The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

Heather Rose Jones

A show about queer women in history and historic literature, plus coverage of the field of sapphic historical fiction. Content note: May include discussions of sex within an academic context.

  1. Nov 7

    On the Shelf for November 2026 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 356

    On the Shelf for November 2026 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 356 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: US Politics Plans for “the book” Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog Linton, Anne E. 2022. Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-316-51182-4 Bissa, Errietta M.A. 2013. “Man, Woman or Myth? Gender-bending in Lucian's Dialogues of the Courtesans” in Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, No. 70: 79-100 Book Shopping Carson, Anne. 2002. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho. Vintage Books, New York. ISBN 0-375-72451-6 Larmour, David H. J., Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter, Eds. 1998. Rethinking Sexuality: Foucault and Classical Antiquity. Princeton University Press, Princeton. ISBN 0-691-01679-8 Further discussion about AI Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction A Witch Willful and Cunning by Esme Marchbank Confessions of a Former Femme Fatale (The Sapphic '60s #2) by Eve Noble The Fire Beneath Her Crown by Preeti Setiya Sweet Amber and Gold by Karen Hunter Watson The Orchard Blooms Again by Pamela Lynn Goodman They Taught the Witness to Cry by Colton Matthews A Truth Unacknowledged by Ellen Crowe Bloom Town: Genesis (Bloom Town #1) by Ally North What We Say About Adelaide Bell by Grace Mazza The Mistress of Blackwood Hall (Blackwood Chronicles #1) by Raven Ashwood The Scandal of Blackwood Hall (Blackwood Chronicles #2) by Raven Ashwood The Neighborhood Dames by Laura Stanfill Sky Roads Home (Edge of the World #2) by Margaret Fridley The Sewing Club by Stephanie O'Connor Let the Dead Lie (Dizzy Dixon #2) by Cameron Darrow What I’ve been consuming Matrix by Lauren Groff The Duke by Anna Cowan Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker 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/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)

  2. Oct 28

    The Sultan’s Vetala by Priya Sridhar - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 355

    The Sultan’s Vetala by Priya Sridhar The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 355 with Heather Rose Jones This quarter’s fiction episode presents The Sultan’s Vetala by Priya Sridhar, 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)

  3. Oct 17

    Why is Intersexuality Relevant to the History of Lesbianism? - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 354

    Why is Intersexuality Relevant to the History of Lesbianism? The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 354 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: Historic understandings of intersexuality The intertwined models of sex, gender, and sexual preference How avoiding homosexuality drove approaches to intersex sex assignment This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Intersex A list of references can be found in the transcript 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)

  4. Oct 3

    On the Shelf for October 2026 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 353

    On the Shelf for October 2026 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 353 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: Summer book selling Spin-off projects from the blog An interesting new publisher: Lavender Octavo Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog DeVun, Leah. 2020. The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-2311-9551-5 Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction The Price of Treason by Corinne Astier Staying Above the Snakes (Wild Hearts on the Western Frontier #2) by Carmilla Deane Flora: My Heart Will Pay the Price (Motherline Saga #2) by Amber L. Ricketts A Divine Comeback by David Imper A Companion for Miss Ledbury (Fallowmere Novels #2) by Verity Fairbanks A Fortune for Miss Pomfret (Fallowmere Novels #3) by Verity Fairbanks Finding Each Other by Faithe Stephens Finding Freedom by Maggi Petton What a Lady Wants by Viola Velarossi Hidden Hearts (Fugitive Hearts #1) by Margaret Fridley The Corrected Heading by William Ferrier Jr. The Riveter's Heart by Koda James The Stolen Women by Alysandra Dutton Of Her Blood by Rozina Hyland Beau Scamp by C. M. Harris Kitty (The Bennet Sisters #1) by T.J. Ryan Raven by Lyndsay Faye Where Ashes Bury Her (The Women of Sapphire #1) by L. Creeke Rottenheart by Kat Dunn My Darling Girls by Marina Scott The Translator by Annabelle Marx Unspeakable Things by Elizabeth Hand Venus, Vanishing by Rebecca Birrell The Housekeeper by Rose Tremain Angel on Fire by Annette Pritchard Upstate by Kim van Alkemade All's Fair in Love and Duty by Sarah Jacklin & Phoebe Rose Other Titles of Interest The Soldaderas by Sofia Guadarrama Collado Death by Misadenture by Jane Bitomsky Beneath the Stone by Haven Reyes Last Minute Addition Ochre, Quarta, or Ivy by Jeannelle M. Ferreira What I’ve been consuming The Regency Switch by Helen Gaskell A Lady's Guide to Scandal by Sophie Irwin 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/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)

