_Inclinations._ in Three Novels. New Directions 1951, (m).
FITZROY, A.T. _Despised and Rejected._ London, C W Daniel, 1918.
Lesbian incidents in a novel which is, however, mainly about persecution of Conscientious Objectors in World War I.
FISHER, MARY (PARRISH). _Not Now but NOW._ Viking 1947. Novel of an ageless, ruthless woman. A long episode on a college campus is lesbian in emphasis.
FISHER, VARDIS. _The Darkness and the Deep._ Vanguard, 1943, fco, a novel of the Stone Age.
FLAGG, JOHN. _Dear, Deadly Beloved._ Gold Medal pbo 1954.
_Murder in Monaco._ pbo Gold Medal 1957.
Both of these are fast-moving mysteries, in Mediterranean setting, both involving lesbian characters.
FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE. _Salammbo._ Cla.s.sic French Novel in many editions and translations. A very long novel of a Babylonian High Priestess; some psychological and literary authorities consider it variant. The editors all say with one voice that it isn"t. BAYOR.
FLEMING, IAN. _Goldfinger._ Macmillan 1959. No data, BAYOR.
FLORA, FLETCHER. _Desperate Asylum._ pbo Lion Library 1955, pbr Pyramid 1959, tct _Whisper of Love_. An unhappy lesbian and a neurotic man who hates women because his mother was promiscuous, marry to find a mutual "asylum". Predictably the marriage is unsuccessful, ending in murder and suicide.
_Strange Sisters_, pbo Lion Library 1954, pbr Pyramid 1960. Weird novel of a girl"s mental breakdown, indirectly blamed on her affairs with three cruel and s.a.d.i.s.tic women.
_Take me Home._ Monarch Books, pbo 1959. A young writer"s slow captivation with a strange girl just escaping from the domination of an evil lesbian cousin. All three of these books, though anti-lesbian in bias, are very well and slickly written, and entertaining.
FORREST, FELIX. _Carola._ Duell, 1948. Brief recall of a lesbian episode in the heroine"s girlhood.
FORTUNE, DION. (pseud. of Violet B. Firth). _Moon Magic._ London, Aquarian Press, 1958, fco. Fascinating, funny novel of a modern sorceress and an inhibited, bad-tempered doctor. It is implied that his marriage failed because his wife, a hysteric shamming invalidism, prefers being cosseted by her faithful companion to rea.s.suming marital duties.
FOSTER, GERALD. _Strange Marriage._ N. Y., G.o.dwin 1943.
Transvest.i.te, rather than lesbian; heroine in man"s clothing actually marries a fantastically naive girl.
FOWLER, ELLEN T. _The Farringdons._ N. Y., Appleton, 1900. Three intense variant attachments by a motherless girl under twenty, which subside when she falls in love with a man.
FRANKEN, ROSE. _Intimate Story._ Doubleday, 1955. A novel by the author of the popular Claudia series.
+ FREDERICS, DIANA. (pseud); _Diana, a Strange Autobiography._ Dial 1939, pbr Berkley Books 1955, 1957, 1958. Well known story of a young musician/teacher"s discovery and slow acceptance and adjustment to her lesbian personality.
FRANK, WALDO. _The Dark Mother._ N. Y., Boni & Liveright, 1920, (m).
A too-possessive mother ruins her son"s life.
FRIEDMAN, STUART. _Nikki._ Monarch Books, 1960, scv.
_The Revolt of Jill Braddock._ Monarch Books 1960. scv. Male and female h.o.m.os.e.xuality in a ballet company, with Jill in the middle.
"Not as bad as _Nikki_, but still a pretty raw evening waster."
GARLAND, RODNEY. _The Heart in Exile._ Coward McCann 1954, pbr Lion 1956, (m). Because of courageous approach to the basic problem of relations between the h.o.m.os.e.xual and his family, this story of a young h.o.m.os.e.xual in an unconventional household deserves shelfs.p.a.ce everywhere.
GARNETT, DAVID. _A Shot in the Dark._ Little, Brown 1959, pbr tct _The Ways of Desire_. Popular Library 1960. Complex, fast-moving adventure story, involving a great number of lesbians.
GARRETT, ZENA. _The House in the Mulberry Tree._ Random House, 1959 Sensitive story of a girl of eleven, fascinated by an innocently appealing neighbor, a married woman. The mother, observing innocent caresses between the two, separates them.
+ GARRIGUE, JEAN. "The Other One" ss in _Cross Section_, ed. by E.
