The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

On the Shelf for May 2026 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 341

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

Mary/Charles Hamilton: The Original Female Husband - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 340

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)

On the Shelf for April 2026 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 339

On the Shelf for April 2026

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 339 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• Exciting news about the next season of Bridgerton.
• The upcoming 10th anniversary
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Fielding, Henry. 1746. The Female Husband: or, the Surprising History of Mrs Mary, Alias Mr George Hamilton. Liverpool, M. Cooper.
  • Baker, S. 1959. “Henry Fielding’s The Female Husband: Fact and Fiction” in PMLA, 74 pp.213-24.
• Book Shopping
  • Kehoe, M. (ed). 1986. Historical, Literary and Erotic Aspects of Lesbianism. New York. ISBN 0-918393-21-3
  • Gilbert, Oscar Paul (trans. by J. Lewis May). 1932. Women in Men's Guise. The Bodley Head, London.
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Stand and Deliver by Ivy Warren
  • Romeo & Her Sister by Jillian Blevins
  • To Love a Boleyn by Joey Evangelista
  • Arguments Against the Cultivation of Female Curiosity (Curiosity #2) by Suzanne Moss
  • The Countess and the Cartographer by Lyra Ashwood
  • The Egyptologist's Curse by Georgina Kenyon
  • Love's Joy and Sorrow Between Women by Emilie Knopf
  • Counterpoint by Barbara Bergmann
  • Forever Yours, Nell by Andrea Ead
  • The Witch and the Huntress by Luna McNamara
  • A Whisper of Bells and Prayers by C.C. González
  • Scallywag! by K.L. Mitchell
  • The Unruly Heart of Miss Darcy by Erin Edwards
  • She Tamed the Lady by Judith Lynne
  • Flirting with Disaster by Kerrigan Byrne
  • As a Lover by Hilary McCollum
  • At Last It's You by Marianne Marston
• Other Titles of Interest
  • The Keyholder by S. Kallistos
  • A Lady for All Seasons by T J Alexander
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Queen Demon by Martha Wells
  • Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh/em> by Rachael Lippincott
  • Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword by Henry Lien
  • Lady Eve's Last Con/em> by Rebecca Fraimow
  • The Rushworth Family Plot/em> by Claudia Gray
  • Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner by Katrine Marcal

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)

Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and the Invention of Lesbian Pirates - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 338

Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and the Invention of Lesbian Pirates

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 338 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• Female pirates
• Anne Bonny and Mary Read in the General History of the Pyrates
• The motif of “lesbian Bonny & Read”
• Bonny and Read in lesbian historical fiction
• Sources mentioned
  • Wikipedia entry: Women in Piracy
  • Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger by Ulrike Klausmann, Marion Meinzerin, and Gabriel Kuhn
• This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
  • Anne Bonny
  • Mary Read
  • LHMP Entry #547 A General History of the Pyrates
• Works mentioned by Helen Rodriguez:
  • The History and Lives of Notorious Pirates (1735)
  • The Extraordinary Adventures and Daring Exploits of Captain Henry Morgan (1813)
  • The Naval History of the United States by Willis J. Abbott (1896)
  • The Buccaneers and their Reign of Terror by C.M. Stevens (1899)
  • The Homosexuality of Men and Women by Magnus Hirschfield (1920)
  • ”Anne Bonny & Mary Read: They Killed Pricks” by Susan Baker in The Furies: Lesbian/Feminist Monthly Vol. 1, issue 6 (August 1972)
  • Mistress of the Seas (novel) by John Carlova (1964)
  • Forgotten Women ed. By Nancy M[???] (couldn’t identify this book)
  • The Women Pirates (play) by Steve Gooch (
  • Mary Read, Buccaneer (novel) by Philip Rush (1945)
  • Beneath the Black Flag by David Cordingly
  • Kingston by Starlight (novel) by Christopher John Farley
  • Black Sails (tv series)
  • Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (video game)
  • The Pirates of Neverland (video game)
  • Our Flag Means Death (tv series)
  • Hellcats (podcast fiction)

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 Helen Rodriguez Online

• Email: Helenrodriguez1720@gmail.com
• Bluesky: @ladytyler.bsky.social

On the Shelf for March 2026 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 337

