The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

On the Shelf for July 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 318

On the Shelf for July 2025

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 318 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• TV series: The Buccaneers
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Faderman, Lillian. 1978. “Female Same-Sex Relationships in Novels by Longfellow, Holmes, and James” in The New England Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 3: 309-332
  • Godbeer, Richard. 1995. “’The Cry of Sodom’: Discourse, Intercourse, and Desire in Colonial New England” in The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 2: 259-286
  • Manion, Jen. “The Queer History of Passing as a Man in Early Pennsylvania” in Pennsylvania Legacies, vol. 16, no. 1, 2016, pp. 6–11.
  • Vaughan, Alden. 1978. “The Sad Case of Thomas(ine) Hall” in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 86: 146-48.
  • Oaks, Robert F. 1978. “"Things Fearful to Name": Sodomy and Buggery in Seventeenth-Century New England” in Journal of Social History, Vol. 12, No. 2: 268-281
  • Wood, Mary E. 1993. “’With Ready Eye’: Margaret Fuller and Lesbianism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature” in American Literature 65: 3-4.
  • Comment, Kristin M. 2005. “Charles Brockden Brown’s ‘Ormond’ and Lesbian Possibility in the Early Republic” in Early American Literature, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 57–78.
  • Freedman, Estelle B. 1982. “Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America: Behavior, Ideology, and Politics” in Reviews in American History, Vol. 10, No. 4, The Promise of American History: Progress and Prospects: 196-215
  • LaFleur, Greta. “Sex and ‘Unsex’: Histories of Gender Trouble in Eighteenth-Century North America.” Early American Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, 2014, pp. 469–99.
  • Cleves, Rachel Hope. 2014. Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-933542-8
  • Martin, Sylvia. 1994. “'These Walls of Flesh': The Problem of the Body in the Romantic Friendship/Lesbianism Debate” in Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, Vol. 20, No. 2, Lesbian Histories: 243-266
  • VanHaitsma, Pamela. 2019. “Stories of Straightening Up: Reading Femmes in the Archives of Romantic Friendship” in QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, Vol. 6, No. 3:1-24
  • Cleves, Rachel Hope. “Six Ways of Looking at a Trans Man? The Life of Frank Shimer (1826-1901).” Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 27, no. 1, 2018, pp. 32–62.
  • Faderman, Lillian. 1979. “Who Hid Lesbian History?” in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Autumn 1979, Vol. 4, No 3. 74-76.
  • Garber, Linda. 2015. “Claiming Lesbian History: The Romance Between Fact and Fiction” in Journal of Lesbian Studies, 19(1), 129-49.
  • Braunschneider, Theresa. 2004. “Acting the Lover: Gender and Desire in Narratives of Passing Women” in Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 45, no. 3: 211-29
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • The Housekeeper's Ledger by Allison Ingram
  • A Truthful Companion By My Side by Claudia Haase
  • Secrets at the Ambrose Café by Carryl Church
  • Salt in the Silk by Delly M. Elrose
  • A Bounty of Bitterwort (Lavender and Foxglove #2) by Hilary Rose Berwick
  • A Rondel of Rosemary (Lavender and Foxglove #3) by Hilary Rose Berwick
  • A League of Lavender (Lavender and Foxglove #4) by Hilary Rose Berwick
  • In Her Own Shoes (The Ferrier Chronicles #1) by Mark Prime
  • The Letters Beneath Her Floorboards by Mira Ashwyn
  • House of Ash and Honor by W.S. Banks
  • Lavender & Gin by Abigail Aaronson
  • The Fortune Hunter's Guide to Love by Emma-Claire Sunday
  • The Rebel Girls of Rome by Jordyn Taylor
  • The Secrets of Harbour House by Liz Fenwick
  • Whispers Beneath the Banyan Bath by Moon Heeyang
  • The Original by Nell Stevens
  • Wayward Girls by Susan Wiggs
  • Miss Veal and Miss Ham by Vikki Heywood
• What I’ve been consuming
  • A Rare Find by Joanna Lowell
  • The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod
  • The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
  • Servant Mage by Kate Elliott

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

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• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Charity and Sylvia - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 317

Charity and Sylvia

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 317 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• The lives of two women in early 19th century Vermont whose marriage-like relationship was accepted and even celebrated by their community
• Sources mentioned
  • Cleves, Rachel Hope. 2014. Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-933542-8
• This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Charity Bryant & Sylvia Drake

