Beloved._ Citadel 1955, pbr Berkley 1956. Two young sisters,
daughters of a drunken lush of a mother, fall into a too-close
relationship as Eve, the older, protects young Sheila from their
mother's beatings and tantrums. Sheila plays around and gets
pregnant; mother, at the stage where alcohol will kill her, is
given a big drink by Eve, who then arranges for Sheila to have an
abortion and the two of them to live happily ever after; instead,
Sheila marries the boy and Eve is whipped half to death by one of
her mother's gigolos. One of _those_ books--where anything from
abortion to rape is preferable to lesbianism.
+ _The Odd Ones._ Berkley pbo, 1959. Jean, small-town girl running
away, comes to New York and falls in with Sherri, tied to a crazy
husband. Rather good and not condemnatory at all; rather
restrained for a pbo, although of course it has the obligatory
sexy stuff.
MARR, REED. _Women without Men._ Gold Medal pbo, 1956. Naive, if
not too intelligent girl sent to a woman's reformatory, encounters
the usual hardening experiences--corrupt matrons,
police-court-type lesbians, trusties and well-meaning officials
who have their lives to live and can't or won't do anything to
better conditions. Good of its kind.
MARSHE, RICHARD. _A Woman Called Desire._ (Orig. pub. 1950 under
title of _Wicked Woman_) Berkley pbr 1959, scv.
MARSTON, JOHN. _Venus With Us; a Tale of the Caesars._ N. Y.
Sears, 1932. pbr Universal Pub. 1953 tct _The Private Life of
Julius Caesar_. Fast, funny, risque historical novel--or
romance--with approximately six historical errors per chapter, but
a lot of fun nevertheless. The scenes laid in the College of
Vestals are exclusively lesbian; there are both serious, emotional
affairs between women, and funny light-hearted ones in the manner
of King Pausole. Good of kind.
+ MARTIN, KENNETH. _Aubade._ London, Chapman & Hall 1957, (m).
MASEFIELD, JOHN. _Multitude and Solitude._ Macmillan 1909, 1916.
MASSIE, CHRIS. _The Incredible Truth._ Random, N. Y., 1958, pbr
Berkley 1959. Victorian husband narrates, many years afterward,
his wife's successive attachment to two woman friends.
MAUGHAM, SOMERSET. _Theatre._ Doubleday 1937, Bantam pbr tct
_Woman of the World_, 1951, pbr Bantam tct _Theatre_ 1959.
Theatrical novel of a worldly actress, Julia, contains brief
mention of a fat, elderly lesbian admirer who finances her works;
one amusing scene where Julia's husband advises her on how to
manipulate Dolly's feelings. Smart, brittle.
MAUPASSANT, GUY DE. _Paul's Mistress._ ss in various collections
including Cory, _21 Variations on a Theme_.
MAYHALL, JANE. _Cousin to Human._ Harcourt, Brace 1960. Valeda,
friend of the heroine, has a sad, depressing affair with an
adolescent schoolgirl athlete friend, named Mildred.
MEAGHER, MAUDE. _The Green Scamander._ Houghton Mifflin, 1933. A
novel of the Trojan war, largely concerned with the passionate
friendship between Penthesilea, co-queen with the Amazon tribe,
and her co-ruler Camilla. Beautifully written, available in most
medium-sized libraries.
MEEKER, RICHARD. _The Better Angel._ Greenberg 1933, pbr Universal
Pub. tct _Torment_ ca. 1952, (m).
+ MEREZOWSKII, DMITRI. (Trans. from Russian by Natalia A.
Duddington) London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1925, 1926. _Birth of the
Gods._ A fine novel of Crete and the bull-dancers (and perhaps the
first of its kind). Dio, a strangely bisexual young girl,
priestess of the Great Mother, though attracted and attractive to
men, is vowed to remain a virgin in the service of the Goddess;
much of the novel is devoted to her passionate friendship for her
young novice, Eoia. One of Dio's rejected lovers, believing that
the "little witch" has cast a spell on Dio to prevent her loving
him, plots to have Eoia killed in the ring; instead Eoia's death
nearly destroys Dio as well.
_Akhnaton, King of Egypt._ (as above) London, Dent, 1927.
Continues and concludes the story of Dio.
MERGENDAHL, CHARLES. _The Girl Cage._ pbo Gold Medal 1953, 1959.
Brief, minor lesbian episode in a novel about war widows.
