• How the concepts of “women”, “same-sex”, and “marriage” are being defined for the purpose of this discussion
• Cultures that may have supported marriage between women as an equal option
• Cases of same-sex marriage enabled by presenting as an opposite sex couple
• The permeability of the “opposite sex” requirement in actual practice
• Using the forms and rituals of marriage, even when the legal status was not available
• This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
  • Marriage between women
  • Female husbands

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
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• How easy is it to live outside of the heterosexual marriage paradigm?
• What are the economic, legal, and religious constraints on your characters?
• What is the ordinary “background noise” of non-sexual displays of affection?
• How does the culture of the setting understand privacy and how does that affect your characters’ behavior?
• What are the realities and perceptions around sex between women in this setting?
• How does the culture of the setting understand gender and sexuality?
• How are female couples depicted in popular culture of the time?

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

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• The history of words for women who loved women throughout recorded European history.
• What words were used?
• Where did they come from?
• What shades of meaning did they have?
• How did those meanings change over time?

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

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• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

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

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• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
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• Demographics and economics affecting f/f couples
• Legal and religious considerations
• Friendship and romance
• Affection and sex
• The language of lesbianism
• Models of gender and sexuality
• Bibliography
  • 18th Century Precursors
    • Bennett, Judith M. & Amy M. Froide eds. 1999. Singlewomen in the European Past 1250-1800. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 0-8122-1668-7
    • Bennett, Betty T. 1991. Mary Diana Dods: A Gentleman and a Scholar. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. ISBN 0-8018-4984-5
    • Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. 2010. Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4
    • Bodek, Evelyn Gordon. 1976. "Salonières and Bluestockings: Educated Obsolescence and Germinating Feminism" in Feminist Studies vol 3 no. 3/4 185-199.
    • Clark, Anna. 1996. "Anne Lister's construction of lesbian identity", Journal of the History of Sexuality, 7(1), pp. 23-50.
    • Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4
    • Dugaw, Dianne. 1989. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 1650-1850. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-16916-2
    • Merrick, Jeffrey & Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. 2001. Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-510257-6
    • Norton, Rictor (ed.), Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook. Updated 7 September 2014 http://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/. (Accessed 2014/09/13)
    • Hitchcock, Tim. 1997. English Sexualities, 1700-1800. St. Martin’s Press, New York. ISBN 0-312-16573-0
    • Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5
  • 19th Century Sources
    • Binhammer, Katherine. 1996. “The Sex Panic of the 1790s” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 6, no. 3: 409-34.
    • Jennings, Rebecca. 2007. A Lesbian History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Women Since 1500. Greenwood World Publishing, Oxford. ISBN 978-1-84645-007-5
    • Lanser, Susan S. 2014. The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-18773-0
    • Lasser, Carol. 1988. "'Let Us Be Sisters Forever': The Sororal Model of Nineteenth-Century Female Friendship" in Signs vol. 14, no. 1 158-181.
    • Moore, Lisa. 1992. "'Something More Tender Still than Friendship': Romantic Friendship in Early-Nineteenth-Century England" in Feminist Studies vol. 18, no. 3 499-520.
    • Norton, Rictor (ed.), Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook. Updated 7 September 2014 http://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/nineteen.htm (Accessed 2014/09/13)
    • Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3
    • Whitbread, Helena ed.  1992.  I Know My Own Heart:  The Diaries of Anne Lister 1791-1840.  New York University Press, New York.  ISBN 0-8147-9249-9
    • Whitbread, Helena ed.  1992.  No Priest But Love.  NY Univ Press, New York.  ISBN  0-8147-5077-X

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)

In this episode we talk about:

• Say hi at GCLS
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Traub, Valerie. 1996. “The Perversion of ‘Lesbian’ Desire” in History Workshop Journal 41:19-49.
  • Goode, Dawn M. 2008. “Dueling Discourses: The Erotics of Female Friendship in Mary Pix’s ‘Queen Catharine.’” in Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 37–60.
  • McClain, Molly. 2008. “Love, Friendship, and Power: Queen Mary II's Letters to Frances Apsley” in Journal of British Studies, Vol. 47, No. 3: 505-527
  • Hitchcock, Tim. 1996. “Redefining Sex in Eighteenth-Century England” in History Workshop Journal, No. 41: 72-90
  • Roulston, Christine. 1998. “Separating the Inseparables: Female Friendship and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century France.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 215–31.
• Book Shopping
  • Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • The Beheading Game by Rebecca Lehmann
  • Consider This My Witness by Madeline Klein
  • Beneath the Quiet Valley (Quiet Valley #1) by Eleanor Foster
  • Beneath the Quiet Valley: Two Lives (Quiet Valley #2) by Eleanor Foster
  • The Water That Remembers (The Woman at the Well #1) by Jade Remintgon
  • The Weight of Staying (The Woman at the Well #2) by Jade Remintgon
  • The Courage to Remain (The Woman at the Well #3) by Jade Remintgon
  • The Mystery of the Bitten Peach by Cecilia Tan
  • Bone of my Bone by Johanna van Veen
  • Miss Woodhouse & Miss Fairfax by Maisie Jardelle
  • The Wives of Herrick Hall by Julie Lew
  • Her Runaway Lady by B.J. Sikes
  • For the Love of the Quest by Alexandra Ammon Parthun
  • The Summer I Met June by Mozie S
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Word by Word by Kory Stamper
  • True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color--from Azure to Zinc Pink by Kory Stamper
  • Murder at Sissingham Hall by Clara Benson
  • The Mystery at Underwood House by Clara Benson
• This month we interview Cecilia Tan and talk about:
  • The fun of genre mash-ups
  • Representing diaspora
  • The relationship of historic stories and time-travel stories
  • Founding SFF erotica publisher Circlet Press
  • Future projects and the joy of pantsing

