Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller (All Editions)

Winner of the 1971 American Library Assoc.’s first Gay Book Award, later called Stonewall Book Award Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller‘s classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, an educated painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in … Read more

Olivia by Olivia (All Editions)

Considered one of the most subtle and beautifully written lesbian novels of the century, this 1949 classic returns to print in a Cleis Press edition. Dorothy Strachey’s classic Olivia captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops … Read more