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 22, 2020On the Shelf for March 2018 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 43
On the Shelf for March 2018
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 43 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
The stories chosen for the new audio fiction episodes
"Peaceweaver" by Jennifer Nestojko
"At the Mouth" by Gurmika Mann
"Inscribed" by V.M. Agab
"One Night in Saint Martin" by Catherine Lundoff
Publications on the Blog
Conner, Randy P. 1997. “Les Molles et les chausses: Mapping the Isle of Hermaphrodites in Premodern France” in Queerly Phrased: Language Gender, and Sexuality, ed. Anna Livia & Kira Hall. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-510471-4
Bonnet, Marie-Jo. 1997. “Sappho, or the Importance of Culture in the Language of Love” in Queerly Phrased: Language Gender, and Sexuality, ed. Anna Livia & Kira Hall. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-510471-4
Watt, Diane. 1997. “Read My Lips: Clipping and Kyssyng in the Early Sixteenth Century” in Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality, ed. Anna Livia and Kira Hall. New York, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-510471-4
Merrill, Lisa. 2000. When Romeo was a Woman: Charlotte Cushman and her Circle of Female Spectators. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. ISBN 978-0-472-08749-5
Leach, Joseph. 1970. Bright Particular Star: The Life and Times of Charlotte Cushman. Yale University Press, New Haven.
Summerscale, Kate. 1997. The Queen of Whale Cay. Viking, New York. ISBN 0-670-88018-3
Gonda, Caroline. 2006. “Lesbian Narrative in the Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu” in British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies 29, no. 2: 191-200.
Straub, Kristina. 1991. “The Guilty Pleasures of Female Theatrical Cross-Dressing and the Autobiography of Charlotte Charke.” in Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity, ed. Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub. New York: Routledge. pp. 142-66
Putter, Ad. 1997. “Transvestite Knights in Medieval Life and History” in Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome & Bonnie Wheeler (eds), Becoming Male in the Middle Ages. Garland, New York. pp. 279-302
New and Forthcoming Books
Stone Mad by Elizabeth Bear
The Northwoods by Jane Hoppen
Free to Love by Ali Spooner and Annette Mori
Undiscovered Country: A Novel Inspired by the Lives of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok by Kelly O’Connor McNees
A special interview with composer and artist Phoebe Legere about her new one-woman musical about lesbian celebrity and speedboat racer Marion “Joe” Carstairs
Speed Queen: The Joe Carstairs Story - A musical by Phoebe Legere, playing March 7-24 at the Dixon Place Theater in New York City
Special discount code for our podcast listeners, get $5 off with the code “Speedqueen” when you order tickets
Phoebe Legere’s YouTube video with a brief into to Joe Carstairs (language NSFW)
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)
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28min
September 21, 2020Charlotte Cushman - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 42
Charlotte Cushman
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 42
Charlotte Cushman was the greatest American actress of the 19th century. So why isn’t she a household name?
In this episode we talk about:
Cushman’s professional career arc
The ways in which 19th century attitudes toward romance and sex affected reception of Cushman’s performances
The phenomenon of Romantic Friendship between women, and how it wasn’t necessarily as sexless or as respectable as we’re sometimes led to believe
A chronology of Cushman’s many female romantic partners
Cushman’s social circle of women intellectuals and artists at her “retirement” home in Rome
A discussion of how Cushman’s careful management and curation of her public image, particularly with respect to her lovers, calls into question some of the popular assumptions about Romantic Friendship and Boston Marriages
Why the world desperately needs a TV mini-series about Cushman’s life and social circle
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
Charlotte Cushman
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
46min
September 21, 2020Book Appreciation with Ellen Klages - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 41
Book Appreciation with Ellen Klages
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 41
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured author will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting.
In this episode Ellen Klages recommends some favorite queer historical novels:
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
Hild by Nicola Griffith
Tremontaine by Ellen Kushner et al.
