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 01, 2020Interview with Carrie Pack - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 83
Interview with Carrie Pack
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 83 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about
The riot girl movement of the 1990s
The importance of girls in zine culture
Writing near-past fiction
Sensitive writing for the contemporary reader
Carrie’s podcast: Bi Sci Fi for queer-friendly speculative fiction
Different experiences with SFF and YA books
Researching the facts of your own past
Books mentioned
Grrrls on the Side by Carrie Pack (Duet)
The Riot Grrrl Collection edited by Lisa Darms (The Feminist Press at CUNY)
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 Carrie Pack Online
Website: http://www.carriepack.com
Twitter: @carriepack
Twitter: @biscifi
...more
25min
October 01, 2020On the Shelf for December 2018 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 82
On the Shelf for December 2018
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 82 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
An academic resource about researching historical fiction: the Historical Fictions Network and their upcoming conference in England in February 2019.
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Classical Greek romances with f/f themes
Articles about the Sex Panic of the 1790s and the social and political anxieties in England and France leading up to it.
F/f sex in 18th century legal records in Amsterdam
Possibly some tie-in publications on historical sexuality in India
A gorgeous lesbian-interest costume drama The Favourite about Queen Anne of England, Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, and Abigail Masham.
This month’s essay topic is: Queen Anne and the rumors of lesbianism that surrounded her favorites.
Announcing this month’s author guest, Carrie Pack
This month’s audio short story will be: “At the Mouth” by Gurmika Mann
New and forthcoming fiction
Lavender Inn by Olivia Lark (Three Bunny Farm Press)
Whiskey and Cinnamon by Naomi Muse (self-published)
The Triple L by Red Hope (Little Red Wings)
“Her Royal Servant” by Emilie Blondel (self-published, short story)
“Bellatrix's Slave” by Emilie Blondel (self-published, short story)
“The Queen's Gift” by Lara Zielinsky (LZ Media)
Heaven is to your Left (Juliana book 4) by Vanda (Sans Merci Press)
A Lady’s Desire by Lily Maxon (self-published)
Carmilla and Laura by S.D. Simper (Endless Night Publications)
Ask Sappho: an amusing and intriguing archaeological find, courtesy of Ancient Origins
A reminder about opening submissions for our 2019 fiction 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
17min
September 30, 2020Anne Damer - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 81
Anne Damer
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 81 with Heather Rose Jones
A short biography of 18th century sculptor Anne Damer and her rumored lesbian relationships.
In this episode we talk about
The novel that inspired this episode: Life Mask by Emma Donoghue
An overview of Damer’s life and career
Her close friendships with actress Elizabeth Farren and writer Mary Berry
The complicated landscape of women’s same-sex relations in the 18th century
Why Damer may have been unusually vulnerable to accusations of lesbian relations
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
Anne Damer
Some specific sources that discuss Anne Damer’s sexuality:
Donoghue, Emma. 2010. “'Random Shafts of Malice?': The Outings of Anne Damer” in Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4
Rictor Norton (Ed.), "Mrs Piozzi's Reminiscences, 1770s-1790s", Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook, 20 April 2003
Rictor Norton (Ed.), "A Sapphick Epistle, 1778", Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook. 1 December 1999, updated 23 February 2003
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
September 30, 2020Book Appreciation with Heather Rose Jones: Reading Outside Your Comfort Zone - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 80
Book Appreciation with Heather Rose Jones - Reading Outside Your Comfort Zone
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 80 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 Heather Rose Jones recommends some favorite historical novels with queer characters that may challenge your usual reading habits:
Goddess by Kelly Gardiner
The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue
Everfair by Nisi Shawl
Also mentioned:
“The Mazarinette and the Musketeer” by Heather Rose Jones
“M. de Maupin” by Catherine Lundoff in A Day at the Inn, A Night at the Palace and Other Stories (likely to be reprinted in a new collection, but no details yet)
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
14min
September 30, 2020Interview with Elizabeth Tammi - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 79
Interview with Elizabeth Tammi
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 79 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
The mythological roots of Outrun the Wind
Balancing the mythic and historic
The Theoi Project (Greek mythology resources) http://www.theoi.com
Reclaiming Greek mythology for women’s stories
The challenge of writing alternating first person voices
The experience of selling your first novel in college
Elizabeth’s next mythological topic
Elizabeth’s tumblr blog about YA literature
Books mentioned
Outrun the Wind by Elizabeth Tammi
Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Crowns Game by Evelyn Skye
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 Elizabeth Tammi Online
Website: http://elizabethtammi.com
Twitter: @elizabethtammi
Tumblr: http://annabethisterrified.tumblr.com
...more
16min
September 30, 2020On the Shelf for November 2018 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 78
On the Shelf for November 2018
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 78 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Books on Classical Rome
Articles from the Journal of the History of Sexuality
Announcing this month’s author guest, Elizabeth Tammi
This month’s essay topic is: 18th c sculptor Anne Damer
New and forthcoming fiction
"Penhallow Amid Passing Things" (novelette) by Iona Datt Sharma (self-published) (also in anthology Underwater Ballroom Society)
Outrun the Wind by Elizabeth Tammi (Flux/North Star Editions)
Wild Fields by Purple Hazel (Torrid Books)
Gentleman Jack: A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist by Angela Steidele, trans. Katy Derbyshire (Serpent's Tail)
A Different Kind of Fire: A Novel by Susanne Schafer (Waldorf Publishing)
The Lilith Gene by M. Cassol (Clink Street Publishing)
Pulp by Robin Talley (Harlequin Teen)
Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield (tor.com)
Trafalgar & Boone and the Children of the Burnt Empire (Trafalgar and Boone Book 4) by Geonn Cannon (Supposed Crimes)
The Widows of Malabar Hill (A Mystery of 1920s India) by Sujata Massey (Soho Crime)
Call for submissions for the new LHMP audio short story segment. See here for details. 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
19min
September 29, 2020Woman Plus Woman in Classical Rome - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 77
Woman Plus Woman in Classical Rome
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 77 with Heather Rose Jones
A critical look at the evidence regarding sexual and romantic relationships between women in Classical Rome.
