Part 5

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.

SINCLAIR, JO. (pseud. of Ruth Seid) _Wasteland._ Harper Bros. 1946. This is the excellent and heavily lauded Harper prize novel of that year. Told on the psychiatrist's couch, it concerns the failure of Jewish Jake Braunowitz to live up to his manhood ... which forces this job onto the shoulders of his sister Debbie, a lesbian. The psychiatrist discovers that he ran from his responsibilities in the first place due to feeling weaker than the masterful intelligent Debbie; then, after forcing her to take a man's role in the family, he turns around and feels guilt and shame at her adjustment to the situation. Excellently done.

SPEERS, MARY. _We Are Fires Unquenchable._ Murray and Gee, Hollywood 1946. fco. A badly written, almost illiterate novel, the first few scenes of which are laid in a girl's college swarming with luridly treated lesbians and in an assortment of Bohemian settings.

+ SMITH, ARTEMIS. _Odd Girl._ Beacon pbo, 1959. The blurb reads "Life and love among warped women", but don't let it scare you. This is one of the better and more serious approaches to the writing of a serious novel of lesbians through the stereotyped pattern of the paperback novel. The basic plot concerns Anne, and her experiences in trying to find out for herself, the hard way, whether she is a lesbian or whether she can successfully adjust to life as a normal woman. The story ends with the surprising, but growingly popular affirmation that "adjustment" is not always to be desired at all costs. The cover also calls this a story of "society's greatest curse", meaning homosexuality; but for once it isn't treated that way.

_The Third Sex._ pbo, Beacon, 1959. Most of the remarks made above also apply to this one, though the heroine is Joan, a college girl who fears that she is becoming a lesbian, and fights it by redoubling her affairs with men. Slightly more sensational than "Odd Girl", but well written, well thought out and generally excellent.

SMITH, DOROTHY EVELYN. _The Lovely Day._ N. Y., Dutton, 1957. Interesting novel of an English village on a choir outing, contains a minor but funny account of an unconscious lesbian's decisions.

SMITH, SHELLEY. (pseud. of Nancy Bodington.) _The Lord Have Mercy_, Harper 1956, pbr tct _The Shrew is Dead_, Dell 1959. English mystery story; a major subplot involves a pair of lesbians.

SNEDEKER, CAROLINE DALE. _The Perilous Seat._ Doubleday, Doran 1929, marginal (m) in a juvenile of ancient Greece; the hero, being sold into slavery, attempts to disfigure himself to escape "the fate of handsome boys among the Persians."

STAFFORD, JEAN. _Boston Adventure._ Harcourt, 1944.

STEIN, GERTRUDE. _Things as They Are._ Banyan Press, Pawlet, Vermont. (Very rare; $25 and up second hand.) A novel by the well-known surrealist poet ... possibly her only coherent work ... dealing with lesbianism.

STONE, SCOTT. _The Divorcees._ Beacon pbo 1955, released 1959 Evening waster about a racketeer who specializes in quick divorces, and his girl-friend who flirts with all the women as he disengages them from their husbands.

_Margo._ Beacon pbo 1955, released 1959. scv.

_Blaze._ Berkley pbo or pbr, n. d. no data except "trash".

SOUBIRAN, ANDRE. _Bedlam._ Putnam 1957, pbr Pyramid 1959, (m) minor.

STONEBRAKER, FLORENCE. _Sinful Desires._ pbr Bedside Books, 1959. (previous paperback, publisher unknown, ca. 1951). Silly novel about a married woman briefly captivated by a stereotyped lesbian.

+ STURGEON, THEODORE. (pseud. of Edward Hamilton Waldo). "Affair with a Green Monkey". Venture Science Fiction May 1957; also in _A Touch of Strange_, Doubleday 1959.

"The Sex Opposite". in _E. Pluribus Unicorn_, Abelard 1952, Ballantine pbr 1953.

"The World Well Lost" in _E Pluribus Unicorn._ Many of Sturgeon's other short stories and novelettes touch on extremely strange, offbeat relationships.

+ SWADOS, FELICE. _House of Fury._ Doubleday 1941, pbr Lion 1955, Berkley 1959. One of the better paperbacks, dealing with racial tensions and muted lesbian attachments in a girl's reformatory.

SWINBURNE, ALGERNON. _Lesbia Brandon._ Falcon Press 1952, edited and annotated by Randolph Hughes. A famous incomplete novel by the well-known poet, for students rather than readers. Really only a handful of scattered chapters, too scrappy to judge; see also poetry supplement.

SYDNEY, GALE. _Strange Circle._ Beacon Books pbo 1959, 1960. Grace Garney, feeling unwanted, gets a job with Mrs. Flocke, a repulsive lesbian, and repels a pass; this, however, revives childhood memories, and during a rift in her affairs with a man, she has a brief affair with Inez, a friend with an unsatisfactory husband. Evening waster.

SYKES, GERALD. _The Center of the Stage._ N. Y., Farrar 1952, pbr Signet 1954. Witty novel of the theatre, with a minor lesbian character.

TAYLOR, DYSON. _Bitter Love._ orig. copyright 1952, Pyramid 1958, (m). Worldly woman marries a homosexual who wants her for a "front".

TAYLOR, JOHN. _Shadows of Shame._ Pyramid 1956, 1959, (m).

TAYLOR, VALERIE. _Whisper Their Love._ Crest pbo 1957. Unsympathetic college novel of a girl suffering through a lesbian affair while all around her the other girls suffer through rape, incest and abortion. Over-written.

_Girls in 3-B._ Crest pbo 1959. One of three young girls who come to the city to find jobs or careers, Barby drifts into a lesbian relationship, mostly out of revulsion against two unfortunate experiences with men. Excellent, sympathetic.