CHECKLIST 1960 by Marion Zimmer Bradley AND Gene Damon --- CHECKLIST محمد 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;B 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. --- VIERECK, GEORGE SYLVESTER & Paul Eldridge; Salome, the Wandering Jewess. Liveright 1930, her Macaulay 1936 and many other her and pbr including Ace Books, Minor. VILLAREAL, JOSE ANTONIO. Pocho Doubleday 1959. (m) minor VINING, DONALD "Show me the Way to go Home" ss in Cross Section ed E. Seaver, L. B. Fischer 1945 (m) VAN AERDE, ROGEER. The Tormented, Doubleday 1960 (m) major. Another fictional life of Rimbaud and Verlaine, WALL, EVANS. Wedding Night. Beacon pbo 1960. Inoffensive evening waster of a confused bride who seeks affection and comfort from her husband's younger sister. WALLACH, IRA. Muscle Beach Little, Brown 1959, Dell pbr 1960. Minor, funny novel of body-builders (m) C WEBSTER, HENRY KITCHELL. The Real Adventure Bobbs-Merrill 1916; erroneously listed and reviewed in JHFoster under title of The Great Adventure. WEIGAND, WILLIAM. The Treatment Man McGraw-Hill 1959, pbr tot The Incorrigibles, Belmont Books 1961 (m); a prison novel containing, in addition to brutably sadistic portraits of the ordinary type, a curious portrait of a young potential homo- sexual's self-acceptance and discovery under these wretched conditions. Unusually good for this type of book. WEST, ANTHONY. The Trend is Up. Random, 1960. Major panoramic family novel; major male and female homosexuals, present- ed simply as a part of life, move throughout the book. WEST, ANTHONY C (NOT the Anthony West above); The Native Moment. McDowell, Obolensky 1959 (m) WEST, BEN. Loves of a Girl Wrestler pbo Beacon 1960 SCV. Girl Artist pbo Beacon 1960 scv. WEST, EDWIN (pseud) Young and Innocent. pbo Monarch Books 1960. Deals with the attempt of a middle-aged career woman to disentangle herself from a complicated and unsatisfactory life and find happiness with a younger girl who prefers, in the end, to leave her and marry, Despite a contrived ending foisted on the book by the publisher, this is worthy of serious attention. R WEST, MORRIS L. The Devil's Advocate pbr Dell 1960 (m) major WEST, MORRIS L. The Crooked Road Morrow 1957. (m) minor; novel of political intrigue --- 32 WEST, NATHANAEL The Day of the Locust New Directions 1950, Bantam pbr 1953, 1957 (m) minor WHITTINGTON, HARRY Rebel Woman Avon pbo 1960 Fast suspense novel of Castro's rebels, written before the late shift in Cuban affairs; subplot deals with a pair of lesbian freedom fighters or whatever. WILSON, ANGUS "More Friend than Lödger" and "Once a Lady" ss in A Bit off the Map and other Stories. Viking, 1957. WILSON, COLIN. Ritual in the Dark Houghton, Mifflin 1960, pbr Popular Library 1961. Excellent re-creation of the famous, often-done Jack the Ripper theme in a modern setting; this Ripper is male-homosexual. Highly recommended WILLINGHAM, CALDER. "The Sum of two Angles" ss in the Gates of Hell; Vanguard 1951.. Excellent, satirical. R WINWAR, FRANCES. Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties. Harper 1940; new edition 1958. (m) N. and excellent. WOOD, CLEMENT. Artist's Model Godwin 1934, Woodford Press 1951, Beacon pbr tct Studio Affair 1959. Innocuous evening waster, written before these mildly-risque things became scv, and appears beside them rather frothy and funny. Story of a nice dumb-bunny girl lured into posing for a life class and naively being seduced all over the place; among the seducers is a deftly-drawn lesbian who hovers watchfully around the heroine. + WOOD, WILLIAM. The Fit. Macmillan, 1960. (m) and excellent, laid in a boy's school. WOOLFOLK, JOSIAH PITTS; real name of pseudonymous male author, father of a five-foot-shelf or so of racy-risque novels under such pen names as Gordon Sayre, Sappho Henderson Britt, Donald Henderson Clarke, Howard Kennedy and Jack Woodford. If he had decided to write Westerns or adventure stories instead, half of the scv of today (which usually follows in his footsteps) would never have been written, The senior editor would like to dedicate her portion of this Checklist to Zane Grey and Edgar Rice Burroughs; they also were illiterate but they saved us a lot of ploughing through rubbish. R WYNDHAM, JOHN. The Midwich Cuckoos pbr tet Village of the Damned, Ballantine 1961. +++ --- 3 SPECIAL FEATURE. 1961 OF SPECIAL INTEREST SUPPLEMENT: BIOGRAPHY gene damon It must be CLEARLY understood that listings in this group do not imply overt lesbianism on the part of these women. In cases where lesbian activity can be documented I will so state; otherwise these are women who have lived highly feministic lives, some with slight variant overtones, others famous as transvestites, which in itself does not constitute lesbianism. One or two others have served as obvious models for the protagonists in lesbian novels, justifiably or otherwise. Entries are numbered; each entry has a line or two of explanation and reference. This is a skeletal work and does not attempt to duplicate the many hundreds of listings in the secondary index included in Foster's definitive work (Jeannette Howard Foster; SEX VARIANT WOMEN IN LITERATURE: Vantage, 1956). It does, however, include many personalities nowhere listed by Dr. Foster. This sort of "secondary research for collectors of lesbiana is a goldmine of possibility for those among you with literary- historical interests and a love for libraries. We wish you many happy hours of reading. 1. EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY AMERICAN POET See particularly; Atkins, Elizabeth; EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY AND HER TIMES, University of Chicago Press, 1936; also Eastman, Max; Great Companions, Farrar, 1959. (The latter contains a specific admission of homosexuality in Miss Millay's own words). 2. EDITH ANNA OENONE SOMERVILLE & VIOLET FLORENCE MARTIN (MARTIN ROSS) IRISH NOVELISTS Cousins who lived together, and wrote under a joint pen name; see both names in 20th Century Authors, ed. Stanley Kunith and Howard Haycraft, for history of their lives and indication of the nature of their relationship. 3. ROSA BONHEUR FRENCH PAINTER Admitted lesbian, lifelong transvestite; see Stanton, Theodore Reminiscences of Rosa Bonheur, Appleton, 1910. 4. CHARLOTTE CHARKE Transvestite; see Foster, cited above. 5. CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN ENGLISH ACTRESS AMERICAN ACTRESS Affected transvestic apparel; had a consuming friendship for Harriet Hosmer (see below); numerous biographical references will be found in libraries. --- (34) 6. HARRIET HOSMER AMERICAN SCULPTOR See Famous Sculptors of America by J. Walker McSpadden, NY Dodd, 1924 7. ANNA VAUGHAN HYATT See Famous Sculptors of America, above 8. MARIE LAURENCIN AMERICAN SCULPTOR FRENCH ARTIST Her work shows her obsession with women, and her personal life is covered in Here Lies the Heart by Mercedes de Acosta (for bibliography see body of list); see also The Magnificant Moderns and their Work, by JC Bulliett, Covici Freide, 1936. 9. WILLA CATHER AMERICAN NOVELIST See Willa Cather Living, written by her lifelong companion Edith Lewis, NY Knopf, 1953 10. OLIVE FREMSTAD OPERA SINGER Served, pretty obviously, as model for the Marcia Daven- port novel Of Lena Geyer, which has pronounced lesbian overtones, see body of Checklist). See also The Rainbow Bridge by Mary Watkins Cushing, Putnam 1954 11. KATHERINE MANSFIELD See Foster, cited above. 12. EMILY DICKINSON AMERICAN NOVELIST AMERICAN POET See The Riddle of Emily Dickinson, by Rebecca Patterson, Boston, Houghton, Mifflin 1951; it can be definitely stated that Miss Dickinson had lesbian tendencies. 13. HELENE MARIE MARGUERITE PERDRIAT FRENCH ARTIST See The Magnificant Moderns and their Work, cited above 14. AMELIA EARHART AMERICAN AVIATOR General entry; no specific work cited but anyone interested in highly feminist lives will enjoy her many biographies. 15. CASE HISTORY EDITH M, O, LEES Married to Havelock Ellis, the famous writer on psychology and sex, her life has been studied and written about in; Havelock Ellis; the Sage of Sex by Arthur Calder-Marshall, Putnam, 1960, and Havelock Ellis; Artist of Life by John Stewart Collis, Sloane, 1959. 16. CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN Lésbian and transvestite; many biographies. Of particular interest; Christina of Sweden; a Psychological Biography, by Margaret Leland Goldsmith. Doubleday 1933. 17. THE LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN ENGLISH ECCENTRICS (LADY ELEANOR BUTLER and MISS SARAH PONSONBY) Literary ladies famous primarily for whom they knew, rather than what they did. The apparently lived together for 50 years in perfect harmony (which, by itself, is enough to --- make anyone famous). See Chase of the Wild Goose by Mary Louisa Gordon, London, Hogarth 1936, also The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen, ed. by Mrs G. H. Bell, London, Macmillan 1930; also Foster, above. 18. SOR JUANA INEZ DE LA CRUZ MEXICAN POET 17th century nun and mystic. See New World Literature by Arturo Torres-Rioseco, University of California Press, 1949. 19. MARY ANN TALBOT (John Taylor) SOLDIER AND SAILOR Transvestite; see Forgotten Ladies by Richardson Wright, Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1928. 20. SARAH STOVER and MARIA SEELYE See Forgotten Ladies, above 21. FLORA SANDES SOLDIERS SOLDIER See Forgotten Ladies, above; also Autobiography of a Woman Soldier by Flora Sandes, London, 1927. Privately printed. 22. DEBORAH SAMPSON SOLDIER Transvestite; many biographies and some scurrilious pamphlets. See Forgotten Ladies above. 23. CHARLEY PARKHURST ADVENTURER Lifelong successful transvestite; see Whips of the Old West, by Mary Chaney Hoffman, American Mercury Magazine, April 1927 24. MARY KATIE IRWING PIRATE Transvestite; almost all the large pirate anthologies mention her, as does Forgotten Ladies, above, 25. ANNE BONNEY or BONNY and MARY READ PIRATES Transvestites and lesbian lovers; many, many sources, particularly The Age of Piracy by Robert Carse, Rinehart, 1957, and The Great Days of Piracy in the West Indies, George Woodbury, Norton 1951. 26. MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE PRINCESSE DE LAMBALLE DUCHESSE DE POLIGNAN The triangular lesbian affair among these women had direct bearing on the French revolution; see Marie Antoinette, by Stefan Zweig, Garden City Publishers, 1933; The Story of Marie Antoinette, Anna L. Bicknell, Century, 1897, The Secret Memoirs of Princess Lamballe by herself, Washington and London, Walter Dunne, 1901, and many others. MARY FRITH (called MOLL CUTPURSE) ENGLISH THIEF Famous criminal_transvestite; subject of play the Roaring Girl by Thomas Dekker, in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker, V. 3, Cambridge University Press, 1958; see also --- (36 "Moll, the Roaring Girl" by Trevor Holloway, Coronet magazine, December 1956; also Elizabethan Quintet by Denis Meadows, pp. 238-263, Macmillan, 1957. 28. JAMES MIRANDA BARRY DOCTOR Transvestite, lesbian, Many sources; see The Strange Story of Dr. James Barry by Isobel Rae, London, Longmans Green, 1958; also Women Doctors of the World by Esther Pohl Lovejoy, Macmillan 1957; for her relationship with women see Literary Digest, August 7, 1937, p. 23 MARY WALKER SURGEON Famous transvestite; permission to dress as a man given by the Congress of the United States (during the Civil War --circa 1865-68). Many biographies; also Women Doctors of the World, 30. RENEE VIVIEN FRENCH POET Admitted lesbian; actually English-American by birth, Her entire poetic work is lesbian; see Foster, also Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature, Columbia University Press 1947, p. 857-858/ 31. KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY and EDITH EMMA COOPER "MICHAEL FIELD" ENGLISH POETS/DRAMARISTS See Studids of Contemporary Poets by Mary C. Sturgeon, Dodd, Mead, 1919, and Michael Field, by Mary C Sturgeon, London, Harrap, 1921, N. Y. Macmillan 1922, Also Foster, There is a variant relationship implied in virtually every biographical cource including their own work. 32. WINIFRED HOLTBY. ENGLISH NOVELIST, POET No specific data available; of special interest are Letters to a Friend by Winifred Holtby, Macmillan 1938, and Testament of Friendship by Vera Mary Brittain, Macmillan 1940. The last cited contains a heated denial of variance, so heated in fact that one is reminded of the line "The lady doth protest too much, methinks, " 33. VERA MARY BRITTAIN See above. 34. MALVINA HOFFMAN ENGLISH BIOGRAPHER AMERICAN SCULPTOR See Heads and Tales by Malvina Hoffman, Scribners, 1936, and other biographies. 35. KATHERINE PHILIPS (ORINDA THE MATCHLESS) ENGLISH POET Noted primarily for her circle of friendship and her ardent poems to three different women, which read like love letters; see The Matchless Orinda by Philip Webster Souers, Harvard University Press, 1931 35. MARGARET C ANDERSON AMERICAN BIOGRAPHER See Fiery Fountains by Margaret C. Anderson, Heritage Press 1951 --- (37) + 36. SIRI VON ESSEN, BARONESS WRANGEL Wife of August Strindberg lesbian who made her husband's life hell on earth (However, he was a misogynist and may have deserved it); her story is told in The Strange Life of August Strindberg Momillan 1949 by Elizabeth Sprigge. Strindberg's noval Confessions of a Fool (see body of Choclist) is based on his life with this woman. ADDITIONAL MATERIAL: The following works are of general interest, and contain accounts of interesting, relevant minor personalities; TWENTIETH CENTURY AUTHORS; A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature, Ed. Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, H. W. Wilson, 1942. TWENTIETH CENTURY AUTHORS: First supplement. As abovem 1955 DESPERATE WOMEN; James David Horan, Putnam 1952. THE REVOLT OF AMERICAN WOMEN. By Oliver Jensen. Harcourt, 1952 LIVES OF FAIR AND CALLANT LADIES. Pierre de Bourdeville de Brantome, 1665, Many dozens of editions, but most easily ontained in pbr Bantam 1958. WOMEN IN MEN'S GUISE by Oscar Paul Gilbert; London, John Lane, 1932 THE JEWEL IN THE LOTUS by Allan Edwardes, N Y Julian Press 1959 THE ROMANTIC AGONY by Mario Praz, London, Oxford University Press 1953, qpbr Meridian Press 1956 (in print). A MUST book for its detailed analyses of foreign and untranslared lesbiana. In conclusion I would like to reiterate that this is by no criteria a complete list; such an undertaking is far beyond the existing facilities of any single and would require years of research, It should be noted also that some people who have been previously and intensively covered, such as the original Mademoiselle de Maupin" etc have been intentionally left out. The editors would welcome suggestions as to future inclusions. GENE DAMON. * correction; this should read "beyond the facilities of any single person, or group. apologies from butterfingered MZB DEPARTMENT OF ENTIRELY UNPAID ADVERTISING: A list of excellent second-hand sources for purchasing books will be found elsewhere. In addition we can recommend from personal experience, for that "rare book" you want to locate; James Neil Northe, 15 South Robinson, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. International Bookfinders. Box 3003, Beverly Hills, California. Raymond Tranfield, 31 Hart St, Henley-upon-Thames, Oxon, England. SPECIAL ITEM OF INTEREST: a few copies are available of the privately printed paper "Men, Halflings and Hero Worship" by Marion Z, Bradley, Box 158, Rochester, Texas, 25¢ each 1st class. --- SUPPLEMENT 2: POETRY variant and lesbian verse not listed elsewhere; compiled by Gene Damon (33 ALDINGTON, RICHARD. The Loves of Myrrhine and Konallis, Chicago, Pascal Covici, 1926; omitted inadverdently from last year's Checklist. de ACOSTA, MERCEDES. Streets and Shadows, Moffat, Yard, 1922. Slim volume with perhaps 10 specifically variant poems and half a dozen debatable ones, ANTHOLOGY: Contemporary American Women Poets ed. Tooni Gordi. Henry Harrison, pub. 1936. Subtitled "Am anthology of verse by 1311 living writers, this unsurprisingly ranges from excellent to indescribably bad. Out of hundreds, maybe 30 could be called lesbian and about 40 more glancingly variant. For patient-completist poetry-lovers only, who have the persistence, and the time, to sit down and sift this. ANTHOLOGY: Rimbaud, Eaudelaire, Verlaine; Selected verse and prose poems. Ed. Joseph Bernstein, Citadel 1947%; still in print. Very fine and accurate translations of the three long lesbian poems of Baudelaire, and four of those of Verlaine; these of course are classic and fundamental to all collections. MASTERS, EDGAR LEE: Domesday Book. reprints. Macmillan 1920, plus many PHILIPS, KATHERINE (Orinda the Matchless) Most of her work is relevant; see any public library's card-index. Two of her most ardent poems are included in the Oxford Book of 17th Century Poetry. 7 Men N. Y. Putnam TODRIN, BORIS: "Hate Song" single poem in 1938; one clearly relevant poem, written by a man kamenting his wife's lesbian love affair. WARD, VERNON: Of Dust and Stars. ingly good for modern minor poetry. Exposition 1959 (m) and surpris- NOTE! AND JEANNETTE H FOSTER'S "SEX VARIANT WOMEN IN LITERATURE, " EXTRA COPIES OF THIS CHECKLIST AVAILABLE FROM DOB BOOK SERVICE 1232 Market Street, Suite 108 San Francisco 2, California. And many titles on this list available from; Dorian Book Service, 693 Mission Street San Francisco, California. --- (39) variant films COMPILED BY GENE DAMON ADVENTURES AT CAPRI Italian, 1959. Specific brief lesbian and male-homosexual scenes. BROADWAY MELODIES - American, 1928, Variant affection between Anita Page and Bessie Love. CAVALCADE - American, 1933. Based on play by Noel Coward; brief bits of lesbianism very frankly portrayed in one song- and-tableau number, French, 1959. About Bohemian students in Paris; both male and female homosexuals depicted. COUSINS - DIABOLIQUE - DIE BUCHSE DER PANDORA - (LOULOU) German, 1928. French, 1955. Starred Simone Signoret. The novel from which this film was made is reviewed in this list. THE GENIUS OF EVIL (COMPULSION) 1959? //Publisher's note; the movie Compulsion, starring Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman, with Orson Welles, underplayed the very strong homosexual theme of the Meyer Levin novel; but it was perceptible// THE GIRL OF BERLIN German 1959 (?) Scenes of women dancing intimate- ly together, in clubs. HANDS ACROSS THE TABLE - American, 1935. Doubtful INSIDE A GIRL'S DORMITORY - French 1958, 1959; English dialogue dubbed in; has variant plots in suspense film. PRISONS SANS BARREUX - French, 1938, released in USA, 1938, as PRISONS WITHOUT BARS. Both versions are variant, the French one considerably more so. THE SUBTERRANEANS - U.S. 1960. One clearly recognizable male-homo- sexual type, played by Arte Johnson, 2000 WOMEN- English, no date, Variant. SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER - U.S. 1960, A grisly, very subtle male-H theme. PSYCHO U.S. 1960. 1960. Debatable but listable as possible underplayed male-H alp * --- VARIANT FILMS.... 