Is Your Sapphic Protagonist Worried About the Wrong Things? - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 352

Is Your Sapphic Protagonist Worried About the Wrong Things? The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 352 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: How to make the conflicts in a sapphic historical romance more realistic 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: @[email protected] Bluesky: @heatherrosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

On the Shelf for September 2026 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 351 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: My non-fiction book The Theory of Related-ivity: A History and Analysis of the Best Related Work Hugo Category Resources for the Anthropic class action settlement Authors Guild explainer Writer Beware resource page Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction The Copper Line (Still Sisters #1) by Gabi Prevot The Bitter Cut (Still Sisters #2) by Gabi Prevot The First Tin (Still Sisters #0.1) by Gabi Prevot The Yard Light (Still Sisters #0.2) by Gabi Prevot The End Crowns All by Bea Fitzgerald Locusta by Emily Dexter Sweet Mother, I Cannot Weave by T.D. Cloud Empress, Goddess by Morgan H. Owen My Betterhalf: A Novel of the Ladies of Llangollen by Genevieve Sinclair A Study in Silence by Elizabeth Louise A Match for Lady Adelaide by Verity Fairbanks Time Never Waits (Chathom Chronicles # 1) by Samantha Calcott & Melinda Lauer Her Lady's Companion by Odette Valehart The Crooked Medium's Guide to Terror (Crooked Medium #2) by Stephen Cox A Ruin of Roses by Corinne Astier The Last Telegram of Mrs Hudson by Mattea Orr A Deadly Entanglement (Harriman & Mancini Mystery #2) by Cathy Pegau The Borderless Sky by Kim Kirkley The Marigold Room by Josephine Bray You Made Me Love You by K D Jensen The Quiet Fields by Zinnia Bradley Other Books of Interest Crazy Woman (The Crazy Woman #1) by K'Anne Meinel Women of Adventure (The Crazy Woman #2) by K'Anne Meinel Hearts on the Table by Susan Metallo What I’ve been consuming How to Fake it in Society by K.J. Charles The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz A Murderous Business by Cathy Pegau Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher Call for submissions for the 2027 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 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: @[email protected] Bluesky: @heatherrosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Love for Love’s Sake by Shannon Lippert The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 350 with Heather Rose Jones This quarter’s fiction episode presents Love for Love’s Sake by Shannon Lippert, 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: @[email protected] Bluesky: @heatherrosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page) Links to Shannon Lippert Online Website: shannonlippert.wordpress.com Bluesky: @shannonxl.bsky.social

On the Shelf for August 2026 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 349 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: A brief recap of the podcast’s history. Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog Roulston, Chris & Caroline Gonda, eds. 2023. Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to ‘Gentleman Jack’ . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781009280723 Blumreich, Kathleen M. “Lesbian Desire in the Old French Roman de Silence,” in Arthuriana 7:2 (1997): 47-62. Paton, Lucy Allen. 1907. “The Story of Grisandole: A Study in the Legend of Merlin” in PMLA vol. 22, no. 2. pp.234-276. Schleiner, Winfried. 1992. “Le feu caché: Homosocial Bonds Between Women in a Renaissance Romance” in Renaissance Quarterly 45: 293-311. Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction Bodhi and Gwen by Del Robertson The Education of Miss Pryce by Hannah Briar The Language of Flowers (Lavender Society #1) by Hannah Briar The Lost Brontë by Catherine Friend Going Down at the Point by Kimberlee Jarrett Wilson The Harrow Home for Wayward Girls by Jessica Spotswood The Keeper's Light (Edge of the World #1) by Margaret Fridley The Tailor's Treasure by Alison McKenzie The Haunting of Avis Lovelock by M.K. Hardy Call for submissions for the 2026 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 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: @[email protected] Bluesky: @heatherrosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

10th Anniversary Special: Interview with Linda Garber The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 348 with Heather Rose Jones An interview with Professor Linda Garber about her research into lesbian historical fiction. Books and Media Mentioned Garber, Linda. 2022. Novel Approaches to Lesbian History. Palgrave. ISBN 978-3030854164 Cruikshank, M. (ed) 1982. Lesbian Studies: Present and Future. The Feminist Press at CUNY. ISBN 978-0935312072 Garber, Linda. 2001. Identity Poetics: Race, Class and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory. Columbia University Press. Schwartz, Selby Wynn. After Sappho. (novel) Keen, Suzanne. 2003 Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0802086846 (credit for the phrase “romance of the archives” which I’ve been misattributing) Martinac, Paula. Out of Time. (novel) Davies, Stevie. Impassioned Clay. (novel) Friend, Catherine. The Spanish Pearl. (novel) Dickinson (tv series) Gentleman Jack (tv series) Arnold, June Davis. The Cook and the Carpenter. (novel) Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present. William Morrow and Company, Inc. ISBN 0-688-00396-6 Hall, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness. (novel) Portrait of a Lady on Fire (movie) The Favourite (movie) Ammonite (movie) Saturday Night Live “Lesbian Period Drama” (sketch on YouTube) Desert of the Heart (movie) based on Jane Rule’s Desert Hearts A Knight’s Tale (movie) Giffney, Noreen, Michelle M. Sauer & Diane Watt (eds). 2011. The Lesbian Premodern. Palgrave. ISBN 978-0-230-61676-9 The Belle of Amherst (movie) Gomez, Jewelle. The Gilda Stories. (novel) Giddings, Megan. The Women Could Fly (novel) Korn, Gabrielle. Yours for the Taking (novel) Pérez, Emma. Forgetting the Alamo, or, Blood Memory (novel McCollum, Hilary. As a Lover (novel) McCollum, Hilary. Golddigger (novel) Gagehabib, LaVerne. The Blacksmith and the Doctor (novel) Winterson, Jeanette. The Passion (novel) 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: @[email protected] Bluesky: @heatherrosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page) Links to Linda Garber Online Website: academic website

