurotic
+Lana.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">44</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Whisper His Sin.</i> Gold Medal pbo 1954, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent4">+ <i>The Evil Friendship.</i> pbo Crest 1958. Viciously condemnatory
+novel of two little girls of fourteen who, consequent
+to their lesbianish attachment, plot together and carry
+out &#8220;a murder club&#8221;. Shuddersome, but, alas, well
+written. (Editorial query; why must so many of the detractors
+of lesbianism write such good books, while those who defend
+it are, all to often, of the Carol Hales &#8220;quality&#8221;?)</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Twisted Ones.</i> pbo, Gold Medal 1959, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">PARK, JORDAN. (pseud of Cyril Kornbluth). <i>Valerie.</i> pbo, Lion,
+1953, 1957. Minor lesbian episodes in a novel of witch-hunting;
+the episodes occur at a Witches Sabbat. Evening
+waster.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">PARKER, DOROTHY: &#8220;Glory in the Daytime&#8221; in <i>After Such Pleasures</i>,
+N. Y., Viking 1934.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">PATTON, MARION. <i>Dance on the Tortoise.</i> N. Y., Dial 1930.
+Boarding-school novel; the heroine, repelled by the
+emotional friendships around her, throws herself with
+relief into the arms of a man.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">PAVESE, CESARE. <i>Among Women Only.</i> Noonday Press, qpb 1959
+($1.75). Recommended, highly tragic, novel by a
+writer considered, until his untimely death, one of Italy&#8217;s
+best.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ PETERS, FRITZ. <i>Finistere.</i> Farrar, Straus &amp; Co 1951, pbr Signet
+1953, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ PETRONIUS, <i>The Satyricon</i>. (the earliest known novel, written
+about the time of Christ; the last flush of the pagan world.)
+Trans. William Arrowsmith, University of Michigan Press,
+1959. This is also available in a highly expurgated Modern
+Library edition, n. d. Male, of course, and the Arrowsmith
+translation is hilarious and <i>very</i> readable.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">PEN, JOHN. <i>Temptation.</i> (trans. from the Hungarian by John Manheim,)
+Avon Red and Gold, 1959, (m). Fine picaresque.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">PEYREFITTE, ROGER. <i>Special Friendships.</i> NY, Vanguard 1950, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ PHELPS, ROBERT. <i>Heroes and Orators.</i> N. Y. McDowell &amp; Oblensky
+1958. Fine modern novel of family relationships,
+containing a lesbian character described as the most real,
+human and sympathetic in recent years; Margot, in love with
+her ex-husband&#8217;s sister Elizabeth. The two women live together,
+but any intimate relationship between them is
+disclaimed.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">PHILLIPS, THOMAS HAL. <i>The Bitterweed Path.</i> Rinehart 1949, pbr
+Avon 1954, 1959, (m).</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">45</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">POWELL, DAWN. <i>A Cage for Lovers.</i> Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1957.
+Mannish, wealthy hypochondriac keeps her nurse-companion
+in virtual slavery until the younger girl breaks
+away and marries. Competent novel by a popular author.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">PRIEST, J. C. <i>Private School.</i> Beacon pbo 1959 scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">PRITCHARD, JANET. <i>Warped Women.</i> Beacon pbo 1951, 1956, 1959.
+Despite the lurid blurb and cover, this is a nice
+evening waster about an innocent young girl who goes to
+work for a woman&#8217;s health club which is, behind the
+scenes, an abortion mill run by gangsters. Fronting for
+the group, an attractive lesbian takes a fancy to the
+heroine, eventually protects her against the gangster boss
+at the risk of her own life. The heroine then marries a
+nice boy who&#8217;s been telling her all along that the place
+is rotten. Suspenseful, interesting.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">PROUST, MARCEL. <i>Remembrance of Things Past</i>, the great work
+of the well-known French homosexual author, is available
+in many (virtually all except rural-provincial) libraries,
+numerous college editions, etc. Long sections are variant,
+male-homosexual or lesbian; bibliography would occupy
+entirely too much space. Try a stray volume in qpb and see
+if Proust is your cup of tea&mdash;he isn&#8217;t everyone&#8217;s.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">PURTSCHER, NORA. <i>Woman Astride.</i> Appleton-Century, 1934.
+Woman spends almost her entire life in male disguise.
+Offbeat, variant rather than explicitly lesbian.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">PYKE, RICHARD. <i>The Lives and Deaths of Roland Greer.</i> NY,
+Boni 1929, (m). Horrifying.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">RAVEN, SIMON. <i>The Feathers of Death.</i> London, A. Blond, 1959,
+Simon &amp; Schuster 1960, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">RAYTER, JOE (pseud. of Mary McChesney). <i>Asking for Trouble</i>.
+Morrow 1955, pbr Pocket Books 1959. Murder mystery.
+A mannish, hardboiled lesbian plays an important part.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">REHDER, JESSIE. <i>Remembrance Way.</i> G P Putnam&#8217;s Sons 1956.
+Retrospective tale in which the heroine recalls a
+summer in girl&#8217;s camp, when she was enslaved simultaneously
+to a domineering director (woman) and her daughter.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">REMARQUE, ERICH MARIA. <i>Arch of Triumph</i> Appleton 1945, pbr
+Signet 1950, 1959.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ RENAULT, MARY. <i>Promise of Love.</i> Morrow, 1939.
+Novel, in a hospital background, contains variant relationship,
+lightly treated.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Middle Mist.</i> Morrow, 1945. Excellent, humorous
+novel, featuring the boyish Leo (Leonora) who, with her
+<span class='pagenum3'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">46</a></span>
+friend Helen, lives on a houseboat quite happily (&#8220;It
+only makes sense for the surplus women to arrange themselves
+one way or another.&#8221;) This is, beyond a doubt, the
+wittiest, most refreshing book on the list; the girls
+have problems, but they have them, and solve them, without
+any well-of-loneliness agonizing. The story is resolved in
+Leo&#8217;s gradual feminization and marriage.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Last of the Wine.</i> Pantheon, 1956 (m; Greek.).</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The King Must Die.</i> Pantheon 1958, pbr Pocket Books
+1959. Minor male and female homosexuality in Cretan setting.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Charioteer.</i> Longmans, 1953, Pantheon hcr 1959.
+Male, major, femininely delicate. Virtually all of this
+writer&#8217;s work contains some reference, though sometimes
+remote and slight, to variance.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">RENAULT, PAUL. <i>Raw Interludes.</i> Brookwood, 1957, scv.
+<i>No</i> relation to Mary Renault; since Renault, Mary, has a double
+plus, the editors agree we should invent a double minus.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">RICE, CRAIG. <i>Having Wonderful Crime.</i> Simon &amp; Schuster, 1943.
+Hilarious murder mystery leads into the byways and gay
+bars of Greenwich village.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">RICHARDSON, HENRY HANDEL. <i>The End of a Childhood.</i> London,
+Reinemann, 1934, hcr N. Y. Norton.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Getting of Wisdom.</i> N. Y. Duffield, 1910. Both are
+volumes of loosely connected variant short stories.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">ROLLAND, ROMAINE. <i>Annette and Sylvie.</i> Holt, 1925.
+The first volume of a trilogy, this deals with an
+intense attachment between two young (adolescent) half
+sisters who meet for the first time in their teens.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">RONALD, JAMES. <i>The Angry Woman.</i> Lippincott 1948, Bantam pbr
+1950. A businesswoman keeps a young girl reluctantly
+captivated until the girl commits suicide.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">RONNS, EDWARD. <i>The State Department Murders.</i> pbo, Gold Medal
+1952, (m) fco.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">ROSMANITH, OLGA. <i>Unholy Flame.</i> pbo Gold Medal 1952, (m). fco
+(But I like this personally very much. A modern Svengali.)</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ ROSS, WALTER. <i>The Immortal.</i> Simon &amp; Schuster 1958, Pocket
+Books Cardinal Edition 1959, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">ROYDE-SMITH, NAOMI. <i>The Tortoiseshell Cat.</i> Boni &amp; Liveright 1925.
+An unworldly girl&#8217;s capture by a predatory lesbian.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Island.</i> Harper, 1930. Sad, tense book about an
+ugly, unhappy girl nicknamed &#8220;Goosey&#8221; and a clinging cousin
+who will neither love her nor let her go.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">RUARK, ROBERT. <i>Something of Value.</i> Doubleday 1955, pbr Pocket
+Books 1958. Very minor.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">47</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">RYAN, MARK. <i>Twisted Loves.</i> Bedside Books 1959, pbo, scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SABATIER, ROBERT. <i>Boulevard.</i> (Prix de Paris award novel, trans.
+from French by Lowell Blair). David McKay 1958, pbr Dell 59,
+(m). Marginal.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SACKVILLE-WEST, VICTORIA. <i>The Dark Island.</i> Doubleday, 1934.
+Shirin is the over-emotional, unconventional wife of
+Venn, dour owner of the &#8220;dark island&#8221;, Storn. He treats
+Shirin so badly that she seeks companionship, love and
+affection from Christina, her husband&#8217;s secretary; through
+jealousy (not unmixed with pure sadism) Venn arranges for
+Christina to be drowned in a boating &#8220;accident&#8221;. Haunting.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ SALEM, RANDY. <i>Chris.</i> Beacon pbo, 1959.
+The plus indicates good of kind, not intrinsic merit.
+An interesting story of a lesbian triangle&mdash;Chris, Dizz,
+and young Carol. One reader commented that this story was a
+sort of lesbian dreamworld&mdash;these women seemed to live in
+a society, and a world, completely unmixed with ordinary
+life at all. Certainly they are all treated as quite the
+ordinary thing, and there are almost no hints that there
+is a heterosexual world outside the gay one, which must be
+taken into account. Certainly it makes no incursions
+into the novel. Chris, a conchologist, her life complicated
+by her frigid girl-friend Dizz, suffers and drinks too
+much and sleeps around until Carol, one of her random
+pick-ups, decides to stick to her, and eventually frees
+Chris from this attachment. Good but unreal.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ SANDBURG, HELGA. <i>The Wheel of Earth.</i> McDowell, Oblensky 1958.
+Roughly a third of a long novel of Midwestern rural life
+deals with the lengthy attachment between Frankie Gaddy
+and an older woman, Genevieve.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SARTON, MAY. <i>A Shower of Summer Days.</i> Rinehart, 1952.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL. <i>No Exit.</i> Knopf 1947, qpb Vintage 1955. Play.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SAVAGE KIM. <i>Girl&#8217;s Dorm.</i> Vixen Press 1952.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Baby Makes Three.</i> Vixen, 1953. No reports on either of
+these, but in view of the publisher they are probably
+evening wasters at best.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SAYERS, DOROTHY L. <i>The Dawson Pedigree.</i> Harcourt 1928, fco.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ SCHIDDEL, EDMUND. <i>Girl with the Golden Yo-Yo.</i> pbo Berkley 1955,
+1959, (m). Also contains some brief analysis of lesbian
+jazz circles in Germany after WWI.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Other Side of the Night.</i> pbo Avon 1954-5, Berkley
+1959, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SCHMITT, GLADYS. <i>Confessors of the Name.</i> Dial, 1952, pbr
+Permabooks ca. 1953-55. A relatively minor lesbian character
+in a long novel of ancient Rome, with explicit<span class='pagenum2'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">48</a></span>
+lesbian scenes during a Saturnalia orgy.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>A Small Fire.</i> Dial 1958. (m.) minor.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Alexandra.</i> Dial 1947, pbr Pocket Books 1949. Very
+vague and minor threads of contact in a novel of intense
+friendship between two women. Emotionally high.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SCOTT, LES. <i>Twilight Women.</i> Arco 1952, pbr Beacon 1956.
+Evening-waster suspenseful adventure story of a chase-type
+kidnapping: Rance, the hero, pleasantly entangled with two
+beautiful Polynesian girls, who eventually take him to
+a Utopian tropical island where he happily marries both of
+them. The contact between the girls is incidental and
+included simply to heighten excitement for male readers,
+but it&#8217;s good fun in a Sax Rohmerish way.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Three Can Love.</i> Arco, 1952.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Touchable.</i> Arco, 1951. Probably much the same as above.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SCULLY, ROBERT. <i>A Scarlet Pansy.</i> N. Y. Faro, 1933, Hesor 1937 hcr,
+Reprinted and completely rewritten by Royal, no pub. no
+date, Baltimore, Oppenheimer, 30s and 40s. In 1950, D W Cory
+called this &#8220;the low point of the homosexual novel&#8221;. A lot
+of trash has been written since, which makes this look
+simply silly. (m). A confusing novel of the &#8220;gay&#8221; world,
+including some butchy and peculiar lesbians.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SEELEY, E. S. <i>Sorority Sin.</i> Beacon pbo, 1959. scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SELA, LORA. (pseud of Carol Hales) <i>I Am a Lesbian</i>. Saber pbo,
+1959. Would-be shocker about a poor innocent girl being
+pushed into love affairs with brutal boys, raped, etc;
+by cruel relatives and friends, when all that God wants of
+her, according to the author, is for her to be a Happy
+Well-Adjusted Noble Lesbian. This isn&#8217;t even scv, since
+the writers of sexy trash usually know something about
+sex or trash or both. Read it and snicker.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SETON, ANYA. <i>Katherine.</i> Houghton, 1954. (m. minor)</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SHAW, WILENE. <i>The Fear and the Guilt.</i> pbo, Ace, 1954.
+Softball-playing Ruby brings sweet-leech Christy to
+her Tobacco Road home. There, to disarm suspicion, Christy
+allows herself to be first seduced, then married, by
+Ruby&#8217;s father. Sympathetic for a shocker, but oh, my!</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SIDGWICK, ETHEL. <i>A Lady of Leisure.</i> Boston, Small, 1914.
+A passionate, But quite innocent, attachment between
+women in their twenties.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SIMENON, GEORGES. <i>In Case of Emergency.</i> Doubleday 1958,
+pbr Dell 1959. A common theme&mdash;a good man enslaved
+by a worthless girl&mdash;is treated here by a very good
+European writer. A subplot deals with the attachment
+between the girl and her maidservant.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">49</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">SINCLAIR, JO. (pseud. of Ruth Seid) <i>Wasteland</i>. Harper Bros. 1946.
+This is the excellent and heavily lauded Harper prize
+novel of that year. Told on the psychiatrist&#8217;s couch, it
+concerns the failure of Jewish Jake Braunowitz to live up to
+his manhood ... which forces this job onto the shoulders of his
+sister Debbie, a lesbian. The psychiatrist discovers that he
+ran from his responsibilities in the first place due to
+feeling weaker than the masterful intelligent Debbie; then,
+after forcing her to take a man&#8217;s role in the family, he turns
+around and feels guilt and shame at her adjustment to the
+situation. Excellently done.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SPEERS, MARY. <i>We Are Fires Unquenchable.</i> Murray and Gee, Hollywood
+1946. fco. A badly written, almost illiterate
+novel, the first few scenes of which are laid in a girl&#8217;s
+college swarming with luridly treated lesbians and in an
+assortment of Bohemian settings.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ SMITH, ARTEMIS.
+<i>Odd Girl.</i> Beacon pbo, 1959.
+The blurb reads &#8220;Life and love among warped women&#8221;, but
+don&#8217;t let it scare you. This is one of the better and more
+serious approaches to the writing of a serious novel of lesbians
+through the stereotyped pattern of the paperback novel.
+The basic plot concerns Anne, and her experiences in trying
+to find out for herself, the hard way, whether she is a lesbian
+or whether she can successfully adjust to life as a normal
+woman. The story ends with the surprising, but growingly
+popular affirmation that &#8220;adjustment&#8221; is not always to be
+desired at all costs. The cover also calls this a story of
+&#8220;society&#8217;s greatest curse&#8221;; meaning homosexuality; but for
+once it isn&#8217;t treated that way.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Third Sex.</i> pbo, Beacon, 1959.
+Most of the remarks made above also apply to this one, though
+the heroine is Joan, a college girl who fears that she is
+becoming a lesbian, and fights it by redoubling her affairs
+with men. Slightly more sensational than &#8220;Odd Girl&#8221;, but
+well written, well thought out and generally excellent.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SMITH, DOROTHY EVELYN. <i>The Lovely Day.</i> N. Y. Dutton, 1957.
+Interesting novel of an English village on a choir outing,
+contains a minor but funny account of an unconscious
+lesbian&#8217;s decisions.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SMITH, SHELLEY. (pseud. of Nancy Bodington.) <i>The Lord Have Mercy</i>,
+Harper 1956, pbr tct <i>The Shrew is Dead</i>, Dell 1959.
+English mystery story; a major subplot involves a pair of
+lesbians.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SNEDEKER, CAROLINE DALE. <i>The Perilous Seat.</i> Doubleday, Doran 1929,
+marginal (m) in a juvenile of ancient Greece; the hero, being
+sold into slavery, attempts to disfigure himself to escape &#8220;the
+fate of handsome boys among the Persians.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">50</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">STAFFORD, JEAN. <i>Boston Adventure.</i> Harcourt, 1944.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">STEIN, GERTRUDE. <i>Things as They Are.</i> Banyan Press, Pawlet, Vermont.
+(Very rare; $25 and up second hand.) A
+novel by the well-known surrealist poet ... possibly her only
+coherent work ... dealing with lesbianism.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">STONE, SCOTT. <i>The Divorcees.</i> Beacon pbo 1955, released 1959
+Evening waster about a racketeer who specializes in quick
+divorces, and his girlfriend who flirts with all the women
+as he disengages them from their husbands.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Margo.</i> Beacon pbo 1955, released 1959. scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Blaze</i>, Berkley pbo or pbr, n. d. no data except &#8220;trash&#8221;.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SOUBIRAN, ANDRE. <i>Bedlam.</i> Putnam 1957, pbr Pyramid 1959, (m). Minor.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">STONEBRAKER, FLORENCE. <i>Sinful Desires.</i> pbr Bedside Books, 1959.
+(previous paperback, publisher unknown, ca. 1951).
+Silly novel about a married woman briefly captivated by a
+stereotyped lesbian.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ STURGEON, THEODORE. (pseud. of Edward Hamilton Waldo).
+&#8220;Affair with a Green Monkey&#8221;. Venture Science Fiction May
+1957; also in <i>A Touch of Strange</i>, Doubleday 1959.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">&#8220;The Sex Opposite&#8221;. in <i>E. Pluribus Unicorn</i>, Abelard
+1952, Ballantine pbr 1953.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">"The World Well Lost" in <i>E Pluribus Unicorn</i>.
+Many of Sturgeon&#8217;s other short stories and novelettes touch
+on extremely strange, offbeat relationships.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ SWADOS, FELICE. <i>House of Fury.</i> Doubleday 1941, pbr Lion 1955,
+Berkley 1959. One of the better paperbacks, dealing
+with racial tensions and muted lesbian attachments in a girl&#8217;s
+reformatory.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SWINBURNE, ALGERNON. <i>Lesbia Brandon.</i> Falcon Press 1952, edited
+and annotated by Randolph Hughes. A famous incomplete
+novel by the well-known poet, for students rather than readers.
+Really only a handful of scattered chapters, too scrappy to
+judge; see also poetry supplement.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SYDNEY, GALE. <i>Strange Circle.</i> Beacon Books pbo 1959, 1960.
+Grace Garney, feeling unwanted, gets a job with Mrs.
+Flocke, a repulsive lesbian, and repels a pass; this, however,
+revives childhood memories, and during a rift in her affairs
+with a man, she has a brief affair with Inez, a friend with
+an unsatisfactory husband. Evening waster.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">SYKES, GERALD. <i>The Center of the Stage.</i> N. Y., Farrar 1952, pbr
+Signet 1954. Witty novel of the theatre, with a minor
+lesbian character.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">TAYLOR, DYSON. <i>Bitter Love.</i> orig. copyright 1952, Pyramid 1958,
+(m). Worldly woman marries a homosexual who wants her for a
+&#8220;front&#8221;.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">51</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">TAYLOR, JOHN. <i>Shadows of Shame.</i> Pyramid 1956, 1959, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">TAYLOR, VALERIE. <i>Whisper Their Love.</i> Crest pbo 1957.
+Unsympathetic college novel of a girl suffering through a
+lesbian affair while all around her the other girls suffer
+through rape, incest and abortion. Over-written.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Girls in 3-B.</i> Crest pbo 1959. One of three young girls
+who come to the city to find jobs or careers. Barby, drifts
+into a lesbian relationship, mostly out of revulsion against
+two unfortunate experiences with men. Excellent, sympathetic.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">+ <i>Stranger on Lesbos.</i> Crest pbo 1959. A married woman
+with a grown son and indifferent husband, returning to college
+for work on a college degree, is ripe for an affair with
+&#8220;Bake&#8221;, a confirmed lesbian. The affair is told with sufficient
+skill and restraint to make it believable; even Frankie&#8217;s
+eventual return to her old life is not a cliche &#8220;happy ending&#8221;
+but well prepared and well characterized. Remarkably good; the
+degree of progress from the first to the third of these novels
+makes your editors anxious to see where Miss Taylor goes from
+here.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">TELLIER, ANDRE. <i>Twilight Men.</i> Greenberg 1931, pbr Lion 1950, 52,
+56, Pyramid 1959, (m). Well known.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ TEY, JOSEPHINE. (pseud. of Elizabeth MacKintosh.)
+<i>Miss Pym Disposes.</i> Macmillan 1948; also in <i>Three by Tey</i>,
+Macmillan 1954. Slowly built-up, excellently constructed
+mystery of a girl&#8217;s school, where a close attachment between
+two seniors provides solution and motivation for a murder. The
+level of mystification is so high that even on the last page
+the reader is gasping with the final, shocking surprise.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>To Love and be Wise.</i> Macmillan 1951. Another well done
+mystery, with a variant attachment also providing motive and
+solution and a high level of suspense and surprise.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">TESCH, GERALD. <i>Never The Same Again.</i> G P Putnam&#8217;s Sons 1956,
+pbr Pyramid 1958, (m). Not for the squeamish, but a well-done
+novel of an affair between a teen age boy and an older man.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ TIMPERLEY, ROSEMARY. <i>Child in the Dark.</i> Crowell 1956.
+Two of the three stories in this book involve intense
+attachments, variant but not explicitly lesbian, between an
+English schoolmistress and a young girl.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">THAYER, TIFFANY. <i>Thirteen Women.</i> Claude Kendall, 1932.
+Mildly nasty shock-story of a murder, involving thirteen women,
+one mixed up with a lesbian; she eventually commits suicide.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Thirteen Men.</i> Claude Kendall 1930, (m). Much the same
+stuff as above only masculine in emphasis. Thayer is a good
+writer, but not everyone&#8217;s choice.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">THOMPSON, JOHN B. <i>Girls of the French Quarter.</i> Beacon pbo 1954.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Frenzy of Desire.</i> Encore Press 1957. Evening wasters.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">THOMPSON, MORTON. <i>Not as a Stranger.</i> Chas. Scribner&#8217;s Sons, 1954
+pbr Pocket Books 1955. fco, very minor episodes.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">52</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ THORNE, ANTHONY. <i>Delay in the Sun.</i> Literary Guild, 1934.
+A &#8220;heartening idyll&#8221; of two friends who, during a long
+stopover in Spain, resolve their relationship.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ TORRES, TERESKA.
+<i>Woman&#8217;s Barracks.</i> Gold Medal pbo 1950, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56,
+57, 58, 59 and probably every year from now on, for a while
+anyhow. Gold Medal&#8217;s most popular title so far is the story
+of a group of women with the Free French women&#8217;s army, at
+loose ends and disassociated from family, friends and personal
+attachments. Among the many threads of the plot is the
+story of naive young Ursula, who, through her relationship
+with warm, tough, friendly Claude is helped to maturity and
+eventually to readjustment to normal life.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Dangerous Games.</i> Dial 1957, pbr Crest 1958. A married
+woman, discovering her husband is having an affair with her
+closest friend, briefly becomes infatuated with her too.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Not Yet.</i> Crown 1957, pbr Crest 1958. The story of four
+young girls in a French school; not children but &#8220;not yet&#8221;
+women, and their adjustment to life and love. The narrator,
+the least mature, is as yet infatuated only with Mother
+Nathalie, her teacher; no overt behavior is implied except
+kisses, but the nun&#8217;s reaction when the heroine begins to be
+interested in boys brings this under the scope of the study.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Golden Cage.</i> Dial 1959. (trans. from French by
+Meyer Levin). A group of refugees in wartime, waiting for
+visas in Portugal, undergo various transient attachments.
+Among the group are several lesbians, treated with sympathy
+and sensitivity.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">TRAVIS, BEN. <i>The Strange Ones.</i> Beacon pbo 1959, (m).
+Evening waster about a young no-good who earns his living as
+a paid escort/gigolo and relaxes with boy friends but still
+loudly insists he is normal. Your editor enjoyed this out of
+sheer perversity; usually novels treating of male homosexuality
+engage the subject with deadly seriousness, while the
+paperback originals reek with drooling voyeuristic strip-teases
+about lesbians, for the sake of men who like to enjoy
+pipe-dreams about lesbians making love, and about some Big
+Handsome Hero who eventually converts the girls to &#8220;normality&#8221;
+with some secret formula of caresses. So it is a nice change
+to see the gay BOYS getting the in-and-out-of-the-sheets
+treatment for once.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">TRYON, MARK. <i>The Fire that Burns.</i> Berkley pbo 1959 scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Take it Off.</i> Vixen Press 1953, Modern Press 1956, scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">UNTERMEYER, LOUIS. (Editor). <i>The Treasury of Ribaldry.</i> Doubleday
+1956, pbr Popular Library 1959 (v. 1). This contains
+Lucian&#8217;s &#8220;Dialogues of Courtesans&#8221;, entitled in this translation
+&#8220;The Lesbian&#8221; and &#8220;A Curious Deception&#8221;. The hardcover
+edition also contains some of the Songs of Bilitis.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">VAIL, AMANDA (pseud. of Warren Miller). <i>The Bright Young Things</i>.
+Little, Brown, 1958. pbr Crest 1960.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">53</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent2">In a story of two worldly young college girls experimenting
+with life and love, a subplot involves two of their
+friends, lesbians. Minor but fun.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">VANEER, WILLIAM. <i>Love Starved Wife.</i> Bedside Books Inc, 1959. scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">VAN HELLER, MARCUS. <i>The House of Borgia</i>, Paris, Olympia Press,
+1957. Volume #16 in The Traveler&#8217;s Companion, straight scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">VAN ROYEN, ASTRID. <i>Awake, Monique.</i> Duell, Sloan &amp; Pearce, 1957,
+pbr Crest 1958. Astrid, an orphaned child in some unnamed
+European country (Holland, Belgium, Sweden?) is sent to
+live with her uncle Rainier; she lives upstairs with Rainier
+(eventually with a Lolita-like intimacy) while Rainier&#8217;s wife
+lives downstairs with a lesbian friend, Dini. Despite a
+&#8220;broadminded&#8221; plea for understanding, Rainier strictly forbids
+Astrid to have anything to do with the girls. The book is
+well-written, tasteful, and certainly candid.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">VAUGHAN, HILDA. <i>The Curtain Rises.</i> N. Y. Chas Scribner 1935.
+A young girl, Nest, in London, falls in with a fiftyish
+spinster with a reputation for aiding young and pretty girls
+who also have talent. Miss Fremlyn invites Nest to live
+with her as her companion, showering her with education,
+attention and restrictions; Nest is naive, Miss Fremlyn unaware,
+at least consciously, of her own emotions. They
+travel and live together for some time, but the affair
+breaks up when Nest, who has always kept in touch with her
+boy friend, is discovered with him and Miss Fremlyn, considering
+this a betrayal, dismisses her. Explicit, well done.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">VERNE, CHARLES. <i>The Wheel of Passion.</i> N. Y. Key 1957. scv.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">VIDAL, GORE. <i>The City and the Pillar.</i> E P Dutton 1948, pbr
+Signet ca. 1950, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Season of Comfort.</i> E P Dutton 1949, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WAHL, LOREN. <i>The Invisible Glass.</i> Greenberg, 1950, pbr tct
+<i>If This be Sin</i>, Avon 1952, pbr tct <i>Take Me as I Am</i>,
+Berkley 1959, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WALFORD, FRANK. <i>Twisted Clay.</i> Claude Kendall, 1934. fco.
+A young girl, a psychotic sadist ... is bisexual and has one
+big affair with an older woman. It must be marked for
+people with very complete collections only; it is depressing,
+inaccurate, etc. &#8220;The writing, etc, are excellent, but oh
+my, what a plot!&#8221;</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ WARD, ERIC. <i>Uncharted Seas.</i> Paris, Obelisk Press 1937, (Fairly
+easy to obtain second hand, and not at all like most of the
+sexy trash tagged Paris elsewhere in this list.) An
+excellent, perceptive and controlled story of Diana Bellew,
+a young married woman with children, a childish husband and
+too much money and time on her hands, and her successive<span class='pagenum2'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">54</a></span>
+affairs with three women. The writing is unusually good
+for male authorship.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WEBB, JON EDGAR. <i>Four Steps to the Wall.</i> Dial 1948, pbr Bantam
+1953, (m). Prison novel.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ WEIRAUGH, ANNA ELISABET. <i>The Scorpion.</i> Greenberg 1932, Willey
+Book co, 1948, pbr Avon Books 1957, complete; pbr
+tct <i>Of Love Forbidden</i>, greatly abridged, 1958.
+Well-known novel of well-bred German girl, Metta (in some
+translations, Myra) who, in her late teens, falls in love
+with a worldly lesbian, Olga, who does much to free her from
+her stuffy background, but repudiates her painfully in a
+family crisis. After Olga&#8217;s suicide Metta seeks for her
+real self and real destiny, first in the Bohemian drink-drugs-sex
+merrygoround of Berlin between the wars, then hides from
+life in a stuffy middle-class setting; when even here she
+finds herself pursued by a lesbian tease, Gwen, who flirts
+with Metta to inveigle her into a sordid party <i>a trois</i>, Metta
+resolves to go away and come to terms with her own soul.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Outcast.</i> Greenberg 1933, Willey Book Co 1948.
+The sequel to the above, this finds the heroine of <i>The
+Scorpion</i> living quietly in the country. She undergoes a
+painful and unsatisfactory affair with Fiametta, a dancer,
+but when this proves unsatisfactory settles down sadly but
+peacefully with a couple of sexless men friends.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WEISS, JOE, and Ralph Dean. <i>Anything Goes.</i> Bedside Books pbo,
+1959. Fast-moving evening waster with a minor lesbian angle.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WELCH, DENTON. <i>Maiden Voyage.</i> L. B. Fischer 1945, (m). Minor.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>In Youth is Pleasure.</i> L. B. Fischer 1946. (m minor)</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ WELLS, CATHERINE: &#8220;The Beautiful House&#8221; Harpers, March 1912.
+An idyll of two women ends tragically with the marriage
+of the younger.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WELLS, KERMIT. <i>Reformatory Women.</i> Bedside Books pbo 1959.
+Surprisingly good for this publisher of rubbish. After
+escaping from a sadistic lesbian matron in the reformatory,
+Noreen works as a fake butch in a Greenwich Village Gay
+bar and tourist trap; later goes to work for gangsters in
+a roadhouse, falls for a nice boy and goes back to serve
+her reformatory sentence and marry him when she gets out.
+Pleasant evening waster.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WETHERELL, ELIZABETH (pseud of Susan Warner). <i>The Wide Wide
+World.</i> Many editions, very easily obtained, a well-known
+girls story of the 1880s or thereabout, dealing with
+Ellen, an orphan of twelve. Much of the first half of the
+novel is devoted to a very innocent, but exceptionally
+intense, close relationship between Ellen and her beloved
+&#8220;Miss Alice&#8221;, daughter of the local minister. Good of kind,
+and distinctly relevant on an adolescent level.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">55</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">WHEELER, HUGH. <i>The Crippled Muse.</i> Rinehart, 1952.
+A &#8220;sparkling comedy&#8221; of Capri contains the story of
+two women who have lived together for ten years; the younger
+girl is tired of the arrangement, and the older uses her
+feelings of guilt and shame to hold her captive. In the
+course of the novel she manages to free herself.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WHITE, PATRICK. <i>The Aunt&#8217;s Story.</i> Viking Press 1948. fco.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WIMBERLEY, GWYNNE. <i>One Touch of Ecstasy.</i> Frederick Fell, 1959.
+A lesbian affair gives &#8220;one touch of ecstasy&#8221; to a woman&#8217;s
+inhibited, unhappy life, allowing her to return to her
+husband with wakened perceptions.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WILDER, ROBERT. <i>Wait for Tomorrow.</i> Putnam 1950, Bantam 1953.
+A girl&#8217;s unwilling entanglement with a predatory
+lesbian, in a romance of an imaginary Balkan country, leads
+to all sorts of violence and cloak-and-dagger stuff. Good.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ WILHELM, GALE. <i>Torchlight to Valhalla.</i> Random, 1938, pbr tct</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Strange Path</i>, Lion 1953, Berkley 1958, 1959. Morgen,
+rootless and drifting after the death of her artist father,
+to whom she had been childishly close, is loved by two
+fine young men, but finds her happiness with a strange
+young girl, Toni. Major, well known.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>We Too Are Drifting.</i> Triangle Books 1938-39; Modern
+Library 1935. pbr Lion Books 1951, Berkley 1957, 58, 59, 60.
