Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall’s own life, it was banned outrig
Gawen Brownrigg | Star Against Star | Story of a girl conditioned from childhood to lesbian affairs, first by an overly seductive mother, then by a school friend. The book has the doom-rid
Kay Boyle | Monday Night | Unfathomable horror broods over this story in which two Americans become involved in the search for one man: a toxicologist who has been connected wit
Louis Bromfield | The Rains Came | In a long novel of India there is a brief but important episode involving two old missionary ladies. The elder, an engaging old battleax, muses as she
Truman Capote | Breakfast At Tiffany’s | In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the liter
Rumer Godden | The Greengage Summer | The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by high walls; Eliot, the charming Englishman who beca
Pati Hill | The Nine Mile Circle | Dreamy story of two teenage girls and an idyllic summer during which they constantly pretend to be man and wife, on a girlish, unerotic level.