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