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diff --git a/39184.txt b/39184.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..df88ceb --- /dev/null +++ b/39184.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4278 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Checklist, by Marion Zimmer Bradley + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Checklist + A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and + homosexual fiction, in English or available in English + translation, with supplements of related material, for the + use of collectors, students and librarians. + +Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley + +Release Date: March 17, 2012 [EBook #39184] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHECKLIST *** + + + + +Produced by David Starner, Turgut Dincer and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + +[Transcriber's note: Extensive research found no evidence that +the copyright for this book had been renewed.] + + + + + +Marion Zimmer Bradley + + +_CHECKLIST_ + + + A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, + variant and homosexual fiction, in English + or available in English translation, with + supplements of related material, for the use + of collectors, students and librarians. + + +table of contents + + + Editorial; History and purpose of the Checklist 2 + + List of symbols and abbreviations 6 + + The complete cumulative Checklist, indexed by author 7 + + The poetry of Lesbiana; chronological reference + list (compiled by Gene Damon) 58 + + Variant Films 61 + + Related Publications; the homosexual Press 63 + + For Collectors Only; a list of book services 64 + + Paperback Publishers; addresses 65 + + Hardcover Publishers; addresses 66 + + Behind the scenes; meet the editors 68 + + + Edited and Published by: MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY + Associate Editor: GENE DAMON + Cover design and layouts by Kerry Dame + + + Entire contents copyright, May 1960, by Marion Zimmer Bradley, + Box 158, Rochester, Texas. All rights reserved. + + + + +editorial + +THE PURPOSE AND HISTORY OF THE CHECKLIST + + +Here, in a single volume, it has been our intention to list, document +and review every novel dealing, however slightly, with female variance, +lesbianism or intense emotional relationships between women. We have +also included a majority of the better known novels which, dealing +primarily with male homosexuality, are of interest to the collector of +variant fiction in general. + +In related supplements we have compiled lists of variant poetry, variant +films, of the major book services and publishing houses where these +books can be obtained, and of the homosexual press. + +The titles in the major portion of the Checklist are listed in a single +comprehensive index by author. Information includes date published, +number of reprints and publisher's name. Brief reviews are included of +most titles. An effort has been made in each case to distinguish whether +the work under discussion is a novel about lesbianism, whether the +variant content has been included mostly for shock effect, or whether +(as in some excellent modern novels) homosexual characters appear +incidentally to the other main themes of action in the book. + +In such a comprehensive listing, reviews must of necessity be brief. For +further discussion of many of the titles listed here, with excellent and +complete critical analysis of their variant content, the serious student +or collector is earnestly urged to invest in the definitive and major +work on the subject: + + FOSTER, Jeannette Howard; _Sex Variant Women in + Literature._ N. Y. Vantage Press, 1956. + + +Although now officially out of print, this book can occasionally be +obtained second hand, and copies will soon be offered for sale through +the Daughters of Bilitis publication, THE LADDER. (See appendix.) We +have made no effort to give more than cursory reviews of titles which +are discussed at length in Dr. Foster's work. However, since the +publication of the Foster book, many new novels of lesbianism have been +published, and the diligent search of many collectors, working with the +Checklist editors, has brought many old ones to light. + +We have tried to review in some detail the novels which were omitted +from Dr. Foster's work, and to strive for completeness, even at the +expense of discriminatory judgment about the excellence or otherwise of +the works included. Therefore this Checklist includes many works whose +lesbian content was too slight, too subtle--or too "trashy"--to have +come within the scope of the scholarly studies of Dr. Foster or the +running column, _Lesbiana_, conducted by junior editor Gene Damon in +the pages of THE LADDER. + +It is our further contention that many novels dealing with male +homosexuality come also within the province of the serious collector of +lesbiana. We make, however, no claim for completeness for novels which +fall within the homosexual, rather than the lesbian province. In +general, the male titles included in this list--clearly defined, in each +case, by the sign (m)--have been included because they were of special +interest to the editors and therefore are presumably of interest to +other collectors of lesbiana. + +For those who wish a complete list of works dealing with male +homosexuality, we suggest the comprehensive bibliography compiled by +Noel I. Garde, discussed in the Appendix of Related Publications. Mr. +Garde has indexed virtually every homosexual work from antiquity to the +latest paperback shocker, and has also performed the mighty task of +separating them into categories ... a task from which the Checklist +editors have shrunk, though we have made some attempt at classification +in our reviews and by awarding a plus sign to books of exceptional +value. (For further discussion of this division, please consult the +"List of Symbols and Abbreviations" on page 2.) + +Most of the reviews in the present listing were written by one of the +editors; no attempt has been made to divide the reviews written by MZB +from those written by Damon. In general, these reviews have been +gathered from so many sources that the awarding of individual credit +would be impossible. + +This Checklist, 1960, is the last of the cumulative Checklists. Plans at +present are to publish brief supplements annually, listing only new +titles, new reprints of old titles, or new discoveries of overlooked +titles. Since this is the case, we feel that some brief history of the +Checklist might be of interest to the readers. + +Nearly 10 years ago, in the mailing of the Fantasy Amateur Press +Association, a very bitter discussion was raging on the subject of +censorship--pro and con. Complicating this discussion, a man who is now +dead, and shall therefore be nameless, published a scathing attack on +homosexuals. By way of subtle reproof, and partially as a deadpan joke +on this man, your senior editor, with Royal Drummond (whose "Digression" +was highly praised by Checklist readers last year ...) published a +12-page offset leaflet, with editorials attacking censorship, and +extensive reviews of perhaps a dozen of the best known homosexual +novels. This leaflet had a cartoon cover and the general light-hearted +tone of the publication was indicated by the title, which was _Fairy +Tales for Fabulous Faps_. Reaction to this leaflet was mixed, but in +general the readers enjoyed it, and said, "Do this again some time -- ". +However, soon after this, Mr. Drummond dropped out of the Fantasy +Amateur Press Association, and your present editor had no impetus to +continue the series single-handed. + +Early in the history of the publication known as THE LADDER, your senior +editor had the privilege of reviewing the Foster book mentioned above, +while the junior editor was in charge of the _Lesbiana_ column. After +reading the Foster work, your editor (MZB) resolved to publish a list of +the omitted titles; when I began cutting the mimeograph stencils, +however, I resolved to review not only the titles which Dr. Foster had +omitted, but all of those which I had read, for the purpose of putting +into print my own personal opinions and reactions. This first Checklist +was called _Astra's Tower #2_, and the number 2 seems to have baffled a +good many people--they all wrote in, inquiring about #1. Number 1, +however, was a mimeographed booklet of my own fiction, published during +my late teens for the FAPA, mentioned above. + +Through this first Checklist, I came into contact with Miss Damon, and +because paperback lesbiana was blossoming on all the stands, we quickly +resolved to publish another Checklist. I had fully intended to give Miss +Damon full credit for her work last year; however, the mimeograph work +on last year's list was so poor, the quality of the paper so bad, and +some unreliable reviewers fouled me up so badly on data, that I refused +to foist off any portion of the blame on other shoulders. + +The relaxing of censorship of recent years--as documented in the Supreme +Court judgment relevant to _Lady Chatterley's over_, etc.--has meant, +in recent fiction, fewer taboos and in general a franker treatment of +sexual themes. On the whole this is a good thing. However and +unfortunately, it has also released a flood of trash and borderline +erotica, of no literary worth and "interesting" only for the sexual +content. Your editors have conscientiously waded through all this +newsstand slush (and believe me, we get no kick out of it) because +experience has taught us that even the worst peddlers of commercialized +sex-trash sometimes come up with exceptionally well-written, honest and +sincere work. For instance, Beacon Books (a subsidiary of Universal +Publishing and Distributing Company)--some of whose paperback originals +can be called printable only by the uttermost charity,--are currently +also publishing the work of Artemis Smith, one of the major writers in +the variant field today. + +However, actually reviewing the majority of this stuff is impossible. +Most of these books are not novels at all. They have impossibly complex +plots--or no plots at all--since the story exists only as an excuse for +the characters to jump into amorous exercise with the closest male, or +female, or sometimes both. This sort of thing, "lesbian" only remotely, +belongs more properly to the field of curiosa. One can, of course, +display a Place Pigalle post card in a gallery with the Botticelli +Venus, and classify them both as "nudes". I personally consider this an +insult to the Venus, and the devotee of "feelthy peectures" will find +the restraint and taste of fine art too tame for his jaded tastes. + +We are unalterably opposed to most censorship--but after wading through +almost a hundred books whose only excuse for existence is to provide +phony "thrills" for people too inhibited, too ignorant or too fearful to +provide their own, well--we think wistfully of some self-imposed +standards of taste. + +We also realize, flatly and realistically, that too much license in this +stuff is going to bring on a wave of public reaction which may impose a +sure-enough censorship--making the standards of the 1940s and 1950s look +liberal. + +Now obviously the field of homosexual literature is going to place a +certain emphasis on the sexual problems of humanity which will be +quantitatively greater than that of--say--the Western novel, or the +detective story. Sex alone has not been made an excuse for consigning +any novel to the trashbin. If the treatment is honest, the characters +even remotely believable and the purpose of the book seems reasonably +genuine, then the quantity of sex is purely a matter for the author's +discretion; and be it much, as in the works of March Hastings, Artemis +Smith or Henry Miller, or little, as in Iris Murdoch's delicate and +subtle THE BELL, or Shirley Jackson's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE,--we +give the book judgment only on its merits as a book. + +However, in self-defense, we have had to find a way to dispose of the +more repetitive rubbish. Allowing for differences in taste, and granting +that many people like their books well-spiced, if there is a reasonably +well-written story along with the sex we have called it "Evening +waster"--on the grounds that it may very well provide pleasant +entertainment for anyone not a hopeless prude. But if the story is just +a peg on which to hang up a lot of poorly written, gamy erotic episodes, +with no literary value, and just evasive enough to keep the printer out +of jail, then we have given it short shrift with the abbreviation +"scv"--which cryptic letters are editorial shorthand for "Short Course +in Voyeurism"--and have been the basis of a lot of jokes in the tedious +business of passing reviews around the editorial staff (The junior and +senior editors live a thousand miles apart and have never met; the +others who occasionally contribute reviews are scattered from Alabama to +Oregon.). So we have to have some fun in the endless correspondence--and +"scv" books are fair game. + +Regrettably, we are well aware that some people are going to use this +designation in precisely the opposite fashion than we intended--go +through the list picking out the sexy books and carefully avoiding the +others. Well--we shan't spoil your fun. Each to her own taste, as the +old lady said when she kissed the cow. + +We wish here to give some slight acknowledgment to all those who, over +the years since the initiation of this endeavor, have contributed +overlooked titles, pointed out our errors, sent comments, criticisms and +sometimes cash, laboriously tracked down elusive data, worked as unpaid +researchers and stencil-cutters, and in general helped us to feel we +were not working in a vacuum. + +Special acknowledgments are due to Dr. Jeannette Howard Foster, +unfailingly generous and gracious in allowing us to pick her brains; to +Leslie Laird Winston, of the Winston Book Service; to the editors of THE +LADDER, Del Martin in particular, for helping us to publicize our +Checklist, and for allowing us to use reviews run in the _Lesbiana_ +column; to Forrest Ackerman, for endless help and encouragement; and to +Kerry Dame, whose generous gift of stamps proved invaluable to the heavy +load of correspondence necessary to keep this one-woman publishing house +rolling. And to all those others, anonymous by choice, who have sent +small gifts of cash and stamps, turned up elusive paperbacks for me in +news-standless West Texas, contributed reviews and data, and, above all, +provided cheer and encouraging support. We hope this Checklist is half +as much fun for you to read as it was for us--all things considered--to +prepare. + +And here at the end I take off my editorial "We" for a special, personal +THANK YOU to my collaborator and co-editor, GENE DAMON. + +And now, until the first Supplement time, it's time to turn the +Checklist over to you. Comments and criticisms are invited. + + Marion Z Bradley + +[Illustration] + + +List of Symbols and Abbreviations + + + pbo--paperbacked original; first published in paperback + or first English edition in paperback. + + pbr--paperbacked reprint. + + n.d.--no date listed or date unknown. + + ss--short story. + + qpb--quality paperback book (as, Grove Press or Vintage). + + tct--title changed to (as, _Torchlight to Valhalla_, pbr + tct _The Strange Path_). + + fco--for completists only; variant content either extremely + slight or problematical. + + + before a title indicates a book of considerable value. + Occasionally used to call attention to a fine new + release or the discovery of an old title overlooked + in previous bibliographies. In general, the plus + sign has been reserved for books of honest purpose, + sincere if not always entirely favorable treatment of + the homosexual theme, and some genuine literary merit. + In one or two cases, a plus has been given to a book + of little intrinsic worth because of some major and + exceptional contribution to thought on the variant + theme; or to an occasional book for being extremely + good entertainment of its kind, even if no masterpiece. + We have tried to avoid including only our favorites. + + (m) indicates a novel concerned mostly with male homosexuality. + A very large proportion of such novels, + however, contain some discussion of female variance, + or lesbian characters, as well. + + BAYOR--Buy at your own risk ... either no accurate data is + available or the editors find themselves in hopeless + disagreement about its relevance. + + Evening Waster--good solid entertainment and reasonably + well-written, though worthless as literature. + + scv--see editorial for complete discussion of this term. + This is the literary ghetto, the gutter books, the + commercialized sex trash as distinguished from honest + erotic realism. + + + + +THE COMPLETE, CUMULATIVE CHECKLIST OF LESBIAN FICTION + + + ACKWORTH, ROBERT C. _The Moments Between._ pbo, Hillman Books + 1959. Characters in a college novel include an + instructor--male--who is homosexual, very sympathetically + portrayed. Also a subtle, but sympathetic attachment between an + unlovely, unloved student and an older woman; the relationship is + shown as constructive for both in the end. + + + ADAMS, FAY. _Appointment in Paris._ pbo, N. Y., Gold Medal 1952. + An American girl in Paris has a brief affair with a French woman + and is thereby enabled to break the hold of her old-maid aunt. She + later marries. + + ADDAMS, KAY. _Queer Patterns._ pbo, Beacon, 1959. scv. Trashy + shocker about young Nora Card, who briefly forsakes her boy + friend, Roger, for a corrupt lesbian employer. + + _Warped Desires._ pbo, Beacon, 1960. scv. Teen-age Doris goes to a + boarding school and is seduced by everyone on the premises, male + and female. + + ALDRICH, ANN (pseud.) + + _We Too Must Love._ pbo Gold Medal 1958. + + _We Walk Alone._ pbo, Gold Medal 1955. + + Non-fiction studies of the lesbian world, highly subjective, + mostly vignettes of gay life in and around Greenwich Village, with + some added data about the manners, customs and language of the + "gay" world. Good reading, if somewhat biased. + + see also VIN PACKER + + ALEXANDER, DAVID. _Madhouse in Washington Square._ Lippincott, + 1958. Mystery novel of high quality, introducing a pair of + lesbians for window-dressing. + + ANDERSON, HELEN. _Pity for Women._ N. Y., Doubleday, 1937. An + unhappy and tense relationship among three women, inhabitants of a + women's residence club in New York. + + ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. _Dark Laughter._ N. Y., Boni & Liveright, 1925, + pbr Pocket Books, 1952. Very slight. + + _Poor White_; N. Y., B. W. Huebsch, 1920, hcr in The Portable + Sherwood Anderson, qpb Viking Press P42. In the course of a novel + about the rise of a "shantytown boy's" rise to prosperity, there + is a brief but extremely sympathetic portrait of the lesbian, Kate + Chancellor; the hero's wife, Clara, is briefly captivated by Kate + during her college days. + + ANDREYA, GUY. _Tormented Venus._ N. Y. Key Pub. Co 1958. scv. + + ANONYMOUS. _Adam and Two Eves._ Macauley Co, N. Y., 1934, pbr Beacon + Books 1956. Evening waster. Neurotically heartbroken woman + mourning her dead lover becomes entangled with a married woman + because a woman's love does not constitute infidelity to the dead; + once initiated she becomes entangled in a long affair _a trois_, + from which she is eventually extricated (somewhat the worse for + wear) by a man she later marries. + + ANTHOLZ, PEYSON. _All Shook Up._ pbo, Ace Books, 1958, (m). Alan, + small-town teen-age rowdy, fights against his friendship with + newcomer Howard Sirche, because it is rumored that Howard, who + avoids women, is homosexual. Very good of its kind. + + ANTON, CAL. _The Private Life of a Strip Tease Girl._ pbo, Beacon + 1959, scv. Just what it sounds like. Among her many "affairs" is a + brief episode with another girl. + + ASQUITH, CYNTHIA. "The Lovely Voice". ss, in _This Mortal Coil._ + Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin. Fantasy, 1947 + + BAKER, DENYS VAL. _A Journey With Love._ Bridgehead Books, 1955, + pbr Crest Books 1956. fco. The hero's first marriage fails because + of his wife's insistence that a woman friend shall share their + home. Nothing is explicit. + + BAKER, DOROTHY. _Trio._ Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1943, hcr Sun + Dial 1945, pbr Penguin Books 1946. Tells of the captivation of a + young woman by an unscrupulous literary agent who also happens to + be a lesbian. Highly defamatory. + + _Young Man with A Horn._ Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1938, pbr + Signet 1953. Very minor lesbian incident in a jazz novel. + + + BALDWIN, JAMES. _Giovanni's Room._ Dial 1956, pbr Signet 1959, + (m). An American boy in Paris fights against his affair with a + young Italian, Giovanni; his fear and resistance to this + relationship leads to separation, tragedy and their separate + destruction. A powerful, tender and tragic book. + + BALDWIN, MONICA. _The Called and the Chosen._ Farrar, Straus _&_ + Cudahy, N. Y., 1957, pbr Signet 1958. A good study of repression and + frustration in convent life, containing passim the story of Sister + Helena, novice-mistress; although her behavior was strictly + correct even for a nun, she once inspired such violent passions in + her juniors that she was removed from this office. The heroine + refers to Sister Helena, after her death, as "the one human being + I ever loved". + + BALZAC, HONORE DE. _Cousin Bette._ Classic; many standard editions + and translations. The story of a neurotic spinster's half-realised + passion for a woman friend. + + _The Girl with the Golden Eyes._ Many standard editions and + translations, including pbr Avon Books 1957, (trans. Ernest + Dowson.) Shocker of the 19th century, dealing with the passion of + the Chevalier de Marsay for a strange, unspoilt girl, Paquita--who + is virtually enslaved to a sinister lesbian Countess. + + _Seraphita._ London, J.W. Dent & Sons, 1897; also as above. A + romance of an angelic hermaphrodite. All of these are classics of + world literature, as well as the literature of variance, and are + apt to be available even in small libraries. + + + BANNON, ANN. + + _Odd Girl Out._ pbo, Gold Medal, 1957, 1960. + + _I am a Woman._ pbo, Gold Medal, 1959. + + _Women in the Shadows._ pbo, Gold Medal, 1959. + + These three form a single, connected narrative, although any of + the three novels can be read as a self-contained story. The first + volume introduces the heroine of the series, Laura Landon, at + college; where, in undergoing an affair with her roommate, lovely + but frigid Beth, she discovers her homosexuality. Softened by the + affair, Beth marries, and Laura runs away. In the second book, + Laura, in Greenwich Village, is sharing an apartment, with Marcie, + a divorcee, entirely "straight" who plays Laura along strictly for + kicks; Laura suffers under this treatment for a long time, then + runs away again to shack up with a butch-type Village character, + Beebo. In the third book, Laura and Beebo have been living + together for two years; Laura is tiring of this lengthy affair and + cheats on Beebo with a colored dancer named Tris, while Beebo, to + win Laura back, resorts to such trickery as staging a phony "rape" + ... inflicting wounds on herself in search of sympathy. Tiring of + this life, Laura runs away again, this, time to marry a male + homosexual friend, Jack, in a search for stability and permanence. + The whole story invites comparison with Weiraugh's THE SCORPION: + homosexuality per se is not attacked, but the drawbacks of the + life, and the dangers and difficulties to anyone trying to adjust + him-or-herself to that life, are frankly and brutally delineated; + there is a pervasive air of dissatisfaction, or resignation, and + gradual withdrawal; and the ending of the third book is + unsatisfactory and hardly complete. Nevertheless, the impact of + these books, particularly when read all together, is considerable; + Miss Bannon's grasp of character, technique and construction + improve with each novel. Despite wild improbabilities and + gimmicky, contrived situations, these are perhaps the major + contribution to lesbian literature in the paperback field + anywhere. + + + BARNES, DJUNA. "Dusie", ss in _American Esoterica_, NY, + Macy-Masius, 1927. This collection also contains short stories of + (m) interest. + + _Nightwood._ N. Y., Harcourt 1937, hcr New Directions n.d. A + well-known and excellent lesbian novel laid in Paris. + + + BARR, JAMES. _Derricks._ NY, Greenberg 1951, (m) hcr Pan, 1957. + Although those short stories all deal with male homosexuality, + their coherent, fresh and constructive philosophy make this a book + of primary importance for every reader. + + _Quatrefoil._ N. Y., Greenberg, 1950, (m). + + _Game of Fools._ ONE, 1954, 1955. + + BARRY, JEROME. _Malignant Stars._ N. Y., Doubleday, 1960. Signe, a + handsome Valkyrie-type girl, is found dead, and the note beside + her body is apparently a love letter from her roommate Lyn; the + suspicion that Lyn is her lover and murderer forms the main theme + of the plot. Well done. + + BAUM, VICKI. _Theme for Ballet._ N. Y., Doubleday 1958, pbr Dell + 1959, (m). Minor but excellent. + + _The Mustard Seed._ Dial 1953, pbr Pyramid 1956 (m minor). + + BEER, THOMAS. _Mrs Egg and Other Barbarians._ Knopf, 1933. Rarer + than hen's teeth--lesbian humor. + + BELLAMANN, HENRY. _King's Row._ N. Y., Simon & Schuster, 1940, (m). + + BELOT, ADOLPHE. _Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife._ Paris, Dentu 1870, + Chicago, Laird & Lee 1891. The wife remains a "miss", refusing her + husband's approaches because of her attachment to another woman. + Typically the husband drowns this monstrous creature (other woman) + during an ostensible seaside rescue. + + BENNETT, ARNOLD. _Elsie and the Child._ N. Y., Doran, 1924. "Common + sense" treatment of an attachment between Elsie the housemaid, and + a girl of twelve, which subsides when the little girl is sent to + school. + + _The Pretty Lady._ N. Y., Doran 1918. A subtle picture of indirect + variance between two women in wartorn Paris. + + BERKMAN, SYLVIA. _Blackberry Wilderness._ N. Y., Doubleday, 1959. + Esoteric, melancholy, beautifully written short stories, of which + two are overtly lesbian in content. + + BERTIN, SYLVIA. _The Last Innocence._ (Trans. by Marjorie Dean). N + Y McGraw Hill, 1955. Story of Paula, a member of a French + provincial family. "The refreshing thing is that Paula is treated + as a matter of course ... that she wears trousers, hates men, etc. + is presented with no more excuse or explanation than the + individual foibles of the rest of the family." + + BESTER, ALFRED. _Who He?_ N. Y., Doubleday 1955, pbr Berkley 1956, + (m) tct. _The Rat Race_. Tense, tightly plotted novel of split + personality. The hero's housemate is a deeply sublimated + homosexual who cracks up when Jake gets a girl; this episode snaps + the high pitch of tightrope tension and precipitates the + denouement of the novel. Excellent. + + BISHOP, LEONARD. _Creep Into thy Narrow Bed._ Dial 1954, pbr + Pyramid 1956. Story of a vicious abortion racket; woven into the + story is the sympathetically treated story of a young lesbian's + self-realization. Very good of kind. + + BODIN, PAUL. _All Woman's Flesh_ (trans. from the French of Le + Voyage Sentimental, by Lowell Bair.) pbo Berkley 1957. + + _The Sign of Eros_ (trans. from French) Putnam 1953, pbr Berkley + 1955. + + Both of these involve a man's attachment to two women who have + some homosexual contact, but the emphasis is heterosexual, rather + than lesbian. + + BOLTON, ISABEL. "Ruth and Irma", ss in The New Yorker, Jan 26, + 1947; also in Donald Webster Cory's _21 Variations on a Theme_. + + BOTTOME, PHYLLIS. _Jane._ Vanguard, 1957. Story of a street + urchin, including lesbian episodes in a girl's reformatory. + + BOURDET, EDOUARD. _The Captive._ N. Y., Brentano's 1926. Drama based + on a triangle--man, wife, and a woman who is winning the + affections of the latter. + + BOURJAILY, VANCE. _The End of My Life._ Scribner's 1947, pbr + Bantam 1952, (m). + + _The Violated._ Dial 1958, pbr Bantam 1959, (m). + + _The Hound of Earth._ Scribner 1955, pbr Permabooks, 1956, (m). + Also includes a minor, and unsympathetic lesbian character. + + BOWEN, ELIZABETH. _The Hotel._ N. Y. Dial 1928. A shy young girl + sent to catch a husband at a fashionable hotel is, instead, + captivated by a sophisticated woman. + + BOWLES, JANE. _Two Serious Ladies._ N. Y. Knopf, 1943. The + emancipation of an inhibited American housewife. + + BOYLE, KAY. "The Bridegroom's Body" ss in _The Crazy Hunter_, + Harcourt 1938, 1940. Also qpb, Beacon Press, 1958, (m). + + _Gentlemen, I Address you Privately._ NY, Smith 1933, (m). + + _Monday Night._ N. Y. Harcourt 1938, hcr New Directions, n.d. Brief + account of a lesbian affair through the eyes of a child. + + BRADLEY, MARION Z. "Centaurus Changeling" in The Magazine of + Fantasy and Science Fiction, April, 1954. Science Fiction novel; + intensely emotional relationship between three wives of alien + bureaucrat leads to jealousy and tragedy when the eldest, + Cassiana, takes an outsider into their home and makes a favorite + of her. + + _The Planet Savers_, in Amazing Stories, Dec. 1958, (m). Science + fiction of split personality, one equivocally homosexual. + + BRAND, MAX. (pseud of Frederick Faust). _The Night Horseman._ G.P. + Putnam's Sons, 1920, hcr Dodd, Mead 1952, pbr Pocket Books 1954, + (m). Unusual Western story of a strange cowboy who has an almost + supernatural influence on horses and other men; his foster father + mysteriously declines when he leaves, makes a miraculous recovery + when he returns home. Subtle and good of its kind. + + BRINIG, MYRON. _The Looking Glass Heart._ Sagamore, 1958. One + lesbian episode, treated vaguely. (Minority report says that + nevertheless it is so clearly and well done that the book is worth + anyone's reading.) + + BRITAIN, SLOAN. _The Needle._ pbo Beacon Books, 1959. Overly + contrived shocker about Gina, a young girl who falls + simultaneously into narcotics, lesbianism, prostitution and the + hands of a weird couple dabbling in incest. Evening waster, rather + better than most but leaves a bitter taste. + + + _First Person, Third Sex._ pbo Newsstand Library 1959. Very + well-written novel of Paula Harman, young schoolteacher coming to + terms with her life as a lesbian through bitter experience. Don't + let the lurid paperback covers and blurb scare you off, this is a + NOVEL--well worth hard covers and a steal at 35c. + + BROCK, LILYAN. _Queer Patterns._ Greenberg 1935, pbr Avon 1951, + 1952. Purple-patched sloppily sentimental tale of Sheila, + beautiful young actress with a perfect husband who nevertheless + loses her heart to Nicoli, a stereotype lesbian complete with + tuxedo. They part to avoid gossip and live unhappily ever after. + + BROMFIELD, LOUIS. _The Rains Came._ N. Y. Collier 1937, pbr Bantam + 1952. In a long novel of India there is a brief but important + episode involving two old missionary ladies. The elder, an + engaging old battleax, muses as she tucks the younger and sillier + into bed that her friend had never understood why they had been + driven out of the school where they had, as young girls, been + teaching. Ironically, the nice old grim one is killed in a flood + while the silly one remains to pester everybody. + + _Mister Smith_, Harper, 1951; no pbr on record, but your editor + has owned one--perhaps an "Armed Forces" edition? (m). Four men, + marooned on a desert island in WW2. + + + BROPHY, BRIGID. _King of a Rainy Country._ Knopf. 1957. Poignant + novel of a young girl who lives with Neale, a young male + homosexual, out of wedlock. They both become enamored with a + portrait of Cynthia, a girl out of the childhood of the + heroine.... + + BROWN, WENZELL. _Prison Girl._ pbo, Pyramid, 1958. One of many + books documenting in painful detail the abuses prevalent in the + women's prison system, with special attention to the undeniable + fact that the system breeds various sexual aberrations. A few of + these books are excellent. This one isn't. + + BROWNRIGG, GAWEN. _Star Against Star._ N. Y., Macaulay, 1936. Story + of a girl conditioned from childhood to lesbian affairs, first by + an overly seductive mother, then by a school friend. The book has + the doom-ridden atmosphere of its day, and is emotional and + somewhat over-written. + + BURNS, VINCENT G. _Female Convict._ Macaulay 1934, pbr Pyramid + 1959. More women in prison and the unfortunate relationships + developing among them. + + BURT, STRUTHERS. _Entertaining the Islanders._ N. Y. Scribners, + 1933. Sophisticated, satirical, novel in which a man becomes aware + that his ex-sweetheart has been captivated by another woman. + + + BUSSY, DOROTHY. _Olivia._ (by Olivia). Wm. Sloane Associates, + 1949, Berkley pbr 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959. An English schoolgirl, + sent to boarding school in Paris, becomes an unwitting third party + to a long-standing affair between Julie and Cara, the two + schoolmistresses. Julie's response to the girl, and Cara's + jealousy, and suicide, form the main events of the story, which is + told with delicate restraint, after a retrospect of many years, as + Olivia, now herself a lesbian, has come to understand the + procession of events. + + CAIN, JAMES M. _Serenade._ Knopf 1937, pbr Signet ca. 1953, (m). + + CAINE, HALL. _The Bondsman._ R.F. Fenno & Co, ca. 1890; other + editions available, frequently very cheap secondhand. Called a + "Modern Saga", this is laid in 18th-Century Iceland. Two + half-brothers, Jason the Red and Michael Sunlocks, sons of the + same man by different mothers, grow up knowing of one another's + existence, but unknown to each other personally. Through a series + of saga-like coincidences, they fall in love with the same woman, + and are eventually exiled together to the sulphur mines--Iceland's + prison colony--still unaware of each other's real identity. There + Jason undergoes a psychological and emotional upheaval which can + only be described as "falling in love" with Michael, who is still + known to him only as Prisoner A-25, not as his hated brother. This + story is probably more explicit, emotionally, than anything + written before the 20th century and the freedom given by Freud to + the emotions of novelists. Recommended. + + _The Deemster._ Rand McNally, 1888, Chicago; D. Appleton, 1888; + numerous other editions, (m). A glorified friendship between two + cousins ends in murder. + + CALDWELL, ERSKINE. _Tragic Ground._ Little, Brown & Co, 1944, pbr + Signet 1948, fco. + + CAPOTE, TRUMAN. _Breakfast at Tiffany's._ Random House 1958, pbr + Signet 1959. In the story of a promiscuous, rather pathetic girl, + a sadistic lesbian neighbor brings on violent events. Everything + very subtle and indirect. + + _Other Voices, Other Rooms._ Random House 1948, pbr Signet 1959. + Young boy slowly falling under the influence of a decadent uncle + who is a transvestite. Macabre. + + CARCO, FRANCIS. _Depravity._ pbo Berkley 1957. + + _Infamy._ pbo Berkley 1958. + + Both of these books hint at lesbianism on the cover blurbs, but + are, rather, highly risque French novels with brief, irrelevant + and heterosexually oriented contact between women characters + strictly for voyeuristic effect. + + CARPENTER, EDWARD. _Iolaus_; _an Anthology of Friendship._ N. Y., + Albert & Charles Boni, 1935, (m). Listed as "the first of its + kind", this is said also to be "very vague and old-fashioned." + + + CASAL, MARY. _The Stone Wall. An Autobiography._ Chicago, + Eyncourt Press, 1930. In casual, conversational and entirely + frank form, a woman born in 1865 (and therefore, at the time of + writing, in her sixties) tells the story of her entire life as a + lesbian. With the exception of "slightly autobiographical"--and + always greatly disguised--fiction, this is probably the earliest + such memoir in the literature. The writing is highly competent and + professional, (subtly denying the author's insistence that she was + not a writer;) and filled with most interesting revelations about + the lesbian world of New York and Paris at the turn of this + century. Unfortunately the book is rare and expensive, but it + stands alone as a classic of its kind. + + CHAMALES, TOM T. _Go Naked in the World._ N. Y. Scribners 1959. Nick + Stratton, wounded veteran, returns to find that his girl friend is + a call-girl and a lesbian. + + CHANDLER, RAYMOND. _The Big Sleep._ Knopf 1939, pbr Pocket Books + 1950, and others. (m). The bizarre murder of a homosexual hoodlum, + and the interrogation of his boy friend, form important sequences + in this hard-boiled murder mystery. + + CHEEVER, JOHN. "Clancy in the Tower of Babel", ss in _The Enormous + Radio_, Funk 1953, pbr Berkley 1958, (m). + + + CHRISTIAN, PAULA. _The Edge of Twilight._ pbo Crest 1959. + Airline stewardess Val, in an alcoholic haze, allows herself to + make love to a young girl friend, Toni. Fearing her own response + to this "abnormal" love, she redoubles her promiscuous + sleeping-around, but the girls end up together. The treatment, + though sensational, is honest and constructive; the book will win + no literary prizes, but whatever the reader's sympathies and + prejudices, he will approve the stand that happy adjustment to + love and affection--even homosexual--is a more constructive + solution than promiscuity. Very good of its kind. + + CHRISTIE, AGATHA. _A Murder is Announced._ Dodd, Mead 1950, fco. + Suspects include a pair of problematical lesbians. + + CLARK, DORENE. _The Exotic Affair._ Magnet Books, 1959, scv. "I + really think this one should be Maggot Books," wrote my reviewer. + "One of those fastmoving sloppy jobs where two men and two women + on an exotic cruise complete with mis-spelled and misapplied + foreign phrases spend most of their time trying all of the + printable and some of the unprintable variations on an old old + theme. All sex and no sentiment makes Jack and Jill sickening (and + the reviewer sick) or, for that matter, Jack and Jack or Jill and + Jill." + + + CLAYTON, JOHN. _Dew in April._ Kendall & Sharpe, 1935. Romance + of the Middle Ages, laid in the Convent of St. Lazarus of the + Butterflies. Dolores, a homeless vagabond, is given shelter by + Mother Leonor, a mystic, repressed, white-hot and deeply tender + woman whose passionate emotional attachments to her young novices + are never explicit but pervade the entire book. Much of the story + is concerned with a subtle, sweet and innocently sensual + blossoming of adolescent emotions into homo-erotic form under the + pressures of convent life; the interplay of delicate love + relationships between Dolores, Mother Leonor, and the young + novices Dezirada and Clarisse, and their fluctuation between + despair, self-sacrifice and compassionate love when Dolores finds + a knightly lover, Pedro, is probably unmatched in studies of + feminine variance. + + _Gold of Toulouse._ Kendall & Sharpe, 1935. Sequel to _Dew in + April_, but laid chronologically six or seven years earlier. + Though mostly concerned with the adventures of Don Marcos, the + Spanish knight, it also tells the story of Leonor, and shows the + beginning of her relationship with Dezirada. + + CLIFTON, BUD. _Muscle Boy._ pbo Ace Books, 1958, (m). Teen-age + athlete inveigled into posing for dirty pictures. Good evening + waster. + + COLE, JERRY. _Secrets of a Society Doctor._ Greenberg, 1935. pbr + Universal Publishing & Distributing, ca. 1953, (m). + + + COLEMAN, LONNIE. _Ship's Company._ Little, Brown & Co, 1955, pbr + Dell, 1957. Collection of short stories, of which two are + homosexual. + + _Sam._ David McKay, 1959, pbr Pyramid, 1960, (m). Major, excellent, + important. Don't waste time reading reviews, just go out and buy + it. + + COLETTE, SIDONIE-GABRIELLE. _Claudine at School._ _Claudine in + Paris._ _The Indulgent Husband_ (in The Short Novels of Colette). + "Bella Vista" in _The Tender Shoot._ "Gitanette" in _Music Hall + Sidelights._ + + All of these are currently in print in excellent, uniform English + translation of the standard "Fleuron" edition of Colette's + complete works, from Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, of recent date. The + two "Claudine" novels have had recent Avon pbr editions under the + titles of _Diary of a 15 Year Old French Girl_, and _Claudine_. + + Much of the work of this important French novelist was variant. + Only the most explicit are named above. The first three form a + connected narrative, telling of Claudine's school crushes, her + friendship with a male-homosexual cousin, and her "indulgent + husband" who connives at her lesbian affair with a woman friend, + in order to enjoy it secondhand. "Bella Vista" tells of a vacation + spent at a hotel managed by two middle-aged lesbians; the + narrator's fascinated interest in the couple vanishes when one of + the "ladies" turns out to be, actually, a disguised man. + + CONNOLLY, CYRIL. _The Rock Pool._ Scribner 1936, hcr New + Directions n.d. Very well written novel of a group of expatriates + in the South of France. Nearly all are homosexuals; the story is + told without comment or judgment. + + CONSTANTINE, MURRAY, and Margaret Goldsmith. _Venus in Scorpio._ + John Lane, 1940. Heavily fictionalized biography, (erroneously + listed elsewhere as a novel) of Marie Antoinette, suggesting + lesbianism in her adolescence. + + + CORY, DONALD WEBSTER. _21 Variations on a Theme._ N. Y., Greenberg + 1953. The classic anthology of short stories about homosexuals; + four deal with feminine variance. + + COUPEROUS, LOUIS. _The Comedians_, N. Y. Doran 1926. Variant + couple in a novel of Imperial Rome. + + COURAGE, JAMES. _A Way of Love._ G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1959, (m). + + COWLIN, DOROTHY. _Winter Solstice._ Macmillan, 1943. A brief + variant relationship proves beneficial to a hysterical invalid. + + CRADOCK, PHYLLIS. _Gateway to Remembrance._ Andrew Dakers, London + 1950. fco. Very brief mention of a lesbian couple in a sappy + metaphysical novel about Lost Atlantis. + + CRAIG, JONATHAN. _Case of the Village Tramp._ pbo Gold Medal 1959. + Fast, well-written mystery introduces a pair of lesbians among the + suspects; _good_ entertainment. + + + CRAIGIN, ELISABETH. _Either is Love._ Harcourt, Brace, 1937, pbr + Lion Books, 1952, 1956, Pyramid 1960. After the death of her + husband the narrator re-reads the letters she had written him + about her intense love affair with another woman. Almost + unequalled treatment of a lesbian _romance_. + + CREAL, MARGARET. _A Lesson in Love._ Simon & Schuster 1957. A + Canadian orphan's passion for a beautiful schoolmate ends in + disillusion when the older girl, Tammy, tries to force Nicola into + a distasteful affair with a boy, the better to deceive her mother + about a similar affair of her own. + + CROUZAT, HENRI. _The Island at the End of the World._ Duell, Sloan + and Pearce, 1959. An ex-schoolteacher, Patrice, is marooned on a + sub-Antarctic island with three nurses; Joan, a nymphomanic; + Victoria, a lesbian, and Kathleen, a quite ordinary girl. Due to + fortuitous circumstances, they manage to assure themselves the + necessities of life, and between Robinson-Crusoe-ish struggles, + embark on a round of excesses gradually diminished by the horrible + deaths of Kathleen, then Victoria. Fascinating, slightly macabre. + + + CUSHING, MARY WATKINS. _The Rainbow Bridge._ G P Putnam's Sons, + 1954. This book is included for the light it sheds on another + novel in this list, Marcia Davenport's _Of Lena Geyer_, and not + for the sake of any impertinent conclusions about the real people + involved. Mrs. Cushing served for seven years as companion and + buffer against the world for the famous prima donna, Olive + Fremstad, and Mme. Fremstad's reclusive, fantastically disciplined + personality seems to have served, at least in part, as model for + Lena Geyer. At any rate, both books become more interesting when + read together. + + DANE, CLEMENCE. (pseud. of Winifred Ashton); _Regiment of Women._ + Macmillan, 1917. Possibly the earliest novel of variance. A + lengthy book of the subtle sadism of the domineering headmistress + of a girl's school. + + DARIUS, MICHEL. _I, Sappho of Lesbos._ Castle Books, May 1960. + Supposedly translated from a Medieval Latin manuscript + conveniently lost on the Andrea Doria. In first-person, this + weaves the better-known traditions about Sappho into a racy, + fast-moving novel. The lesbian content is not emphasized, unduly. + Writing-wise, this invites comparison with the work of Pierre + Louys. The "scholarship" is completely tongue-in-cheekish, of + course, as with the _Songs of Bilitis_. In general, this should + prove the Title of the Year for those who wonder why they don't + write like Pierre Louys anymore. (Department of Unpaid + Advertising; this one can NOW be ordered through Winston Book + Service; see Appendix.) + + DAVENPORT, MARCIA. _Of Lena Geyer._ Scribner, 1936. Well-known + novel of the life of an opera singer. Lena has a young satellite + and adorer, but Elsie is careful to say that while "gossip has had + many cruel things to say of this friendship ... there was, + needless to say, not a word of truth in the essential accusation." + The two women remain together, even after Lena's marriage, until + her death. + + DAVEY, WILLIAM. _Dawn Breaks the Heart._ Howell Soskin & Co, 1941. + A lengthy episode involves the sensitive hero's elopement with + Vivian, an irresponsible girl who turns out to be a lesbian and + leaves him for another woman. Excellent. + + DAVIES, RHYS. "Orestes", ss in _The Trip to London._ N. Y. Howell + Soskin & Co, 1946. A lesbian manages to free the protagonist of a + mother-complex, because her attitude is free of feminine + seductiveness. + + + DAVIS, FITZROY. _Quicksilver._ Harcourt, Brace, 1942. Hilarious + novel of the theatre, supposedly based on actual personalities + recognizable to the initiate; my reviewer wrote that some + theatrical people "literally turn purple at the mere mention of + this book ... most real pro actors detest portrayal of + homosexuality in theatre fiction, bad publicity and all that ... + can't say I blame them much." + + DAY, MAX. _So Nice, So Wild._ pbo, Stanley Library Inc, 1959. + Evening waster; an impossibly complicated murder-story plot with a + hero who, trying to prove he didn't murder his own uncle, is + pestered by all sorts of girls crawling into his bunk, blondes, + brunettes and a few lesbians trying hard to convert themselves to + heterosexuality. Funny, real fun. + + DEAN, RALPH. _One Kind of Woman._ pbo, Beacon, 1959. Evening + waster. + + _Forbidden Thrills._ pbo Bedtime Books 1959. Scv. + + DEBUSSY, ROY. + + --and Jay Arpage; _Non Stop Flight_, Brookwood 1958. + + --and Cleo Dorene; _Fountain of Youth_, Brookwood 1958. + + --and Arthur Maurier; _Wicked Curves_, Brookwood 1958. + + --and Les Maxime; _Eye Lust_, Brookwood 1959. + + --and Les Maxime; _The Golden Nymph_, Brookwood 1958. + + These are all hardcover risque novels retailing for about $3 in + bookstores which deal in that sort of thing for the adult trade + only; I don't know, not being a postal inspector, whether they + can legally be sent through the U S Mails. On the whole I would + think not. They are all fairly well written for books of their + kind, amusing and entertaining, and bear about the same + relationship to the paperback scv--evening wasters that ESQUIRE + does to the average cheaper girly magazine. They are, however, + strictly for a male audience; the "lesbian" content in all of them + is presented from a strip-tease point of view and in every case + the girl involved is "cured" of this perversion by male + seduction--in some cases, by brutality. The plot of _Non Stop + Flight_ is typical; hero Eric Leighton discovers his wife dallying + with a lesbian, so he beats up and rapes the lesbian (juicily + described) whereupon his wife commits suicide. Then Eric gets + involved with Celia, a stereotype "dish" with an ineffectual + husband; when Celia tires of him he beats her up and rapes her + (juicily described) then runs across the lesbian who has seduced + his wife _and_ Celia, so he beats her up and rapes her again + (juicily described) after which Eric and the lesbian get married + and live very happily forever after. I don't know precisely what + to call these books, but lesbiana is hardly descriptive. You have + been warned. + + DEISS, JAY. _The Blue Chips._ Simon & Schuster 1957, pbr Bantam + 1958. fco. In an excellent novel of medical laboratory workers, a + very very minor lesbian character. + + DE FORREST, MICHAEL. _The Gay Year._ N. Y., Woodford Press, 1949, + (m). Happily untypical of this publisher's racy trash, this story + of a young man searching for self-knowledge in New York's Bohemia + is very good of its kind. + + DELL, FLOYD. _Diana Stair._ Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. Long novel of + the early 19th century. Diana is a woman writer, but also explores + life as mill-girl, schoolteacher and abolitionist. Though + attracted to, and attractive to men, she is never without "some + older woman to adore and emulate, or some younger woman to teach + and inspire." Delightful, ironic novel of the trouble women can + get into when they refuse to fall neatly into the ruts laid down + by conventional society for women's lives. + + DE MEJO, OSCAR. _Diary of a Nun._ pbo Pyramid 1955. Just what it + sounds like--fictional diary of a young girl in a convent warding + off scandalous advances. Mediocre. + + + DENNIS, NIGEL FORBES. _Cards of Identity._ Vanguard, 1955. + Hilarious novel of confused identity, dealing with both male and + female homosexuality. + + DES CARS, GUY. _The Damned One._ pbo Pyramid, 1956. A member of + French aristocracy, ambiguously sexed enough to be classified as + female at birth, grows up unequivocally male but retains the name, + dress and character of a female to avoid scandal--which comes + anyhow when _she_ carries on with an eccentric Englishwoman. + + DEUTSCH, DEBORAH. _The Flaming Heart._ Boston, Bruce Humphries, + 1959, (m). + + DEVLIN, BARRY. Acapulco Nocturne. Vixen Press, 1952. + + Cheating Wives. Beacon pbo 1959 (copyright 1955). + + Fire and Ice. Vixen Press, 1952. + + Golf Widow. Vixen Press, 1953. + + Lovers and Madmen. Vixen Press 1952. + + Madame Big. Vixen Press 1953. + + Moon Kissed. Green Farms, Conn. Modern Pubs 1957, Vixen Press + 1953, pbr tct _Forbidden Pleasures_ Beacon Books 1959. + + Too Many Women. Vixen(?) 1953, Beacon pbr 1959. + + These are all the same sort of thing, evening wasters or scv, + depending on taste. Big handsome men of incredible stamina, + engaging incessantly in that one activity besides which all else + is as naught, with a succession of beautiful women, blonde, + brunette and redhead. Now and then this procession of affairs is + varied a little by letting the girls sport with one another to + give the heroes a breathing spell. In short, sexy books for people + who like reading sexy books. Adults only, please. + + DE VOTO, BERNARD. _Mountain Time._ Little, Brown & Co 1946--47, + fco. One very brief overt lesbian episode. + + DE VRIES, PETER. _The Tents of Wickedness._ Little, Brown & Co, + 1959, Minor episode in a very funny literary satire--Army colonel + who talks pure Hemingway turns out to be a WAC in disguise. + + DIBNER, MARTIN. _The Deep Six._ Doubleday 1953, pbr Permabooks + 1957, (m). + + DIDEROT, DENIS. _Memoirs of a Nun._ (trans from French by Frances + Birrell). London, Rutledge & Sons 1928, hcr London, Elek Books, + Book Centre Ltd, N. Circular Road, Neasden, London, N. W. 10, + England. Classic French novel _La Religieuse_, written in 1760, + published in 1796. Reflects the very bitter anti-clerical + sentiment of the times just before the Revolution. A "cornerstone" + title. + + DINESEN, ISAK. _Seven Gothic Tales._ N. Y., Smith & Haas, 1943, hcr + Modern Library n.d. + + "The Invincible Slave Owners", ss in _A Winter's Tales_, Random + House 1942. + + DIXON, CLARISSA. _Janet and her dear Phebe._ Stokes, 1909. Girls + story of two loving little chums, separated by a misunderstanding + between their families, and re-united as women. Though never + explicit, the story is emotional and intense. It is highly + unlikely the author was quite aware of the type of attachment she + was portraying. + + DJEBAR, ASSIA. _The Mischief._ Simon & Schuster 1958, pbr Avon + 1959 tct _Nadia_. Very brief but well-written novel of a young + girl who falls in love with a former schoolgirl friend, now + married. + + + DONISTHORPE, SHEILA. _Loveliest of Friends_, Claude Kendall + 1931, pbr Berkley 1956, 1957, 1958, due for another. Boyish Kim + captivates young happy-housewife Audrey and wrecks her life. + Preachy outburst against lesbians toward the end. Read it with a + hanky handy. (Curiously enough, in spite of the anti-lesbian bias + of the ending, and the overdone sentimentality of the Swinburnian + writing, everybody seems to enjoy this one--all the Checklist + editors included.) + + DOWD, HARRISON. _The Night Air._ Dial Press, 1950, (m). + + DRESSER, DAVID. _Mardigras Madness._ Godwin 1934. One lesbian + episode in an evening waster about Carnival. + + DRUON, MAURICE. _The Rise of Simon Lachaume._ Dutton, 1952; hcr as + part of the trilogy _The Curtain Falls_, Scribner 1960. One + episode in lengthy novel of a French family involves the duping of + an elderly roue by a pair of young lesbians. + + + DU MAURIER, ANGELA. _The Little Legs._ Doubleday, 1941. Sad and + devastating results from a long variant enslavement. "This is a + lovely book if you enjoy crying, and I do," says one reviewer. + + DURRELL, LAWRENCE. _Justine._ N. Y., Dutton, 1957. + + _Balthazar._ N. Y., Dutton, 1958, (m). + + _Mountolive._ N. Y., Dutton, 1959, (m). + + _Clea._ N. Y. Dutton, 1960. The last volume of now-famous tetralogy, + just released, winds up all of the loose ends of the other three. + The lesbian element is minor, but all four novels are excellent. + + EICHRODT, JOHN. "Nadia Devereaux", ss in _Sextet_, ed by Whit & + Hallie Burnett. N. Y., McKay Co. 1951. + + EISNER, SIMON. (pseud of Cyril Kornbluth). _The Naked Storm._ pbo, + Lion Library, 1952, 1956. Mixed bag of passengers on a + transcontinental train, including a lesbian who tries to captivate + a young girl and is murdered by another passenger to give her + intended victim "a chance at real happiness with a man." + + ENGSTRAND, STUART. _More Deaths than One._ Julian Messner 1955, + pbr Signet 1957. Mannish woman defending effeminate husband + against charge of rape by kidnapping his victim and hiding her + out, goes through a nervous breakdown involving a morbid and + macabre attachment to the girl; horrible. + + _Sling and the Arrow._ Creative Age 1947, hcr Sun Dial n.d., pbr + Signet ca. 1951, (m). + + EMERY, CAROL. _Queer Affair._ pbo Beacon Books, 1957. Dancer Draga + moves in with mannish Jo, runs into complications when she tries + to desert Jo for a man. Evening waster but very good nevertheless + ... the author got in some good attitudes and philosophies when + the publisher wasn't looking. + + ENTERS, ANGNA. _Among the Daughters._ Coward McCann, 1955. + Autobiographical novel of a girl who, like the author, finally + becomes a dancer and choreographer. A good deal of space is + devoted to a friendship between Lucy and another girl; the story + is tinged with variance but never explicit. + + ESTEY, NORBERT. _All My Sins._ A. A. Wyn, 1954. pbr Crest 1956. + fco. Few very minor variant episodes in a long novel of the French + courtesan Ninon l'Enclos. + + EUSTIS, HELEN. _The Horizontal Man._ Harper 1946, pbr Pocket Books + 1955. Offbeat psychological murder mystery. + + EVANS, LESLEY. _Strange are the Ways of Love._ pbo Crest 1959. + Love among the guitar-playing, folk-singing beatniks, with the + lesbians playing Musical Beds. Evening waster. + + EVANS, JOHN (pseud. of Howard Browne). _Halo in Brass._ + Bobbs-Merrill 1949, pbr Bantam 1958. Hardboiled detective story; + private eye Paul Pine is hired to locate runaway girl with no boy + friends and many girl friends. Suspenseful, nice way to spend (not + waste) a lazy evening. + + EWERS, HANNS HEINZ. _Alraune._ John Day, 1929. Alraune is Evil + incarnate--symbol of the Mandrake Root, destroying love in + everyone with whom she comes in contact, bringing out their innate + evil. Among those destroyed by Alraune are a pair of lesbian + lovers. High-quality fantasy, unfortunately rare and rather + expensive. + + FADIMAN, EDWIN JR. _The 21 Inch Screen._ Doubleday 1958, pbr + Signet 1960. TV bigshot Rex Lundy has woman trouble--his wife, his + mistress, and his teen-age daughter. The latter is seeking the + love she doesn't get at home from a Greenwich Village lesbian + friend. Excellent modern fiction. + + _The Glass Play Pen._ pbo Signet 1956. Rich girl loses her + parents, loses her money, and turns expensive call girl. One + lesbian episode, treated with tenderness and sympathy. + + see also EDWINA MARK. + + FAIR, ELIZABETH. _Bramton Wick._ Funk & Wagnalls 1954. fco. Cozy + little story of cozy little English village, including two maiden + ladies who have lived together for many years. "It is all very + light and airy and your old-maid aunt wouldn't think it at all + odd." Apt to be in libraries. + + FAREWELL, NINA. _Someone to Love._ Messner 1959, pbr Popular + Library, 1960. One brief, incomplete lesbian episode in a long, + interesting novel of a woman's continual search for real love in a + life filled with fleeting liaisons. + + + FERGUSON, MARGARET. _The Sign of the Ram._ London, Philadelphia, + The Blakiston Co, 1944-45. Sherida comes as companion-secretary to + crippled Leah, passionately adored by her whole family including + sixteen-year-old Christine. Subtly playing on Christine's + emotions, Leah spurs her to the point where she attempts to murder + Sherida. On the surface, the motivation is simply the love of + power, but Christine's emotions are clearly variant; when the book + was filmed, they carefully cast Christine as a girl of eleven, to + make it unmistakable that her adoration was only "childish." + + FIRBANK, RONALD. _The Flower Beneath the Foot._ in Five Novels, + New Directions, 1949. "Light and fluffy ... pure fun". + + _Inclinations._ in Three Novels. New Directions 1951, (m). + + FITZROY, A.T. _Despised and Rejected._ London, C W Daniel, 1918. + Lesbian incidents in a novel which is, however, mainly about + persecution of Conscientious Objectors in World War I. + + FISHER, MARY (PARRISH). _Not Now but NOW._ Viking 1947. Novel of + an ageless, ruthless woman. A long episode on a college campus is + lesbian in emphasis. + + FISHER, VARDIS. _The Darkness and the Deep._ Vanguard, 1943, fco, + a novel of the Stone Age. + + FLAGG, JOHN. _Dear, Deadly Beloved._ Gold Medal pbo 1954. + + _Murder in Monaco._ pbo Gold Medal 1957. + + Both of these are fast-moving mysteries, in Mediterranean setting, + both involving lesbian characters. + + FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE. _Salammbo._ Classic French Novel in many + editions and translations. A very long novel of a Babylonian High + Priestess; some psychological and literary authorities consider it + variant. The editors all say with one voice that it isn't. BAYOR. + + FLEMING, IAN. _Goldfinger._ Macmillan 1959. No data, BAYOR. + + FLORA, FLETCHER. _Desperate Asylum._ pbo Lion Library 1955, pbr + Pyramid 1959, tct _Whisper of Love_. An unhappy lesbian and a + neurotic man who hates women because his mother was promiscuous, + marry to find a mutual "asylum". Predictably the marriage is + unsuccessful, ending in murder and suicide. + + _Strange Sisters_, pbo Lion Library 1954, pbr Pyramid 1960. Weird + novel of a girl's mental breakdown, indirectly blamed on her + affairs with three cruel and sadistic women. + + _Take me Home._ Monarch Books, pbo 1959. A young writer's slow + captivation with a strange girl just escaping from the domination + of an evil lesbian cousin. All three of these books, though + anti-lesbian in bias, are very well and slickly written, and + entertaining. + + FORREST, FELIX. _Carola._ Duell, 1948. Brief recall of a lesbian + episode in the heroine's girlhood. + + FORTUNE, DION. (pseud. of Violet B. Firth). _Moon Magic._ London, + Aquarian Press, 1958, fco. Fascinating, funny novel of a modern + sorceress and an inhibited, bad-tempered doctor. It is implied + that his marriage failed because his wife, a hysteric shamming + invalidism, prefers being cosseted by her faithful companion to + reassuming marital duties. + + FOSTER, GERALD. _Strange Marriage._ N. Y., Godwin 1943. + Transvestite, rather than lesbian; heroine in man's clothing + actually marries a fantastically naive girl. + + FOWLER, ELLEN T. _The Farringdons._ N. Y., Appleton, 1900. Three + intense variant attachments by a motherless girl under twenty, + which subside when she falls in love with a man. + + FRANKEN, ROSE. _Intimate Story._ Doubleday, 1955. A novel by the + author of the popular Claudia series. + + + FREDERICS, DIANA. (pseud); _Diana, a Strange Autobiography._ + Dial 1939, pbr Berkley Books 1955, 1957, 1958. Well known story of + a young musician/teacher's discovery and slow acceptance and + adjustment to her lesbian personality. + + FRANK, WALDO. _The Dark Mother._ N. Y., Boni & Liveright, 1920, (m). + A too-possessive mother ruins her son's life. + + FRIEDMAN, STUART. _Nikki._ Monarch Books, 1960, scv. + + _The Revolt of Jill Braddock._ Monarch Books 1960. scv. Male and + female homosexuality in a ballet company, with Jill in the middle. + "Not as bad as _Nikki_, but still a pretty raw evening waster." + + GARLAND, RODNEY. _The Heart in Exile._ Coward McCann 1954, pbr + Lion 1956, (m). Because of courageous approach to the basic problem + of relations between the homosexual and his family, this story of + a young homosexual in an unconventional household deserves + shelfspace everywhere. + + GARNETT, DAVID. _A Shot in the Dark._ Little, Brown 1959, pbr tct + _The Ways of Desire_. Popular Library 1960. Complex, fast-moving + adventure story, involving a great number of lesbians. + + GARRETT, ZENA. _The House in the Mulberry Tree._ Random House, + 1959 Sensitive story of a girl of eleven, fascinated by an + innocently appealing neighbor, a married woman. The mother, + observing innocent caresses between the two, separates them. + + + GARRIGUE, JEAN. "The Other One" ss in _Cross Section_, ed. by E. + Seaver, Simon & Schuster, 1947. + + GAUTIER, THEOPHILE. _Mademoiselle de Maupin._ Many editions, + including Modern Library, n. d. also pbr Pyramid Books 1956, 1957, + 1958. Classic novel of lesbianism. + + GENET, JEAN. _The Maids._ Grove Press qpb 1954. Offbeat + existentialist drama; involuted love among women. + + GEORGIE, LEYLA. _The Establishment of Madame Antonia._ Liveright, + 1932. Light entertainment about inhabitants of a high-class + European bordello, including a young recruit protected by an older + woman. + + GIDE, ANDRE. _The School for Wives._ N. Y., Knopf, 1950 + + _The Immoralist._ Knopf 1930, hcr 1948, (m). + + _The Counterfeiters._ Knopf 1927, (m). + + GILBERT, EDWIN. _The Hot and the Cool._ Doubleday 1953, pbr tct + + _See How They Burn_, Popular Library, 1959, (m). Minor and subtle + homosexual overtones in a novel of jazz musicians. + + GODDEN, RUMER. _The Greengage Summer._ Viking 1957, fco. + + _A Candle for St. Jude_, Viking 1948, fco. + + GOLDMAN, WILLIAM. _The Temple of Gold._ Knopf 1957, pbr Bantam + 1958, (m) minor fco. + + GOLDSTON, ROBERT. _The Catafalque._ Rinehart 1957, 1958. + High-quality thriller about ill-fated archaeological expedition to + Spain; crisis precipitated when a sinister Countess takes young + Stephanie, the expedition leader's daughter, to a grotto where a + pagan goddess has been worshipped with lesbian rites and attempts + to seduce her there. + + GREENE, GRAHAM. _The Orient Express._ Doubleday 1933, pbr Bantam + 1955. Trainful of mixed adventurers includes a lesbian between + girl-friends but still trying. + + GUDMUNDSSON, KRISTMANN. _Winged Citadel._ Holt, 1940, (m). Brief + but very explicit homosexual interlude in a fine historical novel + of Crete and the Bull-dancers. + + GUNTER, ARCHIBALD. _A Florida Enchantment._ Home Pubs 1892. No + data available, BAYOR. + + HACKETT, PAUL. _Children of the Stone Lions._ G. P. Putnam 1955. + An important lesbian character in a novel which has had good + reviews. + + + HAGGARD, SIR HENRY RIDER. _Allan's Wife._ First published, 1889; + now in print in Five Novels of H. Rider Haggard, Dover Press, + 1951. A strange story, and this year's special "find". Allan, hero + of the famous adventure-novelist's KING SOLOMON'S MINES, is here + shown as a young man, in love with Stella Carson--an English girl + reared in the unspoilt beauty of a lost valley in Darkest Africa. + The romance is complicated by the passionate jealousy of + Hendrika--stolen in infancy by gorillas, reared as a female + Tarzan, and rescued to be Stella's companion, foster-sister and + adorer. Hendrika first attempts to murder Allan; the scene in + which she rages insanely at Allan for stealing Stella's love, and + Allan's quiet acceptance of the "curious" fact that the strongest + loves are not always between those of different sexes, places this + book almost alone in forthright English treatment of variance for + its date. From this high level of psychological realism, the story + reverts to Haggard-type melodrama; Stella is kidnapped by + Hendrika's gorilla friends; dramatically rescued in a thrilling + jungle battle; her death from exposure and Hendrika's remorseful + suicide complete the story. Strange, romantic, and quite in a + class by itself. + + HALES, CAROL. _Wind Woman._ Woodford Press 1953, pbr tct _Such is + My Beloved_, Berkley 1958. Sad, sad, sad story of the + psychoanalysis of a young lesbian such as was never seen on sea or + land. Harmless and nitwitted ... read it and weep, or giggle. + + see also LORA SELA. + + + HALL, RADCLYFFE. _The Well of Loneliness._ Many editions, some + cheap hcr (Sun Dial ed, still in print, n. d.) also Permabooks pbr + n. d. The classic first novel of a lesbian, written soon after + WWI. Stephen Gordon, male in physique, temperament and character, + seeks for lasting love and some measure of acceptance from a + rejecting world. + + _The Unlit Lamp._ N. Y., Jonathan Cape 1924; the endless sacrifice + of a daughter into a sterile, wasted life because her mother + cannot accept her right to live her own life. + + _Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself._ Harcourt, Brace 1934. A lesbian finds + her true destiny after a lifetime of serving her country. + Overtones of science fiction. + + _A Saturday Life._ London, Falcon Press, 1952 (orig. pub 1925). An + attempt at farce, not overt anywhere. + + HALL, OAKLEY M. _Corpus of Joe Bailey._ Viking 1953, Permabooks + 1955, (m). Also contains a pathetic pair of lesbians, one + camouflaging her true leanings by pretending to be the campus + whore. + + HARDY, THOMAS. _Desperate Remedies._ Harper 1896; still in print, + London, the Macmillan Co, 1951 ($3.00). Brief but relevant episode + in a novel by a classic English novelist. + + + HARRIS, SARA. _The Wayward Ones._ Crown 1952, pbr Signet 1956,57 + One of the few really good treatments of lesbian attachments in a + girl's reform school. Bessie, a wayward girl, is sent to a "good" + reform school; at this stage she is naive, fairly innocent and + presumably redeemable. The loneliness, the sadistic persecution by + the corrupt or hardened matrons, and the "racket"--the enforced + division of the school into "moms" and "pops", by hardened young + girl hooligans who like the power it gives them, and permitted by + the matrons under the self-deception that these attachments are + normal, schoolgirlish crushes--finally complete the girl's + corruption until it is certain that she will come out of school a + confirmed young criminal, Sara Harris is herself a social worker; + this painfully accurate picture of what our juvenile authorities + contend with may, at least, give some insight into why the police + and social agencies tend to be so violently anti-lesbian. It is + hard to forget the picture painted in this book of the frightened + Bessie insisting "I don't never do no lovin' with girls.'"