The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

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
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• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
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Links to Jeannelle M. Ferreria Online

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

Benedetta Carlini, Lesbian Nun - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 314

Benedetta Carlini, Lesbian Nun

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 314 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• The historic and religious context of Benedetta’s life
• Benedetta’s sexual encounters
• Sources mentioned
  • Brown, Judith C. 1984. “Lesbian Sexuality in Renaissance Italy: The Case of Sister Benedetta Carlini” in Signs 9 (1984): 751-58. (reprinted in: Freedman, Esteele B., Barbara C. Gelpi, Susan L. Johnson & Kathleen M. Weston. 1985. The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-2256-26151-4)
  • 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
  • Holler, Jacqueline. 1999. “’More Sins than the Queen of England’: Marina de San Miguel before the Mexican Inquisition” in Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World, ed. Mary E. Giles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. ISBN 0-8018-5931-X pp.209-28
  • Matter, E. Ann. 1989. “My Sister, My Spouse: Woman-Identified Women in Medieval Christianity” in Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality, eds. Judith Plaskow & Carol P. Christ. Harper & Row, San Francisco.
  • Watt, Diane. 1997. “Read My Lips: Clipping and Kyssyng in the Early Sixteenth Century” in Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality, ed. Anna Livia and Kira Hall. New York, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-510471-4
• This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Benedetta Carlini

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
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• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

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• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
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On the Shelf for May 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 313

On the Shelf for May 2025

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 313 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• Retirement
• Financing the podcast
• Expanded analysis projects
• A new policy affecting the new book listings
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod
  • Midnight Letters by Rowan Wilder
  • The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling
  • Murder at the Cabaret by Dana Gricken
  • Give My Love to Berlin by Katherine Bryant
  • To the Fairest by M. Walker
  • Time After time by Mikki Daughtry
  • A Spell for Change by Nicole Jarvis
• Other Titles of Interest
  • The Olive and the Spear by J.A. Rainbow
• What I’ve been consuming
  • The Chatelaine by Kate Heartfield
• This month we interview Lindz McLeod and talk about:
  • The appeal of adapting Jane Austen’s fiction
  • Communicating with the language of flowers
  • Other Austen characters who might have interesting stories
  • The wide variety of Lindz’s work
  • The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod
  • The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley by Lindz McLeod (forthcoming)
  • An Honour and a Priviledge by Lindz McLeod (forthcoming)

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

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• Email: Heather Rose Jones
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Links to Lindz McLeod Online

• Website: https://lindzmcleod.co.uk/
• Twitter: @lindzmcleod
• Instagram: @lindz.mcleod
• Bluesky: @lindzmcleod.bsky.social

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 17: The Governess - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 312

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 17: The Governess

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 312 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• The dynamics of the “governess romance”
• F/f possibilities for governess romances

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 April 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 311

