Interview with T.T. Thomas - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 31

Interview with T.T. Thomas

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - episode 31

A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.

In this episode we talk about:

• What T.T. finds so interesting about the decades around 1900
• Her fascination with the Regency-era figure of Anne Lister, whose diaries discuss her affairs with women in code
• Using professional journals, dictionaries, and court records for historic research
• Correspondence as a medium of storytelling
• How T.T.’s international family history inspired her settings
• The cross-country romantic odyssey of The Blondness of Honey from San Francisco to Chicago
• The story-within-a story of Vivien and Rose: when your characters start writing their own gothic romantic adventures
• Writing less common takes on sexuality
• Speaking of sex in code and metaphor, both in historic documents and fiction
• Mistress of Mogador and researching cultures very different from your own
• Books mentioned
  • Whitbread, Helena ed. 1992. I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister 1791-1840. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 0-8147-9249-9
  • Whitbread, Helena ed. 1992. No Priest But Love. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 0-8147-5077-X
  • Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander by Ann Herendeen (m/m/f historical romance)
  • The Blondness of Honey by T.T. Thomas
  • Vivien and Rose by T.T. Thomas
  • A Delicate Refusal by T.T. Thomas
  • Mistress of Mogador by T.T. Thomas

A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (Transcripts added when available.)

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