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

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