40 ......addenda, etc THE BEAT GENERATION, USA 1959, showed various beatniks; the part of the actor arrested in place of the real young hood- lum was played in a manner to suggest male homosexuality and the book backs up this interpretation. THE BELLBOY, USA 1960, a surrealistic sequence of wacky scenes starring Jerry Lewis, has one hilarious scene in which Jerry listens outside a telephone booth to a chirpy and apparently feminine conversation, but instead, when the conversation is over, an exceedingly swish male emerges. TRAPEZE-USA 1956. Circus movie about an aerial act and a girl who disrupts the close friendship of two partners; several scenes, despite rigid adherence to Hollywood taboo and code, were played so explicitly that (though the book was not listed by Cory or other sources) your senior editor undertook a lengthy hunt to verify suspicions about its relevance. Additions to this list will be especially welcomed. The junior ed- itor is no movie goer; the senior editoris movie-going, as a general rule, is confined to movies to which she can escort her children. where to buy Both the junior and senior editors are stingy people who hate to part with any more money than absolutely necessary, and simultaneous- ly, both editors are voracious readers and book collectors. Obvious- ly, a list of good, reasonable and reliable sources for new and second hand books is a primary requisite. Here is ours; CENTRAL BOOK STORE - 36 South Clark Street - Chicago 3, Illinois. They have an enormous selection of fiction at $1.00 per title. Box 90008, Los Angeles, California. Good selection at slightly over a dollar each. FOREMAN S WINSTON BOOK SERVICE - 250 Fulton Avenue, Hampstead, New York. This outfit handles exclusivelv fiction and non- fiction dealing with homosexuality, and they also issue periodic newsletters. JULIA NEWMAN- "The Tenth Muse" - Box 214, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, New York, Excellent and reliable source. especially for used books and rarities. VILLAGE THEATRE CENTER, (Village Books and Press) 116 Christopher Street New York 14, N. Y, Publisher of the Noel Garde listing mentioned on the titlepage, dcaler in new and used relevant titles. And specialized book services are listed at the end of the Poetry Supplement. Happy hunting! ----Bradley & Damon --- + 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, her New Directions n. d. A well-known and excellent lesbian novel laid in Paris. + BARR, JAMES. Derricks. NY, Greenberg 1951 (m) her Pan, 1957 Although these short stories all deal with male homo- sexuality, their coherent, fresh and constructive philosophy make this a book of primary importance for every reader. Quatrefoil, NY, Greenberg, 1950 (m) Game of Fools. ONE, 1954, 1955. BARRY, JEROME. Malignant Stars. NY, 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. NY, Doubleday 1958, pbr Dell 1959. (m) minor but excellent. The Mustard Seed. Dial 1953, pbe 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, NY, 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. NY, Doran 1918. A subtle picture of indirect variance between two women in wartorn Paris. BERKMAN, SYLVIA. Blackberry Wilderness, NY, 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. " --- 11 BESTER, ALFRED: Who He? NY, Doubleday 1955, pbr Berkley 1956, (m)tct The Rat Race. Tense, tightly plotted novel of split personality. The hero's housemate is a deeply sub- limated 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, Drama based on a triangle" is winning the affections of the - Brentano's 1926. man, wife, and a woman who 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 fashion- able hotel is, instead, captivated by a sophisticated woman. BOWLES, JANE. Two Serious Ladies. NY, Knopf, 1943. The emancipation of an inhibited American housewife. BOYLE, KAY. "The Bridegroom's Body" ss in The Craxy Hunter, Harcourt 1938, 1940. Also qpb, Beacon Press, 1958 (m) Gentlemen, I Address you Privately NY, Smith 1933 (m) Monday Night. NY Harcourt 1938, her 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 --- CHECKLIST SUPPLEMENT 1962 BRADLEY and DAMON --- CHECKLIST: Supplement حمد An additional 1sting of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, and selected non- fiction, for the use of collectors, students and librarians, intended to supplement the lists presented in the Complete Cumulative Che cklist, 1960, and in the Supplement to the (Completo, Cumulative Che cklist, 1961. TABLE O F CONTENTS Editorial Remarks; Marion Bradley Editorial Remarks; Gene Damon.. List of Symbols and Abbreviations SUPPLEMENT TO THE CHECKLIST, 1962; indexed by author, with bibliographical data and brief reviews and remarks Special Feature; FOREIGN LESBIA NA Compiled by Gene Damon 9 • Variant Films; reviewed by Ted White, Gene Damon, and others Supplement; Poetry . . • 2 For Collectors; related publications, book services, where to order or buy. . .3 4 5 33 .36 . .39 .40 Edited and Published by ; Marion Zimmer Bradley Box 158 Rochester, Texas Associate Editor; Gene Damon Box 2552, Central Station Kansas City 42, Mo. The entire copyrights of SUPPLEMENT 1962 are copyright, June 1962, by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Box 158, Rochester, Texas. All rights reserved; these reviews may not be used for advertis ng ch pro- motional purposes without permission of the editors. --- munion bradley Remarks Editorial My co-editor recently pencilled a note on the bottom of a list of new titles sent to me for this Checklist; "Remember the days when ten new titles in a year was something unusual?" Those days, it seems, are gone forever. And the task of locating these books which deal, in greater or lesser degree, with lesbianism or male homosexuality, grows yearly more impossible. For instance. The writer went into a big news-stand the other day; and, growing curious, counted two hundred and thirty novels of the "sexy" type, alone that's not including the others! Not having a spare hundred and fifteen dollars (plus tax) lying around loose, it was manifestly impossible for me to buy a copy of each book and read it to find out if it had a lesbian- angle. And, understandably, the proprietor of the news stand would have taken a dim view of a customer who went around carefully leafing through the books for lesbian content, then writing down the name, author and copyright date of every such book, Hard-cover books are a little easier to cover, usually being reviewed at length in the publisher's advance notices and cata- logues. But reviews frequently soft-pedal the homosexual angle, or omit it entirely. from the review, as being irrelevant to the main theme of the novel. In paperbacks, therefore, we can only watch for "possible" titles, for the names of known writers in the field, and give the "blurbs" a cursory glance-through. When it comes to hard-cover books, we are even more handicapped. Your senior editor: is a varacious, book-or-more-a-day reader, who comes home every week from the public library with six or seven novels, and between these solid meals, nibbles at paperback snacks (I can read the average paperback novel in forty minutes.) In the last three or four months of this diet, I have located---by pure chance --half a dozen novels with a major or minor lesbian theme, novels where the title, the cover jacket and the "blurb" gave not the slightest hint of any such content. Morhain's THE GIRL WHO HAD EVERYTHING, Kirsch's MADELEINE AUSTRIAN, and Ngaio Marsh's SINGING IN THE SHROUDS were, such discoveries. And we keep turning up old titles whose lesbian content has never come to the attention of any reviewer before; see Gene Damon's reviews of SURPLUS, under STEVENSON, and of ORMOND, under BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN What we really need are steady staff members who (1) work in public libraries, or (2) work for paperback distributors, or (3) read as incessantly as we do. Failing that, we ask every reader; EVERY TIME you run across a title, please don't just say "Hm, interesting, but they probably know all about it already". Before you take it back to the public library, or put it away on your shelves, please write down the title, the author and (if you think of it) the publisher and date; although if we know the title and author, we can usually get the other information from somewhere! Two heads are better than one (unless they're on the same. shoulders) but in order to keep up with the ever-increasing spate (continued on page(40) --- gene damon 3 Editorial Remarks 83 Once again, as last year, I must plead for help this is a tremendous virtually unworked field of literature. The literate homo- sexual must produce material if he or she is to perpetuate himself. We do not produce humanity therefore we must aid the human endeavor through our works of the mind. We must produce biographers, novelists, poets, artists and yet more humbly, we need recorders biblio- raphers to search out all the multiple facets of homosexual people of the past. Far beyond the limited work Marion Bradley and myself perform are the fields of biography and art (and artists), music (and musicians), and these need to be researched and recorded, Help, all of you, help in this work. Start pamphlets - submit work to the homophile press - ONE, The Ladder and The Mattachine Review, Lastly, if any of you can add titles on homosexuality, titles unrecorded by Cory, Garde, Foster or in these checklists, we would be very grateful. Information can be sent to either editor. -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS As always, the work of publishing this year's supplement was lightened by the help of many hands in an otherwise impossible task. To LESLIE LAIRD WINSTON, whose announcements of forthcoming books, and donations of titles for reviewing, helped to keep us from being 'swamped in the floods. To JAMES NEILL NORTHE, who supplied literally dozens of paperbacks for checking and reviewing, titles which we would otherwise have missed completely from the floods on the news-stands. To HARLAN ELLISON, of Regency Books, for review copies sent to the junior Editor. To TED WHITE, for supplying reviews and information about many films of major and minor variant interest. To KERRY DAME and LESLIE BURNS, for liberal help with the clerical work, which can be backbreaking at times. To our special, beloved, anonymous angel, for a large cash donation; and to many friends for donations of books. To R. E. L. MASTERS, author of THE HOMOSEXUAL REVOLUTION, for bringing us to public notice and attention. And, finally, to GENE DAMON, who did most of the work this year while I was involved in professional and personal preoccupations, my sincere, heartfelt and unending thanks. Marion. Bradley --- 226 осо List of Symbols and Abbreviations pbo paperbacked original novel, or first English edition. pbr paperback reprint of a nd - nf novel originally in hard covers. (price 25@-754) no date, or date unknown. a non-fiction title. ss short story or novella forming only part of volume. tct title changed to. her -hardcover reprint apbo - quality paperback, original (60-$2) qpbr quality paperback reprint (60-$2) ос fco variant or homosexual content so minor, or debatable, that the inclusion on this list is for completists only. R in the margin before a listing indicates a Reprint edition of a book already listed and/or reviewed in Checklist 1960 or Supplement 1961, C in the margin before listing indicates Correction of erroneous listing. In (m) indicates that this title is largely concerned with male homosexuality rather than lesbianism or female variance, the main, titles of (m) type have not been reviewed at length; the absence of a review does not indicate a poor book, only one that did not come to the attention of either editor as of particular interest. (m) minor means that the homo- sexual theme is slight or that a minor character is homosexual; (m) major indicates either a novel about homosexuals or a major homosexual character. (m+1) indicates that, while male homosexuality is predominant, the book contains lesbian characters as well. scv -indicates that the book in question is a commercialized sex novel and that lesbian characters and scenes are included as needed for the purposes of such a novel; those interested in lesbiana of a more serious type can pass up this title without feeling that they are missing a serious literary presentation of the lesbian in literature or dociety. + in the margin before a listing varies with the context. When given to a paperback original it indicates seriousness of purpose and some quality of writing, in combination with a relatively good presentation of the homosexual theme. Given to a hardcover novel it indicates either a major work about homosexuality, or a work of exceptional literary worth. *in the margin indicates an old title, overlooked in previous listings, or an item of historical interest, --- SUPPLEMENT, 1962, to the Checklist * ADAIR, CECIL Quadrille Court. World Publishing Co., 1929; (m) "Reprinted in the United States by arrangement with the English publishers." Unusual, romantic treatment of a very intense David-and-Jonathan friendship, in a sentimental English novel. Valentine FitzAlan and his sister Doris come to live at Quadrille Court with their Godmother; both become entangled with their cousin, the neglected heir to the estate, Basil Brabazon. Basil falls in love with Doris; Val, too, is immediately and emotionally attracted to Basil and when he comes under Basil's care during an illness, the older man loves him first for his sister's sake, then for his own. The whole thing is on a very spiritualized but very passionate level; there are many virtual love scenes between the two boys, although without the slightest hint og overt sexuality. In the end, Basil and Doris marry, Val gives up his own rights in the estate to Basil, and lives with them in harmony, codding baby Basil and calling him "mine. " Perhaps a little too sugary for some modern tastes, but very nice, and interesting for the emotional intensity. ADDAMS, KAY. The Strangest Sin. Beacon pbo 1961. SCV. ADLON, ARTHUR. By Love Depraved. Beacon pbo 1961. Wild shocker, a weird lesbian in Africa. " R ALPERT, HOLLIS. Some Other Time. pbr Avon 1961. AMIS, KINGSLEY. Take a Girl Like You. Harcourt, 1961. Light English comedy; minor, almost fco lesbian element. ANONYMOUS. Street Walker. London, The Bodley Head 1959, N. Y. Viking 1960, pbr Dell 1961. Supposed autobiography of a London street walker, but from the sensitive writing and exquisite use of language, this was either written or ghostwritten by a fairly major English writer at a guess, one familiar with French literature. It reads as if it might have been written by a translator of Colette or Maryse Choisy. Lesbian element minor, almost fco, but for its insight into feminine psychology the book is a must. ANDERSCH, ALFRED. The Redhead. Pantheon 1961, pbr Popular Lib- rary 1961. (m) Intrigue-romance; homosexual element fairly important in plot. Good of kind. ANTON STANLEY. To Bury a Friend" ss in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1956. (a) minor. R AUCHINCLOSS, JOUIS. The House of Five Talents pbr Dell 1961 --- AUSTIN, WILLIAM A. Commit The Sins. Newsstand Library, 1961 scv Midwood-Tower 1961. We have AVALLONE, MIKE.. Women in Prison. been here before scv or evening waster, depending on taste --or lack of it. R BALDWIN, JAMES. Giovanni's Room. qpbr, Apollo Edition, 1962 (m) BALDWIN, JAMES. Another Country. Dial, 1962. (m) major + BAKER, DOROTHY. Cassandra at the Wedding. Houghton Mifflin, 1962. A. Book-of-the-Month club selection (and excellently written) this will possibly startle some old ladies who buv it by mistake or inadvertance. In a 24-hour period preced- ing the wedding of her twin sister Judith, whom she loves passionately, Cassandra reviews her whole emotional history. The treatment is unusually sympathetic. R BAKER, DOROTHY. Trio. pbr Avon, 1962. BARTH, JOHN. The Sot Weed Factor long picaresque novel. Doubleday, 1960. (m) in a BARTELL, DON. Wild Woman. Rex Books, 1962. scv but well written. BASSAN, JEAN. The Wrong Horse. (Le Mauvais Cheval; trans. from the French, by Lowell Bair.) Dutton, 1961. Seriously written historical novel, laid in the 12th century; major lesbian emphasis, but "a horrible brutal book with blood enough to sicken anyone. + BATES, H, E. "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal" and "The Snow Line" ss in The Enchantress and Other Stories, Little, Brown 1961. (m) Expertly crafted, unusual stories by one of the great English writers of today. BEATON, CECIL. My Royal Past. John Day, 1960. (m) Wildly funny; purportedly reminiscences of a royal gal who is actually a "screaming swish". Pure fiction, of course. BEAUCHAMP, LOREN. Strange Delights. Midwood Tower pbo, 1962. * BENSON, E. F. Raven's Brood. Doubleday & Doran, 1934. (m) and major for its day; novel of old Cornwall, with frank, charming, dispassionate account of intense friendship be- tween two farm lads, passim in a family novel, and a riotous portrait of a London effeminate. BELL, STEVE. Venus of Lesbos. Newstand Library, pbo 1961. SCV. BENNETT, ADRIAN. My Lovely Adele. Avon pbo 1962. Rather pleas- ing story, told in flashbacks by Norma, a lesbian, trying to forget a girl who has abandoned her. Convincing characterization, tragic ending. --- BERGER, ZDENA. Tell me Another Morning. Harper, 1961. Minor incident, dealing with a lesbian guard, in a Nazi concentration camp. BIRMINGHAM, STEPHEN. The Towers of Love. Little, Brown, 1961. (m) minor in a so-what novel, BISHOP LEONARD. Make my Bed in Hell. pbo, Gold Medal 1961. (m) Good novel of a shook-up teenage actor, obviously modelled on the meteoric rise of the late James Dean; the protagonist is pursued, unpleasantly, by a male homosexual during his career. BIXBY, JEROME, and Joe E Dean; "Share Alike" ss in Cavalier magazine, February, 1961; also in pbr Zacherley's Midnight Snacks, Ballantine pbo 1959, 1960. (m); shuddery story, for horror-addicts only. BLANKFORT, MICHAEL. (m) minor Goodbye, I Guess. Simon & Schuster 1962. BODENHEIM, MAXWELL. My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village. Bridgehead Books, 1954; pbr Belmont, 1961. A poet, novelist and critic of the thirties here writes a sort of autobiogra- phy which degenerates into a series of anecdotes about Village "characters", with some literary "greats" clearly recognizable. BOLAND, JOHN. The League of Gentlemen. London, T. V. Boardman 1958, pbr Beacon Books 1961. (m) reprint of an excellent crime-mystery novel. R BOURJAILY, VANCE. Confessions of a Spent Youth. Bantam pbr 1961 BOWEN, ELIZABETH. Friends and Relations. London, Constable, 1931; N. Y. Dial 1931. Early novel by a famous author; contains one clear-cut lesbian character (minor) named "Theodora Thirdman". + BOWEN, ELIZABETH. "The Happy Autumn Fields" ss in Stories by Elizabeth Bowen qpbr Vintage 1959, and many other antho- logies and collections. A woman in bombed London flees an intolerable present by escaping to a hallucination of the past, projecting herself into a passionate variant attachment between two Victorian sisters. Excellent, major, macabre. A classic of its kind. SP It BOWEN, ELIZABETH. "Mrs Windemere" ss in Encounters, London Sidgwick, 1923; also in Early Stories, N. Y. Knopf 1950; "tinged with variance on the possession theme. should be noted that many of Bowen's short stories are glancingly variant, although too minor for listing here," and merit exploration by serious collectors and students. --- BOX, EDGAR. (pseud of Gore Vidal) Death in the Fifth Position Dutton 1952, Signet pbr 1954, 1955, others. (m); good witty murder mystery. BRANDEL, MARC: The Time of the Fire. Random House 1954, pbr Bantam 1955. (m) Mystery-shocker; homosexual theme minor, but relevant to the plot.. + BRITAIN, SLOANE These Curious Pleasures. Midwood-Tower pbo, 1961. The works of this writer are uneven, varying from the sincere and competent to a mere hodgepodge of sex scenes strung on a makeshift synopsis plot. This one is good, purporting to be an autobiography of the author, Sloane Britain; told in first person, with excellent char- acterization and background; not over-Villaged. Very good of kind. BRITAIN, SLOANE. That Other Hunger. Midwood-Tower pbo, 1961. Probably, Britain's worst to date; sympathetic to lesbianism, like all her books, but that does not disguise the fact that she is writing cynically and carelessly. BRITAIN, SLOANE. Woman Doctor. Midwood-Tower pbo, 1962. above; mixed-up female psychiatrist seducing her female patients. However, Britain at her worst is better than the average. paperback original. BRODERICK, JOHN. The Pilgrimage. London, Weidenfield and Nicolson. (English publication only). (m) major. BROOKE, JOCELYN. The Name of Greene, Vanguard, 1961. (m) major C BROOKS, BRUCE. Pilgrims in the Zoo and Other Stories Boston, Beacon Press, 1960. All of the short stories in this collection have a homosexual orientation, and are quite major. The title story, and the story "Some Ancient Roaches" deal with male homosexuality; "Eye of Nature" is a chill- ing lesbian horror story. The others are relevant in one way or another. Major, recommended. BROSSARD, CHANDLER. The Girls in Rome. Read Signet pbo, 1961 (m+1) minor, in a very good novel of an American in Italy, it, but not for the homosexual angle. BROWN, CARTER. The Savage Salome. Signet pbr 1961 (Orig. pub. Sidney, Australia, Horwitz, 1960) Good mystery of the "Hard-boiled" school, about murder in an opera company; cast of suspects includes the (lesbian) secretary to the prima donna. Good of kind only. ** BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN. Ormond, or The Secret Witness N. Y. printed by G. Forman for H. Caritat, 1799. Several editions, including American Book Co, 1937. This is our --- our major surprise-discovery title for this year, and will probably end the quest for the earliest American novel deal- ing with lesbianism. The story concerns a wealthy family, suddenly reduced to poverty, and the struggles of the daughter, Constantia, to support them. Ormond, a satanic nemesis, pursues and nearly destroys her. Constantia's friend, Sophia, is a clearly lesbian figure, despite her cool marriage to a man. Constantia's emotions to her feminine friends are specifically loving, and two major American critics --Harry Warfel, in "Charles B. Brown; America's Gothic Novelist" and Feidler; in "Love and Death in the American Novel" (reviewed in the 1961 supplement) cite Constantia's "failure as a woman" as being due to her homosexuality. Think of it--17991 (GD) . R BROWN, FREDRIC. Madball. Madball. Gold Medal, 1961. (m) BROWN, FREDRIC. "Nightmare in Green" sa Nightmares and Geezen- stacks, pbo Bantam 1961. BROWN, WALTER C. The Single Girl Monarch, 1961. nf One of their "Human Behavior" series, with some lesbian case histories included, Perhaps these books serve some purpose by being informative" for the ignorant who will not read serious scientific works, but their superficial approach, mixed in with far too much stereotyping and expose-sensationalism, make their value doubtful. BROWN, WENZELL. Bedeviled. Monarch 1961, nf. Case studies, based on the theory that some emotional deviates invite violence as penitence, expiation or punishment. Includes both male and female homosexuals among the case histories, Good of kind, better than many. BROWN, WENZELL. Girls on the Rampage. Gold Medal pbo 1961. nf; minor, in a book about female juvenile delinquents. BUELL JOHN. Four Days. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. 