The Outcast. Greenberg 1933, Willey Book Co 1948. The sequel to the above, this finds the heroine of The Scorpion living quietly in the country. She undergoes a painful and unsatisfactory affair with Fiametta, a dancer, but when this proves unsatisfactory settles down sadly but peacefully with a couple of sexless men friends.
WEISS, JOE, and Ralph Dean. Anything Goes. Bedside Books pbo, 1959. Fast-moving evening waster with a minor lesbian angle.
WELCH, DENTON. Maiden Voyage. L. B. Fischer 1945, (m). Minor.
In Youth is Pleasure. L. B. Fischer 1946. (m minor)
+ WELLS, CATHERINE: “The Beautiful House” Harpers, March 1912. An idyll of two women ends tragically with the marriage of the younger.
WELLS, KERMIT. Reformatory Women. Bedside Books pbo 1959. Surprisingly good for this publisher of rubbish. After escaping from a sadistic lesbian matron in the reformatory, Noreen works as a fake butch in a Greenwich Village Gay bar and tourist trap; later goes to work for gangsters in a roadhouse, falls for a nice boy and goes back to serve her reformatory sentence and marry him when she gets out. Pleasant evening waster.
WETHERELL, ELIZABETH (pseud of Susan Warner). The Wide Wide World. Many editions, very easily obtained, a well-known girls story of the 1880s or thereabout, dealing with Ellen, an orphan of twelve. Much of the first half of the novel is devoted to a very innocent, but exceptionally intense, close relationship between Ellen and her beloved “Miss Alice”, daughter of the local minister. Good of kind, and distinctly relevant on an adolescent level.
WHEELER, HUGH. The Crippled Muse. Rinehart, 1952. A “sparkling comedy” of Capri contains the story of two women who have lived together for ten years; the younger girl is tired of the arrangement, and the older uses her feelings of guilt and shame to hold her captive. In the course of the novel she manages to free herself.
WHITE, PATRICK. The Aunt’s Story. Viking Press 1948. fco.