Middle: Women’s Barracks, by Tereska Torres. Often known as the first lesbian pulp.(1950, Fawcett Books). Credit.
Right: Spring Fire, by Vin Parker. A pro-lesbian pulp novel. (1952, Gold Medal Books). Credit.
Middle: This Bed We Made by Artemis Smith. (1961, Monarch). A virile adventure. Note the man on the cover, a convention that was popular in virile adventures. Credit.
Right: The Third Way by Sheldon Lord. (1962, Beacon Books). A virile adventure. Credit.
Middle: Whisper Their Love by Valerie Taylor. A pro-lesbian pulp. (1957, Fawcett). Credit.
Right: The Price of Salt, by Patricia Highsmith (published under the pseudonym Claire Morgan). (1952, Coward-McCann). This book gained an immediate and lasting cult following, and was made into the 2015 film Carol starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. Credit.
Middle: Journey to a Woman, by Ann Bannon. (1960, Gold Medal Books. This edition, 2001). Ann Bannon (Born Ann Weldy) was 22 years old and married when she published her first book . Credit.
Right: I Am a Woman, by Ann Bannon. (1959, Gold Medal Books This edition, 2001). The series was republished in 2001 and adapted as an Off-Broadway production. Credit.
For more on lesbian pulp novels, see Yvonne Keller’s 2005 article “”Was It Right To Love Her Brother’s Wife So Passionately?”: Lesbian Pulp Novels and U.S. Lesbian Identity, 1950-1965,” and Suzanna Danuta Walters’ 1989 article “As Her Hand Crept Slowly up Her Thigh: Ann Bannon and the Politics of Pulp.” Find in Works Cited.
For more images of lesbian pulp novel covers, check out this great Twitter account, Lesbian Pulp Bot.
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