LEGRAND, NADIA. _The Rainbow Has Seven Colors._ N. Y. St Martins, 1958. After the death of the heroine her life is reviewed by seven people who loved her (as with _Of Lena Geyer_) including a lesbian who loved her and a young girl who wanted to.
+ LEHMANN, ROSAMOND. _Dusty Answer._ N. Y., Holt, 1927. Still in print. Well-known novel in which the heroine’s whole life is conditioned by her love for a college classmate. Delicate, beautifully written.
LENGEL, FRANCES. _Helen and Desire._ Olympia Press, Paris, 1954. scv, and you can’t buy it in this country legally. If you locate a copy you’ll know why we say you aren’t missing a thing. Seamy novel of a nymphomanic ——ing her way around the world. (It’s not worth going to Paris to read.)
LESLIE, DAVID STUART. _The Man on the Beach._ London, Hutchinson 1957, (m).
LEVAILLANT, MAURICE. _The Passionate Exiles._ (trans. Malcolm Barnes.) Farrar, Straus & Cudahy 1958. Historical “dual biography” of Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier.
+ LEVIN, MEYER. _Compulsion._ Simon & Schuster 1956. pbr Pocket Books 1958, (m).
LEWIS, SINCLAIR. _Ann Vickers._ Doubleday, 1933. One important lesbian episode in a novel of woman suffrage, viciously condemnatory.
LEVERIDGE, RALPH. _Walk on the Water._ Farrar, 1951, pbr tct _The Last Combat_, Signet 1952, Pyramid 1959, (m).
LEWIS, WYNDHAM. _The Apes of God._ N. Y., R. M. McBride & Co, 1932, London, Arthur Press 1950, London, Arco, 1955. Satire, including sharp studies of homosexuality, male and female.
LIN, HAZEL. _The Moon Vow._ Pageant Press, 1958. A Chinese woman psychiatrist, attempting to solve a patient’s problems, is led into seamy byways of Peking, including a somewhat gruesome lesbian cult.
LINDOPS, AUDREY ERSKINE. _The Outer Ring._ Appleton 1955, pbr Popular Library tct _The Tormented_. (m)
LINGSTROM, FREDA. _Axel._ Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1939. Wealthy man adopts two boys and a girl. One boy, Valentine, has homosexual affair with an older boy, Teddy, who later commits suicide; the girl, Auriol, studying music in Germany, lives with 2 older women, one of whom is very innocently but very ardently in love with her. Well-written.
LIPSKY, ELEAZAR. _The Scientists._ Appleton-Century-Crofts 1959, pbr Pocket Books, 1960. Minor character in a long novel is a vaguely treated, but explicit lesbian.