The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

By Heather Rose Jones

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.... more

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June 05, 2021On the Shelf for June 2021 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 203
On the Shelf for June 2021
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 203 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
Clearing up the backlog of show transcripts
GCLS conference history panel
2021 Pride Storybundle
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Female Husbands: A Trans History by Jen Manion
New and forthcoming fiction
Blackbird's Song: A story of the Russian Revolution by Katy Turton
An Intimate Study by Margaret K. Mac
The Black Knight and the Lady by J M Dragon
Born of the Sea: The Untold Story of Anne Bonny and Mary Read by Kate Castle
Scarlet Dandelions: The Zither and the Sword by Fynn Chen
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
Monstrous Design by Kat Dunn
The Hellion's Waltz by Olivia Waite
Measure of Devotion by C.F. Frizzell
Infraction by Yvonne Zipter
Lying With Lions by Annabel Fielding
The Murder Next Door by Sarah Bell
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia
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
Twitter: @heatherosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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May 29, 2021The Adventuress by Catherine Lundoff - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 202
The Adventuress by Catherine Lundoff
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 202 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents “The Adventuress” 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
Twitter: @heatherosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Catherine Lundoff Online
Website: Catherine Lundoff
Website: Queen of Swords Press
Twitter: @clundoff
Facebook: Catherine Lundoff
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28min
May 15, 2021The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 201 – Researching the Origins of Lesbian Myths, Legends, and Symbols
Researching the Origins of Lesbian Myths, Legends, and Symbols
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 201 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
The process of investigating “popular history” about lesbian symbols and myths
The following are only some of the sources mentioned in the podcast. If listeners have questions about anything not included here, drop a comment on the transcript over on the blog. I stand behind my sources!
LHMP #215 - Bennett, Betty T. 1991. Mary Diana Dods: A Gentleman and a Scholar. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. ISBN 0-8018-4984-5
”Charlemagne’s Cheese: a study in the un/reliability of sources” by Heather Rose Jones
LHMP #122 - Lardinois, André. “Lesbian Sappho and Sappho of Lesbos” in Bremmer, Jan. 1989. From Sappho to de Sade: Moments in the History of Sexuality. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-02089-1
“Violets and Vandamm” by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner
Burford, E.J. 1986. Wits, Wenchers and Wantons - London’s Low Life: Covent Garden in the Eighteenth Century. Robert Hale, London. ISBN 0-7090-2629-3
Game of Flats (blog tag)
Linnane, Fergus. 2005. Madams: Bawds & Brothel-Keepers of London. The History Press. ISBN 9780752473383
Ackroyd, Peter. 2018. Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day. Abrams Press, New York.
Arnold, Catherine. 2010. City of Sin: London and its Vices. Simon & Schuster.
Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies
Murphy, Colin. 2018. Fierce History: 5000 years of startling stories from Ireland and around the globe. The O’Brien Press.
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)
...more
44min
May 01, 2021On the Shelf for May 2021 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 200
On the Shelf for May 2021
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 200 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
Announcing the 200th anniversary party in the LHMP/Alpennia Discord on May 8 – join us!
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Klein, Ula Lukszo. 2021. Sapphic Crossings: Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville. ISBN 978-0-8139-4551-4
Manion, Jen. 2020. Female Husbands: A Trans History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-48380-3
Skidmore, Emily. 2017. True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the 20th Century. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-4798-7063-9
New and forthcoming fiction
Hearts Under Fire (Coffield Chronicles 2) by T L Dickerson
Odette's: A Quality Men's Club by Bridget A. Finnegan
Queen of All by Anya Leigh Josephs
La Reine Lionne by Alexia Damyl
A Map of Scars by Moyra Sammut
Do You Know Dorothy? (Juliana 5.1) by Vanda
Lady Charlotte: Two Lesbian Romances by Susie Ray
The Inverts by Crystal Jeans
Her Lady's Melody (Great War #2) by Renée Dahlia
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
Twitter: @heatherosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
...more
20min
April 17, 2021What’s the Difference between Lesbian and Sapphic? - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 199
What’s the Difference between Lesbian and Sapphic?
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 199 with Heather Rose Jones
A linguistic tour through the history of words derived from Sappho of Lesbos, and why a book might be a sapphic book while not being a lesbian book.
