Category: Fiction

May Sarton | The Small Room | This is a perceptive, deeply questioning novel of a New England college, its students and it’s faculty. It is a novel about women and the unique relat

Eric Ward | Uncharted Seas | An excellent, perceptive and controlled story of Diana Bellew, a young married woman with children, a childish husband and too much money and time on

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

Justine Saracen | Sistine Heresy | Eros, art, and gorgeous blasphemy… Adrianna Borgia, survivor of the Borgia court, presents Michelangelo with the greatest temptations of his life wh

Barbara Burford | The Threshing Floor | In the pioneering work, Towards a Black Feminist Criticism, Barbara Smith examines the realities of criticizing works that are both Black feminist and

Jill Johnston | Gullibles Travels | ‘Jill Johnston is, refreshingly, a highly self-conscious creative writer. Gullibles Travels rewards every effort: radical thinking meets radical writi

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.

Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler | The Farringdons | Three intense variant attachments by a motherless girl under twenty, which subside when she falls in love with a man.

Paul Hackett | Children Of The Stone Lions | Explores and exploits sick minds, and if less violent, is still a pretty bedraggled account of the deterioration of a man and a marriage. Peter Kovac,