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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 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
Saturday Feb 20, 2021
Saturday Feb 20, 2021
Madame de Murat: Author of Fairy Tales, Lover of Women
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 195 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- The social background of the French salons and court in late 17th century France
- Madame de Murat as author and gadfly
- De Murat’s personal and romantic entanglements
- The legal persecution of Madame de Murat by King Louis XIV
- The most useful sources for this episode were the following. Unless noted, link is to the LHMP blog post about the publication.
- Chevalier, Jim. 2010. The Old Regime Police Blotter II: Sodomites, Tribads, and “Crimes Against Nature”. Self-published. Accessed at: http://www.chezjim.com/sundries/s52.html on 2021/01/30. (link is to the author’s blog)
- 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
- Ness, Mari. 2018. “Imprisonment and the Fairy Tales of Henriette Julie de Murat,” Tor.com, accessed 2021/01/30. (link is to the original article)
- Robinson, David Michael. 2001. “The Abominable Madame de Murat’” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuailty in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
- Wahl, Elizabeth Susan. 1999. Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford University Press, Stanford. ISBN 0-8047-3650-2
- Wikipedia (English) – Henriette-Julie de Murat (link is to the Wikipedia entry)
- Wikipedia (French) – Henriette-Julie de Castelnau de Murat (link is to the Wikipedia entry)
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Madame de Murat & Madame de Nantiat
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 Feb 06, 2021
Saturday Feb 06, 2021
On the Shelf for February 2021
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 194 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- The 2021 Fiction Series submissions.
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Hinds, Leonard. 2001. “Female Friendship as the Foundation of Love in Madeleine de Scudéry’s ‘Histoire de Sapho’” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuailty in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
- Robinson, David Michael. 2001. “The Abominable Madame de Murat” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuailty in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
- Blanc, Olivier. 2001. “The ‘Italian Taste’ in the Time of Louis XVI, 1774-92” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuailty in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
- Lanser, Susan. 2001. “’Au sein de vos pareilles’: Sapphic Separatism in Late Eighteenth-Century France” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuailty in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Call for submissions for the 2021 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
- This month we interview Anne Shade and talk about:
- Queer Black culture in 1920s New York
- Researching the Harlem Renaissance at the Schomburg Center
- Plans for a novel about the Underground Railroad
- Masquerade by Anne Shade
- Femme Tales by Anne Shade
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 Anne Shade Online
- Website: AnneShadeRomance.com
- Twitter: @ AnneShade3
- Instagram: @AnneShadeRomance
- Facebook: AnneShadeRomance
Saturday Jan 30, 2021
Saturday Jan 30, 2021
A Soldier in the Army of Love by Diane Morrison
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 193 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents “A Soldier in the Army of Love by Diane Morrison, narrated by Laura Pinson.
Content Note: This story contains graphic descriptions of war and its aftermath, including sexual assault (though not of the protagonist).
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 Diane Morrison Online
- Website: https://www.dianemorrisonfiction.com
- Twitter: @SableAradia
- Facebook: SableAradia
- Tumblr: SableAradia
- Amazon: Diane Morrison
- Patreon: Sable Aradia
Saturday Jan 16, 2021
Saturday Jan 16, 2021
Anne Lister’s Courtship Scripts
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 192 with Heather Rose Jones
A guided tour through the relationships of a Regency-era lesbian.
In this episode we talk about:
- The context of Anne Lister’s life
- Flirtations, courtships, and sexual relationships
- A detailed chronology and progression of Anne’s relationship with Mrs. Barlow in Paris
- Sources 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: The Journals of Anne Lister from 1824-1826. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 0-8147-5077-X
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Anne Lister
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 Jan 02, 2021
Saturday Jan 02, 2021
On the Shelf for January 2021
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 191 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 2021 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
- Merrick, Jeffery & Michael Sibalis. 2001. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York.
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Promise is a Promise (Intertwined Souls Series) by Mary D. Brooks
- Her Perilous Game (No Man is Her Master 2) by Lee Swanson
- Chaos in Milan (The Night Flyer 3) by Edale Lane
- Beyond the Vine by Mariah R. Embry
- The Christmas Chevalier by Meg Mardell (note: f/trans-m, not f/f)
- Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
- Captive in the Underworld by Lyanyu Tan
- Wench by Maxine Kaplan
- Patience & Esther: An Edwardian Romance by S.W. Searle
- Outlawed by Anna North
- The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh by Molly Greeley
- This month we interview Malinda Lo and talk about her new book and other topics:
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 Malinda Lo Online
- Website: malindalo.com
- Twitter: @malindalo
- Instagram: @malindalo
- Facebook: Malinda Lo
Saturday Dec 26, 2020
Saturday Dec 26, 2020
So You’re Writing a Sapphic Historical Romance: Questions to Consider
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 190 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about the questions to ask about sapphic relationships and how they are perceived in your story’s setting:
- How easy is it to live outside of the heterosexual marriage paradigm?
- What are the economic, legal, and religious constraints on your characters?
- What is the ordinary “background noise” of non-sexual displays of affection?
- How does the culture of the setting understand privacy and how does that affect your characters’ behavior?
- What are the realities and perceptions around sex between women in this setting?
- How does the culture of the setting understand gender and sexuality?
- How are female couples depicted in popular culture of the time?
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 Dec 19, 2020
Saturday Dec 19, 2020
Book Appreciation with Diana Pinguicha
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 189 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.
- Books mentioned
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 Diana Pinguicha Online
- Website: Diana Pinguicha
- Twitter: @Pinguicha
- Instagram: @Pinguicha
Saturday Dec 12, 2020
Saturday Dec 12, 2020
Interview with Diana Pinguicha
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 188 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- The myth of the “enchanted Moura”
- Social, political, and sexual dynamics around the Reconquista
- Medieval and modern resonances around eating disorders and self-harm
- Dipping into Portuguese history for fictional inspiration
- Books mentioned
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 Diana Pinguicha Online
- Website: Diana Pinguicha
- Twitter: @Pinguicha
- Instagram: @Pinguicha