MAYHALL, JANE. Cousin to Human. Harcourt, Brace 1960. Valeda, friend of the heroine, has a sad, depressing affair with an adolescent schoolgirl athlete friend, named Mildred.
MEAGHER, MAUDE. The Green Scamander. Houghton Mifflin, 1933. A novel of the Trojan war, largely concerned with the passionate friendship between Penthesilea, co-queen with the Amazon tribe, and her co-ruler Camilla. Beautifully written, available in most medium-sized libraries.
MEEKER, RICHARD. The Better Angel. Greenberg 1933, pbr Universal Pub. tct Torment ca. 1952, (m).
+ MEREZOWSKII, DMITRI. (Trans. from Russian by Natalia A. Duddington) London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1925, 1926. Birth of the Gods. A fine novel of Crete and the bull-dancers (and perhaps the first of its kind). Dio, a strangely bisexual young girl, priestess of the Great Mother, though attracted and attractive to men, is vowed to remain a virgin in the service of the Goddess; much of the novel is devoted to her passionate friendship for her young novice, Eoia. One of Dio’s rejected lovers, believing that the “little witch” has cast a spell on Dio to prevent her loving him, plots to have Eoia killed in the ring; instead Eoia’s death nearly destroys Dio as well.
Akhnaton, King of Egypt. (as above) London, Dent, 1927. Continues and concludes the story of Dio.
MERGENDAHL, CHARLES. The Girl Cage. pbo Gold Medal 1953, 1959. Brief, minor lesbian episode in a novel about war widows.
MERRITT, A(braham); The Metal Monster. Copyright Munsey Magazines, (this ran serially in Argosy ca. 1920) Revised version, Frank A. Munsey 1941, pbr Avon, 1946. Offbeat variant episode in an adventure-fantasy; Norhala, pagan slave of the “metal people” steals the explorer’s sister, Ruth, to “play with her”; after her death Ruth weeps, saying “she loved me dearly, dearly,” but significantly can remember nothing of their time together. Wildly fantastic, good of type.
METALIOUS, GRACE. Return to Peyton Place. Messner 1959, pbr Dell 1959. Another sexy “expose” of a small town. In one episode, the unpleasant wife of a local boy recalls her schooldays, when she taunted and enslaved a lesbian schoolmate.
MEYER, GLADYS ELEANOR, The Magic Circle. Knopf, 1944. fco Subtle novel of close friendship between two women; never explicit, and on the borderline for variant interest.