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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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Friday Oct 16, 2020
Friday Oct 16, 2020
The (Sex) Lives of Fair and Gallant Women
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 155 with Heather Rose Jones
A glimpse into same-sex relations in 16th century France through the salacious memoirs of the Seigneur de Brantôme
In this episode we talk about:
- Brantôme’s purpose in discussing lesbian sex at the French court
- What Brantôme tells us about familiarity with classical sources on female homosexuality
- 16th century French vocabulary and slang about lesbian sex
- How do weasels come into it?
- Books mentioned
- Brantôme (Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme). 1740. Vies des Dames Galantes. Garnier Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs, Paris. (via Project Gutenberg)
- Lives of fair and gallant ladies by Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de, d. 1614; Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard) (via archive.org)
- 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 podcast is adapted from LHMP entry #199 here: Brantôme 1740 Vies des Dames Galantes
- For more information on Brantôme, see his Wikipedia entry
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)
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Book Appreciation with Tara Scott
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 154 with Heather Rose Jones
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured guest (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:
- Tara’s introduction to historic romance through Julie Garwood, Jude Deveraux, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and how they shaped her taste
- Some books Tara loved in 2019
- Jane Austen-inspired f/f stories that Tara would love for someone to write
- 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 Tara Scott Online
- Twitter: @taramdscott
- Website: Tara’s Reviews at The Lesbian Review
- Website: Tara’s Reviews at Lambda Literary
- Website: Tara’s Reviews at Smart Bitches Trashy Books
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Interview with Edale Lane
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 153 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- Setting an adventure in DaVinci’s Milan
- An author’s publishing itinerary
- What’s coming for the “Nightflyer” series
- 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 Edale Lane Online
- Website: Past and Prologue Press
- Twitter: @EdaleLane
- Facebook: Melodie Romeo
- Instagram: melodieromeo
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Friday Oct 16, 2020
On the Shelf for April 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 152 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- Living through historic times
- Individualism versus community in history and the present
- How your podcast host is coping
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Bray, Alan. 2003. The Friend. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-07181-7
- Verini, Alexandra. 2016. "Medieval Models of Female Friendship in Cristine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies and Margery Kempe's The Book of Margery Kempe" in Feminist Studies vol. 42, no. 2 365-391.
- Lasser, Carol. 1988. "'Let Us Be Sisters Forever': The Sororal Model of Nineteenth-Century Female Friendship" in Signs vol. 14, no. 1 158-181.
- Moore, Lisa. 1992. "'Something More Tender Still than Friendship': Romantic Friendship in Early-Nineteenth-Century England" in Feminist Studies vol. 18, no. 3 499-520.
- Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. 1975. “The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America” in Signs vol. 1, no. 1 1-29.
- Vicinus, Martha. 1984. "Distance and Desire: English Boarding-School Friendships" in Signs vol. 9, no. 4 600-622.
- Faderman, Lillian. 1999. "Surpassing the Love of Men Revisited" in The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review 6.2 p.26.
- Bodek, Evely Gordon. 1976. "Salonières and Bluestockings: Educated Obsolescence and Germinating Feminism" in Feminist Studies vol 3 no. 3/4 185-199.
- Announcing this month’s author guest, Edale Lane
- New and forthcoming fiction
- The Decameron Project
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 15, 2020
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Bertolina Guercia
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 151 with Heather Rose Jones
The story of a 13th century Italian woman who seems to have openly had sexual relationships with women.
In this episode we talk about:
- Who was Bertolina Guercia and what was her life like?
- How was Bertolina’s sexuality described by witnesses?
- The surprising acceptance of Bertolina’s lesbianism
- Sources mentioned
- Lansing, Carol. 2005. “Donna con Donna? A 1295 Inquest into Female Sodomy” in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History: Sexuality and Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, Third Series vol. II: 109-122.
- Puff, Helmut. 2000. "Female Sodomy: The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477)" in Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: 30:1, 41-61.
- Crompton, Louis. 1985. “The Myth of Lesbian Impunity: Capital Laws from 1270 to 1791” in Licata, Salvatore J. & Robert P. Petersen (eds). The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 0-918393-11-6 (Also published as Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 6, numbers 1/2, Fall/Winter 1980.)
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Bertolina Guercia
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 15, 2020
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Movie Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 150 with Heather Rose Jones
A look at media that asks us to embrace the harder parts of history
In this episode we talk about:
- Look: just go see this movie, then come back and listen to the podcast
- How bittersweet stories are part of the triumph of queer media
- Just because it doesn’t have a Happily Ever After ending doesn’t mean it’s an unhappy story
- Properties mentioned
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 15, 2020
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Interview with Catherine Lundoff of Queen of Swords Press
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 149 with Heather Rose Jones
An interview with the founder of Queen of Swords Press about the process of starting a publishing company.
In this episode we talk about:
- Moving from being published to being a publisher
- Schedules and timelines
- Finding the balance in content
- What to tackle by yourself and when to bring in experts
- Making the finances work
- How success can trip you up
- The surprising cross-market potential of dapper lesbian capybara pirates
- Books mentioned - you are encouraged to buy through the Queen of Swords website
- Silver Moon by Catherine Lundoff
- Out of This World by Catherine Lundoff
- Murder on the Titania by Alex Acks
- Medusa’s Touch by Emily L. Byrne
- Scourge of the Seas of Time and Space edited by Catherine Lundoff
- Wireless by Alex Acks
- Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic by Catherine Lundoff
- The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper by A.J. Fitzwater
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 Queen of Swords Press and Catherine Lundoff Online
- Website: Queen of Swords Press
- Twitter: @QoSPress
- Facebook: Queen of Swords Press
- Website: Catherine Lundoff
- Twitter: @clundoff
- Facebook: Catherine Lundoff (author page)
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
On the Shelf for March 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 148 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- In the spring, a historian’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of...historic gardening.
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Andreadis, Harriette. 1989. “The Sapphic-Platonics of Katherine Philips, 1632-1664” in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 15(1):34-60.
- Gubar, Susan. 1984. "Sapphistries" in Signs vol. 10, no. 1 43-62.
- Hallett, Judith. 1979. “Sappho and Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality. in Signs 4: 447-464.
- Stigers, Eva Stehle. 1979. “Romantic Sensuality, Poetic Sense: A Response to Hallett on Sappho” in SIgns vol 4, no 3: 465-471.
- Katz, Marilyn A. 2000. "Sappho and Her Sisters: Women in Ancient Greece" in Signs vol. 25, no. 2 505-531.
- Bray, Alan. 2003. The Friend. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-07181-7
- Verini, Alexandra. 2016. "Medieval Models of Female Friendship in Cristine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies and Margery Kempe's The Book of Margery Kempe" in Feminist Studies vol. 42, no. 2 365-391.
- Lasser, Carol. 1988. "'Let Us Be Sisters Forever': The Sororal Model of Nineteenth-Century Female Friendship" in Signs vol. 14, no. 1 158-181.
- Moore, Lisa. 1992. "'Something More Tender Still than Friendship': Romantic Friendship in Early-Nineteenth-Century England" in Feminist Studies vol. 18, no. 3 499-520.
- Announcing this month’s guest, Catherine Lundoff talking about Queen of Swords Press
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Tooth and Blade by Julian Barr
- The Flowers of Time (Lost in Time Book 3) by A.L. Lester
- Red Kate: a tale of lesbian piracy by Sarah Tighe-Ford
- Dangerous Remedy by Kat Dunn
- Never Anyone But You: A Novel by Rupert Thomson
- The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey
- Behind the Bandstand by Theresa J. Everlove
- Music from Another World by Robin Talley
- The Mail Order Bride by R. Kent
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 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Talking to Ghosts by Caitlin Flavell
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 147 with Heather Rose Jones
The first story in our 2020 fiction series, set in Victorian Scotland. The narrator is your host.
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 Caitlin Flavell Online
- Website: Clitbait (as a contributor)
- Email: flavellc97@gmail.com
- Twitter: @Flavell97
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
The Evolution of Butch as a Lesbian Signifier
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 146 with Heather Rose Jones
An investigation across time of how the use of “masculine” clothing developed into a deliberate signal of women’s same-sex interests.
A slideshow version of this show is available on our YouTube channel. (This version does not have the re-mastered intro and references to TLT are obsolete.)
In this episode we talk about:
- Historic Attitudes Toward Clothing Gender
- How Gendered Clothing Confers Gender Characteristics
- Cross-gender Garments Signifying Sexual Unruliness
- Theatrical Contexts Interpreted as Sexually Desirable to Men but Also to Women
- Male-coded Garments in Gender Play Combined with Same-Sex Erotics
- Women with Same-Sex Interests Depicted as Behaving Mannishly
- The Sartorial Stylings of Amazons and Bluestockings
- Lesbians in Riding Habits
- “Mannish” Clothing and the Decadent Movement
- People and Publications (Links are to LHMP blog posts or podcasts unless otherwise noted)
- Tournament with Cross-dressing Women 14th c
- Hic Mulier
- Mary Frith/Moll Cutpurse (podcast)
- The Roaring Girl by Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton
- Julie d’Aubigny
- Charlotte Cibber Charke
- Charlotte Cushman (podcast)
- The Convent of Pleasure by Margaret Cavendish (1668)
- The New Atalantis by Delarivier Manley (1709)
- The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu (1744) (podcast)
- Memoirs of the Life of Count Grammont by Anthony Hamilton (1713)
- Pamela by Samuel Richardson (1740)
- Sir Charles Grandison by Samuel Richardson (1753)
- Belinda by Maria Edgeworth (1801)
- Diaries of Samuel Pepys (1666) (Wikipedia)
- Anne Damer (podcast)
- Ladies of Llangollen: Eleanor Butler & Sarah Ponsonby (podcast)
- Anne Lister
- Eupheia by Charlotte Lennox (1790)
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844) (Wikipedia)
- Mademoiselle de Maupin Théophile Gautier (1835)
- Nana by Émile Zola (1880)
- Lélia by George Sand (1833)
- Natalie Clifford Barney (Wikipedia)
- Colette (Wikipedia)
- Rosa Bonheur
- Other References Used
- Albert, Nicole G. 2016. Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France. Harrington Park Press. (not yet blogged)
- Bennett, Judith and Shannon McSheffrey. 2014. “Early, Exotic and Alien: Women Dressed as Men in Late Medieval London” in History Workshop Journal. 77 (1): 1-25.
- Castle, Terry (ed). 2003. The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 0-231-12510-0
- Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4
- Donoghue, Emma. 2010. Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. ISBN 978-0-307-27094-8
- Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-688-00396-6
- 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
- Loughlin, Marie H. 2014. Same-Sex Desire in Early Modern England, 1550-1735: An Anthology of Literary Texts and Contexts. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-8208-5
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)