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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May 02, 2026On the Shelf for May 2026 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 341
On the Shelf for May 2026
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 341 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
Say hi at GCLS
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Traub, Valerie. 1996. “The Perversion of ‘Lesbian’ Desire” in History Workshop Journal 41:19-49.
Goode, Dawn M. 2008. “Dueling Discourses: The Erotics of Female Friendship in Mary Pix’s ‘Queen Catharine.’” in Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 37–60.
McClain, Molly. 2008. “Love, Friendship, and Power: Queen Mary II's Letters to Frances Apsley” in Journal of British Studies, Vol. 47, No. 3: 505-527
Hitchcock, Tim. 1996. “Redefining Sex in Eighteenth-Century England” in History Workshop Journal, No. 41: 72-90
Roulston, Christine. 1998. “Separating the Inseparables: Female Friendship and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century France.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 215–31.
Book Shopping
Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney
Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
The Beheading Game by Rebecca Lehmann
Consider This My Witness by Madeline Klein
Beneath the Quiet Valley (Quiet Valley #1) by Eleanor Foster
Beneath the Quiet Valley: Two Lives (Quiet Valley #2) by Eleanor Foster
The Water That Remembers (The Woman at the Well #1) by Jade Remintgon
The Weight of Staying (The Woman at the Well #2) by Jade Remintgon
The Courage to Remain (The Woman at the Well #3) by Jade Remintgon
The Mystery of the Bitten Peach by Cecilia Tan
Bone of my Bone by Johanna van Veen
Miss Woodhouse & Miss Fairfax by Maisie Jardelle
The Wives of Herrick Hall by Julie Lew
Her Runaway Lady by B.J. Sikes
For the Love of the Quest by Alexandra Ammon Parthun
The Summer I Met June by Mozie S
What I’ve been consuming
Word by Word by Kory Stamper
True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color--from Azure to Zinc Pink by Kory Stamper
Murder at Sissingham Hall by Clara Benson
The Mystery at Underwood House by Clara Benson
This month we interview Cecilia Tan and talk about:
The fun of genre mash-ups
Representing diaspora
The relationship of historic stories and time-travel stories
Founding SFF erotica publisher Circlet Press
Future projects and the joy of pantsing
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 Cecilia Tan Online
Website: https://www.ceciliatan.com
Instagram: @ctan_writer
Bluesky: @ceciliatan.com
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April 18, 2026Mary/Charles Hamilton: The Original Female Husband - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 340
Mary/Charles Hamilton: The Original Female Husband
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 340 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
The factual story of Mary/Charles Hamilton
Henry Fielding’s fictional version in The Female Husband
The larger historic and literary context
Sources mentioned
Baker, S. 1959. “Henry Fielding’s The Female Husband: Fact and Fiction” in PMLA, 74 pp.213-24.
Castle, T. 1983-4. “Eros and Liberty at the English Masquerade, 1710-90” in Eighteenth-Century Studies, XVII, 2: 156-76.
Derry, Caroline. 2020. Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-35299-8
Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4
Friedli, Lynne. 1987. “Passing Women: A Study of Gender Boundaries in the Eighteenth Century” in Rousseau, G. S. and Roy Porter (eds). Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 0-8078-1782-1
Fielding, Henry. 1746. The Female Husband: or, the Surprising History of Mrs Mary, Alias Mr George Hamilton. Liverpool, M. Cooper. (https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-female-husband-or-_fielding-henry_1746)
Lanser, Susan. 2001. “Sapphic Picaresque: Sexual Difference and the Challenges of Homoadventuring” in Textual Practice 15:2 (November 2001): 1-18.
Lyons, Clare A. 2007. “Mapping an Atlantic Sexual Culture: Homoeroticism in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia” in: Foster, Thomas A. (ed). Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 13-978-0-8147-2749-2
Manion, Jen. “The Queer History of Passing as a Man in Early Pennsylvania.” Pennsylvania Legacies, vol. 16, no. 1, 2016, pp. 6–11.
