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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July 15, 2023Lesbians as a “Third Sex” - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 263
Lesbians as a “Third Sex”
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 263 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
Historic contexts in which people conceived as lesbians as belonging to a “third sex”
Academic studies that use the concept of a “third sex” as a way of understanding historic models of gender and sexuality
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
Mastodon: @[email protected]
Twitter: @heatherosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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21min
July 01, 2023On the Shelf for July 2023 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 262
On the Shelf for July 2023
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 262 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
Librivox’s “Out of the Closet” short fiction collection
Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
The Hells of Notre Dame (The Phantom of Notre Dame #1) by R.L. Davennor
Catmint's Moth by Laura Jean Mason
A Study in Garnet (The Ladies of Baker Street #1) by Meredith Rose
A Field of Foxglove (Lavender and Foxglove #1) by Hilary Rose Berwick
Boadicea: Bowed not Broken by Jana Williams
Northwoman: Part Two by M. Jeffrey
Sweet Nothings and Other Confections by Sula Sullivan
Ann's Angel (School of Enlightenment) by Maggie Sims
Bunny by Annie Moon
A Crime of Secrets (Donner & Longstreet Mystery #1) by Ann Aptaker
Devil's Slide (Speakeasy #1) by Stacy Lynn Miller
Her Forgotten Promise by Corin Burnside
Other Titles of Interest
The Dawn of Eternal Winter by Veronika Sizova
Not Just Another to Bury by Cyan Vidales Nicoletti
The Madwomen of Paris by Jennifer Cody Epstein
Women of the Post by Joshunda Sanders
updated title and link: The Poisoned Pen Pal (The Kendallville Librarian #1) by Julie Kortidis
What I’ve been consuming
Sixpenny Octavo by Annick Trent
The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women by Elizabeth Norton
This month we interview Dee Holloway and talk about:
Stories inspired by Alfred Noyes’ “The Highwayman”
Origins of the magical water-horses
“Weird Florida” as a story setting
Little Nothing by Dee Holloway
Lamplit Underground (periodical)
“The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes, 1906
The musical version I was trying to remember the composer for: Phil Ochs performing his interpretation, originally released on I Ain’t Marching Anymore, 1965
This month we interview Lianyu Tan and talk about:
Winning a Lambda Literary Award as an indie author
Singapore and writing as a diasporic author
Vampirism/colonialism
The attractions of gothic horror
”Choose your own ending”
The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
Captive in the Underworld by Lianyu Tan
Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho
A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview 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
Mastodon: @[email protected]
Twitter: @heatherosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Dee Holloway Online
Twitter: @_deeholloway
Instagram: @menshevixen
Itch.io: menshevixen
Links to Lianyu Tan Online
Website: LianyuTan.com
Twitter: @LianyuTan
Mailing List: Subscribe
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50min
June 17, 2023Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 7: Aristocrats and Billionaires - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 261
Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 7: Aristocrats and Billionaires
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 261 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
Structural parallels between tropes involving titled aristocrats and billionaires
Different dynamics when adapting those tropes for f/f historic romance
The complicated problem of providing your heroine with either a noble title or a fortune
This topic of women’s sources of financial independence is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Economic Independence
A detailed (if technical) article on women’s inheritance of noble titles in French history
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
Mastodon: @[email protected]
Twitter: @heatherosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
...more
23min
June 04, 2023On the Shelf for June 2023 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 260
On the Shelf for June 2023
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 260 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
Pride Month and book discoverability
What I did on my summer vacation
Yes, there will be a 2024 fiction series
Book Shopping
Koch, Bea. 2020. Mad & Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency. Grand Central Publishing, New York. ISBN 978-1-5387-0101-0
Straubhaar, Sandra Ballif. 2011. Old Norse Women's Poetry: The Voices of Female Skalds. D.S. Brewer, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-84384-271-2
Allen-Goss, Lucy M. 2020. Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance. D.S. Brewer, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-84384-679-6
Liddington, Jill. 2023. As Good as a Marriage: The Anne Lister Diaries 1836-38. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 978-1-5261-5735-5
Kahf, Mohja. 1999. Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque. University of Texas Press, Austin. ISBN 978-0-292-74337-3
New and forthcoming fiction
Twelve Nights with Viola & Olivia (The New Countess: A Story of Sexy 16th Century Sapphists of Shakespeare) (Book 1 of 2: The New Countess: A Story of Sexy 16th Century Sapphists of Shakespeare ) by by Lady Vanessa S.-G. (Author), Hannah Miyamoto (Editor)
If I Should Tell my History (The New Countess: A Story of Sexy 16th Century Sapphists of Shakespeare) (Book 2 of 2: The New Countess: A Story of Sexy 16th Century Sapphists of Shakespeare ) by by Lady Vanessa S.-G. (Author), Hannah Miyamoto (Editor)
Sicili and the Penniless Lad by Rachel C. Neale
Do Unto Others by Geonn Cannon
Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall
Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens
Killingly by Katharine Beutner
The First Bright Thing by J.R. Dawson
The Gulf by Rachel Cochran
Just One Dance (The Regency Romance Club #1) by Jenny Frame
What am I reading?
