The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

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
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• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

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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:
  • Marriage between women
  • Female husbands

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
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• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

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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
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• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

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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

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• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
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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
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• 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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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
  • 18^th 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
  • 19^th 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

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 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

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• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
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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 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

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• 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 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
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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