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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 + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<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’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’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’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, <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—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.</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 “List of Symbols +and Abbreviations” 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—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 <i>Fairy Tales for +Fabulous Faps</i>. 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.<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’s Tower #2</i>, 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.</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’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—as documented +in the Supreme Court judgment relevant to <i>Lady Chatterley’s Lover</i>, +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.</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—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.</p> + +<p>We are unalterably opposed to most censorship—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 “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.</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—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—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.</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 “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.</p> + +<p>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.</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—all things considered—to prepare.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>And now, until the first Supplement time, it’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> </p> +<p> </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—</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—</td> +<td class="left90"><p class="indent5">paperbacked reprint.</p></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right10">n.d.—</td> +<td class="left90"><p class="indent5">no date listed or date unknown.</p></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right10">ss—</td> +<td class="left90"><p class="indent5">short story.</p></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right10">qpb—</td> +<td class="left90"><p class="indent5">quality paperback book (as, Grove Press or Vintage).</p></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right10">tct—</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—</td> +<td class="left90"><p class="indent5">for completists only; variant content either extremely +slight or problematical.</p></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right10">+ </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) </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—</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 </td> +<td class="left90" colspan="2"><p class="indent5">Waster—good solid entertainment and reasonably +well-written, though worthless as literature.</p></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right10">scv—</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—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.</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 “gay” 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’s residence club in New York.</p> + +<p class="indent">ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. <i>Dark Laughter</i>. N. Y., Boni & 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 “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.</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’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 +“affairs” is a brief episode with another girl.</p> + +<p class="indent">ASQUITH, CYNTHIA. “The Lovely Voice”. 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’s first marriage +fails because of his wife’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’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>&</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 “the one human being I ever loved”.</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’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—who is virtually enslaved to a +sinister lesbian Countess.</p> + +<p class="indent2"><i>Seraphita.</i> 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.</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 “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.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">10</a></span></p> + +<p class="indent3">+ BARNES, DJUNA. “Dusie”, 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’s teeth—lesbian humor.</p> + +<p class="indent">BELLAMANN, HENRY. <i>King’s Row.</i> N. Y., Simon & Schuster, 1940, (m).</p> + +<p class="indent">BELOT, ADOLPHE. <i>Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife.</i> 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.</p> + +<p class="indent">BENNETT, ARNOLD. <i>Elsie and the Child.</i> 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.</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. “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.”</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’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’s self-realization. Very good of kind.</p> + +<p class="indent">BODIN, PAUL. <i>All Woman’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’s +attachment to two women who have some homosexual contact, +but the emphasis is heterosexual, rather than lesbian.</p> + +<p class="indent">BOLTON, ISABEL. “Ruth and Irma”, ss in The New Yorker, Jan 26, +1947; also in Donald Webster Cory’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’s reformatory.</p> + +<p class="indent">BOURDET, EDOUARD. <i>The Captive.</i> N. Y., Brentano’s 1926. +Drama based on a triangle—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’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. “The Bridegroom’s Body” 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. “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<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’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’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’t let the lurid paperback covers +and blurb scare you off, this is a NOVEL—well worth hard +covers and a steal at 35¢.</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—perhaps an “Armed Forces” 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’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.</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’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.</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 & 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<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 & Co, 1944, +pbr Signet 1948, fco.</p> + +<p class="indent">CAPOTE, TRUMAN. <i>Breakfast at Tiffany’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 & Charles Boni, 1935, (m). Listed as “the +first of its kind” this is said also to be “very vague +and old-fashioned.”</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 “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.</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. “Clancy in the Tower of Babel”, 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 “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.</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. +“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.”</p> + +<p class="indent3">+ CLAYTON, JOHN. <i>Dew in April.</i> 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.</p> + +<p class="indent2"><i>Gold of Toulouse.