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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
  • The Price of Lemon Cake (Kat Holloway #6.5) by Jennifer Ashley
  • The Illhenny Murders (The Mary Grey Mysteries #1) by Winnie Frolik
  • Death at Bayard Lodge (The Mary Grey Mysteries #2) by author
  • A Swing of the Axe (The Mary Grey Mysteries #3) by author
  • A Preposterous Alibi (Winslow & Fitzgerald Investigations Mystery #1) by author
  • An Unforeseen Motive (Winslow & Fitzgerald Investigations Mystery #2) by author
  • By Indelicate Means (Winslow & Fitzgerald Investigations Mystery #3) by author
  • Charlotte and Me by Carol Leyland
  • Anne Through Time: A Magical Bookshop Novel by Harmke Buursma
  • Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher
  • Mary's Grace by John Musgrove
  • My Christmas Gift to You: Forbidden Love (The Pride) by Julia C. Oliver
  • The Rossetti Diaries by author
• 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.

A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

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