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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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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)
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