</i> Kendall & 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 & 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’s Company.</i> Little, Brown & 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’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). +“Bella Vista” in <i>The Tender Shoot</i>. +“Gitanette” 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 “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 <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’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.</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’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 & 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.</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’s Sons, +1954. This book is included for the light it sheds on +another novel in this list, Marcia Davenport’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’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’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 “scholarship” 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’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 “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.</p> + +<p class="indent">DAVEY, WILLIAM. <i>Dawn Breaks the Heart</i>. 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.</p> + +<p class="indent">DAVIES, RHYS. “Orestes”, ss in <i>The Trip to London</i>. 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.</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 “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.”</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’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">—and Jay Arpage; <i>Non Stop Flight</i>, Brookwood 1958.</p> + +<p class="indent2">—and Cleo Dorene; <i>Fountain of Youth</i>, Brookwood 1958.</p> + +<p class="indent2">—and Arthur Maurier; <i>Wicked Curves</i>, Brookwood 1958.</p> + +<p class="indent2">—and Les Maxime; <i>Eye Lust</i>, Brookwood 1959.</p> + +<p class="indent2">—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’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—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 <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 “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 <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’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 & 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’s racy trash, +this story of a young man searching for self-knowledge in +New York’s Bohemias is very good of its’ kind.</p> + +<p class="indent">DELL, FLOYD. <i>Diana Stair.</i> Farrar & 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 “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.</p> + +<p class="indent">DE MEJO, OSCAR. <i>Diary of a Nun.</i> pbo Pyramid 1955. +Just what it sounds like—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—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 & Co 1946—47, +fco. One very brief overt lesbian episode.</p> + +<p class="indent">DE VRIES, PETER. <i>The Tents of Wickedness.</i> 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.</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 & 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 “cornerstone” title.</p> + +<p class="indent">DINESEN, ISAK. <i>Seven Gothic Tales.</i> N. Y., Smith & Haas, 1943, +hcr Modern Library n.d.</p> + +<p class="indent2">“The Invincible Slave Owners”, ss in <i>A Winter’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 & 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—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. +“This is a lovely book if you enjoy crying, and +I do,” 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. “Nadia Devereaux”, ss in <i>Sextet</i>, ed by Whit & +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 “a chance at real happiness with +a man.”</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’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’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—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—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.</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 & 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.</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’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’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.”</p> + +<p class="indent">FIRBANK, RONALD. <i>The Flower Beneath the Foot.</i> in Five Novels, New +Directions, 1949. “Light and fluffy ... pure fun”.</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’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 “asylum”. 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’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’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’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’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’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 & Liveright, 1920, (m). +A too-possessive mother ruins her +son’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. “Not as bad as <i>Nikki</i>, but still a pretty +raw evening waster.”</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. “The Other One” ss in <i>Cross Section</i>, ed. by +E. Seaver, Simon & 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’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’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’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.</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’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.</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 “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.</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’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.)</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. “The Sea Change” ss in <i>The Fifth Column +and the First 49 Stories</i>, P. F. Collier & Son, 1938. This +volume also contains two stories dealing with male homosexuality; +“A Simple Inquiry” and “Mother of a Queen.”</p> + +<p class="indent">HELLMAN, LILLIAN. <i>The Children’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’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’s +disintegration, caused by society’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 & 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’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’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 “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.</p> + +<p class="indent">HOLLIDAY, DON. <i>The Wild Night.</i> 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.</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’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. “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.</p> + +<p class="indent2">“With One Coin for Fee”, 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’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—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.</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’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.”</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 & Co, 1946, pbr +Signet, 1950, (m).</p> + +<p class="indent2"><i>The Lost Weekend</i>. Farrar & 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—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 “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.</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’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.</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 & 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. +“Mavis is married to a lush, so she dallies and so +does he, and they are really a pair of dillies dallying....”</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’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’s “difference”.