Helen Humphreys | Leaving Earth | ‘The plane slips from a spool of blue, stitches a confident loop in the sky. Willa stands by the hangar as the Moth roars above her head, growl of
Gay Wachman | Lesbian Empire | A critical reading of sexually radical fiction by British women in the years during and after World War I. Gay Wachman examines work by Sylvia Townsen
Pearl Luke | Burning Ground | Working in a fire tower in the Canadian woods, Percy Turner’s emotional state is hanging on by a thread. Fires smolder within her–the lifelong passio
Gale Wilhelm | We Too Are Drifting | The story of woodcut artist Jan Morale’s struggle to extricate herself from a destructive sexual attachment to bisexual Madeline and of her delicately
Julie Blair | Making A Comeback | Jazz pianist Liz Randall is reeling from her wife’s death and struggling to keep their band together. An invitation to play at the prestigious Montere
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
Lisa Alther | Other Women | With two young sons, a failed marriage, a job as an emergency room nurse that leaves her feeling paralyzed and hopeless, and a relationship with a wom
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
Josie Gordon | Whacked | There are things they don’t tell you in seminary school. Lonnie Squires is certain that if she’d been warned that her calling could lead to death by c
Sarah Waters | Fingersmith | Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a ‘baby farmer,’ who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her o
