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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 Nov 21, 2020
Saturday Nov 21, 2020
Book Appreciation - Sapphic Historic Fantasy in Asian Settings
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 185 with Heather Rose Jones
A tour through some sapphic historic fantasy in various Asian cultures by authors with roots in those cultures.
Books mentioned
- The True Queen by Zen Cho
- Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
- The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle Book 1) by Nghi Vo
- When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle Book 2) by Nghi Vo
- Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard
- The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
- She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 Nov 14, 2020
Saturday Nov 14, 2020
Interview with Jane Walsh
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 184 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- Writing the sexually-experienced romance heroine
- The novels that made Jane fall in love with historic romance
- Salon culture as a place to meet women
- The complications of showing a HEA in f/f romance without marriage
- Historical romance as a “common conversation” among authors
- Jane’s optimistic hopes for the future of f/f historical romance
- Plans for a connected series of sequels
- Books mentioned
- Her Lady to Love by Jane Walsh
- My Lady Notorious by Jo Beverley (m/f)
- various series by Eloisa James (m/f)
- Her Countess to Cherish by Jane Walsh (forthcoming in August 2021)
A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 Jane Walsh Online
- Website: JaneWalshWrites.com
- Twitter: @JaneWalshWrites
Saturday Nov 07, 2020
Saturday Nov 07, 2020
On the Shelf for November 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 183 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- The LHMPodcast’s move and format changes
- New podcast distribution links for all your favorite podcatchers
- How you can participate in the LHMPodcast community
- Check out the Sweetbitter podcast – all Sappho all the time.
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5
- 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
- Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928.E University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3
- Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. 2001. Homosexuailty in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
- Announcing this month’s author guest, Jane Walsh
- New and forthcoming fiction
- The Sappho Romance: A Novel by Jacquie Lyon and Sam Skyborne
- Her Lady to Love by Jane Walsh
- The Enigmatic Steward by Stein Willard
- The Coffield Chronicles - Hearts Under Siege: Book One by T L Dickerson
- Rivers of Eden by R.E. Levy
- Martha Moody by Susan Stinson
- Trafalgar & Boone at Magic's End (Trafalgar & Boone 6) by Geonn Cannon
- Silk and Steel edited by Janine A. Southard
- Call for submissions for the 2021 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 Oct 31, 2020
Saturday Oct 31, 2020
Give Us This Day by Jennifer Nestojko
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 182 with Heather Rose Jones
The fourth story in our 2020 fiction series
- Call for submissions for the 2021 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
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 Jennifer Nestojko Online
- Website: https://jennifernestojko.com
Saturday Oct 24, 2020
Saturday Oct 24, 2020
The Anandrine Sect
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 181 with Heather Rose Jones
A look at the motif of the 18th century French “Anandrine Sect” purported to be a lesbian sex club.
In this episode we talk about:
- The political context of late 18th c. France
- Pamphlet culture and secret societies
- Prominent women rumored to have lesbian relations
- The “Lodge of Lesbos”
- The Anandrine Sect
- A selection of source materials
- Sikes, Alan. 2007. “The Trouble with Tribades: Struggles of Sex and Class in French Revolutionary Performance” in Querying Difference in Theatre History edited by Scott Magelssen, Ann Haugo, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84718-303-3
- Merrick, Jeffery & Michael Sibalis. 2001. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York.
- French Erotic Writings from the Ancien Régime to the Revolution by Wayne R. Dynes
- Lanser, Susan S. 2014. The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-18773-0 Especially chapter 6 “Sapphic Sects and the Rites of Revolutoin, 1775-1800”
- Merrick, Jeffrey & Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. 2001. Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-510257-6
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Anandrine Sect
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)
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Book Appreciation with Samantha Rajaram
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 180 with Heather Rose Jones
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors (or your host) will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting.
