LESBIANA

98. THE CALL GIRL BY DR. HAROLD GREENWALD. NEW YORK BALLANTINE. 1958.

99.

'A SOCIAL AND PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDY' (SUB-TITLE) OF TWENTYSIX OF 'THE ARISTOCRATS OF PROSTITUTION', GIRLS MAKING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF $20,000 A YEAR. ALL WERE FROM HOMES WHERE THEY FELT UNWANTED. THE MAJORITY HAD ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. ONLY TEN EVER HAD ANY SATISFACTION WITH MEN. FIFTEEN HAD HAD, OR WERE HAVING, LESBIAN ATTACHMENTS. (THIS ASPECT MENTIONED ONLY INCIDENTALLY, NOT DISCUSSED, BUT VIEWED WITHOUT PREJUDICE).

CREEP INTO THY NARROW BED BY LEONARD BISHOP. DIAL PRESS, 1954 (PYRAMID BOOKS, 1956)

THIS AUTHOR HAS WRITTEN A POWERFUL EXPOSE OF A RUTHLESS ABORTION RACKET. HIS HERO ADAM MICHAELS IS THE MAIN PROTAGONIST; HOWEVER, HE HAS INCLUDED A WELL-DRAWN MAJOR PICTURE OF A YOUNG GIRL'S DISCOVERY AND ACCEPTANCE OF LESBIANISM. ADAMS' SISTER PATRICIA (PETEY) MICHAELS AND HER LOVER LINDA ARE TREATED WITH TENDERNESS AND SYMPATHY, MR. BISHOP HAS ALSO INCLUDED A DOZEN PAGES OF PHILOSOPHY ON HOMOSEXUALITY IN GENERAL AND HE ARGUES FOR SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE AND EQUAL RIGHTS FOR LESBIANS ON THE GROUNDS THAT THEY HARM NO ONE AND THEREFORE SHOULD BE LEFT ALONE.

100. NIGHTWOOD BY DJUNA BARNES. HARCOURT, 1937 (STILL AVAILABLE IN HARDBACK)

THE HECTIC LOVE AFFAIR OF ROBIN VOTE AND NORA FLOOD. TWO OF THE LOST AND LONELY IN THE WORLD OF MANY LOST AND LONELY PEOPLE. THE SETTING IS PARIS AND NEW ENGLAND. THE ENDING IS POETICALLY PERFECT BUT IS SPINE-CHILLING TRAGEDY. IT IS A TREMENDOUS LYRIC WORK OF ART. ON PURE LITERARY, MERIT ALONE IT IS UNEQUALLED IN LESBIAN LITERATURE. (NOT FROM A SUBJECTIVE STANDPOINT. THE HONORS THERE WOULD BE FOR CLAIRE MORGAN OR GALE WILHELM).

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