Introduction Why Books? Why Fiction? What Is the Publishing Closet? 1. 'We would soon tone them down!': Denton Welch and Writing the Queer Manuscript Denton Welch and The Homoerotics of Adolescence Maiden Voyage (1943) In Youth Is Pleasure (1945) 2. 'It did get a reputation . of being a "queer" book': John Guest and Editing the Queer Manuscript Francis King and The Dividing Stream (1951) Mary Renault and The Last of the Wine (1956) Francis King and The Man on the Rock (1957) John Guest as Queer Editor 3. 'Can you make it rather more of a He and She picture?': Designing and Blurbing the Queer Dust-Jacket Text and Image Blurbs Illustration Mary Renault and the Queer Dust-Jacket The Charioteer (1953) The Last of the Wine (1956) 4. 'Conditioned somewhat by what we can sell': Martyn Goff, Putnam, and Marketing the Homosexual Novel The Homosexual Novel and Postwar Queer Consumerism Martyn Goff and Marketing the Homosexual Novel The Plaster Fabric (1957) The Youngest Director (1961) 5. 'Upholders of Middle-Class Morality' and 'Purveyors of Greeting Cards': W.H.

Smith and Distributing Queer Books W.H. Smith and the Legal Position of Libel and Obscenity Pre-1959 W.H. Smith and the Obscene Publications Act (1959) W.H. Smith, Obscenity, and Homosexuality in the 1960s Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, and W.H.

Smith W.H. Smith and Action Plan D2 6. 'The business of sisterhood': Publishing the Lesbian Novel Lesbianism as Obscenity: The Well of Loneliness (1928) Trial and its Consequences A Publishing History of the Lesbian Novel, 1940s-1960s Queer Women's Representation in Genre Fiction in the 1940s The (Re-)Emergence of the Lesbian Novel in the 1950s The Lesbian Novel in the 1960s Queer Women and the Economics of Authorship Queer Women Networks and the 'business of sisterhood' Bibliography Index.