Manion, Jen. 2020. Female Husbands: A Trans History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-48380-3
The full text of The Female Husband by Henry Fielding can be found at archive.org
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Charles/Mary Hamilton, The Female Husband (Henry Fielding)
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)
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23min
April 04, 2026On the Shelf for April 2026 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 339
On the Shelf for April 2026
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 339 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
Exciting news about the next season of Bridgerton.
The upcoming 10th anniversary
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Fielding, Henry. 1746. The Female Husband: or, the Surprising History of Mrs Mary, Alias Mr George Hamilton. Liverpool, M. Cooper.
Baker, S. 1959. “Henry Fielding’s The Female Husband: Fact and Fiction” in PMLA, 74 pp.213-24.
Book Shopping
Kehoe, M. (ed). 1986. Historical, Literary and Erotic Aspects of Lesbianism. New York. ISBN 0-918393-21-3
Gilbert, Oscar Paul (trans. by J. Lewis May). 1932. Women in Men's Guise. The Bodley Head, London.
Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
Stand and Deliver by Ivy Warren
Romeo & Her Sister by Jillian Blevins
To Love a Boleyn by Joey Evangelista
Arguments Against the Cultivation of Female Curiosity (Curiosity #2) by Suzanne Moss
The Countess and the Cartographer by Lyra Ashwood
The Egyptologist's Curse by Georgina Kenyon
Love's Joy and Sorrow Between Women by Emilie Knopf
Counterpoint by Barbara Bergmann
Forever Yours, Nell by Andrea Ead
The Witch and the Huntress by Luna McNamara
A Whisper of Bells and Prayers by C.C. González
Scallywag! by K.L. Mitchell
The Unruly Heart of Miss Darcy by Erin Edwards
She Tamed the Lady by Judith Lynne
Flirting with Disaster by Kerrigan Byrne
As a Lover by Hilary McCollum
At Last It's You by Marianne Marston
Other Titles of Interest
The Keyholder by S. Kallistos
A Lady for All Seasons by T J Alexander
What I’ve been consuming
Queen Demon by Martha Wells
Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh/em> by Rachael Lippincott
Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword by Henry Lien
Lady Eve's Last Con/em> by Rebecca Fraimow
The Rushworth Family Plot/em> by Claudia Gray
Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner by Katrine Marcal
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)
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30min
March 21, 2026Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and the Invention of Lesbian Pirates - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 338
Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and the Invention of Lesbian Pirates
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 338 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
Female pirates
Anne Bonny and Mary Read in the General History of the Pyrates
The motif of “lesbian Bonny & Read”
Bonny and Read in lesbian historical fiction
Sources mentioned
Wikipedia entry: Women in Piracy
Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger by Ulrike Klausmann, Marion Meinzerin, and Gabriel Kuhn
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
Anne Bonny
Mary Read
LHMP Entry #547 A General History of the Pyrates
Works mentioned by Helen Rodriguez:
The History and Lives of Notorious Pirates (1735)
The Extraordinary Adventures and Daring Exploits of Captain Henry Morgan (1813)
The Naval History of the United States by Willis J. Abbott (1896)
The Buccaneers and their Reign of Terror by C.M. Stevens (1899)
The Homosexuality of Men and Women by Magnus Hirschfield (1920)
”Anne Bonny & Mary Read: They Killed Pricks” by Susan Baker in The Furies: Lesbian/Feminist Monthly Vol. 1, issue 6 (August 1972)
Mistress of the Seas (novel) by John Carlova (1964)
Forgotten Women ed. By Nancy M[???] (couldn’t identify this book)
The Women Pirates (play) by Steve Gooch (
Mary Read, Buccaneer (novel) by Philip Rush (1945)
Beneath the Black Flag by David Cordingly
Kingston by Starlight (novel) by Christopher John Farley
Black Sails (tv series)
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (video game)
The Pirates of Neverland (video game)
Our Flag Means Death (tv series)
Hellcats (podcast fiction)
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)
Links to Helen Rodriguez Online
Email: [email protected]
Bluesky: @ladytyler.bsky.social
...more
50min
March 07, 2026On the Shelf for March 2026 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 337
On the Shelf for March 2026
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 337 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
Gentleman Jack (ballet) by the Northern Ballet Company
Northern Ballet Company You Tube channel
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Mourão, Manuela. 1999. “The representation of female desire in early modern pornographic texts, 1660-1745” in Signs, 24: 589-94.
