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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September 28, 2020Peaceweaver by Jennifer Nestojko - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 73
Peaceweaver by Jennifer Nestojko
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 73 with Heather Rose Jones
The third story in our 2018 fiction series. Written by Jennifer Nestojko and narrated by Tiana Hanson.
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
September 28, 2020Moll Cutpurse - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 72
Moll Cutpurse
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 72
A look at the life, legend, and literary figure of Mary Frith, aka Moll Cutpurse, 17th century English gender outlaw.
In this episode we talk about:
A brief biography and its sources
Moll’s criminal and theatrical careers
Moll’s gender performance and its reception
The ambiguous evidence regarding Moll’s sexuality
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
Mary Frith/Moll Cutpurse
Books mentioned
The edited edition of Mary Frith's attributed diary is published as: Todd, Janet & Elizabeth Spearing ed. 1994. Counterfeit Ladies: The Life and Death of Mary Frith Case of Mary Carleton. William Pickering, London. ISBN 1-85196-087-2
Ellen Galford's novel Moll Cutpurse depicts her as enjoying a long-term same-sex relationship. I reviewed the novel here .
The Roaring Girl by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker. The link is to a version of the text at archive.org, but the OCR version has not been cleaned up and is difficult to read.
A full-cast audio production of The Roaring Girl is available from librivox.org. Based on a brief sample, the performance appears to be highly professional and easy to follow.
title by author
title by author
I found two complete (although not necessarily unabridged) productions of The Roaring Girl on YouTube. Both are amateur productions and of highly variable quality.
The Roaring Girl - Noah McBrayer Jones' MFA Candidacy Presentation Fall 2007 at American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse
The Roaring Girl - performed by by the Students of West Suffolk College (sound volume is variable)
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
54min
September 28, 2020Book Appreciation with K. Aten - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 71
Book Appreciation with K. Aten
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 71
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 Kelly Aten recommends some favorite queer historical novels:
Books mentioned
Other Girls by Diane Ayres
Alma Mater by Rita Mae Brown
Cinder and the Smoke by Geonn Cannon [Note: in discussing the book, there is an assertion that having a female Pinkerton agent in the 19th century made the story non-historic, but see for example Pinkerton agent Kate Warne one of the first women hired by Pinkerton in the 1850s]
Storm by Kim Pritekel
Cobb Island by Blayne Cooper
Balance of Forces: Toujours ici by Ali Vali
When Women Were Warriors by Catherine M. Wilson
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 K. Aten Online
Website: http://www.katen-author.com
...more
22min
September 28, 2020Interview with K Aten - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 70
Interview with K Aten
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 70
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
The setting and characters of The Arrows of Artemis
Moving from fanfic to original historical fiction
The joys and frustrations of researching ancient Greece
Books mentioned
The Fletcher by K Aten (Regal Crest)
The Archer by K Aten (Regal Crest)
The Saggitarius by K Aten (Regal Crest)
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 K. Aten Online
Website: http://www.katen-author.com
Twitter: @WORDNRD68
Facebook: katenauthor
...more
36min
September 28, 2020On the Shelf for September 2018 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 69
On the Shelf for September 2018
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 69 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
Lemay, Helen Rodnite “Human Sexuality in Twelfth- through Fifteenth-Century Scientific Writings”
Janet Todd and Elizabeth Spearing Counterfeit Ladies: The Life and Death of Mary Frith, The Case of Mary Carleton
Charles Whibley A Book of Scoundrels
Nathan Field Amends for Ladies (play)
Thomas Middleton The Roaring Girl (play)
Betty T. Bennett Mary Diana Dods: A Gentleman and a Scholar
Book Shopping for the Blog
Emma Donoghue Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and Desire
Domna C. Stanton The Defiant Muse: French Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present
Ian McCormick Secret Sexualities: A Sourcebook of 17th and 18th Century Writing
Huw Osborne (ed) Queer Wales: The History, Culture, and Politics of Queer Life in Wales
Cathryn A. Charnell-White (ed) Beirdd Ceridwen: Blodeugerdd Barddas o Ganu Menywod hyd tua 1800, Ceridwen’s Bards: a Bardic Collection of Women’s Poems to Around 1800
Randolph Trumbach Sex and the Gender Revolution: Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London
Announcing this month’s author guest, K. Aten
This month’s essay topic is: Mary Frith aka Moll Cutpurse
This month’s audio short story will be: “Peaceweaver” by Jennifer Nestojko. I also announce that the fiction series will be contining in 2019.
