Episode Details

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
  • Turton, Stephen. 2024. Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary 1600-1930. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-316-51873-1
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Christmas At Caldwell House (The Caldwell Family #2) by Eden Hopewell
  • Bold Privateer (The Covert Captain prequel) by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
  • The Bawdy Suffragettes by Sapphic Shelley
  • Unspoken Verses by S.P. Blackthorn
  • A Traitorous Heart by Erin Cotter
  • Those Fatal Flowers by Shannon Ives
  • Seducing the Widow by Jane Walsh
  • Her Ladyship's Christmas Companion by Theresa Meiningen
  • The Songbird by Stacy Lynn Miller
• Other Titles of Interest
  • The Spirit Circle by Tara Calaby
• What I’ve been consuming
  • The Lotus Empire (Burning Kingdomes #3) by Tasha Suri
  • I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner
  • Masters in this Hall by K.J. Charles
  • Bold Privateer by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
  • A Ruse of Shadows (Lady Sherlock #8) by Sherry Thomas
  • The Duke’s Sister and I by Emma-Claire Sunday
  • A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
• Call for submissions for the 2025 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.

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

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