+Probably the major novel of the thirties to deal with
+lesbians; perhaps the best of all time. In substance it
+deals with the boyish, but feminine Jan Morale; her struggle
+to escape a slightly sordid affair with Madelaine, a married
+woman, and to find happiness, despite family complications,
+with a young girl, Victoria. Told with fairness, restraint,
+and skill&mdash;not to mention that this is one of the dozen or
+so books on this entire list to display not only <i>some</i>, but
+<i>exceptional</i> literary merit.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. &#8220;Something Unspoken&#8221; in <i>27 Wagons Full of
+Cotton</i>. New Directions, 1953. Also in Best Short Plays of
+1955-56, Dodd, Mead, 1956. A play; I marked this for fco,
+received a protest &#8220;Everybody will enjoy this.&#8221; Compromise;
+everybody will enjoy this who likes Tennessee Williams.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS. <i>The Knife of the Times.</i> Dragon
+Press, 1932, hcr tct <i>Make Light of It</i>, Random House 1950,
+(m). The title story is in DWCory, <i>21 Variations</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WILLIAMS, IDABEL. <i>Hellcat.</i> Greenberg 1934, pbr Dell 1952.
+Unpleasant girl who uses everyone for her own purposes
+includes a lesbian among her victims.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WILLINGHAM, CALDER. (pseud). <i>End as a Man.</i> Vanguard 1947, pbr
+Signot co. 1957, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WILLIS, GEORGE. <i>Little Boy Blues.</i> Dutton, 1947.<span class='pagenum2'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">56</a></span>
+Concerns the machinations of a lesbian to achieve marriage
+and motherhood as a &#8220;front&#8221;.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WILSON, ETHEL D. <i>Hetty Dorval.</i> Macmillan 1948, fco.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WINDHAM, DONALD. <i>The Hitchhiker.</i> Florence, Italy, priv. print. (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Servants with Torches.</i> N. Y. 1955 priv. print. (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Dog Star.</i> Doubleday, 1950, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WINSLOE, CHRISTA. <i>The Child Manuela.</i> (Trans. Agnes Scott Farrar,
+1933.) Motherless Manuela, sent to a strict boarding-school
+because of supposed misconduct with a boy (actually she was
+only fascinated with his mother) falls in love with Elizabeth
+von Bernberg, one of the teachers. The woman&#8217;s behavior is
+strictly correct, but her warmth of personality attracts all
+the love-starved, inhibited children; Manuela, exhilarated
+and slightly drunk at a school party, babbles of her love
+for the Fraulein, and is punished so severely that she
+throws herself from a top-floor window.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Girl Alone.</i> (Trans. Agnes Scott). Farrar 1936.
+A girl in difficulties finds temporary refuge with a lesbian
+friend.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WINSTON, DAOMA. <i>The Golden Tramp.</i> pbo Beacon Books 1959.
+Evening waster about a woman writer trying it both ways.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WOLLER, OLGA. <i>Strange Conflict.</i> Pageant, 1955.
+Purple-passaged and would-be-horrifying story about a Eurasian
+hermaphrodite&mdash;supposedly as she is because of her
+mother&#8217;s intercourse with demons before her birth&mdash;who
+inspires love and brings death to everyone she knows, male
+or female.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WOODFORD, JACK. <i>Male and Female.</i> Woodford Press, 1935.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Unmoral.</i> Woodford Press, 1938. Both of these are evening
+wasters&mdash;racy stuff, not bad at all when compared with
+the current crop of trashy paperbacks. The &#8220;lesbian&#8221; content,
+of course, is strictly for fun.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WOOD, CLEMENT. <i>Strange Fires.</i> Woodford Press, 1951.
+&#8220;Shipwreck on Lesbos&#8221; in his <i>Desire</i>, Berkeley n. d. 1958
+(copyright 1950, perhaps Woodford Press?) Clement
+Wood is either a pen name for, or a successor to, Jack
+Woodford, a popular writer of racy, risque, sexy books of
+little literary merit but relatively innocuous even for
+teenagers ... the trash of the thirties and forties was a
+very different thing from the scv of the fifties.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WOOD, CLEMENT, and Gloria Goddard. <i>Fair Game.</i> Woodford Press,
+1949, pbr Beacon 1958. Evening waster about girls
+coming to the wicked big city, and we all know what happens
+to such girls in this kind of book. One of them falls in
+with the dangerous women instead of the dangerous men.</p>
+
+<p class="indent3">+ WOOLF, VIRGINIA. <i>Orlando</i>.
+<i>To The Lighthouse.</i></p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Mrs. Dalloway.</i> All of these are classics easily available.<span class='pagenum3'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">57</a></span>
+in small, medium and large libraries, college bookstores,
+and the like. The lesbian content is vague and subtle, but
+good; one of the best woman writers.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WOUK, HERMAN. <i>Marjorie Morningstar.</i> Doubleday 1955, pbr 1956.
+The variant element in this is minor and problematical.
+In conversation, it occurred to a group of reviewers that
+the developing relationship between Marjorie and Marsha
+&#8220;resembled a love affair&#8221;, that Marsha&#8217;s attack of hysterics
+at her wedding, and her outcry that all she had ever wanted
+was a friend, and now she&#8217;d always be alone, was of distinct
+significance, BAYOR.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WYLIE, PHILIP. <i>The Disappearance.</i> Rinehart 1951, pbr Pocket
+Books 1958. Science fiction; for men, all women
+vanish; for women, all men vanish. The problem of lesbianism
+arises in the women&#8217;s world; Wylie, though technically and
+superficially approving of homosexuality, has his heroine
+reject it for herself, saying &#8220;I&#8217;m not a child.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>Opus 21.</i> Rinehart 1949, pbr Signet 1952, 1960.
+The hero, rewriting a book in a hotel during a weekend of
+crisus, runs across many unusual characters; among them a
+woman, shaken because her husband is having a homosexual
+affair, is shamed into tolerance by dallying with a lesbian
+prostitute. Wylie, again superficially approving, has his
+hero act in a skirt-withdrawing way, refusing such things
+for himself at the last minute in every book.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WYNDHAM, JOHN. &#8220;Consider her Ways&#8221; in <i>Sometime, Never</i>, Ballantine
+1956-57. Science Fiction; a woman experimenting
+with strange drugs goes into the future, where all men
+have perished and society resembles that of the ant. Good.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>The Midwich Cuckoos.</i> Ballantine, 1957. Science
+Fiction. Alien visitation from outer space leaves every
+nubile female in Midwich&mdash;married or single, young or
+old&mdash;pregnant. Hilariously funny situations arise; one
+of the funniest involves a pair of lesbians. Wonderful fun.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">YAFFE, JAMES. <i>Nothing But the Night.</i> Little, Brown &amp; Co, 1957,
+pbr Bantam 1959, (m). More fake Leopold-Loeb. Good.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">YOURCENAR, MARGUERITE. <i>Hadrian&#8217;s Memoirs.</i> Farrar, 1954, qpb
+Anchor 1954, (m).</p>
+
+<p class="indent">ZOLA, EMILE. <i>Nana.</i> Literally dozens of hardcover and paperback
+editions of a shocker about a street girl who,
+in addition to all her affairs with men, also has an affair
+with Satin, a streetwalker.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2"><i>A Lesson in Love.</i> Abridged edition of Pot Bouille.
+Pyramid, 1959.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">ZUGSMITH, ALBERT. <i>The Beat Generation.</i> Bantam pbo based on
+screenplay by Richard Mathesen. (m), minor.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">58</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"><img src="images/fig05.png" width="500" height="37" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div>
+
+<h2><i>The Poetry of Lesbiana</i></h2>
+
+<h4>An index of Poems and Poets<br />
+of interest to<br />
+Collectors of Lesbiana</h4>
+
+<h4><i>Compiled by Gene Damon</i></h4>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Briefly, this includes variant as well as overtly lesbian
+poetry, written in English or available in English translation.
+The arrangement is chronological, rather than
+alphabetical. All of these are easily available in public
+libraries, unless otherwise indicated.</p></div>
+
+<p><br />THE ANCIENT WORLD:</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Erinna</i>&mdash;only one fragment left. Available in the Greek Anthology
+and other miscellaneous collections of that type.</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Nossis</i>&mdash;Various variant poems and fragments. Greek Anthology,
+Putnam, 1915-26 (5 vol.). Also in similar collections.</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Sappho</i>&mdash;The classic poet of lesbianism. Over 50 editions
+available in hard covers. New translation by Mary Barnard,
+University of California Press, 1958, qpb $1.25. An attractive
+edition is also published for $2.50 by the Pater Pauper
+Press, on display in most bookstores.</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Juvenal</i>&mdash;Satires. Many editions in hardcover and qpb. (Rolfe
+Humphries trans. and ed. the Indiana University Press, 1958,
+$1.50; also number 997 in Everyman&#8217;s Library, $1.85.) The
+Sixth Satire.</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Martial</i>&mdash;His &#8220;Epigrams&#8221; contain various references to lesbians.
+Cambridge University Press, 1924, $2.75.</p>
+
+<p><br />THE MIDDLE AGES:</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Ariosto, Ludovico</i>&mdash;Orlando Furioso. London, Bell, 1907.</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Labe, Louise</i>&mdash;Love Sonnets (trans. by Frederick Prokosch),
+New Directions, 1947, $2.50, still in print.</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Shakespeare, William</i>&mdash;The first 27 of the &#8220;Sonnets&#8221; are generally
+adjudged to be male-homosexual in emphasis and are therefore
+of interest to collectors in this field.</p>
+
+<p><br />THE ROMANTIC POETS&mdash;19th CENTURY:</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Coleridge, Samuel T.</i>&mdash;Christabel. Long narrative poem of a
+curious attachment between a guileless young girl and a
+female demon; available in virtually every anthology of
+English literature.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">59</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Rossetti, Christina</i>&mdash;Goblin Market. Lovely and fantastic poem
+with distinctly variant overtones. See anthologies of
+English literature.</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Romani, Felice</i>&mdash;Norma. Italian libretto for the opera by Vincenzo
+Bellini, generally adjudged to be subtly lesbian in overtones.
+Many translations are available in collections of opera libretti,
+but most English translations edit out the variant content
+or alter the emphasis.</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Baudelaire, Charles</i>&mdash;The Flowers of Evil, (trans. from the French
+of Les Fleurs du Mal by Edna St. Vincent Millay and George
+Dillon) N. Y. Harper, 1936, also New Directions, pbr, 1958.
+Many other editions and translations available.</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Swinburne, Algernon Charles</i>&mdash;Poems and Ballads, 2 vols, London,
+Chatto &amp; Windus, 1893, 1895. Many of the poems in this series
+are explicitly or implicitly lesbian. In the interests of
+space limitation, only the major titles will be listed for
+those who want to sift through anthologies; Anactoria,
+Fragoletta, Sapphics, At Eleusis, Sonnet with a copy of
+Mlle. de Maupin, The Masque of Queen Bersabe, Erotion. The
+entire series of Poems and Ballads is available in her no. 961,
+Everyman&#8217;s Library, Dutton, 1940, 50, for $1.95.</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Lou&yuml;s, Pierre</i>&mdash;Songs of Bilitis. Many editions available, the
+most easily located probably being the Liveright &#8220;Collected
+works of Pierre Louys&#8221;, $3.50. There is also a paperback
+edition, Avon Red and Gold Library, no date. The &#8220;Songs&#8221;
+have been published singly in numerous privately printed
+and illustrated editions, some of which are very beautiful
+collector&#8217;s items.</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Bront&euml;, Emily</i>&mdash;Complete Poems. N. Y. Columbia University Press,
+1941 (still in print at $4.00). A scattering of these poems
+are (or can be interpreted as) vaguely variant.</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Mencken, Idah Isaacs</i>&mdash;Infelicia. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1875.
+(Rare, and expensive.)</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Field, Michael</i>&mdash;(pseud. of two Englishwomen.) Entire work of
+lesbian interest and a &#8220;must&#8221; for completists. Most medium
+to large public libraries have some of their work.</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Dickinson, Emily</i>&mdash;Bolts of Melody. N. Y. Harper, 1945. Also
+variant poems are scattered throughout her earlier editions.
+(Selected Poems, Modern Library, 1948, $1.65.)</p>
+
+<p><br />THE MODERN POETS:</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Lowell, Amy</i>&mdash;No one volume of her work can be singled out; her
+poems are perhaps the most openly variant of any of the English
+or American poets. Her &#8220;Complete Poetical Works&#8221; is still in
+print; Boston, Houghton &amp; Mifflin Co., 1955; Introduction by
+Louis Untermeyer, $6.00.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">60</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>O&#8217;Neill, Rose</i>&mdash;The Master Mistress. N. Y. Knopf, 1922. The
+creator of the &#8220;Kewpies&#8221; also was the writer of these sensitive,
+occasionally erotic poems. Perhaps a dozen are explicitly
+lesbian.</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Hall, Radclyffe</i>&mdash;Poems of the Past and Present, London, Chapman
+&amp; Hall, 1910. Songs of Three Counties, Chapman &amp; Hall, 1913.
+The Forgotten Island, London, Chapman &amp; Hall, 1915.
+Sheaf of Verses, London, Chapman &amp; Hall, 1905.
+Twixt Earth and Stars, London, Chapman &amp; Hall, 1906.</p>
+
+<p class="indent2">These poems
+by the author of &#8220;Well of Loneliness&#8221; are so overt that it is
+almost unbelievable that they were printed at all, but they
+were, and I have the books to prove it ... she managed to get
+away with it, I guess, because she talks in these poems as
+if she were a man, writing to a woman.</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Millay, Edna St. Vincent</i>&mdash;Collected Poems, N. Y. Harper, 1956,
+$6.00. This is the favored anthology of Millay for this
+purpose, since it contains everything of hers which is variant
+in tone. However, there are many single volumes of her poetry
+available, and also pbrs; Collected Lyrics (Washington Square,
+50&cent;), and Collected Sonnets (Washington Square, 50&cent;).</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Sackville-West, Victoria</i>&mdash;King&#8217;s Daughter, N. Y. Doubleday, 1930.</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Sterling, George</i>&mdash;Strange Waters. Privately printed, n.d., also
+in American Esoterica, N. Y. Macy-Masius, 1927. Lengthy narrative
+poem of supposed incestuous lesbianism ... shocker.</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.)</i>&mdash;Red Roses for Bronze, London, Lord,
+Chatto &amp; Windus. Also the Grove Press qpb, Selected Poems of
+H.D., 1957; this, however, does not contain the best-known of
+Sappho paraphrases, &#8220;Fragment Thirty-six&#8221;. Also &#8220;Collected
+Poems&#8221;, Liveright, $2.50.</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Pitter, Ruth</i>&mdash;English poetess, whose work is rather difficult to
+locate in this country. Many of her early poems are tinged
+with variance and well worth the effort of locating them in
+large libraries.</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Smith, Alicia Kay</i>&mdash;Only in Whispers. Privately printed; Falmouth,
+Rockport, Maine. This is the hardest book on this list to
+obtain, and of course, the most overt. Ardently but in good
+taste, this tells of a lengthy and beautiful lesbian affair.
+A &#8220;must&#8221; book for serious collectors who like poetry.</p>
+
+<p class="indent"><i>Wright, James</i>&mdash;The Green Wall. Yale University Press, 1957, $3.00.
+Two overt poems in an excellent and sensitive collection.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">61</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"><img src="images/fig04.png" width="500" height="63" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div>
+
+<h2>variant films</h2>
+
+<h4>compiled by LauraJean Ermayne and Gene Damon</h4>
+
+<p>With the exception of a few privately filmed and circulated stag films, which of
+course do not come within the scope of this study, lesbianism is treated only
+vaguely and by indirection in motion pictures. Hollywood codes (which regulate
+distribution even of foreign films in this country) state unequivocally that
+homosexuality may not be portrayed <i>or suggested</i>. (Italixs mine). Even when the
+predominantly homosexual novel COMPULSION was filmed, the script&mdash;though including
+a rape scene&mdash;was fudged so that the relationship between the two boys was
+never hinted at&mdash;except vaguely in one scene, where Orson Welles as the great
+lawyer said that the opposition might find &#8220;something fishy&#8221; in the fact that
+they had no other friends. Your editor has since been informed that the movie
+NEVER SO FEW portrayed recognizable homosexuals. Hollywood codes are growing
+less stringent by the day, with the general relaxation of censorship, and by
+next year there should be some additions to this list. Thanks are due to Miss
+Ermayne for allowing us to reprint the material used in her article on The
+Sapphic Cinema in THE LADDER for March, 1959 ... the Editors.</p>
+
+<p>THE ADVENTURES OF KING PAUSOLE. Filmed in France in 1932, with Emil Jannings.
+Based on the Pierre Louys novel, this starred 366 models and dancers from the
+Folies bergeres; among these near-nude and nubile nymphs was one disguised as a
+male ballet dancer, with whom the King&#8217;s daughter Aline had a romance even
+after discovering that they were of the same sex.</p>
+
+<p>ALL ABOUT EVE took the Academy Award in 1950. There is a very lesbian situation
+used to introduce the main protagonist into the movie; later events proved the
+woman only pretending lesbian-type devotion, but the inference, in the
+beginning, is clear and unmistakable. (GD)</p>
+
+<p>THE BARKER 1928. A short silent picture which was banned in many cities because
+it featured a scene in which a very butchy type in men&#8217;s pajamas got into bed
+with a fluffy blonde type; caused a lot of critical hoop-la. (GD)</p>
+
+<p>THE CHILDREN&#8217;S HOUR, a film based on the Lillian Hellman play reviewed in this
+Checklist, bears a question mark; will someone who has seen the picture please
+let us know whether lesbian content was implicit in the movie?</p>
+
+<p>CHILDREN OF LONELINESS, outright anti-homophile propaganda, was mostly male-oriented,
+but did contain a gay night-club scene, and picture and office butch
+whose offer of affection and protection drove one girl to a psychiatrist&#8217;s
+couch&mdash;where she was counselled against &#8220;abnormal love&#8221;.</p>
+
+<p>DARK VICTORY. 1939, recently shown on TV, concerns a talented, charming woman
+(Bette Davis) dying of a brain tumor; her constant companion and secretary is
+clearly in love with her, and there were numerous beautiful and heartbreaking
+scenes, some of which would be impossible in a movie not dealing with such a
+sad situation.</p>
+
+<p>CLUB DES FEMMES (Girl&#8217;s Club in English) an admirable French film starring
+Danielle Darieux, reviewed at length in THE LADDER. The lesbian element is
+treated explicitly and with taste and charm.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">62</a></span></p>
+
+<p>ESCAPE TO YESTERDAY, a French film with one brief sequence in a cabaret, where
+recognizably lesbian types were portrayed.</p>
+
+<p>MAEDCHEN IN UNIFORM, a classic German film of the thirties, reviewed at length
+in J H Foster&#8217;s book, starring Hertha Thiele as Manusia and Dorothea Wieck as
+her teacher. The film has recently been re-made but has not yet reached the USA.</p>
+
+<p>THE GODDESS, an art film released about a year ago, starring Kim Stanley, shows
+the life of an unwanted child who grows up to be a movie queen and ends up living
+with her secretary, obviously a lesbian; the relationship is portrayed with
+unusual frankness. This movie is still playing in specialty theatres around
+the big cities.</p>
+
+<p>NO EXIT, a French film of the play by Jean-Paul Sartre; setting, limbo; one of the
+characters, a lesbian who fell in love with a married woman and drove her to
+suicide by spooking her.</p>
+
+<p>OPEN CITY, realistic Italian film of 10 years or so ago, had a recognizable
+lesbian type-cast in it.</p>
+
+<p>PIT OF LONELINESS, a French film based on the novel OLIVIA and starring Simone
+Simon. &#8220;Something of a disappointment&#8221; says LJE.</p>
+
+<p>QUEEN CHRISTINA, 1934. This famous screen classic starred Greta Garbo; the
+variant bits were minor, but they were there. (GD)</p>
+
+<p>ROSE OF WASHINGTON SQUARE 1939. Now-dated tear-jerker starring Alice Faye; in
+one long scene the heroine sings standing by a piano, while a clearly seen, very
+mannish and extremely obvious &#8220;type&#8221; drools over her. Not imagination; this
+one was the veddy veddy correct, monocled type. (GD)</p>
+
+<p>SIGN OF THE RAM, a filming circa 1947 of the Margaret Ferguson novel, starred
+Susan Peters as the wheelchaired heroine; the &#8220;crush&#8221; between Leah and Christine
+was treated vaguely but recognizably to anyone who had read the book.</p>
+
+<p>TIME OF DESIRE. &#8220;Much has been made of the Uranian aspect of this film but
+personally I couldn&#8217;t see it....&#8221; LJE</p>
+
+<p>TORST (&#8220;Thirst&#8221;) directed by Ingmar Bergman, is supposed to tell the lives of
+three women strangely in love, including a lesbian. As yet none of your
+editors or contributors have seen the film.</p>
+
+<p>TURNABOUT, the Thorne Smith sex-farce where a man&#8217;s ego is transmuted into a
+woman&#8217;s body.</p>
+
+<p>TITLE UNKNOWN; 1950 or 1951; French with English subtitles; action took place in
+a girl&#8217;s reformatory, much reference to lesbianism and some overt scenes; one
+where a girl caressed the breast of another and whispered love words to her,
+another where a tough street type tells a young innocent &#8220;See these marks on my
+thighs, they are each the marks of a lover, the left leg for boys and the right
+for girls.&#8221; I don&#8217;t see any other way to interpret that scene. (GD)</p>
+
+<h4>THE END, OF COURSE, IS NOT YET.</h4>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">63</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"><img src="images/fig05.png" width="500" height="37" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div>
+
+<table width="100%" summary="related publications" border="0">
+<tr>
+<td class="center20"><div class="figcenter" style="width: 100px;"><img src="images/fig06.png" width="100" height="89" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div></td>
+<td class="center80"><h2>related publications</h2>
+<p>Information about the following publishers in the field
+of homosexual studies was supplied by the editors; we at
+the Checklist assume no responsibility for this information.
+We have, however, been constant readers of all three
+of these magazines and can recommend them as dignified, worthwhile
+and occasionally scholarly pioneering in a neglected field;
+they deserve support.</p></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>ONE, INCORPORATED. 232 South Hill Street, Los Angeles 12, California. Non-profit
+organization, established in 1952, concerned with the problems and interests of
+homosexual men and women; publishers of;</p>
+
+<table width="100%" summary="related publications" border="0">
+<tr>
+<td class="right10"><div class="figcenter" style="width: 25px;"><img src="images/fig07.png" width="25" height="38" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div></td>
+
+<td class="left90"><p>ONE Magazine, monthly. Five dollars per year, fifty cents per copy. Sent
+first class, sealed. Editor Don Slater; Woman&#8217;s editor, Alison Hunter. Editorials,
+fiction, poetry, articles, book reviews, letters, artwork. Special
+attention given to the Feminine Viewpoint. Fiction, articles, poetry by and
+about the lesbian.</p></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="right10"><div class="figcenter" style="width: 25px;"><img src="images/fig07.png" width="25" height="38" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div></td>
+<td class="left90"><p>ONE Institute Quarterly; Homophile Studies. Official Organ of One
+Institute, a university-level facility presenting classes on the history,
+biology, sociology and psychology of homosexuality. Articles include
+scholarly evaluation of literary figures such as Gertrude Stein, Walt
+Whitman, homosexuality and religion, etc. Five dollars per year, $1.50
+single copy. Editor James Kepner, Jr.</p></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>THE DAUGHTERS OF BILITIS, INC. 165 O&#8217;Farrell St, Room 405, San Francisco, Calif.
+A woman&#8217;s organization for promoting the integration of the homosexual into
+society; membership limited to woman. Emphasis on education of the variant to
+promote adjustment and self-understanding, and education of the public at
+large through acceptance of the individual. Publishers of;</p>
+
+<table width="100%" summary="related publications" border="0">
+<tr>
+<td class="right10"><div class="figcenter" style="width: 25px;"><img src="images/fig07.png" width="25" height="38" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div></td>
+<td class="left90"><p>THE LADDER. Monthly, $4.00 a year, 50&cent; single copy, mailed first class
+sealed. Editor, Del Martin. Fiction and poetry of special interest, letters
+from readers, book reviews and a running column of lesbiana managed by Gene
+Damon, reports on special study and discussion groups, and the conductors of
+a recent survey on lesbians personally.</p></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>THE MATTACHINE SOCIETY, 693 Mission Street, San Francisco, California. Founded
+1950, Incorporated 1954; purpose, to conduct projects of education, research
+and social service in sex problems, particularly those of homosexual adults.
+Publishers of;</p>
+
+<table width="100%" summary="related publications" border="0">
+<tr>
+<td class="right10"><div class="figcenter" style="width: 25px;"><img src="images/fig07.png" width="25" height="38" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div></td>
+<td class="left90"><p>MATTACHINE REVIEW, monthly, offset printed, circulation 2250; $5 a year, 50&cent;
+single copy, mailed sealed; issued annually in bound volumes, indexed at
+end of each year. Reflects the policies and purpose of the Mattachine
+Society with scientific articles, research reports, news of sexological
+trends, book reviews, letters from readers, a small amount of fiction and
+annual poetry supplement. Hal Call, Editor.</p></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="right10"><div class="figcenter" style="width: 25px;"><img src="images/fig07.png" width="25" height="38" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div></td>
+<td class="left90"><p>DORIAN BOOK QUARTERLY. $2 a year, 50&cent; per copy. Primarily concerned with
+books and periodicals on socia-sexual themes, particularly fiction and non
+fiction dealing with homosexuality and related themes. Purpose; to fight
+censorship and encourage publishing in this field. Advertising accepted,
+reviews and news of books in the field solicited. Controlled circulation.
+Harold L. Call, Editor.</p></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table width="100%" summary="related publications" border="0">
+<tr>
+<td class="center20">&nbsp;</td>
+<td class="center20" colspan="2"><div class="figcenter" style="width: 75px;"><img src="images/fig14.png" width="75" height="50" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div></td>
+<td class="center40">SEE ALSO FOR COLLECTORS ONLY</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">64</a></span></p>
+
+<table width="100%" summary="related publications" border="0">
+<tr>
+<td class="right10"><div class="figcenter" style="width: 100px;"><img src="images/fig08.png" width="100" height="90" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div></td>
+<td class="left80"><p class="center">collectors only</p></td>
+<td class="right10"><div class="figcenter" style="width: 100px;"><img src="images/fig08.png" width="100" height="90" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>Every year, following the publication of the Checklist, we receive a number of
+queries. Where, they want to know, can we buy these books? We can only tell
+you where we buy books; and have therefore assembled the following list of
+reputable dealers, mail order, who handle these books and many others.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WINSTON BOOK SERVICE, 250 Fulton Avenue; Hempstead, New York.
+Successor to the famous Cory Book Service which was founded by Donald
+Webster Cory, author of &#8220;The Homosexual in America&#8221;. This is perhaps
+the best American source for current novels in hard covers and non-fiction.
+They issue catalogs and lists, give a sizable discount for
+large orders, and will also locate hard-to-find or out-of-print books.
+Leslie Laird Winston, who is the presiding genius here, is one of
+the nicest people to deal with that we have ever known. Every month
+they feature some new or special book in the field, at a special price.
+Getting on their mailing list is the <i>best</i> thing that can happen to a
+collector.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">DORIAN BOOK SERVICE, 693 Mission Street, San Francisco 5, California.
+A subsidiary of the Mattachine Review and the Pan-Graphic Press. They
+publish the Dorian Book Quarterly, dealt with elsewhere, and also a fat,
+fascinating catalogue listing several hundred titles of current hard-cover
+and paperback fiction. They can also furnish, or will locate, many
+out-of-print titles. My experience with them; prompt service, fast
+shipment, up-to-date information on cheap reprints of rare titles.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">VILLAGE BOOKS AND PRESS, 114-116 Christopher Street, New York 14, New York.
+This is the outfit behind the Noel Garde bibliography of Homosexual
+Literature, mentioned in the editorial. They can still supply this
+biblio list for $1.50. They also issue lists at frequent intervals, and
+will search for hard-to-find and out-of-print titles. Prices seem
+reasonable considering the scarcity of some of the paperbacks he handles.
