HURST, FANNIE. _The Lonely Parade._ N. Y. Harper 1942. Very minor mention of lesbians in a novel of lonely women at hotels.
+ HUTCHINS, MAUDE PHELPS McVEIGH. _A Diary of Love._ New Directions, 1950, pbr Pyramid 1952, 1960. Weird stuff, written with a detachment and delicacy reminiscent of the Colette novels. A teen-age girl, Noel, goes through a bizarre series of experiences in a strange household where her grandfather seduces his (male) music pupils and a nymphomanic, neurotic housemaid, Freida, successively seduces everyone from Grandpa down to Noel. Beautifully done.
_Georgiana._ New Directions, 1948. The second section of a sensitive, well-written novel is laid in a girl’s school; there are three important variant attachments, and as a result one of Georgiana’s classmates is expelled. In later life Georgiana blames her failure to find happiness on a “lesbian complex.”
ILTON, PAUL. _The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah._ pbo, Signet, 1956, 1957, (m). Historical, Biblical setting.
JACKSON, CHARLES. _The Fall of Valor._ Rinehart & Co, 1946, pbr Signet, 1950, (m).
_The Lost Weekend._ Farrar & Rinehart 1944, pbr Berkley 1955 and others.
“Palm Sunday” ss in collection _The Sunnier Side_, pbr Berkley nd and others, also in Cory, _21 Variations_.
+ JACKSON, SHIRLEY. _Hangsaman._ Farrar, 1951. Frightening, macabre story of a lonely girl who conjures up a thrilling companion—who looks and acts like a boy but is clearly a girl. They meet secretly and engage in wild conversation and loveplay, and only slowly, with dawning horror, does the reader realize that the child is a split personality and the two girls are one and the same.
_The Haunting of Hill House._ Viking, 1959. During the investigation of a reputed “haunted house”, two of the investigating party—Theo, an admitted lesbian, and Eleanor, a lonely, inhibited spinster—go through a curious, subtly delineated relationship wavering, with the intensity of the “haunting” of the house, from attraction to intense love to unexplained revulsion. Macabre; good of its kind.
JAMES, HENRY. _Turn of the Screw._ Macmillan 1898, hcr Modern Library n d, Pocket Books and other editions. Available everywhere. Some authorities consider subtle and understated lesbianism to be the mysterious motivations behind the scenes of this curious psychological ghost story of the struggle of a governess for the souls of two young children.