Adam (1939) Marcel Achard. Paris : Les oeuvres libres

The Prisoners of War (1925) J. R. Ackerley. London : Chatto and Windus

• More Info: WWI Plays​

Freundinnen: Ein Roman [unter Fraeun] (1923) Maximiliane Ackers. Berlin: Paul Steegemann Verlang. Written 1923

• "Girlfriends: A Novel [about Women]." A queer theatre group in Berlin. Read Now: Archive / Ngiyaw eBooks​

Tit for Tat and Other Tales (1972) Harold Acton. London : Hamish Hamilton

"La mésaventure" in La Revue indépendante (1888) Paul Adam

• Read Now: Wikisource​

"L’Assaut malicieux" in Revue Blanche (May 15, 1895) Paul Adam.

• A defense of Oscar Wilde with a drawing by Lautrec. Read Now: Google (page 458)​

Девятое термидора / The Ninth Thermidor (1923) Mark A. Aldanov. / New York : Knopf (1926)

• A novel of the Jacobin overthrow and the death of their leader Robespierre, from the point of view of a young Russian. The first of the "The Thinker" tetralogy. Read Now: Archive​

Pater Antonio: Novelle d. Freundesliebe (1929) Alex Alexander. Berlin : Phoebus. 36pp

Pity for Women (1937) Helen Anderson. Garden City, NY : Doubleday

• Reviewed in the NYT. A working class woman driven mad by misogynist society and partially by her female lover.​

"Hands" in Winesburg, Ohio (1919) Sherwood Anderson. New York : Huebsch

• After touching the shoulders and heads of his students, a man is wrongly accused of seducing a young boy and is kicked out of town. Read Now: USF​

"The Man Who Became a Woman" in Horses and Men: Tales, Long and Short, from our American Life (1923) Sherwood Anderson. New York : B. W. Huebsch

• Read Now: Gutenburg, Archive​

Messieurs ces Dames (1912) Paul Andre and Henri Sebille. Paris : Albin Michel

Briefe eines einsamen Kämpfers, Roman (1913) Anonymous or Ewald Alienus?. Leipzig: Xenien-Verlag

Der Abfall vom Weibe: Studie (1901) Anonymous?. Dresden & Leipzig. 161pp.

Satan conduit le bal: Roman Pamphlétique & philosophique des mœurs du temps (1925) ed Georges Anquetil. Agnce Parisienne de Distribution.

• A satire of political and social debauchery. More Info: Harvard​

One Thousand and One Nights/Arabian Nights "The Tale of the Third Kalendar" "The Story of the Redreddin-Hassar" "The Story of Hammerezzaman"

Pénombre (1913) Henri d' Argenson. Messein

Gomorrhe (1889) Henri d' Argenson. En depot ches Charles

• More Info: MTS​

Sodome (1888) Henri d' Argenson. Alphose Piaget

• More Info & Read Now: MTS​

Starborn (1938) Arion. Paris : Obelisk

• More Info: MTS​

The Green Hat: A Romance for a Few People (1924) Micheal Arlen. New York: George H. Doran. 350pp.

• A femme fatale, Iris Storm, and the series of men she seduces and destroys. Her brother, seeing no future in the relationship, pushes his love to be the unwitting first of Iris' doomed husbands. Read Now: Archive (Alt) (Alt)​

These Charming People (1924) Micheal Arlen. New York: George H. Doran.

• Subtilted "Being a Tapestry of the Fortunes, Follies, Adventures, Gallantries and General Activities of Shelmerdene (that Lovely Lady), Lord Tarlyon, Mr. Michael Wagstaffe, Mr. Ralph Wyndham Trevor and Some Others of Their Friends of the Lighter Sort." A series of short stories. Read Now: Archive, Google

Le Monsier aux chrysanthèmes, piece en trois actes (1908) Carle Dauriac as Armory. Paris : Librarie Moliere. Three-act play.

• Title references La Dame aux Camellias (1848) Alexandre Dumas. Translated in Lovesick: Modernist Plays of Same-Sex Love, 1984-1925 (2003) Laurence Senelick. Contact me for text.

La nuit sur mytilène (1901) Philippe d' Arschot. Jean Crès

• Introduction by Mario Meunier. Sappho and Phaon.

דער גאט פון נקמה: א דראמע אין 3 אקטען / Goṭ fun neḳome a drame in dray aḳṭe (1907) Sholem Asch

• The owners of a Jewish brothel attempt to reform their family; contains lesbian scenes. In English as The God of Vengeance: A Drama in Three Acts (1918) tr. Isaac Goldberg. Read Now: Archive (Alt)

Broome Stages (1931) Winifred Ashton. Garden City : Double Day, Doran. 703pp.

• A novel of Richard Broome, playwright of The Late Lancashire Witches (1634), and his descendants--each of them committed to theatre by a witch's curse.

They Winter Abroad (1932) T. H. White as James Aston. New York : Viking & London : Chatto & Windus

• Set in a hotel resort. Read Now: Gutenberg.