+The proprietor, Howard Frisch, is one of the most co-operative dealers in
+the business.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">ONE Magazine, listed in &#8220;Related Publications&#8221; has published one volume of
+short stories, and is soon to do more publishing; they also list several
+dozen books sold by mail order.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">THE LADDER, listed in &#8220;Related Publications&#8221;, is soon to set up a book service;
+their first special release will be Jeannette Howard Foster&#8217;s &#8220;Sex
+Variant Women in Literature&#8221;, so keep your eyes open.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">THE TENTH MUSE, bookshop managed by Julia Newman, 326 West 15th St, New York 11,
+New York, also does some mail order business. Write for a list.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">A POINTS NORTHE, unusual bookshop at 15 Robinson Street, in Oklahoma City,
+managed by James Neill Northe, into which your senior editor virtually
+stumbled during a rainstorm, specializes in very rare, esoteric and<span class='pagenum2'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">65</a></span>
+scholarly titles, curiosa, etc. He can supply even the most fantastically
+rare stuff; prices are in line with the rarity of the items wanted. (It
+was Mr. Northe who, with disinterested kindness, supplied some biblio data
+on the real rarities on the list; he has our thanks and endorsement.)</p>
+
+<p class="indent">BOOKPOST, C. Rogers, Box 3251, San Diego 3, California. This outfit specializes
+in Americana, but can supply almost anything. The prices here are the most
+reasonable I&#8217;ve ever encountered; if Rogers quotes you a price, there&#8217;s no
+point in shopping around for a lower one.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">INTERNATIONAL BOOKFINDERS, P O Box 3003, Beverly Hills, California. These
+people are the out-of-print bookfinders par excellence. I&#8217;ve ordered many
+books from them; their prices are reasonable, never exorbitant; their
+service is good, the books they supply are always of high quality. They&#8217;re
+nice to deal with. I&#8217;ve never had a complaint in ten years of bookhunting.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">RAYMOND TRANFIELD, Antiquarian Book Dealer, 31 Hart Street, Henley-Upon-Thames,
+Oxon, England, is probably the best source for older books published in
+England. His prices are reasonable, his service is fast (he quotes by
+airmail and sends his parcels insured, which is a blessing for anything
+which has to travel across the ocean).</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"><img src="images/fig01.png" width="500" height="31" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table width="80%" summary="paperbacks" border="0">
+<tr>
+<td class="right10"><div class="figcenter" style="width: 100px;"><img src="images/fig10a.png" width="100" height="28" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div></td>
+<td class="left80"><p class="center">paperbacks</p></td>
+<td class="right10"><div class="figcenter" style="width: 100px;"><img src="images/fig10b.png" width="100" height="28" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>Paperbacks. We hate them and we love them. The worst rubbish, and the best
+literature brought within the reach of a slim budget. If you missed it on the
+news-stands, all is not lost....</p>
+
+<p class="indent">
+ACE BOOKS Inc, 23 West 47th Street, New York 36, New York. (25&cent;)</p>
+<p class="indent">
+AVON Books; Avon Publications, Inc., 575 Madison Ave, N. Y. 22, N. Y. (35&cent; &amp; 50&cent;)</p>
+<p class="indent">
+BALLANTINE BOOKS Inc., 101 Fifth Ave, New York 3, N. Y. (35&cent;)</p>
+<p class="indent">
+BEACON BOOKS, 117 East 31st St, New York 16, N. Y. (35&cent; or 3 for one dollar)</p>
+<p class="indent">
+BERKLEY Publishing Corp., 146 West 57th St, New York 19, N. Y.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+CREST and GOLD MEDAL books, Fawcett Publications, Greenwich, Connecticut.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+CARDINAL editions, POCKET BOOKS and PERMABOOKS, Pocket Books, Inc, 630 Fifth Avenue, New York 20, N. Y. Free catalogue on request.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+NEWSSTAND LIBRARY EDITIONS (Magenta Books, and others), 3143 Diversey Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Free lists sent on request.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+BANTAM BOOKS, 25 West 45th Street, New York 36, N. Y.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+DELL BOOKS, Dell Publishing Corp. Inc, 750 Third Avenue, New York 17, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+PYRAMID BOOKS, 444 Madison Avenue, New York 22, New York.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+POPULAR LIBRARY, Hillman Books and others, do not print their address in the books and evidently don&#8217;t want to bother with mail orders. If you miss them on the news-stands, you&#8217;ll have to root in second-hand stores. Saber and Fabian Books can be ordered through the Dorian Book Service, and some secondhand book dealers will locate paperbacks, including; Village Books and Press, above.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+BEDSIDE and BEDTIME books, (50&cent; each) 200 West 34th Street, New York, N. Y.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"><img src="images/fig13.png" width="500" height="33" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">66</a></span></p>
+
+<table width="100%" summary="paperbacks" border="0">
+<tr>
+<td class="right10"><div class="figcenter" style="width: 50px;"><img src="images/fig09.png" width="50" height="90" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div></td>
+<td class="left80"><p class="center">hardcover publishers</p></td>
+<td class="right10"><div class="figcenter" style="width: 50px;"><img src="images/fig09.png" width="50" height="90" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<h4>Compiled by Kerry Dame</h4>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>A list of all obtainable addresses of the
+publishers of hardcover books mentioned in
+the Checklist. (Paperback publishers listed
+elsewhere.)</p></div>
+
+<p class="indent">
+Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc.&mdash;35 W. 32nd St, NYC 1, N. Y.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Arco Publishing Co., Inc.&mdash;480 Lexington Ave. NYC 17, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Arkham House; Publishers.&mdash;Sauk City, Wisconsin.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+A. S. Barnes &amp; Co.&mdash;11 E. 36th St, NYC 16, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Barnes &amp; Noble, Inc.&mdash;105 Fifth Ave. NYC 3, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Beacon <i>Press</i>, Inc.&mdash;25 Beacon St, Boston 8, Mass.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Blakiston Co.&mdash;(see McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.)</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc.&mdash;717 Fifth Avenue, NY 22, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Borden Publishing Co.&mdash;3077 Wabash Avenue, Los Angeles 63, Cal.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Boxwood Press.&mdash;Box 7171, Pittsburgh 13, Penna.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+C. F. Braun &amp; Co.&mdash;1000 S. Fremont Ave, Alhambra, Calif.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Citadel Press.&mdash;222 Fourth Ave, NYC 3, NY</p><p class="indent">
+Clarion Press.&mdash;510 Madison Avenue, Room 700, NYC 22, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+P. F. Collier &amp; Son.&mdash;Library Division, 640 Fifth Avenue, NYC 19</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Comet Press Books.&mdash;200 Varick St, NYC 14, N. Y.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+F. E. Compton &amp; Co.&mdash;1000 N. Dearborn St, Chicago 10, Illinois</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Coward-McCann, Inc.&mdash;210 Madison Avenue, N. Y. C. 16, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Creative Age Press.&mdash;(see &#8220;Farrar, Straus &amp; Cudahy&#8221;)</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Criterion Books.&mdash;257 Fourth Ave, NYC 10, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Thomas Y. Crowell Co.&mdash;432 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Crown Publishers, Inc.&mdash;419 Fourth Avenue, NYC 16, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Dial Press, Inc.&mdash;461 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY</p><p class="indent">
+Dodd, Mead &amp; Co.&mdash;432 Fourth Avenue, NYC 16, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Dorrance &amp; Co., Inc.&mdash;131 N. 20th St, Philadelphia 3, Penna.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Doubleday &amp; Co., Inc.&mdash;mail orders; Garden City, New York.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Dover Publications, Inc.&mdash;180 Varick Street, NYC 14, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Inc.&mdash;19 W. 40th St, NYC 18, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+E. P. Dutton &amp; Co.&mdash; 300 Fourth Avenue, NYC 10, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Farrar, Straus &amp; Cudahy, Inc.&mdash;101 Fifth Avenue, NYC 3, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Frederick Fell, Inc.&mdash;386 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Fleet Publishing Corp.&mdash;70 E. 45th St, NYC 17, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Funk &amp; Wagnalls Co.&mdash;153 E. 24th St, NYC 10, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Greenberg.&mdash;(see Chilton Co., Book Division, 56th &amp; Chestnut St,
+Philadelphia 39, Penna.&mdash;what became of Greenberg; NY?)</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Grosset &amp; Dunlap, Inc.&mdash;mail orders; 227 E. Center St, Kingsport,
+Tennessee.</p><p class="indent">
+Grove Press, Inc.&mdash;64 University Place, NYC 3, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Harper &amp; Brothers.&mdash;49 E. 33rd St, NYC 16, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Hastings House, Publishers.&mdash;151 E. 50th St, NYC 22, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Henry Holt &amp; Co.&mdash;383 Madison Ave, NYC 17, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Houghton, Mifflin Co.&mdash;2 Park St, Boston 7, Mass.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Indiana University Press.&mdash; Bloomington, Indiana.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Alfred E. Knopf Inc.&mdash;501 Madison Avenue, NYC 22, NY</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">67</a></span></p>
+<p class="indent">
+Lane Publishing Co.&mdash;Menlo Park, Calif.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+J. B. Lippincott Co.&mdash; East Washington Square, Philadelphia 5, Penna.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Little, Brown &amp; Co.&mdash;34 Beacon Street, Boston 6, Mass.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Liveright Publishing Corp.&mdash;386 Fourth St, NYC 16, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Robert M. McBride.&mdash;235 Fourth Avenue, NYC 3, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+McDowell, Oblensky, Inc.&mdash;219 E. 61st St, NYC (no zone listed)</p>
+<p class="indent">
+McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.&mdash;330 West 42nd St, NYC 36, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+David McKay Co., Inc.&mdash;119 West 40th St, NYC 18, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Macauley Co.&mdash;(Book Sales, Inc, 352 Fourth Ave, NYC 10, NY)</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Macmillan Co.&mdash;60 Fifth Avenue, NYC 11, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Julian Messner, Inc.&mdash;8 W. 40th St, NYC 18, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Wm. Morrow &amp; Co., Inc.&mdash;425 Fourth Avenue, NYC 16, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+New Directions,&mdash;333 Sixth Avenue, NYC 14, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Noonday Press, Inc.&mdash;80 E. 11th St, NYC 3, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Ottenheimer Publishers.&mdash;4805 Nelson Avenue, Baltimore 15, Md.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Pageant Press, Inc.&mdash;101 Fifth Avenue, NYC 3, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+G. P. Putnam&#8217;s Sons.&mdash;210 Madison Avenue, NYC 16, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Rand McNally &amp; Co.&mdash;Box 7600, Chicago 80, Illinois</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Random House, Inc.&mdash;457 Madison Avenue, NYC 22, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Rinehart &amp; Co., Inc.&mdash;232 Madison Avenue, NYC 16, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Simon &amp; Schuster, Inc.&mdash;Mail Orders; 136 West 52nd St, NYC 19, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Sagamore Press, Inc.&mdash;11 E. 36th St, NYC 16, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+St. Martin&#8217;s Press, Inc.&mdash;175 Fifth Avenue, NYC 10, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Charles Scribners Sons.&mdash;597 Fifth Avenue, NYC 17, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Tudor Publishing Co&mdash;(Order From; Harlem Book Co., 221 Fourth
+Ave. NYC 3, NY)</p>
+<p class="indent">
+University of California Press, Berkeley 4, Calif.</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Vanguard Press, Inc&mdash;424 Madison Ave. NYC 17, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Vantage Press, Inc.&mdash;120 West 31st St, NYC 1, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Viking Press.&mdash;625 Madison Avenue, NYC 22, NY</p>
+<p class="indent">
+Wm. Sloane Associates.&mdash;(see Wm. Morrow &amp; Co.)</p>
+<p class="indent">
+World Publishing Co.&mdash;2231 W. 110th St, Cleveland 2, Ohio.<br /><br /></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"><img src="images/fig12.png" width="500" height="12" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div>
+
+<table width="100%" summary="paperbacks" border="0">
+<tr>
+<td class="right20"><div class="figcenter" style="width: 100px;"><img src="images/fig11.png" width="100" height="73" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div></td>
+
+<td class="left80"><br /><br /><p class="center">ADDENDA&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><br /></p>
+<p class="center2">Misfiled, dropped in copyright or, we goofed;</p></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="indent">BRANDEL, MARC. <i>The Choice.</i> New York, Dial, 1950. no data.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">CATTO, MAX. <i>The Killing Frost.</i> London, Wm. Heinemann, 1950, (m).
+Tense relationship between two circus performers motivates
+an unusual, and excellent mystery novel.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">RAY, SANFORD. <i>Satan&#8217;s Harvest.</i> Saber Books pbo ca. 1957.
+Evening waster; a Mexican girl, Lupe, from a broken home,
+goes&mdash;with her older sister&mdash;into a brothel, but is
+&#8220;protected&#8221; from the advances of the men by the fact
+that the lesbian madame has taken a fancy to her. Lupe&#8217;s
+older sister burns the place down to free Lupe from this
+fate.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">68</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="indent">SAYRE, GORDON. (pseud. of Jack Woodford.) <i>Wife to Trade.</i> N. Y.
+Godwin, 1936. No reviews available, but probably
+racy stuff, not too badly written.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">WILLINGHAM, CALDER. &#8220;The Sum of two Angles&#8221;, ss in <i>The Gates
+OF Hell</i>. N. Y. Vanguard, 1951.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">YOUNG, FRANCES BRETT. <i>White Ladies.</i> NY, Harper 1935.
+A boarding-school tomboy, infatuated with a schoolteacher,
+finally comes to see her as a vampire, feeding on the emotions
+of the young.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"><img src="images/fig05.png" width="500" height="37" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div>
+
+<h2>behind the scenes</h2>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Introducing the editors and contributors....</p></div>
+
+<p class="indent">MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY, Editor and publisher of the Checklist,
+who attends to such minor chores as editorial format and
+manhandling the mimeograph, is by profession a writer of
+science fiction. Her work has appeared in virtually
+every science fiction magazine on the market. She is
+thirty years-old, lives in a small town in Texas, and her
+other interests are Italian opera, acrobatics and
+mountain climbing.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">GENE DAMON, whose competent brain does the bibliographical
+work for the Checklist, is in her mid-twenties, lives
+in the midwest, and is a librarian; she previously worked
+as a book-keeper and on a large city newspaper. Her
+chief interests are classical music and the collecting
+of variant literature; her private library contains over
+600 titles of lesbiana alone. It was the untiring, perfectionist
+efforts of Miss Damon which checked every biblio
+reference in this list; she also supplied a summary or
+precis for every title which the senior editor had not
+read. In general, Damon is the brains of the Checklist;
+MZB merely the brawn.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">KERRY DAME, stencil-cutter, artist and printer&#8217;s devil, is in
+her early twenties and lives in New England with her
+mother and many cats. She is no stranger to the readers
+of the <i>Ladder</i>, who all know her gay, airy cover drawings.</p>
+
+<p class="indent">LAURAJEAN ERMAYNE, contributor to <i>Vice Versa</i>, collector of
+lesbiana, specialist in films, and tireless hunter of the
+news-stands, lives in California and, under her own name,
+is a well-known editor and writer.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"><img src="images/fig03.png" width="500" height="38" alt=
+"ORNAMENT." title="" /></div>
+
+<p><br /><br /><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">69</a></span>HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT: In a forgotten closet, your editor
+has just discovered a stack of copies of the ASTRA&#8217;S TOWER
+Checklist #3. We thought they&#8217;d all been destroyed. This is
+the last-year&#8217;s list, containing Royal Drummond&#8217;s &#8220;Digression&#8221;,
+and my account of a hassle with the fascinatin' Miss Apple. I
+want to get these things out of my broom closet, and my soul
+revolts at the thought of tossing the things into the trash
+burner for the edification of the garbage collector. Therefore,
+we will make the following offer. Mailing these things
+out by printed-matter, fourth class mail costs 7-1/2 cents. By
+first class mail, 12 cents postage is required. Envelopes cost
+something. If anyone wants these (who knows, they might be
+valuable as examples of prehistoric lesbiana some day) you
+can have then for a quarter (first class mail) or six for a
+dollar to pass around among your friends. Hurry up&mdash;I&#8217;m going
+to need my broom closet for the mimeograph when I get finished
+with this year&#8217;s Checklist. You&#8217;ll find the address on the
+titlepage.&mdash;<i>And this is it&mdash;The End&mdash;Marion.</i></p>
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Checklist, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: Checklist
+       A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and
+       homosexual fiction, in English or available in English
+       translation, with supplements of related material, for the
+       use of collectors, students and librarians.
+
+Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley
+
+Release Date: March 17, 2012 [EBook #39184]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHECKLIST ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by David Starner, Turgut Dincer and the Online
+Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Transcriber's note: Extensive research found no evidence that
+the copyright for this book had been renewed.]
+
+
+
+
+
+Marion Zimmer Bradley
+
+
+_CHECKLIST_
+
+
+  A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian,
+  variant and homosexual fiction, in English
+  or available in English translation, with
+  supplements of related material, for the use
+  of collectors, students and librarians.
+
+
+table of contents
+
+
+  Editorial; History and purpose of the Checklist           2
+
+  List of symbols and abbreviations                         6
+
+  The complete cumulative Checklist, indexed by author      7
+
+  The poetry of Lesbiana; chronological reference
+    list (compiled by Gene Damon)                          58
+
+  Variant Films                                            61
+
+  Related Publications; the homosexual Press               63
+
+  For Collectors Only; a list of book services             64
+
+  Paperback Publishers; addresses                          65
+
+  Hardcover Publishers; addresses                          66
+
+  Behind the scenes; meet the editors                      68
+
+
+  Edited and Published by: MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
+  Associate Editor: GENE DAMON
+  Cover design and layouts by Kerry Dame
+
+
+  Entire contents copyright, May 1960, by Marion Zimmer Bradley,
+  Box 158, Rochester, Texas. All rights reserved.
+
+
+
+
+editorial
+
+THE PURPOSE AND HISTORY OF THE CHECKLIST
+
+
+Here, in a single volume, it has been our intention to list, document
+and review every novel dealing, however slightly, with female variance,
+lesbianism or intense emotional relationships between women. We have
+also included a majority of the better known novels which, dealing
+primarily with male homosexuality, are of interest to the collector of
+variant fiction in general.
+
+In related supplements we have compiled lists of variant poetry, variant
+films, of the major book services and publishing houses where these
+books can be obtained, and of the homosexual press.
+
+The titles in the major portion of the Checklist are listed in a single
+comprehensive index by author. Information includes date published,
+number of reprints and publisher's name. Brief reviews are included of
+most titles. An effort has been made in each case to distinguish whether
+the work under discussion is a novel about lesbianism, whether the
+variant content has been included mostly for shock effect, or whether
+(as in some excellent modern novels) homosexual characters appear
+incidentally to the other main themes of action in the book.
+
+In such a comprehensive listing, reviews must of necessity be brief. For
+further discussion of many of the titles listed here, with excellent and
+complete critical analysis of their variant content, the serious student
+or collector is earnestly urged to invest in the definitive and major
+work on the subject:
+
+  FOSTER, Jeannette Howard; _Sex Variant Women in
+    Literature._ N. Y. Vantage Press, 1956.
+
+
+Although now officially out of print, this book can occasionally be
+obtained second hand, and copies will soon be offered for sale through
+the Daughters of Bilitis publication, THE LADDER. (See appendix.) We
+have made no effort to give more than cursory reviews of titles which
+are discussed at length in Dr. Foster's work. However, since the
+publication of the Foster book, many new novels of lesbianism have been
+published, and the diligent search of many collectors, working with the
+Checklist editors, has brought many old ones to light.
+
+We have tried to review in some detail the novels which were omitted
+from Dr. Foster's work, and to strive for completeness, even at the
+expense of discriminatory judgment about the excellence or otherwise of
+the works included. Therefore this Checklist includes many works whose
+lesbian content was too slight, too subtle--or too "trashy"--to have
+come within the scope of the scholarly studies of Dr. Foster or the
+running column, _Lesbiana_, conducted by junior editor Gene Damon in
+the pages of THE LADDER.
+
+It is our further contention that many novels dealing with male
+homosexuality come also within the province of the serious collector of
+lesbiana. We make, however, no claim for completeness for novels which
+fall within the homosexual, rather than the lesbian province. In
+general, the male titles included in this list--clearly defined, in each
+case, by the sign (m)--have been included because they were of special
+interest to the editors and therefore are presumably of interest to
+other collectors of lesbiana.
+
+For those who wish a complete list of works dealing with male
+homosexuality, we suggest the comprehensive bibliography compiled by
+Noel I. Garde, discussed in the Appendix of Related Publications. Mr.
+Garde has indexed virtually every homosexual work from antiquity to the
+latest paperback shocker, and has also performed the mighty task of
+separating them into categories ... a task from which the Checklist
+editors have shrunk, though we have made some attempt at classification
+in our reviews and by awarding a plus sign to books of exceptional
+value. (For further discussion of this division, please consult the
+"List of Symbols and Abbreviations" on page 2.)
+
+Most of the reviews in the present listing were written by one of the
+editors; no attempt has been made to divide the reviews written by MZB
+from those written by Damon. In general, these reviews have been
+gathered from so many sources that the awarding of individual credit
+would be impossible.
+
+This Checklist, 1960, is the last of the cumulative Checklists. Plans at
+present are to publish brief supplements annually, listing only new
+titles, new reprints of old titles, or new discoveries of overlooked
+titles. Since this is the case, we feel that some brief history of the
+Checklist might be of interest to the readers.
+
+Nearly 10 years ago, in the mailing of the Fantasy Amateur Press
+Association, a very bitter discussion was raging on the subject of
+censorship--pro and con. Complicating this discussion, a man who is now
+dead, and shall therefore be nameless, published a scathing attack on
+homosexuals. By way of subtle reproof, and partially as a deadpan joke
+on this man, your senior editor, with Royal Drummond (whose "Digression"
+was highly praised by Checklist readers last year ...) published a
+12-page offset leaflet, with editorials attacking censorship, and
+extensive reviews of perhaps a dozen of the best known homosexual
+novels. This leaflet had a cartoon cover and the general light-hearted
+tone of the publication was indicated by the title, which was _Fairy
+Tales for Fabulous Faps_. Reaction to this leaflet was mixed, but in
+general the readers enjoyed it, and said, "Do this again some time -- ".
+However, soon after this, Mr. Drummond dropped out of the Fantasy
+Amateur Press Association, and your present editor had no impetus to
+continue the series single-handed.
+
+Early in the history of the publication known as THE LADDER, your senior
+editor had the privilege of reviewing the Foster book mentioned above,
+while the junior editor was in charge of the _Lesbiana_ column. After
+reading the Foster work, your editor (MZB) resolved to publish a list of
+the omitted titles; when I began cutting the mimeograph stencils,
+however, I resolved to review not only the titles which Dr. Foster had
+omitted, but all of those which I had read, for the purpose of putting
+into print my own personal opinions and reactions. This first Checklist
+was called _Astra's Tower #2_, and the number 2 seems to have baffled a
+good many people--they all wrote in, inquiring about #1. Number 1,
+however, was a mimeographed booklet of my own fiction, published during
+my late teens for the FAPA, mentioned above.
+
+Through this first Checklist, I came into contact with Miss Damon, and
+because paperback lesbiana was blossoming on all the stands, we quickly
+resolved to publish another Checklist. I had fully intended to give Miss
+Damon full credit for her work last year; however, the mimeograph work
+on last year's list was so poor, the quality of the paper so bad, and
+some unreliable reviewers fouled me up so badly on data, that I refused
+to foist off any portion of the blame on other shoulders.
+
+The relaxing of censorship of recent years--as documented in the Supreme
+Court judgment relevant to _Lady Chatterley's over_, etc.--has meant,
+in recent fiction, fewer taboos and in general a franker treatment of
+sexual themes. On the whole this is a good thing. However and
+unfortunately, it has also released a flood of trash and borderline
+erotica, of no literary worth and "interesting" only for the sexual
+content. Your editors have conscientiously waded through all this
+newsstand slush (and believe me, we get no kick out of it) because
+experience has taught us that even the worst peddlers of commercialized
+sex-trash sometimes come up with exceptionally well-written, honest and
+sincere work. For instance, Beacon Books (a subsidiary of Universal
+Publishing and Distributing Company)--some of whose paperback originals
+can be called printable only by the uttermost charity,--are currently
+also publishing the work of Artemis Smith, one of the major writers in
+the variant field today.
+
+However, actually reviewing the majority of this stuff is impossible.
+Most of these books are not novels at all. They have impossibly complex
+plots--or no plots at all--since the story exists only as an excuse for
+the characters to jump into amorous exercise with the closest male, or
+female, or sometimes both. This sort of thing, "lesbian" only remotely,
+belongs more properly to the field of curiosa. One can, of course,
+display a Place Pigalle post card in a gallery with the Botticelli
+Venus, and classify them both as "nudes". I personally consider this an
+insult to the Venus, and the devotee of "feelthy peectures" will find
+the restraint and taste of fine art too tame for his jaded tastes.
+
+We are unalterably opposed to most censorship--but after wading through
+almost a hundred books whose only excuse for existence is to provide
+phony "thrills" for people too inhibited, too ignorant or too fearful to
+provide their own, well--we think wistfully of some self-imposed
+standards of taste.
+
+We also realize, flatly and realistically, that too much license in this
+stuff is going to bring on a wave of public reaction which may impose a
+sure-enough censorship--making the standards of the 1940s and 1950s look
+liberal.
+
+Now obviously the field of homosexual literature is going to place a
+certain emphasis on the sexual problems of humanity which will be
+quantitatively greater than that of--say--the Western novel, or the
+detective story. Sex alone has not been made an excuse for consigning
+any novel to the trashbin. If the treatment is honest, the characters
+even remotely believable and the purpose of the book seems reasonably
+genuine, then the quantity of sex is purely a matter for the author's
+discretion; and be it much, as in the works of March Hastings, Artemis
+Smith or Henry Miller, or little, as in Iris Murdoch's delicate and
+subtle THE BELL, or Shirley Jackson's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE,--we
+give the book judgment only on its merits as a book.
+
+However, in self-defense, we have had to find a way to dispose of the
+more repetitive rubbish. Allowing for differences in taste, and granting
+that many people like their books well-spiced, if there is a reasonably
+well-written story along with the sex we have called it "Evening
+waster"--on the grounds that it may very well provide pleasant
+entertainment for anyone not a hopeless prude. But if the story is just
+a peg on which to hang up a lot of poorly written, gamy erotic episodes,
+with no literary value, and just evasive enough to keep the printer out
+of jail, then we have given it short shrift with the abbreviation
+"scv"--which cryptic letters are editorial shorthand for "Short Course
+in Voyeurism"--and have been the basis of a lot of jokes in the tedious
+business of passing reviews around the editorial staff (The junior and
+senior editors live a thousand miles apart and have never met; the
+others who occasionally contribute reviews are scattered from Alabama to
+Oregon.). So we have to have some fun in the endless correspondence--and
+"scv" books are fair game.
+
+Regrettably, we are well aware that some people are going to use this
+designation in precisely the opposite fashion than we intended--go
+through the list picking out the sexy books and carefully avoiding the
+others. Well--we shan't spoil your fun. Each to her own taste, as the
+old lady said when she kissed the cow.
+
+We wish here to give some slight acknowledgment to all those who, over
+the years since the initiation of this endeavor, have contributed
+overlooked titles, pointed out our errors, sent comments, criticisms and
+sometimes cash, laboriously tracked down elusive data, worked as unpaid
+researchers and stencil-cutters, and in general helped us to feel we
+were not working in a vacuum.
+
+Special acknowledgments are due to Dr. Jeannette Howard Foster,
+unfailingly generous and gracious in allowing us to pick her brains; to
+Leslie Laird Winston, of the Winston Book Service; to the editors of THE
+LADDER, Del Martin in particular, for helping us to publicize our
+Checklist, and for allowing us to use reviews run in the _Lesbiana_
+column; to Forrest Ackerman, for endless help and encouragement; and to
+Kerry Dame, whose generous gift of stamps proved invaluable to the heavy
+load of correspondence necessary to keep this one-woman publishing house
+rolling. And to all those others, anonymous by choice, who have sent
+small gifts of cash and stamps, turned up elusive paperbacks for me in
+news-standless West Texas, contributed reviews and data, and, above all,
+provided cheer and encouraging support. We hope this Checklist is half
+as much fun for you to read as it was for us--all things considered--to
+prepare.
+
+And here at the end I take off my editorial "We" for a special, personal
+THANK YOU to my collaborator and co-editor, GENE DAMON.
+
+And now, until the first Supplement time, it's time to turn the
+Checklist over to you. Comments and criticisms are invited.
+
+  Marion Z Bradley
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+List of Symbols and Abbreviations
+
+
+  pbo--paperbacked original; first published in paperback
+        or first English edition in paperback.
+
+  pbr--paperbacked reprint.
+
+  n.d.--no date listed or date unknown.
+
+  ss--short story.
+
+  qpb--quality paperback book (as, Grove Press or Vintage).
+
+  tct--title changed to (as, _Torchlight to Valhalla_, pbr
+        tct _The Strange Path_).
+
+  fco--for completists only; variant content either extremely
+        slight or problematical.
+
+  + before a title indicates a book of considerable value.
+        Occasionally used to call attention to a fine new
+        release or the discovery of an old title overlooked
+        in previous bibliographies. In general, the plus
+        sign has been reserved for books of honest purpose,
+        sincere if not always entirely favorable treatment of
+        the homosexual theme, and some genuine literary merit.
+        In one or two cases, a plus has been given to a book
+        of little intrinsic worth because of some major and
+        exceptional contribution to thought on the variant
+        theme; or to an occasional book for being extremely
+        good entertainment of its kind, even if no masterpiece.
+        We have tried to avoid including only our favorites.
+
+  (m) indicates a novel concerned mostly with male homosexuality.
+        A very large proportion of such novels,
+        however, contain some discussion of female variance,
+        or lesbian characters, as well.
+
+  BAYOR--Buy at your own risk ... either no accurate data is
+        available or the editors find themselves in hopeless
+        disagreement about its relevance.
+
+  Evening Waster--good solid entertainment and reasonably
+        well-written, though worthless as literature.
+
+  scv--see editorial for complete discussion of this term.
+        This is the literary ghetto, the gutter books, the
+        commercialized sex trash as distinguished from honest
+        erotic realism.
+
+
+
+
+THE COMPLETE, CUMULATIVE CHECKLIST OF LESBIAN FICTION
+
+
+    ACKWORTH, ROBERT C. _The Moments Between._ pbo, Hillman Books
+      1959. Characters in a college novel include an
+      instructor--male--who is homosexual, very sympathetically
+      portrayed. Also a subtle, but sympathetic attachment between an
+      unlovely, unloved student and an older woman; the relationship is
+      shown as constructive for both in the end.
+
+  + ADAMS, FAY. _Appointment in Paris._ pbo, N. Y., Gold Medal 1952.
+      An American girl in Paris has a brief affair with a French woman
+      and is thereby enabled to break the hold of her old-maid aunt. She
+      later marries.
+
+    ADDAMS, KAY. _Queer Patterns._ pbo, Beacon, 1959. scv. Trashy
+      shocker about young Nora Card, who briefly forsakes her boy
+      friend, Roger, for a corrupt lesbian employer.
+
+      _Warped Desires._ pbo, Beacon, 1960. scv. Teen-age Doris goes to a
+      boarding school and is seduced by everyone on the premises, male
+      and female.
+
+    ALDRICH, ANN (pseud.)
+
+      _We Too Must Love._ pbo Gold Medal 1958.
+
+      _We Walk Alone._ pbo, Gold Medal 1955.
+
+      Non-fiction studies of the lesbian world, highly subjective,
+      mostly vignettes of gay life in and around Greenwich Village, with
+      some added data about the manners, customs and language of the
+      "gay" world. Good reading, if somewhat biased.
+
+      see also VIN PACKER
+
+    ALEXANDER, DAVID. _Madhouse in Washington Square._ Lippincott,
+      1958. Mystery novel of high quality, introducing a pair of
+      lesbians for window-dressing.
+
+    ANDERSON, HELEN. _Pity for Women._ N. Y., Doubleday, 1937. An
+      unhappy and tense relationship among three women, inhabitants of a
+      women's residence club in New York.
+
+    ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. _Dark Laughter._ N. Y., Boni & Liveright, 1925,
+      pbr Pocket Books, 1952. Very slight.
+
+      _Poor White_; N. Y., B. W. Huebsch, 1920, hcr in The Portable
+      Sherwood Anderson, qpb Viking Press P42. In the course of a novel
+      about the rise of a "shantytown boy's" rise to prosperity, there
+      is a brief but extremely sympathetic portrait of the lesbian, Kate
+      Chancellor; the hero's wife, Clara, is briefly captivated by Kate
+      during her college days.
+
+    ANDREYA, GUY. _Tormented Venus._ N. Y. Key Pub. Co 1958. scv.
+
+    ANONYMOUS. _Adam and Two Eves._ Macauley Co, N. Y., 1934, pbr Beacon
+      Books 1956. Evening waster. Neurotically heartbroken woman
+      mourning her dead lover becomes entangled with a married woman
+      because a woman's love does not constitute infidelity to the dead;
+      once initiated she becomes entangled in a long affair _a trois_,
+      from which she is eventually extricated (somewhat the worse for
+      wear) by a man she later marries.
+
+    ANTHOLZ, PEYSON. _All Shook Up._ pbo, Ace Books, 1958, (m). Alan,
+      small-town teen-age rowdy, fights against his friendship with
+      newcomer Howard Sirche, because it is rumored that Howard, who
+      avoids women, is homosexual. Very good of its kind.
+
+    ANTON, CAL. _The Private Life of a Strip Tease Girl._ pbo, Beacon
+      1959, scv. Just what it sounds like. Among her many "affairs" is a
+      brief episode with another girl.
+
+    ASQUITH, CYNTHIA. "The Lovely Voice". ss, in _This Mortal Coil._
+      Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin. Fantasy, 1947
+
+    BAKER, DENYS VAL. _A Journey With Love._ Bridgehead Books, 1955,
+      pbr Crest Books 1956. fco. The hero's first marriage fails because
+      of his wife's insistence that a woman friend shall share their
+      home. Nothing is explicit.
+
+    BAKER, DOROTHY. _Trio._ Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1943, hcr Sun
+      Dial 1945, pbr Penguin Books 1946. Tells of the captivation of a
+      young woman by an unscrupulous literary agent who also happens to
+      be a lesbian. Highly defamatory.
+
+      _Young Man with A Horn._ Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1938, pbr
+      Signet 1953. Very minor lesbian incident in a jazz novel.
+
+  + BALDWIN, JAMES. _Giovanni's Room._ Dial 1956, pbr Signet 1959,
+      (m). An American boy in Paris fights against his affair with a
+      young Italian, Giovanni; his fear and resistance to this
+      relationship leads to separation, tragedy and their separate
+      destruction. A powerful, tender and tragic book.
+
+    BALDWIN, MONICA. _The Called and the Chosen._ Farrar, Straus _&_
+      Cudahy, N. Y., 1957, pbr Signet 1958. A good study of repression and
+      frustration in convent life, containing passim the story of Sister
+      Helena, novice-mistress; although her behavior was strictly
+      correct even for a nun, she once inspired such violent passions in
+      her juniors that she was removed from this office. The heroine
+      refers to Sister Helena, after her death, as "the one human being
+      I ever loved".
+
+    BALZAC, HONORE DE. _Cousin Bette._ Classic; many standard editions
+      and translations. The story of a neurotic spinster's half-realised
+      passion for a woman friend.
+
+      _The Girl with the Golden Eyes._ Many standard editions and
+      translations, including pbr Avon Books 1957, (trans. Ernest
+      Dowson.) Shocker of the 19th century, dealing with the passion of
+      the Chevalier de Marsay for a strange, unspoilt girl, Paquita--who
+      is virtually enslaved to a sinister lesbian Countess.
+
+      _Seraphita._ London, J.W. Dent & Sons, 1897; also as above. A
+      romance of an angelic hermaphrodite. All of these are classics of
+      world literature, as well as the literature of variance, and are
+      apt to be available even in small libraries.
+
+  + BANNON, ANN.
+
+      _Odd Girl Out._ pbo, Gold Medal, 1957, 1960.
+
+      _I am a Woman._ pbo, Gold Medal, 1959.
+
+      _Women in the Shadows._ pbo, Gold Medal, 1959.
+
+      These three form a single, connected narrative, although any of
+      the three novels can be read as a self-contained story. The first
+      volume introduces the heroine of the series, Laura Landon, at
+      college; where, in undergoing an affair with her roommate, lovely
+      but frigid Beth, she discovers her homosexuality. Softened by the
+      affair, Beth marries, and Laura runs away. In the second book,
+      Laura, in Greenwich Village, is sharing an apartment, with Marcie,
+      a divorcee, entirely "straight" who plays Laura along strictly for
+      kicks; Laura suffers under this treatment for a long time, then
+      runs away again to shack up with a butch-type Village character,
+      Beebo. In the third book, Laura and Beebo have been living
+      together for two years; Laura is tiring of this lengthy affair and
+      cheats on Beebo with a colored dancer named Tris, while Beebo, to
+      win Laura back, resorts to such trickery as staging a phony "rape"
+      ... inflicting wounds on herself in search of sympathy. Tiring of
+      this life, Laura runs away again, this, time to marry a male
+      homosexual friend, Jack, in a search for stability and permanence.
+      The whole story invites comparison with Weiraugh's THE SCORPION:
+      homosexuality per se is not attacked, but the drawbacks of the
+      life, and the dangers and difficulties to anyone trying to adjust
+      him-or-herself to that life, are frankly and brutally delineated;
+      there is a pervasive air of dissatisfaction, or resignation, and
+      gradual withdrawal; and the ending of the third book is
+      unsatisfactory and hardly complete. Nevertheless, the impact of
+      these books, particularly when read all together, is considerable;
+      Miss Bannon's grasp of character, technique and construction
+      improve with each novel. Despite wild improbabilities and
+      gimmicky, contrived situations, these are perhaps the major
+      contribution to lesbian literature in the paperback field
+      anywhere.
+
+  + BARNES, DJUNA. "Dusie", ss in _American Esoterica_, NY,
+      Macy-Masius, 1927. This collection also contains short stories of
+      (m) interest.
+
+      _Nightwood._ N. Y., Harcourt 1937, hcr New Directions n.d. A
+      well-known and excellent lesbian novel laid in Paris.
