The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

By Heather Rose Jones

A show about queer women in history and historic literature, plus coverage of the field of sapphic historical fiction. Content note: May include discussions of sex within an academic context.... more

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July 09, 2025On the Shelf for July 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 318
On the Shelf for July 2025
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 318 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
TV series: The Buccaneers
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Faderman, Lillian. 1978. “Female Same-Sex Relationships in Novels by Longfellow, Holmes, and James” in The New England Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 3: 309-332
Godbeer, Richard. 1995. “’The Cry of Sodom’: Discourse, Intercourse, and Desire in Colonial New England” in The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 2: 259-286
Manion, Jen. “The Queer History of Passing as a Man in Early Pennsylvania” in Pennsylvania Legacies, vol. 16, no. 1, 2016, pp. 6–11.
Vaughan, Alden. 1978. “The Sad Case of Thomas(ine) Hall” in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 86: 146-48.
Oaks, Robert F. 1978. “"Things Fearful to Name": Sodomy and Buggery in Seventeenth-Century New England” in Journal of Social History, Vol. 12, No. 2: 268-281
Wood, Mary E. 1993. “’With Ready Eye’: Margaret Fuller and Lesbianism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature” in American Literature 65: 3-4.
Comment, Kristin M. 2005. “Charles Brockden Brown’s ‘Ormond’ and Lesbian Possibility in the Early Republic” in Early American Literature, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 57–78.
Freedman, Estelle B. 1982. “Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America: Behavior, Ideology, and Politics” in Reviews in American History, Vol. 10, No. 4, The Promise of American History: Progress and Prospects: 196-215
LaFleur, Greta. “Sex and ‘Unsex’: Histories of Gender Trouble in Eighteenth-Century North America.” Early American Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, 2014, pp. 469–99.
Cleves, Rachel Hope. 2014. Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-933542-8
Martin, Sylvia. 1994. “'These Walls of Flesh': The Problem of the Body in the Romantic Friendship/Lesbianism Debate” in Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, Vol. 20, No. 2, Lesbian Histories: 243-266
VanHaitsma, Pamela. 2019. “Stories of Straightening Up: Reading Femmes in the Archives of Romantic Friendship” in QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, Vol. 6, No. 3:1-24
Cleves, Rachel Hope. “Six Ways of Looking at a Trans Man? The Life of Frank Shimer (1826-1901).” Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 27, no. 1, 2018, pp. 32–62.
Faderman, Lillian. 1979. “Who Hid Lesbian History?” in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Autumn 1979, Vol. 4, No 3. 74-76.
Garber, Linda. 2015. “Claiming Lesbian History: The Romance Between Fact and Fiction” in Journal of Lesbian Studies, 19(1), 129-49.
Braunschneider, Theresa. 2004. “Acting the Lover: Gender and Desire in Narratives of Passing Women” in Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 45, no. 3: 211-29
Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
The Housekeeper's Ledger by Allison Ingram
A Truthful Companion By My Side by Claudia Haase
Secrets at the Ambrose Café by Carryl Church
Salt in the Silk by Delly M. Elrose
A Bounty of Bitterwort (Lavender and Foxglove #2) by Hilary Rose Berwick
A Rondel of Rosemary (Lavender and Foxglove #3) by Hilary Rose Berwick
A League of Lavender (Lavender and Foxglove #4) by Hilary Rose Berwick
In Her Own Shoes (The Ferrier Chronicles #1) by Mark Prime
The Letters Beneath Her Floorboards by Mira Ashwyn
House of Ash and Honor by W.S. Banks
Lavender & Gin by Abigail Aaronson
The Fortune Hunter's Guide to Love by Emma-Claire Sunday
The Rebel Girls of Rome by Jordyn Taylor
The Secrets of Harbour House by Liz Fenwick
Whispers Beneath the Banyan Bath by Moon Heeyang
The Original by Nell Stevens
Wayward Girls by Susan Wiggs
Miss Veal and Miss Ham by Vikki Heywood
What I’ve been consuming
A Rare Find by Joanna Lowell
The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
Servant Mage by Kate Elliott
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
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31min
June 22, 2025Charity and Sylvia - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 317
Charity and Sylvia
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 317 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
The lives of two women in early 19th century Vermont whose marriage-like relationship was accepted and even celebrated by their community
Sources mentioned
Cleves, Rachel Hope. 2014. Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-933542-8
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Charity Bryant & Sylvia Drake
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online
Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
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
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Email: Heather Rose Jones
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10min
June 08, 2025On the Shelf for June 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 316
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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43min
May 31, 2025The House of the Women by Jeannelle M. Ferreira - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 315
The House of the Women by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 315 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents “The House of the Women” by JEannelle M. Ferreira, narrated by Violet Dixon.