The Rich Young Man: A Comedy with Digressions (1929) Gladys Mary Attenborough. New York: Fred A. Stokes. 312pp

• Read Now: Hathitrust

Rubi, Eine Novelle von Aurelius (1879) Carl Robert Egell as Aurelius. Berlin : R. Gensch & Leipzig : Otto & Kadler

• Read Now: Google

Aus eines Mannes Mädchenjahren (1907) Karl M. Baer as N. O. Body

• A memoir of an intersex person raised initially as a boy and then as a girl. Read Now: Archive (German) ​

Young Man with a Horn (1938) Dorothy Baker. Boston : Houghton-Mifflin. Jazz

• Inspired by Jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke. Read Now: Archive

"Dreary" in Americans Abroad (1932) Wambly Bald. The Hague, Holland : Servire Press

Die Mutter (1891) Hermann Bahr

• Read Now: Archive, Google, ÖNB-ANNO​

Le Folie Erotique (1893) Benjamin Ball. Paris : Bailliere et fils

• Read Now: Google (Alt)

Féminisé (1922) Jacques de Bandol. Paris : Librairie Artistique

Détraquée (1922) Jacques de Bandol. Paris : Librairie Artistique

• More Info & Excerpt: Bibliocuriosa (NSFW)

Folie de Luxure: Étude des Vices Modernes (1897)  Jacques de Bandol. Paris : Librairie Artistique

• More Info & Excerpt: Bibliocuriosa

Excentriske Noveller (1885) Herman Joachim Bang. Micahel Valerlandsloser

• Read Now: Archive (Danish), Archive (German), Gutenberg (Danish)

"Fratelli Bedini" in Amiscus 5 (?) Herman Joachim Bang. Hamburg : Ed. R. Ptziger

Haabløse Slægter (1880) Herman Joachim Bang

• Read Now: Archive (Alt), Gutenberg ​(Danish), Gutenberg (German) 

Mikaël, De uden Fædreland (1904) Herman Joachim Bang. Berlin : Fischer

• Read Now: Archive (Danish), Gutenberg (German) Silent film adaptation (1924) also at Archive.

Les Diaboliques (1874) Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. London and Paris : Lutetian Bibliophiles Society. 2 vols

• Read Now: Archive (Alt) (French), Archive Vol 1 (English, 1900), Google Vol 1 (English, 1900) Vol 2 (English, 1900), Google (English, 1924), Gutenberg (French)

L'Enfer (1908) Henri Barbusse. London : Joynes and Steele

• A man in a Paris boarding house peeks through a hole into the adjoining room, observing its occupants, including lesbians, and their acts. Read Now: Google (Alt) (French), Gutenberg (English, 1918, Abridged)​

Schoolgirl (1929) Carman Dee Barnes. New York : Liveright

• An account of an American boarding school by a sixteen year old girl which accounts lesbianism.​

"Dusie" in American Esoterica (1927) Djuna Barnes. New York : Macy-Masius. 299pp. 3000 copies.

Ladies Almanack (1928) Djuna Barnes. Paris : Impremeries Darantiere at Dijon. 1050 copies.

• A collection of drawings, short stories, poems, and essays. Read Now: Maxima Library​

Nightwood (1936) Djuna Barnes. London : Faber and Faber. 239pp.

• Read Now: Archive (Alt)

Le Culte du Moi (1891) Maurice Barrès. 7 Mille Paris : Chappentier Perrin. 296pp.

• A series of three novels: Sous l'œil des barbares (1888), Un homme libre (1889), and Le Jardin de Bérénice (1891. Read Now: Gallica Vol1, Vol2, Vol3 (French), Gutenberg Vol1, Vol2, Vol3 (French)​

Der Mensch in der Geschichte: zur Begründung einer psychologischen Weltanschauung (1860) Adolt Bastian. Leipzig : Wigard.

• Psychological memoir in three volumes. Read Now: Google Vol1, Vol2, Vol3 (German)​

Glorious Apollo: A Novel of Lord Byron (1925) E. Barrington. New York : Dodd, Mead

• ​Read Now: Archive (Alt), Google

Zwischenfall in Lohwinckel (1930) Vicki Baum

• Results of an Accident in the UK and And Life Goes On in the US (tr. Margaret Goldsmith, 1931). After a car accident, a heterosexual film star named Lania is stuck in a small German town under the care of a lesbian woman, to whom she recounts stories of other lesbians she knows. Read Now: Archive (Alt) (English)​

Erde: Ein Roman (1912) Johannes Becker. Berlin : Backmaier.

• Apparently pp49-54 has the gay part.

Jadwiga. Gedichte in elf Gesängen (1863) Karl Beck. Leipzig : Grunow

• Read Now: Google (German)​

La Maschera di Bruto: Dramma in Versi in Quattro Atti (1908) Sem Benelli

• The assassination of Alessandro by Lorenzino de Medici. Read Now: Google

For Love of Women (1923) Francois Beerie. New York: Assoc. Pub. Co. 33pp.

• According to the Sioux City Journal (Jan 7, 1924) the author, Florence Beerie, a 26 year old women who lectured on "The Psychology of the Intermediate Sex" was forced to withdraw her "flagrantly obscene" book.​

Youth in Hell (1930) Albert Bein. New York : Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith. 234pp.

• Autobiographical fiction set in a reformatory. Read Now: Archive, Hathitrust​

Les Compagnons de la Belle (1938) Rene Belbenoit. Paris : Editions de France

• Memoir of an escaped convict initially imprisoned in French Guiana for theft. His account was first published by Blair Niles (author of Strange Brother) as Condemned to Devil's Island: The Biography of an Unknown Convict (1930). In English as Dry Guillotine: Fifteen Years Among the Living Dead. Read Now: Archive (English)​

The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton (1930) Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, ed G. H. Bell. London : Macmillan & Co.