Seaver, Simon & Schuster, 1947.
GAUTIER, THeOPHILE. _Mademoiselle de Maupin._ Many editions, including Modern Library, n. d. also pbr Pyramid Books 1956, 1957, 1958. Cla.s.sic novel of lesbianism.
GENET, JEAN. _The Maids._ Grove Press qpb 1954. Offbeat existentialist drama; involuted love among women.
GEORGIE, LEYLA. _The Establishment of Madame Antonia._ Liveright, 1932. Light entertainment about inhabitants of a high-cla.s.s European bordello, including a young recruit protected by an older woman.
GIDE, ANDRe. _The School for Wives._ N. Y., Knopf, 1950
_The Immoralist._ Knopf 1930, hcr 1948, (m).
_The Counterfeiters._ Knopf 1927, (m).
GILBERT, EDWIN. _The Hot and the Cool._ Doubleday 1953, pbr tct
_See How They Burn_, Popular Library, 1959, (m). Minor and subtle h.o.m.os.e.xual overtones in a novel of jazz musicians.
G.o.dDEN, RUMER. _The Greengage Summer._ Viking 1957, fco.
_A Candle for St. Jude_, Viking 1948, fco.
GOLDMAN, WILLIAM. _The Temple of Gold._ Knopf 1957, pbr Bantam 1958, (m) minor fco.
GOLDSTON, ROBERT. _The Catafalque._ Rinehart 1957, 1958.
High-quality thriller about ill-fated archaeological expedition to Spain; crisis precipitated when a sinister Countess takes young Stephanie, the expedition leader"s daughter, to a grotto where a pagan G.o.ddess has been worshipped with lesbian rites and attempts to seduce her there.
GREENE, GRAHAM. _The Orient Express._ Doubleday 1933, pbr Bantam 1955. Trainful of mixed adventurers includes a lesbian between girl-friends but still trying.
GUDMUNDSSON, KRISTMANN. _Winged Citadel._ Holt, 1940, (m). Brief but very explicit h.o.m.os.e.xual interlude in a fine historical novel of Crete and the Bull-dancers.
GUNTER, ARCHIBALD. _A Florida Enchantment._ Home Pubs 1892. No data available, BAYOR.
HACKETT, PAUL. _Children of the Stone Lions._ G. P. Putnam 1955.
An important lesbian character in a novel which has had good reviews.
+ HAGGARD, SIR HENRY RIDER. _Allan"s Wife._ First published, 1889; now in print in Five Novels of H. Rider Haggard, Dover Press, 1951. A strange story, and this year"s special "find". Allan, hero of the famous adventure-novelist"s KING SOLOMON"S MINES, is here shown as a young man, in love with Stella Carson-an English girl reared in the unspoilt beauty of a lost valley in Darkest Africa.
The romance is complicated by the pa.s.sionate jealousy of Hendrika-stolen in infancy by gorillas, reared as a female Tarzan, and rescued to be Stella"s companion, foster-sister and adorer. Hendrika first attempts to murder Allan; the scene in which she rages insanely at Allan for stealing Stella"s love, and Allan"s quiet acceptance of the "curious" fact that the strongest loves are not always between those of different s.e.xes, places this book almost alone in forthright English treatment of variance for its date. From this high level of psychological realism, the story reverts to Haggard-type melodrama; Stella is kidnapped by Hendrika"s gorilla friends; dramatically rescued in a thrilling jungle battle; her death from exposure and Hendrika"s remorseful suicide complete the story. Strange, romantic, and quite in a cla.s.s by itself.
HALES, CAROL. _Wind Woman._ Woodford Press 1953, pbr tct _Such is My Beloved_, Berkley 1958. Sad, sad, sad story of the psychoa.n.a.lysis of a young lesbian such as was never seen on sea or land. Harmless and nitwitted ... read it and weep, or giggle.
see also LORA SELA.
+ HALL, RADCLYFFE. _The Well of Loneliness._ Many editions, some cheap hcr (Sun Dial ed, still in print, n. d.) also Permabooks pbr n. d. The cla.s.sic first novel of a lesbian, written soon after WWI. Stephen Gordon, male in physique, temperament and character, seeks for lasting love and some measure of acceptance from a rejecting world.
_The Unlit Lamp._ N. Y., Jonathan Cape 1924; the endless sacrifice of a daughter into a sterile, wasted life because her mother cannot accept her right to live her own life.