On the Shelf for April 2025

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 311 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• A special announcement about your host
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Ragan, Bryant T. Jr. 1996. “The Enlightenment Confronts Homosexuality” in Homosexuality in Modern France ed. by Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-509304-6
  • Merrick, Jeffrey. 1996. “The Marquis de Villette and Mademoiselle de Raucourt: Representations of Male and Female Sexual Deviance in Late Eighteenth-Century France” in Homosexuality in Modern France ed. by Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-509304-6
  • Colwill, Elizabeth. 1996. “Pass as a Woman, Act like a Man: Marie-Antoinette as Tribade in the Pornography of the French Revolution” in Homosexuality in Modern France ed. by Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-509304-6
  • 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
  • Oram, Alison & Annmarie Turnbull. 2001. The Lesbian History Sourcebook: love and sex between women in Britain from 1780 to 1970. Routledge, New York. ISBN 9-78-0-415-11485-3
  • Choma, Anne. 2019. Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister. Penguin Books, New York. ISBN 978-0-14-313456-5
  • Ó Síocháin, Tadhg. 2017. The Case of The Abbot of Drimnagh: A Medieval Irish Story of Sex-Change. Cork Studies in Celtic Literatures. ISBN 978-0-9955469-1-2
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Glitter in the Dark by Olesya Lyuzna
  • That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga #1) by Brittany N. Williams
  • Saint-Seducing Gold (The Forge & Fracture Saga #2) by Brittany N. Williams
  • Iron Tongue of Midnight (The Forge & Fracture Saga #3) by Brittany N. Williams
  • Mere by Danielle Giles
  • Renegade Girls: A Queer Tale of Romance and Rabble-Rousing by Nora Neus and Julie Robine
  • The Scarlett Highwaywoman (The Highwaywomen #1) by Delilah Kent
  • A Thief's Kiss (The Highwaywomen #2) by Delilah Kent
  • Velvet & Vengeance (The Highwaywomen #3) by Delilah Kent
  • The Butchers Bride (The Highwaywomen #4) by Delilah Kent
  • The Duchess and the Dagger (The Highwaywomen #5) by Delilah Kent
  • Reckless Hearts (The Highwaywomen #6) by Delilah Kent
  • Banshee's Cry (Lesbian Pirates #3) by Marina Tempest
  • Lucky Harp (Lesbian Pirates #4) by Marina Tempest
  • Mercy's Blade (Lesbian Pirates #5) by Marina Tempest
  • Midnight Serpent (Lesbian Pirates #6) by Marina Tempest
  • Rum & Roses (Velvet & Vice #3) by V.C. Sterling
  • Brandy & Betrayal (Velvet & Vice #4) by V.C. Sterling
  • Absinthe & Affection (Velvet & Vice #5) by V.C. Sterling
  • Moonshine & Mayhem (Velvet & Vice #6) by V.C. Sterling
  • Scotch & Secrets (Velvet & Vice #7) by V.C. Sterling
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Gentleman Jack by Anne Choma
  • The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison
  • The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan

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

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• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

A Falling Star and a Flying Bird by Rhiannon Grant - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 310

A Falling Star and a Flying Bird by Rhiannon Grant

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 310 with Heather Rose Jones

This quarter’s fiction episode presents A Falling Star and a Flying Bird by Rhiannon Grant, 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 Rhiannon Grant Online