MERRITT, A(braham); _The Metal Monster._ Copyright Munsey
Magazines, (this ran serially in Argosy ca. 1920) Revised version,
Frank A. Munsey 1941, pbr Avon, 1946. Offbeat variant episode in
an adventure-fantasy; Norhala, pagan slave of the "metal people"
steals the explorer's sister, Ruth, to "play with her"; after her
death Ruth weeps, saying "she loved me dearly, dearly," but
significantly can remember nothing of their time together. Wildly
fantastic, good of type.
METALIOUS, GRACE. _Return to Peyton Place._ Messner 1959, pbr Dell
1959. Another sexy "expose" of a small town. In one episode, the
unpleasant wife of a local boy recalls her schooldays, when she
taunted and enslaved a lesbian schoolmate.
MEYER, GLADYS ELEANOR, _The Magic Circle._ Knopf, 1944. fco Subtle
novel of close friendship between two women; never explicit, and
on the borderline for variant interest.
+ MILLAY, KATHLEEN. _Against the Wall._ Macaulay, 1929. College
novel by the sister of the well-known poet (see poetry
supplement).
MILLER, WALTER M. "The Lineman" ss in Fantasy and Science Fiction,
August 1957, (m). Excellent attitudes on homosexuality in general,
in short story of isolated men.
MILLER, HENRY. _Plexus._ Paris, Olympia Press 1953, 2 vols.
Chapter 16 of the 2nd Volume is supposed to be devoted to a
variant affair. Most of Henry Miller's books cannot be legally
imported into the USA--this is one--and your editors haven't been
to Paris yet. When you go, tell us.
MISHIMA, YUKIO. _Confessions of a Mask._ New Directions 1958, (m).
+ MITCHELL, S. WEIR. _Constance Trescott._ N. Y., Century 1900. The
plus is to draw attention to an old, overlooked title. Major (for
its date) treatment of variant enslavement between two half
sisters.
+ MITCHISON, NAOMI. _The Delicate Fire._ Harcourt, N. Y. 1932. A
major writer, and scholar, presents a collection of lovely short
stories of ancient Greece; the title story deals with Sappho and
her group of girl lovers.
_The Corn King and the Spring Queen._ Harcourt, 1931, (m).
"Black Sparta" and "Krypteia" in _Greek Stories_, Harcourt, 1928,
(m).
MORAVIA, ALBERTO. _The Conformist._ Farrar, Straus & Young 1951,
pbr Signet 1954. Penetrating study of a fascist whose compulsive
drive for power destroys everyone he loves. An interlude between
his wife and a friend provides a brief diversion before the
macabre ending.
MOORE, HAL. _The Naked and the Fair._ pbo, Beacon, 1958, scv.
MOORE, PAMELA. _Chocolates for Breakfast._ Rinehart 1956, pbr
Bantam 1957. Candid, shocking story of a young girl's
disintegration; the opening episodes involve her rejection by a
teacher on whom she has a crush, and there are variant overtones
in her prolonged friendship with a school roommate, Janet's
suicide being the spur which makes Courtney resolve to pull
herself together.
MORELL, LEE. _Mimi._ pbo Beacon Books 1959. Unusually good evening
waster about night-club and theatrical people, with both male and
female homosexual episodes; handled with subtlety and lightness
almost unknown in this publisher's paperbacks.
+ MORGAN, CLAIRE. (pseud of Patricia Highsmith) _The Price of
Salt._ Coward-McCann, 1952, pbr Bantam 1953, 1959. Fine novel of
an affair between two very nice, very courageous, very
well-adjusted women whose initial attraction becomes the
mainspring of both their lives. The author does not use one single
stereotype or cliche; this is probably _the_ American novel of the
lesbian.
MORGAN, NANCY. _City of Women_, pbo Gold Medal 1952, 1959. Lesbian
episodes in a novel of women living in barracks at Pearl Harbor.
MORLEY, IRIS. _The Proud Paladin._ N. Y. Morrow 1936. Lesbian
content vague and doubtful, BAYOR and fco.
MORRO, DON. _The Virgin._ pbo Beacon 1955, released in 1959. scv.
MOSS, GEOFFREY. _That Other Love._ Doubleday, 1930. A
long-continued affair between Phillida and an older friend breaks
off because of the younger woman's desire for children.
