The Ladies is a touching, imaginative retelling of the story of two of history’s most interesting characters: Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, well-born Irish women who defied all conventions of their eighteenth-century Irish homeland and eloped to the small hamlet of Llangollen in Wales, where they lived as a married couple. There, removed from the … Read more
‘The story of a young singer who offered herself to a woman in return for a chance at stardom!’
‘A revealing tale of marraige and infidelity in suburbia’ Happily married couples kidded about infidelity, one [Helen] took one seriously, Now, three or four marriages were on the rocks and three people were insisting ‘I want you Helen’ — her husband, a lover, and a lesbian mistress.
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
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
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
‘Their dark and troubled loves could flourish only in secret.’ — A guarded look across the room. That was all she dared fo, and this was Greenwich Village where almost anything goes.. She was a slim, lovely girl with silky hair and a shy, sweet smile. She had learned long ago she sould never love … Read more
Beth was there when Laura arrived… She was the brain, the sparkle, the gay rebel voice, and wonder of wonders, she choose Laura as her roommate. That was the way it began, the one up there at the pinnacle and the other, the lonely one, longing always to draw nearer and nearer. Suddenly, the distance … Read more
In a steam-filled diner in a college town, Flannery Jansen catches sight of something more beautiful than she’s ever seen: a graduate student, reading. The seventeen-year-old, new to everything around her–college, the East Coast, bodies of literature, and the sexual flurries of student life–is shocked by her desire to follow this wherever it will take … Read more