• More Info: Ladies of Langollen by Janeite Kelly, British Museum. Also see: The Ladies of Llangollen: A Study in Romantic Friendship (1973) on Archive.​

La Bouche de Madame X*** (1882) Adolphe Belot.

• Read Now: Hathitrust (French), Archive (French)​

Mademoiselle Giraud, ma Femme (1870) Adolphe Belot.

• Read Now: Archive (English), Hathitrust (French), Hathitrust (English, with preface by Emile Zola)​

Sapho: pièce en cinq actes (1893) Adolphe Belot. Paris : Charpentier

• Adaptation of the novel by Alphonse Daudet. Read Now: Archive (English), Hathitrust (French), Hathitrust (English), Google (English)

De muy buena familia: comedia en tres actos y en prosa (1931) Jacinto Benavente. Hernando

• A boy from a good family performs sexual favors for another boy in exchange for money.​

El Rival de su Mujer (1933) Jacinto Benevente

• A woman falls in love with the male lover of her husband.

Elsie and the Child: And Other Stories (1924) Arnold Bennet. New York: George H. Doran

• ​Read Now: Google, Gutenberg

The Pretty Lady: A Novel (19198) Arnold Bennet. New York: George H. Doran

• A novel of social isolation and how it can be shared between sex workers and returned soldiers. Read Now: Google​

Mademoiselle de La Ferté (1923) Pierre Benoît. Paris : Albin Michel. 319pp.

• After her husband abandons her, Galswinthe falls ill and returns to the Landes and is cared to by Anne, sparking their love. Read Now: Google​

Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B.A.. Of Trinity College, Cambridge (1886) Arthur Benson as Christopher Carr. London : Kegan

• An autobiographical novel disguised as the memoir and biography of the fictional Arthur Hamilton. More Info: Ged Martin. Read Now: Google, Gutenberg​

David Blaize (1916) E. F. Benson. London : Hodder and Stoughton

• Autobiographical fiction of a boys school and of the titular David's love for his roommate Frank--mirroring Benson's experience towards Vincent Yorke. Its sequel is David Blaize and the Blue Door (1918) Illus. H. J. Ford. More Info: Steve Bamlett. Read Now: Archive, Gutenberg​

The Freaks of Mayfair (1916) E. F. Benson. New York : George Doran. 233pp. Illus. George Plank

• A collection of short stories each featuring a strange protagonist. "Aunt Georgie," an account of an effeminate unmarried man--or trans woman--shows the basis of Benson's character Georgie Pillson in Queen Lucia (1920). Read Now: Gutenberg​

Goslings: A World of Women (1913) John Davis Beresford. New York : Macaulay

• (TW: eugenics, anti-semitism, misogyny). After a plague wipes out most of the world's men, women organize societies around free love.
  Read Now: Archive (Alt), Gutenberg​

Mademoiselle de La Ferté (1923) Pierre Benoît. Paris : Albin Michel. 319pp.

• After her husband abandons her, Galswinthe falls ill and returns to the Landes and is cared to by Anne, sparking their love. Read Now: Google

Aus dem Tagebuch eines Homosexuellen (1908) Heinrich Berhard. Stattgart : Berhardt. Memoir.

Der halbe Mensch: Die Tragödie des dritten Geschlechts (1907) Claire Bernhardt. Dresden : L. Diegmann

Le démon impur: roman (1926) Maurice Betz. Emile-Paul Freres

• Incestuous love of a father for his son?​

Jena oder Sedan? (1903) Franz Adam Beyerlein. Berlin: Vita

• Read Now: Archive (English), Archive (German), Google (English), Google (German), Gutenberg (English)​

Prinz Kuckuck: Lehen, Taten, Meinungen und  Höllenfahrt eines Wollüstlings (1907) Otto Julius Bierbaum

• (TW: Suicide) Two friends, Karl and Henry, visit London to visit the Green Carnation Club, then migrate to Italy to visit Naples and Capri. Karl friend falls in love with young man of 19, who he asks to kill Henry; the young man sleeps with Henry instead. Karl throws Henry off a cliff to kill him, then later commits suicide himself. Read Now: Gutenberg (German)

Stilpe: ein Roman aus der Froschperspektive (1897) Otto Julius Bierbaum. Berlin : Schuster & Loeffler

• Read Now: Google (German) (Alt), Gutenberg (German)​

Corruption (1939) Gustave Binet-Valmer. Paris : ​​

Le Gamin Tendre (1901) Gustave Binet-Valmer. Paris : Mecure de France. Illus. by Édouard Touraine. 19 copies?

• Read Now: Archive (Frech, Unillustrated), Gallica (French, Illustrated)​

Lucien (1910) Gustave Binet-Valmer. Paris : Ollendorf

• ​An artistic, androgynous gay son contrasted with a coddling mother and a stern, distant, and medically-minded father to whom he must rationalize his sexuality to. Eventually he leaves to Italy with another gay man. Famous for Marcel Proust's hatred of the book. More Info: culture-et-debats

"Ein Stummungsmensch" in Der Tag (Apr 1897) Lisa Weise as E. Liss-Blanc

Die Greschlechter de Menschen (1901) A. Bob. Leipzig : Lotus

Mademoiselle Giraud, ma femme (1870) Adolphe Belot

• After an unsuccessful hunt for the perfect wife, Adrien marries Paule Giraud against her wish and the advice of Countess Berthe, Paule's lover. Adrien plots with the Countess' husband to win their wives out of the affair. English preface by Emile Zola. More Info: Muse. Read Now: Google (English, 1891) (Alt, 1892), Hathitrust (English) Hathitrust (French),

La Femme crucifiée: Le vertige des sens (1914 or 1923) Sylvain Bonmariage. Paris : Éditions du Roman Nouveau or Jean Fort. Cover by G. Nick.

