On the Shelf for June 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 316

On the Shelf for June 2025 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 316 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogBronski, Michael. 2012. A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History). Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0807044650Rouse, Wendy L. 2022. Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. New York: NYU Press. ISBN 9781479813940Boag, Peter. 2011. Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-27062-6Boag, Peter. 2011. “The Trouble with Cross-Dressers: Researching and Writing the History of Sexual and Gender Transgressiveness in the Nineteenth-Century American West” in Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 112, No. 3: 322-339Brown, Judith, C. 1986. Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-504225-5 Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionAn American in Paris by Margaret VandenburgWhispers of Love Beneath the Hidden Manor by Aiyo SaThe Ladies by Caitlin CroweThe Eye of the Water: Between Creek and Roots by Stephanie Hager-LyonsA Soft Place to Land by Kelsey KranzLady's Knight by Amie Kaufman & Meagan SpoonerSix Wild Crowns by Holly RaceDaughter of Doom by Jean-Claude van RijckeghemA Rare Find by Joanna LowellMurder by Proxy (Meredith and Alex Thatch Mystery #3) by Rachel FordBury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab Other Titles of InterestDamsels and Dinosaurs by Wren JonesBy Her Sword: A Sapphic Fantasy Romance Anthology (Sunset Wave Sapphic Anthologies #2) edited by Erin Branch What I’ve been consumingInventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer This month we interview Joanna Lowell and talk about:Working with historical language and issues around characters who don’t fall neatly in the gender binaryHow her previous books connect togetherActor Charlotte Charke as an inspiration for the character of GeorgieTheater as a place for queer themesAvoiding being locked into incorrect historical tropesHow the novels of Alexis Hall and Sarah Waters work differently with genderThe difficulty of getting away from modern identity categoriesBooks Joanna has recently enjoyed:A Gentleman’s Gentleman by T.J. Alexander Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti 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/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon Links to Heather Online Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[e-mail]: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page) Links to Joanna Lowell Online Website: https://www.joannalowell.com/Instagram: @joannalowellauthor