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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 Jul 03, 2021
Saturday Jul 03, 2021
On the Shelf for July 2021
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 205 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- ”Pride” and identity
- Golden Crown Literary Society Conference Schedule
- New and forthcoming fiction
- The Women of Apasas (Amazzi Warriors and Queens #1) by Elizabeth Reign
- Viking Quest by Edale Lane
- Lie With Me by Patricia Spencer
- The Dawn of the Rose (Love and Thorns #2) by Sarah Swan
- She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
- Justice Won (Wynter #3) by Kim Pritekel
- Her Lady's Fortune (Great War 3) by Renee Dahlia
- Murder and Gold (Cantor Gold #5) by Ann Aptaker
- Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices by edited by Swapna Krishna & Jenn Northington
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 Jun 19, 2021
Saturday Jun 19, 2021
Early Modern Neo-Platonism and Same-Sex Relationships
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 204 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about Neo-Platonic philosophy, the evolution of the concept of “platonic love”, and the complications of interpreting the nature of women’s same-sex “platonic love” in historic contexts.
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)
Saturday Jun 05, 2021
Saturday Jun 05, 2021
On the Shelf for June 2021
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 203 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Clearing up the backlog of show transcripts
- GCLS conference history panel
- 2021 Pride Storybundle
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Female Husbands: A Trans History by Jen Manion
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Blackbird's Song: A story of the Russian Revolution by Katy Turton
- An Intimate Study by Margaret K. Mac
- The Black Knight and the Lady by J M Dragon
- Born of the Sea: The Untold Story of Anne Bonny and Mary Read by Kate Castle
- Scarlet Dandelions: The Zither and the Sword by Fynn Chen
- The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
- Monstrous Design by Kat Dunn
- The Hellion's Waltz by Olivia Waite
- Measure of Devotion by C.F. Frizzell
- Infraction by Yvonne Zipter
- Lying With Lions by Annabel Fielding
- The Murder Next Door by Sarah Bell
- The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
- Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia
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 May 29, 2021
Saturday May 29, 2021
The Adventuress by Catherine Lundoff
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 202 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents “The Adventuress” 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
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Catherine Lundoff Online
- Website: Catherine Lundoff
- Website: Queen of Swords Press
- Twitter: @clundoff
- Facebook: Catherine Lundoff
Saturday May 15, 2021
Saturday May 15, 2021
Researching the Origins of Lesbian Myths, Legends, and Symbols
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 201 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- The process of investigating “popular history” about lesbian symbols and myths
- The following are only some of the sources mentioned in the podcast. If listeners have questions about anything not included here, drop a comment on the transcript over on the blog. I stand behind my sources!
- LHMP #215 - Bennett, Betty T. 1991. Mary Diana Dods: A Gentleman and a Scholar. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. ISBN 0-8018-4984-5
- ”Charlemagne’s Cheese: a study in the un/reliability of sources” by Heather Rose Jones
- LHMP #122 - Lardinois, André. “Lesbian Sappho and Sappho of Lesbos” in Bremmer, Jan. 1989. From Sappho to de Sade: Moments in the History of Sexuality. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-02089-1
- “Violets and Vandamm” by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner
- Burford, E.J. 1986. Wits, Wenchers and Wantons - London’s Low Life: Covent Garden in the Eighteenth Century. Robert Hale, London. ISBN 0-7090-2629-3
- Game of Flats (blog tag)
- Linnane, Fergus. 2005. Madams: Bawds & Brothel-Keepers of London. The History Press. ISBN 9780752473383
- Ackroyd, Peter. 2018. Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day. Abrams Press, New York.
- Arnold, Catherine. 2010. City of Sin: London and its Vices. Simon & Schuster.
- Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies
- Murphy, Colin. 2018. Fierce History: 5000 years of startling stories from Ireland and around the globe. The O’Brien Press.
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)
Saturday May 01, 2021
Saturday May 01, 2021
On the Shelf for May 2021
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 200 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Announcing the 200th anniversary party in the LHMP/Alpennia Discord on May 8 – join us!
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Klein, Ula Lukszo. 2021. Sapphic Crossings: Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville. ISBN 978-0-8139-4551-4
- Manion, Jen. 2020. Female Husbands: A Trans History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-48380-3
- 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 and forthcoming fiction
- Hearts Under Fire (Coffield Chronicles 2) by T L Dickerson
- Odette's: A Quality Men's Club by Bridget A. Finnegan
- Queen of All by Anya Leigh Josephs
- La Reine Lionne by Alexia Damyl
- A Map of Scars by Moyra Sammut
- Do You Know Dorothy? (Juliana 5.1) by Vanda
- Lady Charlotte: Two Lesbian Romances by Susie Ray
- The Inverts by Crystal Jeans
- Her Lady's Melody (Great War #2) by Renée Dahlia
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 Apr 17, 2021
Saturday Apr 17, 2021
What’s the Difference between Lesbian and Sapphic?
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 199 with Heather Rose Jones
A linguistic tour through the history of words derived from Sappho of Lesbos, and why a book might be a sapphic book while not being a lesbian book.
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
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)
Saturday Apr 03, 2021
Saturday Apr 03, 2021
On the Shelf for April 2021
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode #198 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Online party for Episode 200!