Bob d'Argeant debauche (1911) Alexander Bonnel. Paris : Daragon

Charlot s'amuse (1883) Paul Bonnetain. Paris : Henry Kistemaeckers

• (TW: Alcoholism, child abuse, suicide, contemplation of rape) A novel of a compulsive masturbator, sent to a Catholic order and school where homosexuality pervades, graduates into the army, and attempts a disastrous marriage which ends in his suicide. Read Now: Gallica (French)​

L'opium (1885) Paul Bonnetain. Paris : G. Charpentier

• A semi-autobiographical novel of a poet, sick with the pain of life, relying on opium in Hanoi. Preface by Alphonse Daudet. Read now: Gallica (French), Google (French), Hathitrust (French)​

Mère et Fils (1893) Le Bordelais. Paris : Montagny et Beaudoin

Das l'retiel eines Unbefangenen (1904) Jules Borel. Berlin

Madame Putiphar/Le Lyncanthrope (1839) Petrus Borel. Paris : Ollivier. 2 vols

• Read Now: Archive (French, Vol1), Archive (French, Vol2), Archive (French, 2nd ed, Vol1-2, 1877), Gutenberg (French, Vol1)​

Carlotta Noll, amoureuse et femme de lettres (1905) Marc-Antoine Borie as Daniel Borys. Paris : Albin Michel

• Seems to be about a lesbian who relates love to a hunt; she goes mad in the end. More Info: Mercure de France (French, Vol 55, pg 254-255)​

La Fleur des pois, comédie en 4 actes (1932) Édouard Bourdet. Paris : Stock

• Title is a phrase meaning "an elegant person." Seems to be about an automobile dealer who takes on invented personalities in social salons to support his business. Both of these personalities--including the "Duke"--are gay tropes. More Info: Régie Théâtrale, Le Monde​

La Prisonnière (1926) Édouard Bourdet

• aka The Captive. A woman captive by her love for another woman, who remains offscreen, even as she attempts to convince herself to marry a man. Read Now: Archive (English), Archive (Alt) (Spanish)​

Le Crépuscule des dieux (1884) Elémir Bourges. Paris : Stock

• (TW: Incest) aka Twilight of the Gods and Chains of Destiny. A foundational work of Aesthetic literature. Named after Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung. Charles d'Este, exiled to Paris after Prussians invaded his German home, lives in luxury with his sister--his near-identical doppelganger--whom he has an incestuous relationship with. Read Now: Archive (French, 1901 New Edition), Archive (French, 1912 3rd Edition) Gutenberg (French)​

Friends and Relations (1931) Elizabeth Bowen. London : Constable

The Hotel (1928) Elizabeth Bowen. New York : Dial

• Although sent to a hotel to find a husband, the shy protagonist finds herself in love with a sophisticated woman.​

The Bridegroom's Body in The Crazy Hunter (1938) Kay Boyle. New York : Harcourt

• One of three short novels in the book. Lady Glourie manages the declining family estate while her husband drinks his health away. Surrounded by icons of fertility and masculine ferocity, she works independent of both until her Irish maid declares her love for her in the conclusion. More Info: Taylor & Francis​

"In Defense of Homosexuality" (1925) Kay Boyle.

• Published in The New Review (April 1932?). Read Now: Archive (English, page 14)​

Monday Night (1938) Kay Boyle. New York : Harcourt

• ​Wilt, a selfish American expatriate who lives in Paris, seeks content for his novel in the character of Bernie, a young American visiting Paris to see his hero. Together they seek the truth behind the toxicologist Sylvestre, whose testimony has sealed multiple murder cases. There is a brief lesbian affair featured. More Info: eNotes, NYT (July 31, 19338)

My Next Bride (1934) Kay Boyle

• (TW: Suicide) An American expat's coming of age in Paris after her beloved companion, and older woman, commits suicide. Autobiographical. In the artist's scene, she becomes enraptured by a male artist and his wife.​

"Your Body is a Jewel Box" in White Horses of Vienna and Other Stories (1936) Kay Boyle. New York : Harcourt

• (TW: Institutionalization) The contrast between two sisters--one, considered mentally ill, who believes she is no longer a girl and the other who, considered healthy, pursues relationships with multiple men. Read Now: Electric Lit​

American Colony (1929) Charles Brackett. New York : Boni & Liveright

• ​A married couple on vacation in France and the sexual affairs surrounding them--including the gay Sydney and the the selfish bi hustler Cliff.

