Lesbiana

As promised, THE LADDER begins with this issue its running bibliography of Lesbian literature (fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry).

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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF PIERRE LOUYS. Paperback edition published by Avon Publications, Inc., 575 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y., 1955.

Bilitis is said to have been a contemporary of Sappho on the isle of Lesbos. Her poems, purported to be translations from the Greek, depict a searching and sensitive story of Lesbian love. To lend authenticity to the translations, Louys wrote a brief biography of the poetess and recorded in his index certain "songs" marked "not translated".. Many scholars were tricked into believing a lost author had been recovered from the ages.

2.

THE WELL OF LONELINESS by Radclyffe Hall. Garden City, New York, 1928.

Sun Dial Press,

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The most well known of all Lesbian novels certainly needs little comment. The fact that every book on the subject since is rated on its jacket as "the best since" or "comparable to" in order to increase sales is indicative enough of the general reception and appe al of "The Well".

WIND WOMAN by Carol Hales. Woodford Press, 1953.

For review of this book see pages 10 and 11.

CLAUDINE AT SCHOOL by Colette. Farrar, Strauss & Cudahy, Inc.

This long-out-of-print masterpiece is back again in an attractive new edition. Whatever you may, you might laugh at Claudine (or Colette) or you may cry with her, but you will never forget the intriguing little girl as she falls from one scrape into another in a French boarding school. Must we tell more? Here is Colette at her best: piquant, colorful and charming. And this is possibly the only humorous Lesbian novel in existence.