Episode Description
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
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- 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)