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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 01, 2020
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Queen Anne
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 85 with Heather Rose Jones
The social and historic context of Queen Anne of England and the basis for the rumors of lesbianism associated with her court.
In this episode we talk about
- A brief historic timeline
- Passionate friendships and libertine sex in Restoration England
- Some dramatis personae:
- Princess/Queen Anne
- Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
- Abigail Hill Masham
- Delariviere Manley
- English politics during the reign of Queen Anne
- Anne and Sarah’s break-up
- Where the lesbian accusations came from
- Were they or weren’t they?
Links mentioned in the text:
- LHMP episode 25d: Poetry about Love Between Women from the 16th and 17th Centuries
- The Mazarinette and the Musketeer
LHMP publications used in this research
- Crawford, Julie. 2009. “Women’s Secretaries” in Queer Renaissance Historiography, Vin Nardizzi, Stephen Guy-Bray & Will Stockton, eds. Ashgate, Burlington VT. ISBN 978-0-7546-7608-9
- Andreadis, Harriette. 2001. Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714.University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226020099
- Traub, Valerie. 2010. “’Friendship So Curst’: Amor Impossibilis, the Homoerotic Lament and the Nature of Lesbian Desire” in Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4
- 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
- Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4
Other research sources
- Wikipedia: Anne, Queen of Great Britain
- Potts, Cherry - A blog series about the women in Queen Anne’s life.
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
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 01, 2020
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Book Appreciation with Carrie Pack
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 84 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 Carrie Pack recommends some favorite queer historical novels:
- Books mentioned
- Ash by Malinda Lo (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- Pulp by Robin Talley (Harlequin Teen)
- Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters (Riverhead Books)
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 Carrie Pack Online
- Website: http://www.carriepack.com
- Twitter: @carriepack
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Interview with Carrie Pack
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 83 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about
- The riot girl movement of the 1990s
- The importance of girls in zine culture
- Writing near-past fiction
- Sensitive writing for the contemporary reader
- Carrie’s podcast: Bi Sci Fi for queer-friendly speculative fiction
- Different experiences with SFF and YA books
- Researching the facts of your own past
- 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 Carrie Pack Online
- Website: http://www.carriepack.com
- Twitter: @carriepack
- Twitter: @biscifi
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
On the Shelf for December 2018
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 82 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- An academic resource about researching historical fiction: the Historical Fictions Network and their upcoming conference in England in February 2019.
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Classical Greek romances with f/f themes
- Articles about the Sex Panic of the 1790s and the social and political anxieties in England and France leading up to it.
- F/f sex in 18th century legal records in Amsterdam
- Possibly some tie-in publications on historical sexuality in India
- A gorgeous lesbian-interest costume drama The Favourite about Queen Anne of England, Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, and Abigail Masham.
- This month’s essay topic is: Queen Anne and the rumors of lesbianism that surrounded her favorites.
- Announcing this month’s author guest, Carrie Pack
- This month’s audio short story will be: “At the Mouth” by Gurmika Mann
- New and forthcoming fiction
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- Lavender Inn by Olivia Lark (Three Bunny Farm Press)
- Whiskey and Cinnamon by Naomi Muse (self-published)
- The Triple L by Red Hope (Little Red Wings)
- “Her Royal Servant” by Emilie Blondel (self-published, short story)
- “Bellatrix's Slave” by Emilie Blondel (self-published, short story)
- “The Queen's Gift” by Lara Zielinsky (LZ Media)
- Heaven is to your Left (Juliana book 4) by Vanda (Sans Merci Press)
- A Lady’s Desire by Lily Maxon (self-published)
- Carmilla and Laura by S.D. Simper (Endless Night Publications)
- Ask Sappho: an amusing and intriguing archaeological find, courtesy of Ancient Origins
- A reminder about opening submissions for our 2019 fiction series. See here for details.
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 Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Anne Damer
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 81 with Heather Rose Jones
A short biography of 18th century sculptor Anne Damer and her rumored lesbian relationships.
