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On the Shelf for April 2021 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode #198 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• Online party for Episode 200!
• Thinking about objectification in lesbian fiction
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Binhammer, Katherine. 2003. "The 'Singular Propensity' of Sensibility's Extremities: Female Same-Sex Desire and the Eroticization of Pain in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Culture" in GLQ 9:4, 471-498.
  • Diggs, Marylynne. 1995. “Romantic Friends or a ‘Different Race of Creatures’? The Representation of Lesbian Pathology in Nineteenth-Century America” in Feminist Studies 21, no. 2: 1-24.
  • Nord, Deborah Epstein. 1990. "'Neither Pairs nor Odd': Female Community in Late Nineteenth-Century London" in Signs vol. 15, no. 4 733-754.
  • McLaughlin, Mary Martin. 1989. "Creating and Recreating Communities of Women: The Case of Corpus Domini, Ferrara, 1406-1452" in Signs vol. 14, no. 2 293-320.
  • Wojczuk, Tana. 2020. Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity. Avid Reader Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-5011-9952-3
  • Vicente, Marta V. 2017. Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-81421-8
• New and forthcoming fiction
  • In the Footsteps of Anne Lister (Volume 1): Travels of a remarkable English gentlewoman in France, Germany and Denmark in 1833 by Adeline Lim
  • For the Love of Many by Vivian Dunn
  • The Woman in the Coffin by Nathan Long
  • The Reserved Doctor by Stein Willard
  • Like the Down of a Thistle by Sarah Swan
  • Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore
  • Diamonds & Pearls: A Lesbian Historical Romance (Gilded Lily 3) by Vesper St. Clair
  • Für ihr Land by Helmi Schausberger
  • Poison Priestess (Lady Slayers #2) by Lana Popovi?
  • The Other Side of Magic by Ester Manzini
  • Dr. Todson's Home for Incorrigible Women by Riley LaShea
• This month we interview Rose Lerner and talk about:
  • The Wife in the Attic by Rose Lerner
  • Queer themes in gothic novels
  • Adapting a story of an Audible original
  • A digression about haunted Zoom meetings
  • A sequel to The Wife in the Attic
  • Recommended works: