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  • 10th Anniversary Special: Interview with Linda Garber - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 348
    2026/08/01
    10th Anniversary Special: Interview with Linda Garber The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 348 with Heather Rose Jones

    An interview with Professor Linda Garber about her research into lesbian historical fiction.

    Books and Media Mentioned

    • Garber, Linda. 2022. Novel Approaches to Lesbian History. Palgrave. ISBN 978-3030854164
    • Cruikshank, M. (ed) 1982. Lesbian Studies: Present and Future. The Feminist Press at CUNY. ISBN 978-0935312072
    • Garber, Linda. 2001. Identity Poetics: Race, Class and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory. Columbia University Press.
    • Schwartz, Selby Wynn. After Sappho. (novel)
    • Keen, Suzanne. 2003 Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0802086846 (credit for the phrase “romance of the archives” which I’ve been misattributing)
    • Martinac, Paula. Out of Time. (novel)
    • Davies, Stevie. Impassioned Clay. (novel)
    • Friend, Catherine. The Spanish Pearl. (novel)
    • Dickinson (tv series)
    • Gentleman Jack (tv series)
    • Arnold, June Davis. The Cook and the Carpenter. (novel)
    • Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present. William Morrow and Company, Inc. ISBN 0-688-00396-6
    • Hall, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness. (novel)
    • Portrait of a Lady on Fire (movie)
    • The Favourite (movie)
    • Ammonite (movie)
    • Saturday Night Live “Lesbian Period Drama” (sketch on YouTube)
    • Desert of the Heart (movie) based on Jane Rule’s Desert Hearts
    • A Knight’s Tale (movie)
    • Giffney, Noreen, Michelle M. Sauer & Diane Watt (eds). 2011. The Lesbian Premodern. Palgrave. ISBN 978-0-230-61676-9
    • The Belle of Amherst (movie)
    • Gomez, Jewelle. The Gilda Stories. (novel)
    • Giddings, Megan. The Women Could Fly (novel)
    • Korn, Gabrielle. Yours for the Taking (novel)
    • Pérez, Emma. Forgetting the Alamo, or, Blood Memory (novel
    • McCollum, Hilary. As a Lover (novel)
    • McCollum, Hilary. Golddigger (novel)
    • Gagehabib, LaVerne. The Blacksmith and the Doctor (novel)
    • Winterson, Jeanette. The Passion (novel)

    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: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
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    Links to Linda Garber Online

