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Ladies Almanack by Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes | Ladies Almanack | Djuna Barnes must have had great fun writing and illustrating this book. It’s a lively lampoon of her lesbian chums of Left Bank Paris in the 1920s. T

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Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes | Nightwood | This is the story of Robin Vote and those she destroys–her husband the ‘Baron, ‘ their child Guido, and the two women, Nora and Jenny, who love her;

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Wasteland by Jo Sinclair

Jo Sinclair | Wasteland | Wasteland is the story of Jacob Braunowitz, a young Jewish man who, tortured by self-doubts and nightmare fears, turns his back on his heritage, his h

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Bryher by Bryher; Joanne Winning

Bryher; Joanne Winning | Bryher | Bryher is perhaps best known today as the lifelong partner of the poet H.D. She was, however, a central figure in modernist and avant-garde cultural e

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Ladies Almanack by Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes | Ladies Almanack | Djuna Barnes must have had great fun writing and illustrating this book. It’s a lively lampoon of her lesbian chums of Left Bank Paris in the 1920s. T

Posted in Autobiographical Fiction Pulp

Diana by Diana Frederics

Diana Frederics | Diana |

This is the unusual and compelling story of Diana, a tantalizingly beautiful woman who sought love in the strange by-paths of Lesbos. Fearless and

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Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles

Jane Bowles | Two Serious Ladies | Written with biting wit and cool compassion, Two Serious Ladies is a bittersweet celebration of female freedom that has been hailed as a landmark in t

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Crossing the Center Line by Jackie Calhoun

Jackie Calhoun | Crossing the Center Line | Best selling author Jackie Calhoun left a long term marriage when she could no longer deny her sexual orientation. Crossing the Center Line is autobio

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The Time Being by Mary Meigs

Mary Meigs | The Time Being | From Mary Meigs, the celebrated author of In the Company of Strangers, comes an autobiographical novel, The Time Being. An affair born of a correspond

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The Worry Girl by Andrea Freud Loewenstein

Andrea Freud Loewenstein | The Worry Girl | With chunks called ‘From The Stories That Came Before’ and pieces named ‘The Grandmothers’ Stories,’ this pithy collection – ‘fictional composites of