Toulalan, Sarah. 2003. “Extraordinary Satisfactions: Lesbian Visibility in Seventeenth-Century Pornography in England” in Gender and History 15: 50-68
Johnson, Charles (pseudonym). 1724. A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time. With the remarkable actions and adventures of the two female pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny ... To which is added. A short abstract of the statute and civil law, in relation to pyracy. London: T. Warner.
Book Shopping
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto Sterling
Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
Rattlesridge by Mina Rose
The Ink Between Us by Chiara Bellini
Love and Gunpowder by Valeska Delsol
Daughter of the Hunt by K. Arsenault Rivera
Sweetbitter Song by Rosie Hewlett
The Alchemist's Secret by Clare Marchant
Salt and Surrender (The Aramanthine Sea #1) by E.S. Brandon
A Change of Pace by J.A. Stevens
A Comfortable Misery by Kassandra Hart
The Fox and the Devil by Kiersten White
Wayward Souls (Harker & Moriarty #2) by Susan J. Morris
Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran
The Nightshade (Hattie James #4) by Stacy Lynn Miller
What I’ve been consuming
Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones
The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner
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)
...more
22min
February 21, 2026Aye, There’s the Rub - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 336
Aye, There’s the Rub
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 336 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
Vocabulary for women-loving women referring to “rubbing”
Shifts of meaning and usage
What too many authors get wrong
Sources mentioned: see transcript
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
31min
February 10, 2026On the Shelf for February 2026 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 335
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 Benghu
The Sultan’s Vetala by Priya Sridhar
The Tale of Gudrun Sigurdsdóttir by Daniel Stride
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Reay, Barry. 2009. “Writing the Modern Histories of Homosexual England” in The Historical Journal, 52, 1. pp.213-233
Crannell, 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.11-34
Loveday, 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: 381-402
Book Shopping
Wurzelbacher, Karli. 2025. Emma Stebbins: Carving Out History. Huntington: The Heckscher Museum of Art. ISBN 979-8-9925162-1-0
Lodge, Sara. 2024. The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-28660-1
Boyd, Rebecca. 2024. Exploring Ireland's Viking-Age Towns. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-03-259109-4
Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
Hawthorn & Bitter by Shannon K. Kelly
Cut on the Bias by Susanna Bonaretti
Before the Swallow Dares by Hannah Perrin-Haynes
The 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 Riley
Sword and Silk: The Legend of Julie d'Aubigny by Maeve Campbell
La Maupin : The Scandalous Story of Julie d'Aubigny by C.C. Parke
The Black Lark's Oath by Tess Wilder
Embers on the Moor by Giada Moretti
Unfinished Story by Jade Winters
The Midnight Daughters by Aeressa
The Hidden Petition (Beacon Hill Mysteries #1) by Maeve McQueen
The House of Hidden Hearts by Matus Zelenay
E.V. Bancroft by E.V. Bancroft
A Very Hamble Christmas by E.V. Bancroft
Star & Thea at Court by A V Kakkad
The Hidden Flower in the Palace: A Queer Court Tragedy by Shin Hwayoon
She-Wolf: A Sapphic Beowulf Retelling by E.K. O'Connor
The Fifth Day of Her Heart by Richard Cicay
The Found Family Victory (Salvation's Edge #1) by Lady K
Belonging to the Air by Avery Irons
Joe the Pirate by Hubert
A Slow and Secret Poison by Carmella Lowkis
What I’ve been consuming
Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia
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)
...more
21min
January 31, 2026Fiction Double-Header: Down By the Tumbling Stream by E C Hallewell & Where You Go by Jennifer Nestojko - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 334
Fiction Double-Header: Down By the Tumbling Stream by E C Hallewell & Where You Go by Jennifer Nestojko
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 334 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents two stories:
"Down By the Tumbling Stream" EC Hallewell, narrated by Heather Rose Jones.