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 June 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 316

On the Shelf for June 2025

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 316 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
  • Bronski, Michael. 2012. A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History). Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0807044650
  • Rouse, Wendy L. 2022. Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. New York: NYU Press. ISBN 9781479813940
  • Boag, Peter. 2011. Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-27062-6
  • Boag, Peter. 2011. “The Trouble with Cross-Dressers: Researching and Writing the History of Sexual and Gender Transgressiveness in the Nineteenth-Century American West” in Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 112, No. 3: 322-339
  • Brown, Judith, C. 1986. Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-504225-5
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • An American in Paris by Margaret Vandenburg
  • Whispers of Love Beneath the Hidden Manor by Aiyo Sa
  • The Ladies by Caitlin Crowe
  • The Eye of the Water: Between Creek and Roots by Stephanie Hager-Lyons
  • A Soft Place to Land by Kelsey Kranz
  • Lady's Knight by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
  • Six Wild Crowns by Holly Race
  • Daughter of Doom by Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem
  • A Rare Find by Joanna Lowell
  • Murder by Proxy (Meredith and Alex Thatch Mystery #3) by Rachel Ford
  • Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
• Other Titles of Interest
  • Damsels and Dinosaurs by Wren Jones
  • By Her Sword: A Sapphic Fantasy Romance Anthology (Sunset Wave Sapphic Anthologies #2) edited by Erin Branch
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer
• This month we interview Joanna Lowell and talk about:
  • Working with historical language and issues around characters who don’t fall neatly in the gender binary
  • How her previous books connect together
  • Actor Charlotte Charke as an inspiration for the character of Georgie
  • Theater as a place for queer themes
  • Avoiding being locked into incorrect historical tropes
  • How the novels of Alexis Hall and Sarah Waters work differently with gender
  • The difficulty of getting away from modern identity categories
  • Books Joanna has recently enjoyed:
    • A Gentleman’s Gentleman by T.J. Alexander
    • Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti

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 Joanna Lowell Online

• Website: https://www.joannalowell.com/
• Instagram: @joannalowellauthor

The House of the Women by Jeannelle M. Ferreira - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 315

The House of the Women by Jeannelle M. Ferreira

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 315 with Heather Rose Jones

This quarter’s fiction episode presents “The House of the Women” by JEannelle M. Ferreira, narrated by Violet Dixon.

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 Jeannelle M. Ferreria Online

• Website: https://jeannellewrites.wordpress.com/
• Bluesky: @jeannellewrites.bsky.social

Benedetta Carlini, Lesbian Nun - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 314

Benedetta Carlini, Lesbian Nun

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 314 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• The historic and religious context of Benedetta’s life
• Benedetta’s sexual encounters
• Sources mentioned
  • Brown, Judith C. 1984. “Lesbian Sexuality in Renaissance Italy: The Case of Sister Benedetta Carlini” in Signs 9 (1984): 751-58. (reprinted in: Freedman, Esteele B., Barbara C. Gelpi, Susan L. Johnson & Kathleen M. Weston. 1985. The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-2256-26151-4)
  • Brown, Judith C. 1986. Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-504225-5
  • 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
  • Matter, E. Ann. 1989. “My Sister, My Spouse: Woman-Identified Women in Medieval Christianity” in Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality, eds. Judith Plaskow & Carol P. Christ. Harper & Row, San Francisco.
  • Watt, Diane. 1997. “Read My Lips: Clipping and Kyssyng in the Early Sixteenth Century” in Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality, ed. Anna Livia and Kira Hall. New York, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-510471-4
• This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Benedetta Carlini

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 May 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 313

On the Shelf for May 2025

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 313 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• Retirement
• Financing the podcast
• Expanded analysis projects
• A new policy affecting the new book listings
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod
  • Midnight Letters by Rowan Wilder
  • The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling
  • Murder at the Cabaret by Dana Gricken
  • Give My Love to Berlin by Katherine Bryant
  • To the Fairest by M. Walker
  • Time After time by Mikki Daughtry
  • A Spell for Change by Nicole Jarvis
• Other Titles of Interest
  • The Olive and the Spear by J.A. Rainbow
• What I’ve been consuming
  • The Chatelaine by Kate Heartfield
• This month we interview Lindz McLeod and talk about:
  • The appeal of adapting Jane Austen’s fiction
  • Communicating with the language of flowers
  • Other Austen characters who might have interesting stories
  • The wide variety of Lindz’s work
  • The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod
  • The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley by Lindz McLeod (forthcoming)
  • An Honour and a Priviledge by Lindz McLeod (forthcoming)

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 Lindz McLeod Online

• Website: https://lindzmcleod.co.uk/
• Twitter: @lindzmcleod
• Instagram: @lindz.mcleod
• Bluesky: @lindzmcleod.bsky.social

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 17: The Governess - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 312

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 17: The Governess

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 312 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• The dynamics of the “governess romance”
• F/f possibilities for governess romances

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 April 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 311

On the Shelf for April 2025

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 311 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• A special announcement about your host
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Ragan, Bryant T. Jr. 1996. “The Enlightenment Confronts Homosexuality” in Homosexuality in Modern France ed. by Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-509304-6
  • Merrick, Jeffrey. 1996. “The Marquis de Villette and Mademoiselle de Raucourt: Representations of Male and Female Sexual Deviance in Late Eighteenth-Century France” in Homosexuality in Modern France ed. by Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-509304-6
  • Colwill, Elizabeth. 1996. “Pass as a Woman, Act like a Man: Marie-Antoinette as Tribade in the Pornography of the French Revolution” in Homosexuality in Modern France ed. by Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-509304-6
  • Sautman, Francesca Canadé. 1996. “Invisible Women: Lesbian Working-class Culture in Ferance, 1880-1930” in Homosexuality in Modern France ed. by Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-509304-6
  • Oram, Alison & Annmarie Turnbull. 2001. The Lesbian History Sourcebook: love and sex between women in Britain from 1780 to 1970. Routledge, New York. ISBN 9-78-0-415-11485-3
  • Choma, Anne. 2019. Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister. Penguin Books, New York. ISBN 978-0-14-313456-5
  • Ó Síocháin, Tadhg. 2017. The Case of The Abbot of Drimnagh: A Medieval Irish Story of Sex-Change. Cork Studies in Celtic Literatures. ISBN 978-0-9955469-1-2
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Glitter in the Dark by Olesya Lyuzna
  • That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga #1) by Brittany N. Williams
  • Saint-Seducing Gold (The Forge & Fracture Saga #2) by Brittany N. Williams
  • Iron Tongue of Midnight (The Forge & Fracture Saga #3) by Brittany N. Williams
  • Mere by Danielle Giles
  • Renegade Girls: A Queer Tale of Romance and Rabble-Rousing by Nora Neus and Julie Robine
  • The Scarlett Highwaywoman (The Highwaywomen #1) by Delilah Kent
  • A Thief's Kiss (The Highwaywomen #2) by Delilah Kent
  • Velvet & Vengeance (The Highwaywomen #3) by Delilah Kent
  • The Butchers Bride (The Highwaywomen #4) by Delilah Kent
  • The Duchess and the Dagger (The Highwaywomen #5) by Delilah Kent
  • Reckless Hearts (The Highwaywomen #6) by Delilah Kent
  • Banshee's Cry (Lesbian Pirates #3) by Marina Tempest
  • Lucky Harp (Lesbian Pirates #4) by Marina Tempest
  • Mercy's Blade (Lesbian Pirates #5) by Marina Tempest
  • Midnight Serpent (Lesbian Pirates #6) by Marina Tempest
  • Rum & Roses (Velvet & Vice #3) by V.C. Sterling
  • Brandy & Betrayal (Velvet & Vice #4) by V.C. Sterling
  • Absinthe & Affection (Velvet & Vice #5) by V.C. Sterling
  • Moonshine & Mayhem (Velvet & Vice #6) by V.C. Sterling
  • Scotch & Secrets (Velvet & Vice #7) by V.C. Sterling
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Gentleman Jack by Anne Choma
  • The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison
  • The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan

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 Falling Star and a Flying Bird by Rhiannon Grant - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 310

A Falling Star and a Flying Bird by Rhiannon Grant

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 310 with Heather Rose Jones

This quarter’s fiction episode presents A Falling Star and a Flying Bird by Rhiannon Grant, narrated by Heather Rose Jones.

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 Rhiannon Grant Online

• Website: https://brigidfoxandbuddha.wordpress.com

Lesbians and Sex Work - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 309

Lesbians and Sex Work

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 309 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• Four motifs that connect women loving women and sex work in historic sources
• Sources used
  • Bennett, Judith and Shannon McSheffrey. 2014. “Early, Erotic and Alien: Women Dressed as Men in Late Medieval London” in History Workshop Journal. 77 (1): 1-25.
  • Beynon, John C. 2010. “Unaccountable Women” in Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4
  • Blackmore, Josiah. 1999. “The Poets of Sodom” in Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance ed. Josiah Blackmore and Gregory S. Hutcheson. Duke University Press, Durham. ISBN 9780822323495
  • Boehringer, Sandra (trans. Anna Preger). 2021. Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-367-74476-2
  • Burford, E.J. 1986. Wits, Wenchers and Wantons - London’s Low Life: Covent Garden in the Eighteenth Century. Robert Hale, London. ISBN 0-7090-2629-3
  • Cheek, Pamela. 1998. "The 'Mémoires secrets' and the Actress: Tribadism, Performance, and Property", in Jeremy D. Popkin and Bernadette Fort (eds), The "Mémoires secrets" and the Culture of Publicity in Eighteenth-Century France, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation.
  • Choquette, Leslie. 2001. “’Homosexuals in the City: Representations of Lesbian and Gay Space in Nineteenth-Century Paris” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
  • Craft-Fairchild, Catherine. 2006. “Sexual and Textual Indeterminacy: Eighteenth-Century English Representations of Sapphism” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 15:3
  • DeJean, Joan. 1989. Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-14136-5
  • Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4
  • Engelstein, Laura. 1990. "Lesbian Vignettes: A Russian Triptych from the 1890s" in Signs vol. 15, no. 4 813-831.
  • Garber, Marjorie. 1992. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-91951-7
  • Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-688-00396-6
  • Gilhuly, Kate. 2015. “Lesbians are Not from Lesbos” in Blondell, Ruby & Kirk Ormand (eds). Ancient Sex: New Essays. The Ohio State University Press, Columbus. ISBN 978-0-8142-1283-7
  • Habib, Samar. 2007. Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations. Routledge, New York. ISBN 78-0-415-80603-9
  • Haley, Shelley P. “Lucian’s ‘Leaena and Clonarium’: Voyeurism or a Challenge to Assumptions?” in Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin & Lisa Auanger eds. 2002. Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World. University of Texas Press, Austin. ISBN 0-29-77113-4
  • Ingrassia, Catherine. 2003. “Eliza Haywood, Sapphic Desire, and the Practice of Reading” in: Kittredge, Katharine (ed). Lewd & Notorious: Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. ISBN 0-472-11090-X
  • Jones, Ann Rosalind & Peter Stallybrass. 1991. “Fetishizing gender: constructing the Hermaphrodite in Renaissance Europe” in Body guards : the cultural politics of gender ambiguity edited by Julia Epstein & Kristina Straub. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-90388-2
  • Jones, Heather Rose. 2021. “Researching the Origins of Lesbian Myths, Legends, and Symbols” (podcast). https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-201-researching-origins-lesbian-myths-legends-and
  • Katritzky, M.A. 2005. “Reading the Actress in Commedia Imagery” in Women Players in England, 1500-1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage, edited by Pamela Allen Brown & Peter Parolin. Ashgate, Burlington. ISBN 978-0-7546-0953-7
  • Klein, Ula Lukszo. 2021. Sapphic Crossings: Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville. ISBN 978-0-8139-4551-4
  • Kranz, Susan E. 1995. The Sexual Identities of Moll Cutpurse in Dekker and Middleton’s The Roaring Girl and in London in Renaissance and Reformation 19: 5-20.
  • Merrick, Jeffrey. 1990. “Sexual Politics and Public Order in Late Eighteenth-Century France: the Mémoires secrets and the Correspondance secrète” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 1, 68-84.
  • 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
  • Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5
  • 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
  • Shapiro, Michael. 1994. Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages. Ann Arbor.
  • 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.
  • Vanita, Ruth and Saleem Kidwai, eds. 2000. Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History. St. Martin’s, New York. ISBN 0-312-22169-X
  • Velasco, Sherry. 2011. Lesbians in Early Modern Spain. Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville. ISBN 978-0-8265-1750-0
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