Checklist by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Floyd Dell | Diana Stair | Set in the early 19th century. Diana is writer, a mill-girl, a school-teacher and an abolitionist. Though attracted to, and attractive to men, she is

Honore de Balzac | Seraphita | Balzac begins with a travelogue of the fiords of Norway, concentrating ultimately on one valley that is isolated by the roaring waters of the Sieg Riv

Rose Franken | Intimate Story | The petticoated pitfalls of the woman alone, afraid to trespass on her children’s lives, unsure of her own, this has of course the expected womanly wa

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

Fannie Hurst | Lonely Parade | Very minor mention of lesbians in a novel of lonely women at hotels.

Oliver Wendell Holmes | Elsie Venner | A classic novel of a very strange girl, psychologically akin to poisonous snakes. In the course of this novel a curious and intense relationship devel

Phyllis Bottome | Jane (Eldorado Jane) | Story of a street urchin, including lesbian episodes in a girl’s reformatory.