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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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Sunday Dec 05, 2021
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
On the Shelf for December 2021
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 217 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- This month’s fiction episode: “Abstract” by Kat Sinor
- Call for submissions for the 2022 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
- Looking for discussion partners for a series of episodes on favorite tropes
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Boehringer, Sandra (trans. Anna Preger). 2021. Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-367-74476-2
- New and forthcoming fiction
- What I’ve been reading:
- ”Spellcloaked” by Stephanie Burgis
- Her Lady to Love by Jane Walsh
- The “Society of Gentlemen” series by KJ Charles (audiobook)
- Hell’s Belle by Marie Castle (audiobook)
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Sunday Nov 21, 2021
Sunday Nov 21, 2021
How to be a Lesbian in an 18th Century Novel
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 216 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- Motifs, characters, and situations in 18th century novels that can provide inspiration and grounding for the writing of f/f historical fiction.
- This works discussed here are mentioned in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
- Memoirs of Europe (Delarivier Manley)
- The New Atalantis (Delarivier Manley)
- Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (John Cleland)
- Thérèse the Philosophe (Jean-Baptiste de Boyer)
- L’Espion Anglois (Mathieu François Mairobert)
- Juliette (Marquis de Sade)
- La Religieuse (Denis Diderot)
- Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)
- Pamela (Samuel Richardson)
- Memoirs of the Life of Count de Grammont (Antoine Hamilton)
- Belinda (Maria Edgeworth)
- various novels by Eliza Haywood
- Lettres de Milady Juliette Catesby a Milady Henriette Campley son amie (Jeanne Riccoboni)
- Euphemia (Charlotte Lennox)
- Roxana (Daniel Defoe)
- The Unaccountable Wife (Jane Barker)
- Journey Through Every Stage of Life (Sarah Scott)
- Clarissa (Samuel Richardson)
- Julie ou la Nouvelle Heloise (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
- Ormond: or the Secret Witness (Charles Brockden Brown)
- Het Land in Brieven (Elisabeth Post)
- Paul et Virginie (Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre)
- The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu (Erskine)
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Sunday Nov 07, 2021
Sunday Nov 07, 2021
On the Shelf for November 2021
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 215 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 2022 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
- If It Please the Court (interactive text game)
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Boehringer, Sandra (trans. Anna Preger). 2021. Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-367-74476-2
- Book shopping for the blog
- Hill, Bridget. 2001. Women Alone: Spinsters in England 1660-1850. Yale University Press, New Haven. ISBN 0-300-08820-5
- Wolf, Hubert. 2015. The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. ISBN 978-0-38535190-4
- Frye, Susan and Karen Robertson, eds. 1999. Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women’s Alliances in Early Modern England. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-511735-2
- Liddington, Jill. 2019 (2nd edition). Female Fortune: Land, Gender, and Authority: The Anne Lister Diaries and Other Writings, 1833-36. Rivers Oram Press, London. ISBN 1-85489-089-1
- Greene, E. 1996. Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles. ISBN 0-520-20195-7
- Blondell, Ruby & Kirk Ormand (ed.). 2015. Ancient Sex: New Essays. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015. ISBN 9780814212837.
- LaFleur, Greta, Masha Raskolnikov, Anna Klosowska (eds). 2021. Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern. Cornell University Press, Ithaca. ISBN 978-1-5017-5950-5
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Stone Memory by Aimée
- Shadows Over Milan (The Night Flyer #5) by Edale Lane
- Beulah Lodge by Cathy Dunnell
- Trafalgar Versus Boone (Trafalgar & Boone Book 7) by Geonn Cannon
- A Woman's Affair (Idylle Saphique) by Liane de Pougy (trans Graham Anderson)
- One in Me I Never Loved by Carla Guelfenbein (trans Neil Davidson)
- The Last One by Fatima Daas (trans. Lara Vergnaud)
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
“Moon River” by Mandy Mongkolyuth
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 214 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents “Moon River” by Mandy Mongkolyuth, 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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Mandy Mongkolyuth Online
- Tumblr: @themandilorian
Sunday Oct 17, 2021
Sunday Oct 17, 2021
All-Woman Societies in History and Fiction
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 213 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about ideas and realities about all-woman societies, communities, and organizations in the past, and how they depicted the possibility of same-sex erotics.
