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


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• 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


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• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)