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
LEWIS, SINCLAIR. _Ann Vickers._ Doubleday, 1933. One important
lesbian episode in a novel of woman suffrage, viciously
condemnatory.
LEVERIDGE, RALPH. _Walk on the Water._ Farrar, 1951, pbr tct _The
Last Combat_, Signet 1952, Pyramid 1959, (m).
LEWIS, WYNDHAM. _The Apes of God._ N. Y., R. M. McBride & Co, 1932,
London, Arthur Press 1950, London, Arco, 1955. Satire, including
sharp studies of homosexuality, male and female.
LIN, HAZEL. _The Moon Vow._ Pageant Press, 1958. A Chinese woman
psychiatrist, attempting to solve a patient’s problems, is led
into seamy byways of Peking, including a somewhat gruesome lesbian
cult.
LINDOPS, AUDREY ERSKINE. _The Outer Ring._ Appleton 1955, pbr
Popular Library tct _The Tormented_. (m)
LINGSTROM, FREDA. _Axel._ Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1939.
Wealthy man adopts two boys and a girl. One boy, Valentine, has
homosexual affair with an older boy, Teddy, who later commits
suicide; the girl, Auriol, studying music in Germany, lives with 2
older women, one of whom is very innocently but very ardently in
love with her. Well-written.
LIPSKY, ELEAZAR. _The Scientists._ Appleton-Century-Crofts 1959,
pbr Pocket Books, 1960. Minor character in a long novel is a
vaguely treated, but explicit lesbian.
LIPTON, LAWRENCE. _The Holy Barbarians._ Messner, 1959. Love among
the beat generation, including all kinds of homosexuality.
LITTLE, JAY. _Somewhere between the Two._ Pageant, 1956, (m).
_Maybe Tomorrow._ Pageant, 1952, (m). Amusing.
LIVINGSTON, MARJORIE. _Delphic Echo._ London, Andrew Dakers, 1948,
(m). Minor, in a novel of ancient Greece.
LODGE, LOIS. _Love Like a Shadow._ Phoenix Press, 1935.
Purple-passaged novel of a lesbian seeking true love.
+ LOFTS, NORAH. _Jassy._ Knopf 1945, pbr Signet 1948, others.
Roughly a third of this novel, about a young English girl who,
herself innocent, brings tragedy on everyone, is lesbian in
emphasis. In a girl’s school she comes between Mrs. Twysdale, a
rather slimy, neurotic woman who has adored her boyish cousin,
Katherine, for years. Katherine, chafing at this adoration, turns
to Jassy for undemanding friendship and Mrs. Twysdale connives to
have her expelled—which spurs Katherine to precipitate a
long-desired break with her.
_The Lute Player._ Doubleday, 1951; pbr Bantam 1951, (m). Fine
historical of Richard III, based on the thesis that he was
homosexual.
+ LONG, MARGARET. _Louisville Saturday._ Random 1950, pbr Bantam
1951, 53, 56, 57, 59. A study of women in wartime includes a brief
study of a woman’s acceptance of a variant friendship (the
sections titled GLADYS).
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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