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_Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself._ Harcourt, Brace 1934. A lesbian finds her true destiny after a lifetime of serving her country.

Overtones of science fiction.

_A Sat.u.r.day Life._ London, Falcon Press, 1952 (orig. pub 1925). An attempt at farce, not overt anywhere.

HALL, OAKLEY M. _Corpus of Joe Bailey._ Viking 1953, Permabooks 1955, (m). Also contains a pathetic pair of lesbians, one camouflaging her true leanings by pretending to be the campus wh.o.r.e.

HARDY, THOMAS. _Desperate Remedies._ Harper 1896; still in print, London, the Macmillan Co, 1951 ($3.00). Brief but relevant episode in a novel by a cla.s.sic English novelist.

+ HARRIS, SARA. _The Wayward Ones._ Crown 1952, pbr Signet 1956,57 One of the few really good treatments of lesbian attachments in a girl's reform school. Bessie, a wayward girl, is sent to a ”good”

reform school; at this stage she is naive, fairly innocent and presumably redeemable. The loneliness, the s.a.d.i.s.tic persecution by the corrupt or hardened matrons, and the ”racket”-the enforced division of the school into ”moms” and ”pops”, by hardened young girl hooligans who like the power it gives them, and permitted by the matrons under the self-deception that these attachments are normal, schoolgirlish crushes-finally complete the girl's corruption until it is certain that she will come out of school a confirmed young criminal, Sara Harris is herself a social worker; this painfully accurate picture of what our juvenile authorities contend with may, at least, give some insight into why the police and social agencies tend to be so violently anti-lesbian. It is hard to forget the picture painted in this book of the frightened Bessie insisting ”I don't never do no lovin' with girls.'”-and the threats made to her. An absolute MUST book-on the other side.

HARRIS, WILLIAM HOWARD. _The Golden Jungle._ Doubleday 1957, pbr Berkley 1958. Brittle novel about a wall street banker; his beautiful wife is a lesbian, but he naively believes her faithful because she prefers the company of women.

+ HASTINGS, MARCH. _Demands of the Flesh._ Newsstand Library pbo, 1959. Ellen, a young widow suffering from physical frustration, goes through a period of promiscuity involving several men and a brief affair with a lesbian, Nita. Oddly enough for this sort of borderline-risque stuff, the lesbian character is well and realistically drawn; realizing that Ellen is basically normal, she helps keep her on an even keel until she remarries. Good of kind.

_Three Women._ pbo Beacon Books 1958. Good and sympathetic story of a young girl involved with a basically decent older woman, a lesbian, Byrne. Unfortunately Byrne is deeply involved with, and obligated to, her insane cousin Greta, and the affair ends in tragedy, leaving young Paula to marry her faithful boy friend. The lesbian interlude, however, is treated not as a ”twisted love in the shadows” or any such cliche matter, but simply as a human relations.h.i.+p, in its total effect on Paula's personality; and she always remembers Byrne with affectionate regret. Excellent of kind.

_The Obsessed._ Newstand Library Magenta Books, 1959. The psychoa.n.a.lysis of a nymphomaniac, including an affair with her boy-friend's lesbian sister. Not nearly as good as March Hastings'

other books, and much more dedicated to s.e.xy scenes at the expense of character and situation. Evening waster-almost scv. (It should be noted that some paperback publishers insist on a specified number of s.e.x scenes, and in such a book as this one can almost hear the weary sigh with which the author abandons his story, which is going well, and stops everything for another measured dose of s.e.xy writing for the nitwit audience.)

HECHT, BEN. _The Sensualists._ Messner, 1959, pbr Dell 1959. A great deal of advance publicity built this up to a best-seller.

Highly sensational shock-stuff; a supposedly happily-married woman discovers her husband is having an affair with a singer, Liza.

When she comes in contact with Liza, however, she realizes that Liza is a lesbian, having affairs with men for camouflage purposes, and is soon herself captivated by Liza. From here events build up to highly shocking climaxes, including a ghastly murder.

Not to be read after dark.

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. ”The Sea Change” ss in _The Fifth Column and the First 49 Stories_, P. F. Collier & Son, 1938. This volume also contains two stories dealing with male h.o.m.os.e.xuality: ”A Simple Inquiry” and ”Mother of a Queen.”

h.e.l.lMAN, LILLIAN. _The Children's Hour._ Knopf, 1934. Also Random House 1942; also in Burns-Mantle, Best Plays of 1934-35. A rumor of lesbianism (unfounded) wrecks a school, and the lives of the women who own and manage it.

HENRY, JOAN. _Women in Prison._ Doubleday 1952, pbr Permabooks 1953. This is non-fiction, autobiographical account of a woman's experience in two English prisons. Very good.

HEPPENSTALL, RAYNER. _The Blaze Of Noon._ Alliance 1940, pbr Berkley 1956, (m) minor, fco and BAYOR.

HESSE, HERMAN. _Steppenwolf._ Henry Holt 1929. qpb Frederick Ungar, 1960. Symbolic (and cla.s.sic) novel of man's disintegration, caused by society's ignorance. Contains highly sympathetic h.o.m.os.e.xual characters (male and female).

HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA. _The Talented Mr. Ripley._ Coward, 1955, pbr Dell 1959. (m, minor)

_Strangers on a Train._ Harper & Bros. 1950. (m, minor)