Lindsay Gordon, self-proclaimed cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist is less than overjoyed at the prospect of spending a weekend at a posh girls’ boarding school. Tensions are running high over the school’s financial problems; the fact that school alumna and reknowned musician Lorna Smith-Couper, will return to the school to perform at a benefit concert … Read more
Jassy is about a very unusual girl who might have been born a witch. Its a real love story about how a neighbor saves her from wicked children who want to hurt her because she is different and unlike most she never forgets and helps him to achieve his dream by her efforts. She arranges … Read more
This is the frank and unashamed story of the love of three women. First and foremost there is Jan, the artist, who put some of the lean symmetry of her body into her work. And Madeline, the eternal feminine, who seeks to hold Jan’s love for her. And there is bright, golden Victoria who suddenly … Read more
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
‘Chocolates for Breakfast’ is sometimes included in lists of early Lesbian Fiction, for the depiction of the relationship of two schoolgirls at an East Coast boarding school — the protagonist Courtney Farrell and her best friend Janet Parker — the strong bond between Courtney and her teacher Miss Rosen, and the backlash against them from … Read more
Mystery about a young sleuth investigating the murder of a ballerina. In Death in the Fifth Position, dashing P.R. man Peter Sargent is hired by a ballet company on the eve of a major upcoming performance. Handling the press seems to be no problem, but when a rising star in the company is killed during … Read more
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
From the author’s notes: This Parable, with its notations and evocations of naked nerves and soul-states, is inscribed in all gratitude to the charming morganatic ladies, les belles impures, who make pleasanter this vale of tears for virile men. What shall it profit a woman if she saves her soul, but loseth love? Now the … Read more
The Price of Salt has grown in popularity and in importance, and is now recognized as an American masterwork. Highsmith has given us the enthralling story of Therese Belivet and Carol Aird. Therese is a young stage designer who is trapped in a department-store day job, until one day her salvation arrives in the form … Read more
HERE’S THE FIRST FEW SENTENCES — — Winter’s first snow spun in from the distant ocean, whirling through the Narrows and across the river to fall upon the city. It piled into small drifts within the sheltered angles of the El’s pillars and lay as powdered mica an the grimy sidewalks until the scuffing of … Read more