--and + the threats made to her. An absolute MUST book--on the other side. + + HARRIS, WILLIAM HOWARD. _The Golden Jungle._ Doubleday 1957, pbr + Berkley 1958. Brittle novel about a wall street banker; his + beautiful wife is a lesbian, but he naively believes her faithful + because she prefers the company of women. + + + HASTINGS, MARCH. _Demands of the Flesh._ Newsstand Library pbo, + 1959. Ellen, a young widow suffering from physical frustration, + goes through a period of promiscuity involving several men and a + brief affair with a lesbian, Nita. Oddly enough for this sort of + borderline-risque stuff, the lesbian character is well and + realistically drawn; realizing that Ellen is basically normal, she + helps keep her on an even keel until she remarries. Good of kind. + + _Three Women._ pbo Beacon Books 1958. Good and sympathetic story + of a young girl involved with a basically decent older woman, a + lesbian, Byrne. Unfortunately Byrne is deeply involved with, and + obligated to, her insane cousin Greta, and the affair ends in + tragedy, leaving young Paula to marry her faithful boy friend. The + lesbian interlude, however, is treated not as a "twisted love in + the shadows" or any such cliche matter, but simply as a human + relationship, in its total effect on Paula's personality; and she + always remembers Byrne with affectionate regret. Excellent of + kind. + + _The Obsessed._ Newstand Library Magenta Books, 1959. The + psychoanalysis of a nymphomaniac, including an affair with her + boy-friend's lesbian sister. Not nearly as good as March Hastings' + other books, and much more dedicated to sexy scenes at the expense + of character and situation. Evening waster--almost scv. (It should + be noted that some paperback publishers insist on a specified + number of sex scenes, and in such a book as this one can almost + hear the weary sigh with which the author abandons his story, + which is going well, and stops everything for another measured + dose of sexy writing for the nitwit audience.) + + HECHT, BEN. _The Sensualists._ Messner, 1959, pbr Dell 1959. A + great deal of advance publicity built this up to a best-seller. + Highly sensational shock-stuff; a supposedly happily-married woman + discovers her husband is having an affair with a singer, Liza. + When she comes in contact with Liza, however, she realizes that + Liza is a lesbian, having affairs with men for camouflage + purposes, and is soon herself captivated by Liza. From here events + build up to highly shocking climaxes, including a ghastly murder. + Not to be read after dark. + + HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. "The Sea Change" ss in _The Fifth Column and + the First 49 Stories_, P. F. Collier & Son, 1938. This volume also + contains two stories dealing with male homosexuality: "A Simple + Inquiry" and "Mother of a Queen." + + HELLMAN, LILLIAN. _The Children's Hour._ Knopf, 1934. Also Random + House 1942; also in Burns-Mantle, Best Plays of 1934-35. A rumor + of lesbianism (unfounded) wrecks a school, and the lives of the + women who own and manage it. + + HENRY, JOAN. _Women in Prison._ Doubleday 1952, pbr Permabooks + 1953. This is non-fiction, autobiographical account of a woman's + experience in two English prisons. Very good. + + HEPPENSTALL, RAYNER. _The Blaze Of Noon._ Alliance 1940, pbr + Berkley 1956, (m) minor, fco and BAYOR. + + HESSE, HERMAN. _Steppenwolf._ Henry Holt 1929. qpb Frederick + Ungar, 1960. Symbolic (and classic) novel of man's disintegration, + caused by society's ignorance. Contains highly sympathetic + homosexual characters (male and female). + + HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA. _The Talented Mr. Ripley._ Coward, 1955, pbr + Dell 1959. (m, minor) + + _Strangers on a Train._ Harper & Bros. 1950. (m, minor) + + see also CLAIRE MORGAN + + HILL, PATI. _The Nine Mile Circle._ Houghton, Mifflin 1957 fco. + Dreamy story of two teen-age girls and an idyllic summer during + which they constantly pretend to be man and wife, on a girlish, + unerotic level. Very nice. + + HIMMEL, RICHARD. _Soul of Passion._ Star Pub, Co 1950. pbr tct. + + _Strange Desires_, Croydon Pub. 1952, pbr Avon, tct. + + + _The Shame_, 1959, (m). No masterpiece but an interesting story + about a man spending a week with his dead Army friend's wife and + recalling his long relationship with the dead man; over the week + he slowly comes to acknowledge, and come to terms with the fact + that their relationship had had overtones of homosexuality. + + HITT, ORRIE. _Girl's Dormitory._ Beacon pbo 1958 scv. + + _Trapped._ Beacon pbo 1954. scv. + + _Wayward Girl._ Beacon pbo 1960 scv. + + HOLK, AGNETE. _The Straggler._ (Trans, from the Danish by Anthony + Hinton). London, Arco Pub. 1954, pbr tct. + + _Strange Friends_, Pyramid Books 1955, very slightly abridged. + Boyish Scandinavian Vita adopts a "little sister" but is quite + unaware of the nature of her attraction to Hilda. In her late + teens Hilda, stirred but unsatisfied by this attachment, makes an + unwise marriage, and Vita undergoes a period of rootless drifting, + a brief affair ending in separation, and finally makes a permanent + arrangement with Hilda, whose unsuccessful marriage ended in + divorce. Valuable for a portrait of European gay life, very unlike + the American. + + HOLLIDAY, DON. _The Wild Night._ Nightstand Books 1960 (no + publisher's address listed). Composite novel of six lives which + converge on New Year's Eve in a cheap Greenwich Village strip + joint. "One of those unexpectedly good stories one finds among the + floods of paperback trash." One of the six characters is a + lesbian. + + HOLMES, (JOHN) CLELLON. _Go._ Scribner 1952, pbr Ace Books 1958, + (m). + + _The Horn._ Random House 1953, Crest pbr 1958, (m). + + HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. _Elsie Venner._ Burt, 1859; many editions, + a classic novel of a very strange girl, psychologically akin to + poisonous snakes. In the course of this novel a curious and + intense relationship develops between Elsie and a young + schoolmistress named Helen; a compulsive domination, attraction + and revulsion. One might suspect Dr. Holmes, whose medical + writings and observations place him far ahead of his era + psychologically, of genteelly camouflaging a portrait of variance, + 100 years ago, by making the girl a creature of macabre fantasy. + + + HORNBLOW, LEONORA. _The Love Seekers._ Random 1957, pbr Signet + 1958. The heroine's hesitation between marriage with a steady and + reliable man, and insecure excitement with a hoodlum, is resolved + when her affairs are interrupted by concern for the daughter of a + friend; the young lesbian, Mab, whose life has become entangled + with some very shady characters. + + + HULL, HELEN R. "The Fire" ss in Century Magazine, Nov 1917; + Excellent story of a small-town girl's love for a middle-aged + spinster who awakens her to a world beyond her small one. + + "With One Coin for Fee", novelette in _Experiment_, Coward-McCann + 1938, 1939, 1940. An introspective spinster and a lifelong friend, + trapped in a New England house during the 1939 hurricane; subtle + but good. + + _The Quest._ Macmillan, 1922. An over-emotional girl, seeking + escape from home tensions, develops crushes on a classmate and on + a teacher: her mother's over-reaction turns the girl against + variant attachments just as her unhappy home turned her against + marriage. + + _The Labyrinth._ Macmillan, 1923. Variant attachments, among + others, in a novel of a woman unhappy in domesticity and trying to + find creative outlets. + + _Landfall._ N. Y. Coward-McCann 1953. In a brittle and sarcastic + novel of a brittle and sarcastic woman, the heroine, a capable + businesswoman, alternately repulses and warms toward her adoring + secretary--though she secretly scorns the girl's devotion, she + feels it would be a nuisance to break in a new secretary, so + wishes to keep her captivated. + + HUNEKER, JAMES. _Painted Veils._ Liveright 1920 (still in print); + pbr Avon 1928. Unpleasant novel of the theatrical and literary + world of that day; the heroine, Easter, (an opera singer) has a + mannish satellite. + + HURST, FANNIE. _The Lonely Parade._ N. Y. Harper 1942. Very minor + mention of lesbians in a novel of lonely women at hotels. + + + HUTCHINS, MAUDE PHELPS McVEIGH. _A Diary of Love._ New + Directions, 1950, pbr Pyramid 1952, 1960. Weird stuff, written + with a detachment and delicacy reminiscent of the Colette novels. + A teen-age girl, Noel, goes through a bizarre series of + experiences in a strange household where her grandfather seduces + his (male) music pupils and a nymphomanic, neurotic housemaid, + Freida, successively seduces everyone from Grandpa down to Noel. + Beautifully done. + + _Georgiana._ New Directions, 1948. The second section of a + sensitive, well-written novel is laid in a girl's school; there + are three important variant attachments, and as a result one of + Georgiana's classmates is expelled. In later life Georgiana blames + her failure to find happiness on a "lesbian complex." + + _My Hero._ New Directions, 1953, (m). + + ILTON, PAUL. _The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah._ pbo, Signet, + 1956, 1957, (m). Historical, Biblical setting. + + JACKSON, CHARLES. _The Fall of Valor._ Rinehart & Co, 1946, pbr + Signet, 1950, (m). + + _The Lost Weekend._ Farrar & Rinehart 1944, pbr Berkley 1955 and + others. + + "Palm Sunday" ss in collection _The Sunnier Side_, pbr Berkley nd + and others, also in Cory, _21 Variations_. + + + JACKSON, SHIRLEY. _Hangsaman._ Farrar, 1951. Frightening, + macabre story of a lonely girl who conjures up a thrilling + companion--who looks and acts like a boy but is clearly a girl. + They meet secretly and engage in wild conversation and loveplay, + and only slowly, with dawning horror, does the reader realize that + the child is a split personality and the two girls are one and the + same. + + _The Haunting of Hill House._ Viking, 1959. During the + investigation of a reputed "haunted house", two of the + investigating party--Theo, an admitted lesbian, and Eleanor, a + lonely, inhibited spinster--go through a curious, subtly + delineated relationship wavering, with the intensity of the + "haunting" of the house, from attraction to intense love to + unexplained revulsion. Macabre; good of its kind. + + JAMES, HENRY. _Turn of the Screw._ Macmillan 1898, hcr Modern + Library n d, Pocket Books and other editions. Available + everywhere. Some authorities consider subtle and understated + lesbianism to be the mysterious motivations behind the scenes of + this curious psychological ghost story of the struggle of a + governess for the souls of two young children. + + _The Bostonians._ Century Magazine 1885, hcr Dial 1945. + + JOHNSON, KAY. _My Name is Rusty._ Castle Books, 1958. Allegedly a + novel of a woman's prison, complete with glossary of "prison + slang"--but if the author has ever been inside a woman's prison, + or even done any authentic research, your editors will eat a copy + of the book, complete with cover jackets. Brief plot; butchy Rusty + makes a pass at prison newcomer Marcia, in order to share her + commissary credits. When Rusty gets out of prison she marries and + goes straight and Marcia kills herself. Read it and weep. + + JONES, JAMES. _From Here to Eternity._ Scribners 1951, pbr Signet + ca. 1952, (m). + + KASTLE, HERBERT D. _Koptic Court._ Simon & Schuster 1958, pbr tct + _Seven Keys to Koptic Court_, Crest 1959, (m). + + KEENE, DAY and Leonard Pruyn. _World Without Women._ pbo Gold + Medal, 1960, Science-fictional evening waster; all the women in + the world die off, except a few, who must be carefully protected + as potential mothers of the human race. One episode involves all + the surviving lesbians, who barricade themselves in a prison. Good + of type. + + KENNEDY, JAY RICHARD. _Short Term._ World, 1959. This one is just + out; reviews indicate some lesbian content, but this could be + anything from a paragraph to three chapters. BAYOR. + + KENT, JUSTIN. _Mavis._ Vixen Press 1953, pbr Beacon 1960. scv. + "Mavis is married to a lush, so she dallies and so does he, and + they are really a pair of dillies dallying...." + + + KENT, NIAL. (pseud of William LeRoy Thomas) _The Divided Path_, + (m). Greenberg 1949, Pyramid pbr 1951, 1952, 1959. For once the + plus is used to promote personal prejudice; various authorities + call this book overly sentimental. But when this hardened reviewer + finds herself in tears, she's apt to think there must be something + to it. Childhood, adolescence and manhood of Michael, a young + homosexual, and his long-continued, scrupulously self-denying + relationship with a boyhood friend who does not suspect his + friend's "difference". + + KENYON, THEDA. _That Skipper from Stonington._ Messner, 1946. A + juvenile novel, strangely enough, found in a high school library. + The hero runs away to sea as a small boy and is protected by a man + who is obviously homosexual, though the boy does not know it; the + other men on the ship, suspecting that this relationship is + unhealthy (it isn't) hound the boy's protector to suicide. + + KEOGH, THEODORA. _Meg._ Creative Age Press 1950, pbr Signet 1952, + 1956. Sublimated lesbianism in a very young girl. + + _The Double Door._ Creative Age 1950, pbr Signet 1952, (m). + + KESSEL, JOSEPH. _The Lion._ (trans. from French by Peter Green). + N. Y. Knopf 1959. One editor saw subtle variant emotion in the + mother's attachment to a school friend. + + KING, DON. _The Bitter Love._ Newsstand Library Magenta Book, + 1959. Rather good evening waster about a supposed double murder, + gradually solved by the slow revelation of the affair between + Brenda and her 16 year old stepdaughter. + + KING, MARY JACKSON. _The Vine of Glory._ Bobbs-Merrill, 1948. This + won a prize as the best novel on race relations by a Southern + writer for its year. A repressed, inhibited, small-town girl, + Lavinia, at the mercy of elderly tyrannical relatives, forms a + close friendship with a Negro man who was her only childhood + friend. The friendship between Lavinia and Augustus is purely + platonic; she attends a school he has set up for colored girls who + wish to improve themselves, and he helps to find her a job; but + enraged small-minded bigots bring on a lynching. Early in the book + a preparation is laid for Lavinia's lack of friends of her own sex + and status by her unfortunate friendship with Dixie Murdoch, + teen-age daughter of a Holy-roller preacher. While spending the + night, Dixie attempts to make homosexual advances to the younger + girl, and Lavinia becomes hysterical. The episode is brief, + condemnatory and very realistic. + + KIN, DAVID GEORGE. _Women Without Men._ Brookwood, 1958. The + author calls this "True stories of lesbian life in Greenwich + Village". It represents a roundup of a dozen or so famous literary + and artistic figures, presented as case histories. They are + presented, picture after sordid picture, without a glimmer of + understanding or real insight, though he sometimes shows smug + sympathy for a few he claims to have reformed by something he + calls "cultural therapy". He baldly states in the preface: "I take + my mental hygiene from Moses, rather than Freud, and have the + Mosaic horror of homosexuality". Despite this vicious slanting, + the book is explicit, funny in places, and presumably + verifiable--but certainly makes homosexuality look like a Fate + Worse Than Death. The writing is straight from the tabloid + newspapers. + + KINSEY, CHET. _Kate._ pbo, Beacon 1959. scv. + + KOESTLER, ARTHUR. _Arrival and Departure._ Macmillan 1943. A man + makes the most important decision of his life on the rebound of + disillusion after discovering that a woman who risked her life to + save him is a lesbian. + + + KRAMER, N. MARTIN (pseud. of Beatrice Ann Wright). _Hearth and + The Strangeness._ Macmillan 1956, pbr Pyramid 1957. An excellent + novel of the fear of inherited insanity in a family. The youngest + child, Aliciane, becomes a lesbian; this is one of the few + realistic and unromanticized portraits of the factors in the + development of homosexuality from childhood. + + _Sons of the Fathers._ Macmillan 1959, (m). + + LACRETELLE, JACQUES DE. _Marie Bonifas._ (trans. from the French + of La Bonifas) London & N. Y., G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. Classic + novel of feminine variance. Exclusively lesbian characters are + rare in French literature (although bisexual women are relatively + common), and this was one of the best known; it follows the + heroine from childhood to old age. + + LACY, ED. _Room to Swing._ Harper Bros. 1957, pbr Pyramid 1958. A + colored detective is retained by a pair of lesbians to solve a + murder; is instead accused of committing it. Good. + + + LANDON, MARGARET. _Never Dies the Dream._ Doubleday, 1949. An + unmarried woman missionary in Siam incurs criticism and suspicion + when she shows marked favor to an unfortunate American girl at the + mercy of the Orient; later, when she risks her own life by + isolating herself to nurse Angela through typhoid, she loses her + own position. Neither the author nor the heroine of the novel + admit the faintest tinge of lesbianism to the relationship, which + is full of warmth and selfless sacrifice, and India angrily denies + the accusation when it is made; but the high emotional intensity + of the whole story bring it well within the boundaries of the + field and place it high on the list. + + LA FARGE, CHRISTOPHER. _The Sudden Guest._ Coward-McCann, 1946. + The human driftwood blown up by a hurricane includes a pair of + lesbians, stirring latent memories in the novel's heroine--an + embittered, abandoned spinster. + + + LAPSLEY, MARY. _Parable of the Virgins._ R. R. Smith, 1931. + High-keyed novel of many emotional fevers, hetero and homosexual, + in a woman's college. + + LAWRENCE, D. H. "The Fox", ss in Dial Magazine 1922, also in hcr + but NOT in pbr edition of _The Captain's Doll_, Thomas Seltzer, + 1923. + + _The Rainbow._ Modern Library 1915, 1943, pbr Avon 1959, 1960. In + a long, three-generation novel of the Brangwyn family, one variant + episode between young Ursula and a teacher. + + LAURENT-TAILHADE, MARIE LOUISE. _Courtesans, Princesses, + Lesbians._ (Trans. from French by G. M. C.) Paris, Libraire Astra. + Casanova-ish memoir; French pamphleteering of Pre-revolutionary + days. Bitter, explicit and mildly disgusting; mentioned mostly to + state emphatically that the French Libraire Astra, and the Astra's + Tower Checklist, have NO connection. + + LE CLERQ, JACQUES. _Show Cases._ Macy-Masius, 1928. Offbeat short + stories, dealing with male and female homosexuality. + + LEAR-HEAP, WINIFRED. _The Shady Cloister._ Macmillan, 1950. Quiet, + understated and sympathetic story of feminine relationships in a + school setting--but without the melodramatic atmosphere of tragedy + which usually surrounds such stories. + + + LEE, MARJORIE. _The Lion House._ Rinehart, 1959. Well-written + attempt to capture and document the confused and shifting morals + of modern suburban living. Brad, husband of Jo, starts the story + by flirting with Frannie; this backfires when Frannie and Jo + become friends. As the relationship grows more intense, it proves + so disturbing that even after Frannie has admitted its nature Jo + cannot accept it; Frannie attempts to solve her problems via + psychoanalysis, while Jo continues floundering in her unresolved + conflicts. This year's best new novel. + + LEE, GYPSY ROSE. _Gypsy, a Memoir._ Harper Bros. 1959, pbr Dell + 1959. In a fascinating, probably largely fictional autobiography, + the ex-burlesque