Inseln des Eros (1905) Adolf Brand

• Poems, several originally published in Der Eigene. Edited by Edwin Bab and Illustrated by Paul Casberg. Read Now: Staatsbibliotek zu Berlin (German)​

Sappho: ein Lebensbild aus den Frühlingstagen altgriechischer Dichtung (1905) Paul Brandt. Leipzig : Rottbarth

• Also See: Hathitrust (English, a bibliography of Sappho books). Read Now: Google (German), Hathitrust (German)​

Die Freundin (1921) Max Braunstein. Breslau : Rekord

• Written by a woman writer under a pseudonym. Generally noted as proof of the 20's standard that "girlfriend" was used in lesbian circles.​

Baal (1922) Bertolt Brecht

• (TW: Rape, Suicide, Murder) The poet Baal spurns society and conscience as he leaps from drunken fights to seducing, raping, and destroying multiple women and his male friend. Read Now: Archive (English), Archive (German)

Die Dreigroschenoper (1928) Bertolt Brecht

• Adapted from on John Gay's The Beggar's Opera translated by Elisabeth Haptmann. The criminal Macheath marries a girl against the wishes of her father, who attempts to have Macheath hanged but is rebuffed by the chief of police, Macheath's homoerotic arm friend. Read Now: Archive (Alt) (English), Archive (German)

Leben Eduards des Zweiten von England (1924) Bertolt Brecht

• aka Edward II and The Life of Edward II of England. Adapted from Marlowe's Edward II. A biopic play of the titular king and his favorite, Piers Gaveston. More Info: NY Theatre Wire. Read Now: Archive (English)

Im Dickicht der Städte: der Kampf zweier Männer in der Riesenstadt Chicago (1924) Bertolt Brecht

• (TW: Suicide) aka Im Dickicht, Dickicht: Untergang einer Familie, and In The Jungle of Cities. Two men declare each other mortal enemies, sacrificing their fortunes, families, and lives in pursuit of victory. Read Now: Archive (Alt) (English)

Die Wandlung der Susanne Dasseldorf (1932) Josef Breitbach. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag : Berlin. 598pp.

• Revised and republished as Rival et rivale (1945), revised again but unfinished and published in 2006. Post-war fallout in Koblenz where Susanne attempts to recoup her family while Americans occupy their property and her brother works as a journalist. She and her brother's male secretary fall in love with the same man; eventually she quits her affections and becomes friends with the secretary, also discussing his homosexuality.​

Clemens Brentanos Liebesleben: Eine Ansicht (1921) Lujo Brentano. Frankfurt : FVA

• A collections of letters, poems, and an unfinished novel by Lugo's great-uncle. One of the poems found at Zeno. Read Now: Hathitrust (German)​

Europa: The Days of Ignorance (1935) Robbert Briffault. New York : Scribners

• A philosophical novel of Julian Bern whose female love is married off to a gay Russian man. As was Briffault's wont, it contains long discussions concerning sex and its culture: marriage, homosexuality, expression, virginity, and so on. Read Now: Archive (English)​

Queer Patterns (1935) Lilyan Brock. New York : Greenberg

• (TW: Suicide, Murder) Actress Sheila, and director Nicoli struggle to put their careers before their love--they part under the force of gossip, reunite through the help and sacrifice of Sheila's nurse, and are parted when Sheila is strangled by a male ex-lover.​

The Rains Came: A Novel of Modern India (1937) Louis Bromefield. New York : Harper & Bros

• A love web interrupted by an earthquake, flood, and cholera outbreak. A pair of lesbian missionaries appear briefly; one is killed in the flood. Read Now: Archive (English)​

Vatermord (1920) Arnolt Bronnen. Berlin : Fischer

• A play of a tyrannical father, an incestous mother, and their homosexual son.

Later Than You Think (1938) Gawen Brownrigg. New York : Knopf

• Novel of a confident racecar driver and his affair with a woman. The team manager of the racing team is a gay man attracted to the uninterested driver.​

Star Against Star (1935) Gawn Brownrigg. Paris : The Obelisk Press. 329pp.

• A girl introduced to lesbianism by her mother and a school friend, and who struggles to accept her sexuality. ​

Die Verbrecher (1929) F. Bruckner. Berlin

• A play with commentary on criminality and justice among several complicated affairs of love, murder, and blackmail. One of the characters, Frank, is gay, constantly under threat of blackmail, and in love with a boy who is busy with his crush on Frank's mother. Translated to English in Two Plays of Weimar Germany (2018) tr. Laurence Senelick. More Info: Complete-Review​

Krankheit der Jugend (1926) Ferdinand Buckner  

• (TW: Suicide, Murder) aka Pains of Youth. A group of disillusioned students in Vienna cope with their despair through sex, drugs, and crime. One of the failed affairs is between two women.​

Vier Novellen (1888) Heinrich Bulthaupt. Dresden : Pierson

• Contains the novellas "Ganymed," "Narcissus," "Das Heiligenbildchen," and "Die schwebenden Gärten der Semiramis."​

The Sun in Splendour (1926) Thomas Burke. New York: Doran

• A novel of London and its inhabitants. ​

Twinkletoes (1918) Thomas Burke. New York : McBride

• (TW: Pedophilia) A London-based novel of a poor 15 year old girl dancer. The married 29 year old Chuck falls in love with her, although he states it is not sexual, and Twinks also falls in love with him. Not queer? Read Now: Google (English)​

"The Pash" in East of Mansion House (1926) Thomas Burke

• A poor factory girl becomes infatuated with an older rich woman. A man gets in the way by courting Amy?​

Female Convict: The Harrowing Inside Story of a Women's Prison (1934) Vincent G. Burns. New York : Macaulay

• Account of a women's prisons, its abuses and cases of lesbianism, as recounted by a female inmate to the author.

Entertaining the Islanders (1933) Struthers Burt. New York : Scribner

• Read Now: Archive (Alt) (English)​

L'Automa: romanzo biografico (1892) Enrico Butti. Milan : Gall

• A male protagonist's observational fantasies of two women depicted as lesbians with vampiric traits. Read Now: Archive (Italian), Google (Italian), Hathitrust (Italian)​

Armed with Madness (1928) Mary Butts. New York : Boni

• Modernization and reinterpretation of a Holy Grail quest with a group of Bohemians. The author had several lesbian affairs and befriended several gay male authors.​

Serenade (1937) James M. Cain. New York : Knopf. 188pp.