New and forthcoming fiction
Dead Man's Chest (Plundered Chronicles 5) by Alex Westmore (Amazon Digital Services)
European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club #2) by Theodora Goss (Saga Press)
Like a Book by Bette Hawkins (Bella Books)
The Navigator's Touch by Julia Ember (Duet)
The Saggitarius (Arrows of Artemis #3) by K. Aten (Regal Crest)
Ask Sappho: Jeannelle M. Ferreira on Twitter asks, “Tell us about the Daughters of Bilitis.”
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
September 27, 2020Poetry about Love Between Women from the 16th and 17th Centuries - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 68
Poetry about Love Between Women from the 16th and 17th Centuries
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 68
This episode takes a poetic tour through expressions of, and reactions to, love between women in 16th and 17th century Europe.
In this episode we talk about:
Poems about the pangs of love
“To Mrs M Awbrye” by Katherine Philips
“A Song” by Aphra Behn, see also the podcast on Behn
“Love and Friendship: A Pastoral” by Elizabeth Singer Rowe
“On the Death of my Dear Friend and Play-fellow” by Jane Barker
Men jealous of women’s love for each other
“Elegy for a Lady Enamoured of Another Lady” by Pontus de Tyard
“On the Friendship Betwixt Two Ladies” by Edmund Waller
“Two Beauties, Tender Lovers” by Denis Sanguin de Saint-Pavin
Men appropriating lesbian imagery
“Sappho to Philaenis” by John Donne
“To Mr. J.D. (T.W.)” by Thomas Woodward
Poems of satire and vituperation
“Epigram on Cecilia Bulstrode” by Ben Johnson
“Tribades or Lesbia” by François de Maynard
“Women’s Complaint to Venus” and “Venus’s Reply” by anonymous
The triumph of love
Maitland Quarto MS Poem 49
“My Divine Lysi” by Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz
“On a Lady Named Beloved” by Anne de Rohan-Chabot
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
50min
September 27, 2020Book Appreciation with Darlene Vendegna - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 67
Book Appreciation with Darlene Vendegna
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 67
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured guest will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting.
In this episode Darlene Vendegna, voracious reader and energentic booster of lesbian fiction, recommends some favorite queer historical novels:
Hild by Nicola Griffith
Patience and Sarah by Isabell Miller (audiobook recorded by Janis Ian& Jean Smart)
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
Out of Left Field by Ellen Klages (not lesbian)
A Thin Bright Line by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
The Sistine Heresy by Justine Saracen
The Pirate’s Booty by Alex Westmore (and the rest of The Plundered Chronicles)
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)
...more
32min
September 27, 2020Interview with Vanda - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 66
Interview with Vanda
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 66
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
The Juliana series and how it follows queer history across the latter half of the 20th century
Books mentioned
Juliana by Vanda
Olympus Nights on the Square by Vanda
Paris, Adrift by Vanda
Vanda’s play about 17th century lesbian nun Benedetta Carlini: Vile Affections
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 Vanda Online
Website: http://vandawriter.com
Facebook: Vanda
...more
26min
September 27, 2020On the Shelf for August 2018 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 65
On the Shelf for August 2018
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast – Episode 65 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
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog: sexuality in the 17-18th century, and the last few assorted items from this summer’s journal article blitz.
Announcing this month’s author guest, Vanda
New and forthcoming fiction
Crossing the Line by C.F. Frizzell (Bold Strokes Books)
The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles (Riverhead Books)
Cavalcade by K’Anne Meinel (Shadoe Publishing)
Pioneering by K’Anne Meinel (Shadoe Publishing)
Ask Sappho: an anonymous listener asks “Why do you use the word ‘lesbian’ when you’re talking about people with a wide range of identities?”
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 26, 2020Women and Same-Sex Marriage in Western History - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 64
Women and Same-Sex Marriage in Western History
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 64
A survey of strategies for getting your historical protagonists hitched across the centuries.
In this episode we talk about:
How the concepts of “women”, “same-sex”, and “marriage” are being defined for the purpose of this discussion
Cultures that may have supported marriage between women as an equal option
Cases of same-sex marriage enabled by presenting as an opposite sex couple
The permeability of the “opposite sex” requirement in actual practice
Using the forms and rituals of marriage, even when the legal status was not available
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
Marriage between women
Female husbands
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
32min

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