+ FERGUSON, MARGARET. _The Sign of the Ram._ London, Philadelphia, The Blakiston Co, 1944-45. Sherida comes as companion-secretary to crippled Leah, passionately adored by her whole family including sixteen-year-old Christine. Subtly playing on Christine’s emotions, Leah spurs her to the point where she attempts to murder Sherida. On the surface, the motivation is simply the love of power, but Christine’s emotions are clearly variant; when the book was filmed, they carefully cast Christine as a girl of eleven, to make it unmistakable that her adoration was only “childish.” FIRBANK, RONALD. _The Flower Beneath the Foot._ in Five Novels, New Directions, 1949. “Light and fluffy ... pure fun”. _Inclinations._ in Three Novels. New Directions 1951, (m). FITZROY, A.T. _Despised and Rejected._ London, C W Daniel, 1918. Lesbian incidents in a novel which is, however, mainly about persecution of Conscientious Objectors in World War I. FISHER, MARY (PARRISH). _Not Now but NOW._ Viking 1947. Novel of an ageless, ruthless woman. A long episode on a college campus is lesbian in emphasis. FISHER, VARDIS. _The Darkness and the Deep._ Vanguard, 1943, fco, a novel of the Stone Age. FLAGG, JOHN. _Dear, Deadly Beloved._ Gold Medal pbo 1954. _Murder in Monaco._ pbo Gold Medal 1957. Both of these are fast-moving mysteries, in Mediterranean setting, both involving lesbian characters. FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE. _Salammbo._ Classic French Novel in many editions and translations. A very long novel of a Babylonian High Priestess; some psychological and literary authorities consider it variant. The editors all say with one voice that it isn’t. BAYOR. FLEMING, IAN. _Goldfinger._ Macmillan 1959. No data, BAYOR. FLORA, FLETCHER. _Desperate Asylum._ pbo Lion Library 1955, pbr Pyramid 1959, tct _Whisper of Love_. An unhappy lesbian and a neurotic man who hates women because his mother was promiscuous, marry to find a mutual “asylum”. Predictably the marriage is unsuccessful, ending in murder and suicide. _Strange Sisters_, pbo Lion Library 1954, pbr Pyramid 1960. Weird novel of a girl’s mental breakdown, indirectly blamed on her affairs with three cruel and sadistic women. _Take me Home._ Monarch Books, pbo 1959. A young writer’s slow captivation with a strange girl just escaping from the domination of an evil lesbian cousin. All three of these books, though anti-lesbian in bias, are very well and slickly written, and entertaining. FORREST, FELIX. _Carola._ Duell, 1948. Brief recall of a lesbian episode in the heroine’s girlhood.