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

In this episode we talk about:

• Submissions for the 2025 fiction series are closed and results will be announced shortly
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Turton, Stephen. 2022. “The Lexicographical Lesbian: Remaking the Body in Anne Lister’s Erotic Glossary” in The Review of English Studies, vol. 73, no. 310: 537-551.
  • Braunschneider, Theresa. 1999. “The Macroclitoride, the Tribade, and the Woman: Configuring Gender and Sexuality in English Anatomical Discourse” in Textual Practice 13, no. 3: 509-32.
  • Stanton, Domna C. 1986. The Defiant Muse: French Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present. The Feminist Press ISBN 0-935312-52-8
  • Donoghue, Emma. 1997. Poems Between Women: Four centuries of love, romantic friendship, and desire. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-231-10925-3
  • Burger, Glenn & Steven F. Kruger eds. 2001. Queering the Middle Ages. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-81669-3404-1
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Distant Thunder by Peggy J. Herring
  • Minas (Dying Gods #4) by Elisha Kemp
  • Benefactor to the Baroness by Melissa Kendall
  • Mutual Interest by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
  • Payback by Penny Mickelbury
  • Hungerstone by Kat Dunn
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Murder in an English Village by Jessica Ellicott
  • A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
  • All the Painted Stars by Emma Denny

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