The Wayward Ones
Sara Harris
One of the few really good treatments of lesbian attachments in a girl’s reform school. Bessie, a wayward girl, is sent to a “good” reform school; at this stage she is naive, fairly innocent and presumably redeemable. The loneliness, the sadistic persecution by the corrupt or hardened matrons, and the “racket”–the enforced division of the school into “moms” and “pops”, by hardened young girl hooligans who like the power it gives them, and permitted by the matrons under the self-deception that these attachments are normal, schoolgirlish crushes–finally complete the girl’s corruption until it is certain that she will come out of school a confirmed young criminal, Sara Harris is herself a social worker; this painfully accurate picture of what our juvenile authorities contend with may, at least, give some insight into why the police and social agencies tend to be so violently anti-lesbian, It is hard to forget the picture painted in this book of the frightened Bessie insisting “I don’t never do no lovin’ with girls.'”–and the threats made to her. An absolute MUST book–on the other side. ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Details
| Genre | Pulp |
| Copyright Date | 17-Oct-52 |
| Publication Date | 1952 |
| Publisher | Crown |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 220 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Great |
| Subject | Lesbian prisoners — Fiction; Lesbians – Fiction; Lesbians in reformatories – fiction |
| BookID | 14271 |
