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
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
Gertrude Stein | Three Lives (Dover Thrift Editions) | 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
Jane Rule | This Is Not For You | ‘This Is Not For You,’ perhaps Jane Rule’s most self-consciously literary and philosophical novel, tells the story of a young woman in the late 1950s
Sarah Schulman | Rat Bohemia | Rat Bohemia won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction, and was named one of the ‘100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels of All Time’ by the Publishing
Ellen Wittlinger | Hard Love | John Galardi is a loner, unable to express his feelings except in the pages of his zine, ‘Bananafish.’ He finds inspiration in another zine, ‘Escape V
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