MOTLEY, WILLARD. _Knock on Any Door._ N. Y., Appleton-Century,
1947, pbr Signet 1953, (m).
+ MURDOCH, IRIS. _The Bell._ N. Y. Viking 1958, (m). A fine,
occasionally funny novel of an Anglican lay church-community
centers around Michael Meade, a man of honor, intelligence, and
integrity--and a homosexual. His hopes of being ordained as a
priest were destroyed when, as a schoolteacher, he became
entangled with young Nick; Nick's appearance at the community
destroys Michael's peace of mind thoroughly, and an obliquely
handled relationship between Nick, Michael and a guileless
youngster, Toby, spending the summer at the community, eventually
destroys the community entirely. But it isn't all gloom and doom;
the level of the writing is highly competent, sometimes wildly
hilarious, and through all his difficulties Michael is able to
realize that eventually he will "experience again ... that
infinitely extended requirement which one human being makes on
another." A book which emphasizes the triumph of love, and one of
the recent best. ((Editor's note; why are the best novels of male
homosexuality written by women? Mesdames Renault and Murdoch are
giving their best to the men. Is it a question of detachment?))
MURPHY, DENNIS. _The Sergeant._ Viking 1958, pbr Crest 1959, (m).
MURRAY, WILLIAM. _The Fugitive Romans._ pbo, Popular Library 1955.
Brief variant episode among a Hollywood location crew abroad.
NEILSEN, HELEN. _The Fifth Caller._ Morrow, 1959. Dr. Lillian
Whitehall, metaphysician, is murdered; as each of her five callers
is interviewed to find the guilty party, it develops that the dead
woman was a cruel, domineering repressed lesbian. Well written,
though unsympathetic.
NEFF, WANDA FRAIKEN. _We Sing Diana._ Boston, Houghton 1928. Story
of a girl too inhibited to face her own nature.
NILES, BLAIR. _Strange Brother._ N. Y. Liveright 1931, pbr Harris
Publications 1949, pbr Avon 1952, 1958, 1959.
NIN, ANAIS. _Winter of Artifice._ Paris, Obelisk Press 1939, also
in _Under a Glass Bell_, Dutton, 1948. The first edition has 100
pages or so, not included in later editions, in which she recounts
her liaison with a famous American writer and his wife, all
disguised, of course. (All of this writer's work seems to be
vaguely tinged with variance.)
_Ladders to Fire._ Dutton, 1945, 1946.
NORDAY, MICHAEL. _Stage for Fools._ Vixen Press 1955. pbr tct
_Strange Thirsts_, Beacon 1959. Evening waster about a lush
actress making a comeback on a college campus, who revenges
herself on an indifferent male by entrapping his girl into a
drunken lesbian episode and inviting him to watch the show. A
shocker.
_Warped._ Beacon pbo 1955, 1960. Very apt title; evening waster
about a crooked fight game. One sympathetically portrayed lesbian
character in the many mixed affairs.
NORMANDIE, ROGER. _The Lion's Den._ N. Y., Key 1957. scv.
+ O'BRIEN, KATE. _As Music and Splendor._ Harper. 1958. Novel of
two very different young Irish girls sent to study music on the
Continent during the great age of Italian opera; their personal
lives differ as widely as their careers. One, Clare Halvey, drifts
into a love affair with Luisa Carriaga, a Spanish contralto; their
relationship is treated delicately, but with warmth and impersonal
sympathy. Excellent for opera lovers and for those who are tired
to death of books where every last detail is spelled out as
frankly as the law allows.
+ O'DONOVAN, JOAN. _Dangerous Worlds._ Morrow, 1958. Collection of
excellent short stories.
O'HIGGINS, HARVEY. _The Story of Julie Cane._ Harper, 1924.
Explicit, for its day, story of an intense relationship between a
schoolmistress and her ward.
OLIVIA (see DOROTHY BUSSY).
O'NEILL, ROSE. _The Goblin Woman._ N. Y. Doubleday 1930. Fey,
symbolic novel of Helga, the Goblin Woman (who represents purity)
set down in a society far from pure. There are many lesbian
episodes and references to inter-feminine love. (see poetry
supplement.)
O'HARA, NOEL. _The Last Virgin._ Chariot Books pb 1959. This is a
reprint of David George Kin's "Women Without Men", containing six
of the ten stories; new title, new author, even new copyright
date--who's kidding who? It does not contain the damning
introduction, and without it, appears fairly sympathetic. Curious
little item.