queen/novelist shows one thoroughly comical + lesbian character. This is really minor, but marvelously funny, + and anyone who plows through all the crud we mention will get a + real break from this. + + LE FANU, SHERIDAN. "Carmilla" in _Green Tea and Other Ghost + Stories._ Also in Vol III of "The Forgotten Classics of Mystery", + entitled _Sheridan Le Fanu, the Diabolical Genius_. Also in + _Strange and Fantastic Stories_, ed. by Joseph Margolies, McGraw + Hill, 1946. Fantastic lesbian vampire. + + LEIBER, FRITZ. "The Ship Sails at Midnight", in _The Outer + Reaches_, ed. August Derleth, Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisc. 1951. + Science-fiction or fantasy of a strange, unusual woman who + captivates a whole group of college students; tragedy is touched + off by their jealous rage when it is discovered that she has been + making love to all of them--not simultaneously of course. + Extremely well done, hint of allegory. + + LEGRAND, NADIA. _The Rainbow Has Seven Colors._ N. Y. St Martins, + 1958. After the death of the heroine her life is reviewed by seven + people who loved her (as with _Of Lena Geyer_) including a lesbian + who loved her and a young girl who wanted to. + + + LEHMANN, ROSAMOND. _Dusty Answer._ N. Y., Holt, 1927. Still in + print. Well-known novel in which the heroine's whole life is + conditioned by her love for a college classmate. Delicate, + beautifully written. + + LENGEL, FRANCES. _Helen and Desire._ Olympia Press, Paris, 1954. + scv, and you can't buy it in this country legally. If you locate a + copy you'll know why we say you aren't missing a thing. Seamy + novel of a nymphomanic ----ing her way around the world. (It's not + worth going to Paris to read.) + + LESLIE, DAVID STUART. _The Man on the Beach._ London, Hutchinson + 1957, (m). + + LEVAILLANT, MAURICE. _The Passionate Exiles._ (trans. Malcolm + Barnes.) Farrar, Straus & Cudahy 1958. Historical "dual biography" + of Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier. + + + LEVIN, MEYER. _Compulsion._ Simon & Schuster 1956. pbr Pocket + Books 1958, (m). + + LEWIS, SINCLAIR. _Ann Vickers._ Doubleday, 1933. One important + lesbian episode in a novel of woman suffrage, viciously + condemnatory. + + LEVERIDGE, RALPH. _Walk on the Water._ Farrar, 1951, pbr tct _The + Last Combat_, Signet 1952, Pyramid 1959, (m). + + LEWIS, WYNDHAM. _The Apes of God._ N. Y., R. M. McBride & Co, 1932, + London, Arthur Press 1950, London, Arco, 1955. Satire, including + sharp studies of homosexuality, male and female. + + LIN, HAZEL. _The Moon Vow._ Pageant Press, 1958. A Chinese woman + psychiatrist, attempting to solve a patient's problems, is led + into seamy byways of Peking, including a somewhat gruesome lesbian + cult. + + LINDOPS, AUDREY ERSKINE. _The Outer Ring._ Appleton 1955, pbr + Popular Library tct _The Tormented_. (m) + + LINGSTROM, FREDA. _Axel._ Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1939. + Wealthy man adopts two boys and a girl. One boy, Valentine, has + homosexual affair with an older boy, Teddy, who later commits + suicide; the girl, Auriol, studying music in Germany, lives with 2 + older women, one of whom is very innocently but very ardently in + love with her. Well-written. + + LIPSKY, ELEAZAR. _The Scientists._ Appleton-Century-Crofts 1959, + pbr Pocket Books, 1960. Minor character in a long novel is a + vaguely treated, but explicit lesbian. + + LIPTON, LAWRENCE. _The Holy Barbarians._ Messner, 1959. Love among + the beat generation, including all kinds of homosexuality. + + LITTLE, JAY. _Somewhere between the Two._ Pageant, 1956, (m). + + _Maybe Tomorrow._ Pageant, 1952, (m). Amusing. + + LIVINGSTON, MARJORIE. _Delphic Echo._ London, Andrew Dakers, 1948, + (m). Minor, in a novel of ancient Greece. + + LODGE, LOIS. _Love Like a Shadow._ Phoenix Press, 1935. + Purple-passaged novel of a lesbian seeking true love. + + + LOFTS, NORAH. _Jassy._ Knopf 1945, pbr Signet 1948, others. + Roughly a third of this novel, about a young English girl who, + herself innocent, brings tragedy on everyone, is lesbian in + emphasis. In a girl's school she comes between Mrs. Twysdale, a + rather slimy, neurotic woman who has adored her boyish cousin, + Katherine, for years. Katherine, chafing at this adoration, turns + to Jassy for undemanding friendship and Mrs. Twysdale connives to + have her expelled--which spurs Katherine to precipitate a + long-desired break with her. + + _The Lute Player._ Doubleday, 1951; pbr Bantam 1951, (m). Fine + historical of Richard III, based on the thesis that he was + homosexual. + + + LONG, MARGARET. _Louisville Saturday._ Random 1950, pbr Bantam + 1951, 53, 56, 57, 59. A study of women in wartime includes a brief + study of a woman's acceptance of a variant friendship (the + sections titled GLADYS). + + LORD, SHELDON. _A Strange Kind of Love._ N. Y., Midwood-Tower Pubs + pbo 1959. Evening waster about a writer who discovers that two of + his (dozens of) girl friends are involved with one another. + + _69 Barrow Street._ Midwood-Tower pbo 1959, scv. Love, if you can + call it that, in Greenwich Village. + + + LOUYS, PIERRE. _Aphrodite._ (Many editions, of which the + standard English translation seems to be The Collected Works of + Pierre Louys, Liveright, 1926, still in print. Also various Avon + paperbacks.) The beautifully written story of an Alexandrian + courtesan also includes the story of two young Greek girls, Rhodis + and Myrtocleia, no more than children, who wish to marry one + another. + + _The Adventures of King Pausole._ As above. Fine, funny, highly + risque story of the king of a strange country, who has a thousand + wives, like Solomon, and believes in freedom for everybody except + his daughter, Aline--who eventually runs away with a "boy" who is + really a girl. + + _The Songs of Bilitis._ As above. Prose or poetry, depending on + translation, and perhaps the classic story of lesbianism in an + ancient setting. + + LUCAS, RICK. _Dreamboat._ pbo, Berkley, 1956, 1957. scv. + + LYNDON, BAREE, and Jimmie Sangster. _The Man who Could Cheat + Death_, based on the screenplay, for the recent movie, which in + turn was based on a play, The Man in Half Moon Street. Without + the fantastic photography which made the movie superb, this is a + remarkably silly pseudo-science thing about a man who finds away + to survive indefinitely by glandular transplants. To camouflage + his deathlessness he pulls up his roots and moves every ten years + and during one such interlude he falls for beautiful Avril Barnes, + who turns out to be a lesbian. He converts her, and she becomes + such a pest that he murders her. Shocker, silly. + + MacCOWN, EUGENE. _The Siege of Innocence._ Doubleday, 1950, (m). + And minor lesbian element. + + MacKENZIE, COMPTON. _Extraordinary Women._ Martin Secker, London; + Macy-Masius N. Y. 1928, hcr New Adelphi 1932. The Winston Book + Service offered this for sale quite recently. Amusing, satirical + and well-known novel of lesbians. + + _The Vestal Fire._ N. Y. Doran, 1927, (m). However, in this novel + of Americans living abroad, there are also important lesbian + characters. + + MacRAE, KEVIN. _Nikki._ Vantage. 1955. Not to be confused with the + rubbishy book by the same title by Stuart Friedman, this is a + story of Nikki, who loses her beloved in an air raid in London and + nearly cracks up before finding a home in a lesbian "colony" in + Southern California; silly, but a lot of fun. + + + MacINNES, COLIN. _Absolute Beginners._ London, MacGibbon & Rae, + 1959. A novel about London teen-agers, told in Soho idiom--a sort + of bastard hip-talk. The characters in this novel include several + male homosexuals, and one lesbian, Big Jill. Enough space is + devoted to social problems, by an author who is quite obviously + one of the "angry young men", to give this novel real status. + + McMINNIES, MARY. _The Visitors._ Harcourt, Brace 1958. A + diplomat's wife abroad, fancying herself as Madame Bovary, + attempts to use everyone around her for her own purposes. She has + an affair with an American correspondent and also captivates + Sophie, a countess, and an extremely well-portrayed character. One + of the most sympathetic portraits of a lesbian in recent fiction, + as well as a ruthless portrayal of women who enjoy flirting in + both fields. + + + MAHYERE, EVELINE. _I Will not Serve._ Dutton 1959, 1960. This + book, boycotted by many major reviewers, was written by a young + Frenchwoman who committed suicide before its publication. + Precocious, nonconformist Sylvie has been expelled from a convent + for writing, in a letter, that she loves one of the nuns. The + story deals with the unfolding pattern of Sylvie's meetings with + Julienne, an older novice in the convent. The conflict is clear; + Sylvie's creed is "I will not serve"--a statement of her refusal + to become a good wife and mother--and she wants nothing of life + but Julienne. Julienne, has given herself to God. Refusing to + accept this, Sylvie commits suicide. The book is profound and + sincere, and on the basis of this one work the author's premature + death was a loss to the field of literature. + + MAINE, CHARLES ERIC. _World Without Men._ pbo, Ave Books 1958. + Science fiction of a world thousands of years in the future, where + the men have all died out, reproduction is scientific and the + women, having no one else to love, love one another. In defiance + of all conceivable theories of heredity and environment, a few + women still think this state of affairs is "unnatural" and band + together to create a male birth, assuming everyone will turn + normal overnight. Silly. + + MALLET, FRANCOISE. _The Illusionist._ (Trans. by Herma Briffault). + Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1952 tct _The Loving and the Daring_, + Popular 1953. (pbr). Now well-known novel, by a young French + writer, of a girl captivated by her father's mistress. + + _The Red Room._ (trans. by Herma Briffault). Farrar, Strauss & + Cudahy 1956, pbr Popular 1958. Sequel to the above. + + MALLOY, FRED. _The End of the Road._ Woodford Press 1952, pbr + Berkley tct _Wicked Woman_, 1959. Good evening waster about a girl + who is picked up by Charlotte, a truck-driver "dike" type; + Charlotte gives Alice a home, but eventually Alice runs off with a + man who is worse than she is. Surprisingly, for this type of + thing, the author implies that there _is_ a fate worse than + lesbianism. + + MANNING, BRUCE. _Triangle of Sin._ Intimate Novel (Universal Pub.) + 1952, pbr Beacon Books 1959; same title, but author listed as + Manning Stokes. Evening waster. + + MANNIX, DANIEL P. _The Beast._ pbo Ballantine Books 1959, (m). + + MARECHAL, LUCIE. _The Mesh_ (trans. by Virgilia Peterson.) + Appleton 1949, pbr Bantam, 1951, 1953, 1959. Excellent novel of a + Belgian family; the weakling son marries, brings his bride into + home dominated by his mother, shadowed by his lonely sister. + Eventually sister takes the young woman away from her brother. + + MARLOWE, STEPHEN. _Homicide is My Game._ Gold Medal 1959 pbo. + Hardboiled murder mystery involving a teen-age sex club--a + businessman is involved of running it, but the real culprit is his + daughter, Liz. She is also a lesbian. Evening waster. + + MARK, EDWINA. (pseud of Edwin Fadiman jr). _My Sister, my + Beloved._ Citadel 1955, pbr Berkley 1956. Two young sisters, + daughters of a drunken lush of a mother, fall into a too-close + relationship as Eve, the older, protects young Sheila from their + mother's beatings and tantrums. Sheila plays around and gets + pregnant; mother, at the stage where alcohol will kill her, is + given a big drink by Eve, who then arranges for Sheila to have an + abortion and the two of them to live happily ever after; instead, + Sheila marries the boy and Eve is whipped half to death by one of + her mother's gigolos. One of _those_ books--where anything from + abortion to rape is preferable to lesbianism. + + + _The Odd Ones._ Berkley pbo, 1959. Jean, small-town girl running + away, comes to New York and falls in with Sherri, tied to a crazy + husband. Rather good and not condemnatory at all; rather + restrained for a pbo, although of course it has the obligatory + sexy stuff. + + MARR, REED. _Women without Men._ Gold Medal pbo, 1956. Naive, if + not too intelligent girl sent to a woman's reformatory, encounters + the usual hardening experiences--corrupt matrons, + police-court-type lesbians, trusties and well-meaning officials + who have their lives to live and can't or won't do anything to + better conditions. Good of its kind. + + MARSHE, RICHARD. _A Woman Called Desire._ (Orig. pub. 1950 under + title of _Wicked Woman_) Berkley pbr 1959, scv. + + MARSTON, JOHN. _Venus With Us; a Tale of the Caesars._ N. Y. + Sears, 1932. pbr Universal Pub. 1953 tct _The Private Life of + Julius Caesar_. Fast, funny, risque historical novel--or + romance--with approximately six historical errors per chapter, but + a lot of fun nevertheless. The scenes laid in the College of + Vestals are exclusively lesbian; there are both serious, emotional + affairs between women, and funny light-hearted ones in the manner + of King Pausole. Good of kind. + + + MARTIN, KENNETH. _Aubade._ London, Chapman & Hall 1957, (m). + + MASEFIELD, JOHN. _Multitude and Solitude._ Macmillan 1909, 1916. + + MASSIE, CHRIS. _The Incredible Truth._ Random, N. Y., 1958, pbr + Berkley 1959. Victorian husband narrates, many years afterward, + his wife's successive attachment to two woman friends. + + MAUGHAM, SOMERSET. _Theatre._ Doubleday 1937, Bantam pbr tct + _Woman of the World_, 1951, pbr Bantam tct _Theatre_ 1959. + Theatrical novel of a worldly actress, Julia, contains brief + mention of a fat, elderly lesbian admirer who finances her works; + one amusing scene where Julia's husband advises her on how to + manipulate Dolly's feelings. Smart, brittle. + + MAUPASSANT, GUY DE. _Paul's Mistress._ ss in various collections + including Cory, _21 Variations on a Theme_. + + MAYHALL, JANE. _Cousin to Human._ Harcourt, Brace 1960. Valeda, + friend of the heroine, has a sad, depressing affair with an + adolescent schoolgirl athlete friend, named Mildred. + + MEAGHER, MAUDE. _The Green Scamander._ Houghton Mifflin, 1933. A + novel of the Trojan war, largely concerned with the passionate + friendship between Penthesilea, co-queen with the Amazon tribe, + and her co-ruler Camilla. Beautifully written, available in most + medium-sized libraries. + + MEEKER, RICHARD. _The Better Angel._ Greenberg 1933, pbr Universal + Pub. tct _Torment_ ca. 1952, (m). + + + MEREZOWSKII, DMITRI. (Trans. from Russian by Natalia A. + Duddington) London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1925, 1926. _Birth of the + Gods._ A fine novel of Crete and the bull-dancers (and perhaps the + first of its kind). Dio, a strangely bisexual young girl, + priestess of the Great Mother, though attracted and attractive to + men, is vowed to remain a virgin in the service of the Goddess; + much of the novel is devoted to her passionate friendship for her + young novice, Eoia. One of Dio's rejected lovers, believing that + the "little witch" has cast a spell on Dio to prevent her loving + him, plots to have Eoia killed in the ring; instead Eoia's death + nearly destroys Dio as well. + + _Akhnaton, King of Egypt._ (as above) London, Dent, 1927. + Continues and concludes the story of Dio. + + MERGENDAHL, CHARLES. _The Girl Cage._ pbo Gold Medal 1953, 1959. + Brief, minor lesbian episode in a novel about war widows. + + MERRITT, A(braham); _The Metal Monster._ Copyright Munsey + Magazines, (this ran serially in Argosy ca. 1920) Revised version, + Frank A. Munsey 1941, pbr Avon, 1946. Offbeat variant episode in + an adventure-fantasy; Norhala, pagan slave of the "metal people" + steals the explorer's sister, Ruth, to "play with her"; after her + death Ruth weeps, saying "she loved me dearly, dearly," but + significantly can remember nothing of their time together. Wildly + fantastic, good of type. + + METALIOUS, GRACE. _Return to Peyton Place._ Messner 1959, pbr Dell + 1959. Another sexy "expose" of a small town. In one episode, the + unpleasant wife of a local boy recalls her schooldays, when she + taunted and enslaved a lesbian schoolmate. + + MEYER, GLADYS ELEANOR, _The Magic Circle._ Knopf, 1944. fco Subtle + novel of close friendship between two women; never explicit, and + on the borderline for variant interest. + + + MILLAY, KATHLEEN. _Against the Wall._ Macaulay, 1929. College + novel by the sister of the well-known poet (see poetry + supplement). + + MILLER, WALTER M. "The Lineman" ss in Fantasy and Science Fiction, + August 1957, (m). Excellent attitudes on homosexuality in general, + in short story of isolated men. + + MILLER, HENRY. _Plexus._ Paris, Olympia Press 1953, 2 vols. + Chapter 16 of the 2nd Volume is supposed to be devoted to a + variant affair. Most of Henry Miller's books cannot be legally + imported into the USA--this is one--and your editors haven't been + to Paris yet. When you go, tell us. + + MISHIMA, YUKIO. _Confessions of a Mask._ New Directions 1958, (m). + + + MITCHELL, S. WEIR. _Constance Trescott._ N. Y., Century 1900. The + plus is to draw attention to an old, overlooked title. Major (for + its date) treatment of variant enslavement between two half + sisters. + + + MITCHISON, NAOMI. _The Delicate Fire._ Harcourt, N. Y. 1932. A + major writer, and scholar, presents a collection of lovely short + stories of ancient Greece; the title story deals with Sappho and + her group of girl lovers. + + _The Corn King and the Spring Queen._ Harcourt, 1931, (m). + + "Black Sparta" and "Krypteia" in _Greek Stories_, Harcourt, 1928, + (m). + + MORAVIA, ALBERTO. _The Conformist._ Farrar, Straus & Young 1951, + pbr Signet 1954. Penetrating study of a fascist whose compulsive + drive for power destroys everyone he loves. An interlude between + his wife and a friend provides a brief diversion before the + macabre ending. + + MOORE, HAL. _The Naked and the Fair._ pbo, Beacon, 1958, scv. + + MOORE, PAMELA. _Chocolates for Breakfast._ Rinehart 1956, pbr + Bantam 1957. Candid, shocking story of a young girl's + disintegration; the opening episodes involve her rejection by a + teacher on whom she has a crush, and there are variant overtones + in her prolonged friendship with a school roommate, Janet's + suicide being the spur which makes Courtney resolve to pull + herself together. + + MORELL, LEE. _Mimi._ pbo Beacon Books 1959. Unusually good evening + waster about night-club and theatrical people, with both male and + female homosexual episodes; handled with subtlety and lightness + almost unknown in this publisher's paperbacks. + + + MORGAN, CLAIRE. (pseud of Patricia Highsmith) _The Price of + Salt._ Coward-McCann, 1952, pbr Bantam 1953, 1959. Fine novel of + an affair between two very nice, very courageous, very + well-adjusted women whose initial attraction becomes the + mainspring of both their lives. The author does not use one single + stereotype or cliche; this is probably _the_ American novel of the + lesbian. + + MORGAN, NANCY. _City of Women_, pbo Gold Medal 1952, 1959. Lesbian + episodes in a novel of women living in barracks at Pearl Harbor. + + MORLEY, IRIS. _The Proud Paladin._ N. Y. Morrow 1936. Lesbian + content vague and doubtful, BAYOR and fco. + + MORRO, DON. _The Virgin._ pbo Beacon 1955, released in 1959. scv. + + MOSS, GEOFFREY. _That Other Love._ Doubleday, 1930. A + long-continued affair between Phillida and an older friend breaks + off because of the younger woman's desire for children. + + MOTLEY, WILLARD. _Knock on Any Door._ N. Y., Appleton-Century, + 1947, pbr Signet 1953, (m). + + + MURDOCH, IRIS. _The Bell._ N. Y. Viking 1958, (m). A fine, + occasionally funny novel of an Anglican lay church-community + centers around Michael Meade, a man of honor, intelligence, and + integrity--and a homosexual. His hopes of being ordained as a + priest were destroyed when, as a schoolteacher, he became + entangled with young Nick; Nick's appearance at the community + destroys Michael's peace of mind thoroughly, and an obliquely + handled relationship between Nick, Michael and a guileless + youngster, Toby, spending the summer at the community, eventually + destroys the community entirely. But it isn't all gloom and doom; + the level of the writing is highly competent, sometimes wildly + hilarious, and through all his difficulties Michael is able to + realize that eventually he will "experience again ... that + infinitely extended requirement which one human being makes on + another." A book which emphasizes the triumph of love, and one of + the recent best. ((Editor's note; why are the best novels of male + homosexuality written by women? Mesdames Renault and Murdoch are + giving their best to the men. Is it a question of detachment?)) + + MURPHY, DENNIS. _The Sergeant._ Viking 1958, pbr Crest 1959, (m). + + MURRAY, WILLIAM. _The Fugitive Romans._ pbo, Popular Library 1955. + Brief variant episode among a Hollywood location crew abroad. + + NEILSEN, HELEN. _The Fifth Caller._ Morrow, 1959. Dr. Lillian + Whitehall, metaphysician, is murdered; as each of her five callers + is interviewed to find the guilty party, it develops that the dead + woman was a cruel, domineering repressed lesbian. Well written, + though unsympathetic. + + NEFF, WANDA FRAIKEN. _We Sing Diana._ Boston, Houghton 1928. Story + of a girl too inhibited to face her own nature. + + NILES, BLAIR. _Strange Brother._ N. Y. Liveright 1931, pbr Harris + Publications 1949, pbr Avon 1952, 1958, 1959. + + NIN, ANAIS. _Winter of Artifice._ Paris, Obelisk Press 1939, also + in _Under a Glass Bell_, Dutton, 1948. The first edition has 100 + pages or so, not included in later editions, in which she recounts + her liaison with a famous American writer and his wife, all + disguised, of course. (All of this writer's work seems to be + vaguely tinged with variance.) + + _Ladders to Fire._ Dutton, 1945, 1946. + + NORDAY, MICHAEL. _Stage for Fools._ Vixen Press 1955. pbr tct + _Strange Thirsts_, Beacon 1959. Evening waster about a lush + actress making a comeback on a college campus, who revenges + herself on an indifferent male by entrapping his girl into a + drunken lesbian episode and inviting him to watch the show. A + shocker. + + _Warped._ Beacon pbo 1955, 1960. Very apt title; evening waster + about a crooked fight game. One sympathetically portrayed lesbian + character in the many mixed affairs. + + NORMANDIE, ROGER. _The Lion's Den._ N. Y., Key 1957. scv. + + + O'BRIEN, KATE. _As Music and Splendor._ Harper. 