+
+  + BARR, JAMES. _Derricks._ NY, Greenberg 1951, (m) hcr Pan, 1957.
+      Although those short stories all deal with male homosexuality,
+      their coherent, fresh and constructive philosophy make this a book
+      of primary importance for every reader.
+
+      _Quatrefoil._ N. Y., Greenberg, 1950, (m).
+
+      _Game of Fools._ ONE, 1954, 1955.
+
+    BARRY, JEROME. _Malignant Stars._ N. Y., Doubleday, 1960. Signe, a
+      handsome Valkyrie-type girl, is found dead, and the note beside
+      her body is apparently a love letter from her roommate Lyn; the
+      suspicion that Lyn is her lover and murderer forms the main theme
+      of the plot. Well done.
+
+    BAUM, VICKI. _Theme for Ballet._ N. Y., Doubleday 1958, pbr Dell
+      1959, (m). Minor but excellent.
+
+      _The Mustard Seed._ Dial 1953, pbr Pyramid 1956 (m minor).
+
+    BEER, THOMAS. _Mrs Egg and Other Barbarians._ Knopf, 1933. Rarer
+      than hen's teeth--lesbian humor.
+
+    BELLAMANN, HENRY. _King's Row._ N. Y., Simon & Schuster, 1940, (m).
+
+    BELOT, ADOLPHE. _Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife._ Paris, Dentu 1870,
+      Chicago, Laird & Lee 1891. The wife remains a "miss", refusing her
+      husband's approaches because of her attachment to another woman.
+      Typically the husband drowns this monstrous creature (other woman)
+      during an ostensible seaside rescue.
+
+    BENNETT, ARNOLD. _Elsie and the Child._ N. Y., Doran, 1924. "Common
+      sense" treatment of an attachment between Elsie the housemaid, and
+      a girl of twelve, which subsides when the little girl is sent to
+      school.
+
+      _The Pretty Lady._ N. Y., Doran 1918. A subtle picture of indirect
+      variance between two women in wartorn Paris.
+
+    BERKMAN, SYLVIA. _Blackberry Wilderness._ N. Y., Doubleday, 1959.
+      Esoteric, melancholy, beautifully written short stories, of which
+      two are overtly lesbian in content.
+
+    BERTIN, SYLVIA. _The Last Innocence._ (Trans. by Marjorie Dean). N
+      Y McGraw Hill, 1955. Story of Paula, a member of a French
+      provincial family. "The refreshing thing is that Paula is treated
+      as a matter of course ... that she wears trousers, hates men, etc.
+      is presented with no more excuse or explanation than the
+      individual foibles of the rest of the family."
+
+    BESTER, ALFRED. _Who He?_ N. Y., Doubleday 1955, pbr Berkley 1956,
+      (m) tct. _The Rat Race_. Tense, tightly plotted novel of split
+      personality. The hero's housemate is a deeply sublimated
+      homosexual who cracks up when Jake gets a girl; this episode snaps
+      the high pitch of tightrope tension and precipitates the
+      denouement of the novel. Excellent.
+
+    BISHOP, LEONARD. _Creep Into thy Narrow Bed._ Dial 1954, pbr
+      Pyramid 1956. Story of a vicious abortion racket; woven into the
+      story is the sympathetically treated story of a young lesbian's
+      self-realization. Very good of kind.
+
+    BODIN, PAUL. _All Woman's Flesh_ (trans. from the French of Le
+      Voyage Sentimental, by Lowell Bair.) pbo Berkley 1957.
+
+      _The Sign of Eros_ (trans. from French) Putnam 1953, pbr Berkley
+      1955.
+
+      Both of these involve a man's attachment to two women who have
+      some homosexual contact, but the emphasis is heterosexual, rather
+      than lesbian.
+
+    BOLTON, ISABEL. "Ruth and Irma", ss in The New Yorker, Jan 26,
+      1947; also in Donald Webster Cory's _21 Variations on a Theme_.
+
+    BOTTOME, PHYLLIS. _Jane._ Vanguard, 1957. Story of a street
+      urchin, including lesbian episodes in a girl's reformatory.
+
+    BOURDET, EDOUARD. _The Captive._ N. Y., Brentano's 1926. Drama based
+      on a triangle--man, wife, and a woman who is winning the
+      affections of the latter.
+
+    BOURJAILY, VANCE. _The End of My Life._ Scribner's 1947, pbr
+      Bantam 1952, (m).
+
+      _The Violated._ Dial 1958, pbr Bantam 1959, (m).
+
+      _The Hound of Earth._ Scribner 1955, pbr Permabooks, 1956, (m).
+      Also includes a minor, and unsympathetic lesbian character.
+
+    BOWEN, ELIZABETH. _The Hotel._ N. Y. Dial 1928. A shy young girl
+      sent to catch a husband at a fashionable hotel is, instead,
+      captivated by a sophisticated woman.
+
+    BOWLES, JANE. _Two Serious Ladies._ N. Y. Knopf, 1943. The
+      emancipation of an inhibited American housewife.
+
+    BOYLE, KAY. "The Bridegroom's Body" ss in _The Crazy Hunter_,
+      Harcourt 1938, 1940. Also qpb, Beacon Press, 1958, (m).
+
+      _Gentlemen, I Address you Privately._ NY, Smith 1933, (m).
+
+      _Monday Night._ N. Y. Harcourt 1938, hcr New Directions, n.d. Brief
+      account of a lesbian affair through the eyes of a child.
+
+    BRADLEY, MARION Z. "Centaurus Changeling" in The Magazine of
+      Fantasy and Science Fiction, April, 1954. Science Fiction novel;
+      intensely emotional relationship between three wives of alien
+      bureaucrat leads to jealousy and tragedy when the eldest,
+      Cassiana, takes an outsider into their home and makes a favorite
+      of her.
+
+      _The Planet Savers_, in Amazing Stories, Dec. 1958, (m). Science
+      fiction of split personality, one equivocally homosexual.
+
+    BRAND, MAX. (pseud of Frederick Faust). _The Night Horseman._ G.P.
+      Putnam's Sons, 1920, hcr Dodd, Mead 1952, pbr Pocket Books 1954,
+      (m). Unusual Western story of a strange cowboy who has an almost
+      supernatural influence on horses and other men; his foster father
+      mysteriously declines when he leaves, makes a miraculous recovery
+      when he returns home. Subtle and good of its kind.
+
+    BRINIG, MYRON. _The Looking Glass Heart._ Sagamore, 1958. One
+      lesbian episode, treated vaguely. (Minority report says that
+      nevertheless it is so clearly and well done that the book is worth
+      anyone's reading.)
+
+    BRITAIN, SLOAN. _The Needle._ pbo Beacon Books, 1959. Overly
+      contrived shocker about Gina, a young girl who falls
+      simultaneously into narcotics, lesbianism, prostitution and the
+      hands of a weird couple dabbling in incest. Evening waster, rather
+      better than most but leaves a bitter taste.
+
+      + _First Person, Third Sex._ pbo Newsstand Library 1959. Very
+      well-written novel of Paula Harman, young schoolteacher coming to
+      terms with her life as a lesbian through bitter experience. Don't
+      let the lurid paperback covers and blurb scare you off, this is a
+      NOVEL--well worth hard covers and a steal at 35c.
+
+    BROCK, LILYAN. _Queer Patterns._ Greenberg 1935, pbr Avon 1951,
+      1952. Purple-patched sloppily sentimental tale of Sheila,
+      beautiful young actress with a perfect husband who nevertheless
+      loses her heart to Nicoli, a stereotype lesbian complete with
+      tuxedo. They part to avoid gossip and live unhappily ever after.
+
+    BROMFIELD, LOUIS. _The Rains Came._ N. Y. Collier 1937, pbr Bantam
+      1952. In a long novel of India there is a brief but important
+      episode involving two old missionary ladies. The elder, an
+      engaging old battleax, muses as she tucks the younger and sillier
+      into bed that her friend had never understood why they had been
+      driven out of the school where they had, as young girls, been
+      teaching. Ironically, the nice old grim one is killed in a flood
+      while the silly one remains to pester everybody.
+
+      _Mister Smith_, Harper, 1951; no pbr on record, but your editor
+      has owned one--perhaps an "Armed Forces" edition? (m). Four men,
+      marooned on a desert island in WW2.
+
+  + BROPHY, BRIGID. _King of a Rainy Country._ Knopf. 1957. Poignant
+      novel of a young girl who lives with Neale, a young male
+      homosexual, out of wedlock. They both become enamored with a
+      portrait of Cynthia, a girl out of the childhood of the
+      heroine....
+
+    BROWN, WENZELL. _Prison Girl._ pbo, Pyramid, 1958. One of many
+      books documenting in painful detail the abuses prevalent in the
+      women's prison system, with special attention to the undeniable
+      fact that the system breeds various sexual aberrations. A few of
+      these books are excellent. This one isn't.
+
+    BROWNRIGG, GAWEN. _Star Against Star._ N. Y., Macaulay, 1936. Story
+      of a girl conditioned from childhood to lesbian affairs, first by
+      an overly seductive mother, then by a school friend. The book has
+      the doom-ridden atmosphere of its day, and is emotional and
+      somewhat over-written.
+
+    BURNS, VINCENT G. _Female Convict._ Macaulay 1934, pbr Pyramid
+      1959. More women in prison and the unfortunate relationships
+      developing among them.
+
+    BURT, STRUTHERS. _Entertaining the Islanders._ N. Y. Scribners,
+      1933. Sophisticated, satirical, novel in which a man becomes aware
+      that his ex-sweetheart has been captivated by another woman.
+
+  + BUSSY, DOROTHY. _Olivia._ (by Olivia). Wm. Sloane Associates,
+      1949, Berkley pbr 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959. An English schoolgirl,
+      sent to boarding school in Paris, becomes an unwitting third party
+      to a long-standing affair between Julie and Cara, the two
+      schoolmistresses. Julie's response to the girl, and Cara's
+      jealousy, and suicide, form the main events of the story, which is
+      told with delicate restraint, after a retrospect of many years, as
+      Olivia, now herself a lesbian, has come to understand the
+      procession of events.
+
+    CAIN, JAMES M. _Serenade._ Knopf 1937, pbr Signet ca. 1953, (m).
+
+    CAINE, HALL. _The Bondsman._ R.F. Fenno & Co, ca. 1890; other
+      editions available, frequently very cheap secondhand. Called a
+      "Modern Saga", this is laid in 18th-Century Iceland. Two
+      half-brothers, Jason the Red and Michael Sunlocks, sons of the
+      same man by different mothers, grow up knowing of one another's
+      existence, but unknown to each other personally. Through a series
+      of saga-like coincidences, they fall in love with the same woman,
+      and are eventually exiled together to the sulphur mines--Iceland's
+      prison colony--still unaware of each other's real identity. There
+      Jason undergoes a psychological and emotional upheaval which can
+      only be described as "falling in love" with Michael, who is still
+      known to him only as Prisoner A-25, not as his hated brother. This
+      story is probably more explicit, emotionally, than anything
+      written before the 20th century and the freedom given by Freud to
+      the emotions of novelists. Recommended.
+
+      _The Deemster._ Rand McNally, 1888, Chicago; D. Appleton, 1888;
+      numerous other editions, (m). A glorified friendship between two
+      cousins ends in murder.
+
+    CALDWELL, ERSKINE. _Tragic Ground._ Little, Brown & Co, 1944, pbr
+      Signet 1948, fco.
+
+    CAPOTE, TRUMAN. _Breakfast at Tiffany's._ Random House 1958, pbr
+      Signet 1959. In the story of a promiscuous, rather pathetic girl,
+      a sadistic lesbian neighbor brings on violent events. Everything
+      very subtle and indirect.
+
+      _Other Voices, Other Rooms._ Random House 1948, pbr Signet 1959.
+      Young boy slowly falling under the influence of a decadent uncle
+      who is a transvestite. Macabre.
+
+    CARCO, FRANCIS. _Depravity._ pbo Berkley 1957.
+
+      _Infamy._ pbo Berkley 1958.
+
+      Both of these books hint at lesbianism on the cover blurbs, but
+      are, rather, highly risque French novels with brief, irrelevant
+      and heterosexually oriented contact between women characters
+      strictly for voyeuristic effect.
+
+    CARPENTER, EDWARD. _Iolaus_; _an Anthology of Friendship._ N. Y.,
+      Albert & Charles Boni, 1935, (m). Listed as "the first of its
+      kind", this is said also to be "very vague and old-fashioned."
+
+  + CASAL, MARY. _The Stone Wall. An Autobiography._ Chicago,
+      Eyncourt Press, 1930. In casual, conversational and entirely
+      frank form, a woman born in 1865 (and therefore, at the time of
+      writing, in her sixties) tells the story of her entire life as a
+      lesbian. With the exception of "slightly autobiographical"--and
+      always greatly disguised--fiction, this is probably the earliest
+      such memoir in the literature. The writing is highly competent and
+      professional, (subtly denying the author's insistence that she was
+      not a writer;) and filled with most interesting revelations about
+      the lesbian world of New York and Paris at the turn of this
+      century. Unfortunately the book is rare and expensive, but it
+      stands alone as a classic of its kind.
+
+    CHAMALES, TOM T. _Go Naked in the World._ N. Y. Scribners 1959. Nick
+      Stratton, wounded veteran, returns to find that his girl friend is
+      a call-girl and a lesbian.
+
+    CHANDLER, RAYMOND. _The Big Sleep._ Knopf 1939, pbr Pocket Books
+      1950, and others. (m). The bizarre murder of a homosexual hoodlum,
+      and the interrogation of his boy friend, form important sequences
+      in this hard-boiled murder mystery.
+
+    CHEEVER, JOHN. "Clancy in the Tower of Babel", ss in _The Enormous
+      Radio_, Funk 1953, pbr Berkley 1958, (m).
+
+  + CHRISTIAN, PAULA. _The Edge of Twilight._ pbo Crest 1959.
+      Airline stewardess Val, in an alcoholic haze, allows herself to
+      make love to a young girl friend, Toni. Fearing her own response
+      to this "abnormal" love, she redoubles her promiscuous
+      sleeping-around, but the girls end up together. The treatment,
+      though sensational, is honest and constructive; the book will win
+      no literary prizes, but whatever the reader's sympathies and
+      prejudices, he will approve the stand that happy adjustment to
+      love and affection--even homosexual--is a more constructive
+      solution than promiscuity. Very good of its kind.
+
+    CHRISTIE, AGATHA. _A Murder is Announced._ Dodd, Mead 1950, fco.
+      Suspects include a pair of problematical lesbians.
+
+    CLARK, DORENE. _The Exotic Affair._ Magnet Books, 1959, scv. "I
+      really think this one should be Maggot Books," wrote my reviewer.
+      "One of those fastmoving sloppy jobs where two men and two women
+      on an exotic cruise complete with mis-spelled and misapplied
+      foreign phrases spend most of their time trying all of the
+      printable and some of the unprintable variations on an old old
+      theme. All sex and no sentiment makes Jack and Jill sickening (and
+      the reviewer sick) or, for that matter, Jack and Jack or Jill and
+      Jill."
+
+  + CLAYTON, JOHN. _Dew in April._ Kendall & Sharpe, 1935. Romance
+      of the Middle Ages, laid in the Convent of St. Lazarus of the
+      Butterflies. Dolores, a homeless vagabond, is given shelter by
+      Mother Leonor, a mystic, repressed, white-hot and deeply tender
+      woman whose passionate emotional attachments to her young novices
+      are never explicit but pervade the entire book. Much of the story
+      is concerned with a subtle, sweet and innocently sensual
+      blossoming of adolescent emotions into homo-erotic form under the
+      pressures of convent life; the interplay of delicate love
+      relationships between Dolores, Mother Leonor, and the young
+      novices Dezirada and Clarisse, and their fluctuation between
+      despair, self-sacrifice and compassionate love when Dolores finds
+      a knightly lover, Pedro, is probably unmatched in studies of
+      feminine variance.
+
+      _Gold of Toulouse._ Kendall & Sharpe, 1935. Sequel to _Dew in
+      April_, but laid chronologically six or seven years earlier.
+      Though mostly concerned with the adventures of Don Marcos, the
+      Spanish knight, it also tells the story of Leonor, and shows the
+      beginning of her relationship with Dezirada.
+
+    CLIFTON, BUD. _Muscle Boy._ pbo Ace Books, 1958, (m). Teen-age
+      athlete inveigled into posing for dirty pictures. Good evening
+      waster.
+
+    COLE, JERRY. _Secrets of a Society Doctor._ Greenberg, 1935. pbr
+      Universal Publishing & Distributing, ca. 1953, (m).
+
+  + COLEMAN, LONNIE. _Ship's Company._ Little, Brown & Co, 1955, pbr
+      Dell, 1957. Collection of short stories, of which two are
+      homosexual.
+
+      _Sam._ David McKay, 1959, pbr Pyramid, 1960, (m). Major, excellent,
+      important. Don't waste time reading reviews, just go out and buy
+      it.
+
+    COLETTE, SIDONIE-GABRIELLE. _Claudine at School._ _Claudine in
+      Paris._ _The Indulgent Husband_ (in The Short Novels of Colette).
+      "Bella Vista" in _The Tender Shoot._ "Gitanette" in _Music Hall
+      Sidelights._
+
+      All of these are currently in print in excellent, uniform English
+      translation of the standard "Fleuron" edition of Colette's
+      complete works, from Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, of recent date. The
+      two "Claudine" novels have had recent Avon pbr editions under the
+      titles of _Diary of a 15 Year Old French Girl_, and _Claudine_.
+
+      Much of the work of this important French novelist was variant.
+      Only the most explicit are named above. The first three form a
+      connected narrative, telling of Claudine's school crushes, her
+      friendship with a male-homosexual cousin, and her "indulgent
+      husband" who connives at her lesbian affair with a woman friend,
+      in order to enjoy it secondhand. "Bella Vista" tells of a vacation
+      spent at a hotel managed by two middle-aged lesbians; the
+      narrator's fascinated interest in the couple vanishes when one of
+      the "ladies" turns out to be, actually, a disguised man.
+
+    CONNOLLY, CYRIL. _The Rock Pool._ Scribner 1936, hcr New
+      Directions n.d. Very well written novel of a group of expatriates
+      in the South of France. Nearly all are homosexuals; the story is
+      told without comment or judgment.
+
+    CONSTANTINE, MURRAY, and Margaret Goldsmith. _Venus in Scorpio._
+      John Lane, 1940. Heavily fictionalized biography, (erroneously
+      listed elsewhere as a novel) of Marie Antoinette, suggesting
+      lesbianism in her adolescence.
+
+  + CORY, DONALD WEBSTER. _21 Variations on a Theme._ N. Y., Greenberg
+      1953. The classic anthology of short stories about homosexuals;
+      four deal with feminine variance.
+
+    COUPEROUS, LOUIS. _The Comedians_, N. Y. Doran 1926. Variant
+      couple in a novel of Imperial Rome.
+
+    COURAGE, JAMES. _A Way of Love._ G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1959, (m).
+
+    COWLIN, DOROTHY. _Winter Solstice._ Macmillan, 1943. A brief
+      variant relationship proves beneficial to a hysterical invalid.
+
+    CRADOCK, PHYLLIS. _Gateway to Remembrance._ Andrew Dakers, London
+      1950. fco. Very brief mention of a lesbian couple in a sappy
+      metaphysical novel about Lost Atlantis.
+
+    CRAIG, JONATHAN. _Case of the Village Tramp._ pbo Gold Medal 1959.
+      Fast, well-written mystery introduces a pair of lesbians among the
+      suspects; _good_ entertainment.
+
+  + CRAIGIN, ELISABETH. _Either is Love._ Harcourt, Brace, 1937, pbr
+      Lion Books, 1952, 1956, Pyramid 1960. After the death of her
+      husband the narrator re-reads the letters she had written him
+      about her intense love affair with another woman. Almost
+      unequalled treatment of a lesbian _romance_.
+
+    CREAL, MARGARET. _A Lesson in Love._ Simon & Schuster 1957. A
+      Canadian orphan's passion for a beautiful schoolmate ends in
+      disillusion when the older girl, Tammy, tries to force Nicola into
+      a distasteful affair with a boy, the better to deceive her mother
+      about a similar affair of her own.
+
+    CROUZAT, HENRI. _The Island at the End of the World._ Duell, Sloan
+      and Pearce, 1959. An ex-schoolteacher, Patrice, is marooned on a
+      sub-Antarctic island with three nurses; Joan, a nymphomanic;
+      Victoria, a lesbian, and Kathleen, a quite ordinary girl. Due to
+      fortuitous circumstances, they manage to assure themselves the
+      necessities of life, and between Robinson-Crusoe-ish struggles,
+      embark on a round of excesses gradually diminished by the horrible
+      deaths of Kathleen, then Victoria. Fascinating, slightly macabre.
+
+  + CUSHING, MARY WATKINS. _The Rainbow Bridge._ G P Putnam's Sons,
+      1954. This book is included for the light it sheds on another
+      novel in this list, Marcia Davenport's _Of Lena Geyer_, and not
+      for the sake of any impertinent conclusions about the real people
+      involved. Mrs. Cushing served for seven years as companion and
+      buffer against the world for the famous prima donna, Olive
+      Fremstad, and Mme. Fremstad's reclusive, fantastically disciplined
+      personality seems to have served, at least in part, as model for
+      Lena Geyer. At any rate, both books become more interesting when
+      read together.
+
+    DANE, CLEMENCE. (pseud. of Winifred Ashton); _Regiment of Women._
+      Macmillan, 1917. Possibly the earliest novel of variance. A
+      lengthy book of the subtle sadism of the domineering headmistress
+      of a girl's school.
+
+    DARIUS, MICHEL. _I, Sappho of Lesbos._ Castle Books, May 1960.
+      Supposedly translated from a Medieval Latin manuscript
+      conveniently lost on the Andrea Doria. In first-person, this
+      weaves the better-known traditions about Sappho into a racy,
+      fast-moving novel. The lesbian content is not emphasized, unduly.
+      Writing-wise, this invites comparison with the work of Pierre
+      Louys. The "scholarship" is completely tongue-in-cheekish, of
+      course, as with the _Songs of Bilitis_. In general, this should
+      prove the Title of the Year for those who wonder why they don't
+      write like Pierre Louys anymore. (Department of Unpaid
+      Advertising; this one can NOW be ordered through Winston Book
+      Service; see Appendix.)
+
+    DAVENPORT, MARCIA. _Of Lena Geyer._ Scribner, 1936. Well-known
+      novel of the life of an opera singer. Lena has a young satellite
+      and adorer, but Elsie is careful to say that while "gossip has had
+      many cruel things to say of this friendship ... there was,
+      needless to say, not a word of truth in the essential accusation."
+      The two women remain together, even after Lena's marriage, until
+      her death.
+
+    DAVEY, WILLIAM. _Dawn Breaks the Heart._ Howell Soskin & Co, 1941.
+      A lengthy episode involves the sensitive hero's elopement with
+      Vivian, an irresponsible girl who turns out to be a lesbian and
+      leaves him for another woman. Excellent.
+
+    DAVIES, RHYS. "Orestes", ss in _The Trip to London._ N. Y. Howell
+      Soskin & Co, 1946. A lesbian manages to free the protagonist of a
+      mother-complex, because her attitude is free of feminine
+      seductiveness.
+
+  + DAVIS, FITZROY. _Quicksilver._ Harcourt, Brace, 1942. Hilarious
+      novel of the theatre, supposedly based on actual personalities
+      recognizable to the initiate; my reviewer wrote that some
+      theatrical people "literally turn purple at the mere mention of
+      this book ... most real pro actors detest portrayal of
+      homosexuality in theatre fiction, bad publicity and all that ...
+      can't say I blame them much."
+
+    DAY, MAX. _So Nice, So Wild._ pbo, Stanley Library Inc, 1959.
+      Evening waster; an impossibly complicated murder-story plot with a
+      hero who, trying to prove he didn't murder his own uncle, is
+      pestered by all sorts of girls crawling into his bunk, blondes,
+      brunettes and a few lesbians trying hard to convert themselves to
+      heterosexuality. Funny, real fun.
+
+    DEAN, RALPH. _One Kind of Woman._ pbo, Beacon, 1959. Evening
+      waster.
+
+      _Forbidden Thrills._ pbo Bedtime Books 1959. Scv.
+
+    DEBUSSY, ROY.
+
+      --and Jay Arpage; _Non Stop Flight_, Brookwood 1958.
+
+      --and Cleo Dorene; _Fountain of Youth_, Brookwood 1958.
+
+      --and Arthur Maurier; _Wicked Curves_, Brookwood 1958.
+
+      --and Les Maxime; _Eye Lust_, Brookwood 1959.
+
+      --and Les Maxime; _The Golden Nymph_, Brookwood 1958.
+
+      These are all hardcover risque novels retailing for about $3 in
+      bookstores which deal in that sort of thing for the adult trade
+      only; I don't know, not being a postal inspector, whether they
+      can legally be sent through the U S Mails. On the whole I would
+      think not. They are all fairly well written for books of their
+      kind, amusing and entertaining, and bear about the same
+      relationship to the paperback scv--evening wasters that ESQUIRE
+      does to the average cheaper girly magazine. They are, however,
+      strictly for a male audience; the "lesbian" content in all of them
+      is presented from a strip-tease point of view and in every case
+      the girl involved is "cured" of this perversion by male
+      seduction--in some cases, by brutality. The plot of _Non Stop
+      Flight_ is typical; hero Eric Leighton discovers his wife dallying
+      with a lesbian, so he beats up and rapes the lesbian (juicily
+      described) whereupon his wife commits suicide. Then Eric gets
+      involved with Celia, a stereotype "dish" with an ineffectual
+      husband; when Celia tires of him he beats her up and rapes her
+      (juicily described) then runs across the lesbian who has seduced
+      his wife _and_ Celia, so he beats her up and rapes her again
+      (juicily described) after which Eric and the lesbian get married
+      and live very happily forever after. I don't know precisely what
+      to call these books, but lesbiana is hardly descriptive. You have
+      been warned.
+
+    DEISS, JAY. _The Blue Chips._ Simon & Schuster 1957, pbr Bantam
+      1958. fco. In an excellent novel of medical laboratory workers, a
+      very very minor lesbian character.
+
+    DE FORREST, MICHAEL. _The Gay Year._ N. Y., Woodford Press, 1949,
+      (m). Happily untypical of this publisher's racy trash, this story
+      of a young man searching for self-knowledge in New York's Bohemia
+      is very good of its kind.
+
+    DELL, FLOYD. _Diana Stair._ Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. Long novel of
+      the early 19th century. Diana is a woman writer, but also explores
+      life as mill-girl, schoolteacher and abolitionist. Though
+      attracted to, and attractive to men, she is never without "some
+      older woman to adore and emulate, or some younger woman to teach
+      and inspire." Delightful, ironic novel of the trouble women can
+      get into when they refuse to fall neatly into the ruts laid down
+      by conventional society for women's lives.
+
+    DE MEJO, OSCAR. _Diary of a Nun._ pbo Pyramid 1955. Just what it
+      sounds like--fictional diary of a young girl in a convent warding
+      off scandalous advances. Mediocre.
+
+  + DENNIS, NIGEL FORBES. _Cards of Identity._ Vanguard, 1955.
+      Hilarious novel of confused identity, dealing with both male and
+      female homosexuality.
+
+    DES CARS, GUY. _The Damned One._ pbo Pyramid, 1956. A member of
+      French aristocracy, ambiguously sexed enough to be classified as
+      female at birth, grows up unequivocally male but retains the name,
+      dress and character of a female to avoid scandal--which comes
+      anyhow when _she_ carries on with an eccentric Englishwoman.
+
+    DEUTSCH, DEBORAH. _The Flaming Heart._ Boston, Bruce Humphries,
+      1959, (m).
+
+    DEVLIN, BARRY. Acapulco Nocturne. Vixen Press, 1952.
+
+      Cheating Wives. Beacon pbo 1959 (copyright 1955).
+
+      Fire and Ice. Vixen Press, 1952.
+
+      Golf Widow. Vixen Press, 1953.
+
+      Lovers and Madmen. Vixen Press 1952.
+
+      Madame Big. Vixen Press 1953.
+
+      Moon Kissed. Green Farms, Conn. Modern Pubs 1957, Vixen Press
+      1953, pbr tct _Forbidden Pleasures_ Beacon Books 1959.
+
+      Too Many Women. Vixen(?) 1953, Beacon pbr 1959.
+
+      These are all the same sort of thing, evening wasters or scv,
+      depending on taste. Big handsome men of incredible stamina,
+      engaging incessantly in that one activity besides which all else
+      is as naught, with a succession of beautiful women, blonde,
+      brunette and redhead. Now and then this procession of affairs is
+      varied a little by letting the girls sport with one another to
+      give the heroes a breathing spell. In short, sexy books for people
+      who like reading sexy books. Adults only, please.
+
+    DE VOTO, BERNARD. _Mountain Time._ Little, Brown & Co 1946--47,
+      fco. One very brief overt lesbian episode.
+
+    DE VRIES, PETER. _The Tents of Wickedness._ Little, Brown & Co,
+      1959, Minor episode in a very funny literary satire--Army colonel
+      who talks pure Hemingway turns out to be a WAC in disguise.
+
+    DIBNER, MARTIN. _The Deep Six._ Doubleday 1953, pbr Permabooks
+      1957, (m).
+
+    DIDEROT, DENIS. _Memoirs of a Nun._ (trans from French by Frances
+      Birrell). London, Rutledge & Sons 1928, hcr London, Elek Books,
+      Book Centre Ltd, N. Circular Road, Neasden, London, N. W. 10,
+      England. Classic French novel _La Religieuse_, written in 1760,
+      published in 1796. Reflects the very bitter anti-clerical
+      sentiment of the times just before the Revolution. A "cornerstone"
+      title.
+
+    DINESEN, ISAK. _Seven Gothic Tales._ N. Y., Smith & Haas, 1943, hcr
+      Modern Library n.d.
+
+      "The Invincible Slave Owners", ss in _A Winter's Tales_, Random
+      House 1942.
+
+    DIXON, CLARISSA. _Janet and her dear Phebe._ Stokes, 1909. Girls
+      story of two loving little chums, separated by a misunderstanding
+      between their families, and re-united as women. Though never
+      explicit, the story is emotional and intense. It is highly
+      unlikely the author was quite aware of the type of attachment she
+      was portraying.
+
+    DJEBAR, ASSIA. _The Mischief._ Simon & Schuster 1958, pbr Avon
+      1959 tct _Nadia_. Very brief but well-written novel of a young
+      girl who falls in love with a former schoolgirl friend, now
+      married.
+
+  + DONISTHORPE, SHEILA. _Loveliest of Friends_, Claude Kendall
+      1931, pbr Berkley 1956, 1957, 1958, due for another. Boyish Kim
+      captivates young happy-housewife Audrey and wrecks her life.
+      Preachy outburst against lesbians toward the end. Read it with a
+      hanky handy. (Curiously enough, in spite of the anti-lesbian bias
+      of the ending, and the overdone sentimentality of the Swinburnian
+      writing, everybody seems to enjoy this one--all the Checklist
+      editors included.)
+
+    DOWD, HARRISON. _The Night Air._ Dial Press, 1950, (m).
+
+    DRESSER, DAVID. _Mardigras Madness._ Godwin 1934. One lesbian
+      episode in an evening waster about Carnival.
+
+    DRUON, MAURICE. _The Rise of Simon Lachaume._ Dutton, 1952; hcr as
+      part of the trilogy _The Curtain Falls_, Scribner 1960. One
+      episode in lengthy novel of a French family involves the duping of
+      an elderly roue by a pair of young lesbians.
+
+  + DU MAURIER, ANGELA. _The Little Legs._ Doubleday, 1941. Sad and
+      devastating results from a long variant enslavement. "This is a
+      lovely book if you enjoy crying, and I do," says one reviewer.
+
+    DURRELL, LAWRENCE. _Justine._ N. Y., Dutton, 1957.
+
+      _Balthazar._ N. Y., Dutton, 1958, (m).
+
+      _Mountolive._ N. Y., Dutton, 1959, (m).
+
+      _Clea._ N. Y. Dutton, 1960. The last volume of now-famous tetralogy,
+      just released, winds up all of the loose ends of the other three.
+      The lesbian element is minor, but all four novels are excellent.
+
+    EICHRODT, JOHN. "Nadia Devereaux", ss in _Sextet_, ed by Whit &
+      Hallie Burnett. N. Y., McKay Co. 1951.
+
+    EISNER, SIMON. (pseud of Cyril Kornbluth). _The Naked Storm._ pbo,
+      Lion Library, 1952, 1956. Mixed bag of passengers on a
+      transcontinental train, including a lesbian who tries to captivate
+      a young girl and is murdered by another passenger to give her
+      intended victim "a chance at real happiness with a man."
+
+    ENGSTRAND, STUART. _More Deaths than One._ Julian Messner 1955,
+      pbr Signet 1957. Mannish woman defending effeminate husband
+      against charge of rape by kidnapping his victim and hiding her
+      out, goes through a nervous breakdown involving a morbid and
+      macabre attachment to the girl; horrible.
+
+      _Sling and the Arrow._ Creative Age 1947, hcr Sun Dial n.d., pbr
+      Signet ca. 1951, (m).
