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The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
Heather Rose Jones
328 episodes
1 week ago
A show about queer women in history and historic literature, plus coverage of the field of sapphic historical fiction. Content note: May include discussions of sex within an academic context.
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A show about queer women in history and historic literature, plus coverage of the field of sapphic historical fiction. Content note: May include discussions of sex within an academic context.
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The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
On the Shelf for November 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 327
On the Shelf for November 2025 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 327 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: Setting up context for this month’s fiction episode Additions to the website Progress on the Lesbian Historic Motif Project book Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog Pelliccia, Hayden. 1995. “Ambiguity against Ambiguity: Anacreon 13 Again” in Illinois Classical Studies, Vol. 20: 23-34. Davidson, J.F. 1987. “Anacreon, Homer and the Young Woman from Lesbos” in Mnemosyne, Fourth Series, Vol. 40, Fasc. 1/2: 132-137. Petropoulos, J.C.B. 1993. “Sappho the Sorceress: Another Look at fr. 1 (LP)” in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Bd. 97: 43-56. Devereux, George. 1970. “The Nature of Sappho's Seizure in Fr. 31 LP as Evidence of Her Inversion” in The Classical Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1: 17-31. Lardinois, André. 1994. “Subject and Circumstance in Sappho's Poetry” in Transactions of the American Philological Association, Vol. 124: 57-84. Most, Glenn W. 1995. “Reflecting Sappho” in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Vol. 40: 15-38. Skinner, M.B. 1989. “Sapphic Nossis” in Arethusa 22:5-18. Blondell, Ruby and Sandra Boehringer. 2014. “Revenge of the Hetairistria: The Reception of Plato’s Symposium in Lucian’s Fifth DIalogue of the Courtesans.” Arethusa 47: 231-64. Book Shopping The A to Z of Charles II’s London 1682 The Whitehall Palace Plan of 1670 Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction No Love for an Outlaw by Kerri Reeves Twin Flames of Namwon: The Reimagined Love Story of Chunhyang and Cheong by Velis Aenora Neon Nights by William Ellison Raised for the Sword by Aimée The Salvage by Anbara Salam A Lady for a Highwayman (from Lovers and Liaisons) by Dani Collins My Mother's Spear by Ishtar Watson Phoenix (Intertwined Souls #9) by Mary Dee Ophelia by S.M. Namkoong Between Two Silences by Shanon O'Brien The Secret War (Hattie James #3) by Stacy Lynn Miller The Duke by Anna Cowan My Darling Clementine (Clementine #1) by Genta Sebastian Where There's Room for Us by Hayley Kiyoko Other Titles of Interest The Fault Mirror by Catherine Fearns As Many Souls as Stars by Natasha Siegel What I’ve been reading Angel Maker by Elizabeth Bear A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher Murderbot Series (various titles) by Martha Wells Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones Call for submissions for the 2026 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details. This month we interview Anbara Salam and talk about: What grounds a story in a specific place and time? Isolation, claustrophobia, and “things that should be gone but aren’t” as the essence of gothics Researching queer sexuality in the mid-20th century Exploring sapphic longing The importance of not making the central conflict about queerness The Salvage by Anbara Salam Belladona by Anbara Salam 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 Anbara Salam Online Website: anbarasalam.com Instagram: @anbarasalam
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2 weeks ago
41 minutes

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
Speculative Fiction and Sapphic Plots - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 326
Speculative Fiction and Sapphic Plots The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 326 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: Historic “speculative fiction” as a context for neutral depictions of sapphic characters 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 Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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4 weeks ago
16 minutes

