
On the Shelf for May 2026 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 341
02/05/2026
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On the Shelf for May 2026
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 341 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
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
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 Cecilia Tan Online
- Website: https://www.ceciliatan.com
- Instagram: @ctan_writer
- Bluesky: @ceciliatan.com
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