The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

Emma Stebbins Exhibition Interview - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 324

Emma Stebbins Exhibition Interview

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 324 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we interview Heckscher Museum curator Karli Wurzelbacher about her upcoming exhibition of the work of American sculptor Emma Stebbins:

• Stebbins’ background and biography
• Genres that Stebbins worked in
• Technical process of creating sculptures
• Rome as a magnet for the international sculpture community
• Discrimination against female sculptors
• The expatriate community in Rome
• How Stebbins met actress Charlotte Cushman and their relationship
• Major works
• Exhibition contents
• Her groundbreaking subjects
• The intersection of allegory and industry
• Stebbins’ reputation in her own time Exhibition details: Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York, September 28, 2025 - March 15, 2026
• Support for the exhibition includes:
  • Terra Foundation for American Art
  • Henry Luce Foundation
  • Robin T. Hadley and Richard T. Cunniff, Jr.
  • Andrea B. and Peter D. Klein
  • Priscilla and Robert Hughes
• This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Emma Stebbins
• For additional historic context, check out our podcast on Charlotte Cushman.

A transcript of this podcast will be added here 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)

Links to the Heckscher Museum of Art Online

• Website: Stebbins Exhibition
• Instagram: @heckschermuseum
• Facebook: Heckscher.org

On the Shelf for September 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 323

On the Shelf for September 2025

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 323 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• My new book: Skin-Singer: Tales of the Kaltaoven
• A Worldcon report
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Donoghue, Emma. 2007. “Doing Lesbian History, Then and Now” in Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, Vol. 33, No. 1, Eighteenth-Century Homosexuality in Global Perspective: 15-22
  • Lanser, Susan. 1998. “Befriending the Body: Female Intimacies as Class Acts.” in Eighteenth-Century Studies 32 (winter 1998-99): 179-98.
  • Lanser, Susan. 2001. “Sapphic Picaresque: Sexual Difference and the Challenges of Homoadventuring” in Textual Practice 15:2 (November 2001): 1-18.
  • Park, Katharine. 1997. “The Rediscovery of the Clitoris: French Medicine and the Tribade, 1570-1620” in The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality, ed. David Hillman and Carla Mazzio. London: Routledge. 171-93.
  • Wagner, Corinna. 2013. Pathological Bodies: Medicine and Political Culture. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-1938169-08-3
  • Vicinus, Martha. 1996. “Turn of the Century Male Impersonation: Rewriting the Romance Plot” in Sexualities in Victorian Britain ed. Andrew Miller and James Adams. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
• Book Shopping
  • The Transvestite Memoirs by the Abbé de Choisy
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Of Velvet and Stone by Catherine Martini
  • In the Wings by Charlotte Monet
  • Bound to the Sea by Chloe Clarke
  • The Girl from Berlin by Johanna Weiss
  • Hibernia: An Antiquity Sapphic Romance by Kimia Kore
  • A Lady Called Trouble by Lauren Leigh
  • The Mistress of Hannasbury by M.C. Collins and Susan M. Gaffney
  • The Scandal at Pemberley by Mara Brooks
  • Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti
  • When the Light Pulls You Back by Carey Miller
  • A Murderous Business (A Harriman & Mancini Mystery) by Cathy Pegau
  • Claiming the Tower (Council Mysteries #1) by Celia Lake
  • Tides of Reckoning (Daughters Under the Black Flag - Tides #2) by Eden Hopewell
  • To the Moon and Back by Eve Noble
  • Lady Like by Mackenzi Lee
  • The Shocking Experiments of Miss Mary Bennet by Melinda Taub
  • The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder by Stephen Cox
  • I Am You by Victoria Redel
• Other Titles of Interest
  • Dora Copperfield: A Quiet Bloom by Kit Indigo
  • The Book of Susan by Roxanna di Bella
  • A Flower in Auschwitz by Roxanna di Bella
• What I’ve been reading
  • All Systems Red by Martha Wells
  • Lake of Souls by Ann Leckie
• Call for submissions for the 2026 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
• This month we interview Cathy Pegau

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)

Links to Cathy Pegau Online

• Website: cathypegau.com
• Instagram: @Cathy_Pegau
• Bluesky: @cathypegau.bsky.social

An Encounter With a Lady by Catherine Lundoff - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 322

An Encounter With a Lady by Catherine Lundoff

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 322 with Heather Rose Jones

This quarter’s fiction episode presents “An Encounter With a Lady” by Catherine Lundoff, 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
• 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 Catherine Lundoff Online

