_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 girl-friend 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”.
SOUBIRAN, ANDRÉ. _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.