1958. Novel of + two very different young Irish girls sent to study music on the + Continent during the great age of Italian opera; their personal + lives differ as widely as their careers. One, Clare Halvey, drifts + into a love affair with Luisa Carriaga, a Spanish contralto; their + relationship is treated delicately, but with warmth and impersonal + sympathy. Excellent for opera lovers and for those who are tired + to death of books where every last detail is spelled out as + frankly as the law allows. + + + O'DONOVAN, JOAN. _Dangerous Worlds._ Morrow, 1958. Collection of + excellent short stories. + + O'HIGGINS, HARVEY. _The Story of Julie Cane._ Harper, 1924. + Explicit, for its day, story of an intense relationship between a + schoolmistress and her ward. + + OLIVIA (see DOROTHY BUSSY). + + O'NEILL, ROSE. _The Goblin Woman._ N. Y. Doubleday 1930. Fey, + symbolic novel of Helga, the Goblin Woman (who represents purity) + set down in a society far from pure. There are many lesbian + episodes and references to inter-feminine love. (see poetry + supplement.) + + O'HARA, NOEL. _The Last Virgin._ Chariot Books pb 1959. This is a + reprint of David George Kin's "Women Without Men", containing six + of the ten stories; new title, new author, even new copyright + date--who's kidding who? It does not contain the damning + introduction, and without it, appears fairly sympathetic. Curious + little item. + + PACKER, VIN (pseud; see also ANN ALDRICH) _Spring Fire._ pbo Gold + Medal 1952. Now well-known and rather gamy novel of sorority house + life and an unhappy lesbian affair between naive freshman Mitch + and neurotic Lana. + + _Whisper His Sin._ Gold Medal pbo 1954, (m). + + + _The Evil Friendship._ pbo Crest 1958. Viciously condemnatory + novel of two little girls of fourteen who, consequent to their + lesbianish attachment, plot together and carry out "a murder + club". Shuddersome, but, alas, well written. (Editorial query; why + must so many of the detractors of lesbianism write such good + books, while those who defend it are, all to often, of the Carol + Hales "quality"?) + + _The Twisted Ones._ pbo, Gold Medal 1959, (m). + + PARK, JORDAN. (pseud of Cyril Kornbluth). _Valerie._ pbo, Lion, + 1953, 1957. Minor lesbian episodes in a novel of witch-hunting; + the episodes occur at a Witches Sabbat. Evening waster. + + PARKER, DOROTHY. "Glory in the Daytime" in _After Such Pleasures_, + N. Y., Viking 1934. + + PATTON, MARION. _Dance on the Tortoise._ N. Y., Dial 1930. + Boarding-school novel; the heroine, repelled by the emotional + friendships around her, throws herself with relief into the arms + of a man. + + PAVESE, CESARE. _Among Women Only._ Noonday Press, qpb 1959 + ($1.75). Recommended, highly tragic, novel by a writer considered, + until his untimely death, one of Italy's best. + + + PETERS, FRITZ. _Finistere._ Farrar, Straus & Co 1951, pbr Signet + 1953, (m). + + + PETRONIUS, _The Satyricon._ (the earliest known novel, written + about the time of Christ; the last flush of the pagan world.) + Trans. William Arrowsmith, University of Michigan Press, 1959. + This is also available in a highly expurgated Modern Library + edition, n. d. Male, of course, and the Arrowsmith translation is + hilarious and _very_ readable. + + PEN, JOHN. _Temptation._ (trans. from the Hungarian by John + Manheim,) Avon Red and Gold, 1959, (m). Fine picaresque. + + PEYREFITTE, ROGER. _Special Friendships._ NY, Vanguard 1950, (m). + + + PHELPS, ROBERT. _Heroes and Orators._ N. Y., McDowell & Oblensky + 1958. Fine modern novel of family relationships, containing a + lesbian character described as the most real, human and + sympathetic in recent years; Margot, in love with her ex-husband's + sister Elizabeth. The two women live together, but any intimate + relationship between them is disclaimed. + + PHILLIPS, THOMAS HAL. _The Bitterweed Path._ Rinehart 1949, pbr + Avon 1954, 1959, (m). + + POWELL, DAWN. _A Cage for Lovers._ Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1957. + Mannish, wealthy hypochondriac keeps her nurse-companion in + virtual slavery until the younger girl breaks away and marries. + Competent novel by a popular author. + + PRIEST, J. C. _Private School._ Beacon pbo 1959 scv. + + PRITCHARD, JANET. _Warped Women._ Beacon pbo 1951, 1956, 1959. + Despite the lurid blurb and cover, this is a nice evening waster + about an innocent young girl who goes to work for a woman's health + club which is, behind the scenes, an abortion mill run by + gangsters. Fronting for the group, an attractive lesbian takes a + fancy to the heroine, eventually protects her against the gangster + boss at the risk of her own life. The heroine then marries a nice + boy who's been telling her all along that the place is rotten. + Suspenseful, interesting. + + PROUST, MARCEL. _Remembrance of Things Past_, the great work of + the well-known French homosexual author, is available in many + (virtually all except rural-provincial) libraries, numerous + college editions, etc. Long sections are variant, male-homosexual + or lesbian; bibliography would occupy entirely too much space. Try + a stray volume in qpb and see if Proust is your cup of tea--he + isn't everyone's. + + PURTSCHER, NORA. _Woman Astride._ Appleton-Century, 1934. Woman + spends almost her entire life in male disguise. Offbeat, variant + rather than explicitly lesbian. + + PYKE, RICHARD. _The Lives and Deaths of Roland Greer._ NY, Boni + 1929, (m). Horrifying. + + RAVEN, SIMON. _The Feathers of Death._ London, A. Blond, 1959, + Simon & Schuster 1960, (m). + + RAYTER, JOE (pseud. of Mary McChesney). _Asking for Trouble._ + Morrow 1955, pbr Pocket Books 1959. Murder mystery. A mannish, + hard-boiled lesbian plays an important part. + + REHDER, JESSIE. _Remembrance Way._ G P Putnam's Sons 1956. + Retrospective tale in which the heroine recalls a summer in girl's + camp, when she was enslaved simultaneously to a domineering + director (woman) and her daughter. + + REMARQUE, ERICH MARIA. _Arch of Triumph_ Appleton 1945, pbr Signet + 1950, 1959. + + + RENAULT, MARY. _Promise of Love._ Morrow, 1939. Novel, in a + hospital background, contains variant relationship, lightly + treated. + + _The Middle Mist._ Morrow, 1945. Excellent, humorous novel, + featuring the boyish Leo (Leonora) who, with her friend Helen, + lives on a houseboat quite happily ("It only makes sense for the + surplus women to arrange themselves one way or another.") This is, + beyond a doubt, the wittiest, most refreshing book on the list; + the girls have problems, but they have them, and solve them, + without any well-of-loneliness agonizing. The story is resolved in + Leo's gradual feminization and marriage. + + _The Last of the Wine._ Pantheon, 1956 (m; Greek.). + + _The King Must Die._ Pantheon 1958, pbr Pocket Books 1959. Minor + male and female homosexuality in Cretan setting. + + _The Charioteer._ Longmans, 1953, Pantheon hcr 1959. Male, major, + femininely delicate. Virtually all of this writer's work contains + some reference, though sometimes remote and slight, to variance. + + RENAULT, PAUL. _Raw Interludes._ Brookwood, 1957, scv. _No_ + relation to Mary Renault; since Renault, Mary, has a double plus, + the editors agree we should invent a double minus. + + RICE, CRAIG. _Having Wonderful Crime._ Simon & Schuster, 1943. + Hilarious murder mystery leads into the byways and gay bars of + Greenwich village. + + RICHARDSON, HENRY HANDEL. _The End of a Childhood._ London, + Reinemann, 1934, hcr N. Y. Norton. + + _The Getting of Wisdom._ N. Y. Duffield, 1910. Both are volumes of + loosely connected variant short stories. + + ROLLAND, ROMAINE. _Annette and Sylvie._ Holt, 1925. The first + volume of a trilogy, this deals with an intense attachment between + two young (adolescent) half sisters who meet for the first time in + their teens. + + RONALD, JAMES. _The Angry Woman._ Lippincott 1948, Bantam pbr + 1950. A businesswoman keeps a young girl reluctantly captivated + until the girl commits suicide. + + RONNS, EDWARD. _The State Department Murders._ pbo, Gold Medal + 1952, (m) fco. + + ROSMANITH, OLGA. _Unholy Flame._ pbo Gold Medal 1952, (m) fco. (But + I like this personally very much. A modern Svengali.) + + + ROSS, WALTER. _The Immortal._ Simon & Schuster 1958, Pocket + Books Cardinal Edition 1959, (m). + + ROYDE-SMITH, NAOMI. _The Tortoiseshell Cat._ Boni & Liveright + 1925. An unworldly girl's capture by a predatory lesbian. + + _The Island._ Harper, 1930. Sad, tense book about an ugly, unhappy + girl nicknamed "Goosey" and a clinging cousin who will neither + love her nor let her go. + + RUARK, ROBERT. _Something of Value._ Doubleday 1955, pbr Pocket + Books 1958. Very minor. + + RYAN, MARK. _Twisted Loves._ Bedside Books 1959, pbo, scv. + + SABATIER, ROBERT. _Boulevard._ (Prix de Paris award novel, trans. + from French by Lowell Blair). David McKay 1958, pbr Dell 59, (m). + marginal. + + SACKVILLE-WEST, VICTORIA. _The Dark Island._ Doubleday, 1934. + Shirin is the over-emotional, unconventional wife of Venn, dour + owner of the "dark island", Storn. He treats Shirin so badly that + she seeks companionship, love and affection from Christina, her + husband's secretary; through jealousy (not unmixed with pure + sadism) Venn arranges for Christina to be drowned in a boating + "accident". Haunting. + + + SALEM, RANDY. _Chris._ Beacon pbo, 1959. The plus indicates good + of kind, not intrinsic merit. An interesting story of a lesbian + triangle--Chris, Dizz, and young Carol. One reader commented that + this story was a sort of lesbian dreamworld--these women seemed to + live in a society, and a world, completely unmixed with ordinary + life at all. Certainly they are all treated as quite the ordinary + thing, and there are almost no hints that there is a heterosexual + world outside the gay one, which must be taken into account. + Certainly it makes no incursions into the novel. Chris, a + conchologist, her life complicated by her frigid girl-friend Dizz, + suffers and drinks too much and sleeps around until Carol, one of + her random pick-ups, decides to stick to her, and eventually frees + Chris from this attachment. Good but unreal. + + + SANDBURG, HELGA. _The Wheel of Earth._ McDowell, Oblensky 1958. + Roughly a third of a long novel of Midwestern rural life deals + with the lengthy attachment between Frankie Gaddy and an older + woman, Genevieve. + + SARTON, MAY. _A Shower of Summer Days._ Rinehart, 1952. + + SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL. _No Exit._ Knopf 1947, qpb Vintage 1955. Play. + + SAVAGE, KIM. _Girl's Dorm._ Vixen Press 1952. + + _Baby Makes Three._ Vixen, 1953. No reports on either of these, + but in view of the publisher they are probably evening wasters at + best. + + SAYERS, DOROTHY L. _The Dawson Pedigree._ Harcourt 1928, fco. + + + SCHIDDEL, EDMUND. _Girl with the Golden Yo-Yo._ pbo Berkley + 1955, 1959, (m). Also contains some brief analysis of lesbian jazz + circles in Germany after WWI. + + _The Other Side of the Night._ pbo Avon 1954-5, Berkley 1959, (m). + + SCHMITT, GLADYS. _Confessors of the Name._ Dial, 1952, pbr + Permabooks ca. 1953-55. A relatively minor lesbian character in a + long novel of ancient Rome, with explicit lesbian scenes during a + Saturnalia orgy. + + _A Small Fire._ Dial 1958. (m.) minor. + + _Alexandra._ Dial 1947, pbr Pocket Books 1949. Very vague and + minor threads of contact in a novel of intense friendship between + two women. Emotionally high. + + SCOTT, LES. _Twilight Women._ Arco 1952, pbr Beacon 1956. + Evening-waster suspenseful adventure story of a chase-type + kidnapping: Rance, the hero, pleasantly entangled with two + beautiful Polynesian girls, who eventually take him to a Utopian + tropical island where he happily marries both of them. The contact + between the girls is incidental and included simply to heighten + excitement for male readers, but it's good fun in a Sax Rohmer-ish + way. + + _Three Can Love._ Arco, 1952. + + _Touchable._ Arco, 1951. Probably much the same as above. + + SCULLY, ROBERT. _A Scarlet Pansy._ N. Y., Faro, 1933, Hesor 1937, + hcr. Reprinted and completely rewritten by Royal, no pub. no date, + Baltimore, Oppenheimer, 30s and 40s. In 1950, D W Cory called this + "the low point of the homosexual novel". A lot of trash has been + written since, which makes this look simply silly. (m). A + confusing novel of the "gay" world, including some butchy and + peculiar lesbians. + + SEELEY, E. S. _Sorority Sin._ Beacon pbo, 1959. scv. + + SELA, LORA. (pseud of Carol Hales) _I Am a Lesbian._ Saber pbo, + 1959. Would-be shocker about a poor innocent girl being pushed + into love affairs with brutal boys, raped, etc, by cruel relatives + and friends, when all that God wants of her, according to the + author, is for her to be a Happy Well-Adjusted Noble Lesbian. This + isn't even scv, since the writers of sexy trash usually know + something about sex or trash or both. Read it and snicker. + + SETON, ANYA. _Katherine._ Houghton, 1954. (m. minor) + + SHAW, WILENE. _The Fear and the Guilt._ pbo, Ace, 1954. + Softball-playing Ruby brings sweet-leech Christy to her Tobacco + Road home. There, to disarm suspicion, Christy allows herself to + be first seduced, then married, by Ruby's father. Sympathetic for + a shocker, but oh, my! + + SIDGWICK, ETHEL. _A Lady of Leisure._ Boston, Small, 1914. A + passionate, but quite innocent, attachment between women in their + twenties. + + SIMENON, GEORGES. _In Case of Emergency._ Doubleday 1958, pbr Dell + 1959. A common theme--a good man enslaved by a worthless girl--is + treated here by a very good European writer. A subplot deals with + the attachment between the girl and her maidservant. + + SINCLAIR, JO. (pseud. of Ruth Seid) _Wasteland._ Harper Bros. + 1946. This is the excellent and heavily lauded Harper prize novel + of that year. Told on the psychiatrist's couch, it concerns the + failure of Jewish Jake Braunowitz to live up to his manhood ... + which forces this job onto the shoulders of his sister Debbie, a + lesbian. The psychiatrist discovers that he ran from his + responsibilities in the first place due to feeling weaker than the + masterful intelligent Debbie; then, after forcing her to take a + man's role in the family, he turns around and feels guilt and + shame at her adjustment to the situation. Excellently done. + + SPEERS, MARY. _We Are Fires Unquenchable._ Murray and Gee, + Hollywood 1946. fco. A badly written, almost illiterate novel, the + first few scenes of which are laid in a girl's college swarming + with luridly treated lesbians and in an assortment of Bohemian + settings. + + + SMITH, ARTEMIS. _Odd Girl._ Beacon pbo, 1959. The blurb reads + "Life and love among warped women", but don't let it scare you. + This is one of the better and more serious approaches to the + writing of a serious novel of lesbians through the stereotyped + pattern of the paperback novel. The basic plot concerns Anne, and + her experiences in trying to find out for herself, the hard way, + whether she is a lesbian or whether she can successfully adjust to + life as a normal woman. The story ends with the surprising, but + growingly popular affirmation that "adjustment" is not always to + be desired at all costs. The cover also calls this a story of + "society's greatest curse", meaning homosexuality; but for once it + isn't treated that way. + + _The Third Sex._ pbo, Beacon, 1959. Most of the remarks made above + also apply to this one, though the heroine is Joan, a college girl + who fears that she is becoming a lesbian, and fights it by + redoubling her affairs with men. Slightly more sensational than + "Odd Girl", but well written, well thought out and generally + excellent. + + SMITH, DOROTHY EVELYN. _The Lovely Day._ N. Y., Dutton, 1957. + Interesting novel of an English village on a choir outing, + contains a minor but funny account of an unconscious lesbian's + decisions. + + SMITH, SHELLEY. (pseud. of Nancy Bodington.) _The Lord Have + Mercy_, Harper 1956, pbr tct _The Shrew is Dead_, Dell 1959. + English mystery story; a major subplot involves a pair of + lesbians. + + SNEDEKER, CAROLINE DALE. _The Perilous Seat._ Doubleday, Doran + 1929, marginal (m) in a juvenile of ancient Greece; the hero, + being sold into slavery, attempts to disfigure himself to escape + "the fate of handsome boys among the Persians." + + STAFFORD, JEAN. _Boston Adventure._ Harcourt, 1944. + + STEIN, GERTRUDE. _Things as They Are._ Banyan Press, Pawlet, + Vermont. (Very rare; $25 and up second hand.) A novel by the + well-known surrealist poet ... possibly her only coherent work ... + dealing with lesbianism. + + STONE, SCOTT. _The Divorcees._ Beacon pbo 1955, released 1959 + Evening waster about a racketeer who specializes in quick + divorces, and his girl-friend who flirts with all the women as he + disengages them from their husbands. + + _Margo._ Beacon pbo 1955, released 1959. scv. + + _Blaze._ Berkley pbo or pbr, n. d. no data except "trash". + + SOUBIRAN, ANDRE. _Bedlam._ Putnam 1957, pbr Pyramid 1959, (m) + minor. + + STONEBRAKER, FLORENCE. _Sinful Desires._ pbr Bedside Books, 1959. + (previous paperback, publisher unknown, ca. 1951). Silly novel + about a married woman briefly captivated by a stereotyped lesbian. + + + STURGEON, THEODORE. (pseud. of Edward Hamilton Waldo). "Affair + with a Green Monkey". Venture Science Fiction May 1957; also in _A + Touch of Strange_, Doubleday 1959. + + "The Sex Opposite". in _E. Pluribus Unicorn_, Abelard 1952, + Ballantine pbr 1953. + + "The World Well Lost" in _E Pluribus Unicorn._ Many of Sturgeon's + other short stories and novelettes touch on extremely strange, + offbeat relationships. + + + SWADOS, FELICE. _House of Fury._ Doubleday 1941, pbr Lion 1955, + Berkley 1959. One of the better paperbacks, dealing with racial + tensions and muted lesbian attachments in a girl's reformatory. + + SWINBURNE, ALGERNON. _Lesbia Brandon._ Falcon Press 1952, edited + and annotated by Randolph Hughes. A famous incomplete novel by the + well-known poet, for students rather than readers. Really only a + handful of scattered chapters, too scrappy to judge; see also + poetry supplement. + + SYDNEY, GALE. _Strange Circle._ Beacon Books pbo 1959, 1960. Grace + Garney, feeling unwanted, gets a job with Mrs. Flocke, a repulsive + lesbian, and repels a pass; this, however, revives childhood + memories, and during a rift in her affairs with a man, she has a + brief affair with Inez, a friend with an unsatisfactory husband. + Evening waster. + + SYKES, GERALD. _The Center of the Stage._ N. Y., Farrar 1952, pbr + Signet 1954. Witty novel of the theatre, with a minor lesbian + character. + + TAYLOR, DYSON. _Bitter Love._ orig. copyright 1952, Pyramid 1958, + (m). Worldly woman marries a homosexual who wants her for a + "front". + + TAYLOR, JOHN. _Shadows of Shame._ Pyramid 1956, 1959, (m). + + TAYLOR, VALERIE. _Whisper Their Love._ Crest pbo 1957. + Unsympathetic college novel of a girl suffering through a lesbian + affair while all around her the other girls suffer through rape, + incest and abortion. Over-written. + + _Girls in 3-B._ Crest pbo 1959. One of three young girls who come + to the city to find jobs or careers, Barby drifts into a lesbian + relationship, mostly out of revulsion against two unfortunate + experiences with men. Excellent, sympathetic. + + + _Stranger on Lesbos._ Crest pbo 1959. A married woman with a + grown son and indifferent husband, returning to college for work + on a college degree, is ripe for an affair with "Bake", a + confirmed lesbian. The affair is told with sufficient skill and + restraint to make it believable; even Frankie's eventual return to + her old life is not a cliche "happy ending" but well prepared and + well characterized. Remarkably good; the degree of progress from + the first to the third of these novels makes your editors anxious + to see where Miss Taylor goes from here. + + TELLIER, ANDRE. _Twilight Men._ Greenberg 1931, pbr Lion 1950, 52, + 56, Pyramid 1959, (m). Well known. + + + TEY, JOSEPHINE. (pseud. of Elizabeth MacKintosh.) _Miss Pym + Disposes._ Macmillan 1948; also in _Three by Tey_, Macmillan 1954. + Slowly built-up, excellently constructed mystery of a girl's + school, where a close attachment between two seniors provides + solution and motivation for a murder. The level of mystification + is so high that even on the last page the reader is gasping with + the final, shocking surprise. + + _To Love and be Wise._ Macmillan 1951. Another well done mystery, + with a variant attachment also providing motive and solution and a + high level of suspense and surprise. + + TESCH, GERALD. _Never The Same Again._ G P Putnam's Sons 1956, pbr + Pyramid 1958, (m). Not for the squeamish, but a well-done novel of + an affair between a teen age boy and an older man. + + + TIMPERLEY, ROSEMARY. _Child in the Dark._ Crowell 1956. Two of + the three stories in this book involve intense attachments, + variant but not explicitly lesbian, between an English + schoolmistress and a young girl. + + THAYER, TIFFANY. _Thirteen Women._ Claude Kendall, 1932. Mildly + nasty shock-story of a murder, involving thirteen women, one mixed + up with a lesbian; she eventually commits suicide. + + _Thirteen Men._ Claude Kendall 1930, (m). Much the same stuff as + above only masculine in emphasis. Thayer is a good writer, but not + everyone's choice. + + THOMPSON, JOHN B. _Girls of the French Quarter._ Beacon pbo 1954. + + _Frenzy of Desire._ Encore Press 1957. Evening wasters. + + THOMPSON, MORTON. _Not as a