Much of the work of this important French novelist was variant. Only the most explicit are named above. The first three form a connected narrative, telling of Claudine’s school crushes, her friendship with a male-homosexual cousin, and her “indulgent husband” who connives at her lesbian affair with a woman friend, in order to enjoy it secondhand. “Bella Vista” tells of a vacation spent at a hotel managed by two middle-aged lesbians; the narrator’s fascinated interest in the couple vanishes when one of the “ladies” turns out to be, actually, a disguised man. CONNOLLY, CYRIL. _The Rock Pool._ Scribner 1936, hcr New Directions n.d. Very well written novel of a group of expatriates in the South of France. Nearly all are homosexuals; the story is told without comment or judgment. CONSTANTINE, MURRAY, and Margaret Goldsmith. _Venus in Scorpio._ John Lane, 1940. Heavily fictionalized biography, (erroneously listed elsewhere as a novel) of Marie Antoinette, suggesting lesbianism in her adolescence. + CORY, DONALD WEBSTER. _21 Variations on a Theme._ N. Y., Greenberg 1953. The classic anthology of short stories about homosexuals; four deal with feminine variance. COUPEROUS, LOUIS. _The Comedians_, N. Y. Doran 1926. Variant couple in a novel of Imperial Rome. COURAGE, JAMES. _A Way of Love._ G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1959, (m). COWLIN, DOROTHY. _Winter Solstice._ Macmillan, 1943. A brief variant relationship proves beneficial to a hysterical invalid. CRADOCK, PHYLLIS. _Gateway to Remembrance._ Andrew Dakers, London 1950. fco. Very brief mention of a lesbian couple in a sappy metaphysical novel about Lost Atlantis. CRAIG, JONATHAN. _Case of the Village Tramp._ pbo Gold Medal 1959. Fast, well-written mystery introduces a pair of lesbians among the suspects; _good_ entertainment. + CRAIGIN, ELISABETH. _Either is Love._ Harcourt, Brace, 1937, pbr Lion Books, 1952, 1956, Pyramid 1960. After the death of her husband the narrator re-reads the letters she had written him about her intense love affair with another woman. Almost unequalled treatment of a lesbian _romance_. CREAL, MARGARET. _A Lesson in Love._ Simon & Schuster 1957. A Canadian orphan’s passion for a beautiful schoolmate ends in disillusion when the older girl, Tammy, tries to force Nicola into a distasteful affair with a boy, the better to deceive her mother about a similar affair of her own.