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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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Sunday Mar 19, 2023
Sunday Mar 19, 2023
They Did the Smash (the Schoolgirl Smash)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 254 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- Romantic and pseudo-romantic relationships in single-gender educational institutions
- The public culture of the schoolgirl “smash” or “crush”
- When and how attitudes toward such romances changed
- The culture of life partnerships between female faculty
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)
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
On the Shelf for March 2023
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 253 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Podcast: Queer as Fact
- Book Shopping: The Once and Future Sex by Eleanor Janega
- New and forthcoming fiction
- A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar
- Evil's Echo by Jane Alden
- Aimer Mathilde by Laurence Tardi
- When We Lost our Heads by Heather O'Neill
- Your Goyle and Mine (The Magickal Underground #1) by Nan Sampson
- The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology #1) by Hadeer Elsbai
- A Defiant Devotion (A Truth Universally Acknowledged #2) by E.B. Neal
- La Femme Falaise: Romance historique by Hélène Néra
- The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
- Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood
- Now the Wind Scatters by J Donal
- Daughters of Nantucket: A Novel by Julie Gerstenblatt
- Well Behaved Women by Caroline Lamond
- To Meet Again by Kadyan
- A Dark, Cold Touch: A Gothic Romance by Megan E. Hart
- What I’ve been consuming
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)
Sunday Feb 19, 2023
Sunday Feb 19, 2023
Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 6: Friends or Enemies to Lovers
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 252 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- Considerations for using friends-to-lovers and enemies-to-lovers tropes in sapphic historic romance
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)
Saturday Feb 04, 2023
Saturday Feb 04, 2023
On the Shelf for February 2023
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 251 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- The Harper Collins strike and the significance of major publishers in sapphic fiction
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Haggerty, George E. 1998. Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later 18th Century. Indiana University Press, Bloomington. ISBN 0-253-21183-2
- Book Shopping
- Abercrombie, Thomas A. 2018. Passing to América: Antonio (Née Maria) Yta's Transgressive, Transatlantic Life in the Twilight of the Spanish Empire. The Pennsylvania University Press, University Park. ISBN 978-0-271-08119-9
- Shopland, Norena. 2021. A History of Women in Men's Clothes: From Cross-Dressing to Empowerment. Pen & Sword History, Philadelphia. ISBN 978-1-52678-767-5
- Vanita, Ruth , ed. 2002. Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-92950-4
- Rouse, Wendy L. 2022. Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-47981394-0
- New and forthcoming fiction
- She Who Would be King by Kim Pritekel
- The Pirate's Pursuit (Sapphic Seas #2) by Wren Taylor
- Blood in the Tea Leaves by Beka Westrup
- The Secret Life of Spinsters: A Sapphic Regency Romance (Desiring The Dexingtons # 2) by Renee Dahlia
- Dangerous Flames (Good Neighbors) by Stephanie Burgis
- For Lamb by Lesa Cline-Ransome
- What I’ve been consuming
- Valiant Ladies by Melissa Grey
- Hen Fever by Olivia Waite
- The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nhi Vo
- The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by K.J. Charles
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)
Saturday Jan 28, 2023
Saturday Jan 28, 2023
All is Silence by Heather Rose Jones
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 250 with Heather Rose Jones
A bonus fiction episode to celebrate episode #250: “All is Silence” by Heather Rose Jones, narrated by the author.
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)
Saturday Jan 21, 2023
Saturday Jan 21, 2023
The Romance of Silence
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 249 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- The medieval “Romance of Silence”
- Ideas about gender, and nature vs nurture
- An extended plot synopsis
- Sources mentioned
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Roman de Silence (Heldris de Cornuälle)
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)
Saturday Jan 07, 2023
Saturday Jan 07, 2023
On the Shelf for January 2023
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 248 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- A summary of what the podcast and blog have covered this year
- Upcoming BBC series with a sapphic take on Marie Antoinette
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Moore, Lisa. 1997. Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel. Duke University Press, Durham, 1997. ISBN 0-8223-2049-5
- New and forthcoming fiction
- A Rose Blooms at Golden Fork by Rachel Anderson
- Just Wide Enough for Two by Kacey M. Martin
- Rachel Kelly And The Vigilantes (Rachel Kelly in Oregon County # 1) by Pamela Cabot
- Unchain My Heart: A Fantasy Lesbian Romance in Classical Greece (Bonds of Fate #1) by R.J. Martin
- Sixpenny Octavo by Annick Trent
- Vanilla Kisses (Diary of an Obstinate, Headstrong Female #1) by C.C. Burns
- Appetence (Diary of an Obstinate, Headstrong Female #2) by C.C. Burns
- Midwinter (Diary of an Obstinate, Headstrong Female #3) by C.C. Burns
- Hen Fever by author
- White Star: A lesbian Gilded Age romance set on the Titanic by Laura Jelenkovich
- The Demon Gospel (Hidden Gods #2) by Ariel Dalziel
- Her Enticing Muse (Ladylike Inclinations #3) by Violet Cowper
- Forever's Promise by Missouri Vaun
- The Ashes of the Brothel: Betrayal in the Wickedest Little Town in the West by Katryna Lalock
- After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
- In the Shadow of Truth (Shadow Series 3) by J.E. Leak
- What I’ve been consuming
- Call for submissions for the 2023 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
- This month we interview Jennifer Nestojko and talk about:
- The inspirations for “From the Bird’s Nest”
- The joys of epistolary stories
- Writing disabilities in a historic context
- Being a writer and a teacher
- Ideas for an Anglo-Saxon setting and playing around with Beowulf
- Books and authors mentioned:
- Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
- Emily Dickinson
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Work by Louisa May Alcott
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Re: Beowulf-related novels:
- Jennifer may have been thinking of Grendel by John Gardner.
- The novel written from the viewpoint of Grendel’s mother that I was thinking of was The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley, who also wrote an acclaimed modern translation of Beowulf.
- Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
- Fairacre Series by “Miss Read,” pen name of Dora Jessie Saint
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)
Saturday Dec 31, 2022
Saturday Dec 31, 2022
From the Bird’s Nest by Jennifer Nestojko
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 247 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents “From the Bird’s Nest” by Jennifer Nestojko, narrated by Emma Ross.
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)
Saturday Dec 17, 2022
Saturday Dec 17, 2022
Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 5: Widows
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 246 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- The trope of widowed characters in historic romance
- A survey of the legal, economic, and cultural norms for widows across many societies
- How widows interact differently in f/f romances than in f/m stories
- Brainstorming romantic plots for widowed heroines
- Background reading from the blog
- Beattie, Cordelia. 2007. Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-928341-5
- Froide, Amy M. 1999. “Marital Status as a Category of Difference: Singlewomen and Widows in Early Modern England” in Bennett, Judith M. & Amy M. Froide eds. Singlewomen in the European Past 1250-1800. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 0-8122-1668-7
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Widows
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)
Saturday Dec 03, 2022
Saturday Dec 03, 2022
On the Shelf for December 2022
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 245 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Altman, Meryl. 2009. “Parthenoi to Watch Out For? Looking at Female Couples in Vase-Painting and Lyric” in CAMWS.
- Omar, Sara. 2012. “From Semantics to Normative Law: Perceptions of Liwat (Sodomy) and Sihaq (Tribadism) in Islamic Jurisprudence (8th - 15th Century CE)” in Islamic Law and Society 19. pp.222-256
- Antrim, Zayde. 2020. “Qamarayn: The Erotics of Sameness in the 1001 Nights” in Al-Usur al-Wusta vol. 28. pp.1-44
- Bosman, Frank G. 2021. “’I Am Not Good at Any of This’ Playing with Homoeroticism in The Arabian Nights” in Religions 12: 480.
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Julie & Winifred's Most Excellent Adventure by Heather Massey
- Observations on the Danger of Female Curiosity by Suzanne Moss
- ”A Defence of Astronomical Curiosity for Ladies” by Suzanne Moss
- My Life with Rachel: A Tale of Two Women in 1920's New York by Ariel Archer
- Elsie Sees It Through by Derek Ansell
- The Fire and the Place in the Forest: Collected Stories and Poems by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
- A Chaperoned Christmas (Christmas masquerade #3) by Meg Mardell
- The Captain's Choice: A Sapphic Seas Romance by Wren Taylor
- Daunting Dilemmas (Wellington Mysteries #3) by Edale Lane
- What I’ve been consuming
- Longshadow by Olivia Atwater (as audiobook)
- A Restless Truth by Freya Marske (as audiobook)
- Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk (as audiobook)
- The Woman King (movie)
- Wakanda Forever (movie)
- Warrior Nun (TV series)
- Young Royals (TV series)
- Call for submissions for the 2023 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
- This month we interview Marianne Ratcliffe about her gothic novel The Secret of Matterdale Hall
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 Marianne Ratcliffe Online
- Website: http://www.marianneratcliffe.com/
- Twitter: @ratcliffe_mj