PACKER, VIN (pseud; see also ANN ALDRICH) _Spring Fire._ pbo Gold
Medal 1952. Now well-known and rather gamy novel of sorority house
life and an unhappy lesbian affair between naive freshman Mitch
and neurotic Lana.
_Whisper His Sin._ Gold Medal pbo 1954, (m).
+ _The Evil Friendship._ pbo Crest 1958. Viciously condemnatory
novel of two little girls of fourteen who, consequent to their
lesbianish attachment, plot together and carry out "a murder
club". Shuddersome, but, alas, well written. (Editorial query; why
must so many of the detractors of lesbianism write such good
books, while those who defend it are, all to often, of the Carol
Hales "quality"?)
_The Twisted Ones._ pbo, Gold Medal 1959, (m).
PARK, JORDAN. (pseud of Cyril Kornbluth). _Valerie._ pbo, Lion,
1953, 1957. Minor lesbian episodes in a novel of witch-hunting;
the episodes occur at a Witches Sabbat. Evening waster.
PARKER, DOROTHY. "Glory in the Daytime" in _After Such Pleasures_,
N. Y., Viking 1934.
PATTON, MARION. _Dance on the Tortoise._ N. Y., Dial 1930.
Boarding-school novel; the heroine, repelled by the emotional
friendships around her, throws herself with relief into the arms
of a man.
PAVESE, CESARE. _Among Women Only._ Noonday Press, qpb 1959
($1.75). Recommended, highly tragic, novel by a writer considered,
until his untimely death, one of Italy's best.
+ PETERS, FRITZ. _Finistere._ Farrar, Straus & Co 1951, pbr Signet
1953, (m).
+ PETRONIUS, _The Satyricon._ (the earliest known novel, written
about the time of Christ; the last flush of the pagan world.)
Trans. William Arrowsmith, University of Michigan Press, 1959.
This is also available in a highly expurgated Modern Library
edition, n. d. Male, of course, and the Arrowsmith translation is
hilarious and _very_ readable.
PEN, JOHN. _Temptation._ (trans. from the Hungarian by John
Manheim,) Avon Red and Gold, 1959, (m). Fine picaresque.
PEYREFITTE, ROGER. _Special Friendships._ NY, Vanguard 1950, (m).
+ PHELPS, ROBERT. _Heroes and Orators._ N. Y., McDowell & Oblensky
1958. Fine modern novel of family relationships, containing a
lesbian character described as the most real, human and
sympathetic in recent years; Margot, in love with her ex-husband's
sister Elizabeth. The two women live together, but any intimate
relationship between them is disclaimed.
PHILLIPS, THOMAS HAL. _The Bitterweed Path._ Rinehart 1949, pbr
Avon 1954, 1959, (m).
POWELL, DAWN. _A Cage for Lovers._ Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1957.
Mannish, wealthy hypochondriac keeps her nurse-companion in
virtual slavery until the younger girl breaks away and marries.
Competent novel by a popular author.
PRIEST, J. C. _Private School._ Beacon pbo 1959 scv.
PRITCHARD, JANET. _Warped Women._ Beacon pbo 1951, 1956, 1959.
Despite the lurid blurb and cover, this is a nice evening waster
about an innocent young girl who goes to work for a woman's health
club which is, behind the scenes, an abortion mill run by
gangsters. Fronting for the group, an attractive lesbian takes a
fancy to the heroine, eventually protects her against the gangster
boss at the risk of her own life. The heroine then marries a nice
boy who's been telling her all along that the place is rotten.
Suspenseful, interesting.
PROUST, MARCEL. _Remembrance of Things Past_, the great work of
the well-known French homosexual author, is available in many
(virtually all except rural-provincial) libraries, numerous
college editions, etc. Long sections are variant, male-homosexual
or lesbian; bibliography would occupy entirely too much space. Try
a stray volume in qpb and see if Proust is your cup of tea--he
isn't everyone's.
PURTSCHER, NORA. _Woman Astride._ Appleton-Century, 1934. Woman
spends almost her entire life in male disguise. Offbeat, variant
rather than explicitly lesbian.
PYKE, RICHARD. _The Lives and Deaths of Roland Greer._ NY, Boni
1929, (m). Horrifying.
RAVEN, SIMON. _The Feathers of Death._ London, A. Blond, 1959,
Simon & Schuster 1960, (m).