In this episode we talk about:
- Books mentioned
A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (Transcripts are added as 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 Samantha Rajaram Online
- Website: SamanthaRajaram.com
- Twitter: @Samantha_Reader
- Facebook: Samantha Rajaram
- Instagram: Samantha.R.Reader
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Interview with Samantha Rajaram
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 179 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- How the anti-miscegenation policy of the Dutch East India Company inspired the story
- Starting with characters and finding their stories
- The experience of finding your place in the world
- The difficulty of researching sexuality in the 17th century
- Samantha’s complex professional history and how it feeds into her writing
- Growing up as the only Indian family in a Wyoming town
- Samantha’s experience in Pitch Wars and finding/being a mentor
- Differing expectations in different genre cultures
- Books mentioned
A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (Transcripts are added as 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 Samantha Rajaram Online
- Website: SamanthaRajaram.com
- Twitter: @Samantha_Reader
- Facebook: Samantha Rajaram
- Instagram: Samantha.R.Reader
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
On the Shelf for October 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 178 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- Setting up the new podcast site, links for subscribing via your favorite podcatchers.
- The tedium of quarantine
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Wahl, Elizabeth Susan. 1999. Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford University Press, Stanford. ISBN 0-8047-3650-2
- Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5
- Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3
- Marcus, Sharon. 2007. Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, Princeton. ISBN 0-691-12835-9
- Announcing this month’s author guest, Samantha Rajaram
- This month’s essay will be on the Anandrine Society, an almost certainly fictional 18th century French lesbian sex club.
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Un Amour Révolutionnaire (A Revolutionary Love) by Laurie Miquel
- Plumerie by P. De Donno
- The Discreet Servant by Stein Willard
- Blooming in the Sun (Nicolette & Dorothea Book 2) by Lara Kinsey
- Smuggled Love by Robert Lee Davies
- To Sleep with Reindeer by Justine Saracen
- Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood
- The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
- Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel by Emiiy M. Danforth
- The Company Daughters by Samantha Rajaram
- Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
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)
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
17th c Poet Katherine Philips
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 177 with Heather Rose Jones
A biography of poet Katherine Philips with a tour through some of her works.
In this episode we talk about:
- An overview of Philips’ life
- The poems of friendship
- Other poetic themes
- The neo-platonic tradition
- Reputation and legacy
- Did Philips write “lesbian poetry”?
- Poems included
- Rosania Shadowed whilst Mrs. Mary Aubrey
- L’Amitié: To Mrs. Mary Aubrey
- Rosania’s Apostacy and Lucasia's Friendship
- Friendship's Mystery: To my dearest Lucasia
- To My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship
- Injuria Amici
- To my Lucasia, in Defence of declared Friendship
- Orinda to Lucasia Parting 1661 at London
- To Rosania & Lucasia Articles of Friendship
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Katherine Philips
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)
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Book Appreciation: 17-18th century Stories in England and France
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 50c with Heather Rose Jones
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors (or your host) will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting.
In this episode we talk about:
- Books set in 17-18th century France or England that have sapphic elements, but are not necessarily romances.
- Books mentioned
- Passions Between Women by Emma Donoghue
- Life Mask by Emma Donoghue
- Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
- Goddess by Kelly Gardiner
- The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
- Today Dauphine Tomorrow, Nothing by Saga Hilbom
- Under the Microscope by Kim Finney
- The Arrival of Lady Suthmeer by Connie Valientis
- Harkworth Hall by L.S. Johnson
- The Queen's Gift by Lara Zielinsky
- The Unbinding of Mary Reade by Miriam McNamara
- Spanish Eyes by Jessie Gutiérrez
- The Highwaywomen Podcast
- Rebeccah and the Highwayman by Barbara Davies
- The Highwayman by Eleanor Musgrove
- Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield
- Belle Revolte by Linsey Miller
- Dangerous Remedy by Kat Dunn
- Reflected Passion by author
- Rebellion by Jay Taverner
- Hearts and Minds by Jay Taverner
- Passing as Elias by Kate Bloomfield
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)