In this episode we talk about:
The Roman “sexual system”
How women break the pattern
How Roman women had sex with each other
Same-sex marriage in the Roman empire
The causes and meaning of same-sex desire
Imagining sex and love between women
Women’s voices
Martial’s epigrams on sexually aggressive women
Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans
Women’s relationships elsewhere in the empire: Celts and Egyptians
A list of sources and links can be found in the transcript
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
1h 5min
September 29, 2020Sappho: The Translations (Reprise) - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 76
Sappho: The Translations (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 11 with Heather Rose Jones
In this show we’ll look at the legacy of Sappho from the Middle Ages up through the 19th century: the various images people had of her, how people used her as a symbol, the way those images affected how her poetry was translated into everyday languages, and how poets used her themes and imagery in their own work.
In this episode we talk about:
How much poetry did Sappho write, and how much survives? Why was it lost, and why were the bits we have preserved?
What was the changing image of Sappho from the middle ages through the 19th century? How did people reconcile their admiration for Sappho’s poetry and their disapproval of homosexuality?
Who translated Sappho’s works and how did their opinions of her affect those translations?
The show will include recitations of the following poems:
Ode to Aphrodite & Fragment #31: Jane McIntosh Snyder from Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho (20th century)
“On a Lady Named Beloved” inspired by fragment #31: Anne de Rohan (1617), translated from the French
Fragment #31: John Hall (1652)
Fragment #31: Joseph Addison (1735)
Ode to Aphrodite & Fragment #31: Abrose Philips (1748)
“Eleanore” inspired by Fragment #31: Lord Tennyson (1832)
Fragment #31 & “Imitation of Sappho” inspired by Fragment #31: Mary Hewitt (1845)
Books used as source material
Addison, Joseph. 1735. The Works of Anacreon, Translated into English Verse, with Notes Explanatory and Poetical. To which are added the Odes, Fragments, and Epigrams of Sappho. London.
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
Hall, John. 1652. Sappho’s On the Sublime.
Snyder, Jane. 1997. Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho. New York: Columbia University Press.
Wharton, Henry Thornton. 1887. Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation. London.
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
Sappho
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
September 29, 2020Sappho of Lesbos - The Woman and the Legend (Reprise) - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 75
Sappho of Lesbos - The Woman and the Legend (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 75 with Heather Rose Jones
As a special Pride Month celebration, I’m recording a pair of episodes talking about the poet Sappho: what we know about her life and context, the legends that sprang up about her, what people of various ages thought of her, and most especially what they knew of her poetry, how they interpreted and even imitated it.
In this episode we talk about:
The known facts of Sappho’s life
What classical Greek and Roman writers said about her
Possible explanations for some of the contradictory stories about her
The social context for Sappho’s expressions of love and desire for women, and what sort of relationships were most likely involved
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
Sappho
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
September 29, 2020On the Shelf for October 2018 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 74
On the Shelf for October 2018
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 74 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
Announcing the 2019 audio fiction series
A conference next March in France: “Sapphic Vibes: Lesbians in Literature from the Renaissance to the Present”
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Publications about Moll Cutpurse
Mary Diana Dods: A Scholar and a Gentleman by Betty T. Bennett
Publications about sexuality in ancient Rome
Book Shopping for the Blog
Same-sex Desire in Early Modern England, 1550-1735: An Anthology of Literary Texts and Contexts by Marie H. Loughlin
Instead of an author guest, a reprise of two shows about Sappho
New and forthcoming fiction
Any Other Name by Devan Johnson
The War Outside by Monica Hesse
Nightingale by Amy Lukavics
Isle of Broken Years by Jane Fletcher
Libertine by Rebecca Wilde
Flesh and Gold by Ann Aptaker
Sugar Land by Tammy Lynne Stoner
Ask Sappho: The most outrageous, tropiest Regency same-sex relationship...and it’s all true
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
27min

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