We, Too, Must Love is the 1958 sequel to We Walk Alone, written by Ann Aldrich, the pen name of Marijane Meaker. Written in direct response to the hundreds of letters Aldrich received after We Walk Alone‘s publication, the book surveys lesbian subcultures in and around New York City, examining class distinctions, social cliques (the … Read more
We Walk Alone by Ann Aldrich (a pseudonym of Marijane Meaker) is a groundbreaking 1955 work of non-fiction pulp that documented lesbian life in Greenwich Village, drawing on the author’s own experience as a lesbian. Part sociological survey, part first-person reportage, the book addressed its subject at a time when almost no mainstream publishing did … Read more
Bessie by Chris Albertson is a biography of Bessie Smith, the blues singer known as the Empress of the Blues, who was the highest-paid African-American performer of the 1920s. Drawing on extensive interviews with Smith’s relatives, friends, and associates — including Ruby Walker Smith, a niece by marriage who toured with her for over a … Read more
A war witch and her partner face supernatural threats and forced separation.
The Odd Kind by Arthur Adlon is a lesbian pulp novel set in the world of high-fashion modelling, first published in 1961. The story centres on La Modena, a model who has reinvented herself from humble origins, and Pam Elliott, another model drawn between desire for a woman and the material rewards a wealthy man … Read more
Satan’s Harvest by Sanford Aday is a pulp novel first published in hardcover by Vantage Press in 1953. The story follows Lupe, a young Mexican girl from a broken home who ends up in a brothel with her older sister, where she is claimed by the lesbian madame. The book was subsequently reprinted multiple times … Read more
Sapphica by Stephanie Adams is a series of annual lesbian astrology guides published between 2003 and 2006. The original volume, subtitled Astrology for Lesbians, covers all twelve signs with attention to love, health, family, compatibility, and personal growth, and includes a section of lesbian poetry. Subsequent annual editions narrow the focus to love readings specifically, … Read more
The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement by Barry D. Adam is a sociological history of gay and lesbian political organisation across two centuries and multiple countries. First published in 1987 by Twayne Publishers, the book traces the formation of movements in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Canada, Scandinavia, Australia, and beyond, … Read more
Nancy Mitford: A Memoir by Harold Acton is a portrait of the novelist and wit drawn by her lifelong friend. Nancy Mitford was the eldest and most famous of the six Mitford sisters — author of Love in a Cold Climate and The Pursuit of Love, and a journalist whose acid observations on English upper-class … Read more
For Sylvia: An Honest Account by Valentine Ackland is an autobiographical essay written for her long-time companion, the novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner. Ackland traces her desperately unhappy childhood, her emotionally turbulent adolescence, her lesbian relationships, a disastrous marriage, her return to the Catholic church, and her long battle with alcoholism. Above all it is the … Read more