On the Shelf for August 2026 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 349

On the Shelf for August 2026

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 349 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

A brief recap of the podcast’s history.

Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog

Roulston, Chris & Caroline Gonda, eds. 2023. Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to ‘Gentleman Jack’ . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781009280723

Blumreich, Kathleen M. “Lesbian Desire in the Old French Roman de Silence,” in Arthuriana 7:2 (1997): 47-62.

Paton, Lucy Allen. 1907. “The Story of Grisandole: A Study in the Legend of Merlin” in PMLA vol. 22, no. 2. pp.234-276.

Schleiner, Winfried. 1992. “Le feu caché: Homosocial Bonds Between Women in a Renaissance Romance” in Renaissance Quarterly 45: 293-311.

Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction

Bodhi and Gwen by Del Robertson