RAYTER, JOE (pseud. of Mary McChesney). _Asking for Trouble._
Morrow 1955, pbr Pocket Books 1959. Murder mystery. A mannish,
hard-boiled lesbian plays an important part.
REHDER, JESSIE. _Remembrance Way._ G P Putnam's Sons 1956.
Retrospective tale in which the heroine recalls a summer in girl's
camp, when she was enslaved simultaneously to a domineering
director (woman) and her daughter.
REMARQUE, ERICH MARIA. _Arch of Triumph_ Appleton 1945, pbr Signet
1950, 1959.
+ RENAULT, MARY. _Promise of Love._ Morrow, 1939. Novel, in a
hospital background, contains variant relationship, lightly
treated.
_The Middle Mist._ Morrow, 1945. Excellent, humorous novel,
featuring the boyish Leo (Leonora) who, with her friend Helen,
lives on a houseboat quite happily ("It only makes sense for the
surplus women to arrange themselves one way or another.") This is,
beyond a doubt, the wittiest, most refreshing book on the list;
the girls have problems, but they have them, and solve them,
without any well-of-loneliness agonizing. The story is resolved in
Leo's gradual feminization and marriage.
_The Last of the Wine._ Pantheon, 1956 (m; Greek.).
_The King Must Die._ Pantheon 1958, pbr Pocket Books 1959. Minor
male and female homosexuality in Cretan setting.
_The Charioteer._ Longmans, 1953, Pantheon hcr 1959. Male, major,
femininely delicate. Virtually all of this writer's work contains
some reference, though sometimes remote and slight, to variance.
RENAULT, PAUL. _Raw Interludes._ Brookwood, 1957, scv. _No_
relation to Mary Renault; since Renault, Mary, has a double plus,
the editors agree we should invent a double minus.
RICE, CRAIG. _Having Wonderful Crime._ Simon & Schuster, 1943.
Hilarious murder mystery leads into the byways and gay bars of
Greenwich village.
RICHARDSON, HENRY HANDEL. _The End of a Childhood._ London,
Reinemann, 1934, hcr N. Y. Norton.
_The Getting of Wisdom._ N. Y. Duffield, 1910. Both are volumes of
loosely connected variant short stories.
ROLLAND, ROMAINE. _Annette and Sylvie._ Holt, 1925. The first
volume of a trilogy, this deals with an intense attachment between
two young (adolescent) half sisters who meet for the first time in
their teens.
RONALD, JAMES. _The Angry Woman._ Lippincott 1948, Bantam pbr
1950. A businesswoman keeps a young girl reluctantly captivated
until the girl commits suicide.
RONNS, EDWARD. _The State Department Murders._ pbo, Gold Medal
1952, (m) fco.
ROSMANITH, OLGA. _Unholy Flame._ pbo Gold Medal 1952, (m) fco. (But
I like this personally very much. A modern Svengali.)
+ ROSS, WALTER. _The Immortal._ Simon & Schuster 1958, Pocket
Books Cardinal Edition 1959, (m).
ROYDE-SMITH, NAOMI. _The Tortoiseshell Cat._ Boni & Liveright
1925. An unworldly girl's capture by a predatory lesbian.
_The Island._ Harper, 1930. Sad, tense book about an ugly, unhappy
girl nicknamed "Goosey" and a clinging cousin who will neither
love her nor let her go.
RUARK, ROBERT. _Something of Value._ Doubleday 1955, pbr Pocket
Books 1958. Very minor.
RYAN, MARK. _Twisted Loves._ Bedside Books 1959, pbo, scv.
SABATIER, ROBERT. _Boulevard._ (Prix de Paris award novel, trans.
from French by Lowell Blair). David McKay 1958, pbr Dell 59, (m).
marginal.
SACKVILLE-WEST, VICTORIA. _The Dark Island._ Doubleday, 1934.
Shirin is the over-emotional, unconventional wife of Venn, dour
owner of the "dark island", Storn. He treats Shirin so badly that
she seeks companionship, love and affection from Christina, her
husband's secretary; through jealousy (not unmixed with pure
sadism) Venn arranges for Christina to be drowned in a boating
"accident". Haunting.