• Website: CatherineLundoff.net
• Website: Queen of Swords Press
• Bluesky: @qospress.bsky.social

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 18: Mutually Oblivious - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 321

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 18: Mutually Oblivious

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 321 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• The “mutually oblivious” trope in f/f historic romance

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 August 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 320

On the Shelf for August 2025

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 320 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• Upcoming travel and events
• My new book
  • Skin-Singer: Tales of the Kaltaoven by Heather Rose Jones
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Klein, Ula Lukszo. 2021. “Busty Buccaneers and Sapphic Swashbucklers” in Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843 edited by Misty Kreuger. Lewisburg PA: Bucknell University Press.
  • Wingard, Tess, 2024. “The Trans Middle Ages: Incorporating Transgender and Intersex Studies into the History of Medieval Sexuality”, The English Historical Review.
  • Black, Allida M. 1994. “Perverting the Diagnosis: The Lesbian and the Scientific Basis of Stigma.” Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 201–16.
  • Chauncey, George, Jr. 1982. “From Inversion to Homosexuality: Medicine and the Changing Conceptualization of Female Deviance” in Salmagundi 58-59 (fall 1982-winter 1983).
  • Blank, Paula. 2011. “The Proverbial ‘Lesbian’: Queering Etymology in Contemporary Critical Practice” in Modern Philology 109, no. 1: 108-34.
  • Cassio, Albio Cesare. 1983. “Post-Classical Lesbias,” The Classical Quarterly, n.s., 33:1, pp. 296-297.
  • Ingrassia, Catherine. 1998. “Fashioning Female Authorship in Eliza Haywood’s ‘The Tea-Table’” in The Journal of Narrative Technique, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 287–304.
  • Ingrassia, Catherine. 2014. “’Queering’ Eliza Haywood” in Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4, New Approaches to Eliza Haywood: The Political Biography and Beyond: 9-24
  • Katz, Jonathan. 1978. Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. Avon Books, New York. ISBN 0-380-40550-4
  • Pohl, Nicole, and Betty A. Schellenberg. 2002. “Introduction: A Bluestocking Historiography” in Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 1/2, pp. 1–19.
  • Lanser, Susan S. 2002. “Bluestocking Sapphism and the Economies of Desire” in Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 65, No. 1/2, Reconsidering the Bluestockings: 257-275
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • The Painter's Palette (The Legacy Lane Series #2) by Gina Everleigh
  • The Needfire by M.K. Hardy
  • The Worst Spy in London (The Luckiest With Love #2) by Anne Knight
  • The Unexpected Heiress by Cassidy Crane
  • This Vicious Hunger by Francesca May
• What I’ve been consuming
  • The Tapestry of Time by Kate Heartfield
  • Murder by Post by Rachel Ford

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)

Sexology Changed Everything: or, Why the LHMP Ends Around 1900 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 319