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
The Murder of Mr Wickham by Claudia Gray
The Late Mrs Willoughby by Claudia Gray
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher
Ruby Finley vs the Interstellar Invasion by Tempest Bradford
Harriet the Invincible (Hamster Princess #1) by Ursula Vernon
The Bluestocking Beds Her Bride by Fenna Edgewood
An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera
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
Mastodon: @[email protected]
Twitter: @heatherosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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28min
May 20, 2023Interview with Jill Liddington - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 259
Interview with Jill Liddington
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 259 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
The social and economic landscape of Anne Lister’s life
The dynamics of Lister’s “marriage” to Ann Walker
The history of the diaries and their amazing legacy
Jill Liddington’s books about Anne Lister
Presenting The Past: Anne Lister Of Halifax, 1791–1840, Pennines Pens, 1994.
Female Fortune: Land, Gender and Authority: The Anne Lister Diaries and Other writings, 1833–36, Manchester University Press (original edition: Rivers Oram Press, 1998).
Nature's Domain: Anne Lister and the Landscape of Desire, Pennine Pens, 2019.
As Good as a Marriage: The Anne Lister Diaries 1836-38, Manchester University Press, 2023.
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Anne Lister
A transcript of this podcast will be available here when transcribed.
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
Mastodon: @[email protected]
Twitter: @heatherosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Jill Liddington Online
Website: jliddington.org.uk
YouTube video: Anne Lister historian Jill Liddington discusses her new book, As Good as a Marriage
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50min
May 06, 2023On the Shelf for May 2023 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 258
On the Shelf for May 2023
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 258 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
Teaser for a potential upcoming guest
Recent book shopping
Boag, Peter. 2011. Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-27062-6
Bullough, Vern L. & Bonnie Bullough. 1993. Crossdressing, Sex, and Gender. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 0-8122-1431-5
New and forthcoming fiction
A Wound Like Lapis Lazuli by Melody Wiklund
The Disenchantment by Celia Bell
The Accidental Bride (The Spinsters of Inverley #1) by Jane Walsh
A Long Time Dead by Samara Breger
They Ain't Proper by M.B. Guel
An Island Princess Starts a Scandal (Las Leonas #2) by Adriana Herrera
House of Longing by Tara Calaby
Showing Mercy by Kim Pritekel
What I’ve been consuming
A Tempest at Sea (Lady Sherlock 7) by Sherry Thomas
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
This month we interview Catherine Lundoff and talk about:
”The Letter of Marque” on Catherine’s Patreon
The Four Musketeers: The True Story of D'Artagnan, Porthos, Aramis & Athos by Kari L. Maund (aka Kari Sperring) and Phil Nanson
The Secret Life of Aphra Behn by Janet Todd
”Born with Teeth” by Liz Duffy Adams (play about Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare)
The historic Jacquotte de la Haye
The historic inspirations for the series
Media mentioned:
A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview 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
Mastodon: @[email protected]
Twitter: @heatherosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Catherine Lundoff Online
Website: catherinelundoff.net
Website: queenofswordspress.com/
Mastodon: @[email protected]
Twitter: @clundoff
Facebook: Clundoff
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36min
April 30, 2023The Pirate in the Mirror by Catherine Lundoff - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 257
The Pirate in the Mirror by Catherine Lundoff
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 257 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents “The Pirate in the Mirror” by Catherine Lundoff, narrated by Heather Rose Jones.
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
Mastodon: @[email protected]
Twitter: @heatherosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Catherine Lundoff Online
Website (Queen of Swords Press): https://queenofswordspress.com/
Twitter: @clundoff
Instagram (Queen of Swords Press): @qospress
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Clundoff
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32min
April 17, 2023Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 7: Second Chances and Older Women - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 256
Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 7: Second Chances and Older Women
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 256 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
The structure of the “second chance romance” trope
Features of second-chance romances with female couples
Considerations for older heroines
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
Mastodon: @[email protected]
Twitter: @heatherosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
...more
18min
April 03, 2023On the Shelf for April 2023 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 255
On the Shelf for April 2023
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 255 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
Why the blog has been thin lately
Historic settings and mythic fiction
New Books for the Blog
Palmer, Paulina. 1999. Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions. Cassell, New York. ISBN 0-304-70154-8
McCallum, E.L. & Mikko Tuhkanen, eds. 2014. The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature. Cambridge University Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-107-03521-8
New and forthcoming fiction
Her Venetian Beauty (Ladylike Inclinations #4) by Violet Cowper
The Enemy Within by Stein Willard
Eight Strings by Margaret DeRosia
Her Female Husband (The Kendallville Librarian #1) by Julieanne
Heart's Home (Heart Series #3) by L. Dreamer
From the Ashes of Victory - Box Set by Cameron Darrow
Legacy of the Valiant (Tales from Norvegr #2) by Edale Lane
Knight of Nights (The Coin of Love #2) by Karin Kallmaker
Something Spectacular (Something Fabulous) by Alexis Hall
The Widow's Modiste (Desiring the Dexingtons #3) by Renee Dahlia
The Weeds by Katy Simpson Smith
What I’ve been consuming
Christmas masquerade by Meg Mardell
Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo
The Unbroken by C.L. Clark
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K.J. Charles
Some thoughts on historic settings where myth and fantasy has replaced realistic history
A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview 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
Mastodon: @[email protected]
Twitter: @heatherosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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25min
March 20, 2023They Did the Smash (the Schoolgirl Smash) - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 254
They Did the Smash (the Schoolgirl Smash)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 254 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
Romantic and pseudo-romantic relationships in single-gender educational institutions
The public culture of the schoolgirl “smash” or “crush”
When and how attitudes toward such romances changed
The culture of life partnerships between female faculty
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
Mastodon: @[email protected]
Twitter: @heatherosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
...more
39min

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