"Where You Go" Jennifer Nestojko, 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
Website: http://alpennia.com
Email: Heather Rose Jones
Mastodon: @[email protected]
Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to EC Hallewell Online
Bluesky: @echallewell.bsky.social
...more
37min
January 17, 2026Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 19: Age Gap - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 333
Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 19: Age Gap
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 333 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
The historic and social context of age-differentiated pairings of various genders
Why the “age gap” trope tends to be restricted to f/f romance
Historic contexts for age-gap relationships
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
10min
January 03, 2026On the Shelf for January 2026 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 332
On the Shelf for January 2026
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 332 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
Summary of the Project in 2025
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Xie, Wenjuan. 2015. (Trans)Culturally Transgendered: Reading Transgender Narratives in (Late) Imperial China. Dissertation.
Sommer, Matthew H. “Was China Part of a Global Eighteenth-Century Homosexuality?” in Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, vol. 33, no. 1, 2007, pp. 117–33.
Carton, Adrian. 2006. “Desire and Same-Sex Intimacies in Asia” in Gay Life and Culture, A World History, ed. Robert Aldrich. Universe Publishing, New York. ISBN 978-0-7893-1511-3
Gowing, Laura. 2006. ”Lesbians and Their Like in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800” in Gay Life and Culture: A World History ed. Robert Aldrich. London: Thames and Hudson. 125-43
Rupp, Leila J. 2001. “Toward a Global History of Same-Sex Sexuality” in Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 10, No. 2: 287-302
Leupp, Gary P. 2007. “Capitalism and Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century Japan.” in Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 135–52.
Pflugfelder, Gregory M. 1992. “Strange Fates: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Torikaebaya Monogatari” in Monumenta Nipponica Vol. 47, No. 3 (Autumn, 1992), pp. 347-368.
Shah, Shalini. 1991. “Women and Sexuality in the Mahabharata” in Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Vol. 52: 138-144.
Srivastava, Manjari & Manjari Shrivastava. 2007. “Lesbianism in Nineteenth Century Erotic Urdu Poetry “Rekhti”” in Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Vol. 68, Part One: 965-988
Book Shopping
The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective by Sara Lodge
Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
Dreadful Sorry, Clemintine (Clementine #2) by Genta Sebastian
Steel on Distance by N.J. Knox
A Djinn and Tonic (The Magical Underground #2) by Nan Sampson
Gold and Grace by Eline Evans
Like in Love with You by Emma R. Alban
The Debutante Dilemma by author
The Case of the Murdered Muckraker (Harriot Morrow Investigates #2) by Rob Osler
What I’ve been consuming
The Case of the Missing Maid by Rob Osler
Saint-Seducing Gold by Brittany N. William
A Plague on Both Your Houses by Susanna Gregory
Earl Crush by Alexandra Vasti
Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite
Emma: The Nature of a Lady by Kate Christie
The Scandal at Pemberley by Mara Brooks
The Shocking Experiments of Miss Mary Bennet by Melinda Taub
The Lady’s Wager by Olivia Hampton
Call for submissions for the 2026 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
This month we interview M.K. Hardy and talk about:
Needfire by MK Hardy (US availability is limited)
MK Hardy is a nom de plume for Morag Hannah and Erin Hardee
Adapting the gothic template for sapphic stories
Why Scotland is the perfect setting for gothics
The benefits and complications of writing as a team
Forthcoming: The Haunting of Avis Lovelock
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 MK Hardy Online
Website: https://www.mkhardywrites.com/
Twitter: @mkhardywrites
Instagram: @mkhardywrites
Bluesky: @mkhardywrites.com
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37min

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