+ WILHELM, GALE. _Torchlight to Valhalla._ Random, 1938, pbr tct
_The Strange Path_, Lion 1953, Berkley 1958, 1959. Morgen, rootless and drifting after the death of her artist father, to whom she had been childishly close, is loved by two fine young men, but finds her happiness with a strange young girl, Toni. Major, well known.
_We Too Are Drifting._ Triangle Books 1938-39; Modern Library 1935. pbr Lion Books 1951, Berkley 1957, 58, 59, 60. Probably the major novel of the thirties to deal with lesbians; perhaps the best of all time. In substance it deals with the boyish, but feminine Jan Morale; her struggle to escape a slightly sordid affair with Madelaine, a married woman, and to find happiness, despite family complications, with a young girl, Victoria. Told with fairness, restraint, and skill—not to mention that this is one of the dozen or so books on this entire list to display not only _some_, but _exceptional_ literary merit.
WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. “Something Unspoken” in _27 Wagons Full of Cotton._ New Directions, 1953. Also in Best Short Plays of 1955-56, Dodd, Mead, 1956. A play; I marked this for fco, received a protest: “Everybody will enjoy this.” Compromise; everybody will enjoy this who likes Tennessee Williams.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS. _The Knife of the Times._ Dragon Press, 1932, hcr tct _Make Light of It_, Random House 1950, (m). The title story is in DWCory, _21 Variations_.
WILLIAMS, ISABEL. _Hellcat._ Greenberg 1934, pbr Dell 1952. Unpleasant girl who uses everyone for her own purposes includes a lesbian among her victims.
WILLINGHAM, CALDER. (pseud). _End as a Man._ Vanguard 1947, pbr Signet co. 1957, (m).
WILLIS, GEORGE. _Little Boy Blues._ Dutton, 1947. Concerns the machinations of a lesbian to achieve marriage and motherhood as a “front”.
WILSON, ETHEL D. _Hetty Dorval._ Macmillan 1948, fco.
WINDHAM, DONALD. _The Hitchhiker._ Florence, Italy, priv. print. (m).
_Servants with Torches._ N. Y. 1955 priv. print. (m).
WINSLOE, CHRISTA. _The Child Manuela._ (Trans. Agnes Scott Farrar, 1933.) Motherless Manuela, sent to a strict boarding-school because of supposed misconduct with a boy (actually she was only fascinated with his mother) falls in love with Elizabeth von Bernberg, one of the teachers. The woman’s behavior is strictly correct, but her warmth of personality attracts all the love-starved, inhibited children; Manuela, exhilarated and slightly drunk at a school party, babbles of her love for the Fraulein, and is punished so severely that she throws herself from a top-floor window.