On the Shelf for May 2026 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 341

On the Shelf for May 2026 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 341 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• Say hi at GCLS
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Traub, Valerie. 1996. “The Perversion of ‘Lesbian’ Desire” in History Workshop Journal 41:19-49.
  • Goode, Dawn M. 2008. “Dueling Discourses: The Erotics of Female Friendship in Mary Pix’s ‘Queen Catharine.’” in Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 37–60.
  • McClain, Molly. 2008. “Love, Friendship, and Power: Queen Mary II's Letters to Frances Apsley” in Journal of British Studies, Vol. 47, No. 3: 505-527
  • Hitchcock, Tim. 1996. “Redefining Sex in Eighteenth-Century England” in History Workshop Journal, No. 41: 72-90
  • Roulston, Christine. 1998. “Separating the Inseparables: Female Friendship and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century France.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 215–31.
• Book Shopping
  • Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • The Beheading Game by Rebecca Lehmann
  • Consider This My Witness by Madeline Klein
  • Beneath the Quiet Valley (Quiet Valley #1) by Eleanor Foster
  • Beneath the Quiet Valley: Two Lives (Quiet Valley #2) by Eleanor Foster
  • The Water That Remembers (The Woman at the Well #1) by Jade Remintgon
  • The Weight of Staying (The Woman at the Well #2) by Jade Remintgon
  • The Courage to Remain (The Woman at the Well #3) by Jade Remintgon
  • The Mystery of the Bitten Peach by Cecilia Tan
  • Bone of my Bone by Johanna van Veen
  • Miss Woodhouse & Miss Fairfax by Maisie Jardelle
  • The Wives of Herrick Hall by Julie Lew
  • Her Runaway Lady by B.J. Sikes
  • For the Love of the Quest by Alexandra Ammon Parthun
  • The Summer I Met June by Mozie S
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Word by Word by Kory Stamper
  • True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color--from Azure to Zinc Pink by Kory Stamper
  • Murder at Sissingham Hall by Clara Benson
  • The Mystery at Underwood House by Clara Benson
• This month we interview Cecilia Tan and talk about:
  • The fun of genre mash-ups
  • Representing diaspora
  • The relationship of historic stories and time-travel stories
  • Founding SFF erotica publisher Circlet Press
  • Future projects and the joy of pantsing

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 Cecilia Tan Online

• Website: https://www.ceciliatan.com
• Instagram: @ctan_writer
• Bluesky: @ceciliatan.com