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. Classic 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 sadistic women.