Ellen also talks about The Tiptree Award [note: now the Otherwise Award] for genre fiction that expands or explores gender roles, which has long lists of recommended books going back 27 years.
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 Ellen Klages Online
Website: Ellen Klages
Twitter: @eklages
Facebook: Ellen Klages
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7min
September 21, 2020Interview with Ellen Klages - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 40
Interview with Ellen Klages
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 40
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
The long incubation for the ideas that became Passing Strange
Lesbian culture in mid-century San Francisco and the San Francisco World’s Fair on Treasure Island
The hidden interconnectedness of Ellen’s novels
The love of historic objects and texts
Historical fiction as “time travel” for the reader
Books mentioned
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
“Caligo Lane” by Ellen Klages (originally published in Subterranean Online, Winter 2014, available in the collection Wicked Wonders Tachyon Publications, 2017)
“Hey Presto” by Ellen Klages (originally published in the anthology Fearsome Magics ed. by Jonathan Strahan, 2014, available in the collection Wicked Wonders Tachyon Publicaitons, 2017)
The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
“Time Gypsy” by Ellen Klages (originally published in Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (Overlook Press, 1999), also available in the collection Portable Childhoods (Tachyon Publications, 2007))
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 Ellen Klages Online
Website: Ellen Klages
Twitter: @eklages
Facebook: Ellen Klages
...more
20min
September 21, 2020On the Shelf for February 2018 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 39
On the Shelf for February 2018
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 39 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
The fiction submission window is over
Send us your upcoming release notices about lesbian historical fiction
Lesbian Book Bingo
https://jae-fiction.com/lesbian-book-bingo/
My Lesbian Book Bingo stories http://alpennia.com/tags/lesbian-book-bingo
A new queer history podcast: History is Gay podcast
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @HistoryisGayPod
Tumblr: historyisgaypodcast.tumblr.com
Website: https://www.historyisgaypodcast.com
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Articles focused on linguistics
Books on Charlotte Cushman
Announcing this month’s author guest, Ellen Klages
New and forthcoming fiction
All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Through the Ages ed by Saundra Mitchell
The Comfortable Courtesan: Being Memoirs by Clorinda Cathcart (that has been a Lady of the Town these several years) Vol 1 by L. A. Hall (See also the author’s website https://www.clorinda.org)
Tremontaine - Season 3
SHIELDMAIDEN BOOK 2: JEWEL OF FIRE by GL Roberts (Bella Books), Feb 2018
Ask Sappho: Amy Herman-Pall asks, “I believe that your area of study and expertise is mostly European in nature, but I wonder if you know of any historical accounts of lesbians in other cultures, especially in Asia, or the Indian sub-continent?”
Rupp, Leila J. 2009. Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-8147-7726-8
Habib, Samar. 2009. Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality: 850-1780 A.D. Teneo Press, Youngstown. ISBN 978-1-934844-11-3
Amer, Sahar. 2008. Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures.University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 978-0-8122-4087-0
Vanita, Ruth. 2008. Same - Sex Love in India - A Literary history. Penguin Books, New York. ISBN 978-0143102069
Vanita, Ruth and Saleem Kidwai, editors. 2001. Same-Sex Love in India: Readings in Indian Literature. Palgrave, New York. ISBN 978-0312293246
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
September 20, 2020(Un)Conventional Women - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 38
(Un)Conventional Women
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 38
A discussion of the long and tangled history of the historic fact and literary motif of lesbians in convents.
In this episode we talk about:
A brief history of Christian attitudes toward sex and Western beliefs about women’s sexuality
Convent regulations that address women’s romantic and sexual bonds
Case histories of sexual activity between nuns
How the Reformation changed the attitude toward convents in Protestant societies
The lesbian nun in pornography
The lesbian nun as religious polemic
The lesbian nun in modern society
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
monastic communities
Casa della Zitelle
Benedetta Carlini
Hildegard of Bingen
Tegernsee Manuscript
Julie d’Aubigny
The girl with no interest in marriage (Erasmus)
Venus dans le Cloitre
Upon Appleton House
La Religieuse (Denis Diderot)
Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife (Adolphe Belot)
Other References mentioned
Hortense Mancini (Wikipedia)
Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence ed. by Rosemary Curb
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
September 20, 2020Book Appreciation with Kathleen Knowles - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 37
Book Appreciation with Kathleen Knowles
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 37
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors talks about her favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting.