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

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• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Links to Cecilia Tan Online

• Website: https://www.ceciliatan.com
• Instagram: @ctan_writer
• Bluesky: @ceciliatan.com

• The factual story of Mary/Charles Hamilton
• Henry Fielding’s fictional version in The Female Husband
• The larger historic and literary context
• Sources mentioned
  • Baker, S. 1959. “Henry Fielding’s The Female Husband: Fact and Fiction” in PMLA, 74 pp.213-24.
  • Castle, T. 1983-4. “Eros and Liberty at the English Masquerade, 1710-90” in Eighteenth-Century Studies, XVII, 2: 156-76.
  • 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
  • Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4
  • Friedli, Lynne. 1987. “Passing Women: A Study of Gender Boundaries in the Eighteenth Century” in Rousseau, G. S. and Roy Porter (eds). Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 0-8078-1782-1
  • Fielding, Henry. 1746. The Female Husband: or, the Surprising History of Mrs Mary, Alias Mr George Hamilton. Liverpool, M. Cooper. (https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-female-husband-or-_fielding-henry_1746)
  • Lanser, Susan. 2001. “Sapphic Picaresque: Sexual Difference and the Challenges of Homoadventuring” in Textual Practice 15:2 (November 2001): 1-18.
  • Lyons, Clare A. 2007. “Mapping an Atlantic Sexual Culture: Homoeroticism in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia” in: Foster, Thomas A. (ed). Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 13-978-0-8147-2749-2
  • Manion, Jen. “The Queer History of Passing as a Man in Early Pennsylvania.” Pennsylvania Legacies, vol. 16, no. 1, 2016, pp. 6–11.
  • Manion, Jen. 2020. Female Husbands: A Trans History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-48380-3
• The full text of The Female Husband by Henry Fielding can be found at archive.org
• This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Charles/Mary Hamilton, The Female Husband (Henry Fielding)

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

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• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

In this episode we talk about:

• Exciting news about the next season of Bridgerton.
• The upcoming 10th anniversary
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Fielding, Henry. 1746. The Female Husband: or, the Surprising History of Mrs Mary, Alias Mr George Hamilton. Liverpool, M. Cooper.
  • Baker, S. 1959. “Henry Fielding’s The Female Husband: Fact and Fiction” in PMLA, 74 pp.213-24.
• Book Shopping
  • Kehoe, M. (ed). 1986. Historical, Literary and Erotic Aspects of Lesbianism. New York. ISBN 0-918393-21-3
  • Gilbert, Oscar Paul (trans. by J. Lewis May). 1932. Women in Men's Guise. The Bodley Head, London.
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Stand and Deliver by Ivy Warren
  • Romeo & Her Sister by Jillian Blevins
  • To Love a Boleyn by Joey Evangelista
  • Arguments Against the Cultivation of Female Curiosity (Curiosity #2) by Suzanne Moss
  • The Countess and the Cartographer by Lyra Ashwood
  • The Egyptologist's Curse by Georgina Kenyon
  • Love's Joy and Sorrow Between Women by Emilie Knopf
  • Counterpoint by Barbara Bergmann
  • Forever Yours, Nell by Andrea Ead
  • The Witch and the Huntress by Luna McNamara
  • A Whisper of Bells and Prayers by C.C. González
  • Scallywag! by K.L. Mitchell
  • The Unruly Heart of Miss Darcy by Erin Edwards
  • She Tamed the Lady by Judith Lynne
  • Flirting with Disaster by Kerrigan Byrne
  • As a Lover by Hilary McCollum
  • At Last It's You by Marianne Marston
• Other Titles of Interest
  • The Keyholder by S. Kallistos
  • A Lady for All Seasons by T J Alexander
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Queen Demon by Martha Wells
  • Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh/em> by Rachael Lippincott
  • Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword by Henry Lien
  • Lady Eve's Last Con/em> by Rebecca Fraimow
  • The Rushworth Family Plot/em> by Claudia Gray
  • Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner by Katrine Marcal