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
Sapphic/Sapphist
Lesbian
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)
...more
19min
April 03, 2021On the Shelf for April 2021 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 198
On the Shelf for April 2021
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode #198 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
Online party for Episode 200!
Thinking about objectification in lesbian fiction
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Binhammer, Katherine. 2003. "The 'Singular Propensity' of Sensibility's Extremities: Female Same-Sex Desire and the Eroticization of Pain in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Culture" in GLQ 9:4, 471-498.
Diggs, Marylynne. 1995. “Romantic Friends or a ‘Different Race of Creatures’? The Representation of Lesbian Pathology in Nineteenth-Century America” in Feminist Studies 21, no. 2: 1-24.
Nord, Deborah Epstein. 1990. "'Neither Pairs nor Odd': Female Community in Late Nineteenth-Century London" in Signs vol. 15, no. 4 733-754.
McLaughlin, Mary Martin. 1989. "Creating and Recreating Communities of Women: The Case of Corpus Domini, Ferrara, 1406-1452" in Signs vol. 14, no. 2 293-320.
Wojczuk, Tana. 2020. Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity. Avid Reader Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-5011-9952-3
Vicente, Marta V. 2017. Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-81421-8
New and forthcoming fiction
In the Footsteps of Anne Lister (Volume 1): Travels of a remarkable English gentlewoman in France, Germany and Denmark in 1833 by Adeline Lim
For the Love of Many by Vivian Dunn
The Woman in the Coffin by Nathan Long
The Reserved Doctor by Stein Willard
Like the Down of a Thistle by Sarah Swan
Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore
Diamonds & Pearls: A Lesbian Historical Romance (Gilded Lily 3) by Vesper St. Clair
Für ihr Land by Helmi Schausberger
Poison Priestess (Lady Slayers #2) by Lana Popovi?
The Other Side of Magic by Ester Manzini
Dr. Todson's Home for Incorrigible Women by Riley LaShea
This month we interview Rose Lerner and talk about:
The Wife in the Attic by Rose Lerner
Queer themes in gothic novels
Adapting a story of an Audible original
A digression about haunted Zoom meetings
A sequel to The Wife in the Attic
Recommended works:
The Duke Heist by Erica Ridley (m/f Regency)
The Mandalorian (tv series)
Bodies of Evidence: Medicine and the Politics of the English Inquest, 1830-1926 by Ian Burney (non-fiction)
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
Twitter: @heatherosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Rose Lerner Online
Website: RoseLerner.com
Research and Editing Website: Rose Does the Research
Twitter: @RoseLerner
Instagram: @rose.lerner
Facebook: Rose Lerner Romance
Patreon: Rose Lerner
...more
36min
March 20, 2021Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 197 – Hey Hollywood! Historic Couples who would Make Great Happy Movies
Hey Hollywood! Historic Couples who would Make Great Happy Movies
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 197 with Heather Rose Jones
A tour through the lives of some f/f couples in history who would make great “happily ever after” movies and tv shows
Find more information about the primary couples discussed in this show at the following links:
Isabella de Luna
Mary Kendall and Catharine Jones
Sarah Paul (Samuel Bundy) and Mary Parlour
Mary East (James How) and Mary Snapes
Katherine Bovey and Mary Pope
Marie Corelli
Charlotte Cushman
Matilda Hays
Anne Whitney & Abby Adeline Manning
Sarah Orne Jewett & Annie Fields
Mary Woolley & Jeannette Marks
Amy Lowell & Ada Dwyer Russell
Katharine Lee Bates & Katharine Coman
Addie Brown & Rebecca Primus
Angelina Weld Grimké & Mamie Burrill
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)
...more
41min
March 06, 2021On the Shelf for March 2021 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 196
On the Shelf for March 2021
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 196 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
The topics that historical fiction flinches away from
Stories picked for the 2021 Fiction Series
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Choquette, Leslie. 2001. “’Homosexuals in the City: Representations of Lesbian and Gay Space in Nineteenth-Century Paris” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
Vicinus, Martha. 1992. "'They Wonder to Which Sex I Belong': The Historical Roots of the Modern Lesbian Identity" in Feminist Studies vol. 18, no. 3 467-497.
Binhammer, Katherine. 2002. "Thinking Gender with Sexuality in 1790s' Feminist Thought" in Feminist Studies vol 28, no 3. pp. 667-690.
Boyd, Nan Alamilla. 2013. "The History of the Idea of the Lesbian as a Kind of Person" in Feminist Studies vol. 39, no. 2 362-365.
