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A show about queer women in history and historic literature, plus coverage of the field of sapphic historical fiction. Content note: May include discussions of sex within an academic context.
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Saturday May 20, 2023
Saturday May 20, 2023
Interview with Jill Liddington
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 259 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- The social and economic landscape of Anne Lister’s life
- The dynamics of Lister’s “marriage” to Ann Walker
- The history of the diaries and their amazing legacy
- Jill Liddington’s books about Anne Lister
- Presenting The Past: Anne Lister Of Halifax, 1791–1840, Pennines Pens, 1994.
- Female Fortune: Land, Gender and Authority: The Anne Lister Diaries and Other writings, 1833–36, Manchester University Press (original edition: Rivers Oram Press, 1998).
- Nature's Domain: Anne Lister and the Landscape of Desire, Pennine Pens, 2019.
- As Good as a Marriage: The Anne Lister Diaries 1836-38, Manchester University Press, 2023.
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Anne Lister
A transcript of this podcast will be available here when transcribed.
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Jill Liddington Online
Saturday May 06, 2023
Saturday May 06, 2023
On the Shelf for May 2023
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 258 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Teaser for a potential upcoming guest
- Recent book shopping
- Boag, Peter. 2011. Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-27062-6
- Bullough, Vern L. & Bonnie Bullough. 1993. Crossdressing, Sex, and Gender. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 0-8122-1431-5
- New and forthcoming fiction
- A Wound Like Lapis Lazuli by Melody Wiklund
- The Disenchantment by Celia Bell
- The Accidental Bride (The Spinsters of Inverley #1) by Jane Walsh
- A Long Time Dead by Samara Breger
- They Ain't Proper by M.B. Guel
- An Island Princess Starts a Scandal (Las Leonas #2) by Adriana Herrera
- House of Longing by Tara Calaby
- Showing Mercy by Kim Pritekel
- What I’ve been consuming
- This month we interview Catherine Lundoff and talk about:
- ”The Letter of Marque” on Catherine’s Patreon
- The Four Musketeers: The True Story of D'Artagnan, Porthos, Aramis & Athos by Kari L. Maund (aka Kari Sperring) and Phil Nanson
- The Secret Life of Aphra Behn by Janet Todd
- ”Born with Teeth” by Liz Duffy Adams (play about Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare)
- The historic Jacquotte de la Haye
- The historic inspirations for the series
- Media mentioned:
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Catherine Lundoff Online
- Website: catherinelundoff.net
- Website: queenofswordspress.com/
- Mastodon: @Clundoff@wandering.shop
- Twitter: @clundoff
- Facebook: Clundoff
Saturday Apr 29, 2023
Saturday Apr 29, 2023
The Pirate in the Mirror by Catherine Lundoff
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 257 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents “The Pirate in the Mirror” by Catherine Lundoff, narrated by Heather Rose Jones.