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
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
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Email: Heather Rose Jones
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Links to Jeannelle M. Ferreria Online
Website: https://jeannellewrites.wordpress.com/
Bluesky: @jeannellewrites.bsky.social
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43min
May 17, 2025Benedetta Carlini, Lesbian Nun - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 314
Benedetta Carlini, Lesbian Nun
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 314 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
The historic and religious context of Benedetta’s life
Benedetta’s sexual encounters
Sources mentioned
Brown, Judith C. 1984. “Lesbian Sexuality in Renaissance Italy: The Case of Sister Benedetta Carlini” in Signs 9 (1984): 751-58. (reprinted in: Freedman, Esteele B., Barbara C. Gelpi, Susan L. Johnson & Kathleen M. Weston. 1985. The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-2256-26151-4)
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
Holler, Jacqueline. 1999. “’More Sins than the Queen of England’: Marina de San Miguel before the Mexican Inquisition” in Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World, ed. Mary E. Giles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. ISBN 0-8018-5931-X pp.209-28
Matter, E. Ann. 1989. “My Sister, My Spouse: Woman-Identified Women in Medieval Christianity” in Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality, eds. Judith Plaskow & Carol P. Christ. Harper & Row, San Francisco.
Watt, Diane. 1997. “Read My Lips: Clipping and Kyssyng in the Early Sixteenth Century” in Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality, ed. Anna Livia and Kira Hall. New York, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-510471-4
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Benedetta Carlini
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
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
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Email: Heather Rose Jones
Mastodon: @[email protected]
Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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21min
May 03, 2025On the Shelf for May 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 313
On the Shelf for May 2025
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 313 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
Retirement
Financing the podcast
Expanded analysis projects
A new policy affecting the new book listings
Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod
Midnight Letters by Rowan Wilder
The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling
Murder at the Cabaret by Dana Gricken
Give My Love to Berlin by Katherine Bryant
To the Fairest by M. Walker
Time After time by Mikki Daughtry
A Spell for Change by Nicole Jarvis
Other Titles of Interest
The Olive and the Spear by J.A. Rainbow
What I’ve been consuming
The Chatelaine by Kate Heartfield
This month we interview Lindz McLeod and talk about:
The appeal of adapting Jane Austen’s fiction
Communicating with the language of flowers
Other Austen characters who might have interesting stories
The wide variety of Lindz’s work
The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod
The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley by Lindz McLeod (forthcoming)
An Honour and a Priviledge by Lindz McLeod (forthcoming)
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 Lindz McLeod Online
Website: https://lindzmcleod.co.uk/
Twitter: @lindzmcleod
Instagram: @lindz.mcleod
Bluesky: @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
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37min
April 21, 2025Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 17: The Governess - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 312
Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 17: The Governess
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 312 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
The dynamics of the “governess romance”
F/f possibilities for governess romances
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
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)
...more
12min
April 06, 2025On the Shelf for April 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 311
On the Shelf for April 2025
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 311 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
