FLEMING, IAN. _Goldfinger._ Macmillan 1959. No data, BAYOR.
FLORA, FLETCHER. _Desperate Asylum._ pbo Lion Library 1955, pbr Pyramid 1959, tct _Whisper of Love_. An unhappy lesbian and a neurotic man who hates women because his mother was promiscuous, marry to find a mutual “asylum”. Predictably the marriage is unsuccessful, ending in murder and suicide.
_Strange Sisters_, pbo Lion Library 1954, pbr Pyramid 1960. Weird novel of a girl’s mental breakdown, indirectly blamed on her affairs with three cruel and sadistic women.
_Take me Home._ Monarch Books, pbo 1959. A young writer’s slow captivation with a strange girl just escaping from the domination of an evil lesbian cousin. All three of these books, though anti-lesbian in bias, are very well and slickly written, and entertaining.
FORREST, FELIX. _Carola._ Duell, 1948. Brief recall of a lesbian episode in the heroine’s girlhood.
FORTUNE, DION. (pseud. of Violet B. Firth). _Moon Magic._ London, Aquarian Press, 1958, fco. Fascinating, funny novel of a modern sorceress and an inhibited, bad-tempered doctor. It is implied that his marriage failed because his wife, a hysteric shamming invalidism, prefers being cosseted by her faithful companion to reassuming marital duties.
FOSTER, GERALD. _Strange Marriage._ N. Y., Godwin 1943. Transvestite, rather than lesbian; heroine in man’s clothing actually marries a fantastically naive girl.
FOWLER, ELLEN T. _The Farringdons._ N. Y., Appleton, 1900. Three intense variant attachments by a motherless girl under twenty, which subside when she falls in love with a man.
FRANKEN, ROSE. _Intimate Story._ Doubleday, 1955. A novel by the author of the popular Claudia series.
+ FREDERICS, DIANA. (pseud); _Diana, a Strange Autobiography._ Dial 1939, pbr Berkley Books 1955, 1957, 1958. Well known story of a young musician/teacher’s discovery and slow acceptance and adjustment to her lesbian personality.
FRANK, WALDO. _The Dark Mother._ N. Y., Boni & Liveright, 1920, (m). A too-possessive mother ruins her son’s life.
FRIEDMAN, STUART. _Nikki._ Monarch Books, 1960, scv.
_The Revolt of Jill Braddock._ Monarch Books 1960. scv. Male and female homosexuality in a ballet company, with Jill in the middle. “Not as bad as _Nikki_, but still a pretty raw evening waster.”