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On the Shelf for September 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 323

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On the Shelf for September 2025
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 323 with Heather Rose Jones

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

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: @[email protected]
                • Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
                • Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

                  • Links to Cathy Pegau Online

                  • Website: cathypegau.com
                  • Instagram: @Cathy_Pegau
                  • Bluesky: @cathypegau.bsky.social
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