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

2025-06-08

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 blog Bronski, Michael. 2012. A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History). Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0807044650 Rouse, Wendy L. 2022. Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. New York: NYU Press. ISBN 9781479813940 Boag, Peter. 2011.

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 blog
- Bronski, Michael. 2012. A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History). Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0807044650
- Rouse, Wendy L. 2022. Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. New York: NYU Press. ISBN 9781479813940
- Boag, Peter. 2011. Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-27062-6
- Boag, 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: 322-339
- Brown, 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 Fiction
- An American in Paris by Margaret Vandenburg
- Whispers of Love Beneath the Hidden Manor by Aiyo Sa
- The Ladies by Caitlin Crowe
- The Eye of the Water: Between Creek and Roots by Stephanie Hager-Lyons
- A Soft Place to Land by Kelsey Kranz
- Lady's Knight by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
- Six Wild Crowns by Holly Race
- Daughter of Doom by Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem
- A Rare Find by Joanna Lowell
- Murder by Proxy (Meredith and Alex Thatch Mystery #3) by Rachel Ford
- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
Other Titles of Interest
- Damsels and Dinosaurs by Wren Jones
- By Her Sword: A Sapphic Fantasy Romance Anthology (Sunset Wave Sapphic Anthologies #2) edited by Erin Branch
What I’ve been consuming
- Inventing 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 binary
- How her previous books connect together
- Actor Charlotte Charke as an inspiration for the character of Georgie
- Theater as a place for queer themes
- Avoiding being locked into incorrect historical tropes
- How the novels of Alexis Hall and Sarah Waters work differently with gender
- The difficulty of getting away from modern identity categories
- Books Joanna has recently enjoyed:
  - A Gentleman’s Gentleman by T.J. Alexander
  - Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti