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A show about queer women in history and historic literature, plus coverage of the field of sapphic historical fiction. Content note: May include discussions of sex within an academic context.
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4 days ago
4 days ago
17 min
On the Shelf for August 2026
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 349 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- A brief recap of the podcast’s history.
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Roulston, Chris & Caroline Gonda, eds. 2023. Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to ‘Gentleman Jack’ . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781009280723
- Blumreich, Kathleen M. “Lesbian Desire in the Old French Roman de Silence,” in Arthuriana 7:2 (1997): 47-62.
- Paton, Lucy Allen. 1907. “The Story of Grisandole: A Study in the Legend of Merlin” in PMLA vol. 22, no. 2. pp.234-276.
- Schleiner, Winfried. 1992. “Le feu caché: Homosocial Bonds Between Women in a Renaissance Romance” in Renaissance Quarterly 45: 293-311.
- Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
- Bodhi and Gwen by Del Robertson
- The Education of Miss Pryce by Hannah Briar
- The Language of Flowers (Lavender Society #1) by Hannah Briar
- The Lost Brontë by Catherine Friend
- Going Down at the Point by Kimberlee Jarrett Wilson
- The Harrow Home for Wayward Girls by Jessica Spotswood
- The Keeper's Light (Edge of the World #1) by Margaret Fridley
- The Tailor's Treasure by Alison McKenzie
- The Haunting of Avis Lovelock by M.K. Hardy
- Call for submissions for the 2026 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)

Aug 1, 2026
Aug 1, 2026
1hr 22 min
10th Anniversary Special: Interview with Linda Garber
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 348 with Heather Rose Jones
An interview with Professor Linda Garber about her research into lesbian historical fiction.
Books and Media Mentioned
- Garber, Linda. 2022. Novel Approaches to Lesbian History. Palgrave. ISBN 978-3030854164
- Cruikshank, M. (ed) 1982. Lesbian Studies: Present and Future. The Feminist Press at CUNY. ISBN 978-0935312072
- Garber, Linda. 2001. Identity Poetics: Race, Class and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory. Columbia University Press.
- Schwartz, Selby Wynn. After Sappho. (novel)
- Keen, Suzanne. 2003 Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0802086846 (credit for the phrase “romance of the archives” which I’ve been misattributing)
- Martinac, Paula. Out of Time. (novel)
- Davies, Stevie. Impassioned Clay. (novel)
- Friend, Catherine. The Spanish Pearl. (novel)
- Dickinson (tv series)
- Gentleman Jack (tv series)
- Arnold, June Davis. The Cook and the Carpenter. (novel)
- Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present. William Morrow and Company, Inc. ISBN 0-688-00396-6
- Hall, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness. (novel)
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (movie)
- The Favourite (movie)
- Ammonite (movie)
- Saturday Night Live “Lesbian Period Drama” (sketch on YouTube)
- Desert of the Heart (movie) based on Jane Rule’s Desert Hearts
- A Knight’s Tale (movie)
- Giffney, Noreen, Michelle M. Sauer & Diane Watt (eds). 2011. The Lesbian Premodern. Palgrave. ISBN 978-0-230-61676-9
- The Belle of Amherst (movie)
- Gomez, Jewelle. The Gilda Stories. (novel)
- Giddings, Megan. The Women Could Fly (novel)
- Korn, Gabrielle. Yours for the Taking (novel)
- Pérez, Emma. Forgetting the Alamo, or, Blood Memory (novel
- McCollum, Hilary. As a Lover (novel)
- McCollum, Hilary. Golddigger (novel)
- Gagehabib, LaVerne. The Blacksmith and the Doctor (novel)
- Winterson, Jeanette. The Passion (novel)
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 Linda Garber Online
- Website: academic website