• A professional male opera singer loses his voice after having a crisis of sexual identity when wooed by a male impresario. He flees to Mexico, opens a brother with a female prostitute, and regains his voice after falling in love with her--they then confront the impresario together. Read Now: Archive (Alt) (Alt) (English)​

The Deemster: A Romance (1888) Hall Caine. Chatto & Windus. 3 vols.

• An epic of crime and absolution set on 18th century Isle of Man. Read Now: Archive (English)​

She's All the World to Me (1894) Hall Caine

• The base text that The Deemster was revised and expanded from. Read Now: Gutenberg (English)​

Beyond the Street (1934) Edgar Calmer. New York : Harcourt Brace

• The lives of students and teachers of a New York high school, several queer. One character is a teacher in an awkward love triangle: he loves a straight student who loves a female teacher who loves the gay teacher. Another is a student pianist in love with another boy three years his junior; he confides his unreturned affections in a straight yet sexually tolerant boy.

Mémoires de Canler: ancien chef du service de sureté (1882) Louis Canler. Paris : F. Roy. 2 vols.

• aka Memoirs of a Veteran Detective: Being the Reminiscences of Canler, Sometime Chief of the Detective Police of Paris. Originally published in abbreviated form in 1862. A chapter discusses cruisers, blackmailers, and others in the gay community. Read Now: Gallica - Volume 1 (French), Gallica - Volume 2 (French), Google (1863, English) Google - Volume 1 (French), Google - Volume 2 (French), LoC (English, tr. Col. H. Pelham Curtis)​

Jésus-la-Caille (1914) Francis Carco. Paris : Mercure de France

• Novel set in the 1910s and the Montmartre district of Paris. Although named after a gay sex worker, the novel focuses most on the heterosexual woman and fellow sex worker, Fernande. More Info: Chaslaborde​

L'amour Venal (1927) Francis Carco. Albin Michel

Les Hommes en Cage (1936) Francis Carco. Albin Michel

Les Malheurs de Fernande (1918) Francis Carco. Paris : L'Edition

• Sequel of Jésus-la-Caille. In 1920, it was combined with its prequel in one revised volume by Ronald Davis & Cie. This combined edition was released by Berkley as Frenzy (1960, tr. Lowell Blair).​

Perversité (1925) Francis Carco. New York : Covici 

• The Berkley edition (1956) was translated by Jean Rhys yet credited to Ford Madox Ford. More Info: LA Review of Books

Norma Trist: A Story of the Inversion of the Sexes (1895) J. W. Carhart

• Cover at UBC.​

Desirable Young Men (1933) Patrick Carleton. New York : Dutton. 308pp.

• Described as "an odd variation of the Dorian Gray motif" with "slightly Mephistophelian" protagonist by the NYT (1/15/1933). Cambridge undergrad Fulk Pearson attempts to transform the unremarkable Jasper Brownlove into an artist and actor yet inadvertently drives him into ruin.

Memoirs (1938) G. J. Casanova de Sengalt

Les Amants de Lesbos (1900) Prosper Castanier. L. Borel. Illustrated by F. Schmidt

• Read Now: Gallica (French), Google (French)​

"Paul's Case" in The Troll Garden (1905) Willa Sibert Cather

• Read Now: Archive (English), Google (English), Gutenberg (English), Wikisource (English)​

Journey to the End of Night (1934) Louis Ferdinand Celine. Boston : Little, Brown

Le Prophete Androgyne (1929) Jehan Cendrieux. Saigon : Editions d'Extreme-Asie

Charles-Etienne // and Nortal Albert

P'in-hau-pao-chien (1856) Ch'en Sen-shou / tr Pierre Klossowsk, Paris : J,. J. Pauvert, 1962

Amour Inverti (1901) J. de Cherveix. L. Chaubard. Illustrated by Gaston Smit.

• Follows several protagonists, including a man visiting the Gros Ventre Native Americans, a cafe singer, and a thief. More Info & Excerpt: BiblioCuriosa​

Julie, on j'ai sauve ma rose (1882) Felicite de Choiseul-Meuse. Privately printed

• aka Julie (1970, tr. Dorothy Albertyn). A fictional memoir of a Julie, taught to preserve her virginity at all costs, and her loves. She initially sees another woman, Caroline, as a rival for men's affections, but later falls in love with her and joins her secret society of lesbians, thereby preserving her virginity. Read Now: Google (French)​

Tete d'or (1919) Paul Claudel. Yale University Press

• A three act play in free verse. Catholicism, existentialism, and the worship-like bond between two men. Revised 1894, adding a scene in the first act where Simon addresses a great tree. The English version by Yale University Press (1919) tr. John Strong Newberry is of the revised text. Read Now: Google (English), Gutenberg (English), Hathitrust (English). More Info: Paul Claudel Society (French)​

Dew in April (1935) Henry Bertram Law Webb as John Clayton. New York : Kendall and Sharp

• Set in the 13th century Convent of St. Lazarus of the Butterflies. The abbess hosts a homoerotic relationship with other nuns, and they all move through strife as the protagonist finds a male lover. Read Now: Hathitrust (English)​

The Turning Wheels (1937) Stuary Cloette. Boston : Houghton-Mifflin. 434pp. South African frontier

Fabrizio Lupo (?) Carlo Coccioli. Mexico : Compania General de Ediciones. 417. Tr Aurelio Garzon