+
+    EMERY, CAROL. _Queer Affair._ pbo Beacon Books, 1957. Dancer Draga
+      moves in with mannish Jo, runs into complications when she tries
+      to desert Jo for a man. Evening waster but very good nevertheless
+      ... the author got in some good attitudes and philosophies when
+      the publisher wasn't looking.
+
+    ENTERS, ANGNA. _Among the Daughters._ Coward McCann, 1955.
+      Autobiographical novel of a girl who, like the author, finally
+      becomes a dancer and choreographer. A good deal of space is
+      devoted to a friendship between Lucy and another girl; the story
+      is tinged with variance but never explicit.
+
+    ESTEY, NORBERT. _All My Sins._ A. A. Wyn, 1954. pbr Crest 1956.
+      fco. Few very minor variant episodes in a long novel of the French
+      courtesan Ninon l'Enclos.
+
+    EUSTIS, HELEN. _The Horizontal Man._ Harper 1946, pbr Pocket Books
+      1955. Offbeat psychological murder mystery.
+
+    EVANS, LESLEY. _Strange are the Ways of Love._ pbo Crest 1959.
+      Love among the guitar-playing, folk-singing beatniks, with the
+      lesbians playing Musical Beds. Evening waster.
+
+    EVANS, JOHN (pseud. of Howard Browne). _Halo in Brass._
+      Bobbs-Merrill 1949, pbr Bantam 1958. Hardboiled detective story;
+      private eye Paul Pine is hired to locate runaway girl with no boy
+      friends and many girl friends. Suspenseful, nice way to spend (not
+      waste) a lazy evening.
+
+    EWERS, HANNS HEINZ. _Alraune._ John Day, 1929. Alraune is Evil
+      incarnate--symbol of the Mandrake Root, destroying love in
+      everyone with whom she comes in contact, bringing out their innate
+      evil. Among those destroyed by Alraune are a pair of lesbian
+      lovers. High-quality fantasy, unfortunately rare and rather
+      expensive.
+
+    FADIMAN, EDWIN JR. _The 21 Inch Screen._ Doubleday 1958, pbr
+      Signet 1960. TV bigshot Rex Lundy has woman trouble--his wife, his
+      mistress, and his teen-age daughter. The latter is seeking the
+      love she doesn't get at home from a Greenwich Village lesbian
+      friend. Excellent modern fiction.
+
+      _The Glass Play Pen._ pbo Signet 1956. Rich girl loses her
+      parents, loses her money, and turns expensive call girl. One
+      lesbian episode, treated with tenderness and sympathy.
+
+      see also EDWINA MARK.
+
+    FAIR, ELIZABETH. _Bramton Wick._ Funk & Wagnalls 1954. fco. Cozy
+      little story of cozy little English village, including two maiden
+      ladies who have lived together for many years. "It is all very
+      light and airy and your old-maid aunt wouldn't think it at all
+      odd." Apt to be in libraries.
+
+    FAREWELL, NINA. _Someone to Love._ Messner 1959, pbr Popular
+      Library, 1960. One brief, incomplete lesbian episode in a long,
+      interesting novel of a woman's continual search for real love in a
+      life filled with fleeting liaisons.
+
+  + FERGUSON, MARGARET. _The Sign of the Ram._ London, Philadelphia,
+      The Blakiston Co, 1944-45. Sherida comes as companion-secretary to
+      crippled Leah, passionately adored by her whole family including
+      sixteen-year-old Christine. Subtly playing on Christine's
+      emotions, Leah spurs her to the point where she attempts to murder
+      Sherida. On the surface, the motivation is simply the love of
+      power, but Christine's emotions are clearly variant; when the book
+      was filmed, they carefully cast Christine as a girl of eleven, to
+      make it unmistakable that her adoration was only "childish."
+
+    FIRBANK, RONALD. _The Flower Beneath the Foot._ in Five Novels,
+      New Directions, 1949. "Light and fluffy ... pure fun".
+
+      _Inclinations._ in Three Novels. New Directions 1951, (m).
+
+    FITZROY, A.T. _Despised and Rejected._ London, C W Daniel, 1918.
+      Lesbian incidents in a novel which is, however, mainly about
+      persecution of Conscientious Objectors in World War I.
+
+    FISHER, MARY (PARRISH). _Not Now but NOW._ Viking 1947. Novel of
+      an ageless, ruthless woman. A long episode on a college campus is
+      lesbian in emphasis.
+
+    FISHER, VARDIS. _The Darkness and the Deep._ Vanguard, 1943, fco,
+      a novel of the Stone Age.
+
+    FLAGG, JOHN. _Dear, Deadly Beloved._ Gold Medal pbo 1954.
+
+      _Murder in Monaco._ pbo Gold Medal 1957.
+
+      Both of these are fast-moving mysteries, in Mediterranean setting,
+      both involving lesbian characters.
+
+    FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE. _Salammbo._ Classic French Novel in many
+      editions and translations. A very long novel of a Babylonian High
+      Priestess; some psychological and literary authorities consider it
+      variant. The editors all say with one voice that it isn't. BAYOR.
+
+    FLEMING, IAN. _Goldfinger._ Macmillan 1959. No data, BAYOR.
+
+    FLORA, FLETCHER. _Desperate Asylum._ pbo Lion Library 1955, pbr
+      Pyramid 1959, tct _Whisper of Love_. An unhappy lesbian and a
+      neurotic man who hates women because his mother was promiscuous,
+      marry to find a mutual "asylum". Predictably the marriage is
+      unsuccessful, ending in murder and suicide.
+
+      _Strange Sisters_, pbo Lion Library 1954, pbr Pyramid 1960. Weird
+      novel of a girl's mental breakdown, indirectly blamed on her
+      affairs with three cruel and sadistic women.
+
+      _Take me Home._ Monarch Books, pbo 1959. A young writer's slow
+      captivation with a strange girl just escaping from the domination
+      of an evil lesbian cousin. All three of these books, though
+      anti-lesbian in bias, are very well and slickly written, and
+      entertaining.
+
+    FORREST, FELIX. _Carola._ Duell, 1948. Brief recall of a lesbian
+      episode in the heroine's girlhood.
+
+    FORTUNE, DION. (pseud. of Violet B. Firth). _Moon Magic._ London,
+      Aquarian Press, 1958, fco. Fascinating, funny novel of a modern
+      sorceress and an inhibited, bad-tempered doctor. It is implied
+      that his marriage failed because his wife, a hysteric shamming
+      invalidism, prefers being cosseted by her faithful companion to
+      reassuming marital duties.
+
+    FOSTER, GERALD. _Strange Marriage._ N. Y., Godwin 1943.
+      Transvestite, rather than lesbian; heroine in man's clothing
+      actually marries a fantastically naive girl.
+
+    FOWLER, ELLEN T. _The Farringdons._ N. Y., Appleton, 1900. Three
+      intense variant attachments by a motherless girl under twenty,
+      which subside when she falls in love with a man.
+
+    FRANKEN, ROSE. _Intimate Story._ Doubleday, 1955. A novel by the
+      author of the popular Claudia series.
+
+  + FREDERICS, DIANA. (pseud); _Diana, a Strange Autobiography._
+      Dial 1939, pbr Berkley Books 1955, 1957, 1958. Well known story of
+      a young musician/teacher's discovery and slow acceptance and
+      adjustment to her lesbian personality.
+
+    FRANK, WALDO. _The Dark Mother._ N. Y., Boni & Liveright, 1920, (m).
+      A too-possessive mother ruins her son's life.
+
+    FRIEDMAN, STUART. _Nikki._ Monarch Books, 1960, scv.
+
+      _The Revolt of Jill Braddock._ Monarch Books 1960. scv. Male and
+      female homosexuality in a ballet company, with Jill in the middle.
+      "Not as bad as _Nikki_, but still a pretty raw evening waster."
+
+    GARLAND, RODNEY. _The Heart in Exile._ Coward McCann 1954, pbr
+      Lion 1956, (m). Because of courageous approach to the basic problem
+      of relations between the homosexual and his family, this story of
+      a young homosexual in an unconventional household deserves
+      shelfspace everywhere.
+
+    GARNETT, DAVID. _A Shot in the Dark._ Little, Brown 1959, pbr tct
+      _The Ways of Desire_. Popular Library 1960. Complex, fast-moving
+      adventure story, involving a great number of lesbians.
+
+    GARRETT, ZENA. _The House in the Mulberry Tree._ Random House,
+      1959 Sensitive story of a girl of eleven, fascinated by an
+      innocently appealing neighbor, a married woman. The mother,
+      observing innocent caresses between the two, separates them.
+
+  + GARRIGUE, JEAN. "The Other One" ss in _Cross Section_, ed. by E.
+      Seaver, Simon & Schuster, 1947.
+
+    GAUTIER, THEOPHILE. _Mademoiselle de Maupin._ Many editions,
+      including Modern Library, n. d. also pbr Pyramid Books 1956, 1957,
+      1958. Classic novel of lesbianism.
+
+    GENET, JEAN. _The Maids._ Grove Press qpb 1954. Offbeat
+      existentialist drama; involuted love among women.
+
+    GEORGIE, LEYLA. _The Establishment of Madame Antonia._ Liveright,
+      1932. Light entertainment about inhabitants of a high-class
+      European bordello, including a young recruit protected by an older
+      woman.
+
+    GIDE, ANDRE. _The School for Wives._ N. Y., Knopf, 1950
+
+      _The Immoralist._ Knopf 1930, hcr 1948, (m).
+
+      _The Counterfeiters._ Knopf 1927, (m).
+
+    GILBERT, EDWIN. _The Hot and the Cool._ Doubleday 1953, pbr tct
+
+      _See How They Burn_, Popular Library, 1959, (m). Minor and subtle
+      homosexual overtones in a novel of jazz musicians.
+
+    GODDEN, RUMER. _The Greengage Summer._ Viking 1957, fco.
+
+      _A Candle for St. Jude_, Viking 1948, fco.
+
+    GOLDMAN, WILLIAM. _The Temple of Gold._ Knopf 1957, pbr Bantam
+      1958, (m) minor fco.
+
+    GOLDSTON, ROBERT. _The Catafalque._ Rinehart 1957, 1958.
+      High-quality thriller about ill-fated archaeological expedition to
+      Spain; crisis precipitated when a sinister Countess takes young
+      Stephanie, the expedition leader's daughter, to a grotto where a
+      pagan goddess has been worshipped with lesbian rites and attempts
+      to seduce her there.
+
+    GREENE, GRAHAM. _The Orient Express._ Doubleday 1933, pbr Bantam
+      1955. Trainful of mixed adventurers includes a lesbian between
+      girl-friends but still trying.
+
+    GUDMUNDSSON, KRISTMANN. _Winged Citadel._ Holt, 1940, (m). Brief
+      but very explicit homosexual interlude in a fine historical novel
+      of Crete and the Bull-dancers.
+
+    GUNTER, ARCHIBALD. _A Florida Enchantment._ Home Pubs 1892. No
+      data available, BAYOR.
+
+    HACKETT, PAUL. _Children of the Stone Lions._ G. P. Putnam 1955.
+      An important lesbian character in a novel which has had good
+      reviews.
+
+  + HAGGARD, SIR HENRY RIDER. _Allan's Wife._ First published, 1889;
+      now in print in Five Novels of H. Rider Haggard, Dover Press,
+      1951. A strange story, and this year's special "find". Allan, hero
+      of the famous adventure-novelist's KING SOLOMON'S MINES, is here
+      shown as a young man, in love with Stella Carson--an English girl
+      reared in the unspoilt beauty of a lost valley in Darkest Africa.
+      The romance is complicated by the passionate jealousy of
+      Hendrika--stolen in infancy by gorillas, reared as a female
+      Tarzan, and rescued to be Stella's companion, foster-sister and
+      adorer. Hendrika first attempts to murder Allan; the scene in
+      which she rages insanely at Allan for stealing Stella's love, and
+      Allan's quiet acceptance of the "curious" fact that the strongest
+      loves are not always between those of different sexes, places this
+      book almost alone in forthright English treatment of variance for
+      its date. From this high level of psychological realism, the story
+      reverts to Haggard-type melodrama; Stella is kidnapped by
+      Hendrika's gorilla friends; dramatically rescued in a thrilling
+      jungle battle; her death from exposure and Hendrika's remorseful
+      suicide complete the story. Strange, romantic, and quite in a
+      class by itself.
+
+    HALES, CAROL. _Wind Woman._ Woodford Press 1953, pbr tct _Such is
+      My Beloved_, Berkley 1958. Sad, sad, sad story of the
+      psychoanalysis of a young lesbian such as was never seen on sea or
+      land. Harmless and nitwitted ... read it and weep, or giggle.
+
+      see also LORA SELA.
+
+  + HALL, RADCLYFFE. _The Well of Loneliness._ Many editions, some
+      cheap hcr (Sun Dial ed, still in print, n. d.) also Permabooks pbr
+      n. d. The classic first novel of a lesbian, written soon after
+      WWI. Stephen Gordon, male in physique, temperament and character,
+      seeks for lasting love and some measure of acceptance from a
+      rejecting world.
+
+      _The Unlit Lamp._ N. Y., Jonathan Cape 1924; the endless sacrifice
+      of a daughter into a sterile, wasted life because her mother
+      cannot accept her right to live her own life.
+
+      _Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself._ Harcourt, Brace 1934. A lesbian finds
+      her true destiny after a lifetime of serving her country.
+      Overtones of science fiction.
+
+      _A Saturday Life._ London, Falcon Press, 1952 (orig. pub 1925). An
+      attempt at farce, not overt anywhere.
+
+    HALL, OAKLEY M. _Corpus of Joe Bailey._ Viking 1953, Permabooks
+      1955, (m). Also contains a pathetic pair of lesbians, one
+      camouflaging her true leanings by pretending to be the campus
+      whore.
+
+    HARDY, THOMAS. _Desperate Remedies._ Harper 1896; still in print,
+      London, the Macmillan Co, 1951 ($3.00). Brief but relevant episode
+      in a novel by a classic English novelist.
+
+  + HARRIS, SARA. _The Wayward Ones._ Crown 1952, pbr Signet 1956,57
+      One of the few really good treatments of lesbian attachments in a
+      girl's reform school. Bessie, a wayward girl, is sent to a "good"
+      reform school; at this stage she is naive, fairly innocent and
+      presumably redeemable. The loneliness, the sadistic persecution by
+      the corrupt or hardened matrons, and the "racket"--the enforced
+      division of the school into "moms" and "pops", by hardened young
+      girl hooligans who like the power it gives them, and permitted by
+      the matrons under the self-deception that these attachments are
+      normal, schoolgirlish crushes--finally complete the girl's
+      corruption until it is certain that she will come out of school a
+      confirmed young criminal, Sara Harris is herself a social worker;
+      this painfully accurate picture of what our juvenile authorities
+      contend with may, at least, give some insight into why the police
+      and social agencies tend to be so violently anti-lesbian. It is
+      hard to forget the picture painted in this book of the frightened
+      Bessie insisting "I don't never do no lovin' with girls.'"--and
+      the threats made to her. An absolute MUST book--on the other side.
+
+    HARRIS, WILLIAM HOWARD. _The Golden Jungle._ Doubleday 1957, pbr
+      Berkley 1958. Brittle novel about a wall street banker; his
+      beautiful wife is a lesbian, but he naively believes her faithful
+      because she prefers the company of women.
+
+  + HASTINGS, MARCH. _Demands of the Flesh._ Newsstand Library pbo,
+      1959. Ellen, a young widow suffering from physical frustration,
+      goes through a period of promiscuity involving several men and a
+      brief affair with a lesbian, Nita. Oddly enough for this sort of
+      borderline-risque stuff, the lesbian character is well and
+      realistically drawn; realizing that Ellen is basically normal, she
+      helps keep her on an even keel until she remarries. Good of kind.
+
+      _Three Women._ pbo Beacon Books 1958. Good and sympathetic story
+      of a young girl involved with a basically decent older woman, a
+      lesbian, Byrne. Unfortunately Byrne is deeply involved with, and
+      obligated to, her insane cousin Greta, and the affair ends in
+      tragedy, leaving young Paula to marry her faithful boy friend. The
+      lesbian interlude, however, is treated not as a "twisted love in
+      the shadows" or any such cliche matter, but simply as a human
+      relationship, in its total effect on Paula's personality; and she
+      always remembers Byrne with affectionate regret. Excellent of
+      kind.
+
+      _The Obsessed._ Newstand Library Magenta Books, 1959. The
+      psychoanalysis of a nymphomaniac, including an affair with her
+      boy-friend's lesbian sister. Not nearly as good as March Hastings'
+      other books, and much more dedicated to sexy scenes at the expense
+      of character and situation. Evening waster--almost scv. (It should
+      be noted that some paperback publishers insist on a specified
+      number of sex scenes, and in such a book as this one can almost
+      hear the weary sigh with which the author abandons his story,
+      which is going well, and stops everything for another measured
+      dose of sexy writing for the nitwit audience.)
+
+    HECHT, BEN. _The Sensualists._ Messner, 1959, pbr Dell 1959. A
+      great deal of advance publicity built this up to a best-seller.
+      Highly sensational shock-stuff; a supposedly happily-married woman
+      discovers her husband is having an affair with a singer, Liza.
+      When she comes in contact with Liza, however, she realizes that
+      Liza is a lesbian, having affairs with men for camouflage
+      purposes, and is soon herself captivated by Liza. From here events
+      build up to highly shocking climaxes, including a ghastly murder.
+      Not to be read after dark.
+
+    HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. "The Sea Change" ss in _The Fifth Column and
+      the First 49 Stories_, P. F. Collier & Son, 1938. This volume also
+      contains two stories dealing with male homosexuality: "A Simple
+      Inquiry" and "Mother of a Queen."
+
+    HELLMAN, LILLIAN. _The Children's Hour._ Knopf, 1934. Also Random
+      House 1942; also in Burns-Mantle, Best Plays of 1934-35. A rumor
+      of lesbianism (unfounded) wrecks a school, and the lives of the
+      women who own and manage it.
+
+    HENRY, JOAN. _Women in Prison._ Doubleday 1952, pbr Permabooks
+      1953. This is non-fiction, autobiographical account of a woman's
+      experience in two English prisons. Very good.
+
+    HEPPENSTALL, RAYNER. _The Blaze Of Noon._ Alliance 1940, pbr
+      Berkley 1956, (m) minor, fco and BAYOR.
+
+    HESSE, HERMAN. _Steppenwolf._ Henry Holt 1929. qpb Frederick
+      Ungar, 1960. Symbolic (and classic) novel of man's disintegration,
+      caused by society's ignorance. Contains highly sympathetic
+      homosexual characters (male and female).
+
+    HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA. _The Talented Mr. Ripley._ Coward, 1955, pbr
+      Dell 1959. (m, minor)
+
+      _Strangers on a Train._ Harper & Bros. 1950. (m, minor)
+
+      see also CLAIRE MORGAN
+
+    HILL, PATI. _The Nine Mile Circle._ Houghton, Mifflin 1957 fco.
+      Dreamy story of two teen-age girls and an idyllic summer during
+      which they constantly pretend to be man and wife, on a girlish,
+      unerotic level. Very nice.
+
+    HIMMEL, RICHARD. _Soul of Passion._ Star Pub, Co 1950. pbr tct.
+
+      _Strange Desires_, Croydon Pub. 1952, pbr Avon, tct.
+
+
+      _The Shame_, 1959, (m). No masterpiece but an interesting story
+      about a man spending a week with his dead Army friend's wife and
+      recalling his long relationship with the dead man; over the week
+      he slowly comes to acknowledge, and come to terms with the fact
+      that their relationship had had overtones of homosexuality.
+
+    HITT, ORRIE. _Girl's Dormitory._ Beacon pbo 1958 scv.
+
+      _Trapped._ Beacon pbo 1954. scv.
+
+      _Wayward Girl._ Beacon pbo 1960 scv.
+
+    HOLK, AGNETE. _The Straggler._ (Trans, from the Danish by Anthony
+      Hinton). London, Arco Pub. 1954, pbr tct.
+
+      _Strange Friends_, Pyramid Books 1955, very slightly abridged.
+      Boyish Scandinavian Vita adopts a "little sister" but is quite
+      unaware of the nature of her attraction to Hilda. In her late
+      teens Hilda, stirred but unsatisfied by this attachment, makes an
+      unwise marriage, and Vita undergoes a period of rootless drifting,
+      a brief affair ending in separation, and finally makes a permanent
+      arrangement with Hilda, whose unsuccessful marriage ended in
+      divorce. Valuable for a portrait of European gay life, very unlike
+      the American.
+
+    HOLLIDAY, DON. _The Wild Night._ Nightstand Books 1960 (no
+      publisher's address listed). Composite novel of six lives which
+      converge on New Year's Eve in a cheap Greenwich Village strip
+      joint. "One of those unexpectedly good stories one finds among the
+      floods of paperback trash." One of the six characters is a
+      lesbian.
+
+    HOLMES, (JOHN) CLELLON. _Go._ Scribner 1952, pbr Ace Books 1958,
+      (m).
+
+      _The Horn._ Random House 1953, Crest pbr 1958, (m).
+
+    HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. _Elsie Venner._ Burt, 1859; many editions,
+      a classic novel of a very strange girl, psychologically akin to
+      poisonous snakes. In the course of this novel a curious and
+      intense relationship develops between Elsie and a young
+      schoolmistress named Helen; a compulsive domination, attraction
+      and revulsion. One might suspect Dr. Holmes, whose medical
+      writings and observations place him far ahead of his era
+      psychologically, of genteelly camouflaging a portrait of variance,
+      100 years ago, by making the girl a creature of macabre fantasy.
+
+  + HORNBLOW, LEONORA. _The Love Seekers._ Random 1957, pbr Signet
+      1958. The heroine's hesitation between marriage with a steady and
+      reliable man, and insecure excitement with a hoodlum, is resolved
+      when her affairs are interrupted by concern for the daughter of a
+      friend; the young lesbian, Mab, whose life has become entangled
+      with some very shady characters.
+
+  + HULL, HELEN R. "The Fire" ss in Century Magazine, Nov 1917;
+      Excellent story of a small-town girl's love for a middle-aged
+      spinster who awakens her to a world beyond her small one.
+
+      "With One Coin for Fee", novelette in _Experiment_, Coward-McCann
+      1938, 1939, 1940. An introspective spinster and a lifelong friend,
+      trapped in a New England house during the 1939 hurricane; subtle
+      but good.
+
+      _The Quest._ Macmillan, 1922. An over-emotional girl, seeking
+      escape from home tensions, develops crushes on a classmate and on
+      a teacher: her mother's over-reaction turns the girl against
+      variant attachments just as her unhappy home turned her against
+      marriage.
+
+      _The Labyrinth._ Macmillan, 1923. Variant attachments, among
+      others, in a novel of a woman unhappy in domesticity and trying to
+      find creative outlets.
+
+      _Landfall._ N. Y. Coward-McCann 1953. In a brittle and sarcastic
+      novel of a brittle and sarcastic woman, the heroine, a capable
+      businesswoman, alternately repulses and warms toward her adoring
+      secretary--though she secretly scorns the girl's devotion, she
+      feels it would be a nuisance to break in a new secretary, so
+      wishes to keep her captivated.
+
+    HUNEKER, JAMES. _Painted Veils._ Liveright 1920 (still in print);
+      pbr Avon 1928. Unpleasant novel of the theatrical and literary
+      world of that day; the heroine, Easter, (an opera singer) has a
+      mannish satellite.
+
+    HURST, FANNIE. _The Lonely Parade._ N. Y. Harper 1942. Very minor
+      mention of lesbians in a novel of lonely women at hotels.
+
+  + HUTCHINS, MAUDE PHELPS McVEIGH. _A Diary of Love._ New
+      Directions, 1950, pbr Pyramid 1952, 1960. Weird stuff, written
+      with a detachment and delicacy reminiscent of the Colette novels.
+      A teen-age girl, Noel, goes through a bizarre series of
+      experiences in a strange household where her grandfather seduces
+      his (male) music pupils and a nymphomanic, neurotic housemaid,
+      Freida, successively seduces everyone from Grandpa down to Noel.
+      Beautifully done.
+
+      _Georgiana._ New Directions, 1948. The second section of a
+      sensitive, well-written novel is laid in a girl's school; there
+      are three important variant attachments, and as a result one of
+      Georgiana's classmates is expelled. In later life Georgiana blames
+      her failure to find happiness on a "lesbian complex."
+
+      _My Hero._ New Directions, 1953, (m).
+
+    ILTON, PAUL. _The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah._ pbo, Signet,
+      1956, 1957, (m). Historical, Biblical setting.
+
+    JACKSON, CHARLES. _The Fall of Valor._ Rinehart & Co, 1946, pbr
+      Signet, 1950, (m).
+
+      _The Lost Weekend._ Farrar & Rinehart 1944, pbr Berkley 1955 and
+      others.
+
+      "Palm Sunday" ss in collection _The Sunnier Side_, pbr Berkley nd
+      and others, also in Cory, _21 Variations_.
+
+  + JACKSON, SHIRLEY. _Hangsaman._ Farrar, 1951. Frightening,
+      macabre story of a lonely girl who conjures up a thrilling
+      companion--who looks and acts like a boy but is clearly a girl.
+      They meet secretly and engage in wild conversation and loveplay,
+      and only slowly, with dawning horror, does the reader realize that
+      the child is a split personality and the two girls are one and the
+      same.
+
+      _The Haunting of Hill House._ Viking, 1959. During the
+      investigation of a reputed "haunted house", two of the
+      investigating party--Theo, an admitted lesbian, and Eleanor, a
+      lonely, inhibited spinster--go through a curious, subtly
+      delineated relationship wavering, with the intensity of the
+      "haunting" of the house, from attraction to intense love to
+      unexplained revulsion. Macabre; good of its kind.
+
+    JAMES, HENRY. _Turn of the Screw._ Macmillan 1898, hcr Modern
+      Library n d, Pocket Books and other editions. Available
+      everywhere. Some authorities consider subtle and understated
+      lesbianism to be the mysterious motivations behind the scenes of
+      this curious psychological ghost story of the struggle of a
+      governess for the souls of two young children.
+
+      _The Bostonians._ Century Magazine 1885, hcr Dial 1945.
+
+    JOHNSON, KAY. _My Name is Rusty._ Castle Books, 1958. Allegedly a
+      novel of a woman's prison, complete with glossary of "prison
+      slang"--but if the author has ever been inside a woman's prison,
+      or even done any authentic research, your editors will eat a copy
+      of the book, complete with cover jackets. Brief plot; butchy Rusty
+      makes a pass at prison newcomer Marcia, in order to share her
+      commissary credits. When Rusty gets out of prison she marries and
+      goes straight and Marcia kills herself. Read it and weep.
+
+    JONES, JAMES. _From Here to Eternity._ Scribners 1951, pbr Signet
+      ca. 1952, (m).
+
+    KASTLE, HERBERT D. _Koptic Court._ Simon & Schuster 1958, pbr tct
+      _Seven Keys to Koptic Court_, Crest 1959, (m).
+
+    KEENE, DAY and Leonard Pruyn. _World Without Women._ pbo Gold
+      Medal, 1960, Science-fictional evening waster; all the women in
+      the world die off, except a few, who must be carefully protected
+      as potential mothers of the human race. One episode involves all
+      the surviving lesbians, who barricade themselves in a prison. Good
+      of type.
+
+    KENNEDY, JAY RICHARD. _Short Term._ World, 1959. This one is just
+      out; reviews indicate some lesbian content, but this could be
+      anything from a paragraph to three chapters. BAYOR.
+
+    KENT, JUSTIN. _Mavis._ Vixen Press 1953, pbr Beacon 1960. scv.
+      "Mavis is married to a lush, so she dallies and so does he, and
+      they are really a pair of dillies dallying...."
+
+  + KENT, NIAL. (pseud of William LeRoy Thomas) _The Divided Path_,
+      (m). Greenberg 1949, Pyramid pbr 1951, 1952, 1959. For once the
+      plus is used to promote personal prejudice; various authorities
+      call this book overly sentimental. But when this hardened reviewer
+      finds herself in tears, she's apt to think there must be something
+      to it. Childhood, adolescence and manhood of Michael, a young
+      homosexual, and his long-continued, scrupulously self-denying
+      relationship with a boyhood friend who does not suspect his
+      friend's "difference".
+
+    KENYON, THEDA. _That Skipper from Stonington._ Messner, 1946. A
+      juvenile novel, strangely enough, found in a high school library.
+      The hero runs away to sea as a small boy and is protected by a man
+      who is obviously homosexual, though the boy does not know it; the
+      other men on the ship, suspecting that this relationship is
+      unhealthy (it isn't) hound the boy's protector to suicide.
+
+    KEOGH, THEODORA. _Meg._ Creative Age Press 1950, pbr Signet 1952,
+      1956. Sublimated lesbianism in a very young girl.
+
+      _The Double Door._ Creative Age 1950, pbr Signet 1952, (m).
+
+    KESSEL, JOSEPH. _The Lion._ (trans. from French by Peter Green).
+      N. Y. Knopf 1959. One editor saw subtle variant emotion in the
+      mother's attachment to a school friend.
+
+    KING, DON. _The Bitter Love._ Newsstand Library Magenta Book,
+      1959. Rather good evening waster about a supposed double murder,
+      gradually solved by the slow revelation of the affair between
+      Brenda and her 16 year old stepdaughter.
+
+    KING, MARY JACKSON. _The Vine of Glory._ Bobbs-Merrill, 1948. This
+      won a prize as the best novel on race relations by a Southern
+      writer for its year. A repressed, inhibited, small-town girl,
+      Lavinia, at the mercy of elderly tyrannical relatives, forms a
+      close friendship with a Negro man who was her only childhood
+      friend. The friendship between Lavinia and Augustus is purely
+      platonic; she attends a school he has set up for colored girls who
+      wish to improve themselves, and he helps to find her a job; but
+      enraged small-minded bigots bring on a lynching. Early in the book
+      a preparation is laid for Lavinia's lack of friends of her own sex
+      and status by her unfortunate friendship with Dixie Murdoch,
+      teen-age daughter of a Holy-roller preacher. While spending the
+      night, Dixie attempts to make homosexual advances to the younger
+      girl, and Lavinia becomes hysterical. The episode is brief,
+      condemnatory and very realistic.
+
+    KIN, DAVID GEORGE. _Women Without Men._ Brookwood, 1958. The
+      author calls this "True stories of lesbian life in Greenwich
+      Village". It represents a roundup of a dozen or so famous literary
+      and artistic figures, presented as case histories. They are
+      presented, picture after sordid picture, without a glimmer of
+      understanding or real insight, though he sometimes shows smug
+      sympathy for a few he claims to have reformed by something he
+      calls "cultural therapy". He baldly states in the preface: "I take
+      my mental hygiene from Moses, rather than Freud, and have the
+      Mosaic horror of homosexuality". Despite this vicious slanting,
+      the book is explicit, funny in places, and presumably
+      verifiable--but certainly makes homosexuality look like a Fate
+      Worse Than Death. The writing is straight from the tabloid
+      newspapers.
+
+    KINSEY, CHET. _Kate._ pbo, Beacon 1959. scv.
+
+    KOESTLER, ARTHUR. _Arrival and Departure._ Macmillan 1943. A man
+      makes the most important decision of his life on the rebound of
+      disillusion after discovering that a woman who risked her life to
+      save him is a lesbian.
+
+  + KRAMER, N. MARTIN (pseud. of Beatrice Ann Wright). _Hearth and
+      The Strangeness._ Macmillan 1956, pbr Pyramid 1957. An excellent
+      novel of the fear of inherited insanity in a family. The youngest
+      child, Aliciane, becomes a lesbian; this is one of the few
+      realistic and unromanticized portraits of the factors in the
+      development of homosexuality from childhood.
+
+      _Sons of the Fathers._ Macmillan 1959, (m).
+
+    LACRETELLE, JACQUES DE. _Marie Bonifas._ (trans. from the French
+      of La Bonifas) London & N. Y., G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. Classic
+      novel of feminine variance. Exclusively lesbian characters are
+      rare in French literature (although bisexual women are relatively
+      common), and this was one of the best known; it follows the
+      heroine from childhood to old age.
+
+    LACY, ED. _Room to Swing._ Harper Bros. 1957, pbr Pyramid 1958. A
+      colored detective is retained by a pair of lesbians to solve a
+      murder; is instead accused of committing it. Good.
+
+  + LANDON, MARGARET. _Never Dies the Dream._ Doubleday, 1949. An
+      unmarried woman missionary in Siam incurs criticism and suspicion
+      when she shows marked favor to an unfortunate American girl at the
+      mercy of the Orient; later, when she risks her own life by
+      isolating herself to nurse Angela through typhoid, she loses her
+      own position. Neither the author nor the heroine of the novel
+      admit the faintest tinge of lesbianism to the relationship, which
+      is full of warmth and selfless sacrifice, and India angrily denies
+      the accusation when it is made; but the high emotional intensity
+      of the whole story bring it well within the boundaries of the
+      field and place it high on the list.
+
+    LA FARGE, CHRISTOPHER. _The Sudden Guest._ Coward-McCann, 1946.
+      The human driftwood blown up by a hurricane includes a pair of
+      lesbians, stirring latent memories in the novel's heroine--an
+      embittered, abandoned spinster.
+
+  + LAPSLEY, MARY. _Parable of the Virgins._ R. R. Smith, 1931.
