On the Shelf for November 2023 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 272 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 blog
- McCallum, E.L. & Mikko Tuhkanen, eds. 2014. The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature. Cambridge University Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-107-03521-8
- Wilson, Kathleen. 2004. “The Female Rake: Gender, Libertinism, and Enlightenment” in Peter Cryle & Lisa O’Connell (eds.) Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty, and License in the Eighteenth-century. Palgrave, Basingstoke. pp.99-111.
Book Shopping
- Koppelman, Susan (ed). 1994. Two Friends and Other Nineteenth-Century Lesbian Stories by American Women Writers. Meridian, New York. ISBN 0-452-01119-1
- Goldsmith, Margaret. 1935. Christina of Sweden: A Psychological Biography. Doubleday,Doran & Company, Inc., New York.
- 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
Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
Other Titles of Interest
- The Grass Widow by D.A. Chadwick
What I’ve been consuming
- Translation State by Ann Leckie
Call for submissions for the 2024 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

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