Sarah Kilpatrick | Ladies’ Close | The author has devoted herself to the sexual last rites of the over-forty female (The Phoenix Hour; 1962. . . The Cool Meridian; 1965) With their atte
Carrie Carr | Destiny’s Crossing | ‘Destiny’s Crossing’ contains two stories; one is ‘Destiny’s Bridge’, where rancher Lex Walters saves a woman from an overflowing creek. The second is
Phyllis Birkby; Jill Johnston; Bertha Harris; Esther Newton; Jane O’Wyatt | Amazon Expedition | Before the 1970s, lesbians could publish their writing in nonspecific collective volumes, but not until 1973, with the publication of Amazon Expeditio
Anne MacKay | Wolf Girls At Vassar | Vassar graduates describe the delights and terrors of discovering they are lesbian or gay in one of the most beautiful and impressive college settings
Pat Parker | The Complete Works of Pat Parker | During her lifetime, Pat Parker was a renowned African-American, lesbian-feminist poet and performer. She was the author of Jonestown & Other Madness
Colette; Willy | Claudine at School | Claudine is a curious, precocious, and rather spoiled girl growing up in the small town of Montigny. Colette’s first novel is about Claudine’s adventu
Louis Bromfield | The Rains Came | In a long novel of India there is a brief but important episode involving two old missionary ladies. The elder, an engaging old battleax, muses as she
Honore de Balzac | Cousin Bette (Oxford World’s Classics) | Cousin Bette (1847) vividly brings to life the rift between the old world and the new and is, among other things, a serious study of the Paris demimon
Agatha Christie | A Murder Is Announced | A Murder is Announced is a staple of crime fiction and is often considered the best of all the Miss Marple novels. The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn,