The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

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

In this episode we talk about:

• Call for submissions for the 2024 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.


• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  
  
  • Derry, Caroline. 2020. Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-35299-8
  
  
  • Hutchison, Emily & Sara McDougall. 2022. “Pardonable Sodomy: Uncovering Laurence’s Sin and Recovering the Range of the Possible” in Medieval People, vol. 37, pp. 115-146.
  
  
  • Derry, Caroline. 2022. “The ‘legal’ in socio-legal history: Woods and Pirie v. Cumming Gordon” in Journal of Law and Society 49:778-799.
  
  
  • Roelens, Jonas. 2015. “Visible Women: Female Sodomy in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Southern Netherlands (1400-1550)” in BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review vol. 130 no. 3.
  
  
  • Lee, L.J. 2024. “Sossang and Danji: 15th century Korean maidservants in love” published as part of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project at alpennia.com.
  
  
  
  



• A new resource for forthcoming sapphic/lesbian fiction
  
  
  • 2025 Sapphic Fiction compiled by @lavendersbook
  
  
  
  



• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  
  
  • The Lady and the Maid by Paul Jackson
  
  
  • The Potent Solution by Ashley Nova
  
  
  • The Long Winter of Mi?gar?r (Tales from Norvegr) by Edale Lane
  
  
  • Female Sharpshooter in the Civil War by Kenneth Alder
  
  
  • Victory, Virus, Votes: 1917-1920 (Deborah and Miriam's Boston Marriage #4) by Ellen M. Levy
  
  
  • Beyond the Boundaries of Time by Hazel Bennett
  
  
  • The Case of the Missing Maid (Harriet Morrow Investigates #1) by Rob Osler
  
  
  • Speak EZ by Elle E. Ire
  
  
  • Clara, Darling by Chace Verity
  
  
  • Encrypted Hearts (A Women in War Historical Romance #3) by E.V. Bancroft
  
  
  • Unbroken by Kim Pritekel
  
  
  
  



• What I’ve been consuming
  
  
  • You're the Problem, It's You by Emma R. Alban
  
  
  • Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo
  
  
  • A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland
  
  
  • Harvest Season by Annick Trent
  
  
  
  

A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)

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