On the Shelf for June & July 2026 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 347 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog Moore, Lisa L. 2005. “Queer Gardens: Mary Delany's Flowers and Friendships” in Eighteenth-Century Studies Vol. 39, No. 1 (Fall, 2005), pp. 49-70 O’Driscoll, Sally. 2003. “The Lesbian and the Passionless Woman: Femininity and Sexuality in 18th century England” in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 44.2-3. p.103-31 Peakman, Julie. 2004. Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century. Atlantic Books, London. Chapter 8 “Tribadism: ‘A New Sort of Sin’” Anonymous. 1697. The history of the intrigues & gallantries of Christina, Queen of Sweden, and of her court whilst she was at Rome faithfully render’d into English from the French original. London: Richard Baldwin. Abbott, Carmeta. 1993. “The Portrait as Text: Two Depictions of Madame de Saint-Balmon (1607-1660)” in Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice vol. 19, No. 1. Bell, Rudolph M. 1987. “Renaissance Sexuality and the Florentine Archives: An Exchange” in Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 3: pp. 485-511 Reynolds, Nicole. 2010. “Cottage Industry: The Ladies of Llangollen and the Symbolic Capital of the "Cottage Ornée"” in The Eighteenth Century, Vol. 51, No. 1/2: 211-227 Vicinus, Martha. “Lesbian Perversity and Victorian Marriage: The 1864 Codrington Divorce Trial” pp.92-94 in Journal of British Studies 36, no. 1 (1997). Liddington, Jill. 1993. “Anne Lister of Shibden Hall, Halifax (1791-1840): Her Diaries and the Historians” in History Workshop, 35: 45-77. Orr, Dannielle. 2006. A Sojourn in Paris 1824-25: Sex and Sociability in the Manuscript Writings of Anne Lister (1791-1840). (Doctoral Dissertation, Murdoch University) Roulston, Chris & Caroline Gonda, eds. 2023. Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to ‘Gentleman Jack’. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781009280723 Book Shopping Norton, Rictor. 1997. The Myth of the Modern Homosexual: Queer History and the Search for Cultural Unity. Cassell. ISBN 0-304-33892-3 Mansel, Philip. 2001. Paris Between Empires: Monarchy and Revolution 1814-1852. St. Martin's Press, New York. ISBN 0-312-30857-4 Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction Dreaming of Jerusalem by Susie Helme Silk Road Runaways by Christine Inserra Chivalry in the Shadows by Meg Merriet Wahlberg With My Own Hand: The secret life of Marie Maitland, Scotland’s sixteenth-century Sappho by Ashley Douglas Bound By Silk & Salt Water by Caren Cross Tempest: A Novel of Anne Bonny, the Pirate Queen Who Disappeared by K. Knight The Ruby Reaper (The Ruby Reaper #1) by Eline Evans The Emerald Eclipse (The Ruby Reaper #2) by Eline Evans Mr. Moore by Giny Morales The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley by Lindz McLeod Caroline's Courtesan (The Comerford Courtesans #4) by Jess Michaels Pretence & Pretentiousness by Lynn Kear A Season of Teeth and Silk by Henriette Twinne The Art of Longing by Michael David The Green Seal (Blackthorn Hall Romances # 3) by E. L. Vale What the Willow Kept (The Women of Sapphire #1.5) by L. Creeke When Embers Find Her (The Women of Sapphire #1) by L. Creeke The Wrong Widow (Cielo Seco # 1) by D. S. Briar Gold Rush 1860 by Randa Hink Two Whoops and a Holler by Carmilla Deane Charity and Sylvia by Tillie Walden Disfigured (New York's Gilded Age #4) by Joseph P. Garland Becoming Legends Elsie-Bessie: A Love Story (book #1) by Barbara Barna Abel & Shannon McMahon Lichte Lena and Miss Cawkwell by Julie Bozza Murder by Degrees by Rachel Ford A Blue Note by Katrina Jackson Little Wild by Laura Evans The Malign Ghosts of Summer by Ann McMan Cold Water by C. R. Ellery The Rude Bird (New Orleans Noir # 1) by M. R. Dimond What I’ve been consuming Platform Decay by Martha Wells Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorofor A Change of Pace by J.A. Stevens Call for submissions for the 2027 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 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: @[email protected] Bluesky: @heatherrosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Women and Same-Sex Marriage in Western History (Reprise) The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 346 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about strategies for getting your historical protagonists hitched across the centuries. 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 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: @[email protected] Bluesky: @heatherrosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

So You’re Writing a Sapphic Historical Romance: Questions to Consider (Reprise) The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 345 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about the questions to ask about sapphic relationships and how they are perceived in your story’s setting: 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 Links to Heather Online Website: http://alpennia.com Email: Heather Rose Jones Mastodon: @[email protected] Bluesky: @heatherrosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

When Did We Become Lesbians? (Reprise) The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 344 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: 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 Links to Heather Online Website: http://alpennia.com Email: Heather Rose Jones Mastodon: @[email protected] Bluesky: @heatherrosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Salt for the Unmarried by Khayelihle Benghu The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 343 with Heather Rose Jones This quarter’s fiction episode presents Salt for the Unmarried by Khayelihle Benghu, 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: @[email protected] Bluesky: @heatherrosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)