The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

On the Shelf for February 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 306

On the Shelf for February 2025

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 306 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

• Submissions for the 2025 fiction series are closed and results will be announced shortly
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Turton, Stephen. 2022. “The Lexicographical Lesbian: Remaking the Body in Anne Lister’s Erotic Glossary” in The Review of English Studies, vol. 73, no. 310: 537-551.
  • Braunschneider, Theresa. 1999. “The Macroclitoride, the Tribade, and the Woman: Configuring Gender and Sexuality in English Anatomical Discourse” in Textual Practice 13, no. 3: 509-32.
  • Stanton, Domna C. 1986. The Defiant Muse: French Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present. The Feminist Press ISBN 0-935312-52-8
  • Donoghue, Emma. 1997. Poems Between Women: Four centuries of love, romantic friendship, and desire. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-231-10925-3
  • Burger, Glenn & Steven F. Kruger eds. 2001. Queering the Middle Ages. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-81669-3404-1
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Distant Thunder by Peggy J. Herring
  • Minas (Dying Gods #4) by Elisha Kemp
  • Benefactor to the Baroness by Melissa Kendall
  • Mutual Interest by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
  • Payback by Penny Mickelbury
  • Hungerstone by Kat Dunn
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Murder in an English Village by Jessica Ellicott
  • A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
  • All the Painted Stars by Emma Denny

A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Lesbians and the Law - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 305

Lesbians and the Law

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 305 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• Evidence for how romantic and sexual relations between women were treated in legal systems in western culture
• References
  • Benbow, R. Mark and Alasdair D. K. Hawkyard. 1994. “Legal Records of Cross-dressing” in Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages, ed. Michael Shapiro, Ann Arbor. pp.225-34.
  • Benkov, Edith. “The Erased Lesbian: Sodomy and the Legal Tradition in Medieval Europe” in Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages. ed. by Francesca Canadé Sautman & Pamela Sheingorn. Palgrave, New York, 2001.
  • Boehringer, Sandra (trans. Anna Preger). 2021. Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-367-74476-2
  • Borris, Kenneth (ed). 2004. Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance: A Sourcebook of Texts, 1470-1650. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-1-138-87953-9
  • Brown, Kathleen. 1995. “’Changed...into the Fashion of a Man’: The Politics of Sexual Difference in a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Settlement” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:2 pp.171-193.
  • Burshatin, Israel. “Elena Alias Eleno: Genders, Sexualities, and ‘Race’ in the Mirror of Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Spain” in Ramet, Sabrina Petra (ed). 1996. Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives. Routledge, London. ISBN 0-415-11483-7
  • Crane, Susan. 1996. “Clothing and Gender Definition: Joan of Arc,” in Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 26:2 : 297-320.
  • Crawford, Patricia & Sara Mendelson. 1995. "Sexual Identities in Early Modern England: The Marriage of Two Women in 1680" in Gender and History vol 7, no 3: 362-377.
  • Cressy, David. 1996. “Gender Trouble and Cross-Dressing in Early Modern England” in Journal of British Studies 35/4: 438-465.
  • Crompton, Louis. 1985. “The Myth of Lesbian Impunity: Capital Laws from 1270 to 1791” in Licata, Salvatore J. & Robert P. Petersen (eds). The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 0-918393-11-6 (Also published as Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 6, numbers 1/2, Fall/Winter 1980.)
  • Dekker, Rudolf M. and van de Pol, Lotte C. 1989. The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe. Macmillan, London. ISBN 0-333-41253-2
  • Derry, Caroline. 2020. Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-35299-8
  • Duggan, Lisa. 1993. “The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America” in Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader, ed. Robert J. Corber and Stephen Valocchi. Oxford: Blackwell. pp.73-87
  • Eriksson, Brigitte. 1985. “A Lesbian Execution in Germany, 1721: The Trial Records” in Licata, Salvatore J. & Robert P. Petersen (eds). The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 0-918393-11-6 (Also published as Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 6, numbers 1/2, Fall/Winter 1980.)
  • Fernandez, André. 1997. “The Repression of Sexual Behavior by the Aragonese Inquisition between 1560 and 1700” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 7:4 pp.469-501
  • Friedli, Lynne. 1987. “Passing Women: A Study of Gender Boundaries in the Eighteenth Century” in Rousseau, G. S. and Roy Porter (eds). Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 0-8078-1782-1
  • Hindmarch-Watson, Katie. 2008. "Lois Schwich, the Female Errand Boy: Narratives of Female Cross-Dressing in Late-Victorian London" in GLQ 14:1, 69-98.
  • History Project, The. 1998. Improper Bostonians. Beacon Press, Boston. ISBN 0-8070-7948-0
  • Holler, Jacqueline. 1999. “’More Sins than the Queen of England’: Marina de San Miguel before the Mexican Inquisition” in Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World, ed. Mary E. Giles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. ISBN 0-8018-5931-X pp.209-28
  • Hubbard, Thomas K. 2003. Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-23430-7
  • Hutchison, Emily & Sara McDougall. 2022. “Pardonable Sodomy: Uncovering Laurence’s Sin and Recovering the Range of the Possible” in Medieval People, vol. 37, pp. 115-146.
  • Karras, Ruth Mazo. 2005. Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-415-28963-4
  • Lansing, Carol. 2005. “Donna con Donna? A 1295 Inquest into Female Sodomy” in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History: Sexuality and Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, Third Series vol. II: 109-122.
  • Lucas, R. Valerie. 1988. “’Hic Mulier’: The Female Transvestite in Early Modern England” in Renaissance and Reformation 12:1 pp.65-84
  • Merrick, Jeffrey & Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. 2001. Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-510257-6
  • Michelsen, Jakob. 1996. “Von Kaufleuten, Waisenknaben und Frauen in Männerkleidern: Sodomie im Hamburg des 18. Jahrhunderts” in Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung 9: 226-27.
  • Monter, E. William. 1985. “Sodomy and Heresy in Early Modern Switzerland” in Licata, Salvatore J. & Robert P. Petersen (eds). The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 0-918393-11-6 (Also published as Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 6, numbers 1/2, Fall/Winter 1980.)
  • Murray, Jacqueline. 1996. "Twice marginal and twice invisible: Lesbians in the Middle Ages" in Handbook of Medieval Sexuality, ed. Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage, Garland Publishing, pp. 191-222
  • Puff, Helmut. 1997. “Localizing Sodomy: The ‘Priest and sodomite’ in Pre-Reformation Germany and Switzerland” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 8:2 165-195
  • Puff, Helmut. 2000. "Female Sodomy: The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477)" in Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: 30:1, 41-61.
  • Robinson, David Michael. 2001. “The Abominable Madame de Murat’” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
  • Roelens, Jonas. 2015. “Visible Women: Female Sodomy in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Southern Netherlands (1400-1550)” in BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review vol. 130 no. 3.
  • Sears, Clare. 2015. Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-5758-2
  • Traub, Valerie. 2002. The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-44885-9
  • Van der Meer, Theo. 1991. “Tribades on Trial: Female Same-Sex Offenders in Late Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:3 424-445.
  • Velasco, Sherry. 2000. The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire and Catalina de Erauso. University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-78746-4
  • Velasco, Sherry. 2011. Lesbians in Early Modern Spain. Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville. ISBN 978-0-8265-1750-0
  • Vermeil. 1765. Mémoire pour Anne Grandjean. Louis Cellot, Paris.
  • Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

On the Shelf for January 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 304