Jul 18, 2026
Jul 18, 2026
18 min
On the Shelf for June & July 2026
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 347 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
- Moore, Lisa L. 2005. “Queer Gardens: Mary Delany's Flowers and Friendships” in Eighteenth-Century Studies Vol. 39, No. 1 (Fall, 2005), pp. 49-70
- O’Driscoll, Sally. 2003. “The Lesbian and the Passionless Woman: Femininity and Sexuality in 18th century England” in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 44.2-3. p.103-31
- Peakman, Julie. 2004. Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century. Atlantic Books, London. Chapter 8 “Tribadism: ‘A New Sort of Sin’”
- Anonymous. 1697. The history of the intrigues & gallantries of Christina, Queen of Sweden, and of her court whilst she was at Rome faithfully render’d into English from the French original. London: Richard Baldwin.
- Abbott, Carmeta. 1993. “The Portrait as Text: Two Depictions of Madame de Saint-Balmon (1607-1660)” in Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice vol. 19, No. 1.
- Bell, Rudolph M. 1987. “Renaissance Sexuality and the Florentine Archives: An Exchange” in Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 3: pp. 485-511
- Reynolds, Nicole. 2010. “Cottage Industry: The Ladies of Llangollen and the Symbolic Capital of the "Cottage Ornée"” in The Eighteenth Century, Vol. 51, No. 1/2: 211-227
- Vicinus, Martha. “Lesbian Perversity and Victorian Marriage: The 1864 Codrington Divorce Trial” pp.92-94 in Journal of British Studies 36, no. 1 (1997).
- Liddington, Jill. 1993. “Anne Lister of Shibden Hall, Halifax (1791-1840): Her Diaries and the Historians” in History Workshop, 35: 45-77.
- Orr, Dannielle. 2006. A Sojourn in Paris 1824-25: Sex and Sociability in the Manuscript Writings of Anne Lister (1791-1840). (Doctoral Dissertation, Murdoch University)
- Roulston, Chris & Caroline Gonda, eds. 2023. Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to ‘Gentleman Jack’. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781009280723
- Book Shopping
- Norton, Rictor. 1997. The Myth of the Modern Homosexual: Queer History and the Search for Cultural Unity. Cassell. ISBN 0-304-33892-3
- Mansel, Philip. 2001. Paris Between Empires: Monarchy and Revolution 1814-1852. St. Martin's Press, New York. ISBN 0-312-30857-4
- Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
- Dreaming of Jerusalem by Susie Helme
- Silk Road Runaways by Christine Inserra
- Chivalry in the Shadows by Meg Merriet Wahlberg
- With My Own Hand: The secret life of Marie Maitland, Scotland’s sixteenth-century Sappho by Ashley Douglas
- Bound By Silk & Salt Water by Caren Cross
- Tempest: A Novel of Anne Bonny, the Pirate Queen Who Disappeared by K. Knight
- The Ruby Reaper (The Ruby Reaper #1) by Eline Evans
- The Emerald Eclipse (The Ruby Reaper #2) by Eline Evans
- Mr. Moore by Giny Morales
- The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley by Lindz McLeod
- Caroline's Courtesan (The Comerford Courtesans #4) by Jess Michaels
- Pretence & Pretentiousness by Lynn Kear
- A Season of Teeth and Silk by Henriette Twinne
- The Art of Longing by Michael David
- The Green Seal (Blackthorn Hall Romances # 3) by E. L. Vale
- What the Willow Kept (The Women of Sapphire #1.5) by L. Creeke
- When Embers Find Her (The Women of Sapphire #1) by L. Creeke
- The Wrong Widow (Cielo Seco # 1) by D. S. Briar
- Gold Rush 1860 by Randa Hink
- Two Whoops and a Holler by Carmilla Deane
- Charity and Sylvia by Tillie Walden
- Disfigured (New York's Gilded Age #4) by Joseph P. Garland
- Becoming Legends Elsie-Bessie: A Love Story (book #1) by Barbara Barna Abel & Shannon McMahon Lichte
- Lena and Miss Cawkwell by Julie Bozza
- Murder by Degrees by Rachel Ford
- A Blue Note by Katrina Jackson
- Little Wild by Laura Evans
- The Malign Ghosts of Summer by Ann McMan
- Cold Water by C. R. Ellery
- The Rude Bird (New Orleans Noir # 1) by M. R. Dimond
- What I’ve been consuming
- Platform Decay by Martha Wells
- Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
- Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorofor
- A Change of Pace by J.A. Stevens
- Call for submissions for the 2027 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)

Jul 4, 2026
Jul 4, 2026
31 min
Women and Same-Sex Marriage in Western History (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 346 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about strategies for getting your historical protagonists hitched across the centuries.
- How the concepts of “women”, “same-sex”, and “marriage” are being defined for the purpose of this discussion
- Cultures that may have supported marriage between women as an equal option
- Cases of same-sex marriage enabled by presenting as an opposite sex couple
- The permeability of the “opposite sex” requirement in actual practice
- Using the forms and rituals of marriage, even when the legal status was not available
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
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)

Jun 20, 2026
Jun 20, 2026
42 min
So You’re Writing a Sapphic Historical Romance: Questions to Consider (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 345 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about the questions to ask about sapphic relationships and how they are perceived in your story’s setting:
- How easy is it to live outside of the heterosexual marriage paradigm?
- What are the economic, legal, and religious constraints on your characters?
- What is the ordinary “background noise” of non-sexual displays of affection?
- How does the culture of the setting understand privacy and how does that affect your characters’ behavior?
- What are the realities and perceptions around sex between women in this setting?
- How does the culture of the setting understand gender and sexuality?
- How are female couples depicted in popular culture of the time?
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)

Jun 6, 2026
Jun 6, 2026
24 min
When Did We Become Lesbians? (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 344 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- The history of words for women who loved women throughout recorded European history.
- What words were used?
- Where did they come from?
- What shades of meaning did they have?
- How did those meanings change over time?
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)

May 30, 2026
May 30, 2026
10 min
Salt for the Unmarried by Khayelihle Benghu
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 343 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents Salt for the Unmarried by Khayelihle Benghu, 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)

May 16, 2026
May 16, 2026
47 min
A Guide to the Sapphic Regency
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 342 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- Demographics and economics affecting f/f couples
- Legal and religious considerations
- Friendship and romance
- Affection and sex
- The language of lesbianism
- Models of gender and sexuality
- Bibliography
- 18th Century Precursors
- Bennett, Judith M. & Amy M. Froide eds. 1999. Singlewomen in the European Past 1250-1800. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 0-8122-1668-7
- Bennett, Betty T. 1991. Mary Diana Dods: A Gentleman and a Scholar. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. ISBN 0-8018-4984-5
- Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. 2010. Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4
- Bodek, Evelyn Gordon. 1976. "Salonières and Bluestockings: Educated Obsolescence and Germinating Feminism" in Feminist Studies vol 3 no. 3/4 185-199.
- Clark, Anna. 1996. "Anne Lister's construction of lesbian identity", Journal of the History of Sexuality, 7(1), pp. 23-50.
- Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4
- Dugaw, Dianne. 1989. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 1650-1850. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-16916-2
- 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
- Norton, Rictor (ed.), Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook. Updated 7 September 2014 http://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/. (Accessed 2014/09/13)
- Hitchcock, Tim. 1997. English Sexualities, 1700-1800. St. Martin’s Press, New York. ISBN 0-312-16573-0
- Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5
- 19th Century Sources
- Binhammer, Katherine. 1996. “The Sex Panic of the 1790s” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 6, no. 3: 409-34.
- Jennings, Rebecca. 2007. A Lesbian History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Women Since 1500. Greenwood World Publishing, Oxford. ISBN 978-1-84645-007-5
- Lanser, Susan S. 2014. The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-18773-0
- Lasser, Carol. 1988. "'Let Us Be Sisters Forever': The Sororal Model of Nineteenth-Century Female Friendship" in Signs vol. 14, no. 1 158-181.
- Moore, Lisa. 1992. "'Something More Tender Still than Friendship': Romantic Friendship in Early-Nineteenth-Century England" in Feminist Studies vol. 18, no. 3 499-520.
- Norton, Rictor (ed.), Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook. Updated 7 September 2014 http://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/nineteen.htm (Accessed 2014/09/13)
- Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3
- Whitbread, Helena ed. 1992. I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister 1791-1840. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 0-8147-9249-9
- Whitbread, Helena ed. 1992. No Priest But Love. NY Univ Press, New York. ISBN 0-8147-5077-X
- 18th Century Precursors
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)

