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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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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)
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Book Appreciation with Stephanie Burgis
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 145 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 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 Stephanie Burgis Online
- Website: stephanieburgis.com
- Instagram: stephanieburgisinwales
- Twitter: @stephanieburgis
- Goodreads: Stephanie Burgis
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Interview with Stephanie Burgis
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 144 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- Books mentioned
- Snowspelled by Stephanie Burgis (YA/adult, f/f minor characters)
- Thornbound by Stephanie Burgis (YA/adult, f/f minor characters)
- Moontangled by Stephanie Burgis (YA/adult, f/f romance)
- Masks and Shadows by Stephanie Burgis (adult, not f/f)
- Kat, Incorrigible by Stephanie Burgis (middle-grade, not f/f)
- The Disastrous Debut of Agatha Tremaine by Stephanie Burgis (adult f/f, short story)
- Congress of Secrets by Stephanie Burgis (adult, not f/f)
- The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart by Stephanie Burgis (middle-grade, not f/f)
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 Stephanie Burgis Online
- Website: stephanieburgis.com
- Instagram: stephanieburgisinwales
- Twitter: @stephanieburgis
- Goodreads: Stephanie Burgis
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
On the Shelf for February 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 143 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- What your host has been writing lately
- What’s New at Bella - A new lesfic podcast from Bella books
- Submissions are closed for the 2020 Fiction Series. Check the LHMPodcast Index Page for an announcement of the first story.
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Rupp, Leila J. 2013. "Thinking About 'Lesbian History'" in Feminist Studies vol. 39, no 2 357-361.
- Vicinus, Martha. 2012. "The History of Lesbian History" in Feminist Studies vol. 38, no. 3 566-596.
- Foucault, Michel. 1990. The History of Sexuality. Vintage Books, New York. ISBN 978-0-679-72469-8
- Andreadis, Harriette. 1989. “The Sapphic-Platonics of Katherine Philips, 1632-1664” in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 15(1):34-60. (link will only be live after the blog posts)
- Gubar, Susan. 1984. "Sapphistries" in Signs vol. 10, no. 1 43-62. (link will only be live after the blog posts)
- Hallett, Judith. 1979. “Sappho and Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality. in Signs 4: 447-464. (link will only be live after the blog posts)
- Announcing this month’s author guest, Stephanie Burgis
- New and forthcoming fiction
- The Traveler - Book One: The Hunted by Kim Pritekel
- Merchants of Milan: Book One of the Night Flyer Trilogy by Edale Lane
- Pioneer Hearts by Becky Harris
- Belle Revolte by Linsey Miler
- Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland
- Moontangled by Stephanie Burgis
- The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- End of War in Thermopylae (Thermopylae Bound Book 6) by Belinda Harrison
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)
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Iphis and Ianthe
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 142 with Heather Rose Jones
Tracing same-sex and transgender themes in Ovid’s Classical Roman tale of forbidden love across the ages.
In this episode we talk about:
- Who was Ovid and what type of story was the Metamorphoses?
- The basic plot of the story and the motif of inappropriate love objects
- Gender identity and sexuality in Iphis and Ianthe
- Medieval transmission and the purpose of the “moralized Ovid”
- The Renaissance translations return to Ovid’s original
- Adapting Iphis in Yde and Olive and Gallathea
- Iphis and Ianthe as a mirror for women through the centuries looking for a model of same-sex love
- References
- Caxton, William. 2013. The Booke of Ovyde Named Methamorphose. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto. ISBN 978-0-88844-182-9
- Durling, Nancy Vine. 1989. “Rewriting Gender: Yde et Olive and Ovidian Myth” in Romance Languages Annual 1: 256-62.
- Golding, Arthur. 1567. P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, translated oute of Latin into English meeter. Willyam Seres, London.
- Gower, John. 2013. Confessio Amantis vol. 2 edited by Russell A. Peck, with Latin translations by Andrew Galloway. TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. Medieval Institute Publications, Kalamazoo.
- Hallett, Judith P. 1997. “Female Homoeroticism and the Denial of Roman Reality in Latin Literature” in Roman Sexualities, ed. By Judith P. Hallett & Marilyn B. Skinner, Princeton University Press, Princeton.
- Hubbard, Thomas K. 2003. Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-23430-7
- Mills, Robert. 2015. Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-16912-5
- Pintabone, Diane T. "Ovid's Iphis and Ianthe: When Girls Won't Be Girls” in Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin & Lisa Auanger eds. 2002. Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World. University of Texas Press, Austin. ISBN 0-29-77113-4
- Watt, Diane 1998. "Behaving like a man? Incest, Lesbian desire, and gender play in 'Yde et Olive' and its adaptations", Comparative Literature, 50, 4 (Fall 1998): 265-85.
- Walen, Denise A. 2005. Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6875-3
- The full text of Gower’s Confessio Amantis can be found at the website of the TEAMS Middle English Texts Series
- The full text of Golding’s 1567 translation of the Metamorphoses is available from Wikisource
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Metamorphoses: Iphis and Ianthe (Ovid)
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)
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Book Appreciation with Kate Heartfield
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 141 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 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 Kate Heartfield Online
- Website: heartfieldfiction.com
- Twitter: @kateheartfield
- Facebook: Kate Heartfield
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Interview with Kate Heartfield
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 140 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- Time-travel novels
- 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 Kate Heartfield Online
- Website: heartfieldfiction.com
- Twitter: @kateheartfield
- Facebook: Kate Heartfield