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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November 07, 2020On the Shelf for November 2020 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 183
On the Shelf for November 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 183 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
The LHMPodcast’s move and format changes
New podcast distribution links for all your favorite podcatchers
How you can participate in the LHMPodcast community
Check out the Sweetbitter podcast – all Sappho all the time.
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5
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
Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928.E University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3
Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. 2001. Homosexuailty in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
Announcing this month’s author guest, Jane Walsh
New and forthcoming fiction
The Sappho Romance: A Novel by Jacquie Lyon and Sam Skyborne
Her Lady to Love by Jane Walsh
The Enigmatic Steward by Stein Willard
The Coffield Chronicles - Hearts Under Siege: Book One by T L Dickerson
Rivers of Eden by R.E. Levy
Martha Moody by Susan Stinson
Trafalgar & Boone at Magic's End (Trafalgar & Boone 6) by Geonn Cannon
Silk and Steel edited by Janine A. Southard
Call for submissions for the 2021 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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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25min
October 31, 2020Give Us This Day by Jennifer Nestojko - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 182
Give Us This Day by Jennifer Nestojko
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 182 with Heather Rose Jones
The fourth story in our 2020 fiction series
Call for submissions for the 2021 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
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 Jennifer Nestojko Online
Website: https://jennifernestojko.com
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24min
October 24, 2020The Anandrine Sect - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 181
The Anandrine Sect
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 181 with Heather Rose Jones
A look at the motif of the 18th century French “Anandrine Sect” purported to be a lesbian sex club.
In this episode we talk about:
The political context of late 18th c. France
Pamphlet culture and secret societies
Prominent women rumored to have lesbian relations
The “Lodge of Lesbos”
The Anandrine Sect
A selection of source materials
Sikes, Alan. 2007. “The Trouble with Tribades: Struggles of Sex and Class in French Revolutionary Performance” in Querying Difference in Theatre History edited by Scott Magelssen, Ann Haugo, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84718-303-3
Merrick, Jeffery & Michael Sibalis. 2001. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York.
French Erotic Writings from the Ancien Régime to the Revolution by Wayne R. Dynes
Lanser, Susan S. 2014. The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-18773-0 Especially chapter 6 “Sapphic Sects and the Rites of Revolutoin, 1775-1800”
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
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Anandrine Sect
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
26min
October 22, 2020Book Appreciation with Samantha Rajaram - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 180
Book Appreciation with Samantha Rajaram
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 180 with Heather Rose Jones
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors (or your host) will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting.
In this episode we talk about:
Books mentioned
Zami by Audre Lorde
My Story by Kamala Das
anything by James Baldwin
A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (Transcripts are added as 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 Samantha Rajaram Online
Website: SamanthaRajaram.com
Twitter: @Samantha_Reader
Facebook: Samantha Rajaram
Instagram: Samantha.R.Reader
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6min
October 22, 2020Interview with Samantha Rajaram - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 179
Interview with Samantha Rajaram
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 179 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
How the anti-miscegenation policy of the Dutch East India Company inspired the story
Starting with characters and finding their stories
The experience of finding your place in the world
The difficulty of researching sexuality in the 17th century
Samantha’s complex professional history and how it feeds into her writing
Growing up as the only Indian family in a Wyoming town
Samantha’s experience in Pitch Wars and finding/being a mentor
Differing expectations in different genre cultures
Books mentioned
The Company Daughters by Samantha Rajaram
A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (Transcripts are added as 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 Samantha Rajaram Online
Website: SamanthaRajaram.com
Twitter: @Samantha_Reader
Facebook: Samantha Rajaram
Instagram: Samantha.R.Reader
...more
17min
October 22, 2020On the Shelf for October 2020 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 178
On the Shelf for October 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 178 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
Setting up the new podcast site, links for subscribing via your favorite podcatchers.
The tedium of quarantine
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Wahl, Elizabeth Susan. 1999. Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford University Press, Stanford. ISBN 0-8047-3650-2
Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5
Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3
Marcus, Sharon. 2007. Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, Princeton. ISBN 0-691-12835-9
Announcing this month’s author guest, Samantha Rajaram
This month’s essay will be on the Anandrine Society, an almost certainly fictional 18th century French lesbian sex club.