1962. (m) No reviews available, but should be major and excellent, by the author of last year's good mystery "The Pyx". BURTON, CARL D. The Long Goodnight. N. Y. William Morrow, 1961. Southern Gothic murder story, with sex present, past and pluperfect, including lesbianism. CALVANO, TONY. Sex Pawn. Nightstand Books, 1961. SCV. CALVANO, TONY. Too Many Beds, Nightstand Books, 1961. SCV. CAMERON, BRUCE. The Case Against Colonel Sutton. Coward- McCann, 1961. (m) major, The title speaks for itself; novel of an Army officer accused of homosexuality. CANARY, GLENN. The Damned and the Innocent. Monarch 1961; Evening waster. Infidelity in suburbia, sad ending. --- 10 CARR, ROBERT SPENCER. The Room Beyond. Appleton, 1948. fco. Brief (3 pages) lesbian episode, buried in a long, but interesting novel of a man's lifelong obsession with a strange, never-aging woman. CARSON, DAVE. Sex III . Beacon pbo, 1961. Novel of a lesbian doctor who begins by seducing a desperate girl patient but ends with a fairly convincing adjustment to hetero- sexuality. Not badly written for pbo, though editors dis- agree on quality. Read it for yourself. + CASSILL, R. V. Nurses Quarters. Gold Medal pbo, 1961. Tense, subtle, competent novel, laid against a World War II background; the novel's heroine, Eleanor, is a repressed leabian; this leads indirectly to her death. Recommended. CASTRO, JOE. The Lowest Sins. Midwood Tower pbo, 1960. SCV. C CHARELL, LISSA. The Happy Medium. pbr Crest 1961. Note correct- ion; this is major lesbian as well as (m) + CHESTER, ALFRED. "In Praise of Vespasian" in The Second Coming Magazine V1, No. 2, July 1961. (m) Excellent, overt in a second-level literary magazine; memoir to a dead "gay boy". CHOISY, MARYSE. A Month Among the Men Pyramid 1962 (first translation; orig. pub in France in the mid-twenties); more of the adventures of an amazing French woman of letters, this time an account of a month spent in male disguise in the famous Mount Athos monastic community. Major, literate, highly recommended, with many portraits of lesbians and male homosexuals. + CHRISTIAN, PAULA. Another Kind of Love. Crest pbo, 1961. "Really terrific sui generis" deals with the slow self-discovery of a young Hollywood writer to her own lesbian nature. CHRISTIAN, PAULA: Edge of Twilight. Crest pbr 1962 (reissue) ++ CHRISTIAN, PAULA. Love is Where you Find It. Avon pbo, 1961. R In saying that Paula Christian represents a new and major talent in the field of lesbiana, we are making a deliberate understatement. Paula Christian's works cannot be com- pared with those of Ann Bannen and Artemis Smith --previously perhaps the most literate paperback-original novelists -- or even with the incomparably better Valerie Taylor. The most valid comparison is with the work of Gale Wilhelm; for with the publication of her third novel, Paula Christian has completely broken with the paperback-novel tradition of "a nice exciting story with lots of sex scenes" and written a mature, literate novel deserving of hardcover publication and serious critical attention. Like Gale Wilhelm, however, her work must be judged --- " sui generis. No concession is made to the average paper- back audience, with its demand for risque scenes and sit- uations; yet they are not precisely mainstream novels, either. There is literally not a coarse word or a vulgar phrase in either book, and with the exception of a few moments of tenderness, there is not a single sex scene in this latest novela although love scenes are many. Perhaps it would be appropriate to say that they are woman's books. In all three, the main character is either a lesbian, or a presumably normal woman painfully discover- ing her own lesbian nature, All three, as in all woman's novels, are preoccupied with the search for love, as distinct from passion alone; and all three equate romantic love with security and stability, One might call them, then, "romantic love stories for lesbians", or for women who wish to see, briefly, through the eyes of lesbians, how they regard their affairs. There is no resort to sordid realism. The "real world and its problems" is not wholly ignored, as in the works of Randy Salem, nor overstressed, as in the probiea-novels of Taylor, but the "real world", and the problems of making a living and adjusting to outsiders, are shown merely as obstacles, to be Conquered by True Love, In each case, Love-and-Happy- Marriage (in this case, a permanently shared menage with romantic affection) are shown as the Worthwhile Goal which, when achieved, leads to happiness-ever-after. 31 In short, they are pretty, romantic, somewhat idealized love stories and probably just as dangerous to reality and mental health as the sugary womans-magazine story was to the heterosexual romantic teenager, with the idealized view that True Love Conquers Q11 Things. Still, they represent something new, and good, in the field. Recommended. -1 CLANTON, CAROL, Gay Interlude. Midwood Tower pbo 1961. Just what the title says; during a temporary separation between Tabitha and her girl friend, she enjoys an interlude" witth a girl who is hesitating between lesbianism and hetero- sexuality. Light-hearted, very good of kind. CLARK, DORENE. CLAY, MANNING. CLEMENT, GEORGE. Borrowed Lover. Bedside Books pbo 1959. SCV. Wild Body. Beacon pbo, 1961. SCV. Strange Cult. No data help, somebody! CLOETE, STUART. The Turning Wheels. Boston, Houghton 1957, Signet pbr 1958 or 1958, Permabooks 1958 or 1959. (m) in long novel by well-known writer of novels about Africa. COCTEAU, JEAN. The Miscreant. London, Owen, 1958. (m) major. R COLETTE, SIDONIE GABRIELLE Claudine Married Avon pbr 1961 R COLETTE, SIDONIE GABRIELLE "Bella Vista" and "The Rendezvous" ss in The Tender Shoot and Other Stories, Signet pbr 1961 --- 12 CONRAD, EARL. Crane Eden. N. Y. Bernard Geis, 1962. (m) minor CONWAY, JOHN. (pseud of Joseph Chadwick) Love in Suburbia. pho Monarch 1960, 1961. Fairly good of kind. COOPER, MORTON. The Love Survey. pbo Avon, 1961. Repercussions of a scientific subvey of sexual mores in an exurban N. Y. town. About a third of the book is devoted to a rather clinical study of a lesbian affair; which, since one of the couple is unbalanced, leads to murder. Good of kind. CORDAN, WOLFGANG. Days with Antonio. R COWARD, NOEL. Pomp And Circumstance. this is major lesbian, not (m) as Privately printed 1961. (m) pbr Dell 1962. Note that cited last year. COX, THOMAS. Weekend. Midwood Tower 1961. Evening waster, male-oriented; guy on a tear in Reno meets many women, among them a lesbian. CROWLEY, LIZ. (pseudonym) Sell Love. Sell Love. Monarch, 1961. Supposed true-confession autobiography of a prostitute. Not badly done if you like this sort of thing. One lesbian episode, not unsympathetic. CURLEY, THOMAS. It's a Wise Crooked Road, Avon 1902. Child. Putnam 1960, pbr tct The (m) DANIELS, PAUL. Debbie. Monarch 1961 pbo. Evening waster about seamier New York modeling jobs; brief sympathetic portrait of a lesbian character. DAVIS, ROGER. Always Love a Stranger. Hillman, 1961. (m) Major, excellent for a paperback. + DEJONG, DOLA. The Tree and the Vine, London, John Calder, 1961 (trans, from the Dutch by Ilona Kinser; illustrated). Intense, tragic, heartbreaking novel; serious contender for "year's best. " Beatrice, the narrator, now in her forties and living in America, recalls her love affair with Erika in Holland from the summer of 1938 to Erika's death in a Nazi concentration camp in 1940 or thereabout. Upsetting but excellent, highly recommended. DEGAMAZ, TANA. Like a River of Lions. N. Y. Graphic Society, 1962. (m) minor, DENZER, PETER. Episode. Dutton, 1954. (m) minor, sympathetic, in an excellent novel of a man's recovery from insanity. + DOLINGER, ROY. Young Man Willing. Scribner 1960, pbr Crest 1961; (m) major in a novel with a theatrical background, missed last year by sheer accident. Well written, important, recommended. --- 13 DOREMUS, THOMAS E. Latitudes of Love. London, Andre Deutsch, 1961; N. Y. Clarkson Potter, 1961. (m) major, in an English novel "featuring a 16 year old "precocious pansy". DORIAN, ELAINE. Love Now, Pay Later. Beacon 1961, scv. Suburbia: Jungle of Sex Beacon 1962 SCV Second Time Woman. Beacon 1962, scv Sex Psycho. Newsstand Library, 1962. SCV. Advise and Consent. pbr Pocket Books (Cardinal) DOWLING, LILLIAN. R DRURY, ALLEN. 1961. DRYER, BERNARD V. The Image Makers Harper 1958, pbr Bantam 1959. (m+1 spread through long novel of politics. Over- written. DUGGAN, ALFRED, Family Favorites. Pantheon, 1961. (m) Well written novelized version, by a popular writer of histor- icals, of the life of the notorious Roman Emperor Elagabalus --notorious even for those days when homosexual- ity per se was nothing to lift Roman eyebrows. DUMAS, ALEXANDRE. The Queen's Necklace. Famous French novel by the author of the "Three Musketeers" novels, published in 1849; many, many editions including (in print) Nelson Classics, nd, $1.25 and Collins Classics, 1959, $1,25. Romance about Marie Antoinette; lesbian content debatable and minor, at least below the level permissible in school libraries. R DURRELL, LAWRENCE. The Black Book, Pocket Books 1962 R DURRELL, LAWRENCE. Mountolive, Clea, Justine and Balthazar are now all available in pbr Pocket Books (Cardinal Editions); also in qpbr Dutton, 1961. ELLIOT, DON. Party Girl. pbo Nightstand 1960. Realistic book "with real heartbreak for many of the people involved as opposed to a sexy-sensational treatment. Portrait of a repressed lesbian drawn into the life of a call girl. ELLIOT, DON. Wild Divorcee. Nightstand Books pbo 1961. ELLIS, JOAN. In the Shadows. Midwood-Tower pbo 1962. Down to earth, honestly written novel of Elaine, career executive, her hopeless love for her brother's normal wife, and her love for kittenish, cruel Terry. "She's no Bannon, but she's not bad. " ELLIS, JOAN. The Gay Svene. Midwood Tower pbo 1962. above; fairish evening waster. As --- 14 + ELLISON, HARLAN. Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation Regency pbo 1961, Good, though somewhat uneven collection of short stories by one of the major new talents of the day; very moving portraits of prejudice and minority groups, including several candid camera views of male and female homosexuals. Recommended. + ELLISON, HARLAN. Memos From Purgatory. Regency pbo, 1961. Incidental homosexual only, in a terrific book written from the author's own experience in a street gang of juvenile delinquents, and the sequelae, "Clean prose--facts in fiction form, " An under-rated writer in an overworked field. EVANS, HODGE. Lash of Lust. Beacon pbo 1961; scv. FARMER, PHILIP JOSE. Fire and the Night. Regency Books, 1962. (m) Excellent controversial novel on race relations; strong muted homosexual tensions throughout. R FEDEROFF, ALEXANDER. The Side of the Angels. Crest pbr 1961. +R + FIRBANK, RONALD. The Complete Works of, Ronald Firbank. New Directions, 1961. Major, recommended; a "must" title for serious collectors. FISHER, EDIE, Prisoner of my Past. Midwood-Tower 1962. So-so. FLEMING, IAN. From Russia, With Love. Macmillan 1957, pbr Signet 1953, her in Gilt Edge Bonds, Macmillan 1961. Typical James Bond thriller; one scene in which a piglike secret-police woman makes a pass at a Russian female spy who is the heroine of the book. The hardcover reprint contains five Fleming-Bond thrillers; some of which con- tain minor or fco lesbian characters. FOSTER, GERALD. Lust. NY William Godwin 1933, her Balzac Press 1940, pbr tct The Fiend Universal Pub & Distrib. 1951, Naively salacious evening waster. FULLER, ROY. Fantasy and Fugue. Macmillan 1956. (m) GARDNER, MIRIAM. The Strange Women. Monarch pbo 1962. "This is not a novel about exclusively lesbian women living in a moat-surrounded world; rather it is one facet of the lesbian experience.... Dr Nora Caine is married to Kit, a crippled veteran; Jill is engaged to Mack, Nora's step- 'brother and dear friend. This book deals with a problem seldom even touched on in a gay novel, the plight of the woman capable of genuine love for either sex" By a LADDER contributor. GLOVER, LELAND. Sex Life of the Modern Adult. Belmont pbo, 1961. nf. Alleged "case histories" for those who like to think they are reading about real live homosexuals --- 15 + having real live affairs. Nonfiction, it says here. GOFF, MARTIN. The Youngest Director. London, Putnam, 1959. (m) major. GORHAM, CHARLES. McCaffery. Dial, 1961. (m) major. GOYEN, WILLIAM. "The Letter in the Cedar Chest" ss in Ghost and Flesh. Random, 1952. Subtle, vaguely variant or lesbian depending on interpretation; not for all tastes. GOYTISOLO, JUAN. Island of Women. Knopf 1962. (m+1) minor in a novel of the bored decadent rich in modern Spain, A so-what novel. GREEN, JULIAN. (m) minor. GREY, JUDSON. GREY, JUDSON. GRIFFIN, GWYN. ston, 1961. Each in His Darkness. N. Y. Pantheon 1961; Wanton Witch. Epic Books pbo scv 1961 Twilight Girls. Epic Books pbo 1962 SCV Master of this Vessel. Holt, Rinehart and Win- pbr Avon 1962. (m) minor. R HALL, ROGER. All My Pretty Ones. pbr Midwood Tower 1961 (m) minor + HARMON, JIM. And Sudden Lust. Epic Books, Art Enterprises 1962 scv. HASTINGS, MARCH. The Jealous and the Free. Midwood-Tower pbo 1961; Good of kind; story of a lesbian, Michael, and her search for self-understanding. Believable ending. HASTINGS, MARCH. The Outcasts. Midwood-Tower 1961. About par for Hastings, a prolific turner-out of pulpish les- bian paperbacks; but she's written better. HASTINGS, MARCH. The Third Theme. Newsstand Library pbo 1961. Brief lesbian episode during the interruption of a marriage. HASTINGS, MICHAEL. The Frauds. Orion, 1961 (new hard-cover publisher). (m) major, unpleasant, somewhat macabre. HEARN, WALLACE. Queer Triangle. Vantage 1961. Vanity pub- lished; mishmosh of sex, intrigue, murder; major male, but so badly written and incompetent that it should be marked "completists only. " HEINRICH, WILLI. Rape of Honor. Dial 1961, pbr Permabooks 1962. Major overt lesbian on the possession theme. --- 16 R HELLMANN, LILLIAN. The Children's Hour. pbr Signet, 1962. Many photographs from the movie, Excellent. HEPPENSTALL, RAYNER. The Greater Infortune. New Directions 1961. (m) latent in a novel by a splendid writer. HERIOT, ANGUS. Penelope's Web, London, Cassell, 1961. (m) minor in a hu-hum novel of Lost Youth. HIMMEL, RICHARD, The Chinose Keyhole. Gold Medal pbo 1951; (m) Fast-action murder-spy story, good if you like the type; major homosexual character who is about the most unpleasant such character to turn up in fiction since Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep. HINE DARYL. The Prince of Darkness and Company. Abelard 1961. (m) minor in a confused novel. HITT, ORRIE. Four Women, pbo Beacon 1961, scv illiterate. Twisted Lovers, pbo Kozy Bocks 1961, ditto. Two of a Kina. pbo Midwood-Tower 1960. ditto ditto. HOLLIDAY, DON. Sin School. Midwood-Tower pbo 1959 (released 1961) HOLLIDAY, DON Sin Hotel. Nightstand pbo 1960. HOLLIDAY, DON. Bachelor Apartment. Nightstand, pbo 1961. HOLLIDAY, DON. The Girls Upstairs. Nightstand pbo 1960. All four of these Don Holliday titles are roughly the same sort of thing; evening wasters, frankly sexy but not scv, written by a competent pulp-type writer who makes his living doing this sort of thing and doing it well. They are enjoyable if you like the type, but can be missed with- out pangs, except by completists, if you don't. All four contain scattered "lesbians" good or bad as the plot demands. R HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. * Elsie Venner. pbr Signet 1961. HOWARD, WILLIAM LEE. (M. D.) The Perverts. N. Y. G. W. Dilling- ham, 1901, An oddball item, practically prehistoric (note date!) Partly because of the author's lack of literary skill, and partly due to the date of writing, this is a real weirdo. Novel of a lesbian flagellant, monstrously overwritten, and of course, full of chapter- long asides damning homosexuals and lesbians, quite unintentionally funny. A curiosity. HOWE, DIANA. "The White Kitten" ss in American Vanguard 1952 (Ed. Don M. Wolfe) N. Y. Greenberg 1952. (m) macabre. HUDSON, JAN. Passion's Web. Epic Books, Art Enterprises, 1961. SCV. --- 17 HUDSON, DEAN. Showcase for Sin, Bedside Books, 1961. SCV. HYAMS, EDWARD. Tillotson. Simon & Schuster, 1960 (released 1961) +I) major, well written; the hero's best friend, fairly important in the novel, is homosexual. Recommended. HYTES, JASON. The Doctor and the Dike, (sic). Midwood-Tower pbo 1962. Overwritten, not quite scv novel of a doctor in love with his lesbian receptionist. Conventional tragic denouement. + ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER. Down There on a Visit. Simon & Schuster 1961. (m) Autobiography of one of literature's famous mon, admittedly homosexual. Major, recommended, should stir up general literary discussion as well as much commentary sui generis. ISRAEL, CHARLES E. Rizpah, Simon & Schuster 1961, pbr Crest 1962. Long novel, Cld-Testament background, about King Saul's famous concubine, All sorts of little bits of male and female homosexuality scattered through the book, with (unusual) a minor but perceptible lesbian attach- ment running all through the novel, Unusual, different. JAMES, DON. $50 a Night. Monarch 1961. pho. Good, minor lesbian incident in a call-girl novel. + JAMES, STUART. Bucks County Report. Bucks County Report. Midwood Tower 1961. pbo. Plus indicates good of kind, What happens in exurbia when a pair of quack sexologists go exploring; among the flora and fauna of the countryside are a pair of mixed-up lesbians. JAMESON, STORM. The Green Man. Harper Brothers, 1952. Harper Brothers, 1952. English family novel, very long, somewhat reminiscent of Clemence Dane's Flower Girls. Minor male liberally scattered throughout the story. Readable, though of course not major, and definitely not a novel "about" homosexuals; they simply exist with their perceptible peculiarities, as they do in most overlagge families, JOHNSTON, GEORGE. Closer to the Sun. Morrow, 1961. (m) major, well written, recommended. KANE, FRANK. Dead Weight. N. Y. Washburn 1951, pbr Dell 1953, 1962. (m): Murder mystery, good of kind. + KANE, FRANK. The Mourning After. pbo Dell 1961. Fast paced mystery; good of kind, lesbian characters involved, --- 18 KANE, JEFFERY. Fe-Male. Sandmar House 1959 (privately printed, 78 pages long; must be very very rare--not even listed in the CBI). By textual deduction, the writer is a white, upper-middle-class woman from a conventional home, probably about 35, and though obviously intelligent, not (from the quality of the writing) a professional author. First person narrative, relates briefly but thoroughly the life of a bi- sexual woman; no positive conclusions are reached at the end, except that she has had full and evidently satisfactory relationships with both men and women, The writer is no kook verbalizing for vanity press; this is a social docu- ment in fictional form. KANE, SID. Jill. Headline Books (World News Inc) 1960. SCV. KAPELNER, ALAN. All the Naked Heroes NY George Braziller 1960, pbr Popular Library 1961. fco (m+L); "one of those sick sick sick arty novels written in staccato pornographic phrases; almost as unintelligible as James Joyce but far less interesting." KEMP, KIMBERLY. Love Like a Shadow. Midwood Tower pbo 1962. Too-too evening waster, perhaps even satire on the sexy lesbian novel, about Olive, a lesbian writer, who wants to he happily married to some nice girl, Eileen, her floozy friend, who only wants a mink coat, and Kyra, her publisher's wife, who only wants kicks. It ends, rather surprisingly, with the wicked" flourishing, and poor Olive, the only decent character in the book, in hot water all round, with Eileen married via mink coat to the publisher, and Kyra already playing musical beds. Could be Vin Packer on an off day. R KENNEDY, JAY RICHARD. Short Term. Signet pbr 1961. KERBY, SUSAN (pseud. of Elizabeth Burton) Fortune's Gift. Dodd, Mead & Co, 1947, (m) minor, but enchanting portrait of one of the most deftly caricatured "screamish swishes" in fiction, A shy, disillusioned young man, and a no- nonsense female professor, come to San Mercato - a delightfully Graustarkian principality where there is a colony of American expatriates dominated by Hyacinth's cafe-society mother, Helene. In her "set" there is a petulant, pampered young Baron, "Frankie", who does needle- point for a hobby and collects Roman baths --the whole thing with the lightness of perfect English satire. Frothy, fun. KERN, ALFRED. L'Amour Profane. Pantheon, 1961. Serious novel of convent life, dealing largely with the love of the Mother Superior, Marie-Anne, for a young novice. R KIRKWOOD, JIM. There Must be a Pony. pbr Signet 1962. (m) minor. --- + KIRSCH, ROBERT Madeleine Austrian. Simon & Schuster 1960, pbr Pocket Books 1961. Major lesbian element in a good novel of marital infidelity; the seeking, dissatis- fied heroine finds herself, for some time, entangled with a lesbian whom she persistently refuses; Madeleine's dreams and symbols show clearly that her evasion of this problem lies at the root of her neurotic complications. Recommended. 19 LAKE, LESTER Lady Lovers. pbo All Star Books 1962. SCV, LANGE, MONIQUE, The Catfish. One of three short novels in New Writers I, London, John Calder, 1962. (m) major. LASKY, JESSE, L. Jr. Naked in a Cactus Garden Bobbs-Merrill 1961, pbr Popular 1962. (m) minor in good Hollywood novel. LA ROE, ELSE K. Woman Surgeon. Dial 1957, pbr Popular, 1961 minor in biography of a German plastic surgeon who left her native country during the rise of Hitler to power. LAYNE, JAMES. Lend Me Your Wife. Beacon pbo 1961. Risque. LEWIS, LESTER Philanderer's Women. Beacon pbo 1955. Competent- ly written male-angle rubbish. LOFTS, NORAH. The Town House. Doubleday 1959, pbr Pocket Books Cardinal, 1960. A major novelist adds a àharming minor variant portrait to a long gallery of types. In the sec- tion Maude Reed's story, a little girl of ten, miserable and wretched as a poor relation in a Medieval castle, falls childishly in love with the lady Melusine, and when she dies, vows to go into a convent when she grows up. LONGMAN, MARLENE. Sin Girls Nightstand Books 1960, 1962. LORD, SHELDON. Community of Women. Beacon 1961. SCV. LOOVIS, DAVID. The Last of the Southern Winds. Scribner 1961. Good novel, laid against the background of a large Florida hotel staff. Numerous male and female homosexual portraits. "). LORRAINE, LOUIS. Blonde Dynamite. Beacon pbo 1961. Evening waster. McCORMICK, JOHN. Lust Club. Nightstand Books 1959 (released 1961) scv. + MCCOY, DEAN. Sexbound. Beacon pbo 1961. Plus indicates good of kind, only. Evening waster of a number of people trapped at a motel by a snowstorm, including two girls who have been hovering on the brink of a lesbian affair. + MCCULLERS, CARSON. Clock Without Hands. Houghton, 1961. (m) major; Southern Gothic type, by one of the better writers of the school. Recommended. --- (12) 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, her 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 school- teacher coming to terms with her life as a lesbian through bitter experience. Don't let the lurid paperback covers and blurb scare you off, this is a NOVEL --well worth hard covers, and a steal at 35¢. 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 under- stood 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. 13 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 var- ious sexual aberrations. A few of these books are excellent. This one isn't. is 7 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. Julie's 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. 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, Kopf 1937, pbr Signet ca 1953 (m) CAINE, HALL. The Bondsman. R. F. Fenno & Co, ca 1890; other editions available, frequently very cheap second hand. 