    • Website: academic website
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  • On the Shelf for June & July 2026 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 347
    2026/07/18
    On the Shelf for June & July 2026 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 347 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 blogMoore, Lisa L. 2005. “Queer Gardens: Mary Delany's Flowers and Friendships” in Eighteenth-Century Studies Vol. 39, No. 1 (Fall, 2005), pp. 49-70O’Driscoll, Sally. 2003. “The Lesbian and the Passionless Woman: Femininity and Sexuality in 18th century England” in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 44.2-3. p.103-31Peakman, Julie. 2004. Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century. Atlantic Books, London. Chapter 8 “Tribadism: ‘A New Sort of Sin’”Anonymous. 1697. The history of the intrigues & gallantries of Christina, Queen of Sweden, and of her court whilst she was at Rome faithfully render’d into English from the French original. London: Richard Baldwin.Abbott, Carmeta. 1993. “The Portrait as Text: Two Depictions of Madame de Saint-Balmon (1607-1660)” in Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice vol. 19, No. 1.Bell, Rudolph M. 1987. “Renaissance Sexuality and the Florentine Archives: An Exchange” in Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 3: pp. 485-511Reynolds, Nicole. 2010. “Cottage Industry: The Ladies of Llangollen and the Symbolic Capital of the "Cottage Ornée"” in The Eighteenth Century, Vol. 51, No. 1/2: 211-227Vicinus, Martha. “Lesbian Perversity and Victorian Marriage: The 1864 Codrington Divorce Trial” pp.92-94 in Journal of British Studies 36, no. 1 (1997).Liddington, Jill. 1993. “Anne Lister of Shibden Hall, Halifax (1791-1840): Her Diaries and the Historians” in History Workshop, 35: 45-77.Orr, Dannielle. 2006. A Sojourn in Paris 1824-25: Sex and Sociability in the Manuscript Writings of Anne Lister (1791-1840). (Doctoral Dissertation, Murdoch University)Roulston, Chris & Caroline Gonda, eds. 2023. Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to ‘Gentleman Jack’. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781009280723 Book ShoppingNorton, Rictor. 1997. The Myth of the Modern Homosexual: Queer History and the Search for Cultural Unity. Cassell. ISBN 0-304-33892-3Mansel, Philip. 2001. Paris Between Empires: Monarchy and Revolution 1814-1852. St. Martin's Press, New York. ISBN 0-312-30857-4 Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction Dreaming of Jerusalem by Susie HelmeSilk Road Runaways by Christine Inserra Chivalry in the Shadows by Meg Merriet Wahlberg With My Own Hand: The secret life of Marie Maitland, Scotland’s sixteenth-century Sappho by Ashley Douglas Bound By Silk & Salt Water by Caren Cross Tempest: A Novel of Anne Bonny, the Pirate Queen Who Disappeared by K. Knight The Ruby Reaper (The Ruby Reaper #1) by Eline Evans The Emerald Eclipse (The Ruby Reaper #2) by Eline Evans Mr. Moore by Giny MoralesThe Miseducation of Caroline Bingley by Lindz McLeod Caroline's Courtesan (The Comerford Courtesans #4) by Jess Michaels Pretence & Pretentiousness by Lynn Kear A Season of Teeth and Silk by Henriette Twinne The Art of Longing by Michael David The Green Seal (Blackthorn Hall Romances # 3) by E. L. Vale What the Willow Kept (The Women of Sapphire #1.5) by L. Creeke When Embers Find Her (The Women of Sapphire #1) by L. Creeke The Wrong Widow (Cielo Seco # 1) by D. S. Briar Gold Rush 1860 by Randa Hink Two Whoops and a Holler by Carmilla Deane Charity and Sylvia by Tillie Walden Disfigured (New York's Gilded Age #4) by Joseph P. Garland Becoming Legends Elsie-Bessie: A Love Story (book #1) by Barbara Barna Abel & Shannon McMahon Lichte Lena and Miss Cawkwell by Julie Bozza Murder by Degrees by Rachel Ford A Blue Note by Katrina Jackson Little Wild by Laura Evans The Malign Ghosts of Summer by Ann McMan Cold Water by C. R. Ellery The Rude Bird (New Orleans Noir # 1) by M. R. Dimond What I’ve been consumingPlatform Decay by Martha WellsMonstrous Regiment by Terry PratchettDeath of the Author by Nnedi OkoroforA Change of Pace by J.A. Stevens Call for submissions for the 2027 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details. 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/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon Links to Heather Online Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.ShopBluesky: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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  • Women and Same-Sex Marriage in Western History (Reprise) - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 346
    2026/07/04
    Women and Same-Sex Marriage in Western History (Reprise) The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 346 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about strategies for getting your historical protagonists hitched across the centuries.

    • How the concepts of “women”, “same-sex”, and “marriage” are being defined for the purpose of this discussion
    • Cultures that may have supported marriage between women as an equal option
    • Cases of same-sex marriage enabled by presenting as an opposite sex couple
    • The permeability of the “opposite sex” requirement in actual practice
    • Using the forms and rituals of marriage, even when the legal status was not available
    • This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
      • Marriage between women
      • Female husbands

    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)
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  • So You’re Writing a Sapphic Historical Romance: Questions to Consider (Reprise) - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 345
    2026/06/20
    So You’re Writing a Sapphic Historical Romance: Questions to Consider (Reprise) The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 345 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about the questions to ask about sapphic relationships and how they are perceived in your story’s setting:

    • How easy is it to live outside of the heterosexual marriage paradigm?
    • What are the economic, legal, and religious constraints on your characters?
    • What is the ordinary “background noise” of non-sexual displays of affection?
    • How does the culture of the setting understand privacy and how does that affect your characters’ behavior?
    • What are the realities and perceptions around sex between women in this setting?
    • How does the culture of the setting understand gender and sexuality?
    • How are female couples depicted in popular culture of the time?

    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)
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  • When Did We Become Lesbians? (Reprise) - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 344
    2026/06/06
    When Did We Become Lesbians? (Reprise) The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 344 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about:

    • The history of words for women who loved women throughout recorded European history.
    • What words were used?
    • Where did they come from?
    • What shades of meaning did they have?
    • How did those meanings change over time?

    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)
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  • Salt for the Unmarried by Khayelihle Benghu - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 343
    2026/05/30
    Salt for the Unmarried by Khayelihle Benghu The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 343 with Heather Rose Jones

    This quarter’s fiction episode presents Salt for the Unmarried by Khayelihle Benghu, 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: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
    • Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
    • Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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  • A Guide to the Sapphic Regency - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 342
    2026/05/16
    A Guide to the Sapphic Regency The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 342 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about:

    • Demographics and economics affecting f/f couples
    • Legal and religious considerations
    • Friendship and romance
    • Affection and sex
    • The language of lesbianism
    • Models of gender and sexuality
    • Bibliography
      • 18th Century Precursors
        • Bennett, Judith M. & Amy M. Froide eds. 1999. Singlewomen in the European Past 1250-1800. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 0-8122-1668-7
        • Bennett, Betty T. 1991. Mary Diana Dods: A Gentleman and a Scholar. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. ISBN 0-8018-4984-5
        • Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. 2010. Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4
        • Bodek, Evelyn Gordon. 1976. "Salonières and Bluestockings: Educated Obsolescence and Germinating Feminism" in Feminist Studies vol 3 no. 3/4 185-199.
        • Clark, Anna. 1996. "Anne Lister's construction of lesbian identity", Journal of the History of Sexuality, 7(1), pp. 23-50.
        • Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4
        • Dugaw, Dianne. 1989. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 1650-1850. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-16916-2
        • 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
        • Norton, Rictor (ed.), Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook. Updated 7 September 2014 http://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/. (Accessed 2014/09/13)
        • Hitchcock, Tim. 1997. English Sexualities, 1700-1800. St. Martin’s Press, New York. ISBN 0-312-16573-0
        • Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5
      • 19th Century Sources
        • Binhammer, Katherine. 1996. “The Sex Panic of the 1790s” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 6, no. 3: 409-34.
        • Jennings, Rebecca. 2007. A Lesbian History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Women Since 1500. Greenwood World Publishing, Oxford. ISBN 978-1-84645-007-5
        • Lanser, Susan S. 2014. The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-18773-0
        • Lasser, Carol. 1988. "'Let Us Be Sisters Forever': The Sororal Model of Nineteenth-Century Female Friendship" in Signs vol. 14, no. 1 158-181.
        • Moore, Lisa. 1992. "'Something More Tender Still than Friendship': Romantic Friendship in Early-Nineteenth-Century England" in Feminist Studies vol. 18, no. 3 499-520.
        • Norton, Rictor (ed.), Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook. Updated 7 September 2014 http://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/nineteen.htm (Accessed 2014/09/13)
        • Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3
        • Whitbread, Helena ed. 1992. I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister 1791-1840. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 0-8147-9249-9
        • Whitbread, Helena ed. 1992. No Priest But Love. NY Univ Press, New York. ISBN 0-8147-5077-X

    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)
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  • On the Shelf for May 2026 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 341
    2026/05/02
    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 GCLSRecent and upcoming publications covered on the blogTraub, 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: 505-527Hitchcock, Tim. 1996. “Redefining Sex in Eighteenth-Century England” in History Workshop Journal, No. 41: 72-90Roulston, 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 ShoppingJane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionThe Beheading Game by Rebecca LehmannConsider This My Witness by Madeline KleinBeneath the Quiet Valley (Quiet Valley #1) by Eleanor FosterBeneath the Quiet Valley: Two Lives (Quiet Valley #2) by Eleanor FosterThe Water That Remembers (The Woman at the Well #1) by Jade RemintgonThe Weight of Staying (The Woman at the Well #2) by Jade RemintgonThe Courage to Remain (The Woman at the Well #3) by Jade RemintgonThe Mystery of the Bitten Peach by Cecilia Tan Bone of my Bone by Johanna van VeenMiss Woodhouse & Miss Fairfax by Maisie JardelleThe Wives of Herrick Hall by Julie LewHer Runaway Lady by B.J. SikesFor the Love of the Quest by Alexandra Ammon ParthunThe Summer I Met June by Mozie S What I’ve been consumingWord by Word by Kory StamperTrue Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color--from Azure to Zinc Pink by Kory StamperMurder at Sissingham Hall by Clara BensonThe Mystery at Underwood House by Clara Benson This month we interview Cecilia Tan and talk about:The fun of genre mash-upsRepresenting diasporaThe relationship of historic stories and time-travel storiesFounding SFF erotica publisher Circlet PressFuture 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/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon Links to Heather Online Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.ShopBluesky: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page) Links to Cecilia Tan Online Website: https://www.ceciliatan.comInstagram: @ctan_writerBluesky: @ceciliatan.com
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    49 分