In this episode we talk about
- The novel that inspired this episode: Life Mask by Emma Donoghue
- An overview of Damer’s life and career
- Her close friendships with actress Elizabeth Farren and writer Mary Berry
- The complicated landscape of women’s same-sex relations in the 18th century
- Why Damer may have been unusually vulnerable to accusations of lesbian relations
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
Some specific sources that discuss Anne Damer’s sexuality:
- Donoghue, Emma. 2010. “'Random Shafts of Malice?': The Outings of Anne Damer” in Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4
- Rictor Norton (Ed.), "Mrs Piozzi's Reminiscences, 1770s-1790s", Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook, 20 April 2003
- Rictor Norton (Ed.), "A Sapphick Epistle, 1778", Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook. 1 December 1999, updated 23 February 2003
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 Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Book Appreciation with Heather Rose Jones - Reading Outside Your Comfort Zone
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 80 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 Heather Rose Jones recommends some favorite historical novels with queer characters that may challenge your usual reading habits:
Also mentioned:
- “The Mazarinette and the Musketeer” by Heather Rose Jones
- “M. de Maupin” by Catherine Lundoff in A Day at the Inn, A Night at the Palace and Other Stories (likely to be reprinted in a new collection, but no details yet)
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 Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Interview with Elizabeth Tammi
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 79 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- The mythological roots of Outrun the Wind
- Balancing the mythic and historic
- The Theoi Project (Greek mythology resources) http://www.theoi.com
- Reclaiming Greek mythology for women’s stories
- The challenge of writing alternating first person voices
- The experience of selling your first novel in college
- Elizabeth’s next mythological topic
- Elizabeth’s tumblr blog about YA literature
- 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 Elizabeth Tammi Online
- Website: http://elizabethtammi.com
- Twitter: @elizabethtammi
- Tumblr: http://annabethisterrified.tumblr.com
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
On the Shelf for November 2018
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 78 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Books on Classical Rome
- Articles from the Journal of the History of Sexuality
- Announcing this month’s author guest, Elizabeth Tammi
- This month’s essay topic is: 18th c sculptor Anne Damer
- New and forthcoming fiction
- "Penhallow Amid Passing Things" (novelette) by Iona Datt Sharma (self-published) (also in anthology Underwater Ballroom Society)
- Outrun the Wind by Elizabeth Tammi (Flux/North Star Editions)
- Wild Fields by Purple Hazel (Torrid Books)
- Gentleman Jack: A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist by Angela Steidele, trans. Katy Derbyshire (Serpent's Tail)
- A Different Kind of Fire: A Novel by Susanne Schafer (Waldorf Publishing)
- The Lilith Gene by M. Cassol (Clink Street Publishing)
- Pulp by Robin Talley (Harlequin Teen)
- Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield (tor.com)
- Trafalgar & Boone and the Children of the Burnt Empire (Trafalgar and Boone Book 4) by Geonn Cannon (Supposed Crimes)
- The Widows of Malabar Hill (A Mystery of 1920s India) by Sujata Massey (Soho Crime)
- Call for submissions for the new LHMP audio short story segment. See here for details. See here for details.
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 Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Woman Plus Woman in Classical Rome
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 77 with Heather Rose Jones
A critical look at the evidence regarding sexual and romantic relationships between women in Classical Rome.
In this episode we talk about:
- The Roman “sexual system”
- How women break the pattern
- How Roman women had sex with each other
- Same-sex marriage in the Roman empire
- The causes and meaning of same-sex desire
- Imagining sex and love between women
- Women’s voices
- Martial’s epigrams on sexually aggressive women
- Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans
- Women’s relationships elsewhere in the empire: Celts and Egyptians
A list of sources and links can be found in the transcript
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 Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Sappho: The Translations (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 11 with Heather Rose Jones
In this show we’ll look at the legacy of Sappho from the Middle Ages up through the 19th century: the various images people had of her, how people used her as a symbol, the way those images affected how her poetry was translated into everyday languages, and how poets used her themes and imagery in their own work.
In this episode we talk about:
- How much poetry did Sappho write, and how much survives? Why was it lost, and why were the bits we have preserved?
- What was the changing image of Sappho from the middle ages through the 19th century? How did people reconcile their admiration for Sappho’s poetry and their disapproval of homosexuality?
- Who translated Sappho’s works and how did their opinions of her affect those translations?
The show will include recitations of the following poems:
- Ode to Aphrodite & Fragment #31: Jane McIntosh Snyder from Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho (20th century)
- “On a Lady Named Beloved” inspired by fragment #31: Anne de Rohan (1617), translated from the French
- Fragment #31: John Hall (1652)
- Fragment #31: Joseph Addison (1735)
- Ode to Aphrodite & Fragment #31: Abrose Philips (1748)
- “Eleanore” inspired by Fragment #31: Lord Tennyson (1832)
- Fragment #31 & “Imitation of Sappho” inspired by Fragment #31: Mary Hewitt (1845)
Books used as source material
- Addison, Joseph. 1735. The Works of Anacreon, Translated into English Verse, with Notes Explanatory and Poetical. To which are added the Odes, Fragments, and Epigrams of Sappho. London.
- 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
- Hall, John. 1652. Sappho’s On the Sublime.
- Snyder, Jane. 1997. Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Wharton, Henry Thornton. 1887. Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation. London.
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
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)