Sexology Changed Everything: or, Why the LHMP Ends Around 1900

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 319 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• The historic context of the rise of sexology
• Sexological models and major names in sexology
• Gendered consequences of sexology
• How sexology infiltrated popular and professional culture
• References
  • Bauer, Heiki. 2009. “Theorizing Female Inversion: Sexology, Discipline, and Gender at the Fin de Siècle” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 18:1 pp.84-102
  • Beccalossi, Chiara. 2009. “The Origin of Italian Sexological Studies: Female Sexual Inversion, ca. 1870-1900” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 18:1 pp.103-120
  • Black, Allida M. 1994. “Perverting the Diagnosis: The Lesbian and the Scientific Basis of Stigma.” Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 201–16.
  • Boag, Peter. 2011. Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-27062-6
  • Breger, Claudia. 2005. “Feminine Masculinities: Scientific and Literary Representations of ‘Female Inversion’ at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 14:1/2 pp.76-106
  • Bronski, Michael. 2012. A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History). Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0807044650
  • Chauncey, George, Jr. 1982. “From Inversion to Homosexuality: Medicine and the Changing Conceptualization of Female Deviance” in Salmagundi 58-59 (fall 1982-winter 1983).
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Diggs, Marylynne. 1995. “Romantic Friends or a ‘Different Race of Creatures’? The Representation of Lesbian Pathology in Nineteenth-Century America” in Feminist Studies 21, no. 2: 1-24.
  • Duggan, Lisa. 1993. “The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America” in Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader, ed. Robert J. Corber and Stephen Valocchi. Oxford: Blackwell. pp.73-87
  • Ehrenhalt, Lizzie and Tilly Laskey (eds). 2019. Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890-1918. Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul. ISBN 978-1-68134-129-3
  • Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-688-00396-6
  • Foucault, Michel. 1990. The History of Sexuality. Vintage Books, New York. ISBN 978-0-679-72469-8
  • Halberstam, Judith (Jack). 1997. Female Masculinity. Duke University Press, Durham. ISBN 978-1-4780-0162-1
  • Hindmarch-Watson, Katie. 2008. "Lois Schwich, the Female Errand Boy: Narratives of Female Cross-Dressing in Late-Victorian London" in GLQ 14:1, 69-98.
  • Kuefler, Mathew (ed). 2007. The History of Sexuality Sourcebook. Broadview Press, Ontario. ISBN 978-1-55111-738-6
  • Manion, Jen. 2020. Female Husbands: A Trans History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-48380-3
  • Newton, Esther. “The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman” in Signs 9 (1984): 557-575.
  • Rouse, Wendy L. 2022. Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. New York: NYU Press. ISBN 9781479813940
  • Sautman, Francesca Canadé. 1996. “Invisible Women: Lesbian Working-class Culture in Ferance, 1880-1930” in Homosexuality in Modern France ed. by Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-509304-6
  • Skidmore, Emily. 2017. True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the 20th Century. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-4798-7063-9
  • Vicinus, Martha. 1984. "Distance and Desire: English Boarding-School Friendships" in Signs vol. 9, no. 4 600-622.
  • Vicinus, Martha. 1992. "'They Wonder to Which Sex I Belong': The Historical Roots of the Modern Lesbian Identity" in Feminist Studies vol. 18, no. 3 467-497.
  • Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3
  • Wheelwright, Julie. 1989. Amazons and Military Maids: Women who Dressed as Men in the Pursuit of Life, Liberty, and Happiness. Pandora, London. ISBN 0-04-440494-8

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 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)

Charity and Sylvia - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 317

Charity and Sylvia

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 317 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• The lives of two women in early 19th century Vermont whose marriage-like relationship was accepted and even celebrated by their community
• Sources mentioned
  • Cleves, Rachel Hope. 2014. Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-933542-8
• This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Charity Bryant & Sylvia Drake

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 June 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 316

On the Shelf for June 2025

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 316 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
  • Bronski, Michael. 2012. A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History). Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0807044650
  • Rouse, Wendy L. 2022. Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. New York: NYU Press. ISBN 9781479813940
  • Boag, Peter. 2011. Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-27062-6
  • Boag, Peter. 2011. “The Trouble with Cross-Dressers: Researching and Writing the History of Sexual and Gender Transgressiveness in the Nineteenth-Century American West” in Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 112, No. 3: 322-339
  • Brown, Judith, C. 1986. Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-504225-5
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • An American in Paris by Margaret Vandenburg
  • Whispers of Love Beneath the Hidden Manor by Aiyo Sa
  • The Ladies by Caitlin Crowe
  • The Eye of the Water: Between Creek and Roots by Stephanie Hager-Lyons
  • A Soft Place to Land by Kelsey Kranz
  • Lady's Knight by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
  • Six Wild Crowns by Holly Race
  • Daughter of Doom by Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem
  • A Rare Find by Joanna Lowell
  • Murder by Proxy (Meredith and Alex Thatch Mystery #3) by Rachel Ford
  • Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
• Other Titles of Interest
  • Damsels and Dinosaurs by Wren Jones
  • By Her Sword: A Sapphic Fantasy Romance Anthology (Sunset Wave Sapphic Anthologies #2) edited by Erin Branch
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer
• This month we interview Joanna Lowell and talk about:
  • Working with historical language and issues around characters who don’t fall neatly in the gender binary
  • How her previous books connect together
  • Actor Charlotte Charke as an inspiration for the character of Georgie
  • Theater as a place for queer themes
  • Avoiding being locked into incorrect historical tropes
  • How the novels of Alexis Hall and Sarah Waters work differently with gender
  • The difficulty of getting away from modern identity categories
  • Books Joanna has recently enjoyed:
    • A Gentleman’s Gentleman by T.J. Alexander
    • Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti

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)

Links to Joanna Lowell Online

• Website: https://www.joannalowell.com/
• Instagram: @joannalowellauthor

The House of the Women by Jeannelle M. Ferreira - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 315

The House of the Women by Jeannelle M. Ferreira

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 315 with Heather Rose Jones

This quarter’s fiction episode presents “The House of the Women” by JEannelle M. Ferreira, narrated by Violet Dixon.

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 Jeannelle M. Ferreria Online

• Website: https://jeannellewrites.wordpress.com/
• Bluesky: @jeannellewrites.bsky.social