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 14, 2020Book Appreciation with Stephanie Burgis - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 145
Book Appreciation with Stephanie Burgis
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 145 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
Proper English by K.J. Charles
“Of Books and Earth and Courtship” by Aliette de Bodard
House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard
A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian
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 Stephanie Burgis Online
Website: stephanieburgis.com
Instagram: stephanieburgisinwales
Twitter: @stephanieburgis
Goodreads: Stephanie Burgis
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7min
October 14, 2020Interview with Stephanie Burgis - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 144
Interview with Stephanie Burgis
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 144 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
Books mentioned
Snowspelled by Stephanie Burgis (YA/adult, f/f minor characters)
Thornbound by Stephanie Burgis (YA/adult, f/f minor characters)
Moontangled by Stephanie Burgis (YA/adult, f/f romance)
Masks and Shadows by Stephanie Burgis (adult, not f/f)
Kat, Incorrigible by Stephanie Burgis (middle-grade, not f/f)
The Disastrous Debut of Agatha Tremaine by Stephanie Burgis (adult f/f, short story)
Congress of Secrets by Stephanie Burgis (adult, not f/f)
The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart by Stephanie Burgis (middle-grade, 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 Stephanie Burgis Online
Website: stephanieburgis.com
Instagram: stephanieburgisinwales
Twitter: @stephanieburgis
Goodreads: Stephanie Burgis
...more
34min
October 14, 2020On the Shelf for February 2020 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 143
On the Shelf for February 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 143 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
What your host has been writing lately
What’s New at Bella - A new lesfic podcast from Bella books
Submissions are closed for the 2020 Fiction Series. Check the LHMPodcast Index Page for an announcement of the first story.
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Rupp, Leila J. 2013. "Thinking About 'Lesbian History'" in Feminist Studies vol. 39, no 2 357-361.
Vicinus, Martha. 2012. "The History of Lesbian History" in Feminist Studies vol. 38, no. 3 566-596.
Foucault, Michel. 1990. The History of Sexuality. Vintage Books, New York. ISBN 978-0-679-72469-8
Andreadis, Harriette. 1989. “The Sapphic-Platonics of Katherine Philips, 1632-1664” in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 15(1):34-60. (link will only be live after the blog posts)
Gubar, Susan. 1984. "Sapphistries" in Signs vol. 10, no. 1 43-62. (link will only be live after the blog posts)
Hallett, Judith. 1979. “Sappho and Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality. in Signs 4: 447-464. (link will only be live after the blog posts)
Announcing this month’s author guest, Stephanie Burgis
New and forthcoming fiction
The Traveler - Book One: The Hunted by Kim Pritekel
Merchants of Milan: Book One of the Night Flyer Trilogy by Edale Lane
Pioneer Hearts by Becky Harris
Belle Revolte by Linsey Miler
Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland
Moontangled by Stephanie Burgis
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
End of War in Thermopylae (Thermopylae Bound Book 6) by Belinda Harrison
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 13, 2020Iphis and Ianthe - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 142
Iphis and Ianthe
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 142 with Heather Rose Jones
Tracing same-sex and transgender themes in Ovid’s Classical Roman tale of forbidden love across the ages.
In this episode we talk about:
Who was Ovid and what type of story was the Metamorphoses?
The basic plot of the story and the motif of inappropriate love objects
Gender identity and sexuality in Iphis and Ianthe
Medieval transmission and the purpose of the “moralized Ovid”
The Renaissance translations return to Ovid’s original
Adapting Iphis in Yde and Olive and Gallathea
Iphis and Ianthe as a mirror for women through the centuries looking for a model of same-sex love
References
Caxton, William. 2013. The Booke of Ovyde Named Methamorphose. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto. ISBN 978-0-88844-182-9
Durling, Nancy Vine. 1989. “Rewriting Gender: Yde et Olive and Ovidian Myth” in Romance Languages Annual 1: 256-62.
Golding, Arthur. 1567. P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, translated oute of Latin into English meeter. Willyam Seres, London.
Gower, John. 2013. Confessio Amantis vol. 2 edited by Russell A. Peck, with Latin translations by Andrew Galloway. TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. Medieval Institute Publications, Kalamazoo.
Hallett, Judith P. 1997. “Female Homoeroticism and the Denial of Roman Reality in Latin Literature” in Roman Sexualities, ed. By Judith P. Hallett & Marilyn B. Skinner, Princeton University Press, Princeton.
