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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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Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Sappho of Lesbos - The Woman and the Legend (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 75 with Heather Rose Jones
As a special Pride Month celebration, I’m recording a pair of episodes talking about the poet Sappho: what we know about her life and context, the legends that sprang up about her, what people of various ages thought of her, and most especially what they knew of her poetry, how they interpreted and even imitated it.
In this episode we talk about:
- The known facts of Sappho’s life
- What classical Greek and Roman writers said about her
- Possible explanations for some of the contradictory stories about her
- The social context for Sappho’s expressions of love and desire for women, and what sort of relationships were most likely involved
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)
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
On the Shelf for October 2018
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 74 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- Announcing the 2019 audio fiction series
- A conference next March in France: “Sapphic Vibes: Lesbians in Literature from the Renaissance to the Present”
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Publications about Moll Cutpurse
- Mary Diana Dods: A Scholar and a Gentleman by Betty T. Bennett
- Publications about sexuality in ancient Rome
- Book Shopping for the Blog
- Same-sex Desire in Early Modern England, 1550-1735: An Anthology of Literary Texts and Contexts by Marie H. Loughlin
- Instead of an author guest, a reprise of two shows about Sappho
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Ask Sappho: The most outrageous, tropiest Regency same-sex relationship...and it’s all true
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 Sep 28, 2020
Monday Sep 28, 2020
Peaceweaver by Jennifer Nestojko
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 73 with Heather Rose Jones
The third story in our 2018 fiction series. Written by Jennifer Nestojko and narrated by Tiana Hanson.
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 Sep 28, 2020
Monday Sep 28, 2020
Moll Cutpurse
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 72
A look at the life, legend, and literary figure of Mary Frith, aka Moll Cutpurse, 17th century English gender outlaw.
In this episode we talk about:
- A brief biography and its sources
- Moll’s criminal and theatrical careers
- Moll’s gender performance and its reception
- The ambiguous evidence regarding Moll’s sexuality
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
Books mentioned
- The edited edition of Mary Frith's attributed diary is published as: Todd, Janet & Elizabeth Spearing ed. 1994. Counterfeit Ladies: The Life and Death of Mary Frith Case of Mary Carleton. William Pickering, London. ISBN 1-85196-087-2
- Ellen Galford's novel Moll Cutpurse depicts her as enjoying a long-term same-sex relationship. I reviewed the novel here .
- The Roaring Girl by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker. The link is to a version of the text at archive.org, but the OCR version has not been cleaned up and is difficult to read.
- A full-cast audio production of The Roaring Girl is available from librivox.org. Based on a brief sample, the performance appears to be highly professional and easy to follow.
- title by author
- title by author
- I found two complete (although not necessarily unabridged) productions of The Roaring Girl on YouTube. Both are amateur productions and of highly variable quality.
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 Sep 28, 2020
Monday Sep 28, 2020
Book Appreciation with K. Aten
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 71
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 Kelly Aten recommends some favorite queer historical novels:
Books mentioned
- Other Girls by Diane Ayres
- Alma Mater by Rita Mae Brown
- Cinder and the Smoke by Geonn Cannon [Note: in discussing the book, there is an assertion that having a female Pinkerton agent in the 19th century made the story non-historic, but see for example Pinkerton agent Kate Warne one of the first women hired by Pinkerton in the 1850s]
- Storm by Kim Pritekel
- Cobb Island by Blayne Cooper
- Balance of Forces: Toujours ici by Ali Vali
- When Women Were Warriors by Catherine M. Wilson
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 K. Aten Online
- Website: http://www.katen-author.com
Monday Sep 28, 2020
Monday Sep 28, 2020
Interview with K Aten
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 70
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- The setting and characters of The Arrows of Artemis
- Moving from fanfic to original historical fiction
- The joys and frustrations of researching ancient Greece
- 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 K. Aten Online
- Website: http://www.katen-author.com
- Twitter: @WORDNRD68
- Facebook: katenauthor
Monday Sep 28, 2020
Monday Sep 28, 2020
On the Shelf for September 2018
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 69 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
- Lemay, Helen Rodnite “Human Sexuality in Twelfth- through Fifteenth-Century Scientific Writings”
- Janet Todd and Elizabeth Spearing Counterfeit Ladies: The Life and Death of Mary Frith, The Case of Mary Carleton
- Charles Whibley A Book of Scoundrels
- Nathan Field Amends for Ladies (play)
- Thomas Middleton The Roaring Girl (play)
- Betty T. Bennett Mary Diana Dods: A Gentleman and a Scholar
- Book Shopping for the Blog
- Emma Donoghue Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and Desire
- Domna C. Stanton The Defiant Muse: French Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present
- Ian McCormick Secret Sexualities: A Sourcebook of 17th and 18th Century Writing
- Huw Osborne (ed) Queer Wales: The History, Culture, and Politics of Queer Life in Wales
- Cathryn A. Charnell-White (ed) Beirdd Ceridwen: Blodeugerdd Barddas o Ganu Menywod hyd tua 1800, Ceridwen’s Bards: a Bardic Collection of Women’s Poems to Around 1800
- Randolph Trumbach Sex and the Gender Revolution: Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London
- Announcing this month’s author guest, K. Aten
- This month’s essay topic is: Mary Frith aka Moll Cutpurse
- This month’s audio short story will be: “Peaceweaver” by Jennifer Nestojko. I also announce that the fiction series will be contining in 2019.
- New and forthcoming fiction
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- Dead Man's Chest (Plundered Chronicles 5) by Alex Westmore (Amazon Digital Services)
- European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club #2) by Theodora Goss (Saga Press)
- Like a Book by Bette Hawkins (Bella Books)
- The Navigator's Touch by Julia Ember (Duet)
- The Saggitarius (Arrows of Artemis #3) by K. Aten (Regal Crest)
- Ask Sappho: Jeannelle M. Ferreira on Twitter asks, “Tell us about the Daughters of Bilitis.”
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 Sep 27, 2020
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Poetry about Love Between Women from the 16th and 17th Centuries
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 68
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)
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Book Appreciation with Darlene Vendegna
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 67
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured guest will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting.
In this episode Darlene Vendegna, voracious reader and energentic booster of lesbian fiction, recommends some favorite queer historical novels:
- Hild by Nicola Griffith
- Patience and Sarah by Isabell Miller (audiobook recorded by Janis Ian& Jean Smart)
- Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
- Out of Left Field by Ellen Klages (not lesbian)
- A Thin Bright Line by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
- The Sistine Heresy by Justine Saracen
- The Pirate’s Booty by Alex Westmore (and the rest of The Plundered Chronicles)
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 Sep 27, 2020
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Interview with Vanda
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 66
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- The Juliana series and how it follows queer history across the latter half of the 20th century
- 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 Vanda Online
- Website: http://vandawriter.com
- Facebook: Vanda