August 04, 2025

On the Shelf for August 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 320

13 minutes

On the Shelf for August 2025

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 320 with Heather Rose Jones

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

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

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Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog

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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

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Bluesky: @heatherrosejones

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