Checklist: A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians.
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Checklist: A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians.
Fiction -- Bibliography; Paraphilias in literature -- Bibliography
HALES, CAROL. _Wind Woman._ Woodford Press 1953, pbr tct _Such is
My Beloved_, Berkley 1958. Sad, sad, sad story of the
psychoanalysis of a young lesbian such as was never seen on sea or
land. Harmless and nitwitted ... read it and weep, or giggle.
see also LORA SELA.
+ HALL, RADCLYFFE. _The Well of Loneliness._ Many editions, some
cheap hcr (Sun Dial ed, still in print, n. d.) also Permabooks pbr
n. d. The classic first novel of a lesbian, written soon after
WWI. Stephen Gordon, male in physique, temperament and character,
seeks for lasting love and some measure of acceptance from a
rejecting world.
_The Unlit Lamp._ N. Y., Jonathan Cape 1924; the endless sacrifice
of a daughter into a sterile, wasted life because her mother
cannot accept her right to live her own life.
_Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself._ Harcourt, Brace 1934. A lesbian finds
her true destiny after a lifetime of serving her country.
Overtones of science fiction.
_A Saturday Life._ London, Falcon Press, 1952 (orig. pub 1925). An
attempt at farce, not overt anywhere.
HALL, OAKLEY M. _Corpus of Joe Bailey._ Viking 1953, Permabooks
1955, (m). Also contains a pathetic pair of lesbians, one
camouflaging her true leanings by pretending to be the campus
whore.
HARDY, THOMAS. _Desperate Remedies._ Harper 1896; still in print,
London, the Macmillan Co, 1951 ($3.00). Brief but relevant episode
in a novel by a classic English novelist.
+ HARRIS, SARA. _The Wayward Ones._ Crown 1952, pbr Signet 1956,57
One of the few really good treatments of lesbian attachments in a
girl’s reform school. Bessie, a wayward girl, is sent to a “good”
reform school; at this stage she is naive, fairly innocent and
presumably redeemable. The loneliness, the sadistic persecution by
the corrupt or hardened matrons, and the “racket”—the enforced
division of the school into “moms” and “pops”, by hardened young
girl hooligans who like the power it gives them, and permitted by
the matrons under the self-deception that these attachments are
normal, schoolgirlish crushes—finally complete the girl’s
corruption until it is certain that she will come out of school a
confirmed young criminal, Sara Harris is herself a social worker;
this painfully accurate picture of what our juvenile authorities
contend with may, at least, give some insight into why the police
and social agencies tend to be so violently anti-lesbian. It is
hard to forget the picture painted in this book of the frightened
Bessie insisting “I don’t never do no lovin’ with girls.’”—and
the threats made to her. An absolute MUST book—on the other side.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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