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

In this episode we talk about:

• Book Shopping
  • Norman, Ben. 2023. Pomp and Piety: Everyday Life of the Aristocracy in Stuart England. Amberley Publishing. ISBN 978-1-3981-1017-5
  • Southon, Emma. 2023. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire. New York: Abrams Press. ISBN 978-1-4197-6018-1
  • Turton, Stephen. 2024. Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600-1930. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1-31651873-1
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Lighthouse Keeper by Eliza Lentzski
  • Eine Lady für die Diebin (Lovers and Liaisons) by Dani Collins (trans: Emma Schwarz)
  • A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland
  • Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis
• Other Titles of Interest
  • Teach the Children to Pray by Rebecca Harwick
  • Grey Dog by Elliott Gish
  • The Final Curse of Ophelia Gray by Christine Calella
• What I’ve been consuming
  • A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard
  • Starter Villain by John Scalzi

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

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