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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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Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Things I Loved in 2019
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 137 with Heather Rose Jones
I talk about the novels, non-fiction, and visual media relevant to queer women in history that I enjoyed in 2019
Novels
- Life Mask by Emma Donoghue
- The Ghost and the Machine by Benny Lawrence
- Two Wings to Fly Away by Penny Mickelbury
- A Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite
- The True Queen by Zen Cho
- Bonus non-historical book: The Hounds of Justice by Claire O’Dell
Non-Fiction
- Brown, Kathleen. 1995. “’Changed...into the Fashion of a Man’: The Politics of Sexual Difference in a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Settlement” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:2 pp.171-193.
- Nederman, Cary J. and Jacqui True. 1996. “The Third Sex: The Idea of the Hermaphrodite in Twelfth-Century Europe” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:4: 497-517.
- Abbouchi, Mounawar. 2018. “Yde and Olive” in Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality, vol 8.
- Staples, Kate Kelsey. 2011. Daughters of London: Inheriting Opportunity in the Late Middle Ages. Brill, Leiden. ISBN 978-9004203112
- Ehrenhalt, Lizzie and Tilly Laskey (eds). 2019. Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890-1918. Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul. ISBN 978-1-68134-129-3
- Bonus non-fiction item: Examining the OED - Case Study: Terms for Lesbian(ism) - http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/content/view/435/485/index.html accessed 2019/04/28
Visual Media
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)
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
The Highwaywoman Special (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 136 with Heather Rose Jones
This is a reprise of my first “fifth week special” episode, when I have to come up with something outside my 4-topic rotation. Today we have a multi-media look at female highwaymen in history, song, and story, including five lesbian highwaywoman romances.
In this episode we talk about:
- The historic era of the highwaymen
- Ballads featuring female highwaymen (you get to hear me sing!)
- Women in history who went “on the pad” as they say, or who were rumored to have done so
- The most popular formula for lesbian highwaywoman novels
- Five lesbian highwaywoman romances, plus one bonus highway robbery incident
The various persons and works discussed or presented in this podcast (in order of appearance) are as follows. Some historic references may apply to more than one person.
- “The Highwayman” (excerpt, lyrics by Alfred Noyes music by Phil Ochs, performed by Heather Rose Jones)
- “The Female Highway Hector”, 1683-1703 (excerpt, anonymous broadside ballad, sung to the tune “The Rant”, performed by Heather Rose Jones)
- Historic highwaywomen Joan Bracey, Ann Meders, Nan Hereford
- Rumored highwaywomen Katherine Ferrers (“The Wicked Lady”) and Mary Frith (Moll Cutpurse)
- “Sovay, or The Female Highwayman” (full text, traditional ballad, music traditional?, performed by Heather Rose Jones)
- For cross-dressing motifs in literature in general:
Novels with Highwaywoman Romances
- Rebeccah and the Highwayman by Barbara Davies (Bedazzled Ink, 2008)
- The Locket and the Flintlock by Rebecca S Buck (Bold Strokes Books, 2012)
- Daring and Decorum by Lawrence Hogue (Supposed Crimes, 2017)
- The Mask of the Highwaywoman by Niamh Murphy (self-published, 2017)
- Behind the Mask by Kim Larabee (Alyson Books, 1989 out of print)
- “The Mazarinette and the Musketeer” by Heather Rose Jones (self-published, 2016)
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)
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
On the Shelf for December 2019
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 135 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- A look back at what the podcast has accomplished this year
- Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
- Call for submissions for the Silk and Steel anthology (not affiliated with this podcast) See here for details.
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” by Adrienne Rich
- Constructing Medieval Sexuality edited by Karma Lochrie, Peggy McCracken and James A. Schultz
- Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Post-Modern by Carolyn Dinshaw
- “The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England” by Valerie Traub
- "The Reformulation of Sexual Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century England" by Tim Hitchcock
- "The Transformation of Sodomy from the Renaissance to the Modern World and Its General Sexual Consequences” by Randolph Trumbach
- Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell
- December Schedule
- Reprise show: Highwaywomen
- Essay: Lesbian Vikings?
- Bonus show: Heather’s End-of-year Round-up
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Cinderella and the Lady by K.T. Grant
- O Venus ! Morior ! (Ô Vénus ! Je meurs !) by Le Jardin de Sappho (in French)
- The Shona Jackson Trilogy (Shona, Meet Me at 10, The Beach House) by Vicky Jones & Claire Hackney
- Donning the Beard by EA Kafkalas
- The Little Wife: A gothic Victorian tale of grief, desire and revenge by Delphine Woods
- The Wonderful by Saksia Sarginson
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)
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
The Mermaid by Kathleen Jowitt
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 134 with Heather Rose Jones
The fourth and final story in our 2019 Fiction Series
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
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 Kathleen Jowitt Online
- Website: kathleenjowitt.com
- Twitter: @KathleenJowitt
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Class and Models of Lesbian Desire
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 133 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- The place of class in archetypes of lesbianism and same-sex desire
- How class affects perceptions of sexuality
- Class and money: who has it, what do then need to do to keep it?
- Class and family responsibility: how do different groups balance individualism and group identity?
- How does class influence marriage options, and the ability to reject them?
- How does class affect the potential for economic independence?
- Working through the dynamics of class in some popular lesbian historical archetypes
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)
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Book Appreciation with Heather Rose Jones
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 132 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
- The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
- The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher
- A Study in Honor by Claire O’Dell
- The Hounds of Justice by Claire O’Dell
- A Jewel-Bright Sea by Claire O’Dell
- Silver Moon by Catherine Lundoff
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)
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Interview with Heather Rose Jones
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 131 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- What are the advantages to setting stories in an invented country like Alpennia?
- The roots of Heather’s love for language and history
- Themes and tropes in the Alpennia books
- Why weren’t the books written as romances?
- Complex intersections of gender and sexuality in the books
- Queer coming of age in the 19th century
- What books inspired the Alpennia series?
- Why a laundry maid as a protagonist? Writing precarious lives.
- Touch-points for writing historic disasters and sowing seeds of revolution
- Why write a stand-alone book in the middle of a series?
- Why write in first versus third person?
- Finding the people of color in Alpennia
- Planting story-seeds to harvest in later books
- What’s next for the Alpennia series?
- Giving characters failure modes
- What else does Heather want 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)
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
On the Shelf for November 2019
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 130 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- Fiction series: “The Mermaid” by Kathleen Jowitt
- Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Cadden, Joan. 1993. Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-48378-6
- Rich, Adrienne. 1980. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” in Signs 5: 631-60.
- Lochrie, Karma, Peggy McCracken and James A. Schultz. 1997. Constructing Medieval Sexuality. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. ISBN 0-8166-2829-7
- Dinshaw, Carolyn. 1999. Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
- Announcing this month’s author guest: Heather Rose Jones
- New and forthcoming fiction
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 Oct 10, 2020
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
The Goblin Market (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 129 with Heather Rose Jones
This is an analysis and recitation of the poem “The Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti, with special attention to its homoerotic themes.
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 Oct 10, 2020
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
Poetry about Love Between Women from the 16th and 17th Centuries (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 128
This episode takes a poetic tour through expressions of, and reactions to, love between women in 16th and 17th century Europe.
In this episode we talk about:
- Poems about the pangs of love
- Men jealous of women’s love for each other
- Men appropriating lesbian imagery
- Poems of satire and vituperation
- The triumph of love
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)