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 miñes --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 --- + MCDONALD, JOHN.D, All These Condemned. Gold Medal pbo 1954, 1959. Good mystery-shocker; multiviewpointed novel of events before and after the murder of vicious Wilma Dockery ; among her victims is a silly woman, Mavis, who has a crush on her The lesbian element is carefully and subtly built in bit by bit-- Mavis never knows quite what is going on, and Wilma, knowing perfectly well, is obviously playing cat and mouse. Good of kind, by the best writer of psychological-suspense stories since Chandler. McDONALD, JOHN D. The Damned. Gold Medal pbo 1952, 1960 (m). Tense, suspense story of assorted characters at a stalled ferry in Mexico. Good portrait of a pair of stereotyped homosexuals; also during this "moment of crisis", the major heroine's husna, d, who solves his problem by leaving the heroine flat, comes to terms with his own latent homosexñality. Subtle, believable. McDONALD. JOHN D. The End of the Night. Simon & Schuster 1960, Crest pbr 1961, (m) on the possession-domination theme in a shocking "wolf-pack" murder. A serious effort, in a class with Compulsion. MCGOVERN, JAMES. Fraulein, Crown 1956, pbr tct Erika, Popular Library 1961. minor lesbian in postwar Berlin novel. A: MCKENZIE, K. S. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press 1961, Biography, and would be out of our scope, except that it contains a major treatment of a lesbian passion; the ardent (and unrequited) attachment of Victorian spinster writer and social worker Edith Simcox for George Eliot, who was herself normal. Major for collectors. ++MCMANUS, VIRGINIA. Not for Love. Putnam 1960, Dell pbr 1961. Unanimous choice of both editors for best reprint value this year; story of a schoolteacher who, through a series of peculiar mishaps and frustrating encounters in the teaching profession, turns her back on it to become a call girl. The book is heavy with understated lesbianism, well and seriously handled, and not at all sensational. Highly recommended. MADDEN, DAVID. The Beautiful Greed. Random House 1961. (m) minor in a good picaresque novel. MADIGAN, KIP. Incest for Rene, Versatile Publishing Co 1955, pbr tct Rene, Fabian 1958, 1960. (m). Trash, but not badly written. MANNING, ROSEMARY. The Shape of Innocence Doubleday 1961 (m) --- + MANSFIELD, KATHERINE. "Bliss" and "Je ne parle pas Francais" ss in Bliss and Other Stories, Knopf, 1921, also in Short stories of Katherine Mansfield, Knopf 1937. The former story is either clearly or glancingly variant (editors disagree), while the latter is major male. The author, of course, is a major short-story writer and her work is frequently anthologized. MARSH, NGAIO. Final Curtain. Boston, Little, Brown, 1947. (m) quite major in good murder-mystery. MARSH, NGAIO. Death in Ecstasy London, Geoffrey Bles, 1936, pbr London Penguin 1940, pbr Berkeley 1962. (m) mystery. MARSH, NGAIO. Singing in the Shrouds. Little, Brown 1958, pbr Berkeley 1960. Murder mystery; major, well-studied lesbian character among suspects; also major male. MARSHALL, ALAN. Call Me Sinner. Nightstand Books 1961 scv. The Warped Ones. Bedside Books 1962. SCV. MARSHALL, PAULE. Soul-Clap Hands and Sing. Atheneum 1961. (m) in a collection of four novellas. 21 MARSDEN, MARTHA. Intimate. Midwood-Tower 1961. Evening waster. + MARTIN, DELLA. Twilight Girl. Beacon pbo, 1961. Good of kind, not superficially sympathetic. Deals with a teenage girl and her traumatic initiation into lesbianism. Recommended, MATHESON, RICHARD. The Shrinking Man. Gold Medal 1956, 1962. (m) Science Fiction, Hero, in his inexorable daily shrink- ing toward invisibility, at one stage is mistaken for a 12-year old boy; and while hitch-hiking, is picked up and propositioned by a homosexual. Overwritten. 4 RONN, MARVIN. Mr Ballerina. Regency, 1961 pbo. (m) Ballet background. The writing is poor, but the unexpurgated and unglamorized portrait of the backstage-ballet world of not very gay "gay boys" is interesting and unusual. Unsympathetic, but recommended. MAVOR, ELIZABETH. The Temple of Flora. London, Hutchinson 1961. Far too English, far too allegorical for most tastes, The heroine is fully bisexual; readers are led into both her current affair with a sensitive boy and her past one with a girl. Subtle, will not appeal to everyone. MAYO, DALLAS. House of Sin. Midwood Tower 1961, scv. MAYO, DALLAS. Kitten. Midwood Tower 1961. SCV. MAYO, DALLAS. Silky. Midwood Tower, 1961. SCV. --- 22 MAYO, DALLAS. A Need for Love. Midwood Tower 1961. Just as badly written as the others, but the lesbian in this one is a somewhat more sympathetic character -- which is at least a refreshing change from the parade of nymphomanic idiots corrupting other nymphomanics in the average scv. MERRILL, JUDITH. The Tomorrow People. Pyramid pbo. (m) minor for science fiction addicts; hero's lost memory of his moon-trip complicated by a red-herring fear that he is just covering up repressed homosexual feelings for a dead partner. R METALIOUS, GRACE. The Tight White Collar. pbr Dell 1962 (m) The Beast in View. Randon House 1955, pbr (m) major in good mystery novel. + MILLAR, MARGARET: Bantam 1956, MILLER, CLYDE. The Summer Dancers. Macmillan 1961. (m) in a spoof on Decadent South; fairly good. MILLER, MERLE. A Gay and Melancholy Sound. Sloane 1961, pbr Avon 1962. Fine novel of a High-IQ boy from childhood, containing brief but well-handled vignettes of both male and female homosexuals. MILLS, CARLEY. A Nearness of Evil. Coward-McCann, 1961, pbr Pyramid 1962. (m) major; corrupt father pursues his (equally corrupt) daughter's husband. Shocker, crime novel. + MITCHELL, JULIAN. Imaginary Toys. London, New Authors Ltd 1961 (m) major; Excellent. MITCHISON, NAOMI. The Blood of Martyrs, McGraw-Hill, 1948. (m); brief, clear, in a novel of Christians in ancient Rome. Only if you like such books as Confessors of the Name, and don't mind crying, + MORHAIN, VICTORIA KELRICH. The Girl who Had Everything. Signer pbo, 1961. This is almost major. A narcissist girl named Sammy who keeps moving away from all the men in her life, despite psychotherapy. The girl is introduced, by a male homosexual friend (an interior decorator) to a girl- beatnik sculptor; is shocked to discover that Anna has had heterosexual affairs, and later, displaying all the symptoms of an adolescent crush, moves into Anna's apartment. Never explicit, but very, very good. MORSE, BENJAMIN, MD. The Lesbian. Monarch Human Behavior Books 1961. Supposedly nonfiction, but the "case histories" are sex scenes in the scv tradition, complete with turgid conversations and commonplace ecstasies, with- out even a novel written around them. For people who only read the sexy parts, this should be real interesting. --- (14) 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. NY, 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, NY 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 homo- sexual hoodlum, and the interrogation of his boy friend, form important sequences in this hard-boiled murder mystery. --- 15 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 promis- cuity. Very good of its kind. 11 CHRISTIE, AGATHA. A Murder is Announced, Dodd, Mead 1950, fco. Suspects include a pair of problematical lesbians, 17 wrote CLARK, DORENE. The Exotic Affair. Magnet Books, 1959, scv. "I really think this one should be Maggot Books, 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, JOBN. 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 attach- ments 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 homoerotic 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) --- 16 + 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 The 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. 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 àt 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, her New Directions n. d. Very well written novel of a group of expat- riates 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, NY, 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. --- 17 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 1966. 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-Antarttic island with three nurses; Joan, a nymphomanic%;B 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. any rate, both books become more interesting when read together. At 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 domineer- ind 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, 1. --- 18 + 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 Louts 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. NY 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 book- stores which deal in that sort of thing for the adult trade only; I don't know, not being a postal inspector, whether they --- 19 か can legally be sent through the US 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 brutal- ity. 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 lab- oratory workers, a very very minor. lesbian character. DE FORREST, MICHAEL The Gay Year. NY, Woodford Press, 1949 (m) Happily untypical of this publisher's racy trash, this story of a young man searching for self-knowledge in New York's Bohemias is very good of its' kind. 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, school- teacher and abolitionist, Though attracted to, and attractive to men, she is never without "some older woman to adore and emulate, or some younger woman to teach and inspire, " Delightful, ironic novel of the trouble women can get into when they refuse to fall neatly into the ruts laid down by conventional society for women's lives. 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 un- equivocally 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. --- (20 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 a 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) - DIDEROR, DENIS. Memoirs of a Nun, (trans from French by Frances Birrell). London, Rutledge & Sons 1928, her London, Elek Books, Book Centre Ltd, N. Circular Road, Neasdon, London, N. T. 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. NY, Smith & Haas, 1943, her 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. 21 The Mischief Simon & Schuster 1958, phr 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, dud 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; hor 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 MAHRIER, ANGELA The Little Less. Doubleday, 1941. Sad and devastating results from a long variant en- slavement. This is a lovely book if you enjoy crying, and I do," says one reviewer. DURRELL, LAWRENCE. Justine. NY, Dutton, 1957 Balthazar. NY, Dutton, 1958 (m) Mountolive. NY, 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. NY, 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 kidnaping 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, her Sun Dial n. d., pbr Signet ca 1951 (m). --- (22) EMERY, CAROL Queer Affair. pbo Beacon Books 1957. Dancer Draga moves in with mannish Jo, runs into com- plications 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. Few very minor variant episodes in a long novel of the French courtesan Ninon l'Enclos. fco. 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-songing 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. nice way to spend (not waste) a lazy evening. Suspenseful, 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 destroy- High-quality ed by Alraune are a pair of lesbian lovers. 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 Pén. pbo Signet 1956. Rich girl loses her parents, loses her money, and turns expensive call girl. One lesbian apisode, 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 23 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 play- ing 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 indidents 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 Baby- lonian 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. --- 24 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, NY, 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, son's life. N Y, Boni & Liveright, 1920 (m) A too possessive mother, ruins her FRIEDMAN, STUART, Nikki. Monarch Books, 1960, scv. SCV. The Revolt of Jill Braddock, Monarch Books 1960. 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 uncon- ventional 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. --- 25 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, GEORGIE, LEYLA GENET, JEAN. The Maids. Grove Press qpb 1954. Offbeat existentialist drama; involuted love among women. 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. NY, Knopf, 1950 The Immoralist, Knopf 1930, her 1948. (m) The Counterfeiters, Knopf 1927. (m) GILBERT, EDWIN. The Hot and the Gool, 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 wor- shipped 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. No data available, BAYOR. Home Pubs 1892. HACKETT, PAUL Children of the Stone Lions. G. P. Putnam 1955. An important lesbian character in a novel which has had good reviews. --- 26 +HAGGARD, SIR HENRY RIDER. Allan's Wife. First published, 1989; 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; Stalla is kidnaped 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 her (Sun Dial ed, still in print, nd) also Permabooks pbr nd, 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. NY, 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, JAKLEY 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 Harsis is herself a social worker; this painfully accurate picture of what our juvenile authorities contend with may, at least, give some insight into whey 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. 13 -- 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 sympath- etic 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. ) --- (28) 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 husbamd 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 homo- sexuality; "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 nonfiction, 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 teenage 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 interest- ing 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 Trapped. Beacon pbo 1954. scv Wayward Girl. Beacon pbo 1960 scv. SCV 29 In 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. 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 sepa- ration, 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, attract- ion and revulsion, One might suspect Dr. Holmes, whose medical writings and observations place him far ahead of his era psychologically, of gentelly camouflaging a portrait of variance, 100 years ago, by making the girl a creature of macabre fantasy. + 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 --- 2 editorial THE PURPOSE AND HISTORY OF THE CHECKLIST Hêre, 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 relation- ships between women. We have also included a majority of the better known novels which, dealing primarily with male homosex- uality, 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 in- cluded 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 occasion- ally 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 complete- ness, 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 complete- ness 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.) please 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 publi- cation 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. -- 11 --- 30 unhappy home turned her against marriage, The Labyrinth, Macmillan, 1923. Variant attachments, among others, in a novel of a woman unappy 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);B 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 MC VEIGH. 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 doně. 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. 1956, 1957. (m) Historical, Biblical setting. pbo, Signet, 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. --- 31 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 1998, her Modern Library nd, 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, her 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. Tm) KASTLE, HERBERT D. Koptic Court. Simon & Schuster 1958, tet Seven Keys to Koptic Court, Crest 1959. (m) 1mp br 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, --- 32 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 Doot, 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 Southerm writer for its year. small-town girl, Lavinia, at the mercy of elderly tyrannical A repressed, inhibited, 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 figure, 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". 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. 33 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 QE. 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 her but NOT in pbr edition of The Captain's Doll, Thomas Beltzer, 1923. The Rainbow, Modern Library 1915, 1943, pbr Avon 1959, 1960. In a long, three-generation novel of the Brangwyn fam- ily, one variant episode between young Ursula and a teacher. --- 34 LAURENT-TAILHADE, MARIE LOUISE. Courtesans, Princesses, Lesbians. (Trans. from French by G. M. C.) Paris, Libraire Astra. Casanova-ish memoir; French pamphleteering of Pre-revolution- ary days. Bitter, explicit and mildly disgusting;B 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 homo- sexuality, LEAR-HEAP, WINIFRED. The Shady Cloister. Macmillan, 1950. Quiet, understated and sympathetic story of feminine relationships in a school setting --but without the melo- dramatic 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 fic- tional 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 simultan- eously 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 Cever) including a lesbian who loved her and a young girl who wanted to, --- (35 + LEHMANN, ROSAMOND. Dusty Answer NY, 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. If you LENGEL, FRANCES. Helen and Desire. Olympia Press, Paris, 1954. sev, and you can't buy it in this country legally. 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 1957, (m) LEVAILLANT MAURICE London, Hutchinson 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. The Moon Vow Pageant Press 1958. LIN, HAZEL. The Moon Vow 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 tot The Tormented. (m) LINGSTROM, FREDA. Axel. Boston, Little, Brown & Co 1939. Wealthy man adopts two boys and a girl. One boy, Valen- tine, has homosexual affair with an older boy, Teddy, who later commits suicide%3B 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. --- (36 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. 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, NY, 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. + LOUIS, 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, BARRE, 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. --- 37 Without the fantastic photography which made the movie superb, this is a remarkably silly pseudo-science thing about a man who finds a way 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 her 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 teenagers, told in Soho idiom--a sort of bastard hip-talk. The characters in this novel, include several male homosexuals, and one lesbian, Big Jill, Enough space is devoted to social problems, by an author who is quite obviously one of the "angry young men", to give this novel real status. 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 ruth- less 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, however, has given herself --- 38 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, Ace 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, Intimate Novel (Universal Pub. ) same title, but author histed MANNING, BRUCE. Triangle of Sin, 1952, pbr Beacon Books 1959; as Manning Stokes, Evening waster. MANNIX, DANIEL P. The Beast. pbo Ballantine Books 1959 (m) MARECHAL, LUCIE. The Mesh (trans. by Virgilia Peterson,) Apple- ton 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 teenage sex club --a businessman is involved of running it, but the real culprit is his daughter, Liz. She is also a lesbian, Evening waster. 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. --- (39) 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, smalltown girl running away, comes to New York and falls in with Sherri, tied to a crazy husband. Rather good and not condemnatory at all; rather restrained for a pbo, although of course it has the obligatory sexy stuff. 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. The 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. scenes laid in the College of Vestals are exclusively les- bian; 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 tot 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 of 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, 1976, 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 te Goddess; much of the novel is devoted to her passionate friendship for her young novice, Eoia, One of Dio's reject- ed 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 epi- sode 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 school- mate 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 a short story of isolated men. --- 41 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. + MITCHELL, S. WEIR. - Confessions of a Mask. New Directions 1958 (m) Constance Trescott. NY, 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 facist 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 room- mate, 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. --- 42 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. pbr Signet 1953. (m) Appleton-Century, 1947, + MURDOCH, IRIS. The Bell, N. Y. Viking 1958, (m) His 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, 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 infintely 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, domin- eering 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 Publicarions 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 --- (43 his wife, all disguised, of course. (All of this writer's work seems to be vaguely tinged with varianee.) 