NORMANDIE, ROGER. The Lion’s Den. N. Y. Key 1957. scv.
+ O’BRIEN, KATE. As Music and Splendor. Harper. 1958. Novel of two very different young Irish girls sent to study music on the Continent during the great age of Italian opera; their personal lives differ as widely as their careers, One, Clare Halvey, drifts into a love affair with Luisa Carriaga, a Spanish contralto; their relationship is treated delicately, but with warmth and impersonal sympathy. Excellent for opera lovers and for those who are tired to death of books where every last detail is spelled out as frankly as the law allows.
+ O’DONOVAN, JOAN. Dangerous Worlds. Morrow, 1958. Collection of excellent short stories.
O’HIGGINS, HARVEY. The Story of Julie Cane. Harper, 1924. Explicit, for its day, story of an intense relationship between a schoolmistress and her ward.
OLIVIA (see DOROTHY BUSSY).
O’NEILL, ROSE. The Goblin Woman. N. Y. Doubleday 1930. Fey, symbolic novel of Helga, the Goblin Woman (who represents purity) set down in a society far from pure. There are many lesbian episodes and references to inter-*feminine love. (see poetry supplement.)
O’HARA, NOEL. The Last Virgin. Chariot Books pb 1959. This is a reprint of David George Kin’s “Women Without Men”, containing six of the ten stories; new title, new author, even new copyright date—who’s kidding who? It does not contain the damning introduction, and without it, appears fairly sympathetic. Curious little item.
PACKER, VIN (pseud; see also ANN ALDRICH) Spring Fire. pbo Gold Medal 1952. Now well-known and rather gamy novel of sorority house life and an unhappy lesbian affair between naive freshman Mitch and neurotic Lana.
Whisper His Sin. Gold Medal pbo 1954, (m).