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On the Shelf for March 2022 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 224 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• The 2022 fiction line-up
• What I look for when buying fiction
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Fisher, Will. 2013. “The Erotics of Chin Chucking in Seventeenth-Century England” in Sex Before Sex: Figuring the Act in Early Modern England. ed. James M. Bromley and Will Stockton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-8076-4 pp.141-69
  • Ballaster, Ros "`The Vices of Old Rome Revived': Representations of Female Same-Sex Desire in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England", in Suzanne Raitt (ed.), Volcanoes and Pearl-Divers: Lesbian Feminist Studies. Onlywomen, 1993.
  • Frangos, Jennifer. 2009 “The Woman in Man’s Clothes and the Pleasures of Delarivier Manley’s ‘New Cabal’” in Sexual Perversions, 1670–1890, ed. by Julie Peakman. Palgrave Macmillan, London. ISBN 978-1-349-36397-1 pp.95-116
  • Barker, Jessica. 2020. Stone Fidelity: Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture. The Boydel Press, Woodbridge. ISBN 978-1-78327-271-6, pp.79-88
  • Wilson, Jean. 1995. “Two names of friendship, but one Starre: Memorials to Single-Sex Couples in the Early Modern Period” in Church Monuments: Journal of the Church Monuments Society 10:70-83
  • Frye, Susan & Karen Robertson (eds.). 1999. Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women’s Alliances in Early Modern England. Oxford University Press, New York & Oxford.
• New and forthcoming fiction
  • Queen and Bandit by Geonn Cannon
  • Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix (Remixed Classics #3) by Aminah Mae Safi
  • Daughters of the Deer by Danielle Daniel
  • One for All by Lillie Lainoff
  • Her Duchess to Desire by Jane Walsh
  • A Lady's Finder (When the Blood is Up #3) by Edie Cay
  • Wild and Wicked Things by Francesca May
  • The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin by Kip Wilson
  • The Ribbon Leaf by Lori Weber
  • Into the Underwood: Maiden by J.L. Robertson
• What I’m reading:
  • The Odyssyey translated by Emily Wilson (audiobook)
  • ”Of Charms, Ghosts, and Grievances” by Aliette de Bodard (no f/f content)
  • The Phoenix Empress by K. Arsenault Rivera (audiobook)
  • The Company Daughters by Samantha Rajaram

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

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://al