</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’t) hound the +boy’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’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’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 “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.</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 & 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.</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’s +heroine—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’s college.</p> + +<p class="indent">LAWRENCE, D. H. “The Fox”, ss in Dial Magazine 1922, also in hcr +but NOT in pbr edition of <i>The Captain’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’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—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’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. “Carmilla” in <i>Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories</i>. +Also in Vol III of “The Forgotten Classics of Mystery”, +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. “The Ship Sails at Midnight”, 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—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’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’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.)</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 & Cudahy 1958. Historical +“dual biography” of Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier.</p> + +<p class="indent3">+ LEVIN, MEYER. <i>Compulsion.</i> Simon & 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 & 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’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 & 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’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.</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’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—who eventually +runs away with a “boy” 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 “colony” in +Southern California; silly, but a lot of fun.</p> + +<p class="indent3">+ MacINNES, COLIN. <i>Absolute Beginners.</i> London, MacGibbon & Rae, +1959. A novel about London teenagers, 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.</p> + +<p class="indent">McMINNIES, MARY. <i>The Visitors.</i> 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.</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’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<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’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 “unnatural” 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 & 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’s mistress.</p> + +<p class="indent2"><i>The Red Room.</i> (trans. by Herma Briffault). Farrar, +Strauss & 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 “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 <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—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’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’s gigolos. One of <i>those</i> books—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’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.</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—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.</p> + +<p class="indent3">+ MARTIN, KENNETH. <i>Aubade.</i> London, Chapman & 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’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’s husband advises +her on how to manipulate Dolly’s feelings. Smart, brittle.</p> + +<p class="indent">MAUPASSANT, GUY DE. <i>Paul’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 & 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’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.</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 +“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.</p> + +<p class="indent">METALIOUS, GRACE. <i>Return to Peyton Place.</i> 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.</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. “The Lineman” 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’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.</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">“Black Sparta” and “Krypteia” in <i>Greek Stories</i>, +Harcourt, 1928, (m).</p> + +<p class="indent">MORAVIA, ALBERTO. <i>The Conformist.</i> 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.</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’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.</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’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’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—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?))</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’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’s Den.</i> N. Y. Key 1957. scv.</p> + +<p class="indent3">+ O’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’DONOVAN, JOAN. <i>Dangerous Worlds.</i> Morrow, 1958. +Collection of excellent short stories.</p> + +<p class="indent">O’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’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’HARA, NOEL. <i>The Last Virgin.</i> 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.</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 “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”?)</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: “Glory in the Daytime” 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’s +best.</p> + +<p class="indent3">+ PETERS, FRITZ. <i>Finistere.</i> Farrar, Straus & 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 & 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.</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’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.</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—he isn’t everyone’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 & 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’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.</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 (“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.</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’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 & 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 & Schuster 1958, Pocket +Books Cardinal Edition 1959, (m).</p> + +<p class="indent">ROYDE-SMITH, NAOMI. <i>The Tortoiseshell Cat.</i> Boni & Liveright 1925. +An unworldly girl’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 “Goosey” 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 “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.</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—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.</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’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’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 “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.</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’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’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—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.</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’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.</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’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 “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.</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 “Odd Girl”, 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’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 “the +fate of handsome boys among the Persians.”</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 “trash”.</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). +“Affair with a Green Monkey”. Venture Science Fiction May +1957; also in <i>A Touch of Strange</i>, Doubleday 1959.