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
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• Female pirates
• Anne Bonny and Mary Read in the General History of the Pyrates
• The motif of “lesbian Bonny & Read”
• Bonny and Read in lesbian historical fiction
• Sources mentioned
  • Wikipedia entry: Women in Piracy
  • Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger by Ulrike Klausmann, Marion Meinzerin, and Gabriel Kuhn
• This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
  • Anne Bonny
  • Mary Read
  • LHMP Entry #547 A General History of the Pyrates
• Works mentioned by Helen Rodriguez:
  • The History and Lives of Notorious Pirates (1735)
  • The Extraordinary Adventures and Daring Exploits of Captain Henry Morgan (1813)
  • The Naval History of the United States by Willis J. Abbott (1896)
  • The Buccaneers and their Reign of Terror by C.M. Stevens (1899)
  • The Homosexuality of Men and Women by Magnus Hirschfield (1920)
  • ”Anne Bonny & Mary Read: They Killed Pricks” by Susan Baker in The Furies: Lesbian/Feminist Monthly Vol. 1, issue 6 (August 1972)
  • Mistress of the Seas (novel) by John Carlova (1964)
  • Forgotten Women ed. By Nancy M[???] (couldn’t identify this book)
  • The Women Pirates (play) by Steve Gooch (
  • Mary Read, Buccaneer (novel) by Philip Rush (1945)
  • Beneath the Black Flag by David Cordingly
  • Kingston by Starlight (novel) by Christopher John Farley
  • Black Sails (tv series)
  • Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (video game)
  • The Pirates of Neverland (video game)
  • Our Flag Means Death (tv series)
  • Hellcats (podcast fiction)

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 Helen Rodriguez Online

• Email: Helenrodriguez1720@gmail.com
• Bluesky: @ladytyler.bsky.social

In this episode we talk about:

• Gentleman Jack (ballet) by the Northern Ballet Company
• Northern Ballet Company You Tube channel
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
• • Mourão, Manuela. 1999. “The representation of female desire in early modern pornographic texts, 1660-1745” in Signs, 24: 589-94.
  • Toulalan, Sarah. 2003. “Extraordinary Satisfactions: Lesbian Visibility in Seventeenth-Century Pornography in England” in Gender and History 15: 50-68
  • Johnson, Charles (pseudonym). 1724. A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time. With the remarkable actions and adventures of the two female pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny ... To which is added. A short abstract of the statute and civil law, in relation to pyracy. London: T. Warner.
• Book Shopping
• • Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto Sterling
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
• • Rattlesridge by Mina Rose
  • The Ink Between Us by Chiara Bellini
  • Love and Gunpowder by Valeska Delsol
  • Daughter of the Hunt by K. Arsenault Rivera
  • Sweetbitter Song by Rosie Hewlett
  • The Alchemist's Secret by Clare Marchant
  • Salt and Surrender (The Aramanthine Sea #1) by E.S. Brandon
  • A Change of Pace by J.A. Stevens
  • A Comfortable Misery by Kassandra Hart
  • The Fox and the Devil by Kiersten White
  • Wayward Souls (Harker & Moriarty #2) by Susan J. Morris
  • Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran
  • The Nightshade (Hattie James #4) by Stacy Lynn Miller
• What I’ve been consuming
• • Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones
  • The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner

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)

• Vocabulary for women-loving women referring to “rubbing”
• Shifts of meaning and usage
• What too many authors get wrong
• Sources mentioned: see transcript

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)

In this episode we talk about:

• The 2026 fiction line-up:
  • “Between One Word and the Next” by L.J. Lee
  • “Love for Love’s Sake” by Shannon Lippert
  • “Salt for the Unmarried” by Khayelihle Benghu
  • The Sultan’s Vetala by Priya Sridhar
  • The Tale of Gudrun Sigurdsdóttir by Daniel Stride
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Reay, Barry. 2009. “Writing the Modern Histories of Homosexual England” in The Historical Journal, 52, 1. pp.213-233
  • Crannell, Marissa. 2015. Utterly Confused Categories: Gender Non-Conformity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Western Europe. Dissertation.
  • Mara-McKay, Nico. 2018. “Becoming Gendered: Two Medieval Approaches to Intersex Gender Assignment” in Prandium: The Journal of Historical Studies vol. 7, no. 1.
  • Roelens, Jonas. 2017. “A Woman Like Any Other: Female Sodomy, Hermaphroditism, and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Bruges” in Journal of Women’s History, vol. 29 no. 4, Winter 2017. pp.11-34
  • Loveday, Kiki. “Sister Acts: Victorian Porn, Lesbian Drag, and Queer Reproduction” in Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, vol. 60, no. 2, 2019, pp. 201–26.
  • Larson, Ruth. 1997. “Sex and Civility in a 17th-Century Dialogue: L’Escole des filles” in Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, no. 47: 497-514.
  • Rivers, Christopher. 1995. “Safe Sex: The Prophylactic Walls of the Cloister in the French Libertine Convent Novel of the Eighteenth Century” in Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 5, No. 3: 381-402
• Book Shopping
  • Wurzelbacher, Karli. 2025. Emma Stebbins: Carving Out History. Huntington: The Heckscher Museum of Art. ISBN 979-8-9925162-1-0
  • Lodge, Sara. 2024. The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-28660-1
  • Boyd, Rebecca. 2024. Exploring Ireland's Viking-Age Towns. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-03-259109-4
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Hawthorn & Bitter by Shannon K. Kelly
  • Cut on the Bias by Susanna Bonaretti
  • Before the Swallow Dares by Hannah Perrin-Haynes
  • The Stillness Between Us (Voices of the Hive Trilogy) by Clara Bellweather
  • The Language of Bees (Voices of the Hive Trilogy) by Clara Bellweather
  • The Keeper of Tides (Voices of the Hive Trilogy) by Clara Bellweather
  • The Language of Leaves (The Silent Companions) by Clara Bellweather
  • The Marginal Truth (The Silent Companions) by Clara Bellweather
  • The Stitched Confession (The Silent Companions) by Clara Bellweather
  • Fire Sword and Sea by Vanessa Riley
  • Sword and Silk: The Legend of Julie d'Aubigny by Maeve Campbell
  • La Maupin : The Scandalous Story of Julie d'Aubigny by C.C. Parke
  • The Black Lark's Oath by Tess Wilder
  • Embers on the Moor by Giada Moretti
  • Unfinished Story by Jade Winters
  • The Midnight Daughters by Aeressa
  • The Hidden Petition (Beacon Hill Mysteries #1) by Maeve McQueen
  • The House of Hidden Hearts by Matus Zelenay
  • E.V. Bancroft by E.V. Bancroft
  • A Very Hamble Christmas by E.V. Bancroft
  • Star & Thea at Court by A V Kakkad
  • The Hidden Flower in the Palace: A Queer Court Tragedy by Shin Hwayoon
  • She-Wolf: A Sapphic Beowulf Retelling by E.K. O'Connor
  • The Fifth Day of Her Heart by Richard Cicay
  • The Found Family Victory (Salvation's Edge #1) by Lady K
  • Belonging to the Air by Avery Irons
  • Joe the Pirate by Hubert
  • A Slow and Secret Poison by Carmella Lowkis
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia

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

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

• "Down By the Tumbling Stream" EC Hallewell, narrated by Heather Rose Jones.
• "Where You Go" Jennifer Nestojko, 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 EC Hallewell Online

• Bluesky: @echallewell.bsky.social

• The historic and social context of age-differentiated pairings of various genders
• Why the “age gap” trope tends to be restricted to f/f romance
• Historic contexts for age-gap relationships

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)

In this episode we talk about:

• Summary of the Project in 2025
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Xie, Wenjuan. 2015. (Trans)Culturally Transgendered: Reading Transgender Narratives in (Late) Imperial China. Dissertation.
  • Sommer, Matthew H. “Was China Part of a Global Eighteenth-Century Homosexuality?” in Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, vol. 33, no. 1, 2007, pp. 117–33.
  • Carton, Adrian. 2006. “Desire and Same-Sex Intimacies in Asia” in Gay Life and Culture, A World History, ed. Robert Aldrich. Universe Publishing, New York. ISBN 978-0-7893-1511-3
  • Gowing, Laura. 2006. ”Lesbians and Their Like in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800” in Gay Life and Culture: A World History ed. Robert Aldrich. London: Thames and Hudson. 125-43
  • Rupp, Leila J. 2001. “Toward a Global History of Same-Sex Sexuality” in Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 10, No. 2: 287-302
  • Leupp, Gary P. 2007. “Capitalism and Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century Japan.” in Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 135–52.
  • Pflugfelder, Gregory M. 1992. “Strange Fates: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Torikaebaya Monogatari” in Monumenta Nipponica Vol. 47, No. 3 (Autumn, 1992), pp. 347-368.
  • Shah, Shalini. 1991. “Women and Sexuality in the Mahabharata” in Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Vol. 52: 138-144.
  • Srivastava, Manjari & Manjari Shrivastava. 2007. “Lesbianism in Nineteenth Century Erotic Urdu Poetry “Rekhti”” in Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Vol. 68, Part One: 965-988
• Book Shopping
  • The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective by Sara Lodge
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Dreadful Sorry, Clemintine (Clementine #2) by Genta Sebastian
  • Steel on Distance by N.J. Knox
  • A Djinn and Tonic (The Magical Underground #2) by Nan Sampson
  • Gold and Grace by Eline Evans
  • Like in Love with You by Emma R. Alban
  • The Debutante Dilemma by author
  • The Case of the Murdered Muckraker (Harriot Morrow Investigates #2) by Rob Osler
• What I’ve been consuming
  • The Case of the Missing Maid by Rob Osler
  • Saint-Seducing Gold by Brittany N. William
  • A Plague on Both Your Houses by Susanna Gregory
  • Earl Crush by Alexandra Vasti
  • Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite
  • Emma: The Nature of a Lady by Kate Christie
  • The Scandal at Pemberley by Mara Brooks
  • The Shocking Experiments of Miss Mary Bennet by Melinda Taub
  • The Lady’s Wager by Olivia Hampton
• Call for submissions for the 2026 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
• This month we interview M.K. Hardy and talk about:
  • Needfire by MK Hardy (US availability is limited)
  • MK Hardy is a nom de plume for Morag Hannah and Erin Hardee
  • Adapting the gothic template for sapphic stories
  • Why Scotland is the perfect setting for gothics
  • The benefits and complications of writing as a team
  • Forthcoming: The Haunting of Avis Lovelock

