Category: Grier Rated

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

Janice G. Raymond | The Transsexual Empire | “The idea of transgender is provocative. On a personal level, it allows for a continuum of gendered expression. On a political level, it never moves

Ruth Geller | Seed of a Woman | An intense first novel of the emerging women’s movement within the New Left

Karen Snow | Wonders | This collection of 14 long, harrowing, extremely skillful poems, winner of the 1978 Walt Whitman Award for best first book, jells chiefly because the

Geoffrey Moss | That Other Love | Phillida’s other love was a disturbing and fascinating woman.

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This [novel] is quite different from WHIPPED CREAM, faster moving, more varie

Naomi Mitchison | Solution Three | As a fast-paced novel about a future shaped by feminist ideals of sexual and racial equality, ‘solution three’ at first seems to be a peaceful answer

Louise W. King | The Velocipede Handicap | In her first book, The Day We Were Mostly Butterflies, Miss King introduced a fluttery headed little heroine named Miss Moppet whose hilarious adventu

Audre Lorde | Between Our Selves | These two small volumes (Between Our Selves and If You Want To Know Me by P. Halsey, G. Morían and M. Smith ) melt together like Yin and Yang to form

Sarah Kilpatrick | The Phoenix Hour | We pay dearly for fruit out of season”, and the price tag here, in an exceptionally knowing and understanding first novel, is on the attachment of an

Renée Vivien | A Woman Appeared to Me | An autobiographical novel recounting the author’s love affair with Natalie Clifford Barney, originally published in Paris in 1904.