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On the Shelf for March 2025 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 308 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• The 2025 fiction line-up
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Blackmore, Josiah and Gregory S. Hutcheson. 1999. “Introduction” in Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance ed. Josiah Blackmore and Gregory S. Hutcheson. Duke University Press, Durham. ISBN 9780822323495
  • Blackmore, Josiah. 1999. “The Poets of Sodom” in Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance ed. Josiah Blackmore and Gregory S. Hutcheson. Duke University Press, Durham. ISBN 9780822323495
  • Gerli, E. Michael. 1999. “Dismembering the Body Politic: Vile Bodies and Sexual Underworlds in Celestina” in Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance ed. Josiah Blackmore and Gregory S. Hutcheson. Duke University Press, Durham. ISBN 9780822323495
  • Perry, Mary Elizabeth. 1999. “From Convent to Battlefield: Cross-Dressing and Gendering the Self in the New World of Imperial Spain” in Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance ed. Josiah Blackmore and Gregory S. Hutcheson. Duke University Press, Durham. ISBN 9780822323495
  • Burshatin, Israel. 1999. “Written on the Body: Slave or Hermaphrodite in Sixteenth-Century Spain” in Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance ed. Josiah Blackmore and Gregory S. Hutcheson. Duke University Press, Durham. ISBN 9780822323495
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Canvas of Desire by Pippa Farthingale
  • My Heart On Your Sleeve by April Klasen
  • Petals and Pages by T. Albright
  • The Art of Unmaking by Parker Lennox
  • The Smith by Marine St. Jean
  • Love and Rebellion (Forbidden Whispers #1) by Ericka Schmidt
  • The Witch of Versailles by Jessica Mason
  • The Other March Sisters by Linda Epstein, Ally Malinenko, Liz Parker
  • Under the Same Stars by Libba Bray
  • Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna Van Veen
  • Bitter winds (Lesbian Pirates #1) by Marina Tempest
  • Cursed Scar (Lesbian Pirates #2) by Marina Tempest
  • The Duchess's Companion (Roses & Rebellion #1) by V.C. Sterling
  • A Lady's Reckoning (Roses & Rebellion #2) by V.C. Sterling