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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 02, 2020
Friday Oct 02, 2020
The Favourite
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 89 with Heather Rose Jones
A review of the movie The Favourite, about the rivalry between Sarah Duchess of Marlborough and Abigail Masham for the favor and affections of Anne, Queen of England.
I’m joined in this show by Farah Mendlesohn, historian and both author and publisher of queer historical fiction, and by Trystan Bass, co-founder and editor in chief of the Frock Flicks blog and podcast. We talk about everything from the necessary historical inaccuracies of film making, to the use of costume and setting in conveying the film’s themes, to how much we loved both the story and the performances in this movie.
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 Farah Mendlesohn Online
- Website: https://farahmendlesohn.com
- Twitter: @effjayem
Links to Manifold Press Online
- Website: https://manifoldpress.co.uk
- Twitter: @ManifoldPressUK
Links to Trystan Bass Online
- Website: Frock Flicks
- Twitter: @FrockFlicks
Friday Oct 02, 2020
Friday Oct 02, 2020
The State of Lesbian Historicals in 2018
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 88 with Heather Rose Jones
Now that I’ve been listing new historical releases for a year, what does the state of the field look like?
In this episode we talk about:
- How many stories are being published, and who’s publishing them?
- Where are those stories set in time and place?
- How does 2018 compare with what I know of past patterns?
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 02, 2020
Friday Oct 02, 2020
On the Shelf for January 2019
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 87 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- A few minor format changes for the podcast
- Call for submissions for the 2019 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- India and Asia
- 17-18th century topics
- This month’s essay topic is: The New Atalantis by Delariviere Manley
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Ebanks, K.C. Violets (Amazon digital)
- Hattie's Homestead: The Other Legend (in two parts) by Marion Grace from Leafgate Publishing
- The Duelist and Her Lover - A Historical Lesbian Adventure Romance by Esther J Autumn from Amazon digital
- An Irish Heart by C.M. Blackwood through Amazon digital
- Blackwood, C.M. Madam Tellier’s Lover (Amazon digital)
- Blackwood, C.M. The Grey Rider (Amazon digital)
- Madeleine by Emma Nichols via Amazon digital
- Love’s Refrain: A Victorian Ghost Story self-published by Steven Glick
- Book’s Pass by Lara Zielinsky, published by LZ Media
- Temper CA by Paul Skenazy published by Miami University Press
- Ask Sappho: Why are cross-time themes so popular in lesbian historical fiction, and what are some of the common types? Books 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 01, 2020
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
At the Mouth by Gurmika Mann
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 86
The fourth story in our 2018 fiction series. Written by Gurmika Mann and narrated by Maya Chhabra.
“At the Mouth” by Gurmika Mann is set in the southern part of India in the 10th century
A transcript of this podcast may be 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 Gurmika Mann Online
- Twitter: @gikhee
Links to Maya Chhabra Online
- Twitter: @mayachhabra
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)