Interview with Mari Ness about Madame de Murat and the salon fairy tales
Resistance and Transformation: On Fairy Tales by Mari Ness (Aqueduct Press)
New and forthcoming fiction
A Call to Justice (series #3) by S.W. Andersen
The Wife in the Attic by Rose Lerner
Fishwives by Sally Bellerose
Flying High by G.B. Baldassari
”Bump in the Night” by Lara Kinsey
The Railwalkers by Ruth Hanson
The Ledge Light: New London by Diana Perkins
Eleutheria: Chronique des Amazones by Helena Manenti
Girls in Black (Ranger Paraversum Book 2) by Vesna Kurilic
Interview with Aliette de Bodard
The inspirations for using a pre-colonial fantasy-Vietnam as a setting
Themes of colonization and apocalypse
Future plans for space pirates inspired by Ching Shih and other pirates of the south China Sea
Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard
In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard
Dominion of the Fallen series by Aliette de Bodard
Xuya Universe series by Aliette de Bodard
Recommended work: Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott (gender-bent Alexander the Great in space with sapphic subplot)
Recommended work: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo (historic fantasy with f/f tiger-human romance)
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
Twitter: @heatherosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Aliette de Bodard Online
Website: AlietteDeBodard.com
Twitter: @aliettedb
Patreon: Aliette de Bodard
Links to Mari Ness Online
Website: Blogging with Dragons
Essays: Mari’s essays at Tor.com
Twitter: @mari_ness
Patreon: Mari Ness
...more
44min
February 20, 2021Madame de Murat: Author of Fairy Tales, Lover of Women - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 195
Madame de Murat: Author of Fairy Tales, Lover of Women
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 195 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
The social background of the French salons and court in late 17th century France
Madame de Murat as author and gadfly
De Murat’s personal and romantic entanglements
The legal persecution of Madame de Murat by King Louis XIV
The most useful sources for this episode were the following. Unless noted, link is to the LHMP blog post about the publication.
Chevalier, Jim. 2010. The Old Regime Police Blotter II: Sodomites, Tribads, and “Crimes Against Nature”. Self-published. Accessed at: http://www.chezjim.com/sundries/s52.html on 2021/01/30. (link is to the author’s blog)
Merrick, Jeffrey & Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. 2001. Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-510257-6
Ness, Mari. 2018. “Imprisonment and the Fairy Tales of Henriette Julie de Murat,” Tor.com, accessed 2021/01/30. (link is to the original article)
Robinson, David Michael. 2001. “The Abominable Madame de Murat’” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuailty in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
Wahl, Elizabeth Susan. 1999. Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford University Press, Stanford. ISBN 0-8047-3650-2
Wikipedia (English) – Henriette-Julie de Murat (link is to the Wikipedia entry)
Wikipedia (French) – Henriette-Julie de Castelnau de Murat (link is to the Wikipedia entry)
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Madame de Murat & Madame de Nantiat
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)
...more
23min
February 06, 2021On the Shelf for February 2021 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 194
On the Shelf for February 2021
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 194 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
The 2021 Fiction Series submissions.
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Hinds, Leonard. 2001. “Female Friendship as the Foundation of Love in Madeleine de Scudéry’s ‘Histoire de Sapho’” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuailty in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
Robinson, David Michael. 2001. “The Abominable Madame de Murat” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuailty in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
Blanc, Olivier. 2001. “The ‘Italian Taste’ in the Time of Louis XVI, 1774-92” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuailty in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
Lanser, Susan. 2001. “’Au sein de vos pareilles’: Sapphic Separatism in Late Eighteenth-Century France” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuailty in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
New and forthcoming fiction
Beloved Daughter by Ellis Brightwell
Brother Mary Michael by Henry Bennett
Masquerade by Anne Shade
Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard
Mazie by Melanie Crowder
Call for submissions for the 2021 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
This month we interview Anne Shade and talk about:
Queer Black culture in 1920s New York
Researching the Harlem Renaissance at the Schomburg Center
Plans for a novel about the Underground Railroad
Masquerade by Anne Shade
Femme Tales by Anne Shade
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
Twitter: @heatherosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Anne Shade Online
Website: AnneShadeRomance.com
Twitter: @ AnneShade3
Instagram: @AnneShadeRomance
Facebook: AnneShadeRomance
...more
24min

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