Tag: Great

Jane Rule | This Is Not For You | This Is Not For You, perhaps Rule’s most self-consciously literary and philosophical novel, tells the story of a young woman in the late 1950s and ear

Brigid Brophy | The King Of A Rainy Country | In this captivating novel the stylish Brigid Brophy portrays the impoverished bohemianism of young Londoners during the post-war years. Susan, working

Dola de Jong | The Tree and the Vine |

   This courageous early work of lesbian fiction (1951) tells the gripping story of two women torn between desires and taboos in the years leading

Claude J. Summers | The Gay And Lesbian Literary Heritage | The status of gay and lesbian literature-for centuries considered marginal at best and corrupting at worst-has changed dramatically over the last twen

Valerie Taylor | Return to Lesbos | This treasure from the golden age of lesbian pulp fiction picks up where Stranger on Lesbos left off. Deserted by her butch lover, Frances struggles t

Lisa Cohen | All We Know | Esther Murphy was a brilliant New York intellectual who dazzled friends and strangers with an unstoppable flow of conversation. But she never finished

Tereska Torres | The Dangerous Games | ‘A candid, sophisticated tale of faithless love. Only in Paris.’

‘A startling tale of a menage a trois, by the author of WOMEN’S BARRACKS.’

Tereska Torres | Women’s Barracks |

Originally published in 1950, this account of life among female Free French soldiers in a London barracks during World War II sold four million cop

Gertrude Stein | Three Lives (Kessinger) | Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounde

June Arnold | Sister Gin | Aging, lesbian consciousness, the difficulty of escaping from alcoholism — these are the themes of June Arnold’s extraordinary novel, first published