Fabrizio's Books (1936) Carlo Coccioli. New York : Shorecrest, Inc. 406pp. Tr Bernard Frechtman

Les Enfants Terribles (1930) Jean Cocteau. Paris : Brewer & Nassen. / Children of the Game (1955) London : Havrill

Chez les Mauvais Garçons (1937) Michel du Coglay. Paris : Raoul Saillard

• Seems to be a non-fictional account of Paris' queer scene. It also details Magic-City's drag balls.​

Sous le col bleu. Roman d'après les notes vécues d'un matelot (1937) Michel Du Coglay. Paris : Raoul Saillard

• Biographical novel which includes a scene where the sailor protagonist is seduced by another man.​

Claudine series (1900-1903, 1922) Colette as Willy

• Autobiographical series in five installments. Claudine's headmistress has an affair with a female teacher and male doctor, and Claudine later develops a relationship with another woman while being married. Read Now: Archive (English, Vols 1-4)​

• Claudine à l’école (1900). Read Now: Archive (French), Archive (Alt) (English)

• Claudine à Paris (1901). Read Now: Archive (Alt) (French), Archive (English)

• Claudine en ménage (1902). Read Now: Google (French), Archive (Alt) (English)

• Claudine s’en va (1903). Read Now: Archive (French), Archive (Alt) (English)

• La Maison de Claudine (1922). Read Now: Archive (French)

The Worm (1927) Desmond Cope. London : Chapman & Hall

• One of Coke's several schoolboy stories. Not sure what sets this one apart from them.​

Sodom und Gomorrha (1908) Karl Colbert. Berlin

Boy (1895-6) Luis Coloma.

• English? version edited by Myron B. Delly and published by New York : Bruce. Read Now: Archive (Spanish), National Library of Spain (Alt) (Spanish), Textos (Spanish)​ / Play Version: Archive (Spanish), National Library of Spain (Spanish)

De berg van licht (1905-6) Louis Couperus.

• aka Mountain of Light

De komedianten (1926) Louis Couperus.

• aka The Comedians: A Story of Ancient Rome (1926) by New York : George H. Doran. A pair of young male twins in a traveling theatre and homoerotic relationships with gladiators in the troupe. Read Now: Google (English), Gutenberg (Dutch)

Heliogabal (1916) Louis Couperus. Frankfurt : Verlag der Literarischen Anstalt Rutten & Loening

• aka Elagabalus​

Play Parade (1933) Noel Coward. New York : Garden City Pub

To Step Aside (1939) Noel Coward. New York : Doubleday

Present Indicative, an Autobiography (1937) Noel Coward. New York : Doubleday Doran

Either is Love (1937) Elizabeth Craigin. New York : Harcourt Brace. 155pp.

• After the death of her husband, a woman reviews the letters from her lesbian affair.
  More Info: MSVU​

Forever (1936) Mildred Crannach. New York : Knopf. 60pp.

Night in the Hotel (1931) Eliot Crawshay-Williams. New York : Livright, London : Gollancz

• A glance at the romantic conflicts and lives of disparate guests of a hotel. Two of them are lesbians.​

Verlorene Söhne: aus der Fremdenlegion (1906) Wilhelm Cremer. Berlin : Ledermann.

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A Grain of Sand (1913) John Cromwell. London : Peter Owen Ltd. 216pp.

Luca Moore--Drei Lieben (1939) Archibald Joseph Cronin. Vienna : Zsolnay

Him (1927) E. E. Cummings. New York : Liveright. Play

Regiment of Women (1917) Clemence Dane. New York : Macmillan

Le chemin mort (1909) Lucien Alphonse Daudet. Paris : Flammarion

Vom neuen Weibe und seiner Liebe: ein Buch für reife Geister (1901) Elisabeth Dauthendey. Berlin : Schuster & Loeffler. 120pp.

• A German woman falls in love with another woman while visiting Italy. Read Now: Google (German), Hathitrust (German)​

Of Lena Geyer (1936) Marcia (Gluck) Davenport. New York : Scriber's Sons.

Le Roy (1898) Albert Delacour. Mercure de France

Diana Stair (1932) Floyd Dell. New York : Farrar

On the River Amour (1929) Joseph Delteil. New York : Covici, Friede. 214pp. Tr Samuel Putnam

"Le Jardinier de la Pompadour" in Mer d Fr (Nov/Dec 1903, Jan/Feb 1904) Eugen Demolder. About Louix VX

Seven Gothic Tales (1939) Isak Dinesen. New York : Harrison Smith & Robert Hans. 508pp.

Ist es Notig? (June 1903) Diogenes. Berlin

Sara Alelia (1930) Hildur Dixelius. Munich : Biederstein.

Janet and her dear Phoebe (1909) Clarissa B. Dixon. New York : Stokes

Tagebuchblätter aus dem Leben eines unglücklichen: Ein psychologischer Roman (1914) Antonius Donatus. Leipzig : Spohr. 140pp.

Loveliest of Friends (1931) Sheila Donisthorpe. London : Old Royalty Book Pub. 262pp.

"Nyelochka Nyezvanov" in The Friend of the Family (1920) Feodor Mikhilovich Dostoyevsky. London : Heinemann, New York : Macmillan

South Wind (1925) Norman Douglas. New York: Boni & Liveright. 447pp.

Together (1931) Norman Drahn. New York: Robert McBride. 255pp. Travel memoirs.

