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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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Saturday Jun 01, 2024
Saturday Jun 01, 2024
On the Shelf for June 2024
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 288 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- New podcast Period – feminist look at historical dramas
- Lesbiantiquity
- Book Shopping
- Mortimer, Ian. 2012. The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England. Penguin Books, New York. ISBN 978-0-14-312563-1
- Brown, Pamela Allen & Peter Parolin (eds). 2005. Women Players in England, 1500-1660. Ashgate, Burlington. ISBN 978-0-7546-6535-9
- Colonna, Pompeo (intro Franco Minonzio, trans Margaret L. King). 2024. In Defense of Women: A Bilingual Edition. Iter Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-64959-113-5
- Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
- Uncharted Waters (The Savages of Falcote) by Ally Hastings
- Three Times Elspeth Harris Rode to Town by Becky Black
- She Serves the Realm (No Man is her Master #4) by Lee Swanson
- The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron
- A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence (Lucky Lovers of London #3) by Jess Everlee
- Her Runaway Bride (Hers: Victorian Lesbian Romance) by Brooke Winters
- Tides of Captivation: A sapphic pirate tale (Daughters Under the Black Flag #1) by Eden Hopewell
- What I’ve been consuming
- The Witch King by Martha Wells
- Travelers Along the Way by Aminah Mae Safi
- Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban
A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview 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
- Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
- Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Saturday May 18, 2024
Saturday May 18, 2024
All the Historic Lesbianisms
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 287 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- Social models of women loving women
- Variables and features of those models
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
- Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
- Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Saturday May 04, 2024
Saturday May 04, 2024
On the Shelf for May 2024
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 286 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Book Shopping
- Tomlinson, Sophie. 2005. Women on Stage in Stuart Drama. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-81111-2
- Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
- Unholy with Eyes like Wolves by Morgan Dante
- Harvest Season (The Old Bridge Inn #3) by Annick Trent
- The Summer of Second Chances (Desiring the Dexingtons #4) by Renee Dahlia
- 2 Screams 1 Sugar: A Sapphic Friends to Lovers Romance by Sula Sullivan
- The Good Women of Fudi by Liu Hong
- Adrift by Sam Ledel
- My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen
- A Liaison with Her Leading Lady by Lotte R. James
- The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields
- Other Titles of Interest
- What I’ve been consuming
- Song of the Huntress by Lucy Holland
- Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo
- Death in the Spires by K.J. Charles
- The Time Travelers Guide to Regency Britain by Ian Mortimer
- The Time Travelers Guide to Restoration Britain by Ian Mortimer
A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview 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
- Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
- Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Monday Apr 22, 2024
Monday Apr 22, 2024
Poetry about Love between Women from the 19th Century
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 285 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- 19th century poetry
- Connections and cross-references between women poets
- Sources mentioned
- In addition to being found in the following sources, the text of many of these poems have been taken from various online sources not mentioned.
- 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
- Domna C. Stanton. 1986. The Defiant Muse: French Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present. The Feminist Press, New York. ISBN 0-935312-52-8
- Donoghue, Emma. 1997. Poems Between Women: Four centuries of love, romantic friendship, and desire. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-231-10925-3
- Faderman, Lillian (ed). 1994. Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. New York: VIking. ISBN 0-670-84368-4
- Faderman, Lillian. 1999.To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America – A History. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. ISBN 0-395-85010-X
- Greene, Ellen (ed). 1996. Re-Reading Sappho: Recepton and Transmission. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 0-520-20602-9
- Griffin, Farah Jasmine. 1999. Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. ISBN 0-679-45128-5
- Johnson, Thomas R. (ed). 1961. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston. ISBN 0-316-18413-6
- Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3
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
- Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
- Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
On the Shelf for April 2024
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 284 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Book Shopping
- Norman, Ben. 2023. Pomp and Piety: Everyday Life of the Aristocracy in Stuart England. Amberley Publishing. ISBN 978-1-3981-1017-5
- Southon, Emma. 2023. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire. New York: Abrams Press. ISBN 978-1-4197-6018-1
- Turton, Stephen. 2024. Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600-1930. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1-31651873-1
- Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
- Other Titles of Interest
- What I’ve been consuming
- A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard
- Starter Villain by John Scalzi
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
- Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
- Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Sunday Mar 31, 2024
Sunday Mar 31, 2024
Daughters of Derbyshire by Daniel Stride
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 283 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents “Daughers of Derbyshire” by Daniel Stride, narrated by Heather Rose Jones.
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
- Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
- Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Daniel Stride Online
- Website: A Phuulish Fellow
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Amazons
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 282 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- Possible historic sources for the Amazon myth
- Classical and post-classical Amazons
- Homoeroticism and Amazon characters
- Sources mentioned
- Amer, S. 2009. “Medieval Arab Lesbians and 'Lesbian-Like'” in Journal of the History of Sexuality, 18(2), 215-236.
- Blythe, James M. 2001. “Women in the Military: Scholastic Arguments and Medieval Images of Female Warriors” in History of Political Thought, vol. 22 no. 2, pp.242-269.
- Boehringer, Sandra (trans. Anna Preger). 2021. Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-367-74476-2
- Crane, Susan. 1996. “Clothing and Gender Definition: Joan of Arc,” in Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 26:2 : 297-320.
