On the Shelf for April 2021
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode #198 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
Online party for Episode 200!
Thinking about objectification in lesbian fiction
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogBinhammer, Katherine. 2003. "The 'Singular Propensity' of Sensibility's Extremities: Female Same-Sex Desire and the Eroticization of Pain in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Culture" in GLQ 9:4, 471-498.
Diggs, Marylynne. 1995. “Romantic Friends or a ‘Different Race of Creatures’? The Representation of Lesbian Pathology in Nineteenth-Century America” in Feminist Studies 21, no. 2: 1-24.
Nord, Deborah Epstein. 1990. "'Neither Pairs nor Odd': Female Community in Late Nineteenth-Century London" in Signs vol. 15, no. 4 733-754.
McLaughlin, Mary Martin. 1989. "Creating and Recreating Communities of Women: The Case of Corpus Domini, Ferrara, 1406-1452" in Signs vol. 14, no. 2 293-320.
Wojczuk, Tana. 2020. Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity. Avid Reader Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-5011-9952-3
Vicente, Marta V. 2017. Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-81421-8
New and forthcoming fictionIn the Footsteps of Anne Lister (Volume 1): Travels of a remarkable English gentlewoman in France, Germany and Denmark in 1833 by Adeline Lim
For the Love of Many by Vivian Dunn
The Woman in the Coffin by Nathan Long
The Reserved Doctor by Stein Willard
Like the Down of a Thistle by Sarah Swan
Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore
Diamonds & Pearls: A Lesbian Historical Romance (Gilded Lily 3) by Vesper St. Clair
Für ihr Land by Helmi Schausberger
Poison Priestess (Lady Slayers #2) by Lana Popovi?
The Other Side of Magic by Ester Manzini
Dr. Todson's Home for Incorrigible Women by Riley LaShea
This month we interview Rose Lerner and talk about:The Wife in the Attic by Rose Lerner
Queer themes in gothic novels
Adapting a story of an Audible original
A digression about haunted Zoom meetings
A sequel to The Wife in the Attic
Recommended works:The Duke Heist by Erica Ridley (m/f Regency)
The Mandalorian (tv series)
Bodies of Evidence: Medicine and the Politics of the English Inquest, 1830-1926 by Ian Burney (non-fiction)
A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)
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