May 2, 2026
May 2, 2026
49 min
On the Shelf for May 2026
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 341 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Say hi at GCLS
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Traub, Valerie. 1996. “The Perversion of ‘Lesbian’ Desire” in History Workshop Journal 41:19-49.
- Goode, Dawn M. 2008. “Dueling Discourses: The Erotics of Female Friendship in Mary Pix’s ‘Queen Catharine.’” in Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 37–60.
- McClain, Molly. 2008. “Love, Friendship, and Power: Queen Mary II's Letters to Frances Apsley” in Journal of British Studies, Vol. 47, No. 3: 505-527
- Hitchcock, Tim. 1996. “Redefining Sex in Eighteenth-Century England” in History Workshop Journal, No. 41: 72-90
- Roulston, Christine. 1998. “Separating the Inseparables: Female Friendship and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century France.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 215–31.
- Book Shopping
- Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney
- Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
- The Beheading Game by Rebecca Lehmann
- Consider This My Witness by Madeline Klein
- Beneath the Quiet Valley (Quiet Valley #1) by Eleanor Foster
- Beneath the Quiet Valley: Two Lives (Quiet Valley #2) by Eleanor Foster
- The Water That Remembers (The Woman at the Well #1) by Jade Remintgon
- The Weight of Staying (The Woman at the Well #2) by Jade Remintgon
- The Courage to Remain (The Woman at the Well #3) by Jade Remintgon
- The Mystery of the Bitten Peach by Cecilia Tan
- Bone of my Bone by Johanna van Veen
- Miss Woodhouse & Miss Fairfax by Maisie Jardelle
- The Wives of Herrick Hall by Julie Lew
- Her Runaway Lady by B.J. Sikes
- For the Love of the Quest by Alexandra Ammon Parthun
- The Summer I Met June by Mozie S
- What I’ve been consuming
- Word by Word by Kory Stamper
- True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color--from Azure to Zinc Pink by Kory Stamper
- Murder at Sissingham Hall by Clara Benson
- The Mystery at Underwood House by Clara Benson
- This month we interview Cecilia Tan and talk about:
- The fun of genre mash-ups
- Representing diaspora
- The relationship of historic stories and time-travel stories
- Founding SFF erotica publisher Circlet Press
- Future projects and the joy of pantsing
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 Cecilia Tan Online
- Website: https://www.ceciliatan.com
- Instagram: @ctan_writer
- Bluesky: @ceciliatan.com

Apr 18, 2026
Apr 18, 2026
22 min
Mary/Charles Hamilton: The Original Female Husband
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 340 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- The factual story of Mary/Charles Hamilton
- Henry Fielding’s fictional version in The Female Husband
- The larger historic and literary context
- Sources mentioned
- Baker, S. 1959. “Henry Fielding’s The Female Husband: Fact and Fiction” in PMLA, 74 pp.213-24.
- Castle, T. 1983-4. “Eros and Liberty at the English Masquerade, 1710-90” in Eighteenth-Century Studies, XVII, 2: 156-76.
- 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
- Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4
- 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
- Fielding, Henry. 1746. The Female Husband: or, the Surprising History of Mrs Mary, Alias Mr George Hamilton. Liverpool, M. Cooper. (https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-female-husband-or-_fielding-henry_1746)
- Lanser, Susan. 2001. “Sapphic Picaresque: Sexual Difference and the Challenges of Homoadventuring” in Textual Practice 15:2 (November 2001): 1-18.
- Lyons, Clare A. 2007. “Mapping an Atlantic Sexual Culture: Homoeroticism in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia” in: Foster, Thomas A. (ed). Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 13-978-0-8147-2749-2
- Manion, Jen. “The Queer History of Passing as a Man in Early Pennsylvania.” Pennsylvania Legacies, vol. 16, no. 1, 2016, pp. 6–11.
- Manion, Jen. 2020. Female Husbands: A Trans History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-48380-3
- The full text of The Female Husband by Henry Fielding can be found at archive.org
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Charles/Mary Hamilton, The Female Husband (Henry Fielding)
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)
