LESBIANA

110. SIGN OF ERO'S BY PAUL BODIN, PUTMAN, 1953 (ALSO BERKELEY,

1954)

THIS CONCERNS A FRENCE BUSINESS EXECUTIVE AND HIS DISSATISFIED WIFE. THEY BOTH FALL IN LOVE WITH THE SAME WOMAN. (SEXUALLY, NOT MENTALLY). BOTH THE MAN AND HIS WIFE ARE SUCCESSFUL WITH THE WOMAN AND THEY END IN A DISOLUTE MENAGE ET TROIS.

III. THE RAINBOW HAS SEVEN COLORS BY NADIA LEGRAND. ST. MARTIN'S FRESS

1958.

LIFE HISTORY OF A SUCCESSFUL FEMALE NOVELIST TOLD BY SEVEN PEOPLE WHO FIGURE PROMINENTLY IN HER LIFE. ONE OF THESE IS A 17 YEAR OLD GIRL, WHO TURNS TO THE NOVELIST IN SEARCH OF A MOTHER IMAGE TO REPLACE HER OWN MOTHER WHO HAS TREATED HER CRUELLY. THE KIND OF FEELING AND THE NATURE OF THE PASSION INVOLVED IS TREATED FRANKLY, HOWEVER, THE OLDER WOMAN MERELY TOLERATES HER DEVOTED SLAVE AND IS NOT EVEN SLIGHTLY INVOLVED. THE GIRL IN DESPERATION TRIES A PRETTY DEGRADING SOLUTION AND IS ONCE AGAIN KICKED BY THE NOVELIST. (FIGURATIVELY, OF COURSE.) THE INVOLVEMENT IS NEVER CONSUMMATED SO THE BOOK MUST BE CLASSIFIED AS VARIANT RATHER THAN LESBIAN BUT THERE IS NOTHING STANDING IN THE WAY OF THE GIRL EXCEPT A LITTLE COOPERATION.

112. HOUSE OF FURY BY FELICE SWADOS. DOUBLEDAY, 1941. (BERKELEY, 1959)

VERY WELL WRITTEN NOVEL ABOUT A GIRLS TRAINING SCHOOL. (IWY WALLED REFORMATORY) THERE ARE FOUR VARIANT ATTACHMENTS AND A GREAT DEAL OF MENTION OF LESBIANS AND SO FORTH. ALSO MOST OF THE WHITE GIRLS DISCUSS THE ATTRAC— TION THE NEGRO GIRLS SEEM TO POSSESS. BECAUSE OF THE EARLY DATE THIS MUST HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE EARLIER NOVELS EXPOSING THESE SOCIAL PROBLEMS. IT CERTAINLY IS ONE OF THE BEST OF ITS KIND.

13