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 crooked fight game, One sympathetical- ly 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 Ital- ian 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 relation- ship 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. --- 42 Whisper His Sin. Gold Medal pbo 1954 (m) + The Evil Friendship. pbo Crest 1958. Viciously condemna- tory novel of two little girls of fourteen who, consequent to their lesbianish attachment, plot together and carry out murder, c. 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 too 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, NY, Viking 1934. PATTON, MARION. Dance on the Tortoise, NY, 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, qbb 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 Man- heim, Avon Red and Gold, 1959. (m)%3B 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 to- gether, but any intimate relationship between them is disclaimed. PHILLIPS, THOMAS HAL. The Bitterweed Path, Rinehart 1949, pbr Avon 1954, 1959. (m) --- 45 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 phace 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. TmT RAYTER, JOE (pseud. of Mary McChesney) Asking for Trouble. Morrow 1955, pbr Pocket Books 1959. Murder mystery. A mannish, hardboiled lesbian plays an important part. REHDER, JESSIE. Remembrance Way. GP 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 relation- ship, lightly treated. The Middle Mist. Morrow, 1945. Excellent, humorous novel, featuring the boyish Leo (Leonora) who, with her --- 46 friend Helen, lives on a houseboat quite happily ("It only makes sense for the surplus women to arrange them- selves 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 her 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 doub- le 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, Heinemann, 1934, her 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. 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. 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. --- 47) 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 char- acter in a long novel of ancient Rome, with explicit --- (48) တ 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 Rohmerish 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 her Reprinted and completely rewritten by Royal, no pub. no date, Baltimore, Oppenheimer, 30s and 40s. In 1950, DWCory 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. --- 49 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 Bebbie; 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, Holly- wood 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 les- bians 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 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"%;B meaning homosexuality%;B but for once it isn't treated that way. or 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 out- ing, 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 id Dead, Dell 1959. English mystery story; a major subplot involves a pair of lesbians. SNEDEKER, CAROLINE DALE. The Perilous Seat. marginal (m) in a juvenile of ancient Greece; the hero, being Doubleday, Doran 1929, sold into slavery, attempts to disfigure himself to escape "the fate of handsome boys among the Persians. " --- 4 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%3B 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 re- viewers 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 in the Supreme Court judgment relevant to Lady Chatterley's Lover, as documented 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 Uni- versal 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 --- 5 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 standards of the 1940s and 1950s look liberal. -- - making the -- 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 dectective 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. 131 -- However, in self-defense, we have had to find a way to dis- pose 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 abbre- viation "scV" I 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 con- tribute reviews are scattered from Alabama to Oregon.). So we have to have some fun in the endless correspondence and "scy" books are fair game. -- 31 11 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 Continued on page 69...... --- 50 STAFFORD, JEAN. Boston Adventure, Harcourt, 1944. STEIN, GERTRUDE. Things as They Are. Banyan Press, Pawlet, Ver- mont, (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 girlfriend who flirts with all the women as he disengages them from their husbands. Marko, Beacon pbo 1955, released 1959. SCV Elaze, Berkley poo 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 incomplète 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 Carney, 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 195 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". --- 51 TAYLOR, JOHN. Shadows of Shame, Pyramid 1956, 1959 (m) TAYLOR, VALERIE. Whisper Their Love, Crest pho 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 dome 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, (n) 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. Frenzy of Desire, Encore Press 1957. Beacon pbo 1954. Evening wasters, THOMPSON, MO TON. Not as a Stranger. Chas, Scribner's Sons, 1954 por Pocjet Books 1955. fco, very minor episodes, --- 52) 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 homosexual- ity 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 trans- lation "The Lesbian" and "A Curious Deception", The hard- cover 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. --- 53 In a story of two worldly young college girls experi- menting 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 1952. Astrid, an orphaned child in some un- named 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 rcadminded" 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 eith her as her companion, showering her with education, attention and restrictions; Nest is naive, Miss Fremlyn un- aware, at least conscioushy, of her own emotions. travel and live together for some time, but the affair They breaks up when Nest, who has always kept in touch with her boy friend, is discovered with him and Miss Fremlyn, consider ing 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 tet Take Me as I Am, Berkley 1959. (m) WALFORD, FRANK. Twisted Clay. Claude Kendall, 1934, fco. A young girl, a psychovic 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 --- 54 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 tet 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 w 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 unsatosfactory 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. LB Fischer 1946. (m minor) + WELLS, CATHERINE: "The Beautiful House" Harpers, March 1912. An idyl 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. --- 55 55 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. course of the novel she manages to free herself. WHITE, PATRICK. The Aunt's Story Viking Press 1948. WIMBERLEY, GWYNNE. One Touch of Ecstasy. In the fco. 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 Good. to all sorts of violence and cloak-and-dagger stuff. + 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 findd 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, 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. and skill 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, IDABEL. 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 ca 1957 (m) WILLIS, GEORGE. Little Boy Blues. Dutton, 1947. --- 56 Concerns the machinations of a lesbian to achieve marriage and motherhood as a "front". WILSON, ETHEL D. Hetty Dorval Macmillan 1948. WINDHAM, DONALD fco The Hitchhiker. Florence, Italy, priv. print. (m) Servants with Torches N. Y. 1955 Prive print Dog Star, Doubleday, 1950. (m) Farrar, WINSLOE, CHRISTA. The Child Manuela. (Trans. Agnes Scott* 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 Purple-passaged and would-be-horrifying story about a Eur- Pageant, 1955 asian hermaphrodite --supposedly as she is because of her mother's intercourse with demons before her birth inspires love and brings death to everyone she knows, male who or female. WOODFORD, JACK. Male and Female. Woodford Press, 1935 Uniaoral. 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 teenagers... 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' to such girls in this kind of book. all know what happens 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 --- 57 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. Books 1958, Rinehart 1951, pbr Pocket 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 crisus, runs across many unusual characters; among them a woman, shaken because her husband is having a homosexual affair, is shamed into tolerance by dallying with a lesbian prostitute, Wylie, again superficially approving, has his hero act in a skirt-withdrawing way, refusing such things for himself at the last minute in every book. WYNDHAM, JOHN. "Consider her Ways" in Sometime, Never, Bal- lantine 1956-57. Science Fiction; a woman experiment- ing 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, MARGUERTTE. Hadrian's Memoirs. Farrar, 1954, qpb Anchor 1954. (m) ZOLA, EMILE. Nana Literally dozens of hardcover and paper- back 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. Pyramid, 1959. Abridged edition of Pot Bouille. ZUGSMITH, ALBERT. The Beat Generation, screenplay by Richard Matheson, (m) Bantam pbo based on minor. 2 --- 58 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 trans- lation. 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 attrac- tive 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. --- 59 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 libret- ti, 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%;B Anactoria, Fragoletta, Sapphics, At Eleusis, Sonnet with a copy of Mlle. de Maupin, The Masque of Queen Bersabe, Erotion. entire series of Poems and Ballads is available in her no. 961, Everyman's Library, Dutton, 1940,50, for $1.95. The 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. (Rare, and expensive.) Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1875. 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 sensi- tive, occasionally erotic poems. Perhaps a dozen are explic- itly lesbian. Hall, Radclyffe - Poems of the Past and Present, London, Chapman & Hall, 1910. Songs of Three Counties, Chapman & Hall, 1913. The Forgotten Island, London, Chapman & Hall, 1915. Sheaf of Verses, London, Chapman & Hall, 1905. Twixt Earth and Stars, London, Chapman & Hall, 1906. These poems by the author of "Well of Loneliness" are so overt that it is almost unbelievable that they were printed at all, but they were, and I have the books to prove it...she managed to get away with it, I guess, because she talks in these poems as if she were a man, writing to a woman. Millay, Edna St. Vincent Collected Poems, N.Y. Harper, 1956, $6.00. This is the favored anthology of Millay for this purpose, since it contains everything of hers which is variant in tone. However, there are many single volumes of her poetry available, and also pbrs; Collected Lyrics (Washington Square, 50¢), and Collected Sonnets (Washington Square, 50¢). Sackville-West, Victoria - King's Daughter, N.Y. Doubleday, 1930. Sterling, George - Strange Waters. Privately printed, n.d., also in American Esoterica, N.Y. Macy-Masius, 1927. Lengthy narra- tive 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. --- (61) variant films compiled by Laura Jean 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 foreigh films in this country) state unequivocally that. homosexuality may not be portrayed or suggested. (Italixs mine). Even when the predominantly homosexual novel COMPULSION was filmed, the script though includ- ing 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, eith 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 bergeres; among these near-nude and nubile nymphs was one disguised as a male ballet dancer, with whom the King's daughter Aline had a romance even after discovering that they were of the same sex. 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. --- 62 ΞΟΞΟ ΞΟΞΟ ΞΟΞΟ ΞΟ ΞΟΞΟ ΞΟΞΟ ΞΟΞΟ ΞΟΞ 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 JHFoster's book, starring Hertha Thiele as Manuela and Dorothea Wieck as her tea cher. 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 agom 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. 11 --- 00 (63 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 informa- tion, We have, however, been constant readers of all three of these magazines and can recommend them as dignified, worth- while 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; 9 ONE Magazine, monthly. Five dollars per year, fifty cents per copy. Sent first class, sealed. Editor Don Slater; Woman's editor, Alison Hunter. Edi- torials, 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. James Kepner, Jr. Pa 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 women. 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; o THE LADDER. Monthly, $4.00 a year, 50g single copy, mailed first class sealed. Editor, Del Martin. Fiction and poetry of spcial interest, letters from readers, book reviews and a running column of lesbiana managed by Gene Damon, reports on spcial 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, 50g single copy, mailed sealed; issued annoually in bound volumes, indexed a t end of each year. Reflects the policies and purpose of the Mattachine Society with scientific articles, research reports, hews of sexological trends, book reviews, letters from readers, a small amount of fiction and annual poetry supplement. Hal Call, Editor. DORIAN BOOK QUARTERLY. $2 a year, 50% per copy. Primarily concerned with books and periodicals on socie-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 --- 64 collectors only co 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 Bock Quarterly, dealt with elsewhere, and also a fat, fascinating catalogue listing several hundred titles of current hard- cover and paperback fiction. They can also furnish, or will locate, many out-of-print titles. My experience with them; prompt service, fast shipment, up-to-date information on cheap reprints of rare titles. 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 ser- vice; 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 --- 65 scholarly tities, 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, PO Box 3003, Beverly Hills, California, These people a re 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). paperbacks o 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 nows-stands, all is not host..... ACE BOOKS Inc, 23 West 47th Street, New York 36, New York. (256) AVON Books; Avon Publications, Inc, 575 Madison Ave, N.Y. 22, N. Y. (35 & 50g) BALLANTINE BOOKS, Inc. 101 Fifth Ave, New York 3, N. Y. (35) BEACON BOOKS, 117 East 31st St, New York 16, N.Y. (35% or 3 for one dollar) BERKLEY Publishing Corp, 145 West 57th St, New York 19, N.Y. CREST and GOLD MEDAL books: Fawcett Fublications, Greenwich, Connecticut. CARDINAL editions, POCKET BOOKS and PERNABOOKS: Pocket Books, Inc, 630 Fifth Avenue, New York 20, N. Y. Free catalogue on request. NEWSSTAND LIBRARY EDITIONS (Magenta Books, and others) 3143 Diversey Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, Free lists sent on request, BANTAM BOOKS, 25 West 45th Street, New York 36, N. Y. DELL BOOKS, Dell Publishing Corps Inc, 750 Third Avenue, New York 17, NY PYRAMID BOOKS, 444 Madison Avenue, New York 22, New York, POPULAR LIBRARY, Hillman Books and others, do not print their address in the books and evidently don't want to bother with mail orders, If you miss them on the news-stands, you'll have to root in second-hand stores. Saber and Fabian Books can be ordered through the Dorian Book Service, and some secondhand book dealers will locate paperbacks, including; Village Books and Press, above. BEDSIDE and BEDTIME books (50 each) 200 West 34th Street, New York, N. Y. 三〇三〇三〇三〇三〇三〇三〇三〇三〇三〇三〇三〇三〇三〇三 --- 66 hardcover publishers S 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. Areo 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 Ane, 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 Clarion Press -- 27 222 Fourth Ave, NYC 3, NY 510 Madison Avenue, Room 700, NYC 22, NY P. F. Collier & Son, Library Division, 640 Fifth Avenue, NYC 19 Comet Press Books F. E. Compton & Co, Coward-McCann, Inc. 110 13 200 Varick St, NYC 14, N. Y. --1000 N, Dearborn St, Chicago 10, Illinois --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 -- 8- Dorrance & Co, Inc -- 130 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 Fynk & 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 13 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 Enc,-- 501 Madison Avenue, NYC 22, NY --- 67 Lane Publishing Co --Menlo Park, Calif. J. B. Lippincott Co, East Washington Square, Philadelphia 5, Panna. 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 and 333 Sixth Avenue, NYC 14, NY Noonday Pressm 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 - 22 G. P. Putnam's Sons = 210 Madison Avenue, NYC 16, NY Rand McNally & Co Box 7600, Chicago 80, Illinois 457 Madison Avenue, NYC 22, NY 232 Madison Avenue, NYC 16, NY Random House, Inc Rinehart & Co, Inc Simon & Schuster, Inc. Sagamore Press, Inc. St. Martin's Press, Inc Charles Scribners Sons Tudor Publishing Co 25 3- Mail Orders; 136 West 52nd St, NYC 19, NY 11 E. 36th St, NYC 16, NY -- 175 Fifth Avenue, NYC 10, NY 13 597 Fifth Avenue, NYC 17, NY (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 82 Wm. Sloane Associates (see Wm. Morrow & Co) World Publishing Co 2231 W. 110th St, Cleveland 2, Ohio. 44 ADDENDA Misfiled, dropped in copying 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 cir cus 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. --- 68) <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> (Addenda, concluded) 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 BREET. White Ladies, NY, Harper 1935. A boarding-school tomboy, infatuated with a schoolteacher, finally comes to see her as a vampire, feeding on the emot- ions of the young. es особо 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. Her 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. 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, perfect- ionist efforts of Miss Damon which checked every biblio reference in this list; she also supplied a summary or precis for every title which the senior editor had not read, In general, Damon is the brains of the Checklist; MZB merely the brawn. KERRY DAME, stencil-cutter, artist and printer's devil, is in her early twenties and lives in New England with her mother and many cats. She is no stranger to the readers of the Ladder, who all know her gay, airy cover drawings. LAURA JEAN ERMAYNE, contributor to Vice Versa, collector of lesbiana, specialist in films, and tireless hunter of the news-stands, lives in California and, under her own name, is a well-known editor and writer. --- working in a vacuum. 69 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. Moron & Bradley 0 ㅁ о 0 ㅁ 0 0 HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT: In a forgotten closet, your editor has just discovered a stack of copies of the ASTRA'S TOWER Checklist #3. We thought they'd all been destroyed, This is the last year's list, containing Royal Drummond's "Digression", and my account of a hassle with the fascinatin' Miss Apple. I want to get these things out of my broom closet, and my soul revolts at the thought of tossing the things into the trash burner for the edification of the garbage collector. There- fore, we will make the following offer. Mailing these things out by printed-matter, fourth class mail costs 7 cents, By first class mail, 12 cents postage is required. Envelopes cost something. If anyone wants these (who knows, they might be valuable as examples of prehistoric lesbiana some day) you can have then for a quarter (first class mail) or six for a dollar to pass around among your friends, Hurry up --I'm going to need my broom closet for the mimeograph when I get finished with this year's Checklist. You'll find the address on the titlepage. -And this is it - The End- Marion And this is it - --- 6 List of Symbols and Abbreviations トートトートートトートトートトートートートトートーキートートートートトートートートートトートーナーナーナー 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 - qpb tct fco + (m) - short story. quality paperback book (as, Grove Press or Vintage). title changed to (as, Torchlight to Valhalla, pbr tct The Strange Path). for completists only%3B variant content either extreme- ly 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. indicates a novel concerned mostly with male homo- sexuality. A very large proportion of such novels, however, contain some discussion of female variance, or lesbian characters, as well. BAYOR By 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 COMPEETE, CUMULATIVE CHECKLIST OF LESBIAN FICTION 7 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, NY, 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 Desire.. pbo, Beacon, 1960. scv. Teenage Doris goes to a boarding school and is seduced by everyone on the premises, male and female. ALDRICH, ANN (pseud.) We Too Must Love. pho 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; NY, B. W. Huebsch, 1920, her 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 briofly captivated by Kate during her college days --- CHECKLIST SUPPLEMENT 1961 BRADLEY and DAMON *************** --- CHECKLIST: Supplement ممعة An additional listing of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, and selected non-fiction, in English or available in translation, for the use of collectors, students and; librarians; intended to suppkement the lists presented in The Complete Cumulative Checklist, 1960. D table of contents & Editorial Remarks; Marion Bradley. Editorial Remarks; Gene Damon. List of Symbols. and abbreviations. SUPPLEMENT TO THE CHECKLIST, 1961; indexed by author, with bibliographical data, and brief reviews and remarks Special Feature; Biography Supplement (Compiled by Gene Damon). Supplement 2; POETRY. • . Variant Films... • • For Collectors Only; where to buy. 8 .3 4 5 6. · . 