A special announcement about your host
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Ragan, Bryant T. Jr. 1996. “The Enlightenment Confronts Homosexuality” in Homosexuality in Modern France ed. by Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-509304-6
Merrick, Jeffrey. 1996. “The Marquis de Villette and Mademoiselle de Raucourt: Representations of Male and Female Sexual Deviance in Late Eighteenth-Century France” in Homosexuality in Modern France ed. by Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-509304-6
Colwill, Elizabeth. 1996. “Pass as a Woman, Act like a Man: Marie-Antoinette as Tribade in the Pornography of the French Revolution” in Homosexuality in Modern France ed. by Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-509304-6
Sautman, Francesca Canadé. 1996. “Invisible Women: Lesbian Working-class Culture in Ferance, 1880-1930” in Homosexuality in Modern France ed. by Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-509304-6
Oram, Alison & Annmarie Turnbull. 2001. The Lesbian History Sourcebook: love and sex between women in Britain from 1780 to 1970. Routledge, New York. ISBN 9-78-0-415-11485-3
Choma, Anne. 2019. Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister. Penguin Books, New York. ISBN 978-0-14-313456-5
Ó Síocháin, Tadhg. 2017. The Case of The Abbot of Drimnagh: A Medieval Irish Story of Sex-Change. Cork Studies in Celtic Literatures. ISBN 978-0-9955469-1-2
Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
Glitter in the Dark by Olesya Lyuzna
That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga #1) by Brittany N. Williams
Saint-Seducing Gold (The Forge & Fracture Saga #2) by Brittany N. Williams
Iron Tongue of Midnight (The Forge & Fracture Saga #3) by Brittany N. Williams
Mere by Danielle Giles
Renegade Girls: A Queer Tale of Romance and Rabble-Rousing by Nora Neus and Julie Robine
The Scarlett Highwaywoman (The Highwaywomen #1) by Delilah Kent
A Thief's Kiss (The Highwaywomen #2) by Delilah Kent
Velvet & Vengeance (The Highwaywomen #3) by Delilah Kent
The Butchers Bride (The Highwaywomen #4) by Delilah Kent
The Duchess and the Dagger (The Highwaywomen #5) by Delilah Kent
Reckless Hearts (The Highwaywomen #6) by Delilah Kent
Banshee's Cry (Lesbian Pirates #3) by Marina Tempest
Lucky Harp (Lesbian Pirates #4) by Marina Tempest
Mercy's Blade (Lesbian Pirates #5) by Marina Tempest
Midnight Serpent (Lesbian Pirates #6) by Marina Tempest
Rum & Roses (Velvet & Vice #3) by V.C. Sterling
Brandy & Betrayal (Velvet & Vice #4) by V.C. Sterling
Absinthe & Affection (Velvet & Vice #5) by V.C. Sterling
Moonshine & Mayhem (Velvet & Vice #6) by V.C. Sterling
Scotch & Secrets (Velvet & Vice #7) by V.C. Sterling
What I’ve been consuming
Gentleman Jack by Anne Choma
The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison
The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan
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
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Email: Heather Rose Jones
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Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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17min
March 29, 2025A Falling Star and a Flying Bird by Rhiannon Grant - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 310
A Falling Star and a Flying Bird by Rhiannon Grant
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 310 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents A Falling Star and a Flying Bird by Rhiannon Grant, narrated by Heather Rose Jones.
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
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
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Email: Heather Rose Jones
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Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Rhiannon Grant Online
Website: https://brigidfoxandbuddha.wordpress.com
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30min
March 24, 2025Lesbians and Sex Work - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 309
Lesbians and Sex Work
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 309 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
Four motifs that connect women loving women and sex work in historic sources
Sources used
Bennett, Judith and Shannon McSheffrey. 2014. “Early, Erotic and Alien: Women Dressed as Men in Late Medieval London” in History Workshop Journal. 77 (1): 1-25.
