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

In this episode we talk about:

• Your host’s travels in August
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Brown, Pamela Allen & Peter Parolin (eds). 2005. Women Players in England, 1500-1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage. Ashgate, Burlington. ISBN 978-0-7546-0953-7
  • Grist, Elizabeth Rosalind. 2001. The Salon and the Stage: Women and Theatre in Seventeenth-century France. Dissertation.
  • Shapiro, Michael. 1994. Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages. Ann Arbor. (Chapter 1: A Brief Social History of Female Cross-Dressing)
  • Tomlinson, Sophie. 2009. Women on Stage in Stuart Drama. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-0-521-81111-8
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Murder by Multiples (Meredith and Alec Thatch Mystery #1) by Rachel Ford
  • Murder by Rote (Meredith and Alec Thatch Mystery #2) by Rachel Ford
  • Shadow of the Moon by T. Lona
  • The Palace of Eros by Caro De Robertis
  • Teleios: Flaw, is Perfect by Asvoria K.
  • Craze by Margaret Vandenburg
  • Not for the Faint of Heart by Lex Croucher
• Other Titles of Interest
  • Accidental Darlings by Crystal Jeans
• What I’ve been consuming
  • A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence by Jess Everlee
  • The Perils of Lady Catherine De Bourgh by Claudia Gray
  • Unfit to Print by K.J. Charles
• This month we interview Melissa Addey and talk about:
  • Her several historical fiction series
  • Her sapphic historical romance set in 18th c China
  • Balancing research and invention
  • Sign up for Melissa’s readers’ group to get a free copy of The Consorts

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/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
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• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Links to Melissa Addey Online

• Website: MelissaAddey.com