Hubbard, Thomas K. 2003. Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-23430-7
Mills, Robert. 2015. Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-16912-5
Pintabone, Diane T. "Ovid's Iphis and Ianthe: When Girls Won't Be Girls” in Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin & Lisa Auanger eds. 2002. Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World. University of Texas Press, Austin. ISBN 0-29-77113-4
Watt, Diane 1998. "Behaving like a man? Incest, Lesbian desire, and gender play in 'Yde et Olive' and its adaptations", Comparative Literature, 50, 4 (Fall 1998): 265-85.
Walen, Denise A. 2005. Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6875-3
The full text of Gower’s Confessio Amantis can be found at the website of the TEAMS Middle English Texts Series
The full text of Golding’s 1567 translation of the Metamorphoses is available from Wikisource
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Metamorphoses: Iphis and Ianthe (Ovid)
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
39min
October 13, 2020Book Appreciation with Kate Heartfield - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 141
Book Appreciation with Kate Heartfield
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 141 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
Everfair by Nisi Shawl
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
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 Kate Heartfield Online
Website: heartfieldfiction.com
Twitter: @kateheartfield
Facebook: Kate Heartfield
...more
6min
October 13, 2020Interview with Kate Heartfield - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 140
Interview with Kate Heartfield
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 140 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
Time-travel novels
Books mentioned
Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield
Alice Payne Rides by Kate Heartfield
Armed in Her Fashion by Kate Heartfield
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 Kate Heartfield Online
Website: heartfieldfiction.com
Twitter: @kateheartfield
Facebook: Kate Heartfield
...more
21min
October 13, 2020On the Shelf for January 2020 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 139
On the Shelf for January 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 139 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
Future Patreon content
The 2020 fiction series
Current markets for f/f historical short fiction
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Valerie Traub “The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England”
Tim Hitchcock "The Reformulation of Sexual Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century England"
Randolph Trumbach "The Transformation of Sodomy from the Renaissance to the Modern World and Its General Sexual Consequences”
John Boswell Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
John Boswell Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
Leila Rupp “Thinking about ‘Lesbian History’”
Martha Vicinus “The History of Lesbian History”
Michel Foucault The History of Sexuality
Announcing this month’s author guest, Kate Heartfield
New and forthcoming fiction
Where There Are Mountains by Sarah Pearlman
Clara's Way by Roberta R. Carr
Lady Hotspur by Tessa Gratton
Nottingham by Anna Burke
Spellbound by Jackie D. and Jean Copeland
The Companion by Kim Taylor Blakemore
Blood Countess by Lana Popovic
Markets and Calls for Submissions
Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
Call for submissions for the Silk and Steel anthology (not affiliated with this podcast) See here for details.
Market information for “A Story Most Queer” podcast
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
25min
October 12, 2020Lesbian Vikings - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 138
Lesbian Vikings
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 138 with Heather Rose Jones
An episode by request about research into women’s same-sex relations in early medieval Norse culture, and f/f fiction inspired by it.
In this episode we talk about:
What do we mean by “Viking”?
Homosexuality in Norse culture
Lesbian-relevant themes in Norse culture
Stories of women warriors and gender-crossing
Warrior women and the archaeology of gender
Other contexts
Research References
The Viking Answer Lady
Guldgubber: Sharon Ratke’s catalog site
Clover, Carol J. 1995. "Maiden Warriors and Other Sons" in Robert R. Edwards & Vickie Ziegler (eds). Matrons and Marginal Women in Medieval Society. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge.
Tolkien, Christopher tran. 1960. Saga Heidreks Kunungs ins Vitra. Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, London.
There are many other sources of information on both Norse history and on queer themes or warrior women in early Norse culture. Check out the Viking Answer Lady’s site, or the research blog https://kyngervi.wordpress.com for more leads.
