Part 5 (1/2)
_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.