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 MK Hardy Online

• Website: https://www.mkhardywrites.com/
• Twitter: @mkhardywrites
• Instagram: @mkhardywrites
• Bluesky: @mkhardywrites.com

• • The social structures in Jane Austen’s novels in which same-sex relationships could develop
  • A tour through the sapphic potential in each of Austen’s works
  • A survey of Austen-inspired sapphic historical fiction, demonstrating some of that potential
  • Austen-based fiction mentioned in the episode
    • ”Margaret” by Eleanor Musgrove in A Certain Persuasion (The LHMP audio version can be found here. After this podcast was recorded, the author has also made the story available as an ebook stand-alone.)
    • ”Eleanor and Ada” by Julie Bozza in A Certain Persuasion (Not currently in print? The link is to the author’s website.)
    • Lucas by Elna Holst
    • Gay Pride and Prejudice by Kate Christie
    • The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh by Molly Greeley
    • ”Father Doesn’t Dance” by Eleanor Musgrove in A Certain Persuasion (Not currently in print.)
    • Frederica and the Viscountess by Barbara Davies
    • Her Particular Friend by J.L. Merrow in A Certain Persuasion (Link is to a stand-alone reprint of the story.)
    • Kissing Emma by Gemma Harborne (out of print)
    • “One Half of the World” by Adam Fitzroy in A Certain Persuasion (Not currently in print?)
    • A Certain Persuasion: Modern LGBTQ+ fiction inspired by Jane Austen’s novels edited by Julie Bozza. Manifold Press, 2016. (Unfortunately Manifold Press has gone out of business. Used hard copies may be available at this link. Stories that have been made available in other venues have links in the individual listings.
  • Books new to this updated version of the episode
  • • The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod
    • Interview with Lindz McLeod
    • The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley by Lindz McLeod
    • The Scandal at Pemberley by Mara Brooks
    • The Lady's Wager by Olivia Hampton
    • The Shocking Experiments of Miss Mary Bennet by Melinda Taub
    • The Unruly Heart of Miss Darcy by Erin Edwards
    • Kitty (The Bennet Sisters #1) by T.J. Ryan
    • Emma: A Secret Lesbian by Garnet Marriott (out of print)
    • Emma: Restraint and Presumption by Garnet Marriott (out of print)
    • Sanditon: The Lesbian Solution by Garnet Marriott (out of print)
    • Emma: The Nature of a Lady by Kate Christie
    • I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Connor

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)

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

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

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)

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

• 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)

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

• 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

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

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

• 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)

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
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• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

• 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.

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)

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.)

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
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• Email: Heather Rose Jones
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• 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)

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

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• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
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• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Links to Joanna Lowell Online

• Website: https://www.joannalowell.com/
• Instagram: @joannalowellauthor

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

• 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)

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

• 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)

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
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Links to Heather Online

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• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

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
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Links to Rhiannon Grant Online

• Website: https://brigidfoxandbuddha.wordpress.com

• 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
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • 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-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville. ISBN 978-0-8139-4551-4
  • Kranz, 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 0-19-510257-6
  • Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5
  • Sears, Clare. 2015. Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-5758-2
  • Shapiro, Michael. 1994. Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages. Ann Arbor.
  • Van der Meer, Theo. 1991. “Tribades on Trial: Female Same-Sex Offenders in Late Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:3 424-445.
  • Vanita, Ruth and Saleem Kidwai, eds. 2000. Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History. St. Martin’s, New York. ISBN 0-312-22169-X
  • Velasco, Sherry. 2011. Lesbians in Early Modern Spain. Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville. ISBN 978-0-8265-1750-0
  • Wahl, Elizabeth Susan. 1999. Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford University Press, Stanford. ISBN 0-8047-3650-2
  • Walen, Denise A. 2005. Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6875-3

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

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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.)

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• 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.

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• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
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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.)

