• On the Shelf for May 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 313
    May 3 2025
    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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    37 mins
  • Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 17: The Governess - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 312
    Apr 21 2025
    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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    12 mins
  • On the Shelf for April 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 311
    Apr 6 2025
    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 hostRecent and upcoming publications covered on the blogRagan, 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 0-19-509304-6Merrick, 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 0-19-509304-6Colwill, 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 0-19-509304-6Sautman, 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 0-19-509304-6Oram, Alison & Annmarie Turnbull. 2001. The Lesbian History Sourcebook: love and sex between women in Britain from 1780 to 1970. Routledge, New York. ISBN 9-78-0-415-11485-3Choma, Anne. 2019. Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister. Penguin Books, New York. ISBN 978-0-14-313456-5Ó 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 FictionGlitter in the Dark by Olesya LyuznaThat Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga #1) by Brittany N. WilliamsSaint-Seducing Gold (The Forge & Fracture Saga #2) by Brittany N. WilliamsIron Tongue of Midnight (The Forge & Fracture Saga #3) by Brittany N. WilliamsMere 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 KentA Thief's Kiss (The Highwaywomen #2) by Delilah KentVelvet & Vengeance (The Highwaywomen #3) by Delilah KentThe Butchers Bride (The Highwaywomen #4) by Delilah KentThe Duchess and the Dagger (The Highwaywomen #5) by Delilah KentReckless Hearts (The Highwaywomen #6) by Delilah KentBanshee's Cry (Lesbian Pirates #3) by Marina TempestLucky Harp (Lesbian Pirates #4) by Marina TempestMercy's Blade (Lesbian Pirates #5) by Marina TempestMidnight Serpent (Lesbian Pirates #6) by Marina TempestRum & Roses (Velvet & Vice #3) by V.C. SterlingBrandy & Betrayal (Velvet & Vice #4) by V.C. SterlingAbsinthe & Affection (Velvet & Vice #5) by V.C. SterlingMoonshine & Mayhem (Velvet & Vice #6) by V.C. SterlingScotch & Secrets (Velvet & Vice #7) by V.C. Sterling What I’ve been consumingGentleman Jack by Anne ChomaThe Tomb of Dragons by Katherine AddisonThe 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/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon Links to Heather Online Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.ShopBluesky: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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    17 mins
  • A Falling Star and a Flying Bird by Rhiannon Grant - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 310
    Mar 29 2025
    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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    29 mins
  • Lesbians and Sex Work - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 309
    Mar 24 2025
    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 sourcesSources usedBennett, 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 978-0-7546-7335-4Blackmore, 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 9780822323495Boehringer, Sandra (trans. Anna Preger). 2021. Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-367-74476-2Burford, E.J. 1986. Wits, Wenchers and Wantons - London’s Low Life: Covent Garden in the Eighteenth Century. Robert Hale, London. ISBN 0-7090-2629-3Cheek, 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 1-56023-263-3Craft-Fairchild, Catherine. 2006. “Sexual and Textual Indeterminacy: Eighteenth-Century English Representations of Sapphism” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 15:3DeJean, Joan. 1989. Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-14136-5Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4Engelstein, 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 0-415-91951-7Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-688-00396-6Gilhuly, Kate. 2015. “Lesbians are Not from Lesbos” in Blondell, Ruby & Kirk Ormand (eds). Ancient Sex: New Essays. The Ohio State University Press, Columbus. ISBN 978-0-8142-1283-7Habib, Samar. 2007. Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations. Routledge, New York. ISBN 78-0-415-80603-9Haley, 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 0-29-77113-4Ingrassia, 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-XJones, 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 0-415-90388-2Jones, 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-andKatritzky, 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 978-0-7546-0953-7Klein, Ula Lukszo. 2021. Sapphic Crossings: Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville. ISBN 978-0-8139-4551-4Kranz, Susan E. 1995. The Sexual Identities of Moll Cutpurse in Dekker and Middleton’s The Roaring Girl and in London in Renaissance and Reformation 19: 5-20.Merrick, Jeffrey. 1990. “Sexual Politics and Public Order in Late Eighteenth-Century France: the Mémoires secrets and the Correspondance secrète” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 1, 68-84.Merrick, Jeffrey & Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. 2001. Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-510257-6Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5Sears, Clare. 2015. Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-5758-2Shapiro, Michael. 1994. Gender in ...
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    19 mins
  • On the Shelf for March 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 308
    Mar 3 2025
    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-upRecent and upcoming publications covered on the blogBlackmore, 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 9780822323495Blackmore, 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 9780822323495Gerli, 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 9780822323495Perry, 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 9780822323495Burshatin, 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 FictionCanvas of Desire by Pippa FarthingaleMy Heart On Your Sleeve by April KlasenPetals and Pages by T. AlbrightThe Art of Unmaking by Parker LennoxThe Smith by Marine St. JeanLove and Rebellion (Forbidden Whispers #1) by Ericka SchmidtThe Witch of Versailles by Jessica MasonThe Other March Sisters by Linda Epstein, Ally Malinenko, Liz ParkerUnder the Same Stars by Libba BrayBlood on Her Tongue by Johanna Van VeenBitter winds (Lesbian Pirates #1) by Marina TempestCursed Scar (Lesbian Pirates #2) by Marina TempestThe Duchess's Companion (Roses & Rebellion #1) by V.C. SterlingA Lady's Reckoning (Roses & Rebellion #2) by V.C. SterlingLessons in Compassion (Roses & Rebellion #3) by V.C. SterlingThe Lady's Secret (Roses & Rebellion #4) by V.C. SterlingA Lady's Final Stand (Roses & Rebellion #5) by V.C. SterlingWhiskey & Lace (Velvet & Vice #1) by V.C. SterlingGin & Sin (Velvet & Vice #2) by V.C. SterlingThe 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 InterestThe Boxcar Librarian by Brianna Labuskes What I’ve been consumingThe Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka OlderThe 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/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon Links to Heather Online Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.ShopBluesky: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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    27 mins
  • Our F/Favorite Tropes: Sword-Lesbians and Horse-Girls - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 307
    Feb 16 2025
    Our F/Favorite Tropes: Sword-Lesbians and Horse-Girls The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 307 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about:

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

    A transcript of this podcast is available here.

    Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

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

    Links to Heather Online

    • Website: http://alpennia.com
    • Email: Heather Rose Jones
    • Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
    • Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
    • Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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    15 mins
  • On the Shelf for February 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 306
    Feb 1 2025
    On the Shelf for February 2025 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 306 with Heather Rose Jones

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

    In this episode we talk about:

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

    A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)

    Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

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

    Links to Heather Online

    • Website: http://alpennia.com
    • Email: Heather Rose Jones
    • Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
    • Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
    • Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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    14 mins