Beynon, John C. 2010. “Unaccountable Women” in Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4
Blackmore, Josiah. 1999. “The Poets of Sodom” in Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance ed. Josiah Blackmore and Gregory S. Hutcheson. Duke University Press, Durham. ISBN 9780822323495
Boehringer, Sandra (trans. Anna Preger). 2021. Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-367-74476-2
Burford, E.J. 1986. Wits, Wenchers and Wantons - London’s Low Life: Covent Garden in the Eighteenth Century. Robert Hale, London. ISBN 0-7090-2629-3
Cheek, Pamela. 1998. "The 'Mémoires secrets' and the Actress: Tribadism, Performance, and Property", in Jeremy D. Popkin and Bernadette Fort (eds), The "Mémoires secrets" and the Culture of Publicity in Eighteenth-Century France, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation.
Choquette, Leslie. 2001. “’Homosexuals in the City: Representations of Lesbian and Gay Space in Nineteenth-Century Paris” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
Craft-Fairchild, Catherine. 2006. “Sexual and Textual Indeterminacy: Eighteenth-Century English Representations of Sapphism” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 15:3
DeJean, Joan. 1989. Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-14136-5
Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4
Engelstein, Laura. 1990. "Lesbian Vignettes: A Russian Triptych from the 1890s" in Signs vol. 15, no. 4 813-831.
Garber, Marjorie. 1992. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-91951-7
Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-688-00396-6
Gilhuly, Kate. 2015. “Lesbians are Not from Lesbos” in Blondell, Ruby & Kirk Ormand (eds). Ancient Sex: New Essays. The Ohio State University Press, Columbus. ISBN 978-0-8142-1283-7
Habib, Samar. 2007. Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations. Routledge, New York. ISBN 78-0-415-80603-9
Haley, Shelley P. “Lucian’s ‘Leaena and Clonarium’: Voyeurism or a Challenge to Assumptions?” in Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin & Lisa Auanger eds. 2002. Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World. University of Texas Press, Austin. ISBN 0-29-77113-4
Ingrassia, Catherine. 2003. “Eliza Haywood, Sapphic Desire, and the Practice of Reading” in: Kittredge, Katharine (ed). Lewd & Notorious: Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. ISBN 0-472-11090-X
Jones, Ann Rosalind & Peter Stallybrass. 1991. “Fetishizing gender: constructing the Hermaphrodite in Renaissance Europe” in Body guards : the cultural politics of gender ambiguity edited by Julia Epstein & Kristina Straub. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-90388-2
Jones, Heather Rose. 2021. “Researching the Origins of Lesbian Myths, Legends, and Symbols” (podcast). https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-201-researching-origins-lesbian-myths-legends-and
Katritzky, M.A. 2005. “Reading the Actress in Commedia Imagery” in Women Players in England, 1500-1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage, edited by Pamela Allen Brown & Peter Parolin. Ashgate, Burlington. ISBN 978-0-7546-0953-7
Klein, Ula Lukszo. 2021. Sapphic Crossings: Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville. ISBN 978-0-8139-4551-4
Kranz, Susan E. 1995. The Sexual Identities of Moll Cutpurse in Dekker and Middleton’s The Roaring Girl and in London in Renaissance and Reformation 19: 5-20.
Merrick, Jeffrey. 1990. “Sexual Politics and Public Order in Late Eighteenth-Century France: the Mémoires secrets and the Correspondance secrète” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 1, 68-84.
Merrick, Jeffrey & Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. 2001. Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-510257-6
Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5
Sears, Clare. 2015. Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-5758-2
Shapiro, Michael. 1994. Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages. Ann Arbor.
Van der Meer, Theo. 1991. “Tribades on Trial: Female Same-Sex Offenders in Late Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:3 424-445.
Vanita, Ruth and Saleem Kidwai, eds. 2000. Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History. St. Martin’s, New York. ISBN 0-312-22169-X
Velasco, Sherry. 2011. Lesbians in Early Modern Spain. Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville. ISBN 978-0-8265-1750-0
Wahl, Elizabeth Susan. 1999. Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford University Press, Stanford. ISBN 0-8047-3650-2
Walen, Denise A. 2005. Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6875-3
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
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
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Email: Heather Rose Jones
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