+ SALEM, RANDY. _Chris._ Beacon pbo, 1959. The plus indicates good
of kind, not intrinsic merit. An interesting story of a lesbian
triangle--Chris, Dizz, and young Carol. One reader commented that
this story was a sort of lesbian dreamworld--these women seemed to
live in a society, and a world, completely unmixed with ordinary
life at all. Certainly they are all treated as quite the ordinary
thing, and there are almost no hints that there is a heterosexual
world outside the gay one, which must be taken into account.
Certainly it makes no incursions into the novel. Chris, a
conchologist, her life complicated by her frigid girl-friend Dizz,
suffers and drinks too much and sleeps around until Carol, one of
her random pick-ups, decides to stick to her, and eventually frees
Chris from this attachment. Good but unreal.
+ SANDBURG, HELGA. _The Wheel of Earth._ McDowell, Oblensky 1958.
Roughly a third of a long novel of Midwestern rural life deals
with the lengthy attachment between Frankie Gaddy and an older
woman, Genevieve.
SARTON, MAY. _A Shower of Summer Days._ Rinehart, 1952.
SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL. _No Exit._ Knopf 1947, qpb Vintage 1955. Play.
SAVAGE, KIM. _Girl's Dorm._ Vixen Press 1952.
_Baby Makes Three._ Vixen, 1953. No reports on either of these,
but in view of the publisher they are probably evening wasters at
best.
SAYERS, DOROTHY L. _The Dawson Pedigree._ Harcourt 1928, fco.
+ SCHIDDEL, EDMUND. _Girl with the Golden Yo-Yo._ pbo Berkley
1955, 1959, (m). Also contains some brief analysis of lesbian jazz
circles in Germany after WWI.
_The Other Side of the Night._ pbo Avon 1954-5, Berkley 1959, (m).
SCHMITT, GLADYS. _Confessors of the Name._ Dial, 1952, pbr
Permabooks ca. 1953-55. A relatively minor lesbian character in a
long novel of ancient Rome, with explicit lesbian scenes during a
Saturnalia orgy.
_A Small Fire._ Dial 1958. (m.) minor.
_Alexandra._ Dial 1947, pbr Pocket Books 1949. Very vague and
minor threads of contact in a novel of intense friendship between
two women. Emotionally high.
SCOTT, LES. _Twilight Women._ Arco 1952, pbr Beacon 1956.
Evening-waster suspenseful adventure story of a chase-type
kidnapping: Rance, the hero, pleasantly entangled with two
beautiful Polynesian girls, who eventually take him to a Utopian
tropical island where he happily marries both of them. The contact
between the girls is incidental and included simply to heighten
excitement for male readers, but it's good fun in a Sax Rohmer-ish
way.
_Three Can Love._ Arco, 1952.
_Touchable._ Arco, 1951. Probably much the same as above.
SCULLY, ROBERT. _A Scarlet Pansy._ N. Y., Faro, 1933, Hesor 1937,
hcr. Reprinted and completely rewritten by Royal, no pub. no date,
Baltimore, Oppenheimer, 30s and 40s. In 1950, D W Cory called this
"the low point of the homosexual novel". A lot of trash has been
written since, which makes this look simply silly. (m). A
confusing novel of the "gay" world, including some butchy and
peculiar lesbians.
SEELEY, E. S. _Sorority Sin._ Beacon pbo, 1959. scv.
SELA, LORA. (pseud of Carol Hales) _I Am a Lesbian._ Saber pbo,
1959. Would-be shocker about a poor innocent girl being pushed
into love affairs with brutal boys, raped, etc, by cruel relatives
and friends, when all that God wants of her, according to the
author, is for her to be a Happy Well-Adjusted Noble Lesbian. This
isn't even scv, since the writers of sexy trash usually know
something about sex or trash or both. Read it and snicker.
SETON, ANYA. _Katherine._ Houghton, 1954. (m. minor)
SHAW, WILENE. _The Fear and the Guilt._ pbo, Ace, 1954.
Softball-playing Ruby brings sweet-leech Christy to her Tobacco
Road home. There, to disarm suspicion, Christy allows herself to
be first seduced, then married, by Ruby's father. Sympathetic for
a shocker, but oh, my!
SIDGWICK, ETHEL. _A Lady of Leisure._ Boston, Small, 1914. A
passionate, but quite innocent, attachment between women in their
twenties.
SIMENON, GEORGES. _In Case of Emergency._ Doubleday 1958, pbr Dell
1959. A common theme--a good man enslaved by a worthless girl--is
treated here by a very good European writer. A subplot deals with
the attachment between the girl and her maidservant.