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On the Shelf for June 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 316

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On the Shelf for June 2025
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 316 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
    • 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

                  • Website: http://alpennia.com
                  • Email: Heather Rose Jones
                  • Mastodon: @[email protected]
                  • Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
                  • Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

                    • Links to Joanna Lowell Online

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