  5. Sep 19

    Is Your Sapphic Protagonist Worried About the Wrong Things? - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 352

    Is Your Sapphic Protagonist Worried About the Wrong Things? The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 352 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: How to make the conflicts in a sapphic historical romance more realistic 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)

  6. Sep 6

    On the Shelf for September 2026- The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 351

    On the Shelf for September 2026 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 351 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: My non-fiction book The Theory of Related-ivity: A History and Analysis of the Best Related Work Hugo Category Resources for the Anthropic class action settlement Authors Guild explainer Writer Beware resource page Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction The Copper Line (Still Sisters #1) by Gabi Prevot The Bitter Cut (Still Sisters #2) by Gabi Prevot The First Tin (Still Sisters #0.1) by Gabi Prevot The Yard Light (Still Sisters #0.2) by Gabi Prevot The End Crowns All by Bea Fitzgerald Locusta by Emily Dexter Sweet Mother, I Cannot Weave by T.D. Cloud Empress, Goddess by Morgan H. Owen My Betterhalf: A Novel of the Ladies of Llangollen by Genevieve Sinclair A Study in Silence by Elizabeth Louise A Match for Lady Adelaide by Verity Fairbanks Time Never Waits (Chathom Chronicles # 1) by Samantha Calcott & Melinda Lauer Her Lady's Companion by Odette Valehart The Crooked Medium's Guide to Terror (Crooked Medium #2) by Stephen Cox A Ruin of Roses by Corinne Astier The Last Telegram of Mrs Hudson by Mattea Orr A Deadly Entanglement (Harriman & Mancini Mystery #2) by Cathy Pegau The Borderless Sky by Kim Kirkley The Marigold Room by Josephine Bray You Made Me Love You by K D Jensen The Quiet Fields by Zinnia Bradley Other Books of Interest Crazy Woman (The Crazy Woman #1) by K'Anne Meinel Women of Adventure (The Crazy Woman #2) by K'Anne Meinel Hearts on the Table by Susan Metallo What I’ve been consuming How to Fake it in Society by K.J. Charles The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz A Murderous Business by Cathy Pegau Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher 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/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)

  7. Aug 29

    Love for Love’s Sake by Shannon Lippert - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 350

    Love for Love’s Sake by Shannon Lippert The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 350 with Heather Rose Jones This quarter’s fiction episode presents Love for Love’s Sake by Shannon Lippert, 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) Links to Shannon Lippert Online Website: shannonlippert.wordpress.com Bluesky: @shannonxl.bsky.social

  8. Aug 15

    On the Shelf for August 2026 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 349

    On the Shelf for August 2026 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 349 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: A brief recap of the podcast’s history. Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog Roulston, Chris & Caroline Gonda, eds. 2023. Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to ‘Gentleman Jack’ . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781009280723 Blumreich, Kathleen M. “Lesbian Desire in the Old French Roman de Silence,” in Arthuriana 7:2 (1997): 47-62. Paton, Lucy Allen. 1907. “The Story of Grisandole: A Study in the Legend of Merlin” in PMLA vol. 22, no. 2. pp.234-276. Schleiner, Winfried. 1992. “Le feu caché: Homosocial Bonds Between Women in a Renaissance Romance” in Renaissance Quarterly 45: 293-311. Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction Bodhi and Gwen by Del Robertson The Education of Miss Pryce by Hannah Briar The Language of Flowers (Lavender Society #1) by Hannah Briar The Lost Brontë by Catherine Friend Going Down at the Point by Kimberlee Jarrett Wilson The Harrow Home for Wayward Girls by Jessica Spotswood The Keeper's Light (Edge of the World #1) by Margaret Fridley The Tailor's Treasure by Alison McKenzie The Haunting of Avis Lovelock by M.K. Hardy Call for submissions for the 2026 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/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 show about queer women in history and historic literature, plus coverage of the field of sapphic historical fiction. Content note: May include discussions of sex within an academic context.

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