New and forthcoming fiction
Un Amour Révolutionnaire (A Revolutionary Love) by Laurie Miquel
Plumerie by P. De Donno
The Discreet Servant by Stein Willard
Blooming in the Sun (Nicolette & Dorothea Book 2) by Lara Kinsey
Smuggled Love by Robert Lee Davies
To Sleep with Reindeer by Justine Saracen
Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel by Emiiy M. Danforth
The Company Daughters by Samantha Rajaram
Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
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
22min
October 21, 202017th c Poet Katherine Philips - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 177
17th c Poet Katherine Philips
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 177 with Heather Rose Jones
A biography of poet Katherine Philips with a tour through some of her works.
In this episode we talk about:
An overview of Philips’ life
The poems of friendship
Other poetic themes
The neo-platonic tradition
Reputation and legacy
Did Philips write “lesbian poetry”?
Poems included
Rosania Shadowed whilst Mrs. Mary Aubrey
L’Amitié: To Mrs. Mary Aubrey
Rosania’s Apostacy and Lucasia's Friendship
Friendship's Mystery: To my dearest Lucasia
To My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship
Injuria Amici
To my Lucasia, in Defence of declared Friendship
Orinda to Lucasia Parting 1661 at London
To Rosania & Lucasia Articles of Friendship
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Katherine Philips
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
October 21, 2020Book Appreciation: 17-18th century Stories in England and France - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 50c
Book Appreciation: 17-18th century Stories in England and France
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 50c with Heather Rose Jones
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors (or your host) will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting.
In this episode we talk about:
Books set in 17-18th century France or England that have sapphic elements, but are not necessarily romances.
Books mentioned
Passions Between Women by Emma Donoghue
Life Mask by Emma Donoghue
Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
Goddess by Kelly Gardiner
The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
Today Dauphine Tomorrow, Nothing by Saga Hilbom
Under the Microscope by Kim Finney
The Arrival of Lady Suthmeer by Connie Valientis
Harkworth Hall by L.S. Johnson
The Queen's Gift by Lara Zielinsky
The Unbinding of Mary Reade by Miriam McNamara
Spanish Eyes by Jessie Gutiérrez
The Highwaywomen Podcast
Rebeccah and the Highwayman by Barbara Davies
The Highwayman by Eleanor Musgrove
Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield
Belle Revolte by Linsey Miller
Dangerous Remedy by Kat Dunn
Reflected Passion by author
Rebellion by Jay Taverner
Hearts and Minds by Jay Taverner
Passing as Elias by Kate Bloomfield
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
17min
October 21, 2020Interview with Nyri Bakkalian - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 175
Interview with Nyri Bakkalian
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 175 with Heather Rose Jones
An interview with Dr. Nyri Bakkalian about her historical research and her cross-time novel.
In this episode we talk about:
What part time travel plays in Grey Dawn
Representing a variety of gender experiences in historical fiction
The challenges and pleasures of being a historian writing fiction
What does the American Civil War have to do with “samurai with Gatling guns”?
Books mentioned
Grey Dawn by Nyri A. Bakkalian
Yellow Rose by Yoshiya Nobuko (trans. Sarah Frederick)
A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 Nyri Bakkalian Online
Website: Riverside Wings Blog
Twitter: @riversidewings
Facebook: Dr. Nyri Bakkalian
Patreon:Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian
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34min
October 21, 2020On the Shelf for September 2020 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 174
On the Shelf for September 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 174 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
The LHMPodcast is going independent!
Call for submissions for the 2021 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Hatem, Mervat. 1986. "The Politics of Sexuality and Gender in Segregated Patriarchal Systems: The Case of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Egypt" in Feminist Studies vol. 12, no. 2 250-274.
Vanita, Ruth. 2005. "Born of Two Vaginas: Love and Reproduction between Co-Wives in Some Medieval Indian Texts" in GLQ 11:4 547-577.
Phillips, Kim M. & Barry Reay. 2011. Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History. Polity Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-0-7456-2522-5
Duggan, Lisa. 1993. “The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America” in Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader, ed. Robert J. Corber and Stephen Valocchi. Oxford: Blackwell. pp.73-87
*Wahl, Elizabeth Susan. 1999. Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford University Press, Stanford. ISBN 0-8047-3650-2
Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5
Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3
Marcus, Sharon. 2007. Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, Princeton. ISBN 0-691-12835-9
This month’s author guest is to be announced.
This month’s essay is about 17th century poet Katherine Philips.
New and forthcoming fiction
Grey Dawn: A Tale of Abolition and Union by Nyri A. Bakkalian
Stone's Throe by C.E. Murphy
Barbed Wire by Erin Wade
Heart Sings: Heart Series #2 by Luci Dreamer
The Testimony of Alys Twist by Suzannah Dunn
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
Testimony by Paula Martinac
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
16min

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