The Third Sex. pbo, Beacon, 1959. Most of the remarks made above also apply to this one, though the heroine is Joan, a college girl who fears that she is becoming a lesbian, and fights it by redoubling her affairs with men. Slightly more sensational than “Odd Girl”, but well written, well thought out and generally excellent.
SMITH, DOROTHY EVELYN. The Lovely Day. N. Y. Dutton, 1957. Interesting novel of an English village on a choir outing, contains a minor but funny account of an unconscious lesbian’s decisions.
SMITH, SHELLEY. (pseud. of Nancy Bodington.) The Lord Have Mercy, Harper 1956, pbr tct The Shrew is Dead, Dell 1959. English mystery story; a major subplot involves a pair of lesbians.
SNEDEKER, CAROLINE DALE. The Perilous Seat. Doubleday, Doran 1929, marginal (m) in a juvenile of ancient Greece; the hero, being sold into slavery, attempts to disfigure himself to escape “the fate of handsome boys among the Persians.”
STAFFORD, JEAN. Boston Adventure. Harcourt, 1944.
STEIN, GERTRUDE. Things as They Are. Banyan Press, Pawlet, Vermont. (Very rare; $25 and up second hand.) A novel by the well-known surrealist poet ... possibly her only coherent work ... dealing with lesbianism.
STONE, SCOTT. The Divorcees. Beacon pbo 1955, released 1959 Evening waster about a racketeer who specializes in quick divorces, and his girlfriend who flirts with all the women as he disengages them from their husbands.
Margo. Beacon pbo 1955, released 1959. scv.
Blaze, Berkley pbo or pbr, n. d. no data except “trash”.