- Thinking about objectification in lesbian fiction
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Binhammer, Katherine. 2003. "The 'Singular Propensity' of Sensibility's Extremities: Female Same-Sex Desire and the Eroticization of Pain in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Culture" in GLQ 9:4, 471-498.
- Diggs, Marylynne. 1995. “Romantic Friends or a ‘Different Race of Creatures’? The Representation of Lesbian Pathology in Nineteenth-Century America” in Feminist Studies 21, no. 2: 1-24.
- Nord, Deborah Epstein. 1990. "'Neither Pairs nor Odd': Female Community in Late Nineteenth-Century London" in Signs vol. 15, no. 4 733-754.
- McLaughlin, Mary Martin. 1989. "Creating and Recreating Communities of Women: The Case of Corpus Domini, Ferrara, 1406-1452" in Signs vol. 14, no. 2 293-320.
- Wojczuk, Tana. 2020. Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity. Avid Reader Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-5011-9952-3
- Vicente, Marta V. 2017. Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-81421-8
- New and forthcoming fiction
- In the Footsteps of Anne Lister (Volume 1): Travels of a remarkable English gentlewoman in France, Germany and Denmark in 1833 by Adeline Lim
- For the Love of Many by Vivian Dunn
- The Woman in the Coffin by Nathan Long
- The Reserved Doctor by Stein Willard
- Like the Down of a Thistle by Sarah Swan
- Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore
- Diamonds & Pearls: A Lesbian Historical Romance (Gilded Lily 3) by Vesper St. Clair
- Für ihr Land by Helmi Schausberger
- Poison Priestess (Lady Slayers #2) by Lana Popovi?
- The Other Side of Magic by Ester Manzini
- Dr. Todson's Home for Incorrigible Women by Riley LaShea
- This month we interview Rose Lerner and talk about:
- The Wife in the Attic by Rose Lerner
- Queer themes in gothic novels
- Adapting a story of an Audible original
- A digression about haunted Zoom meetings
- A sequel to The Wife in the Attic
- Recommended works:
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)
Links to Rose Lerner Online
- Website: RoseLerner.com
- Research and Editing Website: Rose Does the Research
- Twitter: @RoseLerner
- Instagram: @rose.lerner
- Facebook: Rose Lerner Romance
- Patreon: Rose Lerner
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
Hey Hollywood! Historic Couples who would Make Great Happy Movies
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 197 with Heather Rose Jones
A tour through the lives of some f/f couples in history who would make great “happily ever after” movies and tv shows
Find more information about the primary couples discussed in this show at the following links:
- Isabella de Luna
- Mary Kendall and Catharine Jones
- Sarah Paul (Samuel Bundy) and Mary Parlour
- Mary East (James How) and Mary Snapes
- Katherine Bovey and Mary Pope
- Marie Corelli
- Charlotte Cushman
- Matilda Hays
- Anne Whitney & Abby Adeline Manning
- Sarah Orne Jewett & Annie Fields
- Mary Woolley & Jeannette Marks
- Amy Lowell & Ada Dwyer Russell
- Katharine Lee Bates & Katharine Coman
- Addie Brown & Rebecca Primus
- Angelina Weld Grimké & Mamie Burrill
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)
Saturday Mar 06, 2021
Saturday Mar 06, 2021
On the Shelf for March 2021
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 196 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- The topics that historical fiction flinches away from
- Stories picked for the 2021 Fiction Series
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- 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
- Vicinus, Martha. 1992. "'They Wonder to Which Sex I Belong': The Historical Roots of the Modern Lesbian Identity" in Feminist Studies vol. 18, no. 3 467-497.
- Binhammer, Katherine. 2002. "Thinking Gender with Sexuality in 1790s' Feminist Thought" in Feminist Studies vol 28, no 3. pp. 667-690.
- Boyd, Nan Alamilla. 2013. "The History of the Idea of the Lesbian as a Kind of Person" in Feminist Studies vol. 39, no. 2 362-365.
- Interview with Mari Ness about Madame de Murat and the salon fairy tales
- New and forthcoming fiction
- A Call to Justice (series #3) by S.W. Andersen
- The Wife in the Attic by Rose Lerner
- Fishwives by Sally Bellerose
- Flying High by G.B. Baldassari
- ”Bump in the Night” by Lara Kinsey
- The Railwalkers by Ruth Hanson
- The Ledge Light: New London by Diana Perkins
- Eleutheria: Chronique des Amazones by Helena Manenti
- Girls in Black (Ranger Paraversum Book 2) by Vesna Kurilic
- Interview with Aliette de Bodard
- The inspirations for using a pre-colonial fantasy-Vietnam as a setting
- Themes of colonization and apocalypse
- Future plans for space pirates inspired by Ching Shih and other pirates of the south China Sea
- Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard
- In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard
- Dominion of the Fallen series by Aliette de Bodard
- Xuya Universe series by Aliette de Bodard
- Recommended work: Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott (gender-bent Alexander the Great in space with sapphic subplot)
- Recommended work: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo (historic fantasy with f/f tiger-human romance)
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)
Links to Aliette de Bodard Online
- Website: AlietteDeBodard.com
- Twitter: @aliettedb
- Patreon: Aliette de Bodard
Links to Mari Ness Online
- Website: Blogging with Dragons
- Essays: Mari’s essays at Tor.com
- Twitter: @mari_ness
- Patreon: Mari Ness