On the Shelf for February 2026
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 335 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
The 2026 fiction line-up: “Between One Word and the Next” by L.J. Lee“Love for Love’s Sake” by Shannon Lippert“Salt for the Unmarried” by Khayelihle BenghuThe Sultan’s Vetala by Priya SridharThe Tale of Gudrun Sigurdsdóttir by Daniel StrideRecent and upcoming publications covered on the blog Reay, Barry. 2009. “Writing the Modern Histories of Homosexual England” in The Historical Journal, 52, 1. pp.213-233Crannell, Marissa. 2015. Utterly Confused Categories: Gender Non-Conformity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Western Europe. Dissertation.Mara-McKay, Nico. 2018. “Becoming Gendered: Two Medieval Approaches to Intersex Gender Assignment” in Prandium: The Journal of Historical Studies vol. 7, no. 1.Roelens, Jonas. 2017. “A Woman Like Any Other: Female Sodomy, Hermaphroditism, and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Bruges” in Journal of Women’s History, vol. 29 no. 4, Winter 2017. pp.11-34Loveday, Kiki. “Sister Acts: Victorian Porn, Lesbian Drag, and Queer Reproduction” in Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, vol. 60, no. 2, 2019, pp. 201–26.Larson, Ruth. 1997. “Sex and Civility in a 17th-Century Dialogue: L’Escole des filles” in Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, no. 47: 497-514.Rivers, Christopher. 1995. “Safe Sex: The Prophylactic Walls of the Cloister in the French Libertine Convent Novel of the Eighteenth Century” in Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 5, No. 3: 381-402Wurzelbacher, Karli. 2025. Emma Stebbins: Carving Out History. Huntington: The Heckscher Museum of Art. ISBN 979-8-9925162-1-0Lodge, Sara. 2024. The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-28660-1Boyd, Rebecca. 2024. Exploring Ireland's Viking-Age Towns. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-03-259109-4Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction Hawthorn & Bitter by Shannon K. KellyCut on the Bias by Susanna BonarettiBefore the Swallow Dares by Hannah Perrin-HaynesThe Stillness Between Us (Voices of the Hive Trilogy) by Clara Bellweather The Language of Bees (Voices of the Hive Trilogy) by Clara Bellweather The Keeper of Tides (Voices of the Hive Trilogy) by Clara Bellweather The Language of Leaves (The Silent Companions) by Clara Bellweather The Marginal Truth (The Silent Companions) by Clara Bellweather The Stitched Confession (The Silent Companions) by Clara Bellweather Fire Sword and Sea by Vanessa RileySword and Silk: The Legend of Julie d'Aubigny by Maeve Campbell La Maupin : The Scandalous Story of Julie d'Aubigny by C.C. ParkeThe Black Lark's Oath by Tess WilderEmbers on the Moor by Giada MorettiUnfinished Story by Jade WintersThe Midnight Daughters by AeressaThe Hidden Petition (Beacon Hill Mysteries #1) by Maeve McQueenThe House of Hidden Hearts by Matus ZelenayE.V. Bancroft by E.V. BancroftA Very Hamble Christmas by E.V. BancroftStar & Thea at Court by A V KakkadThe Hidden Flower in the Palace: A Queer Court Tragedy by Shin HwayoonShe-Wolf: A Sapphic Beowulf Retelling by E.K. O'ConnorThe Fifth Day of Her Heart by Richard CicayThe Found Family Victory (Salvation's Edge #1) by Lady KBelonging to the Air by Avery IronsJoe the Pirate by HubertA Slow and Secret Poison by Carmella LowkisDead Dead Girls by Nekesa AfiaA transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)
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