33 38 39 40 Edited and Published by; MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY Associate Editor; GENE DAMON Entire Contents Copyright, April, 1961, by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Box 158, Rochester, reserved. Texas. All rights --- marion bradley's EDITORIAL REMARKS- This is a supplement to last year's complete Cumulative Check- list, containing (1) the titles of the works released this year, (2) information about new reprints of titles reviewed in prev- ious years, and (3) a few new discoveries of old, overlooked titles. A startling number of new novels by reliable publishers, either dealing with male or female homosexuality or including, passim, portraits of homosexual characters, have appeared this year; we believe we have listed virtually all of these. We wish to call your attention to the fact that Mary Renault's PROMISE OF LOVE is in print again after all these years, and the Josephine Tey novels are all being re-issued, as well as Max Catto's almost- unobtainable-in-this-country The Killing Frost. Most of our editorial remarks this year have been incorporated into the various reviews. We wish especially to direct your attention to the review of Christiane Rochefort's WARRIOR'S REST, where Miss Damon tells the story of this book's manhand- ling by the translator and publisher. Every rose has its thorn. For us, the thorn is the flood of rubbishy paperbacks. We are uncompromisingly, completely op- posed to censorship of any form or kind, and we feel that adults. should be free to decide, with the help of their own taste and conscience, what they wish to read . or write. Yet your senior editor, at least, feels bitter about the floods of cheap trash. burying the serious novels. These books do more to deter a genuine and broad-minded acceptance of honestly realistic works of literature than do all the censors in Boston standing in a row. Nor do we especially like having Mary Renault, Iris Murdoch, James Barr and Gale Wilhelm thrown into one great lump with the disgusting rubbish turned out by Fabian and Vega books; yet those who have read and retched at the flood of erotic trash written for the illiterate, wherein an unsubtle scene of bed- sport between two females makes them classify it as "lesbiana", tend to tar the good writers with the same brush. Nor, frankly, can we see much "realism" or "broadmindedness" to a culture where sex is downgraded to a sort of commodity which, when varnished liberally over an otherwise badly written and uninteresting book, can be used to sell it. Why then do we list them? We are completists, not moralists, and in part we list them to save you the weary labor we have had in weeding out the serious fictional presentations from the sheer rubbish. If we have made any omissions, this year, they äre probably in this class; we often quail at the thought of taking even a cursory look-see through the racks and racks and racks of rubbish. Most of the ones we miss, I am sure, are in (continued at the bottom of the next page) --- gene damon's EDITORIAL REMARKS 4 It becomes increasingly apparent, after seven years of seri- ous collecting of lesbian literature, that no one or two people can possibly find every novel; short story and play pertinent to the field The vast industry of paperback novels, which are often unevenly distributed, plus the mere numerical size of the output by both hard-cover and paperback publishers, would render even full-time work by both editors insufficient. This then is a plea to readers. If any of you know of any work of literature, however minor, dealing with male or female homo- sexuality or variance, which have not been listed in one of the following sources w Jeannette Howard Foster; SEX VARIANT WOMEN IN LITERATURE Noel I Garde; THE HOMOSEXUAL IN LITERATURE Donald Webster Cory; THE HOMOSEXUAL EN AMERICA (appendix) Bradley Damon; CHECKLIST, 1960 or 1961 then we urge you to send the following information; title, author, publisher, and date; if you don't have all this inform- ation, then send us what you do have. A brief synopsis or review would also be appreciated. Information can be sent to either; Gene Damon Kansas City, Missouri 6620 Bellefontaine な or Marion Zimmer Bradley Box 158 Rochester, Texas This is asked simply to help make the collected data in this field more complete. We can offer no recompense except out thanks, and the feeling that you will be helping in a good cause Gene Damon, EDITOR. continued some such category as "Lurid Love Life of a Small-Town Sexpot" and that most of our readers, like us, couldn't possibly, care less. We do, however, try to list them all (see above) because it is a sad but true fact; right alongside of the books which have nothing but unsubtie sex and a teasing blurb to sell them are some serious and excellent novels which a possibly mistaken advertising policy is trying to sell with the same identical type of lurid blurb and cover illustration. } As usual, we give our thanks to those who have helped in these weary labors; to Julia Newman, Howard Fritsch, James Neill Northe and Forrest Ackerman for calling our attention to many titles, to Leslie Laird Winston for moral support and to Kerry Dame for the loan of lettering guides and stencilling equipment and to all our friends for their many kind letters and their heroic support. Marion Z Bradley, PUBLISHER --- ST 5 pbo - оо List of Symbols and Abbreviations paperbacked original novel, or first English edition paperback pbr -paperback reprint nd - no date, or date unknown ss -short story tct title changed to. har - hard cover reprint N non fiction title 20 qpb quality paperback ($1 or more) - fco -for completists only, variant content extremely small. R in the margin before a listing indicates a new edition or reprint of a book listed and reviewed in Checklist 1960. (m) indicates a title concerned with male homosexuality rather than lesbianism or female variance. Evening Waster - entertaining, but without literary merit. scv - worthless commercialized trash; gutter rubbish; a book + with no pretensions to sincerity or honesty, written for the audience which reads a book for sexual stimulation and has no interest in the plot, character or anything else but the sexy scenes; unworthy of serious attention. These letters are editorial slang for "short course in voyeurism". indicates a novel worthy of particular attention; sometimes an exceptionally good new release, sometimes the discovery of an overlooked "find" for collectors. In general we reserve the plus sign for books of honest purpose, sincere if not always favorable treatment of the homosexual theme, and some literary merit. Occasionally a plus is given to a book of little intrinsic merit because of exceptional and major sound thinking on the variant theme; occasionally to a mystery or paperback for being exceptionally good of its kind. We have tried to avoid giving it only to books the editors enjoyed, but being human, we probably shaded the listing in that way too. 11 DEDICATED TO Jeannette Howard Foster Professor Emeritus of Lesbiana who started the whole thing and gave us all inferiority complexes. 2 证 --- SUPPLEMENT, 1961, to the CHECKLIST de ACOSTA, MERCEDES: Here Lies the Heart; Reynal, 1960. N. Lengthy autobiography of the theatrical and literary world of the twenties and thirties, with excellent portraits of many personalities of that day. The book is particularly noteworthy for the intimate portrait of the author's lengthy friendship with Greta Garbo. R ADA SANFORD. Satan's Harvest. Fabian, 1957. scv erroneously listed, last year, as being by Sanford Ray. ALDRICH, ANN. (Pseud. of Marijane Meaker) Carol in a Thousand Cities, N. Gold Medal pbo 1960. A fine anthology of lesbian stories and psychological studies, including case histories and a somewhat biased (minority report of editors said very biased) but complete analysis of the mag- azine THE LADDER. The general, slant of the book is anti- lesbian; but, the fiction, some of which is unobtainable elsewhere, and the various non-fiction studies included, make this a valuable volume. ADDAMS, KAY. Three Strange Women. Beacon pbo 1960. Trashy but reasonably innocuous evening waster of three young fashion models and their various romantic adventures. ALPERT, HOLLIS. Some Other Time, Knopf, 1960. (m) Good. ALEXANDER, GEORGE Strange Obsession. Macaulay 1959 (m) ANTHOLOGY. The Beats. Gold Medal pbo 1960; various minor male and female homosexual characters in tales of the world of the "beatniks". AUCHINCLOSS, LOUIS. The House of Five Talents. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1960. A. long and excellent novel of a rich family, told through the memories of a very old woman. Lengthily detailed, but nonOovert variant romance between Augusta Millinder and her brother's sweetheart, Ione, forms a minor subplot of the story. (This book is being considered. for the National Book Award this year in fictiont. BAGSTER, HUBERT. Doctor's Weekend, Simon & Schuster 1960. An excellent and witty collection of anecdotes; one, rather brief, deals with a mysterious romance in a girl's school. BALD, WAMBLY. "Dreary." ss in Americans Abroad, an Anthology, edit. by Peter Neagoe, The Hague, Holland, Servire Press, 1932. A tragic, but excellent story of lesbians and male homosexuals in Left Bank bars of Paris. --- 7 + BANNON, ANN. ence -- Journey to a Woman; Gold Medal pbo 1960 The Marriage. Gold Medal pbo 1960 The first of these two books ostensibly completes the story told in Ann Bannon's first three books, which by now are well known; Odd Girl Out, I am a Woman, and Women in the Shadows. In this fourth volume, Beth --heroine of the first novel becomes obsessed with the memory of Laura, leaves her husband and children, and starts out on a new life, in search of her first love. Like Laura, she finally becomes convinced --after a reunion, much passionate soul-searching, and some rather tasteless scenes thrown in to conciliate the paperback audi- that the past cannot be recaptured. However, instead of returning to her husband, she seeks happiness with another woman. The four books make a well-defined entity, but would be much better as a single long novel in hard covers, and would benefit from strenuous cutting. It is, of course, possible that the author conceived them that way and the commercial paperback possibilities caused her to alter her intentions. In any case readers of the earlier books will want to finish the story. ++ In The Marriage, ostensibly a novel of another couple with a "hellish secret" --to reveal which would spoil the point of the story, or such small point as it has Laura and Jack Mann, major characters of the other books, sppear as part of the supporting cast; and Mrs. Bannon, through the mouth of Jack Mann, has some valid and valuable things to say about marriage, individual responsibility, conformity, and its alternatives. Excellent and recommended. I said, in the first of these Checklists, that if Mrs. Bannon wrote a novel every year for give years, she would write a good one. She has. R BARNES, DJUNA. Nightwood, qpbr. New Directions 1961 BARNES, HAZEL. The Literature of Possibility. N. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1959. In a general analysis of Sartre, De Beauvoir and Camus, a lengthy discussion of homosexuality is included. BARRY, PHILIP. female both, Here Come the Clowns. Coward-McCann 1939. Drama. Minor but specific homosexual characters; male and + BARTLETT, PAUL. When the Owl Cries. Macmillan, 1960. Excellent novel of the fall of the Mexican landowners about 1910; much of the novel deals with Angelique Medina, who has married for children and security in spite of her lesbian leanings. After the death of her daughter she attempts to return to a once-loved woman friend, Estelle. Estelle now has another lover, Angelique's mind breaks, and she ends up being cared for in a convent. Haunting and sad, but well written. --- + BARNES, CARMEN DEE. Schoolgirl. N. Y. Horace Liveright, 1929. Written by a 15 year old girl, this novel is naive in spots, but interesting for an adolescent? s-eye view of a private school, With frankness and strength, it delineates a number of variant attachments and the general havoc they cause in the lives of the young things involved. Interesting, particularly in view of the date! + BASSANI, GIORGIO. The Gold Rimmed Spectacles. (Trans. from Italian) Atheneum 1960. (m) Major and excellent, dealing with unjust prejudices toward racial, religious and sexual minorities. BATES, MARSHA. Each Won Two. Fabian-pbo 1960; scv. BEAUCHAMP, LOREN. Meg. Midwood-Tower pbo 1960, scv. NOT to be confused with the excellent Theodora Keogh novel by this name. + de BEAUVOIR, SIMONE. She Came to Stay. Cleveland, World, 1954. Existentialist novel, by a famous French woman of letters, concerning a triangular relationship between a sophisticated French couple and another woman; told so vaguely that few readers will be able to follow the story. Beautifully written and an important contribution to literature, Highly recommended for the very literate; it is not everyone's kind of thing. BELL, ANN. A Lady's Lady. House of Field, 1940. This is mentioned as a rarity. printed on blue paper, yet. Lesbian, privately printed, and nearly pornography, this is about a woman who serves as maid to some eccentrics, Good of kind, but the kind is pretty hilarious. A collector's item for private libraries; costs about $30, second hand. + BELL, ROBERT. The Butterfly Tree. Lippincott 1959 (m) Symbolic, confused novel, heavily laden with overt and latent male homosexuality. BERESFORD, JOHN DAVIS. A World of Women, Macaulay 1913. Fco. Science Fiction; deals with the death of most, men due to cosmic disasters. Oddity. BESTER, ALFRED. Who He? Erroneously listed in Checklist 1960; original publisher was Dial Press, 1953. pbr Berkeley 1956. tct Rat Race. (m) . BEVAN, A J Zarak. Avon pbo 1956: very minor (m) feo. BISHOP, LEONARD, The Days of my Love. Dial 1953, pbr Signet 1954. Very fine novel of a man in the charity fund-raising racket. A clear subplot deals with his daughter Joy, and her entanglement with a beatnik writer who won't marry her, There is a brief but very clear sequence in which Joy watches a --- 9 pair of lesbians, and wishes she could observe their love- making from a distance, without personal involvement; her writer boyfriend, in flight from Joy when their situation becomes perilous, is brought back to her through an incident in which he faces and becomes aware of his own strong, latent homosexual inclinations. The major plot of the novel, too, deals with a strongly idealized but non-overt dedicated male friendship. R BISHOP, LEONARD. The Angry Time. Frederick Fell 1960, pbr Mor.arch 1961. Novel of impending riot in a boy's reform- school; in spite of the recent publication date this seems to have been written in the thirties. It is clumsily, though strongly written, and is probably one of the author's early works resurrected since he has become well known. A large part of the books deals with the reformatory-engendered homosexuality, the tensions to which it leads, and the part played by sadistic guards. Recommended. BLAKE, WILLIAM. We are the Makers of Dreams. Simon & Schuster en b1960; minor (m) 919dT ted VTISM How odw editw intsed s Jiw Jneme Inste 19. Jud 19tad s at + BOILEAU, PIERRE, and THOMAS NARCEJAC. The Woman who was No More. (Trans. from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury). Rinehart, 1954. The novel from which the film DIABOLIQUE was made. The book is quiet different from the film, and more clearly lesbian in emphasis. A chilling horror story. BOLEY, JEAN, "But of Course" $s in A Little More Time, Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1960. fco. BOTTOME, PHYLLIS. "Droles de gens" ss in Walls of Glass, Vanguard, 1958-9. Excellent wry tale by a fine modern writer; very specifically lesbian. BOURGET, PAUL. A Love Crime. Ace pbr 1953; there have been many hard-cover editions. Usually listed as (m) but there is also a brief lesbian episode. BOURJAILY, VANCE. Confessions of a Spent Youth. Dial 1960 (m) fco BOYER, PAMELA Burlesque Jungle. Kozy Books, pbo 1960. SCV. Lots of everything except good taste. " + BOYLE, KAY. "Your Body is a Jewel Box" ss in White Horses of Vienna and other Stories, Harcourt 1936, and Thirty Stories, Simon & Schuster 1946; also pbr in The Women on the Wall, Pyramid 1954. BRANDEL, MARC. The Choice. Dial 1950. Tight suspense-murder Ted Vom mystery, involving the relationship between a thoroughly despicable woman and a lesbian friend whom she is exploiting for her own ends. Excellent of kind. --- 10 BRANDEL, MARC. Rain Before Seven. Harper, 1945. Very brief but "absolutely hilarious" male-homosexual episode in an otherwise quite ordinary novel, + BRIFFAULT, ROBERT. Europa. Scribner's, 1935 Europa in Limbo. Scribner!'s 1937. These are major, panoramic novels covering fifty years....1885-1935....and of course are not works dealing with the theme of homosexuality, but philosophical works of art covering the entire human patternx, However, there is a very liberal seasoning, both of male and female homosexuality, pervading both books; major incidents, and many types portrayed, varying greatly from swishy boys, Greek intellectuals, bull-dykes and sensitive, cultured lesbians. These are all understated but play a firm and substantial part in the vast kaleidoscope of the world Briffault has created, and thus must be cited among the serious attempts to "place" homosexuality in proper perspective to the total culture. BRITAIN, SLOANE M. Un-Natural, pbo Midwood-Tower 1960. Cover and spine misprint author's name as Sloan Britton. Scv. BRITAIN, SLOANE M. Meet Marilyn. Midwood-Tower pbo 1960. Good of kind. R FROMFIELD, LOUIS. Mister Smith Bantam pbr 1952, 1960 (m). This has also appeared in a Signet paperback reprint. BROOKS, BRUCE "The Eye of Nature" ss in Pilgrims in the Zoo, Boston, Beacon Press 1960, (m) Chilling. BROSSARD, CHANDLER. The Double View. Dial 1960, Esoteric novel of 6 characters in their own private hells. Both male and female homosexuality are presented. Probably too. sophisticated and avant-garde for most readers.. BROWN, FREDRIC. Madball, Dell pbo 1952 (first published in Blue Book magazine as "The Pickled Punks" ca 1951-2); carnival background, contains a sequence about the homosexual exploit- ation of a feebleminded boy.or BUCK, PEARL S. Dragon Seed. John Day Co 1942; Pocket Books reprint, nd, circa 1946 (m); in one of this author's well-known family novels of China, there is a brief but horrifying sequence where a young boy falls into the hands of Japanese soldiers. BUELL, JOHN. The Pyx. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1959, Crest pbr 1960. (m) Fine murder mystery of Satanists; nice background portrait of an obvious, sympathetically treated male homosexual. --- 11 CAPOTE, TRUMAN. "The Headless Hawk" ss in Best American Short Stories 1947, Houghton, 1947; also in Tree of Night and Other Stories, Random House, 1949. Minor, offbeat. Frenzy. Never before printed in English. + CARCO, FRANCIS. Berkley pbo 1960, Translated from the French Jesus- la-Caille, Excellent and previously rare novel of male prostitution and narcotics addiction. CARLISLE, ROBIN. Blood and Roses. pbo novelization of the screen play by Roger Vadim and Roger Vaillant, Hillman, 1960. A modernized version of Sheridan Le Fanu's Gothic masterpiece of vampires and variance, Carmilla; the variant content is so vaguely and inexplicitly treated that the editor's ten year old son, addicted to vampire stories and fantasy in general, read it without noting anything at all odd. CASSILL, R. V. My Sister's Keeper. Avon pbo, 1960 (m). Night- marish story of a neurotic adolescent's fantastic and quasi-incestuous preoccupation with his younger sister's innocence. Very well written. Not well written for pbo, just well written. + CATLOW, JOANNA. The Night of the High Wind. London, Hutchison, 1960. Christabel, morbidly attached to her crippled sister Nina, tried to bring her happiness by. meddling in the lives of others; first she pretends romantic attach- ment to a neighbor, Margot, to destroy Margot's proposed marriage to her cousin Derek; Derek, repelled by this perform- ance, breaks with Margot and marries Nina. Naturally enough they are miserable and all ends unhappily. This could well be the plot of a paperback shocker; it is instead one of those fine, precise, well-plotted British novels. +R CATTO, MAX. The Killing Frost pbr tot Trapeze. Four Square Books, Landsborough Publications, London 1959. A sensitive, unusual murder mystery; a priest, seeking to unravel the tangled past of an executed prisoner in whose guilt he cannot believe, traces the dead man's life back to the curious, overly passionate and intense relationship between the dead Tino, his partner Mike, and the girl who destroyed their friendship. The centre section of this book, entitled "The Circus", formed the basis for the Hecht- Hill-Lancaster movie TRAPEZE starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida. CHAMALES, TOM T. Go Naked in the World. pbr Signet 1960 (75¢) Minor, sympathetically treated lesbian episode. CHARELL, LISSA. The Happy Medium. Coward-McCann 1960, pbr Crest 1961. (m) in a novel about TV. --- (12) + CHOISY, MARYSE. A Month Among the Girls. Pyramid pbo 1960 (first English translation; published in France around 1932); a very well-written account of a month spent, as a literaty "stunt", as chambermaid in a Paris brothel. The author is a now-famous French woman of letters, Among her accounts of the Paris red-light district she includes descriptions of lesbians both real and phony. + CICELLIS, KAY. Ten Seconds from Now. Grove, 1957. Vague, arty and confusing novel of the type adored by the avant- garde set, this deals with a group of women in a Greek broadcasting station and with their intricate personal affairs. There is a fairly clear lesbian theme for anyone who wants to bother untangling it. Excellently written but with limited appeal. CHACE, JAMES. Rules of the Game. Doubleday, 1959. (m) CHESSMAN, ROBERT (pseud. of Hyman Lindsey); The Park Jungle. pbo, Chariot Books 1960. (m) and excellent of kind. CLARK, DORENE. Different. Beacon pbo 1960. Naive country girl and sophisticated actress turn out to be doubles and exchange clothes, lives and lovers for two weeks; endless beds and bottles. It's your evening, you waste it. CLELAND, JOHN. Memoirs of Fanny Hill. London 1749, Paris Olympia 1955, other editions. A classic pornographic novel which has achieved a kind of dubious fame. It is not legally available in this country, though extracts have been printed in AN UNHURRIED VIEW OF EROTICA. For those who plan a trip abroad or are hopeful of seeing the European attitude some day prevail in this country, mentioned for information only. COBB, MARY. Top Dog. Doubleday 1960. (m) + COCCIOLI, CARLO. The White Stone. + COCCIOLI, CARLO. Simon & Schuster 1960 (m) The Eye and the Heart. London, Heinemann, 1960 (m) COFFEE, LENORE. The Face of Love. Crown 1959, Popular pbr 1960. Minor, subtle and intense, non-explicit attachment between two schoolgirl friends married to close men friends. Variant content fco, but a beautifully done book, very subtly studied and characterized. COLERIDGE, PETER. The Running Footsteps. London, Elek Books; 1960. Major male, minor lesbian elements, + COLETTE, SIDONIE GABRIELLE; The Pure and the Impure, a Casebook of Love; translated from the French Ces Plaisirs by Edith Dally. Farrar and Rinehart 1933. --- (13) COLETTE, SIDONIE GABRIELLE: "Rendezvous" ss in The Tender Shoot, Farrar, Strauss & Cudahy 1959 (m) R COLETTE, SIDONIE GABRIELLE. The Indulgent Husband her tot Claudine Married, Farrar & Straus, 1960 COOPER, WILLIAM (pseud) Scenes From Life. Scribners 1961 (m) COWARD, NOEL. Design for Living. Doubleday 1933; also in Play Parade, Doubleday 1934; also in Plays of Noel Coward. (m) and homosexual content debatable but we are informed that it is "usually played that way". COWARD, NOEL. Star Quality. Doubleday 1951. One character in title story of this collection is patently gay, but this is never discussed; just part of the scenery. COWARD, NOEL. Pomp & Circumstance. Doubleday 1960. Novel by the famous playwright; both male and female homosexual characters. R CREAL, MARGARET. A Lesson in Love. pbr Hillman 1960 R CROUZAT, HENRI. 