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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October 16, 2020The (Sex) Lives of Fair and Gallant Women - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 155
The (Sex) Lives of Fair and Gallant Women
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 155 with Heather Rose Jones
A glimpse into same-sex relations in 16th century France through the salacious memoirs of the Seigneur de Brantôme
In this episode we talk about:
Brantôme’s purpose in discussing lesbian sex at the French court
What Brantôme tells us about familiarity with classical sources on female homosexuality
16th century French vocabulary and slang about lesbian sex
How do weasels come into it?
Books mentioned
Brantôme (Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme). 1740. Vies des Dames Galantes. Garnier Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs, Paris. (via Project Gutenberg)
Lives of fair and gallant ladies by Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de, d. 1614; Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard) (via archive.org)
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 podcast is adapted from LHMP entry #199 here: Brantôme 1740 Vies des Dames Galantes
For more information on Brantôme, see his Wikipedia entry
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
29min
October 16, 2020Book Appreciation with Tara Scott - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 154
Book Appreciation with Tara Scott
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 154 with Heather Rose Jones
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured guest (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:
Tara’s introduction to historic romance through Julie Garwood, Jude Deveraux, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and how they shaped her taste
Some books Tara loved in 2019
Jane Austen-inspired f/f stories that Tara would love for someone to write
Books mentioned
The Liberators of Willow Run by Marianne K. Martin
Two Wings to Fly Away by Penny Mickelbury
A Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite
Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan
If I Loved You Less by Tamsen Parker
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 Tara Scott Online
Twitter: @taramdscott
Website: Tara’s Reviews at The Lesbian Review
Website: Tara’s Reviews at Lambda Literary
Website: Tara’s Reviews at Smart Bitches Trashy Books
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30min
October 16, 2020Interview with Edale Lane - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 153
Interview with Edale Lane
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 153 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
Setting an adventure in DaVinci’s Milan
An author’s publishing itinerary
What’s coming for the “Nightflyer” series
Books mentioned
Merchants of Milan by Edale Lane
Heart of Sherwood by Edale Lane
Vlad: A Novel by Melodie Romeo (not f/f)
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 Edale Lane Online
Website: Past and Prologue Press
Twitter: @EdaleLane
Facebook: Melodie Romeo
Instagram: melodieromeo
...more
18min
October 16, 2020On the Shelf for April 2020 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 152
On the Shelf for April 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 152 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
Living through historic times
Individualism versus community in history and the present
How your podcast host is coping
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Bray, Alan. 2003. The Friend. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-07181-7
Verini, Alexandra. 2016. "Medieval Models of Female Friendship in Cristine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies and Margery Kempe's The Book of Margery Kempe" in Feminist Studies vol. 42, no. 2 365-391.
Lasser, Carol. 1988. "'Let Us Be Sisters Forever': The Sororal Model of Nineteenth-Century Female Friendship" in Signs vol. 14, no. 1 158-181.
Moore, Lisa. 1992. "'Something More Tender Still than Friendship': Romantic Friendship in Early-Nineteenth-Century England" in Feminist Studies vol. 18, no. 3 499-520.
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. 1975. “The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America” in Signs vol. 1, no. 1 1-29.
Vicinus, Martha. 1984. "Distance and Desire: English Boarding-School Friendships" in Signs vol. 9, no. 4 600-622.
Faderman, Lillian. 1999. "Surpassing the Love of Men Revisited" in The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review 6.2 p.26.
Bodek, Evely Gordon. 1976. "Salonières and Bluestockings: Educated Obsolescence and Germinating Feminism" in Feminist Studies vol 3 no. 3/4 185-199.
Announcing this month’s author guest, Edale Lane
New and forthcoming fiction
The Whoreson's Daughter by Celia Crotteau
Pioneer Vengeance: A Lesbian Western (Pioneer Hearts Book 2) by Becky Harris
All I See Is You by Lily Hammond
Lucas by Elna Holst
The Beginning of Everything: A Historical Lesbian Romance by Cara Malone
The Decameron Project
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
21min
October 15, 2020Bertolina Guercia - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 151
Bertolina Guercia
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 151 with Heather Rose Jones
The story of a 13th century Italian woman who seems to have openly had sexual relationships with women.
