Mary Renault | The Friendly Young Ladies | Set in 1937, The Friendly Young Ladies is a romantic comedy of off-Bloomsbury bohemia. Sheltered, naïve, and just eighteen, Elsie leaves the st
Gertrude Stein; Samuel M. Steward; Alice B. Toklas | Dear Sammy | Letters to Steward from the famous expatriate pair, dating from the 1930s through 1966, reflect a true friendship among the correspondents, the striki
Nigel Nicolson | Portrait Of A Marriage | Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-trave
Judy Grahn | The Work of a Common Woman | Selected poems by a feminist author reexamine love, death, power, lesbianism, and the role of women in society
Dola de Jong | The Tree and The Vine | This courageous early work of lesbian fiction (1951) tells the gripping story of two women torn between desires and taboos in the years leading up to
March Hastings | The Drifter | Any port in a storm and one of the ports was lesbos, she drifted from bed to bed, from men to women, trying to blot out pain with pleasure
Renée Vivien | The Muse of the Violets: Poems | This is the first time Renee Vivien’s poetry has been available to English-speaking readers. Lavishly praised by critics in the early years of the twe
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
