Marianne Sinclair | The Corruption of Innocence | ‘Doorway To Degradation. When Anabel pushed open the door of ‘The Four Winds,’ her normal life stopped. From that moment on, there would always be a b
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
Ann Bannon | I Am a Woman | She looked round the Cellar with Laura following her gaze. ‘I know most of the girls here…I’ve probably slept with half of them. I’ve lived with hal
Violette Leduc | La Bâtarde | An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Batarde
Mercedes De Acosta | Here Lies The Heart | A murky combination of refinement, confusion, and a desperate faith in the occult, is this autobiography of Mercedes de Acosta, writer, society woman,
Kady; Kady Van Deurs | The Notebooks That Emma Gave Me | Kay Van Deurs has shared with us her journal and various letters by and to her. They add up to an interesting autobiographical portrait that captures
Gale Wilhelm | The Strange Path | First published in 1938, a joyous change from the intense loving sadness found in WE TOO ARE DRIFTING, the story follows the life of Morgen, nursing h
Theodora Keogh | The Mistress | Who Was Marsha Coomb? To Haakim Rakis: she was an object of desire, a creature worthy of conquest. To Pan, Haakim’s son: Marsha was the key that would
Mimi Albert | The Second Story Man | Author’s hard-to-find first novel, narrated by a 17 year old girl and set mostly in the bars and hangouts of New York’s East Village in the 1950s.
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