In this episode we talk about:
Who was Bertolina Guercia and what was her life like?
How was Bertolina’s sexuality described by witnesses?
The surprising acceptance of Bertolina’s lesbianism
Sources mentioned
Lansing, Carol. 2005. “Donna con Donna? A 1295 Inquest into Female Sodomy” in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History: Sexuality and Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, Third Series vol. II: 109-122.
Puff, Helmut. 2000. "Female Sodomy: The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477)" in Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: 30:1, 41-61.
Crompton, Louis. 1985. “The Myth of Lesbian Impunity: Capital Laws from 1270 to 1791” in Licata, Salvatore J. & Robert P. Petersen (eds). The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 0-918393-11-6 (Also published as Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 6, numbers 1/2, Fall/Winter 1980.)
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Bertolina Guercia
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
18min
October 15, 2020Movie Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 150
Movie Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 150 with Heather Rose Jones
A look at media that asks us to embrace the harder parts of history
In this episode we talk about:
Look: just go see this movie, then come back and listen to the podcast
How bittersweet stories are part of the triumph of queer media
Just because it doesn’t have a Happily Ever After ending doesn’t mean it’s an unhappy story
Properties mentioned
Portrait of a Lady on Fire written and directed by Céline Sciamma
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
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
13min
October 15, 2020Interview with Catherine Lundoff of Queen of Swords Press - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 149
Interview with Catherine Lundoff of Queen of Swords Press
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 149 with Heather Rose Jones
An interview with the founder of Queen of Swords Press about the process of starting a publishing company.
In this episode we talk about:
Moving from being published to being a publisher
Schedules and timelines
Finding the balance in content
What to tackle by yourself and when to bring in experts
Making the finances work
How success can trip you up
The surprising cross-market potential of dapper lesbian capybara pirates
Books mentioned - you are encouraged to buy through the Queen of Swords website
Silver Moon by Catherine Lundoff
Out of This World by Catherine Lundoff
Murder on the Titania by Alex Acks
Medusa’s Touch by Emily L. Byrne
Scourge of the Seas of Time and Space edited by Catherine Lundoff
Wireless by Alex Acks
Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic by Catherine Lundoff
The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper by A.J. Fitzwater
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 Queen of Swords Press and Catherine Lundoff Online
Website: Queen of Swords Press
Twitter: @QoSPress
Facebook: Queen of Swords Press
Website: Catherine Lundoff
Twitter: @clundoff
Facebook: Catherine Lundoff (author page)
...more
41min
October 15, 2020On the Shelf for March 2020 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 148
On the Shelf for March 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 148 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
In the spring, a historian’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of...historic gardening.
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Andreadis, Harriette. 1989. “The Sapphic-Platonics of Katherine Philips, 1632-1664” in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 15(1):34-60.
Gubar, Susan. 1984. "Sapphistries" in Signs vol. 10, no. 1 43-62.
Hallett, Judith. 1979. “Sappho and Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality. in Signs 4: 447-464.
Stigers, Eva Stehle. 1979. “Romantic Sensuality, Poetic Sense: A Response to Hallett on Sappho” in SIgns vol 4, no 3: 465-471.
Katz, Marilyn A. 2000. "Sappho and Her Sisters: Women in Ancient Greece" in Signs vol. 25, no. 2 505-531.
Bray, Alan. 2003. The Friend. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-07181-7
Verini, Alexandra. 2016. "Medieval Models of Female Friendship in Cristine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies and Margery Kempe's The Book of Margery Kempe" in Feminist Studies vol. 42, no. 2 365-391.
Lasser, Carol. 1988. "'Let Us Be Sisters Forever': The Sororal Model of Nineteenth-Century Female Friendship" in Signs vol. 14, no. 1 158-181.
