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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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On the Shelf for December 2025
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode # with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
Accomplishments and upcoming milestones
A podcast that listeners may be interested in: Our Dyke Histories
Recent publications covered on the blog
Levin-Richardson, Sarah. 2013. “Fututa Sum Hic: Female Subjectivity and Agency in Pompeian Sexual Graffiti” in The Classical Journal, 1083. pp.319-45.
Walker, J. 2006. “Before the Name: Ovid’s Deformulated Lesbianism” in Comparative Literature 58.3, pp.205-222.
Castle, T. 1983-4. “Eros and Liberty at the English Masquerade, 1710-90” in Eighteenth-Century Studies, XVII, 2: 156-76.
Friedman-Rommell, Beth. 1995. “Breaking the Code: Towards a Reception Theory of Theatrical Cross-Dressing in Eighteenth-Century London” in Theatre Journal 47, no.4: 459-79.
Howard, Jean E. 1988. “Cross-Dressing, the Theatre and Gender Struggle in Early Modern England” in Shakespeare Quarterly 39: 418-40. (Also appears in: Howard, Jean E. 1993. “Cross-Dressing, the Theater, and Gender Struggle in Early Modern England” in Crossing the Stage: Controversies in Cross-Dressing, ed. Ferris, Leslie. Routledge, London.)
Andreadis, Harriette. 2006. “Re-Configuring Early Modern Friendship: Katherine Philips and Homoerotic Desire.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 523–42.
Kramer, Rene. 2015. That Mysterious, Remisse Knot: Katherine Philips’s Unincorporated Fraternity. Honors Thesis.
Stevenson, Mark & Wu Cuncun (eds. and trans.). 2013. Homoeroticism in Imperial China: A sourcebook. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-415-55144-1
Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
Souvienne by Aldwin Beckett
Without Apology (Jane Smith #3) by Charlotte Taft
Inverts in a Violet Room by Peter Forrester
Whispers of the Heart: Lady Eleanor's Secret by Rhia Kampus
Hiding the Flame by Angela M. Sims
On the Edge of Uncertainty by E.V. Bancroft
Brought to Heel by Ella Witts & Serah Messenger
Pearl Bound by Natalie Bergman
What I’ve been consuming
Network Effect by Martha Wells
System Collapse by Martha Wells
The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott
A Mouthful of Dust by Nghi Vo
Raised for the Sword by Aimée
Call for submissions for the 2026 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
This month we interview Maya Dworsky-Rocha and talk about:
The historic context and terminology of anti-Semitism and hatred of Jews
Cultural clashes and conflicts around ideas of gender
The historic work of Daniel Boyarin and Jewish gender stereotypes
Maya’s use of non-binary characters to reflect these ideas
The symbolic uses of eating, temptation, and impurity in the story
”Authorizing” queer desire via projection
Maya’s writing partnership as Sylvia Barry
The Devil and the Jews by Joshua Trachtenberg
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 Maya Dworsky-Rocha Online
Website: https://www.sylviabarrybooks.com/
Bluesky: @mayadrocha.bsky.social
TikTok: @mayadrocha
Ma’am, This is a Fruit Stand by Maya Dworsky-Rocha
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 329 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents "Ma’am, This is a Fruit Stand" by Maya Dworsky-Rocha, narrated and music composition and performance 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 Maya Dworsky-Rocha Online
Website: https://www.sylviabarrybooks.com/maya-dworsky-rocha
Christina Rosetti’s “The Goblin Market” (reprised)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 328 with Heather Rose Jones
This is an analysis and recitation of the poem “The Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti, with special attention to its homoerotic themes.
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 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
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)
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
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 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 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 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 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 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.
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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.)
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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.
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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
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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 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
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Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
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Website: https://jeannellewrites.wordpress.com/
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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.
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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
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Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
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Email: Heather Rose Jones
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Links to Lindz McLeod Online
Website: https://lindzmcleod.co.uk/
Twitter: @lindzmcleod
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Bluesky: @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
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
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Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
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Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
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Email: Heather Rose Jones
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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
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