On the Shelf for February 2023 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 251 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

The Harper Collins strike and the significance of major publishers in sapphic fiction
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Haggerty, George E. 1998. Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later 18th Century. Indiana University Press, Bloomington. ISBN 0-253-21183-2
Book Shopping
- Abercrombie, Thomas A. 2018. Passing to América: Antonio (Née Maria) Yta's Transgressive, Transatlantic Life in the Twilight of the Spanish Empire. The Pennsylvania University Press, University Park. ISBN 978-0-271-08119-9
- Shopland, Norena. 2021. A History of Women in Men's Clothes: From Cross-Dressing to Empowerment. Pen & Sword History, Philadelphia. ISBN 978-1-52678-767-5
- Vanita, Ruth , ed. 2002. Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-92950-4
- Rouse, Wendy L. 2022. Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-47981394-0
New and forthcoming fiction
What I’ve been consuming
- Valiant Ladies by Melissa Grey
- Hen Fever by Olivia Waite
- The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nhi Vo
- The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by K.J. Charles

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

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