G. Sheila Donisthorpe | Loveliest of Friends | ‘The World Condemned Their Love. When this book first appeared in England, it created a sensation and was favorably compared to The Well of Lonelines
Charles Mergendahl | The Girl Cage | Women–Waiting For Men
Martha hated “The Girl Cage”–the house she lived in with four other wives whose husbands were fighting in Korea. She
Denys Val Baker | A Journey with Love | The hero’s first marriage fails because of his wife’s insistence that a woman friend shall share their home. Nothing is explicit.
Ann Aldrich | We Walk Alone | In 1955, this groundbreaking pulp revealed ‘underground’ lesbian life in Greenwich Village. Part Kinsey-esque portraits of real people, part you-are-t
Kay Addams | Warped Desire | Front cover text:
. . . BOLDY PROBES THE PROBLEM OF THE FRIGID WOMAN, FORCED BY HER OWN DESPERATION INTO UNNATURAL PATHS!
Warped De
Ann Bannon | I Am a Woman | She looked round the Cellar with Laura following her gaze. ‘I know most of the girls here…I’ve probably slept with half of them. I’ve lived with hal
Ann Bannon | Women in the Shadows | Cover copy reads: ‘Their dark and troubled loves could flourish only in secret.’
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A guarded look across the room. That was all sh
Ann Bannon | Odd Girl Out | Beth was there when Laura arrived…
She was the brain, the sparkle, the gay rebel voice, and wonder of wonders, she choose Laura as her room
Ann Aldrich | We Walk Alone | ‘Of the love that dwells in the twilight–the love that can never be told!’
This book is largely non-fiction and one of the six controversia
Edouard Bourdet | The Captive (La Prisonnier) | Scarce lesbian themed play known in French as La Prisonniere, translated by Arthur Hornblow Jr. The original production of The Captive was the talk an