(m) indicates a novel concerned mostly with male homosexuality. A very large proportion of such novels, however, contain some discussion of female variance, or lesbian characters, as well.
BAYOR—Buy at your own risk ... either no accurate data is available or the editors find themselves in hopeless disagreement about its relevance.
Evening Waster—good solid entertainment and reasonably well-written, though worthless as literature.
scv—see editorial for complete discussion of this term. This is the literary ghetto, the gutter books, the commercialized sex trash as distinguished from honest erotic realism.
THE COMPLETE, CUMULATIVE CHECKLIST OF LESBIAN FICTION
ACKWORTH, ROBERT C. _The Moments Between._ pbo, Hillman Books 1959. Characters in a college novel include an instructor—male—who is homosexual, very sympathetically portrayed. Also a subtle, but sympathetic attachment between an unlovely, unloved student and an older woman; the relationship is shown as constructive for both in the end.
+ ADAMS, FAY. _Appointment in Paris._ pbo, N. Y., Gold Medal 1952. An American girl in Paris has a brief affair with a French woman and is thereby enabled to break the hold of her old-maid aunt. She later marries.
ADDAMS, KAY. _Queer Patterns._ pbo, Beacon, 1959. scv. Trashy shocker about young Nora Card, who briefly forsakes her boy friend, Roger, for a corrupt lesbian employer.
_Warped Desires._ pbo, Beacon, 1960. scv. Teen-age Doris goes to a boarding school and is seduced by everyone on the premises, male and female.
Non-fiction studies of the lesbian world, highly subjective, mostly vignettes of gay life in and around Greenwich Village, with some added data about the manners, customs and language of the “gay” world. Good reading, if somewhat biased.
ALEXANDER, DAVID. _Madhouse in Washington Square._ Lippincott, 1958. Mystery novel of high quality, introducing a pair of lesbians for window-dressing.
ANDERSON, HELEN. _Pity for Women._ N. Y., Doubleday, 1937. An unhappy and tense relationship among three women, inhabitants of a women’s residence club in New York.
ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. _Dark Laughter._ N. Y., Boni & Liveright, 1925, pbr Pocket Books, 1952. Very slight.
_Poor White_; N. Y., B. W. Huebsch, 1920, hcr in The Portable Sherwood Anderson, qpb Viking Press P42. In the course of a novel about the rise of a “shantytown boy’s” rise to prosperity, there is a brief but extremely sympathetic portrait of the lesbian, Kate Chancellor; the hero’s wife, Clara, is briefly captivated by Kate during her college days.