+      High-keyed novel of many emotional fevers, hetero and homosexual,
+      in a woman's college.
+
+    LAWRENCE, D. H. "The Fox", ss in Dial Magazine 1922, also in hcr
+      but NOT in pbr edition of _The Captain's Doll_, Thomas Seltzer,
+      1923.
+
+      _The Rainbow._ Modern Library 1915, 1943, pbr Avon 1959, 1960. In
+      a long, three-generation novel of the Brangwyn family, one variant
+      episode between young Ursula and a teacher.
+
+    LAURENT-TAILHADE, MARIE LOUISE. _Courtesans, Princesses,
+      Lesbians._ (Trans. from French by G. M. C.) Paris, Libraire Astra.
+      Casanova-ish memoir; French pamphleteering of Pre-revolutionary
+      days. Bitter, explicit and mildly disgusting; mentioned mostly to
+      state emphatically that the French Libraire Astra, and the Astra's
+      Tower Checklist, have NO connection.
+
+    LE CLERQ, JACQUES. _Show Cases._ Macy-Masius, 1928. Offbeat short
+      stories, dealing with male and female homosexuality.
+
+    LEAR-HEAP, WINIFRED. _The Shady Cloister._ Macmillan, 1950. Quiet,
+      understated and sympathetic story of feminine relationships in a
+      school setting--but without the melodramatic atmosphere of tragedy
+      which usually surrounds such stories.
+
+  + LEE, MARJORIE. _The Lion House._ Rinehart, 1959. Well-written
+      attempt to capture and document the confused and shifting morals
+      of modern suburban living. Brad, husband of Jo, starts the story
+      by flirting with Frannie; this backfires when Frannie and Jo
+      become friends. As the relationship grows more intense, it proves
+      so disturbing that even after Frannie has admitted its nature Jo
+      cannot accept it; Frannie attempts to solve her problems via
+      psychoanalysis, while Jo continues floundering in her unresolved
+      conflicts. This year's best new novel.
+
+    LEE, GYPSY ROSE. _Gypsy, a Memoir._ Harper Bros. 1959, pbr Dell
+      1959. In a fascinating, probably largely fictional autobiography,
+      the ex-burlesque queen/novelist shows one thoroughly comical
+      lesbian character. This is really minor, but marvelously funny,
+      and anyone who plows through all the crud we mention will get a
+      real break from this.
+
+    LE FANU, SHERIDAN. "Carmilla" in _Green Tea and Other Ghost
+      Stories._ Also in Vol III of "The Forgotten Classics of Mystery",
+      entitled _Sheridan Le Fanu, the Diabolical Genius_. Also in
+      _Strange and Fantastic Stories_, ed. by Joseph Margolies, McGraw
+      Hill, 1946. Fantastic lesbian vampire.
+
+    LEIBER, FRITZ. "The Ship Sails at Midnight", in _The Outer
+      Reaches_, ed. August Derleth, Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisc. 1951.
+      Science-fiction or fantasy of a strange, unusual woman who
+      captivates a whole group of college students; tragedy is touched
+      off by their jealous rage when it is discovered that she has been
+      making love to all of them--not simultaneously of course.
+      Extremely well done, hint of allegory.
+
+    LEGRAND, NADIA. _The Rainbow Has Seven Colors._ N. Y. St Martins,
+      1958. After the death of the heroine her life is reviewed by seven
+      people who loved her (as with _Of Lena Geyer_) including a lesbian
+      who loved her and a young girl who wanted to.
+
+  + LEHMANN, ROSAMOND. _Dusty Answer._ N. Y., Holt, 1927. Still in
+      print. Well-known novel in which the heroine's whole life is
+      conditioned by her love for a college classmate. Delicate,
+      beautifully written.
+
+    LENGEL, FRANCES. _Helen and Desire._ Olympia Press, Paris, 1954.
+      scv, and you can't buy it in this country legally. If you locate a
+      copy you'll know why we say you aren't missing a thing. Seamy
+      novel of a nymphomanic ----ing her way around the world. (It's not
+      worth going to Paris to read.)
+
+    LESLIE, DAVID STUART. _The Man on the Beach._ London, Hutchinson
+      1957, (m).
+
+    LEVAILLANT, MAURICE. _The Passionate Exiles._ (trans. Malcolm
+      Barnes.) Farrar, Straus & Cudahy 1958. Historical "dual biography"
+      of Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier.
+
+  + LEVIN, MEYER. _Compulsion._ Simon & Schuster 1956. pbr Pocket
+      Books 1958, (m).
+
+    LEWIS, SINCLAIR. _Ann Vickers._ Doubleday, 1933. One important
+      lesbian episode in a novel of woman suffrage, viciously
+      condemnatory.
+
+    LEVERIDGE, RALPH. _Walk on the Water._ Farrar, 1951, pbr tct _The
+      Last Combat_, Signet 1952, Pyramid 1959, (m).
+
+    LEWIS, WYNDHAM. _The Apes of God._ N. Y., R. M. McBride & Co, 1932,
+      London, Arthur Press 1950, London, Arco, 1955. Satire, including
+      sharp studies of homosexuality, male and female.
+
+    LIN, HAZEL. _The Moon Vow._ Pageant Press, 1958. A Chinese woman
+      psychiatrist, attempting to solve a patient's problems, is led
+      into seamy byways of Peking, including a somewhat gruesome lesbian
+      cult.
+
+    LINDOPS, AUDREY ERSKINE. _The Outer Ring._ Appleton 1955, pbr
+      Popular Library tct _The Tormented_. (m)
+
+    LINGSTROM, FREDA. _Axel._ Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1939.
+      Wealthy man adopts two boys and a girl. One boy, Valentine, has
+      homosexual affair with an older boy, Teddy, who later commits
+      suicide; the girl, Auriol, studying music in Germany, lives with 2
+      older women, one of whom is very innocently but very ardently in
+      love with her. Well-written.
+
+    LIPSKY, ELEAZAR. _The Scientists._ Appleton-Century-Crofts 1959,
+      pbr Pocket Books, 1960. Minor character in a long novel is a
+      vaguely treated, but explicit lesbian.
+
+    LIPTON, LAWRENCE. _The Holy Barbarians._ Messner, 1959. Love among
+      the beat generation, including all kinds of homosexuality.
+
+    LITTLE, JAY. _Somewhere between the Two._ Pageant, 1956, (m).
+
+      _Maybe Tomorrow._ Pageant, 1952, (m). Amusing.
+
+    LIVINGSTON, MARJORIE. _Delphic Echo._ London, Andrew Dakers, 1948,
+      (m). Minor, in a novel of ancient Greece.
+
+    LODGE, LOIS. _Love Like a Shadow._ Phoenix Press, 1935.
+      Purple-passaged novel of a lesbian seeking true love.
+
+  + LOFTS, NORAH. _Jassy._ Knopf 1945, pbr Signet 1948, others.
+      Roughly a third of this novel, about a young English girl who,
+      herself innocent, brings tragedy on everyone, is lesbian in
+      emphasis. In a girl's school she comes between Mrs. Twysdale, a
+      rather slimy, neurotic woman who has adored her boyish cousin,
+      Katherine, for years. Katherine, chafing at this adoration, turns
+      to Jassy for undemanding friendship and Mrs. Twysdale connives to
+      have her expelled--which spurs Katherine to precipitate a
+      long-desired break with her.
+
+      _The Lute Player._ Doubleday, 1951; pbr Bantam 1951, (m). Fine
+      historical of Richard III, based on the thesis that he was
+      homosexual.
+
+  + LONG, MARGARET. _Louisville Saturday._ Random 1950, pbr Bantam
+      1951, 53, 56, 57, 59. A study of women in wartime includes a brief
+      study of a woman's acceptance of a variant friendship (the
+      sections titled GLADYS).
+
+    LORD, SHELDON. _A Strange Kind of Love._ N. Y., Midwood-Tower Pubs
+      pbo 1959. Evening waster about a writer who discovers that two of
+      his (dozens of) girl friends are involved with one another.
+
+      _69 Barrow Street._ Midwood-Tower pbo 1959, scv. Love, if you can
+      call it that, in Greenwich Village.
+
+  + LOUYS, PIERRE. _Aphrodite._ (Many editions, of which the
+      standard English translation seems to be The Collected Works of
+      Pierre Louys, Liveright, 1926, still in print. Also various Avon
+      paperbacks.) The beautifully written story of an Alexandrian
+      courtesan also includes the story of two young Greek girls, Rhodis
+      and Myrtocleia, no more than children, who wish to marry one
+      another.
+
+      _The Adventures of King Pausole._ As above. Fine, funny, highly
+      risque story of the king of a strange country, who has a thousand
+      wives, like Solomon, and believes in freedom for everybody except
+      his daughter, Aline--who eventually runs away with a "boy" who is
+      really a girl.
+
+      _The Songs of Bilitis._ As above. Prose or poetry, depending on
+      translation, and perhaps the classic story of lesbianism in an
+      ancient setting.
+
+    LUCAS, RICK. _Dreamboat._ pbo, Berkley, 1956, 1957. scv.
+
+    LYNDON, BAREE, and Jimmie Sangster. _The Man who Could Cheat
+      Death_, based on the screenplay, for the recent movie, which in
+      turn was based on a play, The Man in Half Moon Street. Without
+      the fantastic photography which made the movie superb, this is a
+      remarkably silly pseudo-science thing about a man who finds away
+      to survive indefinitely by glandular transplants. To camouflage
+      his deathlessness he pulls up his roots and moves every ten years
+      and during one such interlude he falls for beautiful Avril Barnes,
+      who turns out to be a lesbian. He converts her, and she becomes
+      such a pest that he murders her. Shocker, silly.
+
+    MacCOWN, EUGENE. _The Siege of Innocence._ Doubleday, 1950, (m).
+      And minor lesbian element.
+
+    MacKENZIE, COMPTON. _Extraordinary Women._ Martin Secker, London;
+      Macy-Masius N. Y. 1928, hcr New Adelphi 1932. The Winston Book
+      Service offered this for sale quite recently. Amusing, satirical
+      and well-known novel of lesbians.
+
+      _The Vestal Fire._ N. Y. Doran, 1927, (m). However, in this novel
+      of Americans living abroad, there are also important lesbian
+      characters.
+
+    MacRAE, KEVIN. _Nikki._ Vantage. 1955. Not to be confused with the
+      rubbishy book by the same title by Stuart Friedman, this is a
+      story of Nikki, who loses her beloved in an air raid in London and
+      nearly cracks up before finding a home in a lesbian "colony" in
+      Southern California; silly, but a lot of fun.
+
+  + MacINNES, COLIN. _Absolute Beginners._ London, MacGibbon & Rae,
+      1959. A novel about London teen-agers, told in Soho idiom--a sort
+      of bastard hip-talk. The characters in this novel include several
+      male homosexuals, and one lesbian, Big Jill. Enough space is
+      devoted to social problems, by an author who is quite obviously
+      one of the "angry young men", to give this novel real status.
+
+    McMINNIES, MARY. _The Visitors._ Harcourt, Brace 1958. A
+      diplomat's wife abroad, fancying herself as Madame Bovary,
+      attempts to use everyone around her for her own purposes. She has
+      an affair with an American correspondent and also captivates
+      Sophie, a countess, and an extremely well-portrayed character. One
+      of the most sympathetic portraits of a lesbian in recent fiction,
+      as well as a ruthless portrayal of women who enjoy flirting in
+      both fields.
+
+  + MAHYERE, EVELINE. _I Will not Serve._ Dutton 1959, 1960. This
+      book, boycotted by many major reviewers, was written by a young
+      Frenchwoman who committed suicide before its publication.
+      Precocious, nonconformist Sylvie has been expelled from a convent
+      for writing, in a letter, that she loves one of the nuns. The
+      story deals with the unfolding pattern of Sylvie's meetings with
+      Julienne, an older novice in the convent. The conflict is clear;
+      Sylvie's creed is "I will not serve"--a statement of her refusal
+      to become a good wife and mother--and she wants nothing of life
+      but Julienne. Julienne, has given herself to God. Refusing to
+      accept this, Sylvie commits suicide. The book is profound and
+      sincere, and on the basis of this one work the author's premature
+      death was a loss to the field of literature.
+
+    MAINE, CHARLES ERIC. _World Without Men._ pbo, Ave Books 1958.
+      Science fiction of a world thousands of years in the future, where
+      the men have all died out, reproduction is scientific and the
+      women, having no one else to love, love one another. In defiance
+      of all conceivable theories of heredity and environment, a few
+      women still think this state of affairs is "unnatural" and band
+      together to create a male birth, assuming everyone will turn
+      normal overnight. Silly.
+
+    MALLET, FRANCOISE. _The Illusionist._ (Trans. by Herma Briffault).
+      Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1952 tct _The Loving and the Daring_,
+      Popular 1953. (pbr). Now well-known novel, by a young French
+      writer, of a girl captivated by her father's mistress.
+
+      _The Red Room._ (trans. by Herma Briffault). Farrar, Strauss &
+      Cudahy 1956, pbr Popular 1958. Sequel to the above.
+
+    MALLOY, FRED. _The End of the Road._ Woodford Press 1952, pbr
+      Berkley tct _Wicked Woman_, 1959. Good evening waster about a girl
+      who is picked up by Charlotte, a truck-driver "dike" type;
+      Charlotte gives Alice a home, but eventually Alice runs off with a
+      man who is worse than she is. Surprisingly, for this type of
+      thing, the author implies that there _is_ a fate worse than
+      lesbianism.
+
+    MANNING, BRUCE. _Triangle of Sin._ Intimate Novel (Universal Pub.)
+      1952, pbr Beacon Books 1959; same title, but author listed as
+      Manning Stokes. Evening waster.
+
+    MANNIX, DANIEL P. _The Beast._ pbo Ballantine Books 1959, (m).
+
+    MARECHAL, LUCIE. _The Mesh_ (trans. by Virgilia Peterson.)
+      Appleton 1949, pbr Bantam, 1951, 1953, 1959. Excellent novel of a
+      Belgian family; the weakling son marries, brings his bride into
+      home dominated by his mother, shadowed by his lonely sister.
+      Eventually sister takes the young woman away from her brother.
+
+    MARLOWE, STEPHEN. _Homicide is My Game._ Gold Medal 1959 pbo.
+      Hardboiled murder mystery involving a teen-age sex club--a
+      businessman is involved of running it, but the real culprit is his
+      daughter, Liz. She is also a lesbian. Evening waster.
+
+    MARK, EDWINA. (pseud of Edwin Fadiman jr). _My Sister, my
+      Beloved._ Citadel 1955, pbr Berkley 1956. Two young sisters,
+      daughters of a drunken lush of a mother, fall into a too-close
+      relationship as Eve, the older, protects young Sheila from their
+      mother's beatings and tantrums. Sheila plays around and gets
+      pregnant; mother, at the stage where alcohol will kill her, is
+      given a big drink by Eve, who then arranges for Sheila to have an
+      abortion and the two of them to live happily ever after; instead,
+      Sheila marries the boy and Eve is whipped half to death by one of
+      her mother's gigolos. One of _those_ books--where anything from
+      abortion to rape is preferable to lesbianism.
+
+      + _The Odd Ones._ Berkley pbo, 1959. Jean, small-town girl running
+      away, comes to New York and falls in with Sherri, tied to a crazy
+      husband. Rather good and not condemnatory at all; rather
+      restrained for a pbo, although of course it has the obligatory
+      sexy stuff.
+
+    MARR, REED. _Women without Men._ Gold Medal pbo, 1956. Naive, if
+      not too intelligent girl sent to a woman's reformatory, encounters
+      the usual hardening experiences--corrupt matrons,
+      police-court-type lesbians, trusties and well-meaning officials
+      who have their lives to live and can't or won't do anything to
+      better conditions. Good of its kind.
+
+    MARSHE, RICHARD. _A Woman Called Desire._ (Orig. pub. 1950 under
+      title of _Wicked Woman_) Berkley pbr 1959, scv.
+
+    MARSTON, JOHN. _Venus With Us; a Tale of the Caesars._ N. Y.
+      Sears, 1932. pbr Universal Pub. 1953 tct _The Private Life of
+      Julius Caesar_. Fast, funny, risque historical novel--or
+      romance--with approximately six historical errors per chapter, but
+      a lot of fun nevertheless. The scenes laid in the College of
+      Vestals are exclusively lesbian; there are both serious, emotional
+      affairs between women, and funny light-hearted ones in the manner
+      of King Pausole. Good of kind.
+
+  + MARTIN, KENNETH. _Aubade._ London, Chapman & Hall 1957, (m).
+
+    MASEFIELD, JOHN. _Multitude and Solitude._ Macmillan 1909, 1916.
+
+    MASSIE, CHRIS. _The Incredible Truth._ Random, N. Y., 1958, pbr
+      Berkley 1959. Victorian husband narrates, many years afterward,
+      his wife's successive attachment to two woman friends.
+
+    MAUGHAM, SOMERSET. _Theatre._ Doubleday 1937, Bantam pbr tct
+      _Woman of the World_, 1951, pbr Bantam tct _Theatre_ 1959.
+      Theatrical novel of a worldly actress, Julia, contains brief
+      mention of a fat, elderly lesbian admirer who finances her works;
+      one amusing scene where Julia's husband advises her on how to
+      manipulate Dolly's feelings. Smart, brittle.
+
+    MAUPASSANT, GUY DE. _Paul's Mistress._ ss in various collections
+      including Cory, _21 Variations on a Theme_.
+
+    MAYHALL, JANE. _Cousin to Human._ Harcourt, Brace 1960. Valeda,
+      friend of the heroine, has a sad, depressing affair with an
+      adolescent schoolgirl athlete friend, named Mildred.
+
+    MEAGHER, MAUDE. _The Green Scamander._ Houghton Mifflin, 1933. A
+      novel of the Trojan war, largely concerned with the passionate
+      friendship between Penthesilea, co-queen with the Amazon tribe,
+      and her co-ruler Camilla. Beautifully written, available in most
+      medium-sized libraries.
+
+    MEEKER, RICHARD. _The Better Angel._ Greenberg 1933, pbr Universal
+      Pub. tct _Torment_ ca. 1952, (m).
+
+  + MEREZOWSKII, DMITRI. (Trans. from Russian by Natalia A.
+      Duddington) London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1925, 1926. _Birth of the
+      Gods._ A fine novel of Crete and the bull-dancers (and perhaps the
+      first of its kind). Dio, a strangely bisexual young girl,
+      priestess of the Great Mother, though attracted and attractive to
+      men, is vowed to remain a virgin in the service of the Goddess;
+      much of the novel is devoted to her passionate friendship for her
+      young novice, Eoia. One of Dio's rejected lovers, believing that
+      the "little witch" has cast a spell on Dio to prevent her loving
+      him, plots to have Eoia killed in the ring; instead Eoia's death
+      nearly destroys Dio as well.
+
+      _Akhnaton, King of Egypt._ (as above) London, Dent, 1927.
+      Continues and concludes the story of Dio.
+
+    MERGENDAHL, CHARLES. _The Girl Cage._ pbo Gold Medal 1953, 1959.
+      Brief, minor lesbian episode in a novel about war widows.
+
+    MERRITT, A(braham); _The Metal Monster._ Copyright Munsey
+      Magazines, (this ran serially in Argosy ca. 1920) Revised version,
+      Frank A. Munsey 1941, pbr Avon, 1946. Offbeat variant episode in
+      an adventure-fantasy; Norhala, pagan slave of the "metal people"
+      steals the explorer's sister, Ruth, to "play with her"; after her
+      death Ruth weeps, saying "she loved me dearly, dearly," but
+      significantly can remember nothing of their time together. Wildly
+      fantastic, good of type.
+
+    METALIOUS, GRACE. _Return to Peyton Place._ Messner 1959, pbr Dell
+      1959. Another sexy "expose" of a small town. In one episode, the
+      unpleasant wife of a local boy recalls her schooldays, when she
+      taunted and enslaved a lesbian schoolmate.
+
+    MEYER, GLADYS ELEANOR, _The Magic Circle._ Knopf, 1944. fco Subtle
+      novel of close friendship between two women; never explicit, and
+      on the borderline for variant interest.
+
+  + MILLAY, KATHLEEN. _Against the Wall._ Macaulay, 1929. College
+      novel by the sister of the well-known poet (see poetry
+      supplement).
+
+    MILLER, WALTER M. "The Lineman" ss in Fantasy and Science Fiction,
+      August 1957, (m). Excellent attitudes on homosexuality in general,
+      in short story of isolated men.
+
+    MILLER, HENRY. _Plexus._ Paris, Olympia Press 1953, 2 vols.
+      Chapter 16 of the 2nd Volume is supposed to be devoted to a
+      variant affair. Most of Henry Miller's books cannot be legally
+      imported into the USA--this is one--and your editors haven't been
+      to Paris yet. When you go, tell us.
+
+    MISHIMA, YUKIO. _Confessions of a Mask._ New Directions 1958, (m).
+
+  + MITCHELL, S. WEIR. _Constance Trescott._ N. Y., Century 1900. The
+      plus is to draw attention to an old, overlooked title. Major (for
+      its date) treatment of variant enslavement between two half
+      sisters.
+
+  + MITCHISON, NAOMI. _The Delicate Fire._ Harcourt, N. Y. 1932. A
+      major writer, and scholar, presents a collection of lovely short
+      stories of ancient Greece; the title story deals with Sappho and
+      her group of girl lovers.
+
+      _The Corn King and the Spring Queen._ Harcourt, 1931, (m).
+
+      "Black Sparta" and "Krypteia" in _Greek Stories_, Harcourt, 1928,
+      (m).
+
+    MORAVIA, ALBERTO. _The Conformist._ Farrar, Straus & Young 1951,
+      pbr Signet 1954. Penetrating study of a fascist whose compulsive
+      drive for power destroys everyone he loves. An interlude between
+      his wife and a friend provides a brief diversion before the
+      macabre ending.
+
+    MOORE, HAL. _The Naked and the Fair._ pbo, Beacon, 1958, scv.
+
+    MOORE, PAMELA. _Chocolates for Breakfast._ Rinehart 1956, pbr
+      Bantam 1957. Candid, shocking story of a young girl's
+      disintegration; the opening episodes involve her rejection by a
+      teacher on whom she has a crush, and there are variant overtones
+      in her prolonged friendship with a school roommate, Janet's
+      suicide being the spur which makes Courtney resolve to pull
+      herself together.
+
+    MORELL, LEE. _Mimi._ pbo Beacon Books 1959. Unusually good evening
+      waster about night-club and theatrical people, with both male and
+      female homosexual episodes; handled with subtlety and lightness
+      almost unknown in this publisher's paperbacks.
+
+  + MORGAN, CLAIRE. (pseud of Patricia Highsmith) _The Price of
+      Salt._ Coward-McCann, 1952, pbr Bantam 1953, 1959. Fine novel of
+      an affair between two very nice, very courageous, very
+      well-adjusted women whose initial attraction becomes the
+      mainspring of both their lives. The author does not use one single
+      stereotype or cliche; this is probably _the_ American novel of the
+      lesbian.
+
+    MORGAN, NANCY. _City of Women_, pbo Gold Medal 1952, 1959. Lesbian
+      episodes in a novel of women living in barracks at Pearl Harbor.
+
+    MORLEY, IRIS. _The Proud Paladin._ N. Y. Morrow 1936. Lesbian
+      content vague and doubtful, BAYOR and fco.
+
+    MORRO, DON. _The Virgin._ pbo Beacon 1955, released in 1959. scv.
+
+    MOSS, GEOFFREY. _That Other Love._ Doubleday, 1930. A
+      long-continued affair between Phillida and an older friend breaks
+      off because of the younger woman's desire for children.
+
+    MOTLEY, WILLARD. _Knock on Any Door._ N. Y., Appleton-Century,
+      1947, pbr Signet 1953, (m).
+
+  + MURDOCH, IRIS. _The Bell._ N. Y. Viking 1958, (m). A fine,
+      occasionally funny novel of an Anglican lay church-community
+      centers around Michael Meade, a man of honor, intelligence, and
+      integrity--and a homosexual. His hopes of being ordained as a
+      priest were destroyed when, as a schoolteacher, he became
+      entangled with young Nick; Nick's appearance at the community
+      destroys Michael's peace of mind thoroughly, and an obliquely
+      handled relationship between Nick, Michael and a guileless
+      youngster, Toby, spending the summer at the community, eventually
+      destroys the community entirely. But it isn't all gloom and doom;
+      the level of the writing is highly competent, sometimes wildly
+      hilarious, and through all his difficulties Michael is able to
+      realize that eventually he will "experience again ... that
+      infinitely extended requirement which one human being makes on
+      another." A book which emphasizes the triumph of love, and one of
+      the recent best. ((Editor's note; why are the best novels of male
+      homosexuality written by women? Mesdames Renault and Murdoch are
+      giving their best to the men. Is it a question of detachment?))
+
+    MURPHY, DENNIS. _The Sergeant._ Viking 1958, pbr Crest 1959, (m).
+
+    MURRAY, WILLIAM. _The Fugitive Romans._ pbo, Popular Library 1955.
+      Brief variant episode among a Hollywood location crew abroad.
+
+    NEILSEN, HELEN. _The Fifth Caller._ Morrow, 1959. Dr. Lillian
+      Whitehall, metaphysician, is murdered; as each of her five callers
+      is interviewed to find the guilty party, it develops that the dead
+      woman was a cruel, domineering repressed lesbian. Well written,
+      though unsympathetic.
+
+    NEFF, WANDA FRAIKEN. _We Sing Diana._ Boston, Houghton 1928. Story
+      of a girl too inhibited to face her own nature.
+
+    NILES, BLAIR. _Strange Brother._ N. Y. Liveright 1931, pbr Harris
+      Publications 1949, pbr Avon 1952, 1958, 1959.
+
+    NIN, ANAIS. _Winter of Artifice._ Paris, Obelisk Press 1939, also
+      in _Under a Glass Bell_, Dutton, 1948. The first edition has 100
+      pages or so, not included in later editions, in which she recounts
+      her liaison with a famous American writer and his wife, all
+      disguised, of course. (All of this writer's work seems to be
+      vaguely tinged with variance.)
+
+      _Ladders to Fire._ Dutton, 1945, 1946.
+
+    NORDAY, MICHAEL. _Stage for Fools._ Vixen Press 1955. pbr tct
+      _Strange Thirsts_, Beacon 1959. Evening waster about a lush
+      actress making a comeback on a college campus, who revenges
+      herself on an indifferent male by entrapping his girl into a
+      drunken lesbian episode and inviting him to watch the show. A
+      shocker.
+
+      _Warped._ Beacon pbo 1955, 1960. Very apt title; evening waster
+      about a crooked fight game. One sympathetically portrayed lesbian
+      character in the many mixed affairs.
+
+    NORMANDIE, ROGER. _The Lion's Den._ N. Y., Key 1957. scv.
+
+  + O'BRIEN, KATE. _As Music and Splendor._ Harper. 1958. Novel of
+      two very different young Irish girls sent to study music on the
+      Continent during the great age of Italian opera; their personal
+      lives differ as widely as their careers. One, Clare Halvey, drifts
+      into a love affair with Luisa Carriaga, a Spanish contralto; their
+      relationship is treated delicately, but with warmth and impersonal
+      sympathy. Excellent for opera lovers and for those who are tired
+      to death of books where every last detail is spelled out as
+      frankly as the law allows.
+
+  + O'DONOVAN, JOAN. _Dangerous Worlds._ Morrow, 1958. Collection of
+      excellent short stories.
+
+    O'HIGGINS, HARVEY. _The Story of Julie Cane._ Harper, 1924.
+      Explicit, for its day, story of an intense relationship between a
+      schoolmistress and her ward.
+
+    OLIVIA (see DOROTHY BUSSY).
+
+    O'NEILL, ROSE. _The Goblin Woman._ N. Y. Doubleday 1930. Fey,
+      symbolic novel of Helga, the Goblin Woman (who represents purity)
+      set down in a society far from pure. There are many lesbian
+      episodes and references to inter-feminine love. (see poetry
+      supplement.)
+
+    O'HARA, NOEL. _The Last Virgin._ Chariot Books pb 1959. This is a
+      reprint of David George Kin's "Women Without Men", containing six
+      of the ten stories; new title, new author, even new copyright
+      date--who's kidding who? It does not contain the damning
+      introduction, and without it, appears fairly sympathetic. Curious
+      little item.
+
+    PACKER, VIN (pseud; see also ANN ALDRICH) _Spring Fire._ pbo Gold
+      Medal 1952. Now well-known and rather gamy novel of sorority house
+      life and an unhappy lesbian affair between naive freshman Mitch
+      and neurotic Lana.
+
+      _Whisper His Sin._ Gold Medal pbo 1954, (m).
+
+      + _The Evil Friendship._ pbo Crest 1958. Viciously condemnatory
+      novel of two little girls of fourteen who, consequent to their
+      lesbianish attachment, plot together and carry out "a murder
+      club". Shuddersome, but, alas, well written. (Editorial query; why
+      must so many of the detractors of lesbianism write such good
+      books, while those who defend it are, all to often, of the Carol
+      Hales "quality"?)
+
+      _The Twisted Ones._ pbo, Gold Medal 1959, (m).
+
+    PARK, JORDAN. (pseud of Cyril Kornbluth). _Valerie._ pbo, Lion,
+      1953, 1957. Minor lesbian episodes in a novel of witch-hunting;
+      the episodes occur at a Witches Sabbat. Evening waster.
+
+    PARKER, DOROTHY. "Glory in the Daytime" in _After Such Pleasures_,
+      N. Y., Viking 1934.
+
+    PATTON, MARION. _Dance on the Tortoise._ N. Y., Dial 1930.
+      Boarding-school novel; the heroine, repelled by the emotional
+      friendships around her, throws herself with relief into the arms
+      of a man.
+
+    PAVESE, CESARE. _Among Women Only._ Noonday Press, qpb 1959
+      ($1.75). Recommended, highly tragic, novel by a writer considered,
+      until his untimely death, one of Italy's best.
+
+  + PETERS, FRITZ. _Finistere._ Farrar, Straus & Co 1951, pbr Signet
+      1953, (m).
+
+  + PETRONIUS, _The Satyricon._ (the earliest known novel, written
+      about the time of Christ; the last flush of the pagan world.)
+      Trans. William Arrowsmith, University of Michigan Press, 1959.
+      This is also available in a highly expurgated Modern Library
+      edition, n. d. Male, of course, and the Arrowsmith translation is
+      hilarious and _very_ readable.
+
+    PEN, JOHN. _Temptation._ (trans. from the Hungarian by John
+      Manheim,) Avon Red and Gold, 1959, (m). Fine picaresque.
+
+    PEYREFITTE, ROGER. _Special Friendships._ NY, Vanguard 1950, (m).
+
+  + PHELPS, ROBERT. _Heroes and Orators._ N. Y., McDowell & Oblensky
+      1958. Fine modern novel of family relationships, containing a
+      lesbian character described as the most real, human and
+      sympathetic in recent years; Margot, in love with her ex-husband's
+      sister Elizabeth. The two women live together, but any intimate
+      relationship between them is disclaimed.
+
+    PHILLIPS, THOMAS HAL. _The Bitterweed Path._ Rinehart 1949, pbr
+      Avon 1954, 1959, (m).
+
+    POWELL, DAWN. _A Cage for Lovers._ Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1957.
+      Mannish, wealthy hypochondriac keeps her nurse-companion in
+      virtual slavery until the younger girl breaks away and marries.
+      Competent novel by a popular author.
+
+    PRIEST, J. C. _Private School._ Beacon pbo 1959 scv.
+
+    PRITCHARD, JANET. _Warped Women._ Beacon pbo 1951, 1956, 1959.
+      Despite the lurid blurb and cover, this is a nice evening waster
+      about an innocent young girl who goes to work for a woman's health
+      club which is, behind the scenes, an abortion mill run by
+      gangsters. Fronting for the group, an attractive lesbian takes a
+      fancy to the heroine, eventually protects her against the gangster
+      boss at the risk of her own life. The heroine then marries a nice
+      boy who's been telling her all along that the place is rotten.
+      Suspenseful, interesting.
+
+    PROUST, MARCEL. _Remembrance of Things Past_, the great work of
+      the well-known French homosexual author, is available in many
+      (virtually all except rural-provincial) libraries, numerous
+      college editions, etc. Long sections are variant, male-homosexual
+      or lesbian; bibliography would occupy entirely too much space. Try
+      a stray volume in qpb and see if Proust is your cup of tea--he
+      isn't everyone's.
+
+    PURTSCHER, NORA. _Woman Astride._ Appleton-Century, 1934. Woman
+      spends almost her entire life in male disguise. Offbeat, variant
+      rather than explicitly lesbian.
+
+    PYKE, RICHARD. _The Lives and Deaths of Roland Greer._ NY, Boni
+      1929, (m). Horrifying.
+
+    RAVEN, SIMON. _The Feathers of Death._ London, A. Blond, 1959,
+      Simon & Schuster 1960, (m).
+
+    RAYTER, JOE (pseud. of Mary McChesney). _Asking for Trouble._
+      Morrow 1955, pbr Pocket Books 1959. Murder mystery. A mannish,
+      hard-boiled lesbian plays an important part.
+
+    REHDER, JESSIE. _Remembrance Way._ G P Putnam's Sons 1956.