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Catherine Lundoff Online
- Website (Queen of Swords Press): https://queenofswordspress.com/
- Twitter: @clundoff
- Instagram (Queen of Swords Press): @qospress
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Clundoff
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 7: Second Chances and Older Women
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 256 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- The structure of the “second chance romance” trope
- Features of second-chance romances with female couples
- Considerations for older heroines
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Sunday Apr 02, 2023
Sunday Apr 02, 2023
On the Shelf for April 2023
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 255 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Why the blog has been thin lately
- Historic settings and mythic fiction
- New Books for the Blog
- Palmer, Paulina. 1999. Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions. Cassell, New York. ISBN 0-304-70154-8
- McCallum, E.L. & Mikko Tuhkanen, eds. 2014. The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature. Cambridge University Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-107-03521-8
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Her Venetian Beauty (Ladylike Inclinations #4) by Violet Cowper
- The Enemy Within by Stein Willard
- Eight Strings by Margaret DeRosia
- Her Female Husband (The Kendallville Librarian #1) by Julieanne
- Heart's Home (Heart Series #3) by L. Dreamer
- From the Ashes of Victory - Box Set by Cameron Darrow
- Legacy of the Valiant (Tales from Norvegr #2) by Edale Lane
- Knight of Nights (The Coin of Love #2) by Karin Kallmaker
- Something Spectacular (Something Fabulous) by Alexis Hall
- The Widow's Modiste (Desiring the Dexingtons #3) by Renee Dahlia
- The Weeds by Katy Simpson Smith
- What I’ve been consuming
- Christmas masquerade by Meg Mardell
- Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo
- The Unbroken by C.L. Clark
- The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K.J. Charles
- Some thoughts on historic settings where myth and fantasy has replaced realistic history
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Sunday Mar 19, 2023
Sunday Mar 19, 2023
They Did the Smash (the Schoolgirl Smash)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 254 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- Romantic and pseudo-romantic relationships in single-gender educational institutions
- The public culture of the schoolgirl “smash” or “crush”
- When and how attitudes toward such romances changed
- The culture of life partnerships between female faculty
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
On the Shelf for March 2023
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 253 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Podcast: Queer as Fact
- Book Shopping: The Once and Future Sex by Eleanor Janega
- New and forthcoming fiction
- A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar
- Evil's Echo by Jane Alden
- Aimer Mathilde by Laurence Tardi
- When We Lost our Heads by Heather O'Neill
- Your Goyle and Mine (The Magickal Underground #1) by Nan Sampson
- The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology #1) by Hadeer Elsbai
- A Defiant Devotion (A Truth Universally Acknowledged #2) by E.B. Neal
- La Femme Falaise: Romance historique by Hélène Néra
- The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
- Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood
- Now the Wind Scatters by J Donal
- Daughters of Nantucket: A Novel by Julie Gerstenblatt
- Well Behaved Women by Caroline Lamond
- To Meet Again by Kadyan
- A Dark, Cold Touch: A Gothic Romance by Megan E. Hart
- What I’ve been consuming
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Sunday Feb 19, 2023
Sunday Feb 19, 2023
Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 6: Friends or Enemies to Lovers
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 252 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- Considerations for using friends-to-lovers and enemies-to-lovers tropes in sapphic historic 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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Saturday Feb 04, 2023
Saturday Feb 04, 2023
On the Shelf for February 2023
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 251 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- The Harper Collins strike and the significance of major publishers in sapphic fiction
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Haggerty, George E. 1998. Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later 18th Century. Indiana University Press, Bloomington. ISBN 0-253-21183-2
- Book Shopping
- Abercrombie, Thomas A. 2018. Passing to América: Antonio (Née Maria) Yta's Transgressive, Transatlantic Life in the Twilight of the Spanish Empire. The Pennsylvania University Press, University Park. ISBN 978-0-271-08119-9
- Shopland, Norena. 2021. A History of Women in Men's Clothes: From Cross-Dressing to Empowerment. Pen & Sword History, Philadelphia. ISBN 978-1-52678-767-5
- Vanita, Ruth , ed. 2002. Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-92950-4
- Rouse, Wendy L. 2022. Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-47981394-0
- New and forthcoming fiction
- She Who Would be King by Kim Pritekel
- The Pirate's Pursuit (Sapphic Seas #2) by Wren Taylor
- Blood in the Tea Leaves by Beka Westrup
- The Secret Life of Spinsters: A Sapphic Regency Romance (Desiring The Dexingtons # 2) by Renee Dahlia
- Dangerous Flames (Good Neighbors) by Stephanie Burgis
- For Lamb by Lesa Cline-Ransome
- What I’ve been consuming
- Valiant Ladies by Melissa Grey
- Hen Fever by Olivia Waite
- The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nhi Vo
- The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by K.J. Charles
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Saturday Jan 28, 2023
Saturday Jan 28, 2023
All is Silence by Heather Rose Jones
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 250 with Heather Rose Jones
A bonus fiction episode to celebrate episode #250: “All is Silence” by Heather Rose Jones, narrated by the author.
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)