- Dekker, Rudolf M. and van de Pol, Lotte C. 1989. The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe. Macmillan, London. ISBN 0-333-41253-2
- Donoghue, Emma. 2010. Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. ISBN 978-0-307-27094-8
- Habib, Samar. 2007. Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations. Routledge, New York. ISBN 78-0-415-80603-9
- Hinds, Leonard. 2001. “Female Friendship as the Foundation of Love in Madeleine de Scudéry’s ‘Histoire de Sapho’” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
- Kruk, Remke. 1998. “The Bold and the Beautiful: Women and ‘fitna’ in the S?rat Dh?t al-Himma: The Story of N?r?” in Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety, ed. Gavin R. G. Hambly. New York: St. Martin’s Press. ISBN 0-312-21057-4
- Mayor, Adrienne. 2014. The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14720-8
- Morrison, Susan Signe. 2017. A Medieval Woman's Companion. Oxbow Books, Oxford. ISBN 978-1-78570-079-8
- Murray, Stephen O. 1997. “Woman-Woman Love in Islamic Societies” in Islamic Homosexualities - Culture, History, and Literature, ed. by Stephen O. Murray & Will Roscoe. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 0-8147-7468-7
- Schwarz, Kathryn. 2000. Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-2599-3
- Stephens, Dorothy. 1994. “Into Other Arms: Amoret’s Evasion” in Queering the Renaissance ed. by Jonathan Goldberg. Duke University Press, Durham and London. ISBN 0-8223-1381-2
- Wahl, Elizabeth Susan. 1999. Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford University Press, Stanford. ISBN 0-8047-3650-2
- Walen, Denise A. 2005. Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6875-3
- Westphal, Sarah. 1997. "Amazons and Guérillères" in Medieval Feminist Newsletter, No. 23: 24-28.
- Wilde, Lyn Webster. 1999. On the Trail of the Women Warriors. London: Constable. ISBN 0-09-148080-3
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Amazons
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
- Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
- Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Saturday Mar 02, 2024
Saturday Mar 02, 2024
On the Shelf for March 2024
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode # with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- The 2024 fiction line-up
- ”Charting the Cliff” – Hugo nomination shenanigans
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Loehr, Kirsty. 2022. A Short History of Queer Women. Oneworld Publications, London. ISBN 978-0-86154-284-0
- Bohata, Kirsti. 2017. “Mistress and Maid: Homoeroticism, Cross-Class Desire, and Disguise in Nineteenth-Century Fiction” in Victorian Literature and Culture 45:2 pp.341-359
- Book Shopping
- Fiennes, Celia (ed. Christopher Morris). 1982. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes: 1685-1712. MacDonald & Co, London. ISBN 356-08631-3
- Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
- Above Rubies by Fyn Alexander
- Silver Heels: Women of the Wild West by Olivia Hampton
- Whispers in the Shadows: The Untold Story of a Love that Defied Convention by Haley Ruby
- Lies that Bind by Rae Knowles & April Yates
- Of Socialites and Prizefights (Flos Magicae) by Arden Powell
- Song of the Huntress by Lucy Holland
- Pelican Girls by Julia Malye
- Julieta e Cinderela by Vicky Fiorez
- Last Barrel (Speakeasy #3) by Stacy Lynn Miller
- The Weavers of Alamaxa (Alamaxa #2) by Hadeer Elsbai
- Other Titles of Interest
- What I’ve been consuming
- Babel by R. F. Kuang
- The Duke who Didn't by Courtney Milan
- The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal by K.J. Charles
- This month we interview Lucy Holland and talk about:
A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview 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
- Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
- Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Lucy Holland Online
- Website: LucyHounsom.co.uk
- Patreon: Lucy Holland
- Twitter: @silvanhistorian
- Instagram: @silvanhistorian
- Facebook: Lucy Hounsom
Saturday Feb 17, 2024
Saturday Feb 17, 2024
Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 12: Bluestockings and Amazons
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 280 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- The archetypes of the bluestocking and the amazon and why they make a natural romantic pairing
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
- Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
- Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Saturday Feb 03, 2024
Saturday Feb 03, 2024
On the Shelf for February 2024
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 279 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Close of submissions for the 2024 fiction series
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Blake, Liza. 2011. “Dildos and Accessories: The Functions of Early Modern Strap-Ons” in Ornamentalism: The Art of Renaissance Accessories. University of Michigan Press. pp. 130-156
- Book Shopping
- Loehr, Kirsty. 2022. A Short History of Queer Women. Oneworld Publications, London. ISBN 978-0-86154-284-0
- Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
- Alice: A Ghost Story by Mats Evensson
- The Belle (One of the Outcasts #1) by Violet Knight
- The Knowing by Emma Hinds
- Beards by Cheyenne Isles
- The Scrolls of Deborah (Desert Songs Trilogy #1) by Esther Goldenburg
- Letters to Her Love (Northfield Hall Novellas #3) by Katherine Grant
- The Absinthe Underground by Jamie Pacton
- Other Titles of Interest
- What I’ve been consuming
- Perfect Rhythm by Jae
- A Dangerous Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn
A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview 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
- Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
- Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)