The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

On the Shelf for January 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 304

On the Shelf for January 2025

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 304 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Turton, Stephen. 2024. Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary 1600-1930. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-316-51873-1
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Christmas At Caldwell House (The Caldwell Family #2) by Eden Hopewell
  • Bold Privateer (The Covert Captain prequel) by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
  • The Bawdy Suffragettes by Sapphic Shelley
  • Unspoken Verses by S.P. Blackthorn
  • A Traitorous Heart by Erin Cotter
  • Those Fatal Flowers by Shannon Ives
  • Seducing the Widow by Jane Walsh
  • Her Ladyship's Christmas Companion by Theresa Meiningen
  • The Songbird by Stacy Lynn Miller
• Other Titles of Interest
  • The Spirit Circle by Tara Calaby
• What I’ve been consuming
  • The Lotus Empire (Burning Kingdomes #3) by Tasha Suri
  • I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner
  • Masters in this Hall by K.J. Charles
  • Bold Privateer by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
  • A Ruse of Shadows (Lady Sherlock #8) by Sherry Thomas
  • The Duke’s Sister and I by Emma-Claire Sunday
  • A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
• Call for submissions for the 2025 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.

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
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• 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)

Interview with Margaret Vandenburg - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 303

Interview with Margaret Vandenburg

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 303 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• Too many things to list individually
• Books and people mentioned
  • Magnus Hirschfeld
  • Virginia Woolf - A Room of One’s Own
  • Margaret Vandenburg - An American in Paris
  • Djuna Barnes - Nightwood
  • Virginia Woolf - Orlando
  • Chappell Roan
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Emma Donoghue – The Pull of the Stars
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Michel Foucault - The History of Sexuality
  • Golden Crown Literary Society
  • Olivia Waite - Feminine Pursuits series

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
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• 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 Margaret Vandenburg Online

• Website: https://www.margaretvandenburg.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/margaretvandenburgwriter

On the Shelf for December 2024 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 302

On the Shelf for December 2024

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 302 with Heather Rose Jones

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.)

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• 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)

A Very Long Malaise by L.J. Lee - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 301

A Very Long Malaise by L.J. Lee

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 301 with Heather Rose Jones

This quarter’s fiction episode presents “A Very Long Malaise” by L.J. Lee, narrated by Bailey Wolfe.

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• 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 L.J. Lee Online

• Website: ljwrites.blog
• Mastodon: @ljwrites@writeout.ink

Links to Bailey Wolfe Online

• Website: bbwolfevox.com

Where I Have Been, Where I Will Go - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 300

Where I Have Been, Where I Will Go

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 300 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• A look back at what the Project has accomplished
• Plans for publishing a research sourcebook
• Outline of the sourcebook contents

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• 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)

On the Shelf for November 2024 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 299

On the Shelf for November 2024

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 299 with Heather Rose Jones

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
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Redway Acres: Grace by Trish Henry Green
  • Another Victorian Tale of Life and Love (Victorian Tales #2) by Nicole Kotoman
  • When Hearts are True by L.J. Corelli
  • The Lotus Empire (The Burning Kingdoms #3) by Tasha Suri
  • All the Painted Stars (14th Century Oxfordshire #2) by Emma Denny
  • Time and Tide by J.M. Frey
  • Monsoon Queen (The War Between Cedar and Oak #1) by Jo Carthage
  • A Pearl Enraptured by Andrea K. Stein
  • Outlaw Hearts by Lori G. Matthews
  • Timeless by Nicole Pyland
  • Taiwan Travelogue by Shuang-zi Yang (trans. Lin King)
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout, translated by Laura Watkinson
  • The Duke at Hazard by K. J. Charles
  • Craze by Margaret Vandenburg
  • The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
  • The Fire and the Place in the Forest by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
• A special book appreciation segmenton books set in the 1920s
  • Nghi Vo The Chosen and the Beautiful
  • Sarah Zane Beautiful Little Fool
  • Alyssa Linn Palmer Midnight at the Orpheus
  • Brandy T. Wilson The Palace Blues
  • Katharine Schellman Last Call at the Nightingale
  • Margaret Vandenburg Craze
  • Missouri Vaun Whiskey Sunrise
  • Stacy Lynn Miller Devil’s Slide
  • Anne Shade Masquerade
  • Ava Freeman The Sweetest Taboo
  • Nekesa Afla Dead Dead Girls
  • Kip Wilson The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin
  • April Yates Ashthorne
  • A.L. Lester The Fog of War
  • Charlotte Anne Hamilton Of Trust and Heart

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
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• 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)

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 15: Gender Disguise - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 298

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 15: Gender Disguise

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 298 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• My definition of gender-disguise plots
• The dynamics of gender disguise in m/f romance
• The dynamics and considerations of gender disguise in f/f romance
• Some considerations of gender disguise in m/m romance

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• 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)

On the Shelf for October 2024 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 297