On the Shelf for March 2026

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 337 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• Gentleman Jack (ballet) by the Northern Ballet Company
• Northern Ballet Company You Tube channel
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
• • Mourão, Manuela. 1999. “The representation of female desire in early modern pornographic texts, 1660-1745” in Signs, 24: 589-94.
  • Toulalan, Sarah. 2003. “Extraordinary Satisfactions: Lesbian Visibility in Seventeenth-Century Pornography in England” in Gender and History 15: 50-68
  • Johnson, Charles (pseudonym). 1724. A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time. With the remarkable actions and adventures of the two female pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny ... To which is added. A short abstract of the statute and civil law, in relation to pyracy. London: T. Warner.
• Book Shopping
• • Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto Sterling
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
• • Rattlesridge by Mina Rose
  • The Ink Between Us by Chiara Bellini
  • Love and Gunpowder by Valeska Delsol
  • Daughter of the Hunt by K. Arsenault Rivera
  • Sweetbitter Song by Rosie Hewlett
  • The Alchemist's Secret by Clare Marchant
  • Salt and Surrender (The Aramanthine Sea #1) by E.S. Brandon
  • A Change of Pace by J.A. Stevens
  • A Comfortable Misery by Kassandra Hart
  • The Fox and the Devil by Kiersten White
  • Wayward Souls (Harker & Moriarty #2) by Susan J. Morris
  • Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran
  • The Nightshade (Hattie James #4) by Stacy Lynn Miller
• What I’ve been consuming
• • Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones
  • The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner

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)

Aye, There’s the Rub - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 336

Aye, There’s the Rub

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 336 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• Vocabulary for women-loving women referring to “rubbing”
• Shifts of meaning and usage
• What too many authors get wrong
• Sources mentioned: see transcript

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 February 2026 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 335

On the Shelf for February 2026

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 335 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• The 2026 fiction line-up:
  • “Between One Word and the Next” by L.J. Lee
  • “Love for Love’s Sake” by Shannon Lippert
  • “Salt for the Unmarried” by Khayelihle Benghu
  • The Sultan’s Vetala by Priya Sridhar
  • The Tale of Gudrun Sigurdsdóttir by Daniel Stride
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Reay, Barry. 2009. “Writing the Modern Histories of Homosexual England” in The Historical Journal, 52, 1. pp.213-233
  • Crannell, Marissa. 2015. Utterly Confused Categories: Gender Non-Conformity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Western Europe. Dissertation.
  • Mara-McKay, Nico. 2018. “Becoming Gendered: Two Medieval Approaches to Intersex Gender Assignment” in Prandium: The Journal of Historical Studies vol. 7, no. 1.
  • Roelens, Jonas. 2017. “A Woman Like Any Other: Female Sodomy, Hermaphroditism, and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Bruges” in Journal of Women’s History, vol. 29 no. 4, Winter 2017. pp.11-34
  • Loveday, Kiki. “Sister Acts: Victorian Porn, Lesbian Drag, and Queer Reproduction” in Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, vol. 60, no. 2, 2019, pp. 201–26.
  • Larson, Ruth. 1997. “Sex and Civility in a 17th-Century Dialogue: L’Escole des filles” in Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, no. 47: 497-514.
  • Rivers, Christopher. 1995. “Safe Sex: The Prophylactic Walls of the Cloister in the French Libertine Convent Novel of the Eighteenth Century” in Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 5, No. 3: 381-402
• Book Shopping
  • Wurzelbacher, Karli. 2025. Emma Stebbins: Carving Out History. Huntington: The Heckscher Museum of Art. ISBN 979-8-9925162-1-0
  • Lodge, Sara. 2024. The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-28660-1
  • Boyd, Rebecca. 2024. Exploring Ireland's Viking-Age Towns. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-03-259109-4
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Hawthorn & Bitter by Shannon K. Kelly
  • Cut on the Bias by Susanna Bonaretti
  • Before the Swallow Dares by Hannah Perrin-Haynes
  • The Stillness Between Us (Voices of the Hive Trilogy) by Clara Bellweather
  • The Language of Bees (Voices of the Hive Trilogy) by Clara Bellweather
  • The Keeper of Tides (Voices of the Hive Trilogy) by Clara Bellweather
  • The Language of Leaves (The Silent Companions) by Clara Bellweather
  • The Marginal Truth (The Silent Companions) by Clara Bellweather
  • The Stitched Confession (The Silent Companions) by Clara Bellweather
  • Fire Sword and Sea by Vanessa Riley
  • Sword and Silk: The Legend of Julie d'Aubigny by Maeve Campbell
  • La Maupin : The Scandalous Story of Julie d'Aubigny by C.C. Parke
  • The Black Lark's Oath by Tess Wilder
  • Embers on the Moor by Giada Moretti
  • Unfinished Story by Jade Winters
  • The Midnight Daughters by Aeressa
  • The Hidden Petition (Beacon Hill Mysteries #1) by Maeve McQueen
  • The House of Hidden Hearts by Matus Zelenay
  • E.V. Bancroft by E.V. Bancroft
  • A Very Hamble Christmas by E.V. Bancroft
  • Star & Thea at Court by A V Kakkad
  • The Hidden Flower in the Palace: A Queer Court Tragedy by Shin Hwayoon
  • She-Wolf: A Sapphic Beowulf Retelling by E.K. O'Connor
  • The Fifth Day of Her Heart by Richard Cicay
  • The Found Family Victory (Salvation's Edge #1) by Lady K
  • Belonging to the Air by Avery Irons
  • Joe the Pirate by Hubert
  • A Slow and Secret Poison by Carmella Lowkis
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia

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)

Fiction Double-Header: Down By the Tumbling Stream by E C Hallewell & Where You Go by Jennifer Nestojko - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 334

Fiction Double-Header: Down By the Tumbling Stream by E C Hallewell & Where You Go by Jennifer Nestojko

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 334 with Heather Rose Jones

This quarter’s fiction episode presents two stories:

• "Down By the Tumbling Stream" EC Hallewell, narrated by Heather Rose Jones.
• "Where You Go" Jennifer Nestojko, 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 EC Hallewell Online

• Bluesky: @echallewell.bsky.social

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 19: Age Gap - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 333

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 19: Age Gap

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 333 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• The historic and social context of age-differentiated pairings of various genders
• Why the “age gap” trope tends to be restricted to f/f romance
• Historic contexts for age-gap relationships

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 2026 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 332

On the Shelf for January 2026

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 332 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• Summary of the Project in 2025
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Xie, Wenjuan. 2015. (Trans)Culturally Transgendered: Reading Transgender Narratives in (Late) Imperial China. Dissertation.
  • Sommer, Matthew H. “Was China Part of a Global Eighteenth-Century Homosexuality?” in Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, vol. 33, no. 1, 2007, pp. 117–33.
  • Carton, Adrian. 2006. “Desire and Same-Sex Intimacies in Asia” in Gay Life and Culture, A World History, ed. Robert Aldrich. Universe Publishing, New York. ISBN 978-0-7893-1511-3
  • Gowing, Laura. 2006. ”Lesbians and Their Like in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800” in Gay Life and Culture: A World History ed. Robert Aldrich. London: Thames and Hudson. 125-43
  • Rupp, Leila J. 2001. “Toward a Global History of Same-Sex Sexuality” in Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 10, No. 2: 287-302
  • Leupp, Gary P. 2007. “Capitalism and Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century Japan.” in Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 135–52.
  • Pflugfelder, Gregory M. 1992. “Strange Fates: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Torikaebaya Monogatari” in Monumenta Nipponica Vol. 47, No. 3 (Autumn, 1992), pp. 347-368.
  • Shah, Shalini. 1991. “Women and Sexuality in the Mahabharata” in Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Vol. 52: 138-144.
  • Srivastava, Manjari & Manjari Shrivastava. 2007. “Lesbianism in Nineteenth Century Erotic Urdu Poetry “Rekhti”” in Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Vol. 68, Part One: 965-988
• Book Shopping
  • The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective by Sara Lodge
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Dreadful Sorry, Clemintine (Clementine #2) by Genta Sebastian
  • Steel on Distance by N.J. Knox
  • A Djinn and Tonic (The Magical Underground #2) by Nan Sampson
  • Gold and Grace by Eline Evans
  • Like in Love with You by Emma R. Alban
  • The Debutante Dilemma by author
  • The Case of the Murdered Muckraker (Harriot Morrow Investigates #2) by Rob Osler
• What I’ve been consuming
  • The Case of the Missing Maid by Rob Osler
  • Saint-Seducing Gold by Brittany N. William
  • A Plague on Both Your Houses by Susanna Gregory
  • Earl Crush by Alexandra Vasti
  • Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite
  • Emma: The Nature of a Lady by Kate Christie
  • The Scandal at Pemberley by Mara Brooks
  • The Shocking Experiments of Miss Mary Bennet by Melinda Taub
  • The Lady’s Wager by Olivia Hampton
• Call for submissions for the 2026 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
• This month we interview M.K. Hardy and talk about:
  • Needfire by MK Hardy (US availability is limited)
  • MK Hardy is a nom de plume for Morag Hannah and Erin Hardee
  • Adapting the gothic template for sapphic stories
  • Why Scotland is the perfect setting for gothics
  • The benefits and complications of writing as a team
  • Forthcoming: The Haunting of Avis Lovelock

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 MK Hardy Online

• Website: https://www.mkhardywrites.com/
• Twitter: @mkhardywrites
• Instagram: @mkhardywrites
• Bluesky: @mkhardywrites.com