Persephone Press

Beck, Evelyn Torton. Nice Jewish girls: a lesbian anthology. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1982.

Bloch, Alice. The law of return: a novel. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1983.

Bloch, Alice. Lifetime guarantee: a journey through loss and survival. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1981.

Blue, Shelley. The fourteenth witch: poetry. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1977.

Bulkin, Elly. Lesbian fiction: an anthology. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1981.

Bulkin, Elly and Joan Larkin. Lesbian poetry, an anthology. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1981.

Cliff, Michelle. Claiming an identity they taught me to despise. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1980.

Gage, Matilda Joslyn, 1826-1898. Woman, church & state: the original exposé of male collaboration against the female sex. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1980, 1893.

Gearhart, Sally Miller. The wanderground: stories of the hill women. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1978, 1979. The Wanderground is available as a PDF download from Gearhart's website: http://www.sallymillergearhart.net/pdfs/TheWanderground-ebook.pdf

Gearhart, Sally, Miller and Susan Rennie. A feminist tarot. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1977, 1981. A Feminist Tarot is available as a PDF download from Gearhart's website: http://www.sallymillergearhart.net/pdfs/A-Feminist-Tarot.pdf

Klepfisz, Irena. Keeper of accounts. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1982.

Lorde, Audre. Zami, a new spelling of my name. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1982.

Moraga, Cherríe and Gloria Anzaldúa. This bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1981.

Toder, Nancy. Choices. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1980.

Wolfe, Susan J. and Julia Penelope. The coming out stories. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1980.

Archival Material from Persephone Press
http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch01189
Persephone Press was founded in 1976 in Watertown, Massachusetts, by a lesbian-feminist collective called Pomegranate Productions. Its first publication, The Feminist Tarot, helped subsidize the first National Women's Spirituality Conference, Through the Looking Glass, held in Boston in April 1976. The goal of Persephone Press was to produce innovative material to foster lesbian sensibility and to effect social change by building a successful publishing company and communications network. Two of its three founders, Gloria Z. Greenfield and Pat McGloin, served as financial administrator and director of marketing respectively. Persephone Press was sold to Beacon Press in 1983.

Polly Joan and Andrea Chesman in the Guide to Women's Publishing (Paradise, CA: Dustbooks, 1978) note that Persephone Press was "marketing six books at the moment." Those six books were A Feminist Tarot, The Feminist Book of Lights and Shadows (by Z. Budapest), Through the Looking Glass, Susan B. Anthony Coven No. 1, The Beguines, Moondance, and The Fourteenth Witch. Of these, Persephone Press published A Feminist Tarot and The Fourteenth Witch. I believe other publishers published the other books and Persephone Press was marketing them.