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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 Jul 29, 2023
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
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)
Saturday Jul 15, 2023
Saturday Jul 15, 2023
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)
Saturday Jul 01, 2023
Saturday Jul 01, 2023
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
- 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
Saturday Jun 17, 2023
Saturday Jun 17, 2023
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)
Sunday Jun 04, 2023
Sunday Jun 04, 2023
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)
Saturday May 20, 2023
Saturday May 20, 2023
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
Saturday May 06, 2023
Saturday May 06, 2023
On the Shelf for May 2023
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 258 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Teaser for a potential upcoming guest
- Recent book shopping
- Boag, Peter. 2011. Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-27062-6
- Bullough, Vern L. & Bonnie Bullough. 1993. Crossdressing, Sex, and Gender. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 0-8122-1431-5
- New and forthcoming fiction
- A Wound Like Lapis Lazuli by Melody Wiklund
- The Disenchantment by Celia Bell
- The Accidental Bride (The Spinsters of Inverley #1) by Jane Walsh
- A Long Time Dead by Samara Breger
- They Ain't Proper by M.B. Guel
- An Island Princess Starts a Scandal (Las Leonas #2) by Adriana Herrera
- House of Longing by Tara Calaby
- Showing Mercy by Kim Pritekel
- What I’ve been consuming
- This month we interview Catherine Lundoff and talk about:
- ”The Letter of Marque” on Catherine’s Patreon
- The Four Musketeers: The True Story of D'Artagnan, Porthos, Aramis & Athos by Kari L. Maund (aka Kari Sperring) and Phil Nanson
- The Secret Life of Aphra Behn by Janet Todd
- ”Born with Teeth” by Liz Duffy Adams (play about Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare)
- The historic Jacquotte de la Haye
- The historic inspirations for the series
- Media mentioned:
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 Catherine Lundoff Online
- Website: catherinelundoff.net
- Website: queenofswordspress.com/
- Mastodon: @Clundoff@wandering.shop
- Twitter: @clundoff
- Facebook: Clundoff
Saturday Apr 29, 2023
Saturday Apr 29, 2023
The Pirate in the Mirror by Catherine Lundoff
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 257 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents “The Pirate in the Mirror” by Catherine Lundoff, 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)
Links to Catherine Lundoff Online
- Website (Queen of Swords Press): https://queenofswordspress.com/
- Twitter: @clundoff
- Instagram (Queen of Swords Press): @qospress
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Clundoff
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 7: Second Chances and Older Women
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 256 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- The structure of the “second chance romance” trope
- Features of second-chance romances with female couples
- Considerations for older heroines
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 Apr 02, 2023
Sunday Apr 02, 2023
On the Shelf for April 2023
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 255 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Why the blog has been thin lately
- Historic settings and mythic fiction
- New Books for the Blog
- Palmer, Paulina. 1999. Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions. Cassell, New York. ISBN 0-304-70154-8
- McCallum, E.L. & Mikko Tuhkanen, eds. 2014. The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature. Cambridge University Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-107-03521-8
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Her Venetian Beauty (Ladylike Inclinations #4) by Violet Cowper
- The Enemy Within by Stein Willard
- Eight Strings by Margaret DeRosia
- Her Female Husband (The Kendallville Librarian #1) by Julieanne
- Heart's Home (Heart Series #3) by L. Dreamer
- From the Ashes of Victory - Box Set by Cameron Darrow
- Legacy of the Valiant (Tales from Norvegr #2) by Edale Lane
- Knight of Nights (The Coin of Love #2) by Karin Kallmaker
- Something Spectacular (Something Fabulous) by Alexis Hall
- The Widow's Modiste (Desiring the Dexingtons #3) by Renee Dahlia
- The Weeds by Katy Simpson Smith
- What I’ve been consuming
- Christmas masquerade by Meg Mardell
- Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo
- The Unbroken by C.L. Clark
- The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K.J. Charles
- Some thoughts on historic settings where myth and fantasy has replaced realistic history
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)