In this episode Kathleen recommends some favorite queer historical novels:
The Persian Boy by Mary Renault (gay male fiction)
The Friendly Young Ladies by Mary Renault (contemporary to when Renault write it in the ‘40s)
The Locket and the Flintlock by Rebecca S. Buck
Truths by Rebecca S. Buck
Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright by Justine Saracen
The Witch of Stalingrad by Justine Saracen
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 Kathleen Knowles Online
Website: Kathleen Knowles at Bold Strokes Books
Twitter: @knowleskathy
Facebook: Kathy Knowles
...more
5min
September 20, 2020Interview with Kathleen Knowles - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 36
Interview with Kathleen Knowles
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 36
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
Kathy’s interest in reading about the LGBT history of San Francisco
Her favorite historians, including Lillian Faderman, Martin Duberman
What inspired her three connected novels set in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, culminating with the Great Earthquake
Historic eras Kathy would like to tackle in future books, including the US Suffragist movement, post-World War II San Francisco, and the Paris salon culture of the 1920s
Books mentioned
Awake Unto Me by Kathleen Knowles
A Spark of Heavenly Fire by Kathleen Knowles
Two Souls by Kathleen Knowles
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 Kathleen Knowles Online
Website: Kathleen Knowles at Bold Strokes Books
Twitter: @knowleskathy
Facebook: Kathy Knowles
...more
18min
September 20, 2020On the Shelf for January 2018 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 35
On the Shelf for January 2018
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 35 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
The Lesbian Premodern
Announcing this month’s author guest, Kathleen Knowles
New and forthcoming fiction
The new and forthcoming books segment starts next month. I swear.
Ask Sappho: Nina, from The Lesbian Review facebook group, asks “Can anyone recommend older literature with subtle (or not so subtle) sapphic undertones? I just read Cousin Bette and really enjoyed the little lesbian romance going on between Valerie and Bette. Apparently the Victorian era had lots of these covert lesbian romance narratives, and I need more!”
Literary Studies:
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. 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
Faderman, Lillian (ed). 1994. Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian and Bisexual Literature from the 17th Century to the Present. Viking, xx. ISBN 978-0-670-84638-4
Foster, Jeannette. 1985. Sex Variant Women in Literature. The Naiad Press. ISBN 0-930044-65-7 Third edition of the original 1956 publication.
Decadent Novels:
de Balzac, Honoré. 1846. Cousin Bette. gutenberg.org, Librivox audiobook
de Balzac, Honoré. 1833. The Girl with the Golden Eyes. gutenberg.org, Librivox audiobook
Gautier, Théophile. 1835. Mademoiselle de Maupin. gutenberg.org
LeFanu, Sheridan. 1872. Carmilla. gutenberg.org, Librivox audiobook
Zola, Emile. 1880. Nana. gutenberg.org
Novels of Romantic Friendship:
Converse, Florence. 1897. Diana Victrix. gutenberg.org
James, Henry. 1886. The Bostonians. gutenberg.org vol.1, gutenberg.org vol.2, Librivox audiobook
Linton, Eliza Lynn. 1880. The Rebel of the Family. gutenberg.orgbook
Scott, Sarah. 1762. A Description of Millennium Hall. gutenberg.orgbook
Call for submissions for the 2018 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
11min
September 19, 20202017 Roundup - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 34
2017 Roundup
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 34
I take the opportunity for a year-end review of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project blog and podcast.
In this episode we talk about
What inspired me to first start the blog
How the podcast started and how it differs from the blog
The podcast expansion and why I enjoy doing author interviews
The upcoming fiction 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
10min

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