SOUBIRAN, ANDRE. Bedlam. Putnam 1957, pbr Pyramid 1959, (m). Minor.
STONEBRAKER, FLORENCE. Sinful Desires. pbr Bedside Books, 1959. (previous paperback, publisher unknown, ca. 1951). Silly novel about a married woman briefly captivated by a stereotyped lesbian.
+ STURGEON, THEODORE. (pseud. of Edward Hamilton Waldo). “Affair with a Green Monkey”. Venture Science Fiction May 1957; also in A Touch of Strange, Doubleday 1959.
“The Sex Opposite”. in E. Pluribus Unicorn, Abelard 1952, Ballantine pbr 1953.
"The World Well Lost" in E Pluribus Unicorn. Many of Sturgeon’s other short stories and novelettes touch on extremely strange, offbeat relationships.
+ SWADOS, FELICE. House of Fury. Doubleday 1941, pbr Lion 1955, Berkley 1959. One of the better paperbacks, dealing with racial tensions and muted lesbian attachments in a girl’s reformatory.
SWINBURNE, ALGERNON. Lesbia Brandon. Falcon Press 1952, edited and annotated by Randolph Hughes. A famous incomplete novel by the well-known poet, for students rather than readers. Really only a handful of scattered chapters, too scrappy to judge; see also poetry supplement.
SYDNEY, GALE. Strange Circle. Beacon Books pbo 1959, 1960. Grace Garney, feeling unwanted, gets a job with Mrs. Flocke, a repulsive lesbian, and repels a pass; this, however, revives childhood memories, and during a rift in her affairs with a man, she has a brief affair with Inez, a friend with an unsatisfactory husband. Evening waster.
SYKES, GERALD. The Center of the Stage. N. Y., Farrar 1952, pbr Signet 1954. Witty novel of the theatre, with a minor lesbian character.
TAYLOR, DYSON. Bitter Love. orig. copyright 1952, Pyramid 1958, (m). Worldly woman marries a homosexual who wants her for a “front”.