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
_Girls in 3-B._ Crest pbo 1959. One of three young girls who come
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, ANDRÉ. _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, (m). 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._ Beacon pbo 1954.
_Frenzy of Desire._ Encore Press 1957. Evening wasters.
THOMPSON, MORTON. _Not as a Stranger._ Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1954
pbr Pocket Books 1955. fco, very minor episodes.
+ 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.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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