On the Shelf for January 2023
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 248 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- A summary of what the podcast and blog have covered this year
- Upcoming BBC series with a sapphic take on Marie Antoinette
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Moore, Lisa. 1997. Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel. Duke University Press, Durham, 1997. ISBN 0-8223-2049-5
- New and forthcoming fiction
- A Rose Blooms at Golden Fork by Rachel Anderson
- Just Wide Enough for Two by Kacey M. Martin
- Rachel Kelly And The Vigilantes (Rachel Kelly in Oregon County # 1) by Pamela Cabot
- Unchain My Heart: A Fantasy Lesbian Romance in Classical Greece (Bonds of Fate #1) by R.J. Martin
- Sixpenny Octavo by Annick Trent
- Vanilla Kisses (Diary of an Obstinate, Headstrong Female #1) by C.C. Burns
- Appetence (Diary of an Obstinate, Headstrong Female #2) by C.C. Burns
- Midwinter (Diary of an Obstinate, Headstrong Female #3) by C.C. Burns
- Hen Fever by author
- White Star: A lesbian Gilded Age romance set on the Titanic by Laura Jelenkovich
- The Demon Gospel (Hidden Gods #2) by Ariel Dalziel
- Her Enticing Muse (Ladylike Inclinations #3) by Violet Cowper
- Forever's Promise by Missouri Vaun
- The Ashes of the Brothel: Betrayal in the Wickedest Little Town in the West by Katryna Lalock
- After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
- In the Shadow of Truth (Shadow Series 3) by J.E. Leak
- What I’ve been consuming
- The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin
- The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones
- Reader, I Murdered Him by Betsy Cornwell
- Call for submissions for the 2023 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
- This month we interview Jennifer Nestojko and talk about:
- The inspirations for “From the Bird’s Nest”
- The joys of epistolary stories
- Writing disabilities in a historic context
- Being a writer and a teacher
- Ideas for an Anglo-Saxon setting and playing around with Beowulf
- Books and authors mentioned:
- Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
- Emily Dickinson
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Work by Louisa May Alcott
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Re: Beowulf-related novels: