Ntozake Shange | Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo | Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo is the story of three ‘colored girls,’ three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina: Sassafrass, the ol
Phyllis Bottome | Eldorado Jane (Jane) | Story of a street urchin, including lesbian episodes in a girl’s reformatory.
Leona Beasley | Something Better Than Home | Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Lesbian Fiction Something Better than Home is the story of a young black girl growing up in the 1970s South who, af
Barbara Wilson (2) | Ambitious Women | ‘A novel about working feminists…caught in the everyday demands of work, family, friendship, and their confrontation with violence against women, te
Françoise Mallet-Joris | The Red Room | The sequel to this Flemish writer’s earlier The Illusions (sp) (1952) continues the conflict between young Helene and Tamara, now her step-mother for
Fitzroy Davis | Quicksilver | ‘For those who revel in getting behind the scenes in theatre, here is a good, solid, meticulously detailed and very alive picture of a road company to
Amy Grace Loyd | The Affairs of Others | Celia Cassill, who lost her young husband five years ago, is the owner of a small apartment building. She is determined to live a life at a remove fro
Olivia | Olivia | When Olivia turns sixteen she is sent to a Parisian finishing school to broaden her education. Soon after her arrival, she finds herself falling under
Maude Hutchins | Georgiana | The second section of a sensitive, well-written novel is laid in a girl’s school; there are three important variant attachments, and as a result one o
Denis Diderot | Memoirs Of A Nun | Memoirs of a Nun, which began as a joke and grew into a masterpiece, was one of the loudest salvos fired in the continuing battles between the clergy