</p> + +<p class="indent2">“The Sex Opposite”. 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’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’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 +“front”.</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 +“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.</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’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’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’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’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 “heartening idyll” of two friends who, during a long +stopover in Spain, resolve their relationship.</p> + +<p class="indent3">+ TORRES, TERESKA. +<i>Woman’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’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.</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 “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.</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 “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.</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’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.</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’s Companion, straight scv.</p> + +<p class="indent">VAN ROYEN, ASTRID. <i>Awake, Monique.</i> 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.</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. “The writing, etc, are excellent, but oh +my, what a plot!”</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’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: “The Beautiful House” 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 +“Miss Alice”, 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 “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.</p> + +<p class="indent">WHITE, PATRICK. <i>The Aunt’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 “one touch of ecstasy” to a woman’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’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—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. “Something Unspoken” 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 “Everybody will enjoy this.” 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 “front”.</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’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—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.</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—racy stuff, not bad at all when compared with +the current crop of trashy paperbacks. The “lesbian” content, +of course, is strictly for fun.</p> + +<p class="indent">WOOD, CLEMENT. <i>Strange Fires.</i> Woodford Press, 1951. +“Shipwreck on Lesbos” 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 +“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.</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’s world; Wylie, though technically and +superficially approving of homosexuality, has his heroine +reject it for herself, saying “I’m not a child.”</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. “Consider her Ways” 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—married or single, young or +old—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 & Co, 1957, +pbr Bantam 1959, (m). More fake Leopold-Loeb. Good.</p> + +<p class="indent">YOURCENAR, MARGUERITE. <i>Hadrian’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>—only one fragment left. Available in the Greek Anthology +and other miscellaneous collections of that type.</p> + +<p class="indent"><i>Nossis</i>—Various variant poems and fragments. Greek Anthology, +Putnam, 1915-26 (5 vol.). Also in similar collections.</p> + +<p class="indent"><i>Sappho</i>—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>—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.</p> + +<p class="indent"><i>Martial</i>—His “Epigrams” 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>—Orlando Furioso. London, Bell, 1907.</p> + +<p class="indent"><i>Labe, Louise</i>—Love Sonnets (trans. by Frederick Prokosch), +New Directions, 1947, $2.50, still in print.</p> + +<p class="indent"><i>Shakespeare, William</i>—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.</p> + +<p><br />THE ROMANTIC POETS—19th CENTURY:</p> + +<p class="indent"><i>Coleridge, Samuel T.</i>—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>—Goblin Market. Lovely and fantastic poem +with distinctly variant overtones. See anthologies of +English literature.</p> + +<p class="indent"><i>Romani, Felice</i>—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>—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>—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 her no. 961, +Everyman’s Library, Dutton, 1940, 50, for $1.95.</p> + +<p class="indent"><i>Louÿs, Pierre</i>—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.</p> + +<p class="indent"><i>Brontë, Emily</i>—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>—Infelicia. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1875. +(Rare, and expensive.)</p> + +<p class="indent"><i>Field, Michael</i>—(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.</p> + +<p class="indent"><i>Dickinson, Emily</i>—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>—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.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">60</a></span></p> + +<p class="indent"><i>O’Neill, Rose</i>—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.</p> + +<p class="indent"><i>Hall, Radclyffe</i>—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.</p> + +<p class="indent2">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.</p> + +<p class="indent"><i>Millay, Edna St. Vincent</i>—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¢).</p> + +<p class="indent"><i>Sackville-West, Victoria</i>—King’s Daughter, N. Y. Doubleday, 1930.</p> + +<p class="indent"><i>Sterling, George</i>—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>—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.</p> + +<p class="indent"><i>Pitter, Ruth</i>—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>—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.</p> + +<p class="indent"><i>Wright, James</i>—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—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.</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’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’s pajamas got into bed +with a fluffy blonde type; caused a lot of critical hoop-la. (GD)</p> + +<p>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?</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’s +couch—where she was counselled against “abnormal love”.</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’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’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. “Something of a disappointment” 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 “type” 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 “crush” between Leah and Christine +was treated vaguely but recognizably to anyone who had read the book.</p> + +<p>TIME OF DESIRE. “Much has been made of the Uranian aspect of this film but +personally I couldn’t see it....” LJE</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>TURNABOUT, the Thorne Smith sex-farce where a man’s ego is transmuted into a +woman’s body.</p> + +<p>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)</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’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’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;</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¢ 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¢ +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¢ 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"> </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 “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 <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 “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.