On the Shelf for January 2025

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 304 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Turton, Stephen. 2024. Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary 1600-1930. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-316-51873-1
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Christmas At Caldwell House (The Caldwell Family #2) by Eden Hopewell
  • Bold Privateer (The Covert Captain prequel) by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
  • The Bawdy Suffragettes by Sapphic Shelley
  • Unspoken Verses by S.P. Blackthorn
  • A Traitorous Heart by Erin Cotter
  • Those Fatal Flowers by Shannon Ives
  • Seducing the Widow by Jane Walsh
  • Her Ladyship's Christmas Companion by Theresa Meiningen
  • The Songbird by Stacy Lynn Miller
• Other Titles of Interest
  • The Spirit Circle by Tara Calaby
• What I’ve been consuming
  • The Lotus Empire (Burning Kingdomes #3) by Tasha Suri
  • I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner
  • Masters in this Hall by K.J. Charles
  • Bold Privateer by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
  • A Ruse of Shadows (Lady Sherlock #8) by Sherry Thomas
  • The Duke’s Sister and I by Emma-Claire Sunday
  • A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
• Call for submissions for the 2025 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.

A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Interview with Margaret Vandenburg - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 303

Interview with Margaret Vandenburg

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 303 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• Too many things to list individually
• Books and people mentioned
  • Magnus Hirschfeld
  • Virginia Woolf - A Room of One’s Own
  • Margaret Vandenburg - An American in Paris
  • Djuna Barnes - Nightwood
  • Virginia Woolf - Orlando
  • Chappell Roan
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Emma Donoghue – The Pull of the Stars
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Michel Foucault - The History of Sexuality
  • Golden Crown Literary Society
  • Olivia Waite - Feminine Pursuits series

A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Links to Margaret Vandenburg Online

• Website: https://www.margaretvandenburg.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/margaretvandenburgwriter

On the Shelf for December 2024 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 302

On the Shelf for December 2024

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 302 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

• Call for submissions for the 2024 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Derry, Caroline. 2020. Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-35299-8
  • Hutchison, Emily & Sara McDougall. 2022. “Pardonable Sodomy: Uncovering Laurence’s Sin and Recovering the Range of the Possible” in Medieval People, vol. 37, pp. 115-146.
  • Derry, Caroline. 2022. “The ‘legal’ in socio-legal history: Woods and Pirie v. Cumming Gordon” in Journal of Law and Society 49:778-799.
  • Roelens, Jonas. 2015. “Visible Women: Female Sodomy in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Southern Netherlands (1400-1550)” in BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review vol. 130 no. 3.
  • Lee, L.J. 2024. “Sossang and Danji: 15th century Korean maidservants in love” published as part of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project at alpennia.com.
• A new resource for forthcoming sapphic/lesbian fiction
  • 2025 Sapphic Fiction compiled by @lavendersbook
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • The Lady and the Maid by Paul Jackson
  • The Potent Solution by Ashley Nova
  • The Long Winter of Mi?gar?r (Tales from Norvegr) by Edale Lane
  • Female Sharpshooter in the Civil War by Kenneth Alder
  • Victory, Virus, Votes: 1917-1920 (Deborah and Miriam's Boston Marriage #4) by Ellen M. Levy
  • Beyond the Boundaries of Time by Hazel Bennett
  • The Case of the Missing Maid (Harriet Morrow Investigates #1) by Rob Osler
  • Speak EZ by Elle E. Ire
  • Clara, Darling by Chace Verity
  • Encrypted Hearts (A Women in War Historical Romance #3) by E.V. Bancroft
  • Unbroken by Kim Pritekel
• What I’ve been consuming
  • You're the Problem, It's You by Emma R. Alban
  • Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo
  • A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland
  • Harvest Season by Annick Trent

A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

A Very Long Malaise by L.J. Lee - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 301

A Very Long Malaise by L.J. Lee

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 301 with Heather Rose Jones

This quarter’s fiction episode presents “A Very Long Malaise” by L.J. Lee, narrated by Bailey Wolfe.

