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On the Shelf for June 2023 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 260 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• Pride Month and book discoverability
• What I did on my summer vacation
• Yes, there will be a 2024 fiction series
• Book Shopping
  • Koch, Bea. 2020. Mad & Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency. Grand Central Publishing, New York. ISBN 978-1-5387-0101-0
  • Straubhaar, Sandra Ballif. 2011. Old Norse Women's Poetry: The Voices of Female Skalds. D.S. Brewer, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-84384-271-2
  • Allen-Goss, Lucy M. 2020. Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance. D.S. Brewer, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-84384-679-6
  • Liddington, Jill. 2023. As Good as a Marriage: The Anne Lister Diaries 1836-38. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 978-1-5261-5735-5
  • Kahf, Mohja. 1999. Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque. University of Texas Press, Austin. ISBN 978-0-292-74337-3
• New and forthcoming fiction
  • Twelve Nights with Viola & Olivia (The New Countess: A Story of Sexy 16th Century Sapphists of Shakespeare) (Book 1 of 2: The New Countess: A Story of Sexy 16th Century Sapphists of Shakespeare ) by by Lady Vanessa S.-G. (Author), Hannah Miyamoto (Editor)
  • If I Should Tell my History (The New Countess: A Story of Sexy 16th Century Sapphists of Shakespeare) (Book 2 of 2: The New Countess: A Story of Sexy 16th Century Sapphists of Shakespeare ) by by Lady Vanessa S.-G. (Author), Hannah Miyamoto (Editor)
  • Sicili and the Penniless Lad by Rachel C. Neale
  • Do Unto Others by Geonn Cannon
  • Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall
  • Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens
  • Killingly by Katharine Beutner
  • The First Bright Thing by J.R. Dawson
  • The Gulf by Rachel Cochran
  • Just One Dance (The Regency Romance Club #1) by Jenny Frame
• What am I reading?
  • The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
  • The Murder of Mr Wickham by Claudia Gray
  • The Late Mrs Willoughby by Claudia Gray
  • The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
  • The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher
  • Ruby Finley vs the Interstellar Invasion by Tempest Bradford
  • Harriet the Invincible (Hamster Princess #1) by Ursula Vernon
  • The Bluestocking Beds Her Bride by Fenna Edgewood
  • An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: htt