+      Retrospective tale in which the heroine recalls a summer in girl's
+      camp, when she was enslaved simultaneously to a domineering
+      director (woman) and her daughter.
+
+    REMARQUE, ERICH MARIA. _Arch of Triumph_ Appleton 1945, pbr Signet
+      1950, 1959.
+
+  + RENAULT, MARY. _Promise of Love._ Morrow, 1939. Novel, in a
+      hospital background, contains variant relationship, lightly
+      treated.
+
+      _The Middle Mist._ Morrow, 1945. Excellent, humorous novel,
+      featuring the boyish Leo (Leonora) who, with her friend Helen,
+      lives on a houseboat quite happily ("It only makes sense for the
+      surplus women to arrange themselves one way or another.") This is,
+      beyond a doubt, the wittiest, most refreshing book on the list;
+      the girls have problems, but they have them, and solve them,
+      without any well-of-loneliness agonizing. The story is resolved in
+      Leo's gradual feminization and marriage.
+
+      _The Last of the Wine._ Pantheon, 1956 (m; Greek.).
+
+      _The King Must Die._ Pantheon 1958, pbr Pocket Books 1959. Minor
+      male and female homosexuality in Cretan setting.
+
+      _The Charioteer._ Longmans, 1953, Pantheon hcr 1959. Male, major,
+      femininely delicate. Virtually all of this writer's work contains
+      some reference, though sometimes remote and slight, to variance.
+
+    RENAULT, PAUL. _Raw Interludes._ Brookwood, 1957, scv. _No_
+      relation to Mary Renault; since Renault, Mary, has a double plus,
+      the editors agree we should invent a double minus.
+
+    RICE, CRAIG. _Having Wonderful Crime._ Simon & Schuster, 1943.
+      Hilarious murder mystery leads into the byways and gay bars of
+      Greenwich village.
+
+    RICHARDSON, HENRY HANDEL. _The End of a Childhood._ London,
+      Reinemann, 1934, hcr N. Y. Norton.
+
+      _The Getting of Wisdom._ N. Y. Duffield, 1910. Both are volumes of
+      loosely connected variant short stories.
+
+    ROLLAND, ROMAINE. _Annette and Sylvie._ Holt, 1925. The first
+      volume of a trilogy, this deals with an intense attachment between
+      two young (adolescent) half sisters who meet for the first time in
+      their teens.
+
+    RONALD, JAMES. _The Angry Woman._ Lippincott 1948, Bantam pbr
+      1950. A businesswoman keeps a young girl reluctantly captivated
+      until the girl commits suicide.
+
+    RONNS, EDWARD. _The State Department Murders._ pbo, Gold Medal
+      1952, (m) fco.
+
+    ROSMANITH, OLGA. _Unholy Flame._ pbo Gold Medal 1952, (m) fco. (But
+      I like this personally very much. A modern Svengali.)
+
+  + ROSS, WALTER. _The Immortal._ Simon & Schuster 1958, Pocket
+      Books Cardinal Edition 1959, (m).
+
+    ROYDE-SMITH, NAOMI. _The Tortoiseshell Cat._ Boni & Liveright
+      1925. An unworldly girl's capture by a predatory lesbian.
+
+      _The Island._ Harper, 1930. Sad, tense book about an ugly, unhappy
+      girl nicknamed "Goosey" and a clinging cousin who will neither
+      love her nor let her go.
+
+    RUARK, ROBERT. _Something of Value._ Doubleday 1955, pbr Pocket
+      Books 1958. Very minor.
+
+    RYAN, MARK. _Twisted Loves._ Bedside Books 1959, pbo, scv.
+
+    SABATIER, ROBERT. _Boulevard._ (Prix de Paris award novel, trans.
+      from French by Lowell Blair). David McKay 1958, pbr Dell 59, (m).
+      marginal.
+
+    SACKVILLE-WEST, VICTORIA. _The Dark Island._ Doubleday, 1934.
+      Shirin is the over-emotional, unconventional wife of Venn, dour
+      owner of the "dark island", Storn. He treats Shirin so badly that
+      she seeks companionship, love and affection from Christina, her
+      husband's secretary; through jealousy (not unmixed with pure
+      sadism) Venn arranges for Christina to be drowned in a boating
+      "accident". Haunting.
+
+  + SALEM, RANDY. _Chris._ Beacon pbo, 1959. The plus indicates good
+      of kind, not intrinsic merit. An interesting story of a lesbian
+      triangle--Chris, Dizz, and young Carol. One reader commented that
+      this story was a sort of lesbian dreamworld--these women seemed to
+      live in a society, and a world, completely unmixed with ordinary
+      life at all. Certainly they are all treated as quite the ordinary
+      thing, and there are almost no hints that there is a heterosexual
+      world outside the gay one, which must be taken into account.
+      Certainly it makes no incursions into the novel. Chris, a
+      conchologist, her life complicated by her frigid girl-friend Dizz,
+      suffers and drinks too much and sleeps around until Carol, one of
+      her random pick-ups, decides to stick to her, and eventually frees
+      Chris from this attachment. Good but unreal.
+
+  + SANDBURG, HELGA. _The Wheel of Earth._ McDowell, Oblensky 1958.
+      Roughly a third of a long novel of Midwestern rural life deals
+      with the lengthy attachment between Frankie Gaddy and an older
+      woman, Genevieve.
+
+    SARTON, MAY. _A Shower of Summer Days._ Rinehart, 1952.
+
+    SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL. _No Exit._ Knopf 1947, qpb Vintage 1955. Play.
+
+    SAVAGE, KIM. _Girl's Dorm._ Vixen Press 1952.
+
+      _Baby Makes Three._ Vixen, 1953. No reports on either of these,
+      but in view of the publisher they are probably evening wasters at
+      best.
+
+    SAYERS, DOROTHY L. _The Dawson Pedigree._ Harcourt 1928, fco.
+
+  + SCHIDDEL, EDMUND. _Girl with the Golden Yo-Yo._ pbo Berkley
+      1955, 1959, (m). Also contains some brief analysis of lesbian jazz
+      circles in Germany after WWI.
+
+      _The Other Side of the Night._ pbo Avon 1954-5, Berkley 1959, (m).
+
+    SCHMITT, GLADYS. _Confessors of the Name._ Dial, 1952, pbr
+      Permabooks ca. 1953-55. A relatively minor lesbian character in a
+      long novel of ancient Rome, with explicit lesbian scenes during a
+      Saturnalia orgy.
+
+      _A Small Fire._ Dial 1958. (m.) minor.
+
+      _Alexandra._ Dial 1947, pbr Pocket Books 1949. Very vague and
+      minor threads of contact in a novel of intense friendship between
+      two women. Emotionally high.
+
+    SCOTT, LES. _Twilight Women._ Arco 1952, pbr Beacon 1956.
+      Evening-waster suspenseful adventure story of a chase-type
+      kidnapping: Rance, the hero, pleasantly entangled with two
+      beautiful Polynesian girls, who eventually take him to a Utopian
+      tropical island where he happily marries both of them. The contact
+      between the girls is incidental and included simply to heighten
+      excitement for male readers, but it's good fun in a Sax Rohmer-ish
+      way.
+
+      _Three Can Love._ Arco, 1952.
+
+      _Touchable._ Arco, 1951. Probably much the same as above.
+
+    SCULLY, ROBERT. _A Scarlet Pansy._ N. Y., Faro, 1933, Hesor 1937,
+      hcr. Reprinted and completely rewritten by Royal, no pub. no date,
+      Baltimore, Oppenheimer, 30s and 40s. In 1950, D W Cory called this
+      "the low point of the homosexual novel". A lot of trash has been
+      written since, which makes this look simply silly. (m). A
+      confusing novel of the "gay" world, including some butchy and
+      peculiar lesbians.
+
+    SEELEY, E. S. _Sorority Sin._ Beacon pbo, 1959. scv.
+
+    SELA, LORA. (pseud of Carol Hales) _I Am a Lesbian._ Saber pbo,
+      1959. Would-be shocker about a poor innocent girl being pushed
+      into love affairs with brutal boys, raped, etc, by cruel relatives
+      and friends, when all that God wants of her, according to the
+      author, is for her to be a Happy Well-Adjusted Noble Lesbian. This
+      isn't even scv, since the writers of sexy trash usually know
+      something about sex or trash or both. Read it and snicker.
+
+    SETON, ANYA. _Katherine._ Houghton, 1954. (m. minor)
+
+    SHAW, WILENE. _The Fear and the Guilt._ pbo, Ace, 1954.
+      Softball-playing Ruby brings sweet-leech Christy to her Tobacco
+      Road home. There, to disarm suspicion, Christy allows herself to
+      be first seduced, then married, by Ruby's father. Sympathetic for
+      a shocker, but oh, my!
+
+    SIDGWICK, ETHEL. _A Lady of Leisure._ Boston, Small, 1914. A
+      passionate, but quite innocent, attachment between women in their
+      twenties.
+
+    SIMENON, GEORGES. _In Case of Emergency._ Doubleday 1958, pbr Dell
+      1959. A common theme--a good man enslaved by a worthless girl--is
+      treated here by a very good European writer. A subplot deals with
+      the attachment between the girl and her maidservant.
+
+    SINCLAIR, JO. (pseud. of Ruth Seid) _Wasteland._ Harper Bros.
+      1946. This is the excellent and heavily lauded Harper prize novel
+      of that year. Told on the psychiatrist's couch, it concerns the
+      failure of Jewish Jake Braunowitz to live up to his manhood ...
+      which forces this job onto the shoulders of his sister Debbie, a
+      lesbian. The psychiatrist discovers that he ran from his
+      responsibilities in the first place due to feeling weaker than the
+      masterful intelligent Debbie; then, after forcing her to take a
+      man's role in the family, he turns around and feels guilt and
+      shame at her adjustment to the situation. Excellently done.
+
+    SPEERS, MARY. _We Are Fires Unquenchable._ Murray and Gee,
+      Hollywood 1946. fco. A badly written, almost illiterate novel, the
+      first few scenes of which are laid in a girl's college swarming
+      with luridly treated lesbians and in an assortment of Bohemian
+      settings.
+
+  + SMITH, ARTEMIS. _Odd Girl._ Beacon pbo, 1959. The blurb reads
+      "Life and love among warped women", but don't let it scare you.
+      This is one of the better and more serious approaches to the
+      writing of a serious novel of lesbians through the stereotyped
+      pattern of the paperback novel. The basic plot concerns Anne, and
+      her experiences in trying to find out for herself, the hard way,
+      whether she is a lesbian or whether she can successfully adjust to
+      life as a normal woman. The story ends with the surprising, but
+      growingly popular affirmation that "adjustment" is not always to
+      be desired at all costs. The cover also calls this a story of
+      "society's greatest curse", meaning homosexuality; but for once it
+      isn't treated that way.
+
+      _The Third Sex._ pbo, Beacon, 1959. Most of the remarks made above
+      also apply to this one, though the heroine is Joan, a college girl
+      who fears that she is becoming a lesbian, and fights it by
+      redoubling her affairs with men. Slightly more sensational than
+      "Odd Girl", but well written, well thought out and generally
+      excellent.
+
+    SMITH, DOROTHY EVELYN. _The Lovely Day._ N. Y., Dutton, 1957.
+      Interesting novel of an English village on a choir outing,
+      contains a minor but funny account of an unconscious lesbian's
+      decisions.
+
+    SMITH, SHELLEY. (pseud. of Nancy Bodington.) _The Lord Have
+      Mercy_, Harper 1956, pbr tct _The Shrew is Dead_, Dell 1959.
+      English mystery story; a major subplot involves a pair of
+      lesbians.
+
+    SNEDEKER, CAROLINE DALE. _The Perilous Seat._ Doubleday, Doran
+      1929, marginal (m) in a juvenile of ancient Greece; the hero,
+      being sold into slavery, attempts to disfigure himself to escape
+      "the fate of handsome boys among the Persians."
+
+    STAFFORD, JEAN. _Boston Adventure._ Harcourt, 1944.
+
+    STEIN, GERTRUDE. _Things as They Are._ Banyan Press, Pawlet,
+      Vermont. (Very rare; $25 and up second hand.) A novel by the
+      well-known surrealist poet ... possibly her only coherent work ...
+      dealing with lesbianism.
+
+    STONE, SCOTT. _The Divorcees._ Beacon pbo 1955, released 1959
+      Evening waster about a racketeer who specializes in quick
+      divorces, and his girl-friend who flirts with all the women as he
+      disengages them from their husbands.
+
+      _Margo._ Beacon pbo 1955, released 1959. scv.
+
+      _Blaze._ Berkley pbo or pbr, n. d. no data except "trash".
+
+    SOUBIRAN, ANDRE. _Bedlam._ Putnam 1957, pbr Pyramid 1959, (m)
+      minor.
+
+    STONEBRAKER, FLORENCE. _Sinful Desires._ pbr Bedside Books, 1959.
+      (previous paperback, publisher unknown, ca. 1951). Silly novel
+      about a married woman briefly captivated by a stereotyped lesbian.
+
+  + STURGEON, THEODORE. (pseud. of Edward Hamilton Waldo). "Affair
+      with a Green Monkey". Venture Science Fiction May 1957; also in _A
+      Touch of Strange_, Doubleday 1959.
+
+      "The Sex Opposite". in _E. Pluribus Unicorn_, Abelard 1952,
+      Ballantine pbr 1953.
+
+      "The World Well Lost" in _E Pluribus Unicorn._ Many of Sturgeon's
+      other short stories and novelettes touch on extremely strange,
+      offbeat relationships.
+
+  + SWADOS, FELICE. _House of Fury._ Doubleday 1941, pbr Lion 1955,
+      Berkley 1959. One of the better paperbacks, dealing with racial
+      tensions and muted lesbian attachments in a girl's reformatory.
+
+    SWINBURNE, ALGERNON. _Lesbia Brandon._ Falcon Press 1952, edited
+      and annotated by Randolph Hughes. A famous incomplete novel by the
+      well-known poet, for students rather than readers. Really only a
+      handful of scattered chapters, too scrappy to judge; see also
+      poetry supplement.
+
+    SYDNEY, GALE. _Strange Circle._ Beacon Books pbo 1959, 1960. Grace
+      Garney, feeling unwanted, gets a job with Mrs. Flocke, a repulsive
+      lesbian, and repels a pass; this, however, revives childhood
+      memories, and during a rift in her affairs with a man, she has a
+      brief affair with Inez, a friend with an unsatisfactory husband.
+      Evening waster.
+
+    SYKES, GERALD. _The Center of the Stage._ N. Y., Farrar 1952, pbr
+      Signet 1954. Witty novel of the theatre, with a minor lesbian
+      character.
+
+    TAYLOR, DYSON. _Bitter Love._ orig. copyright 1952, Pyramid 1958,
+      (m). Worldly woman marries a homosexual who wants her for a
+      "front".
+
+    TAYLOR, JOHN. _Shadows of Shame._ Pyramid 1956, 1959, (m).
+
+    TAYLOR, VALERIE. _Whisper Their Love._ Crest pbo 1957.
+      Unsympathetic college novel of a girl suffering through a lesbian
+      affair while all around her the other girls suffer through rape,
+      incest and abortion. Over-written.
+
+      _Girls in 3-B._ Crest pbo 1959. One of three young girls who come
+      to the city to find jobs or careers, Barby drifts into a lesbian
+      relationship, mostly out of revulsion against two unfortunate
+      experiences with men. Excellent, sympathetic.
+
+      + _Stranger on Lesbos._ Crest pbo 1959. A married woman with a
+      grown son and indifferent husband, returning to college for work
+      on a college degree, is ripe for an affair with "Bake", a
+      confirmed lesbian. The affair is told with sufficient skill and
+      restraint to make it believable; even Frankie's eventual return to
+      her old life is not a cliche "happy ending" but well prepared and
+      well characterized. Remarkably good; the degree of progress from
+      the first to the third of these novels makes your editors anxious
+      to see where Miss Taylor goes from here.
+
+    TELLIER, ANDRE. _Twilight Men._ Greenberg 1931, pbr Lion 1950, 52,
+      56, Pyramid 1959, (m). Well known.
+
+  + TEY, JOSEPHINE. (pseud. of Elizabeth MacKintosh.) _Miss Pym
+      Disposes._ Macmillan 1948; also in _Three by Tey_, Macmillan 1954.
+      Slowly built-up, excellently constructed mystery of a girl's
+      school, where a close attachment between two seniors provides
+      solution and motivation for a murder. The level of mystification
+      is so high that even on the last page the reader is gasping with
+      the final, shocking surprise.
+
+      _To Love and be Wise._ Macmillan 1951. Another well done mystery,
+      with a variant attachment also providing motive and solution and a
+      high level of suspense and surprise.
+
+    TESCH, GERALD. _Never The Same Again._ G P Putnam's Sons 1956, pbr
+      Pyramid 1958, (m). Not for the squeamish, but a well-done novel of
+      an affair between a teen age boy and an older man.
+
+  + TIMPERLEY, ROSEMARY. _Child in the Dark._ Crowell 1956. Two of
+      the three stories in this book involve intense attachments,
+      variant but not explicitly lesbian, between an English
+      schoolmistress and a young girl.
+
+    THAYER, TIFFANY. _Thirteen Women._ Claude Kendall, 1932. Mildly
+      nasty shock-story of a murder, involving thirteen women, one mixed
+      up with a lesbian; she eventually commits suicide.
+
+      _Thirteen Men._ Claude Kendall 1930, (m). Much the same stuff as
+      above only masculine in emphasis. Thayer is a good writer, but not
+      everyone's choice.
+
+    THOMPSON, JOHN B. _Girls of the French Quarter._ Beacon pbo 1954.
+
+      _Frenzy of Desire._ Encore Press 1957. Evening wasters.
+
+    THOMPSON, MORTON. _Not as a Stranger._ Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1954
+      pbr Pocket Books 1955. fco, very minor episodes.
+
+  + THORNE, ANTHONY. _Delay in the Sun._ Literary Guild, 1934. A
+      "heartening idyll" of two friends who, during a long stopover in
+      Spain, resolve their relationship.
+
+  + TORRES, TERESKA. _Woman's Barracks._ Gold Medal pbo 1950, 51,
+      52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and probably every year from now
+      on, for a while anyhow. Gold Medal's most popular title so far is
+      the story of a group of women with the Free French women's army,
+      at loose ends and disassociated from family, friends and personal
+      attachments. Among the many threads of the plot is the story of
+      naive young Ursula, who, through her relationship with warm,
+      tough, friendly Claude is helped to maturity and eventually to
+      readjustment to normal life.
+
+      _Dangerous Games._ Dial 1957, pbr Crest 1958. A married woman,
+      discovering her husband is having an affair with her closest
+      friend, briefly becomes infatuated with her too.
+
+      _Not Yet._ Crown 1957, pbr Crest 1958. The story of four young
+      girls in a French school; not children but "not yet" women, and
+      their adjustment to life and love. The narrator, the least mature,
+      is as yet infatuated only with Mother Nathalie, her teacher; no
+      overt behavior is implied except kisses, but the nun's reaction
+      when the heroine begins to be interested in boys brings this under
+      the scope of the study.
+
+      _The Golden Cage._ Dial 1959. (trans. from French by Meyer Levin).
+      A group of refugees in wartime, waiting for visas in Portugal,
+      undergo various transient attachments. Among the group are several
+      lesbians, treated with sympathy and sensitivity.
+
+    TRAVIS, BEN. _The Strange Ones._ Beacon pbo 1959, (m). Evening
+      waster about a young no-good who earns his living as a paid
+      escort/gigolo and relaxes with boy friends but still loudly
+      insists he is normal. Your editor enjoyed this out of sheer
+      perversity; usually novels treating of male homosexuality engage
+      the subject with deadly seriousness, while the paperback originals
+      reek with drooling voyeuristic strip-teases about lesbians, for
+      the sake of men who like to enjoy pipe-dreams about lesbians
+      making love, and about some Big Handsome Hero who eventually
+      converts the girls to "normality" with some secret formula of
+      caresses. So it is a nice change to see the gay BOYS getting the
+      in-and-out-of-the-sheets treatment for once.
+
+    TRYON, MARK. _The Fire that Burns._ Berkley pbo 1959 scv.
+
+      _Take it Off._ Vixen Press 1953, Modern Press 1956, scv.
+
+    UNTERMEYER, LOUIS. (Editor). _The Treasury of Ribaldry._ Doubleday
+      1956, pbr Popular Library 1959 (v. 1). This contains Lucian's
+      "Dialogues of Courtesans", entitled in this translation "The
+      Lesbian" and "A Curious Deception". The hardcover edition also
+      contains some of the Songs of Bilitis.
+
+    VAIL, AMANDA (pseud. of Warren Miller). _The Bright Young Things._
+      Little, Brown, 1958. pbr Crest 1960.
+
+      In a story of two worldly young college girls experimenting with
+      life and love, a subplot involves two of their friends, lesbians.
+      Minor but fun.
+
+    VANEER, WILLIAM. _Love Starved Wife._ Bedside Books Inc, 1959.
+      scv.
+
+    VAN HELLER, MARCUS. _The House of Borgia_, Paris, Olympia Press,
+      1957. Volume #16 in The Traveler's Companion, straight scv.
+
+    VAN ROYEN, ASTRID. _Awake, Monique._ Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1957,
+      pbr Crest 1958. Astrid, an orphaned child in some unnamed European
+      country (Holland, Belgium, Sweden?) is sent to live with her uncle
+      Rainier; she lives upstairs with Rainier (eventually with a
+      Lolita-like intimacy) while Rainier's wife lives downstairs with a
+      lesbian friend, Dini. Despite a "broadminded" plea for
+      understanding, Rainier strictly forbids Astrid to have anything to
+      do with the girls. The book is well-written, tasteful, and
+      certainly candid.
+
+    VAUGHAN, HILDA. _The Curtain Rises._ N. Y., Chas Scribner 1935. A
+      young girl, Nest, in London, falls in with a fiftyish spinster
+      with a reputation for aiding young and pretty girls who also have
+      talent. Miss Fremlyn invites Nest to live with her as her
+      companion, showering her with education, attention and
+      restrictions; Nest is naive, Miss Fremlyn unaware, at least
+      consciously, of her own emotions. They travel and live together
+      for some time, but the affair breaks up when Nest, who has always
+      kept in touch with her boy friend, is discovered with him and Miss
+      Fremlyn, considering this a betrayal, dismisses her. Explicit,
+      well done.
+
+    VERNE, CHARLES. _The Wheel of Passion._ N. Y., Key 1957. scv.
+
+    VIDAL, GORE. _The City and the Pillar._ E P Dutton 1948, pbr
+      Signet ca. 1950, (m).
+
+      _The Season of Comfort._ E P Dutton 1949, (m).
+
+    WAHL, LOREN. _The Invisible Glass._ Greenberg, 1950, pbr tct _If
+      This be Sin_, Avon 1952, pbr tct _Take Me as I Am_, Berkley 1959,
+      (m).
+
+    WALFORD, FRANK. _Twisted Clay._ Claude Kendall, 1934. fco. A young
+      girl, a psychotic sadist ... is bisexual and has one big affair
+      with an older woman. It must be marked for people with very
+      complete collections only; it is depressing, inaccurate, etc. "The
+      writing, etc, are excellent, but oh my, what a plot!"
+
+  + WARD, ERIC. _Uncharted Seas._ Paris, Obelisk Press 1937. (Fairly
+      easy to obtain second hand, and not at all like most of the sexy
+      trash tagged Paris elsewhere in this list.) An excellent,
+      perceptive and controlled story of Diana Bellew, a young married
+      woman with children, a childish husband and too much money and
+      time on her hands, and her successive affairs with three women.
+      The writing is unusually good for male authorship.
+
+    WEBB, JON EDGAR. _Four Steps to the Wall._ Dial 1948, pbr Bantam
+      1953, (m). Prison novel.
+
+  + WEIRAUGH, ANNA ELISABET. _The Scorpion._ Greenberg 1932, Willey
+      Book co, 1948, pbr Avon Books 1957, complete; pbr tct _Of Love
+      Forbidden_, greatly abridged, 1958. Well-known novel of well-bred
+      German girl, Metta (in some translations, Myra) who, in her late
+      teens, falls in love with a worldly lesbian, Olga, who does much
+      to free her from her stuffy background, but repudiates her
+      painfully in a family crisis. After Olga's suicide Metta seeks for
+      her real self and real destiny, first in the Bohemian
+      drink-drugs-sex merrygoround of Berlin between the wars, then
+      hides from life in a stuffy middle-class setting; when even here
+      she finds herself pursued by a lesbian tease, Gwen, who flirts
+      with Metta to inveigle her into a sordid party _a trois_, Metta
+      resolves to go away and come to terms with her own soul.
+
+      _The Outcast._ Greenberg 1933, Willey Book Co 1948. The sequel to
+      the above, this finds the heroine of _The Scorpion_ living quietly
+      in the country. She undergoes a painful and unsatisfactory affair
+      with Fiametta, a dancer, but when this proves unsatisfactory
+      settles down sadly but peacefully with a couple of sexless men
+      friends.
+
+    WEISS, JOE, and Ralph Dean. _Anything Goes._ Bedside Books pbo,
+      1959. Fast-moving evening waster with a minor lesbian angle.
+
+    WELCH, DENTON. _Maiden Voyage._ L. B. Fischer 1945, (m) minor.
+
+      _In Youth is Pleasure._ L. B. Fischer 1946, (m) minor.
+
+  + WELLS, CATHERINE. "The Beautiful House" Harpers, March 1912. An
+      idyll of two women ends tragically with the marriage of the
+      younger.
+
+    WELLS, KERMIT. _Reformatory Women._ Bedside Books pbo 1959.
+      Surprisingly good for this publisher of rubbish. After escaping
+      from a sadistic lesbian matron in the reformatory, Noreen works as
+      a fake butch in a Greenwich Village Gay bar and tourist trap;
+      later goes to work for gangsters in a roadhouse, falls for a nice
+      boy and goes back to serve her reformatory sentence and marry him
+      when she gets out. Pleasant evening waster.
+
+    WETHERELL, ELIZABETH (pseud of Susan Warner). _The Wide Wide
+      World._ Many editions, very easily obtained, a well-known girls
+      story of the 1880s or thereabout, dealing with Ellen, an orphan of
+      twelve. Much of the first half of the novel is devoted to a very
+      innocent, but exceptionally intense, close relationship between
+      Ellen and her beloved "Miss Alice", daughter of the local
+      minister. Good of kind, and distinctly relevant on an adolescent
+      level.
+
+    WHEELER, HUGH. _The Crippled Muse._ Rinehart, 1952. A "sparkling
+      comedy" of Capri contains the story of two women who have lived
+      together for ten years; the younger girl is tired of the
+      arrangement, and the older uses her feelings of guilt and shame to
+      hold her captive. In the course of the novel she manages to free
+      herself.
+
+    WHITE, PATRICK. _The Aunt's Story._ Viking Press 1948. fco.
+
+    WIMBERLEY, GWYNNE. _One Touch of Ecstasy._ Frederick Fell, 1959. A
+      lesbian affair gives "one touch of ecstasy" to a woman's
+      inhibited, unhappy life, allowing her to return to her husband
+      with wakened perceptions.
+
+    WILDER, ROBERT. _Wait for Tomorrow._ Putnam 1950, Bantam 1953. A
+      girl's unwilling entanglement with a predatory lesbian, in a
+      romance of an imaginary Balkan country, leads to all sorts of
+      violence and cloak-and-dagger stuff. Good.
+
+  + WILHELM, GALE. _Torchlight to Valhalla._ Random, 1938, pbr tct
+
+      _The Strange Path_, Lion 1953, Berkley 1958, 1959. Morgen,
+      rootless and drifting after the death of her artist father, to
+      whom she had been childishly close, is loved by two fine young
+      men, but finds her happiness with a strange young girl, Toni.
+      Major, well known.
+
+      _We Too Are Drifting._ Triangle Books 1938-39; Modern Library
+      1935. pbr Lion Books 1951, Berkley 1957, 58, 59, 60. Probably the
+      major novel of the thirties to deal with lesbians; perhaps the
+      best of all time. In substance it deals with the boyish, but
+      feminine Jan Morale; her struggle to escape a slightly sordid
+      affair with Madelaine, a married woman, and to find happiness,
+      despite family complications, with a young girl, Victoria. Told
+      with fairness, restraint, and skill--not to mention that this is
+      one of the dozen or so books on this entire list to display not
+      only _some_, but _exceptional_ literary merit.
+
+    WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. "Something Unspoken" in _27 Wagons Full of
+      Cotton._ New Directions, 1953. Also in Best Short Plays of
+      1955-56, Dodd, Mead, 1956. A play; I marked this for fco, received
+      a protest: "Everybody will enjoy this." Compromise; everybody will
+      enjoy this who likes Tennessee Williams.
+
+    WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS. _The Knife of the Times._ Dragon Press,
+      1932, hcr tct _Make Light of It_, Random House 1950, (m). The title
+      story is in DWCory, _21 Variations_.
+
+    WILLIAMS, ISABEL. _Hellcat._ Greenberg 1934, pbr Dell 1952.
+      Unpleasant girl who uses everyone for her own purposes includes a
+      lesbian among her victims.
+
+    WILLINGHAM, CALDER. (pseud). _End as a Man._ Vanguard 1947, pbr
+      Signet co. 1957, (m).
+
+    WILLIS, GEORGE. _Little Boy Blues._ Dutton, 1947. Concerns the
+      machinations of a lesbian to achieve marriage and motherhood as a
+      "front".
+
+    WILSON, ETHEL D. _Hetty Dorval._ Macmillan 1948, fco.
+
+    WINDHAM, DONALD. _The Hitchhiker._ Florence, Italy, priv. print.
+      (m).
+
+      _Servants with Torches._ N. Y. 1955 priv. print. (m).
+
+      _Dog Star._ Doubleday, 1950, (m).
+
+    WINSLOE, CHRISTA. _The Child Manuela._ (Trans. Agnes Scott Farrar,
+      1933.) Motherless Manuela, sent to a strict boarding-school
+      because of supposed misconduct with a boy (actually she was only
+      fascinated with his mother) falls in love with Elizabeth von
+      Bernberg, one of the teachers. The woman's behavior is strictly
+      correct, but her warmth of personality attracts all the
+      love-starved, inhibited children; Manuela, exhilarated and
+      slightly drunk at a school party, babbles of her love for the
+      Fraulein, and is punished so severely that she throws herself from
+      a top-floor window.
+
+      _Girl Alone._ (Trans. Agnes Scott). Farrar 1936. A girl in
+      difficulties finds temporary refuge with a lesbian friend.
+
+    WINSTON, DAOMA. _The Golden Tramp._ pbo Beacon Books 1959. Evening
+      waster about a woman writer trying it both ways.
+
+    WOLLER, OLGA. _Strange Conflict._ Pageant, 1955. Purple-passaged
+      and would-be-horrifying story about a Eurasian
+      hermaphrodite--supposedly as she is because of her mother's
+      intercourse with demons before her birth--who inspires love and
+      brings death to everyone she knows, male or female.
+
+    WOODFORD, JACK. _Male and Female._ Woodford Press, 1935.
+
+      _Unmoral._ Woodford Press, 1938. Both of these are evening
+      wasters--racy stuff, not bad at all when compared with the current
+      crop of trashy paperbacks. The "lesbian" content, of course, is
+      strictly for fun.
+
+    WOOD, CLEMENT. _Strange Fires._ Woodford Press, 1951. "Shipwreck
+      on Lesbos" in his _Desire_, Berkeley n. d. 1958 (copyright 1950,
+      perhaps Woodford Press?) Clement Wood is either a pen name for, or
+      a successor to, Jack Woodford, a popular writer of racy, risque,
+      sexy books of little literary merit but relatively innocuous even
+      for teen-agers ... the trash of the thirties and forties was a
+      very different thing from the scv of the fifties.
+
+    WOOD, CLEMENT, and Gloria Goddard. _Fair Game._ Woodford Press,
+      1949, pbr Beacon 1958. Evening waster about girls coming to the
+      wicked big city, and we all know what happens to such girls in
+      this kind of book. One of them falls in with the dangerous women
+      instead of the dangerous men.
+
+  + WOOLF, VIRGINIA. _Orlando._ _To The Lighthouse._
+
+      _Mrs. Dalloway._ All of these are classics easily available in
+      small, medium and large libraries, college bookstores, and the
+      like. The lesbian content is vague and subtle, but good; one of
+      the best woman writers.
+
+    WOUK, HERMAN. _Marjorie Morningstar._ Doubleday 1955, pbr 1956.
+      The variant element in this is minor and problematical. In
+      conversation, it occurred to a group of reviewers that the
+      developing relationship between Marjorie and Marsha "resembled a
+      love affair", that Marsha's attack of hysterics at her wedding,
+      and her outcry that all she had ever wanted was a friend, and now
+      she'd always be alone, was of distinct significance. BAYOR.
+
+    WYLIE, PHILIP. _The Disappearance._ Rinehart 1951, pbr Pocket
+      Books 1958. Science fiction; for men, all women vanish; for women,
+      all men vanish. The problem of lesbianism arises in the women's
+      world; Wylie, though technically and superficially approving of
+      homosexuality, has his heroine reject it for herself, saying "I'm
+      not a child."
