On the Shelf for May 2022 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 229

On the Shelf for May 2022

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 229 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• The merry month of May
• Book shopping!
  • The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature edited by Jodie Medd
  • Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London by Laura Gowing
• New and forthcoming fiction
  • Fractures and Hinges by Edith Zeitlberger
  • The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
  • Don't You Dare: Uncovering Lost Love by Gayla Turner
  • The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan
  • Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
  • That Green Eyed Girl by Julie Owen Moylan
  • The Teachers' Room by Lydia Stryk
• What I’ve been reading:
  • The Company Daughters by Samantha Rajaram
  • Passing as Elias by Kate Bloomfield
  • Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
  • Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas
  • Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas
  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Stormsong (Kingston Cycle #2) by C.L. Polk
  • Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott
• This month we interview Ursula Whitcher about her story in the previous episode.
  • The inspirations for the story
  • Writing disability in a historic context
  • Braiding different interests into a single story
  • Ursula’s previous fiction appearances on the LHMPodcast
  • Huebner, Sabine R. & Christian Laes (eds). 2019. The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-47017-9
  • ”The Last Tutor” by Ursula Whitcher in Asimov’s Science Fiction May/June 2022

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
• Twitter: @heatherosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Links to Ursula Whitcher Online

• Website: yarntheory.net
• Twitter: @superyarn