The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

John Lyly’s Gallathea

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 220 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we take a tour through John Lyly’s late 16th century play Gallathea which includes an unexpected depiction of same-sex love.

• Text of John Lyly’s Gallathea at the Early English Books website of the University of Michigan

• See also my podcast on Iphis and Ianthe
• This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: John Lyly’s Gallathea, Ovid’s Iphis and Ianthe

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)

On the Shelf for January 2022

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 219 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

• Plans to resume author interviews
• 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
  • The Many Woes of Dolly Danbridge by Lauren Thorn
  • The Raven and the Banshee by Carolyn Elizabeth
  • Wildflower Words by Sam Ledel
  • All of You Every Single One by Beatrice Hitchman
  • A couple of bonus links related to the Pack Horse Library program:
    • Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
    • Caitlin Gooch (@theblackcowgirl) and the Saddle Up and Read program
• What am I reading?
  • Elatsoe by Darcie Littlebadger
  • A Highland Hogmanay by Meg Mardol
  • The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh by KJ Charles
  • The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles
  • Jackdaw by KJ Charles
  • The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley
• Call for submissions for the 2022 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
• The state of sapphic historicals in 2021

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)

Abstract by Kat Sinor

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 218 with Heather Rose Jones

This quarter’s fiction episode presents “Abstract” by Kat Sinor, narrated by Jasmine Arch.

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 Kat Sinor Online

• Twitter: @katsinor

Links to Jasmine Arch Online

• Website: jasminearch.com
• Twitter: @Jaye_Arch

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
  • Into the Horizon by Noel Stevens
  • The Misadventures of an Amateur Naturalist by Ceinwen Langley
  • A Highland Hogmanay by Meg Mardell
  • Spellcloaked: A Harwood Spellbook story by Stephanie Burgis
  • Dear Miss Cushman by Paula Martinac
  • A Fairer Tomorrow by Kathleen Knowles
• 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)

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)

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)

“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

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)

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)

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