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Summer camp
by Anne Herbert
Vintage lesbian pulp fiction
Summer camp
Published: 2026
Publisher: Softcover Library, Inc.
Language: en
Identifier: http://www.gutenberg.org/79509
Subjects: Girls' camps -- Fiction; Women camp counselors -- Fiction; Lesbians -- Fiction; Sexuality -- Fiction; Pulp fiction; New York (State) -- Fiction
A 1960s pulp novel set at a girls’ summer camp, where eighteen-year-old counselor Peggy Matthews becomes drawn into charged relationships with fellow staff members Karen “Mike” Michaels and Lilian Parker. Marketed in its original edition as a sensational “case history,” the book follows Peggy’s emotional and sexual confusion amid jealousy, manipulation, and escalating scandal among the counselors. Its language and framing reflect dated and pathologizing mid-century attitudes toward lesbianism, making it of interest as vintage paperback fiction and as an example of lesbian-themed pulp publishing of the period.
Source: Project Gutenberg eBook #79509
Project Gutenberg eBook of Summer camp by Anne Herbert; released September 3, 2026; produced by Jens Sadowski.