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• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
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• Evidence for how romantic and sexual relations between women were treated in legal systems in western culture
• References
  • Benbow, R. Mark and Alasdair D. K. Hawkyard. 1994. “Legal Records of Cross-dressing” in Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages, ed. Michael Shapiro, Ann Arbor. pp.225-34.
  • Benkov, Edith. “The Erased Lesbian: Sodomy and the Legal Tradition in Medieval Europe” in Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages. ed. by Francesca Canadé Sautman & Pamela Sheingorn. Palgrave, New York, 2001.
  • Boehringer, Sandra (trans. Anna Preger). 2021. Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-367-74476-2
  • Borris, Kenneth (ed). 2004. Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance: A Sourcebook of Texts, 1470-1650. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-1-138-87953-9
  • Brown, Kathleen. 1995. “’Changed...into the Fashion of a Man’: The Politics of Sexual Difference in a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Settlement” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:2 pp.171-193.
  • Burshatin, Israel. “Elena Alias Eleno: Genders, Sexualities, and ‘Race’ in the Mirror of Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Spain” in Ramet, Sabrina Petra (ed). 1996. Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives. Routledge, London. ISBN 0-415-11483-7
  • Crane, Susan. 1996. “Clothing and Gender Definition: Joan of Arc,” in Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 26:2 : 297-320.
  • Crawford, Patricia & Sara Mendelson. 1995. "Sexual Identities in Early Modern England: The Marriage of Two Women in 1680" in Gender and History vol 7, no 3: 362-377.
  • Cressy, David. 1996. “Gender Trouble and Cross-Dressing in Early Modern England” in Journal of British Studies 35/4: 438-465.
  • Crompton, Louis. 1985. “The Myth of Lesbian Impunity: Capital Laws from 1270 to 1791” in Licata, Salvatore J. & Robert P. Petersen (eds). The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 0-918393-11-6 (Also published as Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 6, numbers 1/2, Fall/Winter 1980.)
  • Dekker, Rudolf M. and van de Pol, Lotte C. 1989. The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe. Macmillan, London. ISBN 0-333-41253-2
  • 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
  • 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
  • Eriksson, Brigitte. 1985. “A Lesbian Execution in Germany, 1721: The Trial Records” in Licata, Salvatore J. & Robert P. Petersen (eds). The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 0-918393-11-6 (Also published as Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 6, numbers 1/2, Fall/Winter 1980.)
  • Fernandez, André. 1997. “The Repression of Sexual Behavior by the Aragonese Inquisition between 1560 and 1700” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 7:4 pp.469-501
  • Friedli, Lynne. 1987. “Passing Women: A Study of Gender Boundaries in the Eighteenth Century” in Rousseau, G. S. and Roy Porter (eds). Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 0-8078-1782-1
  • 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.
  • History Project, The. 1998. Improper Bostonians. Beacon Press, Boston. ISBN 0-8070-7948-0
  • 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
  • Hubbard, Thomas K. 2003. Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-23430-7
  • Hutchison, Emily & Sara McDougall. 2022. “Pardonable Sodomy: Uncovering Laurence’s Sin and Recovering the Range of the Possible” in Medieval People, vol. 37, pp. 115-146.
  • Karras, Ruth Mazo. 2005. Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-415-28963-4
  • Lansing, Carol. 2005. “Donna con Donna? A 1295 Inquest into Female Sodomy” in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History: Sexuality and Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, Third Series vol. II: 109-122.
  • Lucas, R. Valerie. 1988. “’Hic Mulier’: The Female Transvestite in Early Modern England” in Renaissance and Reformation 12:1 pp.65-84
  • Merrick, Jeffrey & Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. 2001. Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-510257-6
  • Michelsen, Jakob. 1996. “Von Kaufleuten, Waisenknaben und Frauen in Männerkleidern: Sodomie im Hamburg des 18. Jahrhunderts” in Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung 9: 226-27.
  • Monter, E. William. 1985. “Sodomy and Heresy in Early Modern Switzerland” in Licata, Salvatore J. & Robert P. Petersen (eds). The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 0-918393-11-6 (Also published as Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 6, numbers 1/2, Fall/Winter 1980.)
  • Murray, Jacqueline. 1996. "Twice marginal and twice invisible: Lesbians in the Middle Ages" in Handbook of Medieval Sexuality, ed. Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage, Garland Publishing, pp. 191-222
  • Puff, Helmut. 1997. “Localizing Sodomy: The ‘Priest and sodomite’ in Pre-Reformation Germany and Switzerland” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 8:2 165-195
  • Puff, Helmut. 2000. "Female Sodomy: The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477)" in Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: 30:1, 41-61.
  • Robinson, David Michael. 2001. “The Abominable Madame de Murat’” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
  • Roelens, Jonas. 2015. “Visible Women: Female Sodomy in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Southern Netherlands (1400-1550)” in BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review vol. 130 no. 3.
  • Sears, Clare. 2015. Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-5758-2
  • Traub, Valerie. 2002. The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-44885-9
  • Van der Meer, Theo. 1991. “Tribades on Trial: Female Same-Sex Offenders in Late Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:3 424-445.
  • Velasco, Sherry. 2000. The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire and Catalina de Erauso. University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-78746-4
  • Velasco, Sherry. 2011. Lesbians in Early Modern Spain. Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville. ISBN 978-0-8265-1750-0
  • Vermeil. 1765. Mémoire pour Anne Grandjean. Louis Cellot, Paris.
  • Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

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In this episode we talk about:

• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Turton, Stephen. 2024. Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary 1600-1930. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-316-51873-1
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Christmas At Caldwell House (The Caldwell Family #2) by Eden Hopewell
  • Bold Privateer (The Covert Captain prequel) by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
  • The Bawdy Suffragettes by Sapphic Shelley
  • Unspoken Verses by S.P. Blackthorn
  • A Traitorous Heart by Erin Cotter
  • Those Fatal Flowers by Shannon Ives
  • Seducing the Widow by Jane Walsh
  • Her Ladyship's Christmas Companion by Theresa Meiningen
  • The Songbird by Stacy Lynn Miller
• Other Titles of Interest
  • The Spirit Circle by Tara Calaby
• What I’ve been consuming
  • The Lotus Empire (Burning Kingdomes #3) by Tasha Suri
  • I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner
  • Masters in this Hall by K.J. Charles
  • Bold Privateer by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
  • A Ruse of Shadows (Lady Sherlock #8) by Sherry Thomas
  • The Duke’s Sister and I by Emma-Claire Sunday
  • A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
• Call for submissions for the 2025 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.