</p> + +<p class="indent">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.</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’ve ever encountered; if Rogers quotes you a price, there’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’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.</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> </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¢)</p> +<p class="indent"> +AVON Books; Avon Publications, Inc., 575 Madison Ave, N. Y. 22, N. Y. (35¢ & 50¢)</p> +<p class="indent"> +BALLANTINE BOOKS Inc., 101 Fifth Ave, New York 3, N. Y. (35¢)</p> +<p class="indent"> +BEACON BOOKS, 117 East 31st St, New York 16, N. Y. (35¢ 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’t want to bother with mail orders. If you miss them on the news-stands, you’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¢ 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.—35 W. 32nd St, NYC 1, N. Y.</p> +<p class="indent"> +Arco Publishing Co., Inc.—480 Lexington Ave. NYC 17, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Arkham House; Publishers.—Sauk City, Wisconsin.</p> +<p class="indent"> +A. S. Barnes & Co.—11 E. 36th St, NYC 16, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Barnes & Noble, Inc.—105 Fifth Ave. NYC 3, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Beacon <i>Press</i>, Inc.—25 Beacon St, Boston 8, Mass.</p> +<p class="indent"> +Blakiston Co.—(see McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.)</p> +<p class="indent"> +Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc.—717 Fifth Avenue, NY 22, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Borden Publishing Co.—3077 Wabash Avenue, Los Angeles 63, Cal.</p> +<p class="indent"> +Boxwood Press.—Box 7171, Pittsburgh 13, Penna.</p> +<p class="indent"> +C. F. Braun & Co.—1000 S. Fremont Ave, Alhambra, Calif.</p> +<p class="indent"> +Citadel Press.—222 Fourth Ave, NYC 3, NY</p><p class="indent"> +Clarion Press.—510 Madison Avenue, Room 700, NYC 22, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +P. F. Collier & Son.—Library Division, 640 Fifth Avenue, NYC 19</p> +<p class="indent"> +Comet Press Books.—200 Varick St, NYC 14, N. Y.</p> +<p class="indent"> +F. E. Compton & Co.—1000 N. Dearborn St, Chicago 10, Illinois</p> +<p class="indent"> +Coward-McCann, Inc.—210 Madison Avenue, N. Y. C. 16, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Creative Age Press.—(see “Farrar, Straus & Cudahy”)</p> +<p class="indent"> +Criterion Books.—257 Fourth Ave, NYC 10, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Thomas Y. Crowell Co.—432 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Crown Publishers, Inc.—419 Fourth Avenue, NYC 16, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Dial Press, Inc.—461 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY</p><p class="indent"> +Dodd, Mead & Co.—432 Fourth Avenue, NYC 16, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Dorrance & Co., Inc.—131 N. 20th St, Philadelphia 3, Penna.</p> +<p class="indent"> +Doubleday & Co., Inc.—mail orders; Garden City, New York.</p> +<p class="indent"> +Dover Publications, Inc.—180 Varick Street, NYC 14, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Inc.—19 W. 40th St, NYC 18, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +E. P. Dutton & Co.— 300 Fourth Avenue, NYC 10, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, Inc.—101 Fifth Avenue, NYC 3, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Frederick Fell, Inc.—386 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Fleet Publishing Corp.—70 E. 45th St, NYC 17, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Funk & Wagnalls Co.—153 E. 24th St, NYC 10, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Greenberg.—(see Chilton Co., Book Division, 56th & Chestnut St, +Philadelphia 39, Penna.—what became of Greenberg; NY?)</p> +<p class="indent"> +Grosset & Dunlap, Inc.—mail orders; 227 E. Center St, Kingsport, +Tennessee.</p><p class="indent"> +Grove Press, Inc.—64 University Place, NYC 3, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Harper & Brothers.—49 E. 33rd St, NYC 16, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Hastings House, Publishers.—151 E. 50th St, NYC 22, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Henry Holt & Co.—383 Madison Ave, NYC 17, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Houghton, Mifflin Co.—2 Park St, Boston 7, Mass.</p> +<p class="indent"> +Indiana University Press.— Bloomington, Indiana.</p> +<p class="indent"> +Alfred E. Knopf Inc.—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.—Menlo Park, Calif.</p> +<p class="indent"> +J. B. Lippincott Co.— East Washington Square, Philadelphia 5, Penna.</p> +<p class="indent"> +Little, Brown & Co.—34 Beacon Street, Boston 6, Mass.</p> +<p class="indent"> +Liveright Publishing Corp.—386 Fourth St, NYC 16, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Robert M. McBride.—235 Fourth Avenue, NYC 3, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +McDowell, Oblensky, Inc.—219 E. 61st St, NYC (no zone listed)</p> +<p class="indent"> +McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.—330 West 42nd St, NYC 36, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +David McKay Co., Inc.—119 West 40th St, NYC 18, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Macauley Co.—(Book Sales, Inc, 352 Fourth Ave, NYC 10, NY)</p> +<p class="indent"> +Macmillan Co.—60 Fifth Avenue, NYC 11, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Julian Messner, Inc.—8 W. 40th St, NYC 18, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Wm. Morrow & Co., Inc.—425 Fourth Avenue, NYC 16, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +New Directions,—333 Sixth Avenue, NYC 14, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Noonday Press, Inc.—80 E. 11th St, NYC 3, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Ottenheimer Publishers.—4805 Nelson Avenue, Baltimore 15, Md.</p> +<p class="indent"> +Pageant Press, Inc.—101 Fifth Avenue, NYC 3, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +G. P. Putnam’s Sons.—210 Madison Avenue, NYC 16, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Rand McNally & Co.—Box 7600, Chicago 80, Illinois</p> +<p class="indent"> +Random House, Inc.—457 Madison Avenue, NYC 22, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Rinehart & Co., Inc.—232 Madison Avenue, NYC 16, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Simon & Schuster, Inc.—Mail Orders; 136 West 52nd St, NYC 19, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Sagamore Press, Inc.—11 E. 36th St, NYC 16, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +St. Martin’s Press, Inc.—175 Fifth Avenue, NYC 10, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Charles Scribners Sons.—597 Fifth Avenue, NYC 17, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Tudor Publishing Co—(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—424 Madison Ave. NYC 17, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Vantage Press, Inc.—120 West 31st St, NYC 1, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Viking Press.—625 Madison Avenue, NYC 22, NY</p> +<p class="indent"> +Wm. Sloane Associates.—(see Wm. Morrow & Co.)</p> +<p class="indent"> +World Publishing Co.—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 <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’s Harvest.</i> 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.</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. “The Sum of two Angles”, 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’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’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. 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