1960. CURLEY, THOMAS. The Island at the End of the World. pbr Berkley It's a Wise Child. Putnam 1960. (m) CUTHBERT, CLIFTON. The Shame of Mary Quinn. Godwin 1933. Pyramid pbr ca 1952, 1952, 1960. of Martin written, to be 우 (m) Not badly taken seriously. DASCOM, JOSEPHINE DODGE. Smith College Stories. Scribners 1900, 1916. Two variant stories in collection. も R DAVENPORT, MARCIA. Of Lena Geyer. qpbr Scribner 1961 ($1.45) DEAN, RALPH. Lingerie, Limited. Beacon pbo 1960. Harmless. risque novel; mildly entertaining rubbish. DE JONG, DAVID CORNEL. The Unfairness of Easter. Talisman 1959. A collection of short stories dealing with "emotional aberrations" by a contributor to ONE magazine. R DENNIS, NIGEL FORBES. Cards of Identity. qpbr Meridian Books 1960 DENZER, PETER. Find the Dreamer Guilty. Dutton 1955 (m) minor. R DEVLIN, BARRY. Acapulco Nocturne 1952 pbr tct Song of the Whip Beacon 1960. scv or evening waster depending on taste, or lack of it. DEVLIN, ROBERT. Lover Girl Chariot Books 1960. scv. but with a hilarious difference...not one damaged soul in the bunch. Risque; good fun for a dull moment. --- 74 R DE VRIES, PETER. The Tents of Wickedness. Signet pbr 1960 DE VRIES, PETER. Through the Fields of Clover Little, Brown, 1961. (m) and minor lesbian elements: satire, funny. DOOLITTLE, HILDA. Bid me to Live, Grove Press 1960. A minor lesbian character in an excellent, dreamlike novel by the famous poet. + DU MAURIER, DAPHNE. "Ganymede" ss in The Breaking Point, Doubleday 1961, pbr Pocket Books 1961. Excellent major (m) R DOSTOEVSKY, FEODOR. The Friend of the Family, London, Heinemann 1920, Dell pbr 1960; in Three Novels of Dostoevsky; 60¢ + DUNN, BRIAN. The Censored Screen. Newsstand Library 1960, plus indicated good of kind only. Sympathetically treated romance between two young actresses in a story of a sorry sort of character who gets his kicks making pornographic films. + DURRELL, LAWRENCE The Black Book. Dutton, 1960. (m) R DURRELL, LAWRENCE. Justine. pbr Pocket Books, Cardinal 1961 Balthazar pbr Pocket Books, Cardinal, 1961 + ELLIS JOHN BRECKENRIDGE. 1902. The Holland Wolves, Chicago, McClurg The World Outside. Simon FALLADA, HANS (pseud. of Rudolf Ditzen) & Schuster 1934, her Grosset & Dunlap 1936. (m) minor. FARRELL, MJ (Pseud, of Mary Lesta Skrine). Devoted Ladies. Boston, Little, Brown 1934, Witty, bitter British novel, overlooked in all lists, Two major lesbian relation- ships, both based on sadistic cruelty and exploitation. Well written, major, but NOT pleasant or sympathetic. FARRIS, JOHN: Harrison High. Rinehart 1959, Dell pbr 1960 (m) minor FAST, HOWARD. Spartacus, Blue Heron Press 1951, her Crown 1958, Bantam pbr 1950, Major and excellent (m) in a novel of the Revolt of the Gladiators in Rome of pre-Christian days. +FAVIELL, FRANCES, Thalia. Farrar & Straus, 1957, Rachel, and 18-year-old girl, goes to a seaside town in Brittany as companion to love-starved, emotional, adolescent Thalia; disturbed by Rachel's rejection of her over-emotional attachment, the child drowns herself. Sad, well written. FEDOROFF, ALEXANDER. The Side of the Angels. Ivan Obolensky 1960 (m) --- 15 + FEIBLEMAN, PETER. The Daughters of Necessity. World Pub 1959, pbr Popular Library 1960. In a novel so excellent as to be one of five mentioned by name in the Encyclopedia Brittanica Year Book, the author delineates a subtle, vague variant attachment between two half-sisters. + FIEDLER, LESLIE. Love and Death in the American Novel. Criterion, 1960/ (N) A study covering the years 1789 to the present; the author seems to feel that American fiction has been primarily concerned with three themes; incest, death and "innocent homosexuality". Excellent & valuable. FIELDING, GABRIEL. Through Streets Broad and Narrow Morrow, 1960. (m) FIRBANK, RONALD. The Princess Zoubaroff. London, Garald Duckworth, 1930, 1940. Drama with strong lesbian emphasis; dialogue in the hilarious, sour-sweet manner of all Firbank. Rare and expensive but a prize if you can find (and afford) it. FIRMINGER, MARJORIE. Jam Today. Paris; no pub. 1931. "sexy trash" - mentioned as a rarity. R FISHER, VARDIS. The Darkness and the Deep. pör Pyramid 1960 FISHER, VARDIS. My Holy Satan. Alan Swallow, 1958, Pyramid pbr 1960. (m); deals largely with an idealized friendship between a Jew and a freed serf during the horrible darkness of the Middle Ages. The love between the two reaches no overt expression except a single kiss but holds through through the tortures of the Inquisition. Like all of Fisher's books, a grim and horrible story, but human values shine thru. FITZGIBBON, CONSTANTINE. When the Kissing Had to Stop. Norton 1960, Bantam pbr 1961. (m) minor. +FLEMING, IAN. Goldfinger. Macmillan 1959, Signet pbr 1960. Plus indicates good of kind --in fact, a riot. Complex, well-plotted mystery of suspense-chase type, including two hilarious lesbian characters. Run, do not walk to your news-stand ---if you like this sort of thing, that is. FORSTER, PETER. The Primrose Path. London, NY. Longmans, Green, 1955; humorous (m) in tragic novel about injustice. + FOX, GARDNER. Scandal in Suburbia. Hillman pbo 1960. Plus indicates slick competence, not literary worth. The title adequately describes the messy plot, including a couple of unhappy cheating-wife lesbians. FREEMAN, ANN. Between the Two. Fabian pbo, 1960. A very small aut above scv; one reviewer called it "unabashed lesbian propaganda. " Evening waster for the broadminded. --- 16. FULLER, ROY. The Second Curtain, mystery by a famous poet; (m) Macmillan 1956. Very literate GARLAND, RODNEM (pseud. of Adam de Hegedus). The Struggle with the Angels, London, Allan Wingate 1956. An important lesbian affair in a novel of political intrigue. Recommended. R GARNETT, DAVID. A Shot in the Dark pbr tct The Ways of Desire. Popular Library 1960 GATTY, LIN: "Did he Touch you?" ss in collection Writers for Tomorrow, for biblio data see ROSSITER, H. D. GAULT, WILLIAM CAMPBELL. slick murder mystery Million Dollar Tramp. Crest pbo 1960 (m) Night Lady. Crest pbo 1958. Minor (m) in murder mystery. GOYTISOLO, JUAN. Fiestas. Knopf, 1960. (m) GOYTISOLO, JUAN. The Young Assassins Knopf 1958, 1959. (m) Tragic excellent desperate novel by Spain's leading novelist, about the plotting of a political assassination by young hoodlums, GLENN, ISA. Transport. Knopf 1929. Transport. Knopf 1929. Excellent novel about peace- time military personell and their families enroute to Hawaii. Includes a pathetic portrait of a repressed lesbian and the girl she loves, Contains BOLDEN, MILTON M, Hollywood Lawyer. Signet pbo 1960 N. portraits of several "personalities" in the film colony. GOLDING, WILLIAM. Free Fall, Harcourt 1960 (m) fco +GORHAM, CHARLES. Carlotta McBride, Dial 1969, pbr Crest 1960. Tense, excellent novel of an alcoholic actress trying to escape the memory of a brief affair with her stepfather. Fairly extensive lesbian episode in the heroine's teens. + GRAVES, ROBERT. But it Still Goes On, London, Jonathan Cape, 1930. NY, Cape & Smith, 1931. Often listed as major (m) this is also major lesbiana, The plot concerns a stuffy English novelist, his son and daughter, and their various male and female admirers, The way they work out their lives is gently and satirically treated. An early work by one of the most famous living men of letters. GUNTER, ARCHIBALD A Florida Enchantment. NY, Hurst, 1891, her N Y, Home, 1392. One of the earliest American novels of variance, predated only by Henry James and Oliver Wendell Holmes; a bizarre tale of sexual transformation. (m) minor. HALL, ROGER. All my Pretty Ones. Norton 1959. --- 17 HAMMOND, ARLINE MC NAMEE, Tomboy. Comet Press 1960. Ridiculous vanity-published novel of a girl who thinks her "glands" are making her first a tomboy, then a homosexual. Unanimous editorial choice for Worst Novel of the Year... so silly that it's funny. HARVEY, JAMES. A Twilight Affair. Midwood-Tower 1960, pbo. Evening waster about a young girl who becomes entangled first with a lesbian, then with her rascally blackmailing brother. HARVEY, JAMES. Daughter of Joy. Newsstand Library, pbo 1960. Sadistic shock-trash about a woman trying to create a "new Lesbos" in the jungle, complete with whips for intruding males. Not quite scv but not quite literate either. HASTINGS, MARCH. Anybody&s Girl. Midwood-Tower pbo 1960. Fairly competent, sympathetic evening waster. + HASTINGS, MARCH, The Unashamed. Midwood-Tower, pbo 1960; Excellent of kind (comparable with Ann Bannon, Artemis Smith); nice, competent novel of a lesbian couple. HASTINGS, MARCH. Veil of Torment. Newsstand Library pbo 1959. "scv bordering on the unprintable...I thought I was unshockable but this one, believe me, is too much" says editor Damon, Since March Hastings is a competent writer, the publishers are probably to blame. It was not available on Texas news- stands (due to local ordinances); somehow we don't think we missed much, R HELLMAN, LILLIAN. The Children's Hour in Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre, ed. John Gassner, Crown 1939. In Print. HINES, CHESTER. All Shot Up. Avon pbo 1960. Funny, rowdy detective story about murders, escapes, shootings, knifings and other goodies in the lavender fringe of New York's Harlem; even the murders are funny in this one. HITT, ORRIE. Pleasure Ground. Bedside Books pbo 1959. scv minus... so poorly written that the heroine is "Beth" on one page, "Nan" on another. R HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Elsie Venner apbr Dolphin (Doubleday) 61 HUDSON, William) H(enry); A Crystal Age. 1887. Many hard-cover editions including Dutton, 1916, Doric Books, 1950. A curious fantasy-Utopia of the future, dominated by "Mothers" and based on a non-romantic all-female society. Of limited interest but a very old oddity. HUTCHENS, MAUDE. Victorine. Denver, Alan Swallow, 1959; pbr tct The Hands of Love Pyramid 1960. Fine subtle novel of preadolescence, as are all of this writer's books; Victorine --twelve years old --undergoes a variety of childish sensual --- 18 experiences, including one well-handled sequence involving seduction by a child slightly, older. R ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER The Last of Mr. Norris (tct from the second half of The Berlin Story) Avon pbr 1952 JOHNSON, ANNABEL The Big Rock Candy, Crowell 1957 (m) KARR, E. R. The Rollicking Shore McDowell, Obolensky, 1960. (m) minor, but well written comic novel KASTLE, HERBERT D. Camera, Simon & Schuster 1959, Bantam pbr 1960. (m) Fine novel by a fine modern writer; one minor detestable homosexual-sadist among the assorted characters. KAVAN, ANNA. "Asylum Piece #8" ss in collection Asylum Piecē, Doubleday, 1946p a regal English-type inmate in mental hospital clings with fierce possessiveness to a girl inmate; the girl's husband comes to take her home and she flees hysterically to the happily waiting older woman. + KEOGH, THEODORA. The Mistress. Avon pbo. Another novel by a sensitive writer who writes mostly of preadolescents. Marsha Coomb, a thirtyish artists model, becomes entangled with an exotic Turkish family; everyone in the family reacts to her violently; there is a subtle, non-overt but expertly drawn variant attachment between Marsha and little crippled Cendri, a girl of thirteen, KIN, DAVID GEORGE. See also O-Hara, Noel (pseud) KIN, DAVID GEORGE (pseud, of David George Plotkin) A Time to Love pbo Chariot Books 1960, Evening waster, +KING, LOUISE W. The Day we were, Mostly Butterflies" ss in New World Writing #17 Lippincott 1960, "witty, well done". + KIRKWOOD, JIM. There Must be a Pony Little, Brown, 1960 (m) Dodd, Mead; 1959 (m) A sort + KITAY, GERALDINE The Door Between. of modern counterpart of the life of Oscar Wilde and his sons. Major. KLASS, SHEILA SOLOMON Come Back on Monday, Abelard-Schumann 1960 (m) KNOWLES, JOHN, A Separate Peace, A Separate Peace, Macmillan 1959, 1960 (m) Well written sensitive novel about a man young boy who accident- ally cripples his dearest friend; the man is forever haunted by guilt. R KOESTLER, ARTHUR, Arrival and Departure pbr Berkley 1960 19 --- 19 + KRAMER, N. MARTIN (pseud. of Beatrice Ann Qright) Sons of the Fathers Lives of six talented men, including one who is homosexual, Of special interest to those who know the author's Hearth and the Strangeness. LACY, ED. The Men from the Boys. Harper 1957 (m) minor, fco in fast-moving mystery. + LAMBERT, GAVIN. The Slide Area. Viking 1959, Berkley pbr 1960. Inter-related group of very literate short stories, containing deft unemphasized portraits of male and female homosexuals. + LANDON, MARGARET. Never Dies the Dream. pbr Pocket Books 1961 LANGE, MONIQUE. The Kissing Fish Criterion 1960. Slim arty little volume about a young girl disappointed in love, who loses herself in a series of friendships with male homosexuals. + LAWRENCE, D(avid) H(erbert); "The Blind Man" ss in England, my England and other Stories, Thos. Seltzer 1922; also in The Portable DH Lawrence, Viking 1947, 1950, Excellent novella dealing with repressed homosexuality in the life of a blind man, bringing fear and trembling into the life of another man who has learned to cope with his own homosexuality and doesn't want it disturbed again. Powerful, and so far over- looked in all other listings. R LEE, MARJORIE. The Lion House. pbr Crest 1960 LEES, HANNAH. Till the Boys Come Home. Harper 1944. Sophie Harbors husband, and all the husbands of her friends, go to war. Result; hysteria; some fall for other men, some lose themselves in their jobs, etc. Sophie and her friend Mills are briefly carried away in a transient mutual infatuation; the book is full of sound feminine psychology, and well handled. A + LITVINOFF, EMMANUEL. The Lost Europeans, Vanguage 1959, Pyramid pbr 1960. (m) major and excellent; a novel about displaced German Jews returning to their old homes after the war. major subplot deals with an aging homosexual's search for a former lover who had been a Naxi storm trooper and turned on him. LONGMAN, MARLENE, Sin Girls. pbo Nightstand Books 1960, scv Lesbian Love pbo Nightstand Books 1960. scv LORD, SHELDON. Candy, Midwood-Tower pbo 1960 SCV A Woman Must Love Midwood-Tower pbo 1960 sov Of Shame and Joy Midwood-Tower pbo 1960 21 Gay Street Midwood-Tower pbo 1960. These are all very much the same sort of thing; risque trash written by a prolific and facile hack writer. All contain some lesbian --- (20 emphasis; all are written for male consumption and have no insight or literary purpose, None have any worth whatsoever for the serious reader. The homosexual element is added strictly for added sensationalism, and not because the author has anything to say on the subject other than the most obvious platitudes; with equal facility these are sympathetic or derogatory, often in the same book, as the plot of the moment demands. LORRAINE, JOHN. Men of Career, LUCAS, RICK. Crown 1960 (m) Restless Women Beacon pbo 1960. Evening waster. LUCCHESI, ALDO. Strange Breed, Midwood-Tower. 1960, Evening waster, MCCLINTOCK, MARSHALL (editor) The Women on the Wall; Pyramid pbo 1954; see Boyle, Kay, and McCleary, Dorothy, for descriptions of two major lesbian short stories in this collection. MCCLEARY, BOROTHY "Something Jolly" ss in Best Short Stories 1940 ed. EJ O(Brien, Houghton, 1940; also phr Women on the Wall McDONALD, JOHN ROSS. The Drowning Pool Knopf 1950, pbr Pocket Books 1951, 1959. Very good detective novel; Lew Archer, investigating blackmail letters written to a married woman, finds her husband is a homosexual; she remains with him only to keep her adolescent daughter from living a trois with Papa and his boy friend. After the woman's murder Archer realizes how quickly the man has reverted to type, Well handled, including a clear-eyed, detached view of the messy effect of this kind of situation on everyone's life. MCFARLAND, PHILIP JAMES. A House Full of Women Simon & Schuster 1960 (m) + McGRAW, HIGH PATRICK. The Man in Control London, Alfred Barker Ltd 1953; no U. S. edition. Major lesbian novel overlooked by all reviewers; a pedantic widower, Mr. Cranshaw, becomes involved with Sonia, an 18 year old girl in his office. Their relation- ship and marriage are interrupted by Sonia's love affair with a woman doctor. Well written.. MCKNIGHT, EVANS. She Made her Bed. Beacon 1960 pbo scv. MACLANE, MARY, I, Mary MacLane NY Stokes 1917. MACLANE, MARY. The Story of Mary MacLane Chicago, Stone, 1902 MACLAREN, MARY. The Twisted Heart Exposition 1953, Poorly written, sappy novel of a woman entangled with a nogoodnik who imposes on her right and left and he is homosexual too. Everyone from friends to psychiatrist tell her this is a Bad Thing but she keeps stupidly loving him, even with other fine men waist-deep around her, till he is killed in an accident. Vanity published of course, no commercial or literate publisher --- 8 ANDREYA, GUY: Tormented Venus. N Y Key Pub. Co 1958. SCV. ANONYMOUS: Adam and Two Eves, Macauley Co, NY, 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 be- comes 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. of its kind. Very good 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 mar- riage 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, her 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 resistence to this relationship leads to separation, tragedy and their separate destruction. A powerful, tender and tragic book. The Called and the Chosen. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, NY, 1957, pbr Signet 1958. A good study pf 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". BALDWIN, MONICA. --- BALZAC, HONORE DE: Cousin Bette. Classic; many standard editions and translations, The story of a neurotic spinster's half-realized 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 room-mate, lovely but frigid Beth, she discovers her homosexuality. Softened by the affair, Beth marries, and Laura runs away. In the second book, Laura, in Greenwich Village, is sharing an apartment with Marcie, a divorcee, entirely "straight" who plays Laura along strictly for kicks; Laura suffers under this treatment for a long time, then runs away again to shack up with a butch-type Village character, Beebo. In the third book, Laura and Beebo have been living together for two years; Laura is tiring of this lengthy affair and cheats on Beebo with a colored dancer named Tris, while Beebo, to win Laura back, resorts to such trickery as staging a phony "rape". inflicting wounds on herself in search of sympathy, Tiring of this life, Laura runs away again, this time to marry a male homosexual friend, Jack, in a search for stability and permanence. The whole story invites comparison with Weiraugh's THE SCORPION: homosexuality per se is not attacked, but the drawbacks of the life, and the dangers and difficulties to anyone trying to adjust him-or-herself to that life, are frankly and brutally delineated; there is a pervasive air of dissatisfaction, or resignation, and gradual withdrawal; and the ending of the third book is unsatisfactory and hardly complete. Nevertheless, the impact of these books, particu- larly 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. --- 21 would risk his hard earned money on this and no one but a fuzzlewitted author, his loving mother or a long suffering Checklist editor would wade through it. MALLET JORIS, FRANCOISE. Cafe Celeste Farrar 1959 (m) By the author of The Illusionist. MANDEL, GEORGE. The Breakwater. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960 Difficult novel of a Coney Island family in the depths of the depression. Tangled into the almost Joycean structure is the story of the heroine's sister Jessie, who resolves her inner conflicts by becoming a lesbian. Excellent for anyone who likes this sort of thing, too obscure for most readers. MANNING, OLIVIA. A Different Face. Abelard, 1957. excellent, overlooked in any previous listing. (m) Major, MARI, ISA Cage of Passion. Belmont Books 1960 pbo (trans. from Italian). This is not the trash the title and format might indicate, but a serious novel about women in an Italian prison, sombre, and probably better than the presentation, or the translation, qualify the editors to judge. MARKSON, DAVID. Epitaph for a Tramp; Dell pbo, 1959. (m) Murder mystery; "hero proves he is a Big Man by beating up fairy boys" MARSHAL, ALAN. All About Annette. Midwood-Tower pbo 1960 scv Sally Midwood-Tower pbo SCV MARTIN, KAY. The Whispered Sex. Hillman pbo 1960. Evening waster. MASON, ERNST. Tiberius, Ballantine, 1960, pbo. N. Life of the Roman emperor with (of course) special emphasis on his vices. MASTERSON, WHIT: A Hammer in his Hand. Dodd, Mead 1960. Clever murder mystery; major subplot involves transvestite couple. MAYER, MARTIN. A Voice that Fills the House Simon & Schuster, 1959. Major (m). A novel of the opera. MEERSCH, MAXENCE: VAN DER. Bodies and Souls. Trans from the French by Eithne Walker. Pelligrini and Cudahy 1948, pbr tct Strange Diagnosis, Hillman, 1960 fco (two or three paragraphs in a long hospital novel). R MEJO, OSCAR DE. Diary of a Nun. Pyramid 1961 pbr MERWIN, SAM JR. The White Widows. Doubleday 1953 pbr tct The Sex War Beacon Galaxy Science Fiction Novel, 1960. For science fiction fans only. A young scientist discovers a conspiracy, by a lesbian-oriented Amazon group, devoted to wiping men off the face of the earth. --- 22 METALIOUS, GRACE. The Tight White Collar. Messner 1960 m) MILLAR, MARGARET. The Iron Gates. Random House 1945, Dell pbr 1960. Minor funny male and female homosexual portraits on the borders of an excellent murder-suspense story. MILLER, WADE. South of the Sun Gold Medal pbo 1953, 1960. Fast paced novel of Mexican resort hotel; lesbian element minor, convincingly drawn. MONSEY, DEREK. Its Ugly Head. Simon & Schuster 1960, pbr Avon 1961. Humorous novel about an English journalist's entanglement with various young lesbians. Satirical, major. • R MOORE, PAMELA. Chocolates for Breakfast Bantam pbr 1960 MORELL, LEE. Nurses Quarters Beacon pbo 1960. Hospital novel of a young girl in a group of lesbian nurses, with a lot of purple prose about twisted passions and all that. I would call this a harmless evening waster except that the perpetra- tion of stereotypes in the public mind is not harmless. MORRIS, TERRY. "Stalies" ss in Cross Section ed Edwin Seaver, Simon & Schuster 1947. (m) and horrifying. MORRISON, RAY. Reformatory Girls. Avon pbo 1960. fco; minor variant attachment in another ho-hum girls-prison story. MORTIMER, LEE. Women Confidential Messner 1960. N. N. "Vituperat- ive nasty little book about how evil all women are --expose type and very dreary, with special attacks on all homosexuals, even make, though goodness knows why that is included here.." + MORROW, CHARLOTTE. The Singing and the Hold London, New Authors Ltd, 1960. Excellent sensitive novel, compared favor- ably by reviewers with Olivia. Story of an elderly, aristocratic lesbian, attracted to a young girl. Having the rare sense to realize her love is not requited, "Henry" tactfully remains in the background. MULLALLY, FREDERIC Marianne. Viking, 1960, pbr Bantam 1961. Exceptionally suspenseful novel, literate if not literary, of that curious type too good to be called a mystery since the term began to be used to describe poor detective novels. A journalist, following the tangled trail of a murdered girl through many bizarre situations and lovers, uncovers among other things a rather frightening lesbian episode. Highly recommended + MURPHY, DENNIS. "A Camp in the Meadow" ss in Stanford Stories 1957; ed. Wallace Stegner. Stanford University Press. An earlier story by the author of The Sergeant, this also deals with the seduction of a young soldier by an officer. Plus for new, overlooked discovery. --- 3) MURRAY, MARRIS. "My Brother Writes Poetry for an Englishman" ss in The Saturday Book, 13th Edition, Macmillan 1953 (m) MURRAY, WILLIAM. The Self-starting Wheel. Dutton, 1960 (m) NIN, ANAIS A Spy in the House of Love, British Book Centre, 1954, pбr Avon nd (ca 1954) Minor, surrealist, contains possible portrait of writer Djuna Barnes, NIN, ANAIS. House of Incest, San Francisco, Centaur, 1954, qpbr Anais Nin Press 1958. Minor, confusing. R NIN, ANAIS. Under a Glass Bell. pbr Anais Nin Press 1957. NUMBER ONE (Spring, 1960). Literary review published by student's of University of Kansas City, contains two relevant short stories; The Trick by G. C. Schellhorn, and Chez Michelle by Cynthia Edelman, University of K. C., 1960 O HARA, JOHN. From the Terrace. 1960. (m) O HARA, JOHN. Ourselves to Know. 1961. (m) Random House 1958, pbr Bantam Random House 1960, pbr Bantam OLIVER, MARK. The Wanton Boys Doubleday 1959, pbr Pyramid. 1960 (m) + OWEN, JACK. The Beach Bums Coward-McCann 1959, Signet pbr 1960. Plus denotes editorial enjoyment (unanimous) of this subtle, fine and tender story of a quasi-beatnik and his relation- ships in Hawaii, including one with a pair of male homo- sexuals who come to a rather pathetic parting. Likable book, ingratiating, readable style. O SHAUGHNESSY, MICHAEL, Monsieur Moliere. Crowell 1959 (m) Novel based on life of the French dramatist. PACKER, Vin. Girl on the Best Seller List Gold Medal pbo 1960, (m) minor in satire on Grace Metalious. R. PARKER, DOROTHY. "Glory in the Daytime" ss in Great Stories of Show Business, ed. Jerry D. Lewis, Coward-McCann 1957 PATTISON, JANE GALE. The First Sip of Wine, Crowell 1960. Motherless Carey, sent to boarding school, undergoes the usual adolescent attachment to a kind, but impersonal teacher. Variant rather than lesbian, but intelligently and sensitively treated. PEARCE, MOIRA. A Sunset Touch. Scribner 1960. Minor, amusing portraits of male and female homosexuals in a novel about the diffiault adjustment of people to old age...sur- prisingly it is the homosexuals who make the most satisfact- --- (24) ory personal adjustments, while the others suffer consider- ably more. A very unusual theme. PENTECOST, HUGH. (pseud, of Judson P. Philips) The Obituary Club, Dodd, Mead 1958, pb Dell 1960. (m) fco, mystery + PERTWEE, ROLAND. Lovers are Losers. Doubleday 1941. (m) and overlooked by all lists so far. Subtle, well handled, of interest to collectors of lesbiana too PETERS, WILLI Lesbian Twins. Vego pbo 1960. Eveing waster. R PETRONIUS The Satyricon Trans. by William Arrowsmith pbr Signet 1960. PIRRO, UGO. Five Branded Women pbo Pocket Books 1960 (first English edition; translation from the Italian novel, from which the movie was made, A few brief, brutal lesbian episodes in a powerful but dreadful novel of women exiled because of fraternizing with Nazis in the last war. + PROKOSCH, FREDERIC A Ballad of Love Farrar 1960, Major (m) This author's entire work a fantastic record of 11 novels deals, in a greater or less degree, with 3 homosexuality. PURDY, JAMES. Malcolm. Farrar, Straus 1959, pb Avon 1961 (m) Fabulous funny-hysterical story of a mixed-up kid, my a serious modern writer. PURDY, JAMES. The Nephew. Farrar 1960. (m) RAINER, DACHINE. The Uncomfortable Inn, Abelard-Schumann 1960 (m) (m) excellent. + RANDOLPH, ALEXANDER. The Mailboat. Holt, 1954. REAGE, PAULINE. The Story of Q. Olympia Press, Paris 1957, 1960 One reviewer insists this is not the usual Olympia product but a very unusual, potently powerful novel of female masochism unquestionably written by a woman and plumbing deep into the feminine subconscious world of secret fears", Leaving aside the touchy question of where honesty leaves of, and pornography begins -- a question which ideally every writer and reader should be able to thrash out with his own conscience --there seems little point in reviewing these titles, since if they are imported into this country the US, Postal Authorities will solve the problem summarily. Mentioned for those who may travel abroad or have access to legitimate private collections, REARDON, WILLIAM R. The Big Smear Crown, 1960 (m) --- R RENAULT, MARY (pseud) The Charioteer. qpbr Meridian Books 1961 R RENAULT, MARY (pseud) Purposes of Love pbr London, Harborough Pub, 1961. This is the novel known to most Americam readers as Promise of Love, long out of print in USA. RHAU, HENRY VON. The Hell of Loneliness, NY Inwood Press 1929 This 47 page miniature novel is a wicked parody of The Well of Loneliness, admittedly funny, though we somehow doubt that Radclyffe Hall would be very amused. It ran to many printings and should be available cheap. RIFKIN, SHEPARD. Desire Island. Ace pbo 1960. Minor episodes in a novel of arty types on Fire Island. + RINSER, LUISE. Rings of Glass Chicago, Regnery 1958. Trans. from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. Excellent short novel, unusual in emphasis, documents a child's development toward lesbianism from the age of five years. ROBINSON, HENRY MORTON. Water of Life. Simon & Schuster 1960. Very brief lesbian character in a very long, literate novel which reached best seller lists. ROBINSON, HENRY MORTON. The Great Snow Simon & Schuster, 1947 Brief explicit picture of a very young potential homosexual in a novel about the moral structure of man. (m) fco + ROCHEFORT, CHRISTIANE. Warrior's Rest McKay 1959, London, Hamilton, 1960. Trans. from the French by Lowell Bair, Crest pbr 1960. This novel has a most curious history. In 1958, under the title Le Repos du Guerrier, published by the French firm of Grasset, it became an immediate best seller, drawing excellent critical reviews and subsequently winning the award called "Le Prix de Nouvelle Vague". The American firm of David McKay purchased the rights to the book and published it in a translation by Lowell Bair. The book was well received in its American edition, but not nearly so enthusiastically as it had been in the original. A possible reason for the odd lukewarmness of the English-American critics appears on even the most cursory comparison of the two editions; for the American edition has been the victim of what appears to be the most gross, glagrant and incredible piece of editorial "tampering" and unauthori- zed revision/ meddling ever inflicted even within the admittedly peculiar field of republication of foreign novels. Not even the most liberal interpretation of the license allowed to a translator can show any reason for this. The original (French) novel was the story of a young Frenchwoman, with pronounced lesbian background; and her relationship with a male, alcoholic beatnik who, through --- (26) sheer impact of personality, woos the girl to heterosexuality. As she begins to tire of this relationship, he introduces a woman into their life together; then, near the end of the book, a boy-girl of great beauty and charm appears on the scene and the heroine reverts to emotional lesbianism. A sensational story, perhaps; but certainly no more so than many novels appearing yearly, with impunity, on the newsstands. Nothing, one would think, to stir up the censors, even as quick on the trigger as they are. In the English translation almost all refere- nce to the heroine's past has been deleted. A few references to lesbianism are retained in the center section of the book, but only those degrading episodes instituted by the man during the deterioration of their relationship. Furthermore, Most surprisingly of all, the ending is altered to make it appear that the man, rather than the heroine, attracts the young girl. This is probably the most incredible piece of shameless literary butchery ever committed. There seems no conceivable excuse for it. Censorship? But hundreds of more censorable paperbacks, on a "trashy" level, appear every week; why should the same subject matter be forbidden to a literate, serious artist of some reputation in her own country? This is a despicable occurrence in a country which supposedly enjoys the privilege of a Free Press and calculated to make the American Book business look even more ridiculous in the eyes of the world. (Gene Damon) ROSS, COLIN. The Mistress. Beacon Books pbo 1954 scv. Not to be, confused with the excellent Theodora Keogh novel by that same title. ROSSITER, H. D. "Allan Franklin" ss in Writers for Tomorrow 2nd Series, Ed. Baxter Hathaway & John A Sessions, Cornell University Press, 1952. (m) RUARK, ROBERT C Grenadine Etching, Her Life and Loves Doubleday' 1947, pbr Ace 1960. Ridiculous satire on historical novels. Chapter 24, entitled "Well of Loneliness" concerns a gorilla named Brandy, who lives with the heroine, and is not sure whether he/she is a she/he or what. It could be funny taken in the right mood at the right time, otherwise arrgh! RUBEL, JAMES. Any Two Can Play Newsstand Library pbo 1959. ...or three or four or... 18 says RW. SCV. RUCKER, HELEN. The Wolf Tree. Little, Brown 1960 (m) Good. SALEM, RANDY. Man Among Women. Beacon Books pbo 1960. Editors disagree; some liked this, some said "sev and gaah at that". Read it yourself, if you can stand it. Fast adventure story of a man fallen in with a group of women trying to establish a private resort for lesbians only on an almost inaccessible island. The writing is pulp and poor půlp at that. --- R SARTRE, JEAN PAUL No Exit. Also in 20 Best European Plays on the American Stage, ed. John Gassner, Crown 1957 SANSOM, WILLIAM. "Impatience" and "The Face at the Window" ss in A Touch of the Sun, Reynal 1958 (m) SAVAGE, KIM. Helena's House, Beacon pbr 1960; this may be reprint of a book entitled Weekend, Vixen 1952. SCV. R SAYERS, DOROTHY L. The Dawson Pedigree. her tct UnNatural Death, Harper k955. SAYRE, GORDON. (pseud, of Jack Woodford). Unwilling Sinner Godwin 1933 pbr tct The Abortive Hussy Avon ca 1940, and reprints. Evening waster SCHIDDEL, EDMUND. The Devil in Bucks County Simon & Schuster. 1959, pbr Pocket Books 1959. fco; odd tiny portraits in a long novel of exurbia by a well-regarded modern writer who has written major novels in this field, SCHNEIDER, ISADOR. Doctor Transit by I, S. (pseud), Boni & Liveright, 1925. Early science fiction doctor switches the sexes of a married couple, then switches them back again. Evidently this was rather shocking in its time. SCHORER, MARK. The Wars of Love. McGraw-Hill, 1954, Avon pbr tct Three Loves nad She nd. Minor (m) adolescent episode and continuing subtle undertones in a story of a curious, tense relationship of three men and one woman. R SCHREINER, OLIVE. The Story of an African Farm. qpbr, Fawcett Premier, 1960 SCHREINER, OLIVE. From Man to Man Harper 1927 SEAGER, ALLAN. The Death of Anger Obolensky, 1960. Major novel of a man married for twelve years, miserably, to a lesbian. + SELBY, JOHN, The Man who Never Changed. Rinehart 1955, Major male, in a well done novel of a ruthless concert pianist. + SELLERS, CONNIE, Private World, Newsstand Library 1959. Excel- lent paperback about a group of two men and eleven women marooned by a plane crash on a Pacific island, Very well done, perceptive studies of the relationships that spring up between them; "the lesbian element is unusually subtle and tasteful for a paperback A SEMPLE, GORDON. Summer Resort Women Beacon pbo 1960 scv SHANE, MARK, Sex Gantlet to Murder Versatile Press 1955, pbr tet The Lady was a Man, Fabian 1959, 1960, Illiterate shocker, a crudely written pastiche of Josephine Tey's TO LOVE AND --- BE WISE. The gimmick is the same, a transvestite suspect, but this which is in fact the only point to the story, otherwise a poor melange of all the cheap mystery-sex novels of years is crudely telegraphed by the title and cover blurb. The sexual scenes are so near to pornography that I suspect this book would be denied the use of the mails, but are so poorly and tastelessly handled that no one would care except the few poor frustrated creeps who get their kicks by reading this stuff. The supposed "lesbian" is actually a disguised male homosexual trying to attract the men who are presumably all agog to seduce this unattainable female, and the whole thing would make a cat laugh, I think this is REALLY the low point of the homosexual novel, though it has had some stiff competition. Read it and snicker, then go wash your mind out with soap. + SHERMAN, SUSAN.. Give me Myself World, 1961. Major --possibly this year's major title. A first novel, the story of a college girl's disturbing year under the influence of a brilliant, corrupt woman professor, probably represents a lasting contribution to the field of lesbiana. SICHEL, PIERRE Such as We. Reynal and Hitchcock, NY 1948. Major novel of the mixed-up world between the two world wars. Elaine Chickering, a shy plain teenager, goes to boarding school after a divorce in the family; she is seduced by a schoolmate who is later expelled, and the school doctor gives her a brutal lecture intended to be "cathartic" and keep her from repeating her "crime". The lesbian element in this book occupies only one chapter of her mixed-up and depressing life, but is nevertheless major, as in Charles Gorham's Carlotta Mc Bride.. SIMENON, GEORGES. "Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses" in Versus Inspector Maigret, Doubleday 1959, 1960. fco except for mystery fans; suspects include a hostess in a notorious lesbian bar. SINCLAIR, JO (pseud. of Ruth Seid) Anna Teller. minor, but of course an excellent book by a r SMITH, ARTEMIS. This Bed we Made. Monarch 1961 McKay 1960. (m) fine writer. pbo. Fair novel of beatniks and their tangled affairs, by a writer whose work deserves hard covers and a less sensational treatment. + SOUTHERN, TERRY Flash and Filigree Coward-McCann' 1958 pbr Berkeley 1960. Hilarious, confusing satire, by a writer of skill and merit, about West Coast eccentrics worthy of Huxley; including a male transvestite addicted to bizarre practical jokes on the medical profession, a group of wildly funny beatniks, and an unbelievably beautiful but dumb nurse being simultaneously pursued by a nice boy and a pair of very prim, repressed lesbian supervisors of nurses who never quite manage to get their point across. A riot. --- R STAFFORD, JEAN: A Boston Adventure Dell pbr 1960 STERN, DANIEL. Miss America. Random 1959 pbr Popular Library 1960. (m) minor. STEIN, AARON MARC. Never Need an Enemy Doubleday 1959 (m) fco STEWART, DONALD. Crow Doubleday 1959 pbr tct Strange Bondage Dell 1960. Minor, unusually subtle story of complex, quasi- sadistic attachment between two men, overlooked even by completists. + STOLPE, SVEN Night Music. Sheed and Ward 1960. Mystical religious novel issued by a major Catholic publishing house, deals largely with the attachment between Regina, rejected daughter of the prime minister of an un-named modern state, and her friend Isabelle; their relationship ends when Isabelle turns religious. Both women are intelligent adults and there is no sensationalism, but both are aware of the implications of their relationship; it is mildly startling that a Catholic press would publish this at all. Recommended. STRINDBERG, AUGUST. The Confession of a Fool. Viking, N. Y. 1925. Based on the famous author's life with his wife, an overt lesbian. STURGEON, THEODORE. Venus Plus X. Pyramid pbo 1960. Hard to classify; half satire, half science fiction, the author intersperses a macabre glimpse of a future world inhabited by hermaphrodites (supposedly evolved from today's lessening distinctions between the sexes) with evil, telling, much too hard-hitting satire on current cultures. This book ought to be on all required-reading lists. SWADOS, HARVEY. "The Dancer " ss in Fiction of the Fifties, ed. Herbert Gold, Doubleday 1959; also in Nights in the Gardens OF Brooklyn Little, Brown 1960. (m) SWENSON, PEGGY. The Blonde. Midwood-Tower pbo 1960 Evening waster SWADOS, HARVEY. False Coin Little, Brown 1960. (m) Good. SYMONDS, JOHN The Magic of Aleister Crowley Aquarian Press London 1957; her London, Frederick Muller, 1958. N (m) about the famous poet, occultist, charlatan, homosexual. Highly macabre, not to all tastes. R TAYLOR, VALERIE Whisper their Love. her London, Neville Spearman, Toronto, Burns and MacEachern, 1959 R TAYKOR, VALERIE. Stranger on Lesbos her London, Neville Spearman, Toronto, Burns and MacEachern, 1960. --- (30) TELFER, DARIEL The Caretakers. Simon & Schuster 1959, Signet pbr 1960. Long, excellent novel laid in a mental hospital contains a brief history of a lesbian patient. THIESS, FRANK. Interlude. THOMPSON, C. HALL Knopf, 1929 The Prisoners" ss in Cross Section ed. Edwin Seaver, L. B. Fischer 1945. (m) Major, + THOMPSON, SALLY. The Keener Love McDowell, Obolensky, 1960. Seeking the cause of Sara Wilson's suicide," her step- father traces her life back through many men, her husband, a lesbian lover and eventually to her real father. A very well written novel by a talented young writer. R. TEY, JOSEPHINE (pseud. of Elizabeth Mackintosh) Miss Pym Disposes, pbr Berkley 1960 To Love and be Wise pbr Berkley 1960. TINDALL, GILLIAN, When we Had Other Names. Morrow 1960 (m). Heroine marries a boy who turns out to be homosexual. Very sad, very well written. TOWARD, GEORGE P.. Lesbos Hill. Newsstand Library pbo 1960. Fairly harmless évening waster. R TORRES, TERESKA. The Golden Cage. pbr Avon 1960 TOWERS, ROBERT. The Necklace of Kali Harcourt, Brace 1960 (m) TRINIAN, JOHN. North Beach Girl Gold Medal 1960. Slick, compet- ent and contrived shocker; beatniks, lesbians, murders. +TROCCHI, ALEXANDER. Cain's Book. Grove Press 1960; hard covers and qpb. Powerful, well reviewed novel, dealing with drug addicts and homosexuality. TRYON, MARK. Sweeter than Life, Vixen 1954. SCV. TRYON, MARK: TRYON, MARK. the Twisted Loves of Nym. O' Sullivan Beacon 1960 scv Vixen 1953, Berkley pbr 1960 scv Simon & Schuster 1960. The Sinning Lens. + TYRE, NEDRA Hall of Death. " mystery novel laid in a girl's reformatory. Excellent ULLMAN, JAMES RAMSEY. The Day on Fire. World 1958, Bantam pbri 1961. (m) major, based in Rimbaud, Verlaine. Recommended. URIS, LEON. Exodus. Doubleday 1958, Bantam pbr 1960; fco; very minor variant element. The heroine, shattered by the tragic deaths of her husband and child, while in a detention camp on Cyprus recovers her interest in living again through a tender, maternal attachment for a young girl in the camp. ---