On the Shelf for October 2024

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 297 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• Disaster fiction
• Announcing the 2025 fiction series and some milestones
• The challenge that large language models present to publishing
• Book Shopping
  • 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
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • A Victorian tale of life and love by Nicole Kotoman
  • My Beloved Viking by Victoria Valberg
  • The Legend of Pope Joan - Part 1: Frankia by author
  • The Legend of Pope Joan - Part 2: Athens by author
  • The Legend of Pope Joan - Part 3: Rome by author
  • Her Fair Lady by Catherine Stein
  • All Bets Off by Jaime Clevenger
  • Hearts in the Shadows by Zara Voss
  • Peril in Provence (The Mary Grey Mysteries #4) by Winnie Frolik
  • Gentlest of Wild Things by Sarah Underwood
  • Sor Juana, My Beloved: The Poetry, The Passion That Is Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz by MaryAnn Shank
  • The Greymere Cliffs: A gothic romance short story by Anne Knight
  • Strange Beasts by Susan J. Morris
  • Moonshine by Olivia Hampton
  • Her Last Secret by Renee Bess
  • Islands of Mice by Lucy Jacobs
  • The People Next Door by Anna Woiwood
• Other Titles of Interest
  • I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner
  • Women's Hotel by Daniel M. Lavery
• What I’ve been consuming
  • A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
  • A Liaison with Her Leading Lady by Lotte R. James
  • Netherford Hall by Natania Barron
  • How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
  • Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne
  • The First Rebellion by M.C. Beaton
  • Any Old Diamonds by K.J. Charles
  • Gilded Cage by K.J. Charles
  • Rag and Bone by K.J. Charles
  • Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton

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
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• 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)

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 14b: Actresses and the Stage - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 296

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 14b: Actresses and the Stage

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 296 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• Actresses as sexual outlaws
• Specific actresses known to have had same-sex romances

Bibliography

• Blanc, Olivier. 2001. “The ‘Italian Taste’ in the Time of Louis XVI, 1774-92” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
• Cheek, Pamela. 1998. "The 'Mémoires secrets' and the Actress: Tribadism, Performance, and Property", in Jeremy D. Popkin and Bernadette Fort (eds), The "Mémoires secrets" and the Culture of Publicity in Eighteenth-Century France, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation.
• Choquette, Leslie. 2001. “’Homosexuals in the City: Representations of Lesbian and Gay Space in Nineteenth-Century Paris” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
• Craft-Fairchild, Catherine. 2006. “Sexual and Textual Indeterminacy: Eighteenth-Century English Representations of Sapphism” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 15:3
• Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4
• Donoghue, Emma. 2010. “'Random Shafts of Malice?': The Outings of Anne Damer” in Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4
• Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-688-00396-6
• Gonda, Caroline. 2010. “The Odd Women: Charlotte Charke, Sarah Scott and the Metamorphoses of Sex” in Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4
• Katritzky, M.A. 2005. “Reading the Actress in Commedia Imagery” in Women Players in England, 1500-1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage, edited by Pamela Allen Brown & Peter Parolin. Ashgate, Burlington. ISBN 978-0-7546-0953-7
• Manion, Jen. 2020. Female Husbands: A Trans History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-48380-3
• Merrick, Jeffry. 1990. “Sexual Politics and Public Order in Late Eighteenth-Century France: the Mémoires secrets and the Correspondance secrete” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 1, 68-84.
• Merrill, Lisa. 2000. When Romeo was a Woman: Charlotte Cushman and her Circle of Female Spectators. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. ISBN 978-0-472-08749-5
• Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5
• Straub, Kristina. 1991. “The Guilty Pleasures of Female Theatrical Cross-Dressing and the Autobiography of Charlotte Charke” in Body guards : the cultural politics of gender ambiguity edited by Julia Epstein & Kristina Straub. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-90388-2
• Todd, Janet & Elizabeeth Spearing ed. 1994. Counterfeit Ladies: The Life and Death of Mary Frith Case of Mary Carleton. William Pickering, London. ISBN 1-85196-087-2
• Velasco, Sherry. 2000. The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire and Catalina de Erauso. University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-78746-4
• Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3
• Wahl, Elizabeth Susan. 1999. Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford University Press, Stanford. ISBN 0-8047-3650-2

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• 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)

On the Shelf for September 2024 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 295

On the Shelf for September 2024

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 295 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• What I did on my summer vacation
• Book Shopping
  • Liddington, Jill. 2010. Presenting the Past: Anne Lister of Halifax 1791-1840. Pennine Press, Hebden Bridge. ISBN 978-873378-02-1
  • Liddington, Jill. 2019. Nature's Domain: Anne Lister and the Landscape of Desire. Pennine Press, Hebden Bridge. ISBN 1-873378-48-9
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Chivalry in the Shadows by Meg Merriet Wahlberg
  • Generations by Madison Locke
  • Netherford Hall by Natania Barron
  • Between Feud and Treason by Francis Grash
  • The Pudding Lane Witch by A.W. Jackson
  • The Pirate's Willing Captive (Swain Cove #1) by Renee Dahlia
  • The Market Women of Diamond Square by Jan Ellen Kurth
  • Everything Glittered by Robin Talley
  • Beyond a World Apart by Caitlin E. Myers
  • The Dishonest Miss Take by Faye Murphy
  • The Duke's Sister and I by Emma-Claire Sunday
  • Frederica and the Viscountess by Barbara Davies
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Paladin's Faith (Saint of Steel #4) by T. Kingfisher
• This month we interview Natania Barron and talk about:
  • The historical and fantasy contributions to Netherford Hall
  • The structure of the series
  • Natania’s Arthurian series
  • Netherford Hall by Natania Barron
  • Queens of Fate (series)

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
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• 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 Natania Barron Online

• Website: NataniaBarron.com
• Bluesky: @natania.bsky.social
• Threads: @NataniaBarron
• TicTok: @NataniaBooks