Stranger._ Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1954 + pbr Pocket Books 1955. fco, very minor episodes. + + + THORNE, ANTHONY. _Delay in the Sun._ Literary Guild, 1934. A + "heartening idyll" of two friends who, during a long stopover in + Spain, resolve their relationship. + + + TORRES, TERESKA. _Woman's Barracks._ Gold Medal pbo 1950, 51, + 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and probably every year from now + on, for a while anyhow. Gold Medal's most popular title so far is + the story of a group of women with the Free French women's army, + at loose ends and disassociated from family, friends and personal + attachments. Among the many threads of the plot is the story of + naive young Ursula, who, through her relationship with warm, + tough, friendly Claude is helped to maturity and eventually to + readjustment to normal life. + + _Dangerous Games._ Dial 1957, pbr Crest 1958. A married woman, + discovering her husband is having an affair with her closest + friend, briefly becomes infatuated with her too. + + _Not Yet._ Crown 1957, pbr Crest 1958. The story of four young + girls in a French school; not children but "not yet" women, and + their adjustment to life and love. The narrator, the least mature, + is as yet infatuated only with Mother Nathalie, her teacher; no + overt behavior is implied except kisses, but the nun's reaction + when the heroine begins to be interested in boys brings this under + the scope of the study. + + _The Golden Cage._ Dial 1959. (trans. from French by Meyer Levin). + A group of refugees in wartime, waiting for visas in Portugal, + undergo various transient attachments. Among the group are several + lesbians, treated with sympathy and sensitivity. + + TRAVIS, BEN. _The Strange Ones._ Beacon pbo 1959, (m). Evening + waster about a young no-good who earns his living as a paid + escort/gigolo and relaxes with boy friends but still loudly + insists he is normal. Your editor enjoyed this out of sheer + perversity; usually novels treating of male homosexuality engage + the subject with deadly seriousness, while the paperback originals + reek with drooling voyeuristic strip-teases about lesbians, for + the sake of men who like to enjoy pipe-dreams about lesbians + making love, and about some Big Handsome Hero who eventually + converts the girls to "normality" with some secret formula of + caresses. So it is a nice change to see the gay BOYS getting the + in-and-out-of-the-sheets treatment for once. + + TRYON, MARK. _The Fire that Burns._ Berkley pbo 1959 scv. + + _Take it Off._ Vixen Press 1953, Modern Press 1956, scv. + + UNTERMEYER, LOUIS. (Editor). _The Treasury of Ribaldry._ Doubleday + 1956, pbr Popular Library 1959 (v. 1). This contains Lucian's + "Dialogues of Courtesans", entitled in this translation "The + Lesbian" and "A Curious Deception". The hardcover edition also + contains some of the Songs of Bilitis. + + VAIL, AMANDA (pseud. of Warren Miller). _The Bright Young Things._ + Little, Brown, 1958. pbr Crest 1960. + + In a story of two worldly young college girls experimenting with + life and love, a subplot involves two of their friends, lesbians. + Minor but fun. + + VANEER, WILLIAM. _Love Starved Wife._ Bedside Books Inc, 1959. + scv. + + VAN HELLER, MARCUS. _The House of Borgia_, Paris, Olympia Press, + 1957. Volume #16 in The Traveler's Companion, straight scv. + + VAN ROYEN, ASTRID. _Awake, Monique._ Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1957, + pbr Crest 1958. Astrid, an orphaned child in some unnamed European + country (Holland, Belgium, Sweden?) is sent to live with her uncle + Rainier; she lives upstairs with Rainier (eventually with a + Lolita-like intimacy) while Rainier's wife lives downstairs with a + lesbian friend, Dini. Despite a "broadminded" plea for + understanding, Rainier strictly forbids Astrid to have anything to + do with the girls. The book is well-written, tasteful, and + certainly candid. + + VAUGHAN, HILDA. _The Curtain Rises._ N. Y., Chas Scribner 1935. A + young girl, Nest, in London, falls in with a fiftyish spinster + with a reputation for aiding young and pretty girls who also have + talent. Miss Fremlyn invites Nest to live with her as her + companion, showering her with education, attention and + restrictions; Nest is naive, Miss Fremlyn unaware, at least + consciously, of her own emotions. They travel and live together + for some time, but the affair breaks up when Nest, who has always + kept in touch with her boy friend, is discovered with him and Miss + Fremlyn, considering this a betrayal, dismisses her. Explicit, + well done. + + VERNE, CHARLES. _The Wheel of Passion._ N. Y., Key 1957. scv. + + VIDAL, GORE. _The City and the Pillar._ E P Dutton 1948, pbr + Signet ca. 1950, (m). + + _The Season of Comfort._ E P Dutton 1949, (m). + + WAHL, LOREN. _The Invisible Glass._ Greenberg, 1950, pbr tct _If + This be Sin_, Avon 1952, pbr tct _Take Me as I Am_, Berkley 1959, + (m). + + WALFORD, FRANK. _Twisted Clay._ Claude Kendall, 1934. fco. A young + girl, a psychotic sadist ... is bisexual and has one big affair + with an older woman. It must be marked for people with very + complete collections only; it is depressing, inaccurate, etc. "The + writing, etc, are excellent, but oh my, what a plot!" + + + WARD, ERIC. _Uncharted Seas._ Paris, Obelisk Press 1937. (Fairly + easy to obtain second hand, and not at all like most of the sexy + trash tagged Paris elsewhere in this list.) An excellent, + perceptive and controlled story of Diana Bellew, a young married + woman with children, a childish husband and too much money and + time on her hands, and her successive affairs with three women. + The writing is unusually good for male authorship. + + WEBB, JON EDGAR. _Four Steps to the Wall._ Dial 1948, pbr Bantam + 1953, (m). Prison novel. + + + WEIRAUGH, ANNA ELISABET. _The Scorpion._ Greenberg 1932, Willey + Book co, 1948, pbr Avon Books 1957, complete; pbr tct _Of Love + Forbidden_, greatly abridged, 1958. Well-known novel of well-bred + German girl, Metta (in some translations, Myra) who, in her late + teens, falls in love with a worldly lesbian, Olga, who does much + to free her from her stuffy background, but repudiates her + painfully in a family crisis. After Olga's suicide Metta seeks for + her real self and real destiny, first in the Bohemian + drink-drugs-sex merrygoround of Berlin between the wars, then + hides from life in a stuffy middle-class setting; when even here + she finds herself pursued by a lesbian tease, Gwen, who flirts + with Metta to inveigle her into a sordid party _a trois_, Metta + resolves to go away and come to terms with her own soul. + + _The Outcast._ Greenberg 1933, Willey Book Co 1948. The sequel to + the above, this finds the heroine of _The Scorpion_ living quietly + in the country. She undergoes a painful and unsatisfactory affair + with Fiametta, a dancer, but when this proves unsatisfactory + settles down sadly but peacefully with a couple of sexless men + friends. + + WEISS, JOE, and Ralph Dean. _Anything Goes._ Bedside Books pbo, + 1959. Fast-moving evening waster with a minor lesbian angle. + + WELCH, DENTON. _Maiden Voyage._ L. B. Fischer 1945, (m) minor. + + _In Youth is Pleasure._ L. B. Fischer 1946, (m) minor. + + + WELLS, CATHERINE. "The Beautiful House" Harpers, March 1912. An + idyll of two women ends tragically with the marriage of the + younger. + + WELLS, KERMIT. _Reformatory Women._ Bedside Books pbo 1959. + Surprisingly good for this publisher of rubbish. After escaping + from a sadistic lesbian matron in the reformatory, Noreen works as + a fake butch in a Greenwich Village Gay bar and tourist trap; + later goes to work for gangsters in a roadhouse, falls for a nice + boy and goes back to serve her reformatory sentence and marry him + when she gets out. Pleasant evening waster. + + WETHERELL, ELIZABETH (pseud of Susan Warner). _The Wide Wide + World._ Many editions, very easily obtained, a well-known girls + story of the 1880s or thereabout, dealing with Ellen, an orphan of + twelve. Much of the first half of the novel is devoted to a very + innocent, but exceptionally intense, close relationship between + Ellen and her beloved "Miss Alice", daughter of the local + minister. Good of kind, and distinctly relevant on an adolescent + level. + + WHEELER, HUGH. _The Crippled Muse._ Rinehart, 1952. A "sparkling + comedy" of Capri contains the story of two women who have lived + together for ten years; the younger girl is tired of the + arrangement, and the older uses her feelings of guilt and shame to + hold her captive. In the course of the novel she manages to free + herself. + + WHITE, PATRICK. _The Aunt's Story._ Viking Press 1948. fco. + + WIMBERLEY, GWYNNE. _One Touch of Ecstasy._ Frederick Fell, 1959. A + lesbian affair gives "one touch of ecstasy" to a woman's + inhibited, unhappy life, allowing her to return to her husband + with wakened perceptions. + + WILDER, ROBERT. _Wait for Tomorrow._ Putnam 1950, Bantam 1953. A + girl's unwilling entanglement with a predatory lesbian, in a + romance of an imaginary Balkan country, leads to all sorts of + violence and cloak-and-dagger stuff. Good. + + + WILHELM, GALE. _Torchlight to Valhalla._ Random, 1938, pbr tct + + _The Strange Path_, Lion 1953, Berkley 1958, 1959. Morgen, + rootless and drifting after the death of her artist father, to + whom she had been childishly close, is loved by two fine young + men, but finds her happiness with a strange young girl, Toni. + Major, well known. + + _We Too Are Drifting._ Triangle Books 1938-39; Modern Library + 1935. pbr Lion Books 1951, Berkley 1957, 58, 59, 60. Probably the + major novel of the thirties to deal with lesbians; perhaps the + best of all time. In substance it deals with the boyish, but + feminine Jan Morale; her struggle to escape a slightly sordid + affair with Madelaine, a married woman, and to find happiness, + despite family complications, with a young girl, Victoria. Told + with fairness, restraint, and skill--not to mention that this is + one of the dozen or so books on this entire list to display not + only _some_, but _exceptional_ literary merit. + + WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. "Something Unspoken" in _27 Wagons Full of + Cotton._ New Directions, 1953. Also in Best Short Plays of + 1955-56, Dodd, Mead, 1956. A play; I marked this for fco, received + a protest: "Everybody will enjoy this." Compromise; everybody will + enjoy this who likes Tennessee Williams. + + WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS. _The Knife of the Times._ Dragon Press, + 1932, hcr tct _Make Light of It_, Random House 1950, (m). The title + story is in DWCory, _21 Variations_. + + WILLIAMS, ISABEL. _Hellcat._ Greenberg 1934, pbr Dell 1952. + Unpleasant girl who uses everyone for her own purposes includes a + lesbian among her victims. + + WILLINGHAM, CALDER. (pseud). _End as a Man._ Vanguard 1947, pbr + Signet co. 1957, (m). + + WILLIS, GEORGE. _Little Boy Blues._ Dutton, 1947. Concerns the + machinations of a lesbian to achieve marriage and motherhood as a + "front". + + WILSON, ETHEL D. _Hetty Dorval._ Macmillan 1948, fco. + + WINDHAM, DONALD. _The Hitchhiker._ Florence, Italy, priv. print. + (m). + + _Servants with Torches._ N. Y. 1955 priv. print. (m). + + _Dog Star._ Doubleday, 1950, (m). + + WINSLOE, CHRISTA. _The Child Manuela._ (Trans. Agnes Scott Farrar, + 1933.) Motherless Manuela, sent to a strict boarding-school + because of supposed misconduct with a boy (actually she was only + fascinated with his mother) falls in love with Elizabeth von + Bernberg, one of the teachers. The woman's behavior is strictly + correct, but her warmth of personality attracts all the + love-starved, inhibited children; Manuela, exhilarated and + slightly drunk at a school party, babbles of her love for the + Fraulein, and is punished so severely that she throws herself from + a top-floor window. + + _Girl Alone._ (Trans. Agnes Scott). Farrar 1936. A girl in + difficulties finds temporary refuge with a lesbian friend. + + WINSTON, DAOMA. _The Golden Tramp._ pbo Beacon Books 1959. Evening + waster about a woman writer trying it both ways. + + WOLLER, OLGA. _Strange Conflict._ Pageant, 1955. Purple-passaged + and would-be-horrifying story about a Eurasian + hermaphrodite--supposedly as she is because of her mother's + intercourse with demons before her birth--who inspires love and + brings death to everyone she knows, male or female. + + WOODFORD, JACK. _Male and Female._ Woodford Press, 1935. + + _Unmoral._ Woodford Press, 1938. Both of these are evening + wasters--racy stuff, not bad at all when compared with the current + crop of trashy paperbacks. The "lesbian" content, of course, is + strictly for fun. + + WOOD, CLEMENT. _Strange Fires._ Woodford Press, 1951. "Shipwreck + on Lesbos" in his _Desire_, Berkeley n. d. 1958 (copyright 1950, + perhaps Woodford Press?) Clement Wood is either a pen name for, or + a successor to, Jack Woodford, a popular writer of racy, risque, + sexy books of little literary merit but relatively innocuous even + for teen-agers ... the trash of the thirties and forties was a + very different thing from the scv of the fifties. + + WOOD, CLEMENT, and Gloria Goddard. _Fair Game._ Woodford Press, + 1949, pbr Beacon 1958. Evening waster about girls coming to the + wicked big city, and we all know what happens to such girls in + this kind of book. One of them falls in with the dangerous women + instead of the dangerous men. + + + WOOLF, VIRGINIA. _Orlando._ _To The Lighthouse._ + + _Mrs. Dalloway._ All of these are classics easily available in + small, medium and large libraries, college bookstores, and the + like. The lesbian content is vague and subtle, but good; one of + the best woman writers. + + WOUK, HERMAN. _Marjorie Morningstar._ Doubleday 1955, pbr 1956. + The variant element in this is minor and problematical. In + conversation, it occurred to a group of reviewers that the + developing relationship between Marjorie and Marsha "resembled a + love affair", that Marsha's attack of hysterics at her wedding, + and her outcry that all she had ever wanted was a friend, and now + she'd always be alone, was of distinct significance. BAYOR. + + WYLIE, PHILIP. _The Disappearance._ Rinehart 1951, pbr Pocket + Books 1958. Science fiction; for men, all women vanish; for women, + all men vanish. The problem of lesbianism arises in the women's + world; Wylie, though technically and superficially approving of + homosexuality, has his heroine reject it for herself, saying "I'm + not a child." + + _Opus 21._ Rinehart 1949, pbr Signet 1952, 1960. The hero, + rewriting a book in a hotel during a weekend of crisis, runs + across many unusual characters; among them a woman, shaken because + her husband is having a homosexual affair, is shamed into + tolerance by dallying with a lesbian prostitute. Wylie, again + superficially approving, has his hero act in a skirt-withdrawing + way, refusing such things for himself at the last minute in every + book. + + WYNDHAM, JOHN. "Consider her Ways" in _Sometime, Never_, + Ballantine 1956-57. Science Fiction; a woman experimenting with + strange drugs goes into the future, where all men have perished + and society resembles that of the ant. Good. + + _The Midwich Cuckoos._ Ballantine, 1957. Science Fiction. Alien + visitation from outer space leaves every nubile female in + Midwich--married or single, young or old--pregnant. Hilariously + funny situations arise; one of the funniest involves a pair of + lesbians. Wonderful fun. + + YAFFE, JAMES. _Nothing But the Night._ Little, Brown & Co, 1957, + pbr Bantam 1959, (m). More fake Leopold-Loeb. Good. + + YOURCENAR, MARGUERITE. _Hadrian's Memoirs._ Farrar, 1954, qpb + Anchor 1954, (m). + + ZOLA, EMILE. _Nana._ Literally dozens of hardcover and paperback + editions of a shocker about a street girl who, in addition to all + her affairs with men, also has an affair with Satin, a + streetwalker. + + _A Lesson in Love._ Abridged edition of Pot Bouille. Pyramid, + 1959. + + ZUGSMITH, ALBERT. _The Beat Generation._ Bantam pbo based on + screenplay by Richard Mathesen, (m) minor. + + + + +_The Poetry of Lesbiana_ + + +An index of Poems and Poets of interest to Collectors of Lesbiana + +_Compiled by Gene Damon_ + + + Briefly, this includes variant as well as overtly lesbian + poetry, written in English or available in English + translation. The arrangement is chronological, rather than + alphabetical. All of these are easily available in public + libraries, unless otherwise indicated. + + +THE ANCIENT WORLD: + + _Erinna_--only one fragment left. Available in the Greek Anthology + and other miscellaneous collections of that type. + + _Nossis_--Various variant poems and fragments. Greek Anthology, + Putnam, 1915-26 (5 vol.). Also in similar collections. + + _Sappho_--The classic poet of lesbianism. Over 50 editions available + in hard covers. New translation by Mary Barnard, University of + California Press, 1958, qpb $1.25. An attractive edition is also + published for $2.50 by the Pater Pauper Press, on display in most + bookstores. + + _Juvenal_--Satires. Many editions in hardcover and qpb. (Rolfe + Humphries trans. and ed. the Indiana University Press, 1958, $1.50; + also number 997 in Everyman's Library, $1.85.) The Sixth Satire. + + _Martial_--His "Epigrams" contain various references to lesbians. + Cambridge University Press, 1924, $2.75. + + +THE MIDDLE AGES: + + _Ariosto, Ludovico_--Orlando Furioso. London, Bell, 1907. + + _Labe, Louise_--Love Sonnets (trans. by Frederick Prokosch), New + Directions, 1947, $2.50, still in print. + + _Shakespeare, William_--The first 27 of the "Sonnets" are generally + adjudged to be male-homosexual in emphasis and are therefore of + interest to collectors in this field. + + +THE ROMANTIC POETS--19th CENTURY: + + _Coleridge, Samuel T._--Christabel. Long narrative poem of a curious + attachment between a guileless young girl and a female demon; + available in virtually every anthology of English literature. + + _Rossetti, Christina_--Goblin Market. Lovely and fantastic poem with + distinctly variant overtones. See anthologies of English literature. + + _Romani, Felice_--Norma. Italian libretto for the opera by Vincenzo + Bellini, generally adjudged to be subtly lesbian in overtones. Many + translations are available in collections of opera libretti, but + most English translations edit out the variant content or alter the + emphasis. + + _Baudelaire, Charles_--The Flowers of Evil, (trans. from the French + of Les Fleurs du Mal by Edna St. Vincent Millay and George Dillon) + N. Y., Harper, 1936, also New Directions, pbr, 1958. Many other + editions and translations available. + + _Swinburne, Algernon Charles_--Poems and Ballads, 2 vols, London, + Chatto & Windus, 1893, 1895. Many of the poems in this series are + explicitly or implicitly lesbian. In the interests of space + limitation, only the major titles will be listed for those who want + to sift through anthologies; Anactoria, Fragoletta, Sapphics, At + Eleusis, Sonnet with a copy of Mlle. de Maupin, The Masque of Queen + Bersabe, Erotion. The entire series of Poems and Ballads is + available in hcr no. 961, Everyman's Library, Dutton, 1940, 50, for + $1.95. + + _Louys, Pierre_--Songs of Bilitis. Many editions available, the most + easily located probably being the Liveright "Collected works of + Pierre Louys", $3.50. There is also a paperback edition, Avon Red + and Gold Library, no date. The "Songs" have been published singly in + numerous privately printed and illustrated editions, some of which + are very beautiful collector's items. + + _Bronte, Emily_--Complete Poems. N. Y. Columbia University Press, + 1941 (still in print at $4.00). A scattering of these poems are (or + can be interpreted as) vaguely variant. + + _Mencken, Idah Isaacs_--Infelicia. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1875. + (Rare, and expensive.) + + _Field, Michael_--(pseud. of two Englishwomen.) Entire work of + lesbian interest and a "must" for completists. Most medium to large + public libraries have some of their work. + + _Dickinson, Emily_--Bolts of Melody. N. Y. Harper, 1945. Also variant + poems are scattered throughout her earlier editions. (Selected + Poems, Modern Library, 1948, $1.65.) + + +THE MODERN POETS: + + _Lowell, Amy_--No one volume of her work can be singled out; her + poems are perhaps the most openly variant of any of the English or + American poets. Her "Complete Poetical Works" is still in print; + Boston, Houghton & Mifflin Co., 1955; Introduction by Louis + Untermeyer, $6.00. + + _O'Neill, Rose_--The Master Mistress. N. Y., Knopf, 1922. The creator + of the "Kewpies" also was the writer of these sensitive, + occasionally erotic poems. Perhaps a dozen are explicitly lesbian. + + _Hall, Radclyffe_--Poems of the Past and Present, London, Chapman & + Hall, 1910. Songs of Three Counties, Chapman & Hall, 1913. The + Forgotten Island, London, Chapman & Hall, 1915. Sheaf of Verses, + London, Chapman & Hall, 1905. Twixt Earth and Stars, London, Chapman + & Hall, 1906. + + These poems by the author of "Well of Loneliness" are so overt that + it is almost unbelievable that they were printed at all, but they + were, and I have the books to prove it ... she managed to get away + with it, I guess, because she talks in these poems as if she were a + man, writing to a woman. + + _Millay, Edna St. Vincent_--Collected Poems, N. Y., Harper, 1956, + $6.00. This is the favored anthology of Millay for this purpose, + since it contains everything of hers which is variant in tone. + However, there are many single volumes of her poetry available, and + also pbrs; Collected Lyrics (Washington Square, 50c), and Collected + Sonnets (Washington Square, 50c). + + _Sackville-West, Victoria_--King's Daughter, N. Y., Doubleday, 1930. + + _Sterling, George_--Strange Waters. Privately printed, n.d., also in + American Esoterica, N. Y. Macy-Masius, 1927. Lengthy narrative poem + of supposed incestuous lesbianism ... shocker. + + _Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.)_--Red Roses for Bronze, London, Lord, + Chatto & Windus. Also the Grove Press qpb, Selected Poems of H.D., + 1957; this, however, does not contain the best-known of Sappho + paraphrases, "Fragment Thirty-six". Also "Collected Poems", + Liveright, $2.50. + + _Pitter, Ruth_--English poetess, whose work is rather difficult to + locate in this country. Many of her early poems are tinged with + variance and well worth the effort of locating them in large + libraries. + + _Smith, Alicia Kay_--Only in Whispers. Privately printed; Falmouth, + Rockport, Maine. This is the hardest book on this list to obtain, + and of course, the most overt. Ardently but in good taste, this + tells of a lengthy and beautiful lesbian affair. A "must" book for + serious collectors who like poetry. + + _Wright, James_--The Green Wall. Yale University Press, 1957, $3.00. + Two overt poems in an excellent and sensitive collection. + + +_Variant Films_ + +compiled by LauraJean Ermayne and Gene Damon + + + With the exception of a few privately filmed and circulated + stag films, which of course do not come within the scope of + this study, lesbianism is treated only vaguely and by + indirection in motion pictures. Hollywood codes (which + regulate distribution even of foreign films in this country) + state unequivocally that homosexuality may not be portrayed + _or suggested._ (Italics mine). Even when the predominantly + homosexual novel COMPULSION was filmed, the script--though + including a rape scene--was fudged so that the relationship + between the two boys was never hinted at--except vaguely in + one scene, where Orson Welles as the great lawyer said that + the opposition might find "something fishy" in the fact that + they had no other friends. Your editor has since been informed + that the movie NEVER SO FEW portrayed recognizable + homosexuals. Hollywood codes are growing less stringent by the + day, with the general relaxation of censorship, and by next + year there should be some additions to this list. Thanks are + due to Miss Ermayne for allowing us to reprint the material + used in her article on The Sapphic Cinema in THE LADDER for + March, 1959 ... the Editors. + + +THE ADVENTURES OF KING PAUSOLE. Filmed in France in 1932, with Emil +Jannings. Based on the Pierre Louys novel, this starred 366 models and +dancers from the Folies Bergere; among these near-nude and nubile +nymphs was one disguised as a male ballet dancer, with whom the King's +daughter Aline had a romance even after discovering that they were of +the same sex. + +ALL ABOUT EVE took the Academy Award in 1950. There is a very lesbian +situation used to introduce the main protagonist into the movie; later +events proved the woman only pretending lesbian-type devotion, but the +inference, in the beginning, is clear and unmistakable. (GD) + +THE BARKER 1928. A short silent picture which was banned in many cities +because it featured a scene in which a very butchy type in men's pajamas +got into bed with a fluffy blonde type; caused a lot of critical +hoop-la. (GD) + +THE CHILDREN'S HOUR, a film based on the Lillian Hellman play reviewed +in this Checklist, bears a question mark; will someone who has seen the +picture please let us know whether lesbian content was implicit in the +movie? + +CHILDREN OF LONELINESS, outright anti-homophile propaganda, was mostly +male-oriented, but did contain a gay night-club scene, and picture and +office butch whose offer of affection and protection drove one girl to a +psychiatrist's couch--where she was counselled against "abnormal love". + +DARK VICTORY. 1939, recently shown on TV, concerns a talented, charming +woman (Bette Davis) dying of a brain tumor; her constant companion and +secretary is clearly in love with her, and there were numerous beautiful +and heartbreaking scenes, some of which would be impossible in a movie +not dealing with such a sad situation. + +CLUB DES FEMMES (Girl's Club in English) an admirable French film +starring Danielle Darieux, reviewed at length in THE LADDER. The lesbian +element is treated explicitly and with taste and charm. + +ESCAPE TO YESTERDAY, a French film with one brief sequence in a cabaret, +where recognizably lesbian types were portrayed. + +MAEDCHEN IN UNIFORM, a classic German film of the thirties, reviewed at +length in J H Foster's book, starring Hertha Thiele as Manusia and +Dorothea Wieck as her teacher. The film has recently been re-made but +has not yet reached the USA. + +THE GODDESS, an art film released about a year ago, starring Kim +Stanley, shows the life of an unwanted child who grows up to be a movie +queen and ends up living with her secretary, obviously a lesbian; the +relationship is portrayed with unusual frankness. This movie is still +playing in specialty theatres around the big cities. + +NO EXIT, a French film of the play by Jean-Paul Sartre; setting, limbo; +one of the characters, a lesbian who fell in love with a married woman +and drove her to suicide by spooking her. + +OPEN CITY, realistic Italian film of 10 years or so ago, had a +recognizable lesbian type-cast in it. + +PIT OF LONELINESS, a French film based on the novel OLIVIA and starring +Simone Simon. "Something of a disappointment" says LJE. + +QUEEN CHRISTINA, 1934. This famous screen classic starred Greta Garbo; +the variant bits were minor, but they were there. (GD) + +ROSE OF WASHINGTON SQUARE 1939. Now-dated tear-jerker starring Alice +Faye; in one long scene the heroine sings standing by a piano, while a +clearly seen, very mannish and extremely obvious "type" drools over her. +Not imagination; this one was the veddy veddy correct, monocled type. +(GD) + +SIGN OF THE RAM, a filming circa 1947 of the Margaret Ferguson novel, +starred Susan Peters as the wheelchaired heroine; the "crush" between +Leah and Christine was treated vaguely but recognizably to anyone who +had read the book. + +TIME OF DESIRE. "Much has been made of the Uranian aspect of this film +but personally I couldn't see it...." LJE + +TORST ("Thirst") directed by Ingmar Bergman, is supposed to tell the +lives of three women strangely in love, including a lesbian. As yet none +of your editors or contributors have seen the film. + +TURNABOUT, the Thorne Smith sex-farce where a man's ego is transmuted +into a woman's body. + +TITLE UNKNOWN; 1950 or 1951; French with English subtitles; action took +place in a girl's reformatory, much reference to lesbianism and some +overt scenes; one where a girl caressed the breast of another and +whispered love words to her, another where a tough street type tells a +young innocent "See these marks on my thighs, they are each the marks of +a lover, the left leg for boys and the right for girls." I don't see any +other way to interpret that scene. (GD) + + THE END, OF COURSE, IS NOT YET. + +[Illustration] + + +Related Publications + + +Information about the following publishers in the field of homosexual +studies was supplied by the editors; we at the Checklist assume no +responsibility for this information. We have, however, been constant +readers of all three of these magazines and can recommend them as +dignified, worthwhile and occasionally scholarly pioneering in a +neglected field; they deserve support. + +ONE, INCORPORATED. 232 South Hill Street, Los Angeles 12, California. +Non-profit organization, established in 1952, concerned with the +problems and interests of homosexual men and women; publishers of: + + ONE Magazine, monthly. Five dollars per year, fifty cents per + copy. Sent first class, sealed. Editor Don Slater; Woman's + editor, Alison Hunter. Editorials, fiction, poetry, articles, + book reviews, letters, artwork. Special attention given to the + Feminine Viewpoint. Fiction, articles, poetry by and about the + lesbian. + + ONE Institute Quarterly; Homophile Studies. Official Organ of + One Institute, a university-level facility presenting classes + on the history, biology, sociology and psychology of + homosexuality. Articles include scholarly evaluation of + literary figures such as Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman, + homosexuality and religion, etc. Five dollars per year, $1.50 + single copy. Editor James Kepner, Jr. + + THE DAUGHTERS OF BILITIS, INC. 165 O'Farrell St, Room 405, San + Francisco, Calif. A woman's organization for promoting the + integration of the homosexual into society; membership limited to + woman. Emphasis on education of the variant to promote adjustment + and self-understanding, and education of the public at large through + acceptance of the individual. Publishers of: + + THE LADDER. Monthly, $4.00 a year, 50c single copy, mailed + first class sealed. Editor, Del Martin. Fiction and poetry of + special interest, letters from readers, book reviews and a + running column of lesbiana managed by Gene Damon, reports on + special study and discussion groups, and the conductors of a + recent survey on lesbians personally. + + THE MATTACHINE SOCIETY, 693 Mission Street, San Francisco, California. + Founded 1950, Incorporated 1954; purpose, to conduct projects of + education, research and social service in sex problems, particularly + those of homosexual adults. Publishers of: + + MATTACHINE REVIEW, monthly, offset printed, circulation 2250; + $5 a year, 50c single copy, mailed sealed; issued annually in + bound volumes, indexed at end of each year. Reflects the + policies and purpose of the Mattachine Society with scientific + articles, research reports, news of sexological trends, book + reviews, letters from readers, a small amount of fiction and + annual poetry supplement. Hal Call, Editor. + + DORIAN BOOK QUARTERLY. $2 a year, 50c per copy. Primarily + concerned with books and periodicals on socio-sexual themes, + particularly fiction and non fiction dealing with + homosexuality and related themes. Purpose: to fight censorship + and encourage publishing in this field. Advertising accepted, + reviews and news of books in the field solicited. Controlled + circulation. Harold L. Call, Editor. + + +SEE ALSO FOR COLLECTORS ONLY + +[Illustration] + + +collectors only + + +Every year, following the publication of the Checklist, we receive a +number of queries. Where, they want to know, can we buy these books? We +can only tell you where we buy books; and have therefore assembled the +following list of reputable dealers, mail order, who handle these books +and many others. + + WINSTON BOOK SERVICE, 250 Fulton Avenue; Hempstead, New York. + Successor to the famous Cory Book Service which was founded by + Donald Webster Cory, author of "The Homosexual in America". This is + perhaps the best American source for current novels in hard covers + and non-fiction. They issue catalogs and lists, give a sizable + discount for large orders, and will also locate hard-to-find or + out-of-print books. Leslie Laird Winston, who is the presiding + genius here, is one of the nicest people to deal with that we have + ever known. Every month they feature some new or special book in the + field, at a special price. Getting on their mailing list is the + _best_ thing that can happen to a collector. + + DORIAN BOOK SERVICE, 693 Mission Street, San Francisco 5, + California. A subsidiary of the Mattachine Review and the + Pan-Graphic Press. They publish the Dorian Book Quarterly, dealt + with elsewhere, and also a fat, fascinating catalogue listing + several hundred titles of current hardcover and paperback fiction. + They can also furnish, or will locate, many out-of-print titles. My + experience with them: prompt service, fast shipment, up-to-date + information on cheap reprints of rare titles. + + VILLAGE BOOKS AND PRESS, 114-116 Christopher Street, New York 14, + New York. This is the outfit behind the Noel Garde bibliography of + Homosexual Literature, mentioned in the editorial. They can still + supply this biblio list for $1.50. They also issue lists at frequent + intervals, and will search for hard-to-find and out-of-print titles. + Prices seem reasonable considering the scarcity of some of the + paperbacks he handles. The proprietor, Howard Frisch, is one of the + most co-operative dealers in the business. + + ONE Magazine, listed in "Related Publications" has published one + volume of short stories, and is soon to do more publishing; they + also list several dozen books sold by mail order. + + THE LADDER, listed in "Related Publications", is soon to set up a + book service; their first special release will be Jeannette Howard + Foster's "Sex Variant Women in Literature", so keep your eyes open. + + THE TENTH MUSE, bookshop managed by Julia Newman, 326 West 15th St, + New York 11, New York, also does some mail order business. Write for + a list. + + A POINTS NORTHE, unusual bookshop at 15 Robinson Street, in Oklahoma + City, managed by James Neill Northe, into which your senior editor + virtually stumbled during a rainstorm, specializes in very rare, + esoteric and scholarly titles, curiosa, etc. He can supply even the + most fantastically rare stuff; prices are in line with the rarity of + the items wanted. (It was Mr. Northe who, with disinterested + kindness, supplied some biblio data on the real rarities on the + list; he has our thanks and endorsement.) + + BOOKPOST, C. Rogers, Box 3251, San Diego 3, California. This outfit + specializes in Americana, but can supply almost anything. The prices + here are the most reasonable I've ever encountered; if Rogers quotes + you a price, there's no point in shopping around for a lower one. + + INTERNATIONAL BOOKFINDERS, P O Box 3003, Beverly Hills, California. + These people are the out-of-print bookfinders par excellence. I've + ordered many books from them; their prices are reasonable, never + exorbitant; their service is good, the books they supply are always + of high quality. They're nice to deal with. I've never had a + complaint in ten years of bookhunting. + + RAYMOND TRANFIELD, Antiquarian Book Dealer, 31 Hart Street, + Henley-Upon-Thames, Oxon, England, is probably the best source for + older books published in England. His prices are reasonable, his + service is fast (he quotes by airmail and sends his parcels insured, + which is a blessing for anything which has to travel across the + ocean). + +[Illustration] + + +paperbacks + + +Paperbacks. We hate them and we love them. The worst rubbish, and the +best literature brought within the reach of a slim budget. If you missed +it on the news-stands, all is not lost.... + + + ACE BOOKS Inc., 23 West 47th Street, New York 36, New York. (25c) + + AVON Books; Avon Publications, Inc., 575 Madison Ave, N. Y. 22, N. 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If + you miss them on the news-stands, you'll have to root in secondhand + stores. Saber and Fabian Books can be ordered through the Dorian Book + Service, and some secondhand book dealers will locate paperbacks, + including Village Books and Press, above. + + BEDSIDE and BEDTIME books, (50c each) 200 West 34th Street, New York, + N. Y. + + +[Illustration] + + + _hardcover publishers_ + + Compiled by Kerry Dame + + A list of all obtainable addresses of the publishers of hardcover + books mentioned in the Checklist. (Paperback publishers listed + elsewhere.) + + + Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc--35 W. 32nd St, NYC 1, N. Y. + + Arco Publishing Co, Inc.--480 Lexington Ave. NYC 17, NY + + Arkham House; Publishers.--Sauk City, Wisconsin. + + A. S. Barnes & Co.--11 E. 36th St, NYC 16, NY + + Barnes & Noble, Inc.--105 Fifth Ave. NYC 3, NY + + Beacon _Press_, Inc.--25 Beacon St, Boston 8, Mass. + + Blakiston Co.--(see McGraw-Hill Book Co, Inc.) + + Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc.--717 Fifth Avenue, NY 22, NY + + Borden Publishing Co.--3077 Wabash Avenue, Los Angeles 63, Cal. + + Boxwood Press--Box 7171, Pittsburgh 13, Penna. + + C. F. Braun & Co.--1000 S. Fremont Ave, Alhambra, Calif. + + Citadel Press--222 Fourth Ave, NYC 3, NY + + Clarion Press--510 Madison Avenue, Room 700, NYC 22, NY + + P. F. Collier & Son--Library Division, 640 Fifth Avenue, NYC 19 + + Comet Press Books--200 Varick St, NYC 14, N. Y. + + F. E. Compton & Co.,--1000 N. Dearborn St, Chicago 10, Illinois + + Coward-McCann, Inc.--210 Madison Avenue, N. Y. C. 16, NY + + Creative Age Press--(see "Farrar, Straus & Cudahy") + + Criterion Books--257 Fourth Ave, NYC 10, NY + + Thomas Y. Crowell Co.--432 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY + + Crown Publishers, Inc.--419 Fourth Avenue, NYC 16, NY + + Dial Press, Inc.--461 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY + + Dodd, Mead & Co.--432 Fourth Avenue, NYC 16, NY + + Dorrance & Co., Inc.--131 N. 20th St, Philadelphia 3, Penna. + + Doubleday & Co., Inc.--mail orders; Garden City, New York. + + Dover Publications, Inc.--180 Varick Street, NYC 14, NY + + Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Inc.--19 W. 40th St, NYC 18, NY + + E. P. Dutton & Co.,--300 Fourth Avenue, NYC 10, NY + + Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, Inc.--101 Fifth Avenue, NYC 3, NY + + Frederick Fell, Inc.--386 Fourth Ave, NYC 16, NY + + Fleet Publishing Corp.--70 E. 45th St, NYC 17, NY + + Funk & Wagnalls Co.--153 E. 24th St, NYC 10, NY + + Greenberg--(see Chilton Co, Book Division, 56th & Chestnut St, + Philadelphia 39, Penna.--what became of Greenberg; NY?) + + Grosset & Dunlap, Inc.--mail orders; 227 E. Center St, Kingsport, + Tennessee. + + Grove Press, Inc.--64 University Place, NYC 3, NY + + Harper & Brothers--49 E. 33rd St, NYC 16, NY + + Hastings House, Publishers--151 E. 50th St, NYC 22, NY + + Henry Holt & Co.--383 Madison Ave, NYC 17, NY + + Houghton, Mifflin Co.--2 Park St, Boston 7, Mass. + + Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana. + + Alfred E. Knopf Inc.--501 Madison Avenue, NYC 22, NY + + Lane Publishing Co.--Menlo Park, Calif. + + J. B. Lippincott Co.--East Washington Square, Philadelphia 5, Penna. + + Little, Brown & Co.--34 Beacon Street, Boston 6, Mass. + + Liveright Publishing Corp.--386 Fourth St, NYC 16, NY + + Robert M. McBride--235 Fourth Avenue, NYC 3, NY + + McDowell, Oblensky, Inc.--219 E. 61st St, NYC (no zone listed) + + McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.--330 West 42nd St, NYC 36, NY + + David McKay Co., Inc.--119 West 40th St, NYC 18, NY + + Macauley Co.--(Book Sales, Inc, 352 Fourth Ave, NYC 10, NY) + + Macmillan Co.--60 Fifth Avenue, NYC 11, NY + + Julian Messner, Inc.--8 W. 40th St, NYC 18, NY + + Wm. Morrow & Co., Inc.--425 Fourth Avenue, NYC 16, NY + + New Directions--333 Sixth Avenue, NYC 14, NY + + Noonday Press, Inc.--80 E. 11th St, NYC 3, NY + + Ottenheimer Publishers--4805 Nelson Avenue, Baltimore 15, Md. + + Pageant Press, Inc.--101 Fifth Avenue, NYC 3, NY + + G. P. Putnam's Sons--210 Madison Avenue, NYC 16, NY + + Rand McNally & Co.--Box 7600, Chicago 80, Illinois + + Random House, Inc.--457 Madison Avenue, NYC 22, NY + + Rinehart & Co, Inc.--232 Madison Avenue, NYC 16, NY + + Simon & Schuster, Inc.--Mail Orders; 136 West 52nd St, NYC 19, NY + + Sagamore Press, Inc.--11 E. 36th St, NYC 16, NY + + St. Martin's Press, Inc.--175 Fifth Avenue, NYC 10, NY + + Charles Scribners Sons--597 Fifth Avenue, NYC 17, NY + + Tudor Publishing Co.--(Order From; Harlem Book Co, 221 Fourth Ave. NYC + 3, NY) + + University of California Press, Berkeley 4, Calif. + + Vanguard Press, Inc.--424 Madison Ave. NYC 17, NY + + Vantage Press, Inc.--120 West 31st St, NYC 1, NY + + Viking Press--625 Madison Avenue, NYC 22, NY + + Wm. Sloane Associates--(see Wm. Morrow & Co) + + World Publishing Co.--2231 W. 110th St, Cleveland 2, Ohio. + + +[Illustration] + +ADDENDA + + +Misfiled, dropped in copyright or, we goofed; + + + BRANDEL, MARC. _The Choice._ New York, Dial, 1950. no data. + + CATTO, MAX. _The Killing Frost._ London, Wm. Heinemann, 1950, (m). + Tense relationship between two circus performers motivates an + unusual, and excellent mystery novel. + + RAY, SANFORD. _Satan's Harvest._ Saber Books pbo ca. 1957. Evening + waster; a Mexican girl, Lupe, from a broken home, goes--with her + older sister--into a brothel, but is "protected" from the advances + of the men by the fact that the lesbian madame has taken a fancy + to her. Lupe's older sister burns the place down to free Lupe from + this fate. + + SAYRE, GORDON. (pseud. of Jack Woodford.) _Wife to Trade._ N. Y. + Godwin, 1936. No reviews available, but probably racy stuff, not + too badly written. + + WILLINGHAM, CALDER. "The Sum of two Angles", ss in _The Gates OF + Hell._ N. Y. Vanguard, 1951. + + YOUNG, FRANCES BRETT. _White Ladies._ NY, Harper 1935. A + boarding-school tomboy, infatuated with a schoolteacher, finally + comes to see her as a vampire, feeding on the emotions of the + young. + + +behind the scenes + +Introducing the editors and contributors.... + + + MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY, Editor and publisher of the Checklist, who + attends to such minor chores as editorial format and manhandling the + mimeograph, is by profession a writer of science fiction. Her work + has appeared in virtually every science fiction magazine on the + market. She is thirty years-old, lives in a small town in Texas, and + her other interests are Italian opera, acrobatics and mountain + climbing. + + GENE DAMON, whose competent brain does the bibliographical work for the + Checklist, is in her mid-twenties, lives in the midwest, and is a + librarian; she previously worked as a book-keeper and on a large + city newspaper. Her chief interests are classical music and the + collecting of variant literature; her private library contains over + 600 titles of lesbiana alone. It was the untiring, perfectionist + efforts of Miss Damon which checked every biblio reference in this + list; she also supplied a summary or precis for every title which + the senior editor had not read. In general, Damon is the brains of + the Checklist; MZB merely the brawn. + + KERRY DAME, stencil-cutter, artist and printer's devil, is in her early + twenties and lives in New England with her mother and many cats. 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