Moore, Lisa. 1992. "'Something More Tender Still than Friendship': Romantic Friendship in Early-Nineteenth-Century England" in Feminist Studies vol. 18, no. 3 499-520.
Announcing this month’s guest, Catherine Lundoff talking about Queen of Swords Press
New and forthcoming fiction
Tooth and Blade by Julian Barr
The Flowers of Time (Lost in Time Book 3) by A.L. Lester
Red Kate: a tale of lesbian piracy by Sarah Tighe-Ford
Dangerous Remedy by Kat Dunn
Never Anyone But You: A Novel by Rupert Thomson
The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey
Behind the Bandstand by Theresa J. Everlove
Music from Another World by Robin Talley
The Mail Order Bride by R. Kent
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 14, 2020Talking to Ghosts by Caitlin Flavell - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 147
Talking to Ghosts by Caitlin Flavell
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 147 with Heather Rose Jones
The first story in our 2020 fiction series, set in Victorian Scotland. The narrator is your host.
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 Caitlin Flavell Online
Website: Clitbait (as a contributor)
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @Flavell97
...more
32min
October 14, 2020The Evolution of Butch as a Lesbian Signifier - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 146
The Evolution of Butch as a Lesbian Signifier
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 146 with Heather Rose Jones
An investigation across time of how the use of “masculine” clothing developed into a deliberate signal of women’s same-sex interests.
A slideshow version of this show is available on our YouTube channel. (This version does not have the re-mastered intro and references to TLT are obsolete.)
In this episode we talk about:
Historic Attitudes Toward Clothing Gender
How Gendered Clothing Confers Gender Characteristics
Cross-gender Garments Signifying Sexual Unruliness
Theatrical Contexts Interpreted as Sexually Desirable to Men but Also to Women
Male-coded Garments in Gender Play Combined with Same-Sex Erotics
Women with Same-Sex Interests Depicted as Behaving Mannishly
The Sartorial Stylings of Amazons and Bluestockings
Lesbians in Riding Habits
“Mannish” Clothing and the Decadent Movement
People and Publications (Links are to LHMP blog posts or podcasts unless otherwise noted)
Tournament with Cross-dressing Women 14th c
Hic Mulier
Mary Frith/Moll Cutpurse (podcast)
The Roaring Girl by Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton
Julie d’Aubigny
Charlotte Cibber Charke
Charlotte Cushman (podcast)
The Convent of Pleasure by Margaret Cavendish (1668)
The New Atalantis by Delarivier Manley (1709)
The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu (1744) (podcast)
Memoirs of the Life of Count Grammont by Anthony Hamilton (1713)
Pamela by Samuel Richardson (1740)
Sir Charles Grandison by Samuel Richardson (1753)
Belinda by Maria Edgeworth (1801)
Diaries of Samuel Pepys (1666) (Wikipedia)
Anne Damer (podcast)
Ladies of Llangollen: Eleanor Butler & Sarah Ponsonby (podcast)
Anne Lister
Eupheia by Charlotte Lennox (1790)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844) (Wikipedia)
Mademoiselle de Maupin Théophile Gautier (1835)
Nana by Émile Zola (1880)
Lélia by George Sand (1833)
Natalie Clifford Barney (Wikipedia)
Colette (Wikipedia)
Rosa Bonheur
Other References Used
Albert, Nicole G. 2016. Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France. Harrington Park Press. (not yet blogged)
Bennett, Judith and Shannon McSheffrey. 2014. “Early, Exotic and Alien: Women Dressed as Men in Late Medieval London” in History Workshop Journal. 77 (1): 1-25.
Castle, Terry (ed). 2003. The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 0-231-12510-0
Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4
Donoghue, Emma. 2010. Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. ISBN 978-0-307-27094-8
Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-688-00396-6
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
Loughlin, Marie H. 2014. Same-Sex Desire in Early Modern England, 1550-1735: An Anthology of Literary Texts and Contexts. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-8208-5
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
43min

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