Marigras Madness (1934) Davis Dresser. New York : Godwin

The Island of Beautiful Things (1912) Will Allen Dromgoole. Boston : Page

Les Invertis (1896) Armand Dubarry. Paris

Le femme d'affaires (1890) J. J. Dubut de la Forest. Paris : Dentu

Mlle. Tantale (1897) J. J. Dubut de la Forest. Paris : Dupont

Sind es Frauen? (1903) Aimee Duc. Berlin : Eckstein

The Thibaults (1939) Roger Martin Du Gard. New York : Literary Guild. 871pp. Tr Stuart Gilbert.

My Life (1927) Isadore Duncan. New York: Boni and Liverlight

Monsier, or, The Prince of Darkness (1924) L. Durrell. London : Faber

Dr. Angelo (1924) Erich Ebermayer. Leipzig : Oldenburg.

Dreieck des Gluckes. Buhnenmanuskript (1932) Erich Ebermayer. Berlin : Oesterheld

The Great Gulf (1932) Erich Ebermayer. New York : D. Appleton & Co. 280pp. Tr Morgan Fisher

Jurgen Ried oder Die tiefe Kluft (1931) Erich Ebermayer. Vienna : Zyolnay

Kampf um Oldlilienberg (1929) Erich Ebermayer. Vienna : Zyolnay

Kasper Hauser Dramatische Legend (1927) Erich Ebermayer. Schauspiel von Leipzig

Sieg des Lebens (1925) Erich Ebermayer. Leipzig : Oldenburg

Der Kaiser Hadrian (1881) George Mority Ebers. Stuttgart : Hallberger. / The Emperor, A Romance (1891) New York : Gottaberger

Georges Eekhoud

Tagebuch einer Erzieherin: Roman (1904) Maria Eichhorn as Dolorosa

• A sadomasochistic novel following the loves of Kamilla Kramm, including two women. Read Now: Ngiyaw

Im Fruhlingsgarten (1903) Ein Erosjunger. Berlin

"Glucklose Liebe" in Intime Geshichten (1907) Anne von der. Eken. Berlin : Metropol-Verlag

The Holland Wolves (1902) John Breckenridge. Chicago : McClurg

Les ephebes. La Revue san titre (1924)

Der Pastor (1926) Lisa Es. Berlin

L'Elu (1930) Achille Essebac. Paris :Ambert

Luc (1902) Achille Essebac. Paris : Ambert

Shadows Flying (1936) John Evans. New York : Knopf

Alraune (1929) Hanns Heinz Ewers. New York : John Day

Intimate Acrobatics (1927) Lord Stiles Doland Fairchild. New York : McBride

Camp Volant (1937) Andre Farigneau. Gallimard

La Grace humaine (1938) Andre Farigneau. Gallimard

L'irresistible (1935) Andre Farigneau. Gallimard

Val de Grace (1930) Andre Farigneau. Edition de Carrefour

The Recruiting Officer (1926) George Farqhar. London : Peter Davies. Play

Calico Shoes (1934) James T. Farrell. New York : Vanguard. Short stories, esp "Just Boys" and "Casual Incident"

Devoted Ladies (1934) M. J. Farrell. Boston : Little Brown

La Derniere Journee de Sappho (1901) Gabriel Faure. Paris : Mecure de France

La Nouvelle Sodom (1903) Edmond Fazy. Paris : Edition Moderne. Set in Turkish Constantinople

Les Civilises (1908) Claude Ferrere. Paris : Ollendorf. About Indo-China

La Danseur aux Caresses (1906) Jacques d'Adelsward Fersen. Paris : Vanier

Et le feu s'eteignany sur la mer (?) Jacques d'Adelsward Fersen. Paris : Messrin, Edition de la Revue "Akademos"

Une Jeunesse, Le Basier de Narcisse (1907) Jacques d'Adelsward Fersen. Paris :Anier

La Comtesse de Chalis (1871) Ernest Feydeau. Paris : Michel Levy

Caprice (1917) Ronald Firbank. London : Duckworth. 96pp.

Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli (1926) Ronald Firbank. London : Grant Richards

"Inclinations" in Three Novels (1916) Ronald Firbank. London : Duckworth

The Princess Zoubaroff (1920) Ronald Firbank

Valmouth (1919) Ronald Firbank. London : Duckworth. 127pp.

Amorous Tales / Bawdy Tales (1848) Agnolo Firenzoula. Florence : Bianchi. esp "Two Friends" and "The Amorous Slave"

I Am Today (1931) Marjorie Firminger. Paris

The Nun-Ensign (1908) James Fitzmaurice-Kelly. London : Fisher Unwin

The First Temptation of Saint Anthony (1932) Gustave Flauvert. Privately Printed for Rarity Press. 231 pp. Tr Rene Frances

Salammbo (1862) Gustave Flaubert. Paris

Der Fall Krupp und der Caprese (1903) A. T. Fleischmann. Munich : Self Published. Memoir.

"Krupp in Essen und auf Capri" in P. Gunther. Homosexualitat in ethisch-religioser Beleuchtung unter Bezugnahme auf das Wirken des Herrn. A. Fleischmann (1903) A. T. Fleischmann. Munich : Ascona. Memoir.

Vita Homosexualis (1903) A. T. Fleischmann. Leipzig : Besser. Memoir.

The Little Brother (1902) Josiah Flynt. New York : The Century. 254pp.

Chinese Gordon (1884) Archibald Forbes. New York : John B. Alden. 215pp. Memoir.