The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

On the Shelf for September 2018 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 69

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
• • 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)

Poetry about Love Between Women from the 16th and 17th Centuries - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 68

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
  • “To Mrs M Awbrye” by Katherine Philips
  • “A Song” by Aphra Behn, see also the podcast on Behn
  • “Love and Friendship: A Pastoral” by Elizabeth Singer Rowe
  • “On the Death of my Dear Friend and Play-fellow” by Jane Barker
• Men jealous of women’s love for each other
  • “Elegy for a Lady Enamoured of Another Lady” by Pontus de Tyard
  • “On the Friendship Betwixt Two Ladies” by Edmund Waller
  • “Two Beauties, Tender Lovers” by Denis Sanguin de Saint-Pavin
• Men appropriating lesbian imagery
  • “Sappho to Philaenis” by John Donne
  • “To Mr. J.D. (T.W.)” by Thomas Woodward
• Poems of satire and vituperation
  • “Epigram on Cecilia Bulstrode” by Ben Johnson
  • “Tribades or Lesbia” by François de Maynard
  • “Women’s Complaint to Venus” and “Venus’s Reply” by anonymous
• The triumph of love
  • Maitland Quarto MS Poem 49
  • “My Divine Lysi” by Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz
  • “On a Lady Named Beloved” by Anne de Rohan-Chabot

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)

Book Appreciation with Darlene Vendegna - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 67

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)

Interview with Vanda - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 66

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
  • Juliana by Vanda
  • Olympus Nights on the Square by Vanda
  • Paris, Adrift by Vanda
  • Vanda’s play about 17th century lesbian nun Benedetta Carlini: Vile Affections

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

On the Shelf for August 2018 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 65

On the Shelf for August 2018

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast – Episode 65 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
  • Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog: sexuality in the 17-18th century, and the last few assorted items from this summer’s journal article blitz.
• Announcing this month’s author guest, Vanda
• New and forthcoming fiction
  • Crossing the Line by C.F. Frizzell (Bold Strokes Books)
  • The Air You Breathe  by Frances de Pontes Peebles (Riverhead Books)
  • Cavalcade by K’Anne Meinel (Shadoe Publishing)
  • Pioneering by K’Anne Meinel (Shadoe Publishing)
• Ask Sappho: an anonymous listener asks “Why do you use the word ‘lesbian’ when you’re talking about people with a wide range of identities?”

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)

Women and Same-Sex Marriage in Western History - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 64

Women and Same-Sex Marriage in Western History

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 64

A survey of strategies for getting your historical protagonists hitched across the centuries.

In this episode we talk about:

• How the concepts of “women”, “same-sex”, and “marriage” are being defined for the purpose of this discussion
• Cultures that may have supported marriage between women as an equal option
• Cases of same-sex marriage enabled by presenting as an opposite sex couple
• The permeability of the “opposite sex” requirement in actual practice
• Using the forms and rituals of marriage, even when the legal status was not available

This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:

• Marriage between women
• Female husbands

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)

Book Appreciation with Justine Saracen - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 63

Book Appreciation with Justine Saracen

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 63

In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors (or your host) will talk about one or more favourite books with queer female characters in a historic setting.

• The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
• A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous

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 Justine Saracen Online

• Website: Justine Saracen at Bold Strokes Books

Interview with Justine Saracen - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 62

Interview with Justine Saracen

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 62

In this episode we talk about:

• The Berlin Airlift and its historic context
• Why Justine started writing about World War II
• Political parallels with current politics
• The hazards of writing non-romance novels in history
• How wartime disruption of social roles creates a useful setting for lesbian fiction
• Justine’s non-WWII novels and the “cross-time” approach to historical fiction
• Using historical fiction to show repeating human patterns
• Favorite research sources: location, location, location
• Justine’s current project: The Sami in Norway in WWII
• Books mentioned
  • Berlin Hungers by Justine Saracen (Bold Strokes Books)
  • Tyger Tyger Burning Bright by Justine Saracen (Bold Strokes Books)
  • The Witch of Stalingrad by Justine Saracen (Bold Strokes Books)
  • Beloved Gomorrah by Justine Saracen (Bold Strokes Books)
  • Sarah, Son of God by Justine Saracen (Bold Strokes Books)
  • The Ibis Prophecy: The 100th Generation by Justine Saracen (Bold Strokes Books)
  • Vulture’s Kiss by Justine Saracen (Bold Strokes Books)
  • The Mephisto Aria by Justine Saracen (Bold Strokes Books)
  • A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous

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 Justine Saracen Online

• Website: Justine Saracen at Bold Strokes Books
• Facebook: Justine Saracen

On the Shelf for July 2018 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 61

On the Shelf for July 2018

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 61 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
  • The Zimmern Chronicle
  • Brantôme’s Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies
  • “From Huw Arwystli to Siôn Eirian” by MIhangel Morgan, queer Welsh literature
  • Primary source material for the study of 17th century English women
  • Emma Donoghue looks at the intersection of the motifs of hermaphrodite and lesbian in 17-18th century England
  • Clorinda Donato considers John Cleland’s translation of the life of Catherine VIzzani as a satirical attack on Mary Wortley Montagu
  • Jacqueline Holler considers the trial confessions of a 16th c Mexican holy woman, heretic, and sexual outlaw
  • Susan Lanser discusses the political implications of women’s same-sex relationships in 17th century England
  • Tim Hitchcock looks at homosexual subcultures in 18th century England
• Announcing this month’s author guest, Justine Saracen
• New and forthcoming fiction
  • J B Marsden The Travels of Charlie (Sapphire Books)
  • Kelly Wacker Holding Their Place (Bold Strokes Books)
  • Rebecca Harwell Shadow of the Phoenix (Bold Strokes Books)
  • Natalie Debrabandere Thyra's Promise (self-published)
  • Claire O’Dell A Study in Honor (Harper Collins)
• Ask Sappho: Sheena asks, "Were there 'drag king' performances before the 20th century?"
  • Rowson 2003 Gender Irregularity as Entertainment: Institutionalized Transvestism at the Caliphal Court in Medieval Baghdad
  • Westphal-Wihl 1989 “The Ladies’ Tournament: Marriage, Sex, and Honor in Thirteenth-Century Germany”
  • Knighton 1995 Knighton’s Chronicle 1337-1396
  • Mary Frith aka Moll Cutpurse
  • Hannah Snell
  • Straub, Kristina. 1991. “The Guilty Pleasures of Female Theatrical Cross-Dressing and the Autobiography of Charlotte Charke”
  • Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 19d - Charlotte Cushman
  • Sears, Clare. 2015. Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco.

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)

Inscribed by V. M. Agab - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 60

Inscribed by V. M. Agab

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 60

The second story in our 2018 fiction series. Written by V.M. Agab and narrated by Ann Etter

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)