+
+      _Opus 21._ Rinehart 1949, pbr Signet 1952, 1960. The hero,
+      rewriting a book in a hotel during a weekend of crisis, runs
+      across many unusual characters; among them a woman, shaken because
+      her husband is having a homosexual affair, is shamed into
+      tolerance by dallying with a lesbian prostitute. Wylie, again
+      superficially approving, has his hero act in a skirt-withdrawing
+      way, refusing such things for himself at the last minute in every
+      book.
+
+    WYNDHAM, JOHN. "Consider her Ways" in _Sometime, Never_,
+      Ballantine 1956-57. Science Fiction; a woman experimenting with
+      strange drugs goes into the future, where all men have perished
+      and society resembles that of the ant. Good.
+
+      _The Midwich Cuckoos._ Ballantine, 1957. Science Fiction. Alien
+      visitation from outer space leaves every nubile female in
+      Midwich--married or single, young or old--pregnant. Hilariously
+      funny situations arise; one of the funniest involves a pair of
+      lesbians. Wonderful fun.
+
+    YAFFE, JAMES. _Nothing But the Night._ Little, Brown & Co, 1957,
+      pbr Bantam 1959, (m). More fake Leopold-Loeb. Good.
+
+    YOURCENAR, MARGUERITE. _Hadrian's Memoirs._ Farrar, 1954, qpb
+      Anchor 1954, (m).
+
+    ZOLA, EMILE. _Nana._ Literally dozens of hardcover and paperback
+      editions of a shocker about a street girl who, in addition to all
+      her affairs with men, also has an affair with Satin, a
+      streetwalker.
+
+      _A Lesson in Love._ Abridged edition of Pot Bouille. Pyramid,
+      1959.
+
+    ZUGSMITH, ALBERT. _The Beat Generation._ Bantam pbo based on
+      screenplay by Richard Mathesen, (m) minor.
+
+
+
+
+_The Poetry of Lesbiana_
+
+
+An index of Poems and Poets of interest to Collectors of Lesbiana
+
+_Compiled by Gene Damon_
+
+
+   Briefly, this includes variant as well as overtly lesbian
+   poetry, written in English or available in English
+   translation. The arrangement is chronological, rather than
+   alphabetical. All of these are easily available in public
+   libraries, unless otherwise indicated.
+
+
+THE ANCIENT WORLD:
+
+  _Erinna_--only one fragment left. Available in the Greek Anthology
+    and other miscellaneous collections of that type.
+
+  _Nossis_--Various variant poems and fragments. Greek Anthology,
+    Putnam, 1915-26 (5 vol.). Also in similar collections.
+
+  _Sappho_--The classic poet of lesbianism. Over 50 editions available
+    in hard covers. New translation by Mary Barnard, University of
+    California Press, 1958, qpb $1.25. An attractive edition is also
+    published for $2.50 by the Pater Pauper Press, on display in most
+    bookstores.
+
+  _Juvenal_--Satires. Many editions in hardcover and qpb. (Rolfe
+    Humphries trans. and ed. the Indiana University Press, 1958, $1.50;
+    also number 997 in Everyman's Library, $1.85.) The Sixth Satire.
+
+  _Martial_--His "Epigrams" contain various references to lesbians.
+    Cambridge University Press, 1924, $2.75.
+
+
+THE MIDDLE AGES:
+
+  _Ariosto, Ludovico_--Orlando Furioso. London, Bell, 1907.
+
+  _Labe, Louise_--Love Sonnets (trans. by Frederick Prokosch), New
+    Directions, 1947, $2.50, still in print.
+
+  _Shakespeare, William_--The first 27 of the "Sonnets" are generally
+    adjudged to be male-homosexual in emphasis and are therefore of
+    interest to collectors in this field.
+
+
+THE ROMANTIC POETS--19th CENTURY:
+
+  _Coleridge, Samuel T._--Christabel. Long narrative poem of a curious
+    attachment between a guileless young girl and a female demon;
+    available in virtually every anthology of English literature.
+
+  _Rossetti, Christina_--Goblin Market. Lovely and fantastic poem with
+    distinctly variant overtones. See anthologies of English literature.
+
+  _Romani, Felice_--Norma. Italian libretto for the opera by Vincenzo
+    Bellini, generally adjudged to be subtly lesbian in overtones. Many
+    translations are available in collections of opera libretti, but
+    most English translations edit out the variant content or alter the
+    emphasis.
+
+  _Baudelaire, Charles_--The Flowers of Evil, (trans. from the French
+    of Les Fleurs du Mal by Edna St. Vincent Millay and George Dillon)
+    N. Y., Harper, 1936, also New Directions, pbr, 1958. Many other
+    editions and translations available.
+
+  _Swinburne, Algernon Charles_--Poems and Ballads, 2 vols, London,
+    Chatto & Windus, 1893, 1895. Many of the poems in this series are
+    explicitly or implicitly lesbian. In the interests of space
+    limitation, only the major titles will be listed for those who want
+    to sift through anthologies; Anactoria, Fragoletta, Sapphics, At
+    Eleusis, Sonnet with a copy of Mlle. de Maupin, The Masque of Queen
+    Bersabe, Erotion. The entire series of Poems and Ballads is
+    available in hcr no. 961, Everyman's Library, Dutton, 1940, 50, for
+    $1.95.
+
+  _Louys, Pierre_--Songs of Bilitis. Many editions available, the most
+    easily located probably being the Liveright "Collected works of
+    Pierre Louys", $3.50. There is also a paperback edition, Avon Red
+    and Gold Library, no date. The "Songs" have been published singly in
+    numerous privately printed and illustrated editions, some of which
+    are very beautiful collector's items.
+
+  _Bronte, Emily_--Complete Poems. N. Y. Columbia University Press,
+    1941 (still in print at $4.00). A scattering of these poems are (or
+    can be interpreted as) vaguely variant.
+
+  _Mencken, Idah Isaacs_--Infelicia. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1875.
+    (Rare, and expensive.)
+
+  _Field, Michael_--(pseud. of two Englishwomen.) Entire work of
+    lesbian interest and a "must" for completists. Most medium to large
+    public libraries have some of their work.
+
+  _Dickinson, Emily_--Bolts of Melody. N. Y. Harper, 1945. Also variant
+    poems are scattered throughout her earlier editions. (Selected
+    Poems, Modern Library, 1948, $1.65.)
+
+
+THE MODERN POETS:
+
+  _Lowell, Amy_--No one volume of her work can be singled out; her
+    poems are perhaps the most openly variant of any of the English or
+    American poets. Her "Complete Poetical Works" is still in print;
+    Boston, Houghton & Mifflin Co., 1955; Introduction by Louis
+    Untermeyer, $6.00.
+
+  _O'Neill, Rose_--The Master Mistress. N. Y., Knopf, 1922. The creator
+    of the "Kewpies" also was the writer of these sensitive,
+    occasionally erotic poems. Perhaps a dozen are explicitly lesbian.
+
+  _Hall, Radclyffe_--Poems of the Past and Present, London, Chapman &
+    Hall, 1910. Songs of Three Counties, Chapman & Hall, 1913. The
+    Forgotten Island, London, Chapman & Hall, 1915. Sheaf of Verses,
+    London, Chapman & Hall, 1905. Twixt Earth and Stars, London, Chapman
+    & Hall, 1906.
+
+    These poems by the author of "Well of Loneliness" are so overt that
+    it is almost unbelievable that they were printed at all, but they
+    were, and I have the books to prove it ... she managed to get away
+    with it, I guess, because she talks in these poems as if she were a
+    man, writing to a woman.
+
+  _Millay, Edna St. Vincent_--Collected Poems, N. Y., Harper, 1956,
+    $6.00. This is the favored anthology of Millay for this purpose,
+    since it contains everything of hers which is variant in tone.
+    However, there are many single volumes of her poetry available, and
+    also pbrs; Collected Lyrics (Washington Square, 50c), and Collected
+    Sonnets (Washington Square, 50c).
+
+  _Sackville-West, Victoria_--King's Daughter, N. Y., Doubleday, 1930.
+
+  _Sterling, George_--Strange Waters. Privately printed, n.d., also in
+    American Esoterica, N. Y. Macy-Masius, 1927. Lengthy narrative poem
+    of supposed incestuous lesbianism ... shocker.
+
+  _Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.)_--Red Roses for Bronze, London, Lord,
+    Chatto & Windus. Also the Grove Press qpb, Selected Poems of H.D.,
+    1957; this, however, does not contain the best-known of Sappho
+    paraphrases, "Fragment Thirty-six". Also "Collected Poems",
+    Liveright, $2.50.
+
+  _Pitter, Ruth_--English poetess, whose work is rather difficult to
+    locate in this country. Many of her early poems are tinged with
+    variance and well worth the effort of locating them in large
+    libraries.
+
+  _Smith, Alicia Kay_--Only in Whispers. Privately printed; Falmouth,
+    Rockport, Maine. This is the hardest book on this list to obtain,
+    and of course, the most overt. Ardently but in good taste, this
+    tells of a lengthy and beautiful lesbian affair. A "must" book for
+    serious collectors who like poetry.
+
+  _Wright, James_--The Green Wall. Yale University Press, 1957, $3.00.
+    Two overt poems in an excellent and sensitive collection.
+
+
+_Variant Films_
+
+compiled by LauraJean Ermayne and Gene Damon
+
+
+   With the exception of a few privately filmed and circulated
+   stag films, which of course do not come within the scope of
+   this study, lesbianism is treated only vaguely and by
+   indirection in motion pictures. Hollywood codes (which
+   regulate distribution even of foreign films in this country)
+   state unequivocally that homosexuality may not be portrayed
+   _or suggested._ (Italics mine). Even when the predominantly
+   homosexual novel COMPULSION was filmed, the script--though
+   including a rape scene--was fudged so that the relationship
+   between the two boys was never hinted at--except vaguely in
+   one scene, where Orson Welles as the great lawyer said that
+   the opposition might find "something fishy" in the fact that
+   they had no other friends. Your editor has since been informed
+   that the movie NEVER SO FEW portrayed recognizable
+   homosexuals. Hollywood codes are growing less stringent by the
+   day, with the general relaxation of censorship, and by next
+   year there should be some additions to this list. Thanks are
+   due to Miss Ermayne for allowing us to reprint the material
+   used in her article on The Sapphic Cinema in THE LADDER for
+   March, 1959 ... the Editors.
+
+
+THE ADVENTURES OF KING PAUSOLE. Filmed in France in 1932, with Emil
+Jannings. Based on the Pierre Louys novel, this starred 366 models and
+dancers from the Folies Bergere; among these near-nude and nubile
+nymphs was one disguised as a male ballet dancer, with whom the King's
+daughter Aline had a romance even after discovering that they were of
+the same sex.
+
+ALL ABOUT EVE took the Academy Award in 1950. There is a very lesbian
+situation used to introduce the main protagonist into the movie; later
+events proved the woman only pretending lesbian-type devotion, but the
+inference, in the beginning, is clear and unmistakable. (GD)
+
+THE BARKER 1928. A short silent picture which was banned in many cities
+because it featured a scene in which a very butchy type in men's pajamas
+got into bed with a fluffy blonde type; caused a lot of critical
+hoop-la. (GD)
+
+THE CHILDREN'S HOUR, a film based on the Lillian Hellman play reviewed
+in this Checklist, bears a question mark; will someone who has seen the
+picture please let us know whether lesbian content was implicit in the
+movie?
+
+CHILDREN OF LONELINESS, outright anti-homophile propaganda, was mostly
+male-oriented, but did contain a gay night-club scene, and picture and
+office butch whose offer of affection and protection drove one girl to a
+psychiatrist's couch--where she was counselled against "abnormal love".
+
+DARK VICTORY. 1939, recently shown on TV, concerns a talented, charming
+woman (Bette Davis) dying of a brain tumor; her constant companion and
+secretary is clearly in love with her, and there were numerous beautiful
+and heartbreaking scenes, some of which would be impossible in a movie
+not dealing with such a sad situation.
+
+CLUB DES FEMMES (Girl's Club in English) an admirable French film
+starring Danielle Darieux, reviewed at length in THE LADDER. The lesbian
+element is treated explicitly and with taste and charm.
+
+ESCAPE TO YESTERDAY, a French film with one brief sequence in a cabaret,
+where recognizably lesbian types were portrayed.
+
+MAEDCHEN IN UNIFORM, a classic German film of the thirties, reviewed at
+length in J H Foster's book, starring Hertha Thiele as Manusia and
+Dorothea Wieck as her teacher. The film has recently been re-made but
+has not yet reached the USA.
+
+THE GODDESS, an art film released about a year ago, starring Kim
+Stanley, shows the life of an unwanted child who grows up to be a movie
+queen and ends up living with her secretary, obviously a lesbian; the
+relationship is portrayed with unusual frankness. This movie is still
+playing in specialty theatres around the big cities.
+
+NO EXIT, a French film of the play by Jean-Paul Sartre; setting, limbo;
+one of the characters, a lesbian who fell in love with a married woman
+and drove her to suicide by spooking her.
+
+OPEN CITY, realistic Italian film of 10 years or so ago, had a
+recognizable lesbian type-cast in it.
+
+PIT OF LONELINESS, a French film based on the novel OLIVIA and starring
+Simone Simon. "Something of a disappointment" says LJE.
+
+QUEEN CHRISTINA, 1934. This famous screen classic starred Greta Garbo;
+the variant bits were minor, but they were there. (GD)
+
+ROSE OF WASHINGTON SQUARE 1939. Now-dated tear-jerker starring Alice
+Faye; in one long scene the heroine sings standing by a piano, while a
+clearly seen, very mannish and extremely obvious "type" drools over her.
+Not imagination; this one was the veddy veddy correct, monocled type.
+(GD)
+
+SIGN OF THE RAM, a filming circa 1947 of the Margaret Ferguson novel,
+starred Susan Peters as the wheelchaired heroine; the "crush" between
+Leah and Christine was treated vaguely but recognizably to anyone who
+had read the book.
+
+TIME OF DESIRE. "Much has been made of the Uranian aspect of this film
+but personally I couldn't see it...." LJE
+
+TORST ("Thirst") directed by Ingmar Bergman, is supposed to tell the
+lives of three women strangely in love, including a lesbian. As yet none
+of your editors or contributors have seen the film.
+
+TURNABOUT, the Thorne Smith sex-farce where a man's ego is transmuted
+into a woman's body.
+
+TITLE UNKNOWN; 1950 or 1951; French with English subtitles; action took
+place in a girl's reformatory, much reference to lesbianism and some
+overt scenes; one where a girl caressed the breast of another and
+whispered love words to her, another where a tough street type tells a
+young innocent "See these marks on my thighs, they are each the marks of
+a lover, the left leg for boys and the right for girls." I don't see any
+other way to interpret that scene. (GD)
+
+  THE END, OF COURSE, IS NOT YET.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+Related Publications
+
+
+Information about the following publishers in the field of homosexual
+studies was supplied by the editors; we at the Checklist assume no
+responsibility for this information. We have, however, been constant
+readers of all three of these magazines and can recommend them as
+dignified, worthwhile and occasionally scholarly pioneering in a
+neglected field; they deserve support.
+
+ONE, INCORPORATED. 232 South Hill Street, Los Angeles 12, California.
+Non-profit organization, established in 1952, concerned with the
+problems and interests of homosexual men and women; publishers of:
+
+  ONE Magazine, monthly. Five dollars per year, fifty cents per
+    copy. Sent first class, sealed. Editor Don Slater; Woman's
+    editor, Alison Hunter. Editorials, fiction, poetry, articles,
+    book reviews, letters, artwork. Special attention given to the
+    Feminine Viewpoint. Fiction, articles, poetry by and about the
+    lesbian.
+
+  ONE Institute Quarterly; Homophile Studies. Official Organ of
+    One Institute, a university-level facility presenting classes
+    on the history, biology, sociology and psychology of
+    homosexuality. Articles include scholarly evaluation of
+    literary figures such as Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman,
+    homosexuality and religion, etc. Five dollars per year, $1.50
+    single copy. Editor James Kepner, Jr.
+
+  THE DAUGHTERS OF BILITIS, INC. 165 O'Farrell St, Room 405, San
+    Francisco, Calif. A woman's organization for promoting the
+    integration of the homosexual into society; membership limited to
+    woman. Emphasis on education of the variant to promote adjustment
+    and self-understanding, and education of the public at large through
+    acceptance of the individual. Publishers of:
+
+  THE LADDER. Monthly, $4.00 a year, 50c single copy, mailed
+    first class sealed. Editor, Del Martin. Fiction and poetry of
+    special interest, letters from readers, book reviews and a
+    running column of lesbiana managed by Gene Damon, reports on
+    special study and discussion groups, and the conductors of a
+    recent survey on lesbians personally.
+
+  THE MATTACHINE SOCIETY, 693 Mission Street, San Francisco, California.
+    Founded 1950, Incorporated 1954; purpose, to conduct projects of
+    education, research and social service in sex problems, particularly
+    those of homosexual adults. Publishers of:
+
+  MATTACHINE REVIEW, monthly, offset printed, circulation 2250;
+    $5 a year, 50c single copy, mailed sealed; issued annually in
+    bound volumes, indexed at end of each year. Reflects the
+    policies and purpose of the Mattachine Society with scientific
+    articles, research reports, news of sexological trends, book
+    reviews, letters from readers, a small amount of fiction and
+    annual poetry supplement. Hal Call, Editor.
+
+  DORIAN BOOK QUARTERLY. $2 a year, 50c per copy. Primarily
+    concerned with books and periodicals on socio-sexual themes,
+    particularly fiction and non fiction dealing with
+    homosexuality and related themes. Purpose: to fight censorship
+    and encourage publishing in this field. Advertising accepted,
+    reviews and news of books in the field solicited. Controlled
+    circulation. Harold L. Call, Editor.
+
+
+SEE ALSO FOR COLLECTORS ONLY
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+collectors only
+
+
+Every year, following the publication of the Checklist, we receive a
+number of queries. Where, they want to know, can we buy these books? We
+can only tell you where we buy books; and have therefore assembled the
+following list of reputable dealers, mail order, who handle these books
+and many others.
+
+  WINSTON BOOK SERVICE, 250 Fulton Avenue; Hempstead, New York.
+    Successor to the famous Cory Book Service which was founded by
+    Donald Webster Cory, author of "The Homosexual in America". This is
+    perhaps the best American source for current novels in hard covers
+    and non-fiction. They issue catalogs and lists, give a sizable
+    discount for large orders, and will also locate hard-to-find or
+    out-of-print books. Leslie Laird Winston, who is the presiding
+    genius here, is one of the nicest people to deal with that we have
+    ever known. Every month they feature some new or special book in the
+    field, at a special price. Getting on their mailing list is the
+    _best_ thing that can happen to a collector.
+
+  DORIAN BOOK SERVICE, 693 Mission Street, San Francisco 5,
+    California. A subsidiary of the Mattachine Review and the
+    Pan-Graphic Press. They publish the Dorian Book Quarterly, dealt
+    with elsewhere, and also a fat, fascinating catalogue listing
+    several hundred titles of current hardcover and paperback fiction.
+    They can also furnish, or will locate, many out-of-print titles. My
+    experience with them: prompt service, fast shipment, up-to-date
+    information on cheap reprints of rare titles.
+
+  VILLAGE BOOKS AND PRESS, 114-116 Christopher Street, New York 14,
+    New York. This is the outfit behind the Noel Garde bibliography of
+    Homosexual Literature, mentioned in the editorial. They can still
+    supply this biblio list for $1.50. They also issue lists at frequent
+    intervals, and will search for hard-to-find and out-of-print titles.
+    Prices seem reasonable considering the scarcity of some of the
+    paperbacks he handles. The proprietor, Howard Frisch, is one of the
+    most co-operative dealers in the business.
+
+  ONE Magazine, listed in "Related Publications" has published one
+    volume of short stories, and is soon to do more publishing; they
+    also list several dozen books sold by mail order.
+
+  THE LADDER, listed in "Related Publications", is soon to set up a
+    book service; their first special release will be Jeannette Howard
+    Foster's "Sex Variant Women in Literature", so keep your eyes open.
+
+  THE TENTH MUSE, bookshop managed by Julia Newman, 326 West 15th St,
+    New York 11, New York, also does some mail order business. Write for
+    a list.
+
+  A POINTS NORTHE, unusual bookshop at 15 Robinson Street, in Oklahoma
+    City, managed by James Neill Northe, into which your senior editor
+    virtually stumbled during a rainstorm, specializes in very rare,
+    esoteric and scholarly titles, curiosa, etc. He can supply even the
+    most fantastically rare stuff; prices are in line with the rarity of
+    the items wanted. (It was Mr. Northe who, with disinterested
+    kindness, supplied some biblio data on the real rarities on the
+    list; he has our thanks and endorsement.)
+
+  BOOKPOST, C. Rogers, Box 3251, San Diego 3, California. This outfit
+    specializes in Americana, but can supply almost anything. The prices
+    here are the most reasonable I've ever encountered; if Rogers quotes
+    you a price, there's no point in shopping around for a lower one.
+
+  INTERNATIONAL BOOKFINDERS, P O Box 3003, Beverly Hills, California.
+    These people are the out-of-print bookfinders par excellence. I've
+    ordered many books from them; their prices are reasonable, never
+    exorbitant; their service is good, the books they supply are always
+    of high quality. They're nice to deal with. I've never had a
+    complaint in ten years of bookhunting.
+
+  RAYMOND TRANFIELD, Antiquarian Book Dealer, 31 Hart Street,
+    Henley-Upon-Thames, Oxon, England, is probably the best source for
+    older books published in England. His prices are reasonable, his
+    service is fast (he quotes by airmail and sends his parcels insured,
+    which is a blessing for anything which has to travel across the
+    ocean).
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+paperbacks
+
+
+Paperbacks. We hate them and we love them. The worst rubbish, and the
+best literature brought within the reach of a slim budget. If you missed
+it on the news-stands, all is not lost....
+
+
+  ACE BOOKS Inc., 23 West 47th Street, New York 36, New York. (25c)
+
+  AVON Books; Avon Publications, Inc., 575 Madison Ave, N. Y. 22, N. Y.
+    (35c & 50c)
+
+  BALLANTINE BOOKS, Inc., 101 Fifth Ave, New York 3, N. Y.(35c)
+
+  BEACON BOOKS, 117 East 31st St, New York 16, N. Y. (35c or 3 for one
+    dollar)
+
+  BERKLEY Publishing Corp., 146 West 57th St, New York 19, N. Y.
+
+  CREST and GOLD MEDAL books; Fawcett Publications, Greenwich,
+    Connecticut.
+
+  CARDINAL editions, POCKET BOOKS and PERMABOOKS, Pocket Books, Inc, 630
+    Fifth Avenue, New York 20, N. Y. Free catalogue on request.
+
+  NEWSSTAND LIBRARY EDITIONS, (Magenta Books, and others) 3143 Diversey
+    Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Free lists sent on request.
+
+  BANTAM BOOKS, 25 West 45th Street, New York 36, N. Y.
+
+  DELL BOOKS, Dell Publishing Corp. Inc, 750 Third Avenue, New York 17,
+    NY
+
+  PYRAMID BOOKS, 444 Madison Avenue, New York 22, New York.
+
+  POPULAR LIBRARY, Hillman Books and others, do not print their address
+    in the books and evidently don't want to bother with mail orders. If
+    you miss them on the news-stands, you'll have to root in secondhand
+    stores. Saber and Fabian Books can be ordered through the Dorian Book
+    Service, and some secondhand book dealers will locate paperbacks,
+    including Village Books and Press, above.
+
+  BEDSIDE and BEDTIME books, (50c each) 200 West 34th Street, New York,
+    N. Y.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+  _hardcover publishers_
+
+  Compiled by Kerry Dame
+
+  A list of all obtainable addresses of the publishers of hardcover
+  books mentioned in the Checklist. (Paperback publishers listed
+  elsewhere.)
+
+
+  Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc--35 W. 32nd St, NYC 1, N. Y.
+
+  Arco Publishing Co, Inc.--480 Lexington Ave. NYC 17, NY
+
+  Arkham House; Publishers.--Sauk City, Wisconsin.
+
+  A. S. Barnes & Co.--11 E. 36th St, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Barnes & Noble, Inc.--105 Fifth Ave. NYC 3, NY
+
+  Beacon _Press_, Inc.--25 Beacon St, Boston 8, Mass.
+
+  Blakiston Co.--(see McGraw-Hill Book Co, Inc.)
+
+  Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc.--717 Fifth Avenue, NY 22, NY
+
+  Borden Publishing Co.--3077 Wabash Avenue, Los Angeles 63, Cal.
+
+  Boxwood Press--Box 7171, Pittsburgh 13, Penna.
+
+  C. F. Braun & Co.--1000 S. Fremont Ave, Alhambra, Calif.
+
+  Citadel Press--222 Fourth Ave, NYC 3, NY
+
+  Clarion Press--510 Madison Avenue, Room 700, NYC 22, NY
+
+  P. F. Collier & Son--Library Division, 640 Fifth Avenue, NYC 19
+
+  Comet Press Books--200 Varick St, NYC 14, N. Y.
+
+  F. E. Compton & Co.,--1000 N. Dearborn St, Chicago 10, Illinois
+
+  Coward-McCann, Inc.--210 Madison Avenue, N. Y. C. 16, NY
+
+  Creative Age Press--(see "Farrar, Straus & Cudahy")
+
+  Criterion Books--257 Fourth Ave, NYC 10, NY
+
+  Thomas Y. Crowell Co.--432 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Crown Publishers, Inc.--419 Fourth Avenue, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Dial Press, Inc.--461 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Dodd, Mead & Co.--432 Fourth Avenue, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Dorrance & Co., Inc.--131 N. 20th St, Philadelphia 3, Penna.
+
+  Doubleday & Co., Inc.--mail orders; Garden City, New York.
+
+  Dover Publications, Inc.--180 Varick Street, NYC 14, NY
+
+  Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Inc.--19 W. 40th St, NYC 18, NY
+
+  E. P. Dutton & Co.,--300 Fourth Avenue, NYC 10, NY
+
+  Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, Inc.--101 Fifth Avenue, NYC 3, NY
+
+  Frederick Fell, Inc.--386 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Fleet Publishing Corp.--70 E. 45th St, NYC 17, NY
+
+  Funk & Wagnalls Co.--153 E. 24th St, NYC 10, NY
+
+  Greenberg--(see Chilton Co, Book Division, 56th & Chestnut St,
+    Philadelphia 39, Penna.--what became of Greenberg; NY?)
+
+  Grosset & Dunlap, Inc.--mail orders; 227 E. Center St, Kingsport,
+    Tennessee.
+
+  Grove Press, Inc.--64 University Place, NYC 3, NY
+
+  Harper & Brothers--49 E. 33rd St, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Hastings House, Publishers--151 E. 50th St, NYC 22, NY
+
+  Henry Holt & Co.--383 Madison Ave, NYC 17, NY
+
+  Houghton, Mifflin Co.--2 Park St, Boston 7, Mass.
+
+  Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana.
+
+  Alfred E. Knopf Inc.--501 Madison Avenue, NYC 22, NY
+
+  Lane Publishing Co.--Menlo Park, Calif.
+
+  J. B. Lippincott Co.--East Washington Square, Philadelphia 5, Penna.
+
+  Little, Brown & Co.--34 Beacon Street, Boston 6, Mass.
+
+  Liveright Publishing Corp.--386 Fourth St, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Robert M. McBride--235 Fourth Avenue, NYC 3, NY
+
+  McDowell, Oblensky, Inc.--219 E. 61st St, NYC (no zone listed)
+
+  McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.--330 West 42nd St, NYC 36, NY
+
+  David McKay Co., Inc.--119 West 40th St, NYC 18, NY
+
+  Macauley Co.--(Book Sales, Inc, 352 Fourth Ave, NYC 10, NY)
+
+  Macmillan Co.--60 Fifth Avenue, NYC 11, NY
+
+  Julian Messner, Inc.--8 W. 40th St, NYC 18, NY
+
+  Wm. Morrow & Co., Inc.--425 Fourth Avenue, NYC 16, NY
+
+  New Directions--333 Sixth Avenue, NYC 14, NY
+
+  Noonday Press, Inc.--80 E. 11th St, NYC 3, NY
+
+  Ottenheimer Publishers--4805 Nelson Avenue, Baltimore 15, Md.
+
+  Pageant Press, Inc.--101 Fifth Avenue, NYC 3, NY
+
+  G. P. Putnam's Sons--210 Madison Avenue, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Rand McNally & Co.--Box 7600, Chicago 80, Illinois
+
+  Random House, Inc.--457 Madison Avenue, NYC 22, NY
+
+  Rinehart & Co, Inc.--232 Madison Avenue, NYC 16, NY
+
+  Simon & Schuster, Inc.--Mail Orders; 136 West 52nd St, NYC 19, NY
+
+  Sagamore Press, Inc.--11 E. 36th St, NYC 16, NY
+
+  St. Martin's Press, Inc.--175 Fifth Avenue, NYC 10, NY
+
+  Charles Scribners Sons--597 Fifth Avenue, NYC 17, NY
+
+  Tudor Publishing Co.--(Order From; Harlem Book Co, 221 Fourth Ave. NYC
+    3, NY)
+
+  University of California Press, Berkeley 4, Calif.
+
+  Vanguard Press, Inc.--424 Madison Ave. NYC 17, NY
+
+  Vantage Press, Inc.--120 West 31st St, NYC 1, NY
+
+  Viking Press--625 Madison Avenue, NYC 22, NY
+
+  Wm. Sloane Associates--(see Wm. Morrow & Co)
+
+  World Publishing Co.--2231 W. 110th St, Cleveland 2, Ohio.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ADDENDA
+
+
+Misfiled, dropped in copyright or, we goofed;
+
+
+    BRANDEL, MARC. _The Choice._ New York, Dial, 1950. no data.
+
+    CATTO, MAX. _The Killing Frost._ London, Wm. Heinemann, 1950, (m).
+      Tense relationship between two circus performers motivates an
+      unusual, and excellent mystery novel.
+
+    RAY, SANFORD. _Satan's Harvest._ Saber Books pbo ca. 1957. Evening
+      waster; a Mexican girl, Lupe, from a broken home, goes--with her
+      older sister--into a brothel, but is "protected" from the advances
+      of the men by the fact that the lesbian madame has taken a fancy
+      to her. Lupe's older sister burns the place down to free Lupe from
+      this fate.
+
+    SAYRE, GORDON. (pseud. of Jack Woodford.) _Wife to Trade._ N. Y.
+      Godwin, 1936. No reviews available, but probably racy stuff, not
+      too badly written.
+
+    WILLINGHAM, CALDER. "The Sum of two Angles", ss in _The Gates OF
+      Hell._ N. Y. Vanguard, 1951.
+
+    YOUNG, FRANCES BRETT. _White Ladies._ NY, Harper 1935. A
+      boarding-school tomboy, infatuated with a schoolteacher, finally
+      comes to see her as a vampire, feeding on the emotions of the
+      young.
+
+
+behind the scenes
+
+Introducing the editors and contributors....
+
+
+  MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY, Editor and publisher of the Checklist, who
+    attends to such minor chores as editorial format and manhandling the
+    mimeograph, is by profession a writer of science fiction. Her work
+    has appeared in virtually every science fiction magazine on the
+    market. She is thirty years-old, lives in a small town in Texas, and
+    her other interests are Italian opera, acrobatics and mountain
+    climbing.
+
+  GENE DAMON, whose competent brain does the bibliographical work for the
+    Checklist, is in her mid-twenties, lives in the midwest, and is a
+    librarian; she previously worked as a book-keeper and on a large
+    city newspaper. Her chief interests are classical music and the
+    collecting of variant literature; her private library contains over
+    600 titles of lesbiana alone. It was the untiring, perfectionist
+    efforts of Miss Damon which checked every biblio reference in this
+    list; she also supplied a summary or precis for every title which
+    the senior editor had not read. In general, Damon is the brains of
+    the Checklist; MZB merely the brawn.
+
+  KERRY DAME, stencil-cutter, artist and printer's devil, is in her early
+    twenties and lives in New England with her mother and many cats. She
+    is no stranger to the readers of the _Ladder_, who all know her gay,
+    airy cover drawings.
+
+  LAURAJEAN ERMAYNE, contributor to _Vice Versa_, collector of lesbiana,
+    specialist in films, and tireless hunter of the news-stands, lives
+    in California and, under her own name, is a well-known editor and
+    writer.
+
+
+HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT: In a forgotten closet, your editor has just
+discovered a stack of copies of the ASTRA'S TOWER Checklist #3. We
+thought they'd all been destroyed. This is the last-year's list,
+containing Royal Drummond's "Digression", and my account of a hassle
+with the fascinatin' Miss Apple. I want to get these things out of my
+broom closet, and my soul revolts at the thought of tossing the things
+into the trash burner for the edification of the garbage collector.
+Therefore, we will make the following offer. Mailing these things out by
+printed-matter, fourth class mail costs 7-1/2 cents. By first class
+mail, 12 cents postage is required. Envelopes cost something. If anyone
+wants these (who knows, they might be valuable as examples of
+prehistoric lesbiana some day) you can have then for a quarter (first
+class mail) or six for a dollar to pass around among your friends. Hurry
+up--I'm going to need my broom closet for the mimeograph when I get
+finished with this year's Checklist. You'll find the address on the
+titlepage.--And this is it--The End--Marion.
+
+
+
+
+
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