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
_Louÿs, Pierre_—Songs of Bilitis. Many editions available, the most
easily located probably being the Liveright “Collected works of
Pierre Louys”, $3.50. There is also a paperback edition, Avon Red
and Gold Library, no date. The “Songs” have been published singly in
numerous privately printed and illustrated editions, some of which
are very beautiful collector’s items.
_Brontë, Emily_—Complete Poems. N. Y. Columbia University Press,
1941 (still in print at $4.00). A scattering of these poems are (or
can be interpreted as) vaguely variant.
_Mencken, Idah Isaacs_—Infelicia. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1875.
(Rare, and expensive.)
_Field, Michael_—(pseud. of two Englishwomen.) Entire work of
lesbian interest and a “must” for completists. Most medium to large
public libraries have some of their work.
_Dickinson, Emily_—Bolts of Melody. N. Y. Harper, 1945. Also variant
poems are scattered throughout her earlier editions. (Selected
Poems, Modern Library, 1948, $1.65.)
THE MODERN POETS:
_Lowell, Amy_—No one volume of her work can be singled out; her
poems are perhaps the most openly variant of any of the English or
American poets. Her “Complete Poetical Works” is still in print;
Boston, Houghton & Mifflin Co., 1955; Introduction by Louis
Untermeyer, $6.00.
_O’Neill, Rose_—The Master Mistress. N. Y., Knopf, 1922. The creator
of the “Kewpies” also was the writer of these sensitive,
occasionally erotic poems. Perhaps a dozen are explicitly lesbian.
_Hall, Radclyffe_—Poems of the Past and Present, London, Chapman &
Hall, 1910. Songs of Three Counties, Chapman & Hall, 1913. The
Forgotten Island, London, Chapman & Hall, 1915. Sheaf of Verses,
London, Chapman & Hall, 1905. Twixt Earth and Stars, London, Chapman
& Hall, 1906.
These poems by the author of “Well of Loneliness” are so overt that
it is almost unbelievable that they were printed at all, but they
were, and I have the books to prove it ... she managed to get away
with it, I guess, because she talks in these poems as if she were a
man, writing to a woman.
_Millay, Edna St. Vincent_—Collected Poems, N. Y., Harper, 1956,
$6.00. This is the favored anthology of Millay for this purpose,
since it contains everything of hers which is variant in tone.
However, there are many single volumes of her poetry available, and
also pbrs; Collected Lyrics (Washington Square, 50¢), and Collected
Sonnets (Washington Square, 50¢).
_Sackville-West, Victoria_—King’s Daughter, N. Y., Doubleday, 1930.
_Sterling, George_—Strange Waters. Privately printed, n.d., also in
American Esoterica, N. Y. Macy-Masius, 1927. Lengthy narrative poem
of supposed incestuous lesbianism ... shocker.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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