WYLIE, PHILIP. _The Disappearance._ Rinehart 1951, pbr Pocket Books 1958. Science fiction; for men, all women vanish; for women, all men vanish. The problem of lesbianism arises in the women’s world; Wylie, though technically and superficially approving of homosexuality, has his heroine reject it for herself, saying “I’m not a child.”
_Opus 21._ Rinehart 1949, pbr Signet 1952, 1960. The hero, rewriting a book in a hotel during a weekend of crisis, runs across many unusual characters; among them a woman, shaken because her husband is having a homosexual affair, is shamed into tolerance by dallying with a lesbian prostitute. Wylie, again superficially approving, has his hero act in a skirt-withdrawing way, refusing such things for himself at the last minute in every book.
WYNDHAM, JOHN. “Consider her Ways” in _Sometime, Never_, Ballantine 1956-57. Science Fiction; a woman experimenting with strange drugs goes into the future, where all men have perished and society resembles that of the ant. Good.
_The Midwich Cuckoos._ Ballantine, 1957. Science Fiction. Alien visitation from outer space leaves every nubile female in Midwich—married or single, young or old—pregnant. Hilariously funny situations arise; one of the funniest involves a pair of lesbians. Wonderful fun.
YAFFE, JAMES. _Nothing But the Night._ Little, Brown & Co, 1957, pbr Bantam 1959, (m). More fake Leopold-Loeb. Good.
YOURCENAR, MARGUERITE. _Hadrian’s Memoirs._ Farrar, 1954, qpb Anchor 1954, (m).
ZOLA, ÉMILE. _Nana._ Literally dozens of hardcover and paperback editions of a shocker about a street girl who, in addition to all her affairs with men, also has an affair with Satin, a streetwalker.
_A Lesson in Love._ Abridged edition of Pot Bouille. Pyramid, 1959.
ZUGSMITH, ALBERT. _The Beat Generation._ Bantam pbo based on screenplay by Richard Mathesen, (m) minor.
An index of Poems and Poets of interest to Collectors of Lesbiana
Briefly, this includes variant as well as overtly lesbian poetry, written in English or available in English translation. The arrangement is chronological, rather than alphabetical. All of these are easily available in public libraries, unless otherwise indicated.
_Erinna_—only one fragment left. Available in the Greek Anthology and other miscellaneous collections of that type.