On the Shelf for October 2023 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 269

On the Shelf for October 2023

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 269 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• Getting back to blogging
• The Anne Lister Research Summit, Oct. 14-15, 2023
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Palmer, Paulina. 1999. Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions. Cassell, New York. ISBN 0-304-70154-8
  • Yiannitsaros, Chirstopher. 2010. “’I’m scared to death she’ll kill me: Devoted Ladies, feminine monstrosity, and the (lesbian) Gothic Romance” in The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies 8: 41-52.
  • Parker, Sarah. 2008. “’The Darkness is the Closet in Which Your Lover Roosts Her Heart’: Lesbians, Desire and the Gothic Genre” in Journal of International Women’s Studies, Vol. 9, Issue 2: 3-16.
  • McCallum, E.L. & Mikko Tuhkanen, eds. 2014. The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature Cambridge University Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-107-03521-8
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • War and Solace (Tales from Norvegr #3) by Edale Lane
  • Cities of Women by Kathleen B. Jones
  • Let the Waters Roar by Geonn Cannon
  • The Heart of the Banshee (series #2) by Carolyn Elizabeth
  • A Lady to Treasure by Marianne Ratcliffe
  • Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout
  • Western Blue by Suzie Clarke
  • Deeds and Words: A Sapphic Historical Mystery (Louisa & Ada #2) by Sarah Bell
  • Lovesick Blossoms by Julia Watts
• Other Titles of Interest
  • Menewood (The Light of the World #2) by Nicola Griffith
  • Unsettled by Patricia Reis
  • Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue by Christine Higdon
  • A Glimpse into Your Soul by Char Dafoe
  • Songs of Irie by Asha Ashanti Bromfield
• What I’ve been consuming
  • A Study in Garnet by Meredith Rose
  • Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
  • The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
  • A Nobleman’s Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by K.J. Charles
• Call for submissions for the 2024 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)