• Website: https://brigidfoxandbuddha.wordpress.com

Lesbians and Sex Work - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 309

Lesbians and Sex Work

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 309 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• Four motifs that connect women loving women and sex work in historic sources
• Sources used
  • Bennett, Judith and Shannon McSheffrey. 2014. “Early, Erotic and Alien: Women Dressed as Men in Late Medieval London” in History Workshop Journal. 77 (1): 1-25.
  • Beynon, John C. 2010. “Unaccountable Women” in Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4
  • Blackmore, Josiah. 1999. “The Poets of Sodom” in Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance ed. Josiah Blackmore and Gregory S. Hutcheson. Duke University Press, Durham. ISBN 9780822323495
  • Boehringer, Sandra (trans. Anna Preger). 2021. Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-367-74476-2
  • Burford, E.J. 1986. Wits, Wenchers and Wantons - London’s Low Life: Covent Garden in the Eighteenth Century. Robert Hale, London. ISBN 0-7090-2629-3
  • Cheek, Pamela. 1998. "The 'Mémoires secrets' and the Actress: Tribadism, Performance, and Property", in Jeremy D. Popkin and Bernadette Fort (eds), The "Mémoires secrets" and the Culture of Publicity in Eighteenth-Century France, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation.
  • Choquette, Leslie. 2001. “’Homosexuals in the City: Representations of Lesbian and Gay Space in Nineteenth-Century Paris” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
  • Craft-Fairchild, Catherine. 2006. “Sexual and Textual Indeterminacy: Eighteenth-Century English Representations of Sapphism” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 15:3
  • DeJean, Joan. 1989. Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-14136-5
  • Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4
  • Engelstein, Laura. 1990. "Lesbian Vignettes: A Russian Triptych from the 1890s" in Signs vol. 15, no. 4 813-831.
  • Garber, Marjorie. 1992. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-91951-7
  • Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-688-00396-6
  • Gilhuly, Kate. 2015. “Lesbians are Not from Lesbos” in Blondell, Ruby & Kirk Ormand (eds). Ancient Sex: New Essays. The Ohio State University Press, Columbus. ISBN 978-0-8142-1283-7
  • Habib, Samar. 2007. Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations. Routledge, New York. ISBN 78-0-415-80603-9
  • Haley, Shelley P. “Lucian’s ‘Leaena and Clonarium’: Voyeurism or a Challenge to Assumptions?” in Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin & Lisa Auanger eds. 2002. Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World. University of Texas Press, Austin. ISBN 0-29-77113-4
  • Ingrassia, Catherine. 2003. “Eliza Haywood, Sapphic Desire, and the Practice of Reading” in: Kittredge, Katharine (ed). Lewd & Notorious: Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. ISBN 0-472-11090-X
  • Jones, Ann Rosalind & Peter Stallybrass. 1991. “Fetishizing gender: constructing the Hermaphrodite in Renaissance Europe” in Body guards : the cultural politics of gender ambiguity edited by Julia Epstein & Kristina Straub. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-90388-2
  • Jones, Heather Rose. 2021. “Researching the Origins of Lesbian Myths, Legends, and Symbols” (podcast). https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-201-researching-origins-lesbian-myths-legends-and
  • Katritzky, M.A. 2005. “Reading the Actress in Commedia Imagery” in Women Players in England, 1500-1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage, edited by Pamela Allen Brown & Peter Parolin. Ashgate, Burlington. ISBN 978-0-7546-0953-7
  • Klein, Ula Lukszo. 2021. Sapphic Crossings: Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville. ISBN 978-0-8139-4551-4
  • Kranz, Susan E. 1995. The Sexual Identities of Moll Cutpurse in Dekker and Middleton’s The Roaring Girl and in London in Renaissance and Reformation 19: 5-20.
  • Merrick, Jeffrey. 1990. “Sexual Politics and Public Order in Late Eighteenth-Century France: the Mémoires secrets and the Correspondance secrète” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 1, 68-84.
  • Merrick, Jeffrey & Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. 2001. Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-510257-6
  • Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5
  • Sears, Clare. 2015. Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-5758-2
  • Shapiro, Michael. 1994. Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages. Ann Arbor.
  • Van der Meer, Theo. 1991. “Tribades on Trial: Female Same-Sex Offenders in Late Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:3 424-445.
  • Vanita, Ruth and Saleem Kidwai, eds. 2000. Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History. St. Martin’s, New York. ISBN 0-312-22169-X
  • Velasco, Sherry. 2011. Lesbians in Early Modern Spain. Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville. ISBN 978-0-8265-1750-0
  • Wahl, Elizabeth Susan. 1999. Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford University Press, Stanford. ISBN 0-8047-3650-2
  • Walen, Denise A. 2005. Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6875-3

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 March 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 308

