The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

Lesbian Gothics, Gothic Lesbians - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 268

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 268 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• The history and definition of the gothic genre
• Features of female-centered gothics
• Sapphic characters as protagonists and antagonists
• A selection of lesbian gothics
  • The Marquise and the Novice by Victoria Ramstetter
  • Shadows of the Heart by Patty G. Henderson
  • The Wife in the Attic by Rose Lerner - Interview with the author
  • Lily of the Tower by Elizabeth Hart
  • Reader, I Murdered Him by Betsy Cornwell
  • The Secret of Matterdale Hall by Marianne Ratcliffe - Interview with the author
  • Beulah Lodge by Cathy Dunnell
  • Wildthorn by Jane Eagland
  • Harkworth Hall by L.S. Johnson
  • The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan - Interview with the author
  • The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh by Molly Greeley
  • The Ghost and the Machine by Benny Lawrence
  • Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
  • Affinity by Sarah Waters

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
• Twitter: @heatherosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

On the Shelf for September 2023 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 267

On the Shelf for September 2023

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 267 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
  • Goodman, Ruth. 2016. How to be a Tudor: A Dawn to Dusk Guide to Tudor Life. W.W. Norton & Company, New York. ISBN 978-1-63149-253-2
  • Cleland, Elizabeth & Adam Eaker. 2022. The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. ISBN 978-1-58839-692-1
  • Ball, Krista D. 2012. What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank. Tyche Books, Ltd, Alberta. ISBN 978-0-9878248-9-9
  • Ndiaye, Noémie & Lia Markey. 2023. Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Press, Tempe. ISBN 978-0-86698-842-1
  • Leonardi, Camillo (trans. Liliana Leopardi). 2023. Speculum Lapidum: A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones. The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park. ISBN 978-0-271-09539-4
  • Hindley, Katherine Storm. 2023. Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-82533-5
  • Warr, Cordelia. 2023. Medieval Clothing and Textiles 17. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge. ISBN 978-1-78327-598-4
  • Not Just the Tudors (podcast)
  • Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Deanne Williams
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Ember of a New World by Ishtar Watson
  • Sanditon: The Lesbian Solution by Garnet Marriott and Jane Austen
  • Where Pleasant Fountains Lie (The New Countess #3) by Lady Vanessa S.-G
  • Haven's End (Daughters Under the Black Flag #2) by Eden Hopewell
  • The Birdwatchers by Louise Vetroff
  • The Haunted Diamond by Becky Black
  • He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor #2) by Shelley Parker-Chan
  • Carving a New Shape by Rhiannon Grant
  • For Love and Liberty by Eden Hopewell
  • Her Duchess by Brooke Winters
  • Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix (Remixed Classics # 8) by Cherie Dimaline
• Other Titles of Interest
  • The Girl Who Fled the Picture by Jane Anderson
  • The Valkyrie by Kate Heartfield
• What I’ve been consuming
  • The Great Roxhythe by Georgette Heyer
  • Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
• Call for submissions for the 2024 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
• This month we interview Rhiannon Grant and talk about:
  • The appeal of a Neolithic setting
  • Worldbuilding in archaeological settings
  • Exploring spirituality
  • Publications mentioned:
    • Carving a New Shape by Rhiannon Grant
    • Between Boat and Shore by Rhiannon Grant
    • The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss
    • Ember of a New World by Ishtar Watson
    • Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel
• This month we interview Katharine Quarmby and talk about:
  • The historic inspiration for the story
  • The work of turning archives into fiction
  • Finding queer relationships in the historic record
  • Fiction and non-fiction as reflections of each other
  • Reclaiming marginalized histories
  • Publications mentioned:
    • The Low Road by Katharine Quarmby
    • The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph
    • Gentleman Jack (tv series)
    • The Fascination by Essie Fox

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
• Twitter: @heatherosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Links to Rhiannon Grant Online

• Facebook: Rhiannon Grant
• TikTok (main): @ rhiannonbookgeek
• TikTok (books): @ sapphicprehistory
• Twitter: @bookgeekrelng
• Bluesky: @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social
• Mastodon: >@rhiannongrant@mastodon.org.uk

Links to Katharine QuarmbyOnline

• Website: katharinequarmby.com
• Twitter: @KatharineQ
• Facebook: Katharine Quarmby (writer)

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 9: Spies - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 266

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 9: Spies

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 266 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about women in espionage through the ages and why this makes a great context for romance

Sources mentioned

• Akkerman N.N.W. 2018. Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• If you’re at all interested in early modern female spies, I recommend Akkerman’s entire publications page.
• Wikipedia index of spies by century
• “African American Women Spies” (specific author not listed)

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
• Twitter: @heatherosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

On the Shelf for August 2023 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 265

On the Shelf for August 2023

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 265 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

• The blog’s continuing hiatus
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill
  • By Moonlight by Lisabet Sarai
  • Emma: The Nature of a Lady by Kate Christie
  • The Low Road by Katharine Quarmby
  • Love in the Shadows by Eden Hopewell
  • Behind the Red Curtain by Eve Morton
  • Her Dangerous Journey Home (No Man is Her Master #3) by Lee Swanson
  • Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue
• Other Titles of Interest
  • The Ghost Ship (Burning Chambers #3) by Kate Mosse
  • A Lady's Guide to Scandal by Sophie Irwin
  • Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott
• What I’ve been consuming
  • The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman
  • The Disenchantment by Celia Bell
  • Nimona by N.D. Stevenson (Netflix movie)
• Call for submissions for the 2024 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
• This month we interview Annemarie KD:
  • Aphra Behn: A Secret Life by Janet Todd
  • New Light on Aphra Behn by W.J. Cameron
  • Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Nadine Akkerman
• This month we interview Meredith Rose:
  • A Study in Garnet by Meredith Rose
  • Alchemy Empire Series by Meredith Rose
  • Critical Role (webcast)
  • Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill
• This month we interview Lee Swanson:
  • Her Dangerous Journey Home (No Man is Her Master #3) by Lee Swanson
  • The Cloistered Lady by Coirle Mooney
  • The Lady’s Keeper</em by Coirle Mooney

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
• Twitter: @heatherosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Links to Annemarie KD Online

• Annemarie does not have active social media at this time.

Links to Meredith Rose Online

• Website: meredithrosebooks.com

Links to Lee Swanson Online

• Website: LeeSwansonAuthor.me

To the Fair Muse who, Loving Me, Imagin’d More by Annemarie KD - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 264

To the Fair Muse who, Loving Me, Imagin'd More by Annemarie KD

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 264 with Heather Rose Jones

This quarter’s fiction episode presents “To the Fair Muse who, Loving Me, Imagin'd More” by Annemarie KD, 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
• Twitter: @heatherosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Lesbians as a “Third Sex” - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 263

Lesbians as a “Third Sex”

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 263 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• Historic contexts in which people conceived as lesbians as belonging to a “third sex”
• Academic studies that use the concept of a “third sex” as a way of understanding historic models of gender and sexuality

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
• Twitter: @heatherosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

On the Shelf for July 2023 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 262

On the Shelf for July 2023

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 262 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

• Librivox’s “Out of the Closet” short fiction collection
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • The Hells of Notre Dame (The Phantom of Notre Dame #1) by R.L. Davennor
  • Catmint's Moth by Laura Jean Mason
  • A Study in Garnet (The Ladies of Baker Street #1) by Meredith Rose
  • A Field of Foxglove (Lavender and Foxglove #1) by Hilary Rose Berwick
  • Boadicea: Bowed not Broken by Jana Williams
  • Northwoman: Part Two by M. Jeffrey
  • Sweet Nothings and Other Confections by Sula Sullivan
  • Ann's Angel (School of Enlightenment) by Maggie Sims
  • Bunny by Annie Moon
  • A Crime of Secrets (Donner & Longstreet Mystery #1) by Ann Aptaker
  • Devil's Slide (Speakeasy #1) by Stacy Lynn Miller
  • Her Forgotten Promise by Corin Burnside
• Other Titles of Interest
  • The Dawn of Eternal Winter by Veronika Sizova
  • Not Just Another to Bury by Cyan Vidales Nicoletti
  • The Madwomen of Paris by Jennifer Cody Epstein
  • Women of the Post by Joshunda Sanders
  • updated title and link: The Poisoned Pen Pal (The Kendallville Librarian #1) by Julie Kortidis
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Sixpenny Octavo by Annick Trent
  • The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women by Elizabeth Norton
• This month we interview Dee Holloway and talk about:
  • Stories inspired by Alfred Noyes’ “The Highwayman”
  • Origins of the magical water-horses
  • “Weird Florida” as a story setting
  • Little Nothing by Dee Holloway
  • Lamplit Underground (periodical)
  • “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes, 1906
  • The musical version I was trying to remember the composer for: Phil Ochs performing his interpretation, originally released on I Ain’t Marching Anymore, 1965
• This month we interview Lianyu Tan and talk about:
  • Winning a Lambda Literary Award as an indie author
  • Singapore and writing as a diasporic author
  • Vampirism/colonialism
  • The attractions of gothic horror
  • ”Choose your own ending”
  • The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan
  • House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
  • Captive in the Underworld by Lianyu Tan
  • Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho

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
• Twitter: @heatherosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Links to Dee Holloway Online

• Twitter: @_deeholloway
• Instagram: @menshevixen
• Itch.io: menshevixen

Links to Lianyu Tan Online

• Website: LianyuTan.com
• Twitter: @LianyuTan
• Mailing List: Subscribe

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 7: Aristocrats and Billionaires - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 261

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 7: Aristocrats and Billionaires

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 261 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• Structural parallels between tropes involving titled aristocrats and billionaires
• Different dynamics when adapting those tropes for f/f historic romance
• The complicated problem of providing your heroine with either a noble title or a fortune
• This topic of women’s sources of financial independence is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Economic Independence
• A detailed (if technical) article on women’s inheritance of noble titles in French history

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
• Twitter: @heatherosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

On the Shelf for June 2023 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 260

On the Shelf for June 2023

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 260 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

• Pride Month and book discoverability
• What I did on my summer vacation
• Yes, there will be a 2024 fiction series
• Book Shopping
  • Koch, Bea. 2020. Mad & Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency. Grand Central Publishing, New York. ISBN 978-1-5387-0101-0
  • Straubhaar, Sandra Ballif. 2011. Old Norse Women's Poetry: The Voices of Female Skalds. D.S. Brewer, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-84384-271-2
  • Allen-Goss, Lucy M. 2020. Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance. D.S. Brewer, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-84384-679-6
  • Liddington, Jill. 2023. As Good as a Marriage: The Anne Lister Diaries 1836-38. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 978-1-5261-5735-5
  • Kahf, Mohja. 1999. Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque. University of Texas Press, Austin. ISBN 978-0-292-74337-3
• New and forthcoming fiction
  • Twelve Nights with Viola & Olivia (The New Countess: A Story of Sexy 16th Century Sapphists of Shakespeare) (Book 1 of 2: The New Countess: A Story of Sexy 16th Century Sapphists of Shakespeare ) by by Lady Vanessa S.-G. (Author), Hannah Miyamoto (Editor)
  • If I Should Tell my History (The New Countess: A Story of Sexy 16th Century Sapphists of Shakespeare) (Book 2 of 2: The New Countess: A Story of Sexy 16th Century Sapphists of Shakespeare ) by by Lady Vanessa S.-G. (Author), Hannah Miyamoto (Editor)
  • Sicili and the Penniless Lad by Rachel C. Neale
  • Do Unto Others by Geonn Cannon
  • Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall
  • Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens
  • Killingly by Katharine Beutner
  • The First Bright Thing by J.R. Dawson
  • The Gulf by Rachel Cochran
  • Just One Dance (The Regency Romance Club #1) by Jenny Frame
• What am I reading?
  • The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
  • The Murder of Mr Wickham by Claudia Gray
  • The Late Mrs Willoughby by Claudia Gray
  • The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
  • The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher
  • Ruby Finley vs the Interstellar Invasion by Tempest Bradford
  • Harriet the Invincible (Hamster Princess #1) by Ursula Vernon
  • The Bluestocking Beds Her Bride by Fenna Edgewood
  • An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera

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
• Twitter: @heatherosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Interview with Jill Liddington - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 259

Interview with Jill Liddington

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 259 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

• The social and economic landscape of Anne Lister’s life
• The dynamics of Lister’s “marriage” to Ann Walker
• The history of the diaries and their amazing legacy
• Jill Liddington’s books about Anne Lister
  • Presenting The Past: Anne Lister Of Halifax, 1791–1840, Pennines Pens, 1994.
  • Female Fortune: Land, Gender and Authority: The Anne Lister Diaries and Other writings, 1833–36, Manchester University Press (original edition: Rivers Oram Press, 1998).
  • Nature's Domain: Anne Lister and the Landscape of Desire, Pennine Pens, 2019.
  • As Good as a Marriage: The Anne Lister Diaries 1836-38, Manchester University Press, 2023.
• This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Anne Lister

A transcript of this podcast will be available here when transcribed.

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
• Twitter: @heatherosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Links to Jill Liddington Online

• Website: jliddington.org.uk
• YouTube video: Anne Lister historian Jill Liddington discusses her new book, As Good as a Marriage