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

In this episode we talk about:

• Book Shopping
  • Tomlinson, Sophie. 2005. Women on Stage in Stuart Drama. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-81111-2
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Unholy with Eyes like Wolves by Morgan Dante
  • Harvest Season (The Old Bridge Inn #3) by Annick Trent
  • The Summer of Second Chances (Desiring the Dexingtons #4) by Renee Dahlia
  • 2 Screams 1 Sugar: A Sapphic Friends to Lovers Romance by Sula Sullivan
  • The Good Women of Fudi by Liu Hong
  • Adrift by Sam Ledel
  • My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen
  • A Liaison with Her Leading Lady by Lotte R. James
  • The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields
• Other Titles of Interest
  • Flight Lines (WASPS #2) by Jana Williams
  • Pebble in the Pond by Alex Westmore (Linda Kay Silva)
  • A Heart Divided by Angie Williams
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Song of the Huntress by Lucy Holland
  • Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo
  • Death in the Spires by K.J. Charles
  • The Time Travelers Guide to Regency Britain by Ian Mortimer
  • The Time Travelers Guide to Restoration Britain by Ian Mortimer

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
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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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In this episode we talk about:

• 19th century poetry
• Connections and cross-references between women poets
• Sources mentioned
  • In addition to being found in the following sources, the text of many of these poems have been taken from various online sources not mentioned.
  • Castle, Terry (ed). 2003. The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 0-231-12510-0
  • Domna C. Stanton. 1986. The Defiant Muse: French Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present. The Feminist Press, New York. ISBN 0-935312-52-8
  • Donoghue, Emma. 1997. Poems Between Women: Four centuries of love, romantic friendship, and desire. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-231-10925-3
  • Faderman, Lillian (ed). 1994. Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. New York: VIking. ISBN 0-670-84368-4
  • Faderman, Lillian. 1999.To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America – A History. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. ISBN 0-395-85010-X
  • Greene, Ellen (ed). 1996. Re-Reading Sappho: Recepton and Transmission. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 0-520-20602-9
  • Griffin, Farah Jasmine. 1999. Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. ISBN 0-679-45128-5
  • Johnson, Thomas R. (ed). 1961. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston. ISBN 0-316-18413-6
  • Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3

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: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

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

In this episode we talk about:

• Book Shopping
  • Norman, Ben. 2023. Pomp and Piety: Everyday Life of the Aristocracy in Stuart England. Amberley Publishing. ISBN 978-1-3981-1017-5
  • Southon, Emma. 2023. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire. New York: Abrams Press. ISBN 978-1-4197-6018-1
  • Turton, Stephen. 2024. Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600-1930. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1-31651873-1
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Lighthouse Keeper by Eliza Lentzski
  • Eine Lady für die Diebin (Lovers and Liaisons) by Dani Collins (trans: Emma Schwarz)
  • A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland
  • Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis
• Other Titles of Interest
  • Teach the Children to Pray by Rebecca Harwick
  • Grey Dog by Elliott Gish
  • The Final Curse of Ophelia Gray by Christine Calella
• What I’ve been consuming
  • A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard
  • Starter Villain by John Scalzi

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: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)