On the Shelf for March 2025

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 308 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• The 2025 fiction line-up
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Blackmore, Josiah and Gregory S. Hutcheson. 1999. “Introduction” in Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance ed. Josiah Blackmore and Gregory S. Hutcheson. Duke University Press, Durham. ISBN 9780822323495
  • Blackmore, Josiah. 1999. “The Poets of Sodom” in Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance ed. Josiah Blackmore and Gregory S. Hutcheson. Duke University Press, Durham. ISBN 9780822323495
  • Gerli, E. Michael. 1999. “Dismembering the Body Politic: Vile Bodies and Sexual Underworlds in Celestina” in Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance ed. Josiah Blackmore and Gregory S. Hutcheson. Duke University Press, Durham. ISBN 9780822323495
  • Perry, Mary Elizabeth. 1999. “From Convent to Battlefield: Cross-Dressing and Gendering the Self in the New World of Imperial Spain” in Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance ed. Josiah Blackmore and Gregory S. Hutcheson. Duke University Press, Durham. ISBN 9780822323495
  • Burshatin, Israel. 1999. “Written on the Body: Slave or Hermaphrodite in Sixteenth-Century Spain” in Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance ed. Josiah Blackmore and Gregory S. Hutcheson. Duke University Press, Durham. ISBN 9780822323495
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Canvas of Desire by Pippa Farthingale
  • My Heart On Your Sleeve by April Klasen
  • Petals and Pages by T. Albright
  • The Art of Unmaking by Parker Lennox
  • The Smith by Marine St. Jean
  • Love and Rebellion (Forbidden Whispers #1) by Ericka Schmidt
  • The Witch of Versailles by Jessica Mason
  • The Other March Sisters by Linda Epstein, Ally Malinenko, Liz Parker
  • Under the Same Stars by Libba Bray
  • Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna Van Veen
  • Bitter winds (Lesbian Pirates #1) by Marina Tempest
  • Cursed Scar (Lesbian Pirates #2) by Marina Tempest
  • The Duchess's Companion (Roses & Rebellion #1) by V.C. Sterling
  • A Lady's Reckoning (Roses & Rebellion #2) by V.C. Sterling
  • Lessons in Compassion (Roses & Rebellion #3) by V.C. Sterling
  • The Lady's Secret (Roses & Rebellion #4) by V.C. Sterling
  • A Lady's Final Stand (Roses & Rebellion #5) by V.C. Sterling
  • Whiskey & Lace (Velvet & Vice #1) by V.C. Sterling
  • Gin & Sin (Velvet & Vice #2) by V.C. Sterling
  • The Lady & The Thief (Scandal & Sapphire #1) by Delilah Kent
  • The Heiress & Her Governess (Scandal & Sapphire #2) by Delilah Kent
  • The Widow & The Wallflower (Scandal & Sapphire #3) by Delilah Kent
• Other Titles of Interest
  • The Boxcar Librarian by Brianna Labuskes
• What I’ve been consuming
  • The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older
  • The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

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

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Our F/Favorite Tropes: Sword-Lesbians and Horse-Girls - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 307

Our F/Favorite Tropes: Sword-Lesbians and Horse-Girls

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 307 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• The trope of the horse-girl
• The trope of the sword-lesbian
• How these tropes are negotiated between story setting and reader expectations
• This topic makes reference to the following episodes:
  • Bluestockings and Amazons
  • Female Knights
  • Only One Bed

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 February 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 306

On the Shelf for February 2025

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 306 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• Submissions for the 2025 fiction series are closed and results will be announced shortly
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Turton, Stephen. 2022. “The Lexicographical Lesbian: Remaking the Body in Anne Lister’s Erotic Glossary” in The Review of English Studies, vol. 73, no. 310: 537-551.
  • Braunschneider, Theresa. 1999. “The Macroclitoride, the Tribade, and the Woman: Configuring Gender and Sexuality in English Anatomical Discourse” in Textual Practice 13, no. 3: 509-32.
  • Stanton, Domna C. 1986. The Defiant Muse: French Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present. The Feminist Press ISBN 0-935312-52-8
  • Donoghue, Emma. 1997. Poems Between Women: Four centuries of love, romantic friendship, and desire. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-231-10925-3
  • Burger, Glenn & Steven F. Kruger eds. 2001. Queering the Middle Ages. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-81669-3404-1
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Distant Thunder by Peggy J. Herring
  • Minas (Dying Gods #4) by Elisha Kemp
  • Benefactor to the Baroness by Melissa Kendall
  • Mutual Interest by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
  • Payback by Penny Mickelbury
  • Hungerstone by Kat Dunn
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Murder in an English Village by Jessica Ellicott
  • A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
  • All the Painted Stars by Emma Denny

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)