On the Shelf for September 2017 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 17

On the Shelf for September 2017

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 17 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.

In this episode we talk about:

• Why I’m recording this more than a month before it airs, and how you’re all missing out on hearing about my trip to Europe, which will have just finished then.
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Velasco, Sherry. 2011. Lesbians in Early Modern Spain. Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville. ISBN 978-0-8265-1750-0 (We’ve spent this month going through the chapters on legal records, celebrity gender benders, women’s romantic relationships in convents, homoerotic motifs on stage and in novels, and the visual stereotype of lesbians in early modern Spain)
  • Books on Boston Marriage and the queer history of Boston
• Announcing this month’s author guest, Genevieve Fortin
• New and forthcoming fiction
  • The new/forthcoming boos segment hasn’t been added yet.
• Ask Sappho: An anonymous poster on the facebook group asks: What are some lesbian novels set during the American Civil War?
  • Through the Hourglass edited by Sacchi Green and Patty G. Henderson
  • Firefly by Whitney Hamilton
  • Promising Hearts by Radclyffe
  • House of Clouds by K. I. Thompson
  • Words Heard in Silence by T. Novan and Taylor Rickard (Note: In later books in this series, it beomes clear that the character of Charlie Nolan is a trans man, not a woman using gender disguise. But in this first book, my understanding is that is not yet how the character understands his identity.)
  • The War Between the Hearts by Nann Dunne
  • Miserere by Caren J. Werlinger
  • Divided Nation, United Hearts by Yolanda Wallace
  • Beguiled & Her Beguiling Bride by Paisley Smith
  • Sabre by Rhavensfyre
  • And this article gives examples of real-life women who fought and spied in the Civil War in male disguise, just like many of the characters in these novels.

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• 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)