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Links to L.J. Lee Online

• Website: ljwrites.blog
• Mastodon: @ljwrites@writeout.ink

Links to Bailey Wolfe Online

• Website: bbwolfevox.com

Where I Have Been, Where I Will Go - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 300

Where I Have Been, Where I Will Go

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 300 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• A look back at what the Project has accomplished
• Plans for publishing a research sourcebook
• Outline of the sourcebook contents

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

On the Shelf for November 2024 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 299

On the Shelf for November 2024

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 299 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

• Call for submissions for the 2024 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Derry, Caroline. 2020. Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-35299-8
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Redway Acres: Grace by Trish Henry Green
  • Another Victorian Tale of Life and Love (Victorian Tales #2) by Nicole Kotoman
  • When Hearts are True by L.J. Corelli
  • The Lotus Empire (The Burning Kingdoms #3) by Tasha Suri
  • All the Painted Stars (14th Century Oxfordshire #2) by Emma Denny
  • Time and Tide by J.M. Frey
  • Monsoon Queen (The War Between Cedar and Oak #1) by Jo Carthage
  • A Pearl Enraptured by Andrea K. Stein
  • Outlaw Hearts by Lori G. Matthews
  • Timeless by Nicole Pyland
  • Taiwan Travelogue by Shuang-zi Yang (trans. Lin King)
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout, translated by Laura Watkinson
  • The Duke at Hazard by K. J. Charles
  • Craze by Margaret Vandenburg
  • The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
  • The Fire and the Place in the Forest by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
• A special book appreciation segmenton books set in the 1920s
  • Nghi Vo The Chosen and the Beautiful
  • Sarah Zane Beautiful Little Fool
  • Alyssa Linn Palmer Midnight at the Orpheus
  • Brandy T. Wilson The Palace Blues
  • Katharine Schellman Last Call at the Nightingale
  • Margaret Vandenburg Craze
  • Missouri Vaun Whiskey Sunrise
  • Stacy Lynn Miller Devil’s Slide
  • Anne Shade Masquerade
  • Ava Freeman The Sweetest Taboo
  • Nekesa Afla Dead Dead Girls
  • Kip Wilson The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin
  • April Yates Ashthorne
  • A.L. Lester The Fog of War
  • Charlotte Anne Hamilton Of Trust and Heart

A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 15: Gender Disguise - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 298

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 15: Gender Disguise

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 298 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• My definition of gender-disguise plots
• The dynamics of gender disguise in m/f romance
• The dynamics and considerations of gender disguise in f/f romance
• Some considerations of gender disguise in m/m romance

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

On the Shelf for October 2024 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 297

On the Shelf for October 2024

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 297 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

• Disaster fiction
• Announcing the 2025 fiction series and some milestones
• The challenge that large language models present to publishing
• Book Shopping
  • Derry, Caroline. 2020. Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-35299-8
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • A Victorian tale of life and love by Nicole Kotoman
  • My Beloved Viking by Victoria Valberg
  • The Legend of Pope Joan - Part 1: Frankia by author
  • The Legend of Pope Joan - Part 2: Athens by author
  • The Legend of Pope Joan - Part 3: Rome by author
  • Her Fair Lady by Catherine Stein
  • All Bets Off by Jaime Clevenger
  • Hearts in the Shadows by Zara Voss
  • Peril in Provence (The Mary Grey Mysteries #4) by Winnie Frolik
  • Gentlest of Wild Things by Sarah Underwood
  • Sor Juana, My Beloved: The Poetry, The Passion That Is Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz by MaryAnn Shank
  • The Greymere Cliffs: A gothic romance short story by Anne Knight
  • Strange Beasts by Susan J. Morris
  • Moonshine by Olivia Hampton
  • Her Last Secret by Renee Bess
  • Islands of Mice by Lucy Jacobs
  • The People Next Door by Anna Woiwood
• Other Titles of Interest
  • I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner
  • Women's Hotel by Daniel M. Lavery
• What I’ve been consuming
  • A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
  • A Liaison with Her Leading Lady by Lotte R. James
  • Netherford Hall by Natania Barron
  • How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
  • Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne
  • The First Rebellion by M.C. Beaton
  • Any Old Diamonds by K.J. Charles
  • Gilded Cage by K.J. Charles
  • Rag and Bone by K.J. Charles
  • Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton

A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)