![]() Hausfrau Beth returns in Journey to a Woman (1960) for an affair with a consumptive lesbian from a family of Gothic weirdos. Women in the Shadows (1959) has Laura and Jack shacking up as mutual beards, and Beebo scheming to win her back - to the extent of fabricating a gang rape and butchering a pet dog. In I Am a Woman (1959), Laura moves to New York, befriends Jack, a gay man, and submits to Beebo, transplanted farmgirl and dominant butch. Odd Girl Out opens on Beth, a popular senior at a Midwestern university by the end, the focus is on her adoring roommate, Laura, a self-injurer with father issues. In fact, the sequence has no true central character. ANN BANNON (born 1932) would publish four more lesbian pulps over the next five years - a pentalogy dubbed “the Beebo Brinker chronicles” when reprinted by the feminist Naiad Press in the early Eighties. ![]() Bannon,” became a bestseller for Gold Medal Books. Ann Weldy was a Philadelphia housewife in 1957 when her first novel, a lesbian romance credited to “A. ![]()
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