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On the Shelf for April 2026 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 339 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• Exciting news about the next season of Bridgerton.
• The upcoming 10th anniversary
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Fielding, Henry. 1746. The Female Husband: or, the Surprising History of Mrs Mary, Alias Mr George Hamilton. Liverpool, M. Cooper.
  • Baker, S. 1959. “Henry Fielding’s The Female Husband: Fact and Fiction” in PMLA, 74 pp.213-24.
• Book Shopping
  • Kehoe, M. (ed). 1986. Historical, Literary and Erotic Aspects of Lesbianism. New York. ISBN 0-918393-21-3
  • Gilbert, Oscar Paul (trans. by J. Lewis May). 1932. Women in Men's Guise. The Bodley Head, London.
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Stand and Deliver by Ivy Warren
  • Romeo & Her Sister by Jillian Blevins
  • To Love a Boleyn by Joey Evangelista
  • Arguments Against the Cultivation of Female Curiosity (Curiosity #2) by Suzanne Moss
  • The Countess and the Cartographer by Lyra Ashwood
  • The Egyptologist's Curse by Georgina Kenyon
  • Love's Joy and Sorrow Between Women by Emilie Knopf
  • Counterpoint by Barbara Bergmann
  • Forever Yours, Nell by Andrea Ead
  • The Witch and the Huntress by Luna McNamara
  • A Whisper of Bells and Prayers by C.C. González
  • Scallywag! by K.L. Mitchell
  • The Unruly Heart of Miss Darcy by Erin Edwards
  • She Tamed the Lady by Judith Lynne
  • Flirting with Disaster by Kerrigan Byrne
  • As a Lover by Hilary McCollum
  • At Last It's You by Marianne Marston
• Other Titles of Interest
  • The Keyholder by S. Kallistos
  • A Lady for All Seasons by T J Alexander
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Queen Demon by Martha Wells
  • Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh/em> by Rachael Lippincott
  • Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate