Hervey Allen | Anthony Adverse in Africa | A long, rambling work set in Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the Napoleonic era, Anthony Adverse relates the many adventures of the eponymous
Francis Carco | Only a Woman | ‘Only a Woman is an unashamed account of a love affair between a young boy and the servant girl who seduced him. Here is a history of the first, viole
Kalynn Bayron | Cinderella Is Dead | It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men
Theophile Gautier | Mademoiselle De Maupin | A triangle, with the strange — for the time — twist that two of the characters are engaged in a lesbian relationship. This has led to numerous bans
Mickey Minner | Sweetwater | The ‘respectable’ world of an Eastern woman in the late 1800’s, marrying and caring for a family, holds no appeal for Jennifer Kensington. She seeks a
Val McDermid | Common Murder | Ace reporter and lesbian socialist Lindsay Gordon is once again in the thick of events when an alleged assault at a women’s peace encampment north of