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Sunday Oct 03, 2021
Sunday Oct 03, 2021
On the Shelf for October 2021
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 212 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Book discoverability and how covers and blurbs contribute to it.
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Skidmore, Emily. 2017. True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the 20th Century. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-4798-7063-9
- Boehringer, Sandra (trans. Anna Preger). 2021. Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-367-74476-2
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Big London Dreams by Clare Lydon
- Missing in Milan by Edale Lane
- Matrix by Lauren Groff
- Complementary by Celia Lake
- Longshadow (Regency Faerie Tales 3) by Olivia Atwater
- The Perks of Loving a Wallflower (The Wild Wynchesters #2) by Erica Ridley
- Urchin by Kate Story
- Sisters of the Great War by Suzanne Feldman
- The Sweetest Taboo by Ava Freeman
- Of Trust and Heart by Charlotte Anne Hamilton
- Warm Pearls and Paper Cranes: A Lesbian Romance by E.V. Bancroft
- Girls Back Home (Ranger Paraversum 3) by Vesna Kurilic
- What am I reading?
- Gay Pride and Prejudice by Kate Christie
- The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh by Molly Greeley
- The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite
- Complementary by Celia Lake
- A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas
- An Unseen Attraction by K.J. Charles
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Saturday Sep 25, 2021
Saturday Sep 25, 2021
Bonus Fiction: “Margaret” by Eleanor Musgrove
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 211 with Heather Rose Jones
This special bonus fiction episode presents “Margaret” by Eleanor Musgrove, 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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Eleanor Musgrove Online
- Website: The Writings of E.A. Musgrove
- Facebook: E.A. Musgrove
Saturday Sep 18, 2021
Saturday Sep 18, 2021
Sapphists in Austenland
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 210 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- The social structures in Jane Austen’s novels in which same-sex relationships could develop
- A tour through the sapphic potential in each of Austen’s works
- A survey of Austen-inspired sapphic historical fiction, demonstrating some of that potential
- Austen-based fiction mentioned in the episode
- ”Margaret” by Eleanor Musgrove in A Certain Persuasion (The LHMP will be reprinting this in audio next week. Check the website for a link.)
- ”Eleanor and Ada” by Julie Bozza in A Certain Persuasion (Not currently in print? The link is to the author’s website.)
- Lucas by Elna Holst
- Gay Pride and Prejudice by Kate Christie
- The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh by Molly Greeley
- ”Father Doesn’t Dance” by Eleanor Musgrove in A Certain Persuasion (Not currently in print.)
- Frederica and the Viscountess by Barbara Davies
- Her Particular Friend by J.L. Merrow in A Certain Persuasion (Link is to a stand-alone reprint of the story.)
- Kissing Emma by Gemma Harborne (out of print)
- “One Half of the World” by Adam Fitzroy in A Certain Persuasion (Not currently in print?)
- A Certain Persuasion: Modern LGBTQ+ fiction inspired by Jane Austen’s novels edited by Julie Bozza. Manifold Press, 2016. (Unfortunately Manifold Press has gone out of business. Used hard copies may be available at this link. Stories that have been made available in other venues have links in the individual listings.
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Sunday Sep 05, 2021
Sunday Sep 05, 2021
On the Shelf for September 2021
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 209 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
- Manion, Jen. 2020. Female Husbands: A Trans History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-48380-3
- Stehr (see below)
- Skidmore, Emily. 2017. True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the 20th Century. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-4798-7063-9
- New acquisitions for the blog
- Stehr, Emily (compiler). 2018. Tragic (but Interesting & Very Short) History of Sodomite, Lesbians, & Sapphics. Self-published. ISBN 978172000756
- Boehringer, Sandra (trans. Anna Preger). 2021. Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-367-74476-2
- New and forthcoming fiction
- What have I read/consumed?
- The Wife in the Attic by Rose Lerner (audiobook)
- Elisa & Marcela (movie)
- Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire (audiobook)/li>
- ”Mary's Secret Desire” by Tilda Templeton
- Lucas by Elna Holst
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Saturday Aug 21, 2021
Saturday Aug 21, 2021
Shakespeare’s Queer-Baiting
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode # with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- Homoerotic motifs in Shakespeare’s plays
- The general context of female homoeroticism in early modern drama
- Situating Shakespeare’s material in that context
- Sources mentioned
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Shakespeare
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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)