This quarter’s fiction episode presents The Sultan’s Vetala by Priya Sridhar, narrated by Heather Rose Jones.

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

In this episode we talk about:

• Historic understandings of intersexuality
• The intertwined models of sex, gender, and sexual preference
• How avoiding homosexuality drove approaches to intersex sex assignment
• This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Intersex
• A list of references can be found in the transcript

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

In this episode we talk about:

• How to make the conflicts in a sapphic historical romance more realistic

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

This quarter’s fiction episode presents Love for Love’s Sake by Shannon Lippert, narrated by Heather Rose Jones.

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Links to Shannon Lippert Online

• Website: shannonlippert.wordpress.com
• Bluesky: @shannonxl.bsky.social

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

In this episode we talk about:

• A brief recap of the podcast’s history.
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Roulston, Chris & Caroline Gonda, eds. 2023. Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to ‘Gentleman Jack’ . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781009280723
  • Blumreich, Kathleen M. “Lesbian Desire in the Old French Roman de Silence,” in Arthuriana 7:2 (1997): 47-62.
  • Paton, Lucy Allen. 1907. “The Story of Grisandole: A Study in the Legend of Merlin” in PMLA vol. 22, no. 2. pp.234-276.
  • Schleiner, Winfried. 1992. “Le feu caché: Homosocial Bonds Between Women in a Renaissance Romance” in Renaissance Quarterly 45: 293-311.
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Bodhi and Gwen by Del Robertson
  • The Education of Miss Pryce by Hannah Briar
  • The Language of Flowers (Lavender Society #1) by Hannah Briar
  • The Lost Brontë by Catherine Friend
  • Going Down at the Point by Kimberlee Jarrett Wilson
  • The Harrow Home for Wayward Girls by Jessica Spotswood
  • The Keeper's Light (Edge of the World #1) by Margaret Fridley
  • The Tailor's Treasure by Alison McKenzie
  • The Haunting of Avis Lovelock by M.K. Hardy
• Call for submissions for the 2026 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.

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

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

An interview with Professor Linda Garber about her research into lesbian historical fiction.

Books and Media Mentioned

• Garber, Linda. 2022. Novel Approaches to Lesbian History. Palgrave. ISBN 978-3030854164
• Cruikshank, M. (ed) 1982. Lesbian Studies: Present and Future. The Feminist Press at CUNY. ISBN 978-0935312072
• Garber, Linda. 2001. Identity Poetics: Race, Class and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory. Columbia University Press.
• Schwartz, Selby Wynn. After Sappho. (novel)
• Keen, Suzanne. 2003 Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0802086846 (credit for the phrase “romance of the archives” which I’ve been misattributing)
• Martinac, Paula. Out of Time. (novel)
• Davies, Stevie. Impassioned Clay. (novel)
• Friend, Catherine. The Spanish Pearl. (novel)
• Dickinson (tv series)
• Gentleman Jack (tv series)
• Arnold, June Davis. The Cook and the Carpenter. (novel)
• Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present. William Morrow and Company, Inc. ISBN 0-688-00396-6
• Hall, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness. (novel)
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire (movie)
• The Favourite (movie)
• Ammonite (movie)
• Saturday Night Live “Lesbian Period Drama” (sketch on YouTube)
• Desert of the Heart (movie) based on Jane Rule’s Desert Hearts
• A Knight’s Tale (movie)
• Giffney, Noreen, Michelle M. Sauer & Diane Watt (eds). 2011. The Lesbian Premodern. Palgrave. ISBN 978-0-230-61676-9
• The Belle of Amherst (movie)
• Gomez, Jewelle. The Gilda Stories. (novel)
• Giddings, Megan. The Women Could Fly (novel)
• Korn, Gabrielle. Yours for the Taking (novel)
• Pérez, Emma. Forgetting the Alamo, or, Blood Memory (novel
• McCollum, Hilary. As a Lover (novel)
• McCollum, Hilary. Golddigger (novel)
• Gagehabib, LaVerne. The Blacksmith and the Doctor (novel)
• Winterson, Jeanette. The Passion (novel)

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

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Links to Linda Garber Online

• Website: academic website