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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• Too many things to list individually
• Books and people mentioned
  • Magnus Hirschfeld
  • Virginia Woolf - A Room of One’s Own
  • Margaret Vandenburg - An American in Paris
  • Djuna Barnes - Nightwood
  • Virginia Woolf - Orlando
  • Chappell Roan
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Emma Donoghue – The Pull of the Stars
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Michel Foucault - The History of Sexuality
  • Golden Crown Literary Society
  • Olivia Waite - Feminine Pursuits series

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

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• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
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Links to Margaret Vandenburg Online

• Website: https://www.margaretvandenburg.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/margaretvandenburgwriter

In this episode we talk about:

• Call for submissions for the 2024 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • 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
  • Hutchison, Emily & Sara McDougall. 2022. “Pardonable Sodomy: Uncovering Laurence’s Sin and Recovering the Range of the Possible” in Medieval People, vol. 37, pp. 115-146.
  • Derry, Caroline. 2022. “The ‘legal’ in socio-legal history: Woods and Pirie v. Cumming Gordon” in Journal of Law and Society 49:778-799.
  • Roelens, Jonas. 2015. “Visible Women: Female Sodomy in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Southern Netherlands (1400-1550)” in BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review vol. 130 no. 3.
  • Lee, L.J. 2024. “Sossang and Danji: 15th century Korean maidservants in love” published as part of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project at alpennia.com.
• A new resource for forthcoming sapphic/lesbian fiction
  • 2025 Sapphic Fiction compiled by @lavendersbook
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • The Lady and the Maid by Paul Jackson
  • The Potent Solution by Ashley Nova
  • The Long Winter of Mi?gar?r (Tales from Norvegr) by Edale Lane
  • Female Sharpshooter in the Civil War by Kenneth Alder
  • Victory, Virus, Votes: 1917-1920 (Deborah and Miriam's Boston Marriage #4) by Ellen M. Levy
  • Beyond the Boundaries of Time by Hazel Bennett
  • The Case of the Missing Maid (Harriet Morrow Investigates #1) by Rob Osler
  • Speak EZ by Elle E. Ire
  • Clara, Darling by Chace Verity
  • Encrypted Hearts (A Women in War Historical Romance #3) by E.V. Bancroft
  • Unbroken by Kim Pritekel
• What I’ve been consuming
  • You're the Problem, It's You by Emma R. Alban
  • Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo
  • A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland
  • Harvest Season by Annick Trent

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)

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 L.J. Lee Online

• Website: ljwrites.blog
• Mastodon: @ljwrites@writeout.ink

Links to Bailey Wolfe Online

• Website: bbwolfevox.com

• A look back at what the Project has accomplished
• Plans for publishing a research sourcebook
• Outline of the sourcebook contents

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)

In this episode we talk about:

• Call for submissions for the 2024 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • 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
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Redway Acres: Grace by Trish Henry Green
  • Another Victorian Tale of Life and Love (Victorian Tales #2) by Nicole Kotoman
  • When Hearts are True by L.J. Corelli
  • The Lotus Empire (The Burning Kingdoms #3) by Tasha Suri
  • All the Painted Stars (14th Century Oxfordshire #2) by Emma Denny
  • Time and Tide by J.M. Frey
  • Monsoon Queen (The War Between Cedar and Oak #1) by Jo Carthage
  • A Pearl Enraptured by Andrea K. Stein
  • Outlaw Hearts by Lori G. Matthews
  • Timeless by Nicole Pyland
  • Taiwan Travelogue by Shuang-zi Yang (trans. Lin King)
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout, translated by Laura Watkinson
  • The Duke at Hazard by K. J. Charles
  • Craze by Margaret Vandenburg
  • The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
  • The Fire and the Place in the Forest by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
• A special book appreciation segmenton books set in the 1920s
  • Nghi Vo The Chosen and the Beautiful
  • Sarah Zane Beautiful Little Fool
  • Alyssa Linn Palmer Midnight at the Orpheus
  • Brandy T. Wilson The Palace Blues
  • Katharine Schellman Last Call at the Nightingale
  • Margaret Vandenburg Craze
  • Missouri Vaun Whiskey Sunrise
  • Stacy Lynn Miller Devil’s Slide
  • Anne Shade Masquerade
  • Ava Freeman The Sweetest Taboo
  • Nekesa Afla Dead Dead Girls
  • Kip Wilson The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin
  • April Yates Ashthorne
  • A.L. Lester The Fog of War
  • Charlotte Anne Hamilton Of Trust and Heart

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)

• My definition of gender-disguise plots
• The dynamics of gender disguise in m/f romance
• The dynamics and considerations of gender disguise in f/f romance
• Some considerations of gender disguise in m/m 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)

In this episode we talk about:

• Disaster fiction
• Announcing the 2025 fiction series and some milestones
• The challenge that large language models present to publishing
• Book Shopping
  • 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
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • A Victorian tale of life and love by Nicole Kotoman
  • My Beloved Viking by Victoria Valberg
  • The Legend of Pope Joan - Part 1: Frankia by author
  • The Legend of Pope Joan - Part 2: Athens by author
  • The Legend of Pope Joan - Part 3: Rome by author
  • Her Fair Lady by Catherine Stein
  • All Bets Off by Jaime Clevenger
  • Hearts in the Shadows by Zara Voss
  • Peril in Provence (The Mary Grey Mysteries #4) by Winnie Frolik
  • Gentlest of Wild Things by Sarah Underwood
  • Sor Juana, My Beloved: The Poetry, The Passion That Is Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz by MaryAnn Shank
  • The Greymere Cliffs: A gothic romance short story by Anne Knight
  • Strange Beasts by Susan J. Morris
  • Moonshine by Olivia Hampton
  • Her Last Secret by Renee Bess
  • Islands of Mice by Lucy Jacobs
  • The People Next Door by Anna Woiwood
• Other Titles of Interest
  • I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner
  • Women's Hotel by Daniel M. Lavery
• What I’ve been consuming
  • A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
  • A Liaison with Her Leading Lady by Lotte R. James
  • Netherford Hall by Natania Barron
  • How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
  • Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne
  • The First Rebellion by M.C. Beaton
  • Any Old Diamonds by K.J. Charles
  • Gilded Cage by K.J. Charles
  • Rag and Bone by K.J. Charles
  • Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton

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)

• Actresses as sexual outlaws
• Specific actresses known to have had same-sex romances

Bibliography

• Blanc, Olivier. 2001. “The ‘Italian Taste’ in the Time of Louis XVI, 1774-92” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
• 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
• Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4
• Donoghue, Emma. 2010. “'Random Shafts of Malice?': The Outings of Anne Damer” in Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4
• Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-688-00396-6
• Gonda, Caroline. 2010. “The Odd Women: Charlotte Charke, Sarah Scott and the Metamorphoses of Sex” in Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4
• 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
• Manion, Jen. 2020. Female Husbands: A Trans History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-48380-3
• Merrick, Jeffry. 1990. “Sexual Politics and Public Order in Late Eighteenth-Century France: the Mémoires secrets and the Correspondance secrete” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 1, 68-84.
• Merrill, Lisa. 2000. When Romeo was a Woman: Charlotte Cushman and her Circle of Female Spectators. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. ISBN 978-0-472-08749-5
• Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5
• Straub, Kristina. 1991. “The Guilty Pleasures of Female Theatrical Cross-Dressing and the Autobiography of Charlotte Charke” in Body guards : the cultural politics of gender ambiguity edited by Julia Epstein & Kristina Straub. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-90388-2
• Todd, Janet & Elizabeeth Spearing ed. 1994. Counterfeit Ladies: The Life and Death of Mary Frith Case of Mary Carleton. William Pickering, London. ISBN 1-85196-087-2
• Velasco, Sherry. 2000. The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire and Catalina de Erauso. University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-78746-4
• Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3
• Wahl, Elizabeth Susan. 1999. Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford University Press, Stanford. ISBN 0-8047-3650-2

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)

In this episode we talk about:

• What I did on my summer vacation
• Book Shopping
  • Liddington, Jill. 2010. Presenting the Past: Anne Lister of Halifax 1791-1840. Pennine Press, Hebden Bridge. ISBN 978-873378-02-1
  • Liddington, Jill. 2019. Nature's Domain: Anne Lister and the Landscape of Desire. Pennine Press, Hebden Bridge. ISBN 1-873378-48-9
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Chivalry in the Shadows by Meg Merriet Wahlberg
  • Generations by Madison Locke
  • Netherford Hall by Natania Barron
  • Between Feud and Treason by Francis Grash
  • The Pudding Lane Witch by A.W. Jackson
  • The Pirate's Willing Captive (Swain Cove #1) by Renee Dahlia
  • The Market Women of Diamond Square by Jan Ellen Kurth
  • Everything Glittered by Robin Talley
  • Beyond a World Apart by Caitlin E. Myers
  • The Dishonest Miss Take by Faye Murphy
  • The Duke's Sister and I by Emma-Claire Sunday
  • Frederica and the Viscountess by Barbara Davies
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Paladin's Faith (Saint of Steel #4) by T. Kingfisher
• This month we interview Natania Barron and talk about:
  • The historical and fantasy contributions to Netherford Hall
  • The structure of the series
  • Natania’s Arthurian series
  • Netherford Hall by Natania Barron
  • Queens of Fate (series)

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 Natania Barron Online

• Website: NataniaBarron.com
• Bluesky: @natania.bsky.social
• Threads: @NataniaBarron
• TicTok: @NataniaBooks