Books mentioned
“Peace-weaver” by Jennifer Nestoiko. The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast 2018 fiction series
Thyra's Promise by Natalie Debrabandere
Taken By the Shield Maiden: A "Bawdy" Tale of Lust by Echo Stardust
Raw: Dein Leben vor Meinem or “Your Life Before Mine” by Jolene Walker
Vikings (tv series)
The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember
The Navigator’s Touch by Julia Ember
Wolf and Raven by Dallas Jessica Owen
The Last Shaman by Dallas Jessica Owen
Thrall: Beyond Gold and Glory by Barbara Ann Wright
The Amber Necklace by Alex Pyott
Heathen by Natasha Alterici (graphic novel)
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
34min
October 12, 2020Things I Loved in 2019 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 137
Things I Loved in 2019
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 137 with Heather Rose Jones
I talk about the novels, non-fiction, and visual media relevant to queer women in history that I enjoyed in 2019
Novels
Life Mask by Emma Donoghue
The Ghost and the Machine by Benny Lawrence
Two Wings to Fly Away by Penny Mickelbury
A Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite
The True Queen by Zen Cho
Bonus non-historical book: The Hounds of Justice by Claire O’Dell
Non-Fiction
Brown, Kathleen. 1995. “’Changed...into the Fashion of a Man’: The Politics of Sexual Difference in a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Settlement” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:2 pp.171-193.
Nederman, Cary J. and Jacqui True. 1996. “The Third Sex: The Idea of the Hermaphrodite in Twelfth-Century Europe” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:4: 497-517.
Abbouchi, Mounawar. 2018. “Yde and Olive” in Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality, vol 8.
Staples, Kate Kelsey. 2011. Daughters of London: Inheriting Opportunity in the Late Middle Ages. Brill, Leiden. ISBN 978-9004203112
Ehrenhalt, Lizzie and Tilly Laskey (eds). 2019. Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890-1918. Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul. ISBN 978-1-68134-129-3
Bonus non-fiction item: Examining the OED - Case Study: Terms for Lesbian(ism) - http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/content/view/435/485/index.html accessed 2019/04/28
Visual Media
Wild Nights with Emily
Gentleman Jack
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
October 12, 2020The Highwaywoman Special (Reprise) - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 136
The Highwaywoman Special (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 136 with Heather Rose Jones
This is a reprise of my first “fifth week special” episode, when I have to come up with something outside my 4-topic rotation. Today we have a multi-media look at female highwaymen in history, song, and story, including five lesbian highwaywoman romances.
In this episode we talk about:
The historic era of the highwaymen
Ballads featuring female highwaymen (you get to hear me sing!)
Women in history who went “on the pad” as they say, or who were rumored to have done so
The most popular formula for lesbian highwaywoman novels
Five lesbian highwaywoman romances, plus one bonus highway robbery incident
The various persons and works discussed or presented in this podcast (in order of appearance) are as follows. Some historic references may apply to more than one person.
“The Highwayman” (excerpt, lyrics by Alfred Noyes music by Phil Ochs, performed by Heather Rose Jones)
“The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes, 1906
Phil Ochs performing his interpretation, originally released on I Ain’t Marching Anymore, 1965
“The Female Highway Hector”, 1683-1703 (excerpt, anonymous broadside ballad, sung to the tune “The Rant”, performed by Heather Rose Jones)
Facsimile of the original broadside ballad
The Rant, collected by William Chappell in 1858
Historic highwaywomen Joan Bracey, Ann Meders, Nan Hereford
“Women of the Road” by Isabelle Goddard
Rumored highwaywomen Katherine Ferrers (“The Wicked Lady”) and Mary Frith (Moll Cutpurse)
“The Wicked Lady” movie
“The female highwayman, or the blighted lily: A drama in three acts” play
“Female Highwaymen” by Stephen Basdeo, 2015
“Sovay, or The Female Highwayman” (full text, traditional ballad, music traditional?, performed by Heather Rose Jones)
Oldest version of the lyrics, collected by Rev. S. Baring-Gould in 1890
A popular later variant, with the most popular tune can be found at the Mudcat Cafe folk music site
For cross-dressing motifs in literature in general:
Walen, Denise A. 2005. Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6875-3
Novels with Highwaywoman Romances
Rebeccah and the Highwayman by Barbara Davies (Bedazzled Ink, 2008)
The Locket and the Flintlock by Rebecca S Buck (Bold Strokes Books, 2012)
Daring and Decorum by Lawrence Hogue (Supposed Crimes, 2017)
The Mask of the Highwaywoman by Niamh Murphy (self-published, 2017)
Behind the Mask by Kim Larabee (Alyson Books, 1989 out of print)
“The Mazarinette and the Musketeer” by Heather Rose Jones (self-published, 2016)
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
20min

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