Portrait of a lesbian

Portrait of a lesbian front cover. A red and black halftone image of the face of a woman with short hair fills most of the space against a black background. The face occupies the right half of the cover, positioned at a three-quarter angle facing left of the reader. The woman's eyes look straight out at the reader, lit with hard light from the front-right. The title is at the top and is a combination of sans-serif and serif fonts.
Portrait of a lesbian back cover. Fran's world was carefully organized...her emotions neatly categorized...until she met Mary. Young, pleading, in need of a guiding hand<br /> how was Fran to know that beneath the clear, innocent eyes lay a totally amoral creature - witlessly wreaking havoc wherever she went. There was only one word in Mary's vocabulary: CONQUEST. The consequence was someone else's lookout.

Title

Portrait of a lesbian

Date

1968

Printing location

Printed in the U.S.A.

Author Identity

Keenan, James

Author Gender / Sexual Orientation

Male
Author presumed to be straight

Publisher Type

Sleaze

Physical Dimensions

160 pages
18 cm

Protagonist's Status at the End

The story does not end with a lesbian relationship

Cover, Back Text

"Fran's world was carefully organized...her emotions neatly categorized...until she met Mary. Young, pleading, in need of a guiding hand
how was Fran to know that beneath the clear, innocent eyes lay a totally amoral creature - witlessly wreaking havoc wherever she went. There was only one word in Mary's vocabulary: CONQUEST. The consequence was someone else's lookout." -Back cover

Cover Art Description

A red and black halftone image of the face of a woman with short hair fills most of the space against a black background. The face occupies the the right half of the cover, positioned at a three-quarter angle facing left of the reader. The woman's eyes look straight out at the reader, lit with hard light from the front-right. The title is at the top, and is a combination of sans-serif and serif fonts.

Cover Art Style

Photograph
Halftone

Cover Art People

Single woman

Cover Art Clothing and Fashion

N/A

Cover Art Background Colour

Black

Cover Art Setting

Undefined

Cover Art Light/Shadow

Hard light
Shadow

Cover Art Gaze

Gaze toward reader

Cover Art Stereotype

The solitary lesbian

Cover Art Title

Sans-serif
Serif
Yellow

Comments

Allowed tags: <p>, <a>, <em>, <strong>, <ul>, <ol>, <li>

Citation

Golden, Samantha, “Portrait of a lesbian,” The Lesbian Pulp Fiction Collection @ Mount Saint Vincent University, accessed April 19, 2024, https://msvulpf.omeka.net/items/show/580.