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
On the Shelf for October 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 325
On the Shelf for October 2025 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 325 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 Bray, Alan. 1996. Homosexuality in Renaissance England. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 9780231102896 Downing, Christine. 1989. Myths and Mysteries of Same-Sex Love. The Continuum Publishing Company, New York. ISBN 0-8264-0445-6 Reineke, Martha & Christine Downing. 1993. “Within the Shadow of the Herms: A Critique of "Myths and Mysteries of Same-Sex Love" [with Reply] in Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, Vol. 19, No. 1: 81-101, 103-106 Downing, Christine. 1994. “Lesbian Mythology” in Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, Vol. 20, No. 2, Lesbian Histories: 169-199. Nelson, Max. 2000. “A Note on the Olisbos” in Glotta, 76. Bd., 1./2. H.:75-82 Bremmer, Jan. 1980. “An Enigmatic Indo-European Rite: Paederasty” in Arethusa, Vol. 13, No. 2, Indo-European Roots of Classical Culture: 279-298. Arkins, Brian. 1994. “Sexuality in Fifth Century Athens” in Classics Ireland, Vol. 1: 18-34. Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction Florence Syndrome by Catherine Martini Red Wake, Black Flag by Dahlia Quinn Boardwalk Desire by Melody Ashford Thrall of Deception (Tales from Norvegr) by Edale Lane Angel Maker (Karen Memory #3) by Elizabeth Bear Secrets of the Night by Shelby Banks Gold for the Dead (Cantor Gold #7) by Ann Aptaker A Lady Most Wayward (The Queen's Deadly Damsels #5) by Darcy McGuire The Impossible Act of Georgia Cline by Eline Evans Iceberg by Gun Brooke A Legacy of Blood and Bone by Millie Abecassis Gladiator, Goddess by Morgan H. Owen Her Wicked Roots by Tanya Pell The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-yi Lee Other Titles of Interest Toni and Addie Go Viral by Melissa Marr What I’ve been reading Hemlock and Silver by T. Kingfisher Illuminations by T. Kingfisher A Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones Artificial Condition by Martha Wells The Rosetti Diaries by author The Illhenny Murders by Winnie Frolik Copper Script by K.J. Charles That Self-Same Metal by Brittany H. Williams The Tropoholic's Guide to Internal Romance Tropes by Cindy Dees Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti Call for submissions for the 2026 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details. This month we interview Raven Belasco and talk about: The real historic background of Sadie the Goat and Gallus Mag Vampire stories and time-travel stories as mirror images Expanding formats World-building and inventing languages Lesbian sex in the 19th century That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story by Raven Belasco Sadie the Goat (Wikipedia) Gallus Mag (Wikipedia) 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 Raven Belasco Online Website: ravenbelas.co/ Twitter (X): @RavenBelasco Instagram: @raven.belasco YouTube: @ravenbelasco Facebook: author.ravenbelasco
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1 month ago
43 minutes

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
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1 month ago
29 minutes

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
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
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2 months ago
47 minutes

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
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
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2 months ago
28 minutes 43 seconds

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
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)
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3 months ago
8 minutes 47 seconds

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
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)
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3 months ago
13 minutes 16 seconds

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
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
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3 months ago
1 hour 3 minutes 40 seconds

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
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
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4 months ago
30 minutes 2 seconds

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
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)
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4 months ago
10 minutes

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
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
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5 months ago
42 minutes 31 seconds

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 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
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5 months ago
42 minutes 15 seconds

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
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 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)
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6 months ago
20 minutes 18 seconds

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
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 Website: http://alpennia.com Email: Heather Rose Jones Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop Bluesky: @heatherrosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page) Links to Lindz McLeod Online Website: https://lindzmcleod.co.uk/ Twitter: @lindzmcleod Instagram: @lindz.mcleod Bluesky: @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
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6 months ago
36 minutes 46 seconds

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
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)
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6 months ago
11 minutes 35 seconds

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
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 Website: http://alpennia.com Email: Heather Rose Jones Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop Bluesky: @heatherrosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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7 months ago
16 minutes 30 seconds

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
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
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7 months ago
29 minutes 4 seconds

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
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-D
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7 months ago
19 minutes 28 seconds

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
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 Links to Heather Online Website: http://alpennia.com Email: Heather Rose Jones Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop Bluesky: @heatherrosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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8 months ago
26 minutes 31 seconds

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
A show about queer women in history and historic literature, plus coverage of the field of sapphic historical fiction. Content note: May include discussions of sex within an academic context.