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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March 05, 2023On the Shelf for March 2023 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 253
On the Shelf for March 2023
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 253 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
Podcast: Queer as Fact
Book Shopping: The Once and Future Sex by Eleanor Janega
New and forthcoming fiction
A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar
Evil's Echo by Jane Alden
Aimer Mathilde by Laurence Tardi
When We Lost our Heads by Heather O'Neill
Your Goyle and Mine (The Magickal Underground #1) by Nan Sampson
The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology #1) by Hadeer Elsbai
A Defiant Devotion (A Truth Universally Acknowledged #2) by E.B. Neal
La Femme Falaise: Romance historique by Hélène Néra
The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood
Now the Wind Scatters by J Donal
Daughters of Nantucket: A Novel by Julie Gerstenblatt
Well Behaved Women by Caroline Lamond
To Meet Again by Kadyan
A Dark, Cold Touch: A Gothic Romance by Megan E. Hart
What I’ve been consuming
A Case of Possession by K.J. Charles
A Flight of Magpies by K.J. Charles
Spectred Isle by K.J. Charles
The Henchman of Zenda by K.J. Charles
Court of Fives by Kate Elliott
Sistersong by Lucy Holland
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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30min
February 19, 2023Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 6: Friends or Enemies to Lovers - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 252
Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 6: Friends or Enemies to Lovers
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 252 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
Considerations for using friends-to-lovers and enemies-to-lovers tropes in sapphic historic romance
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
19min
February 04, 2023On the Shelf for February 2023 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 251
On the Shelf for February 2023
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 251 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
The Harper Collins strike and the significance of major publishers in sapphic fiction
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Haggerty, George E. 1998. Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later 18th Century. Indiana University Press, Bloomington. ISBN 0-253-21183-2
Book Shopping
Abercrombie, Thomas A. 2018. Passing to América: Antonio (Née Maria) Yta's Transgressive, Transatlantic Life in the Twilight of the Spanish Empire. The Pennsylvania University Press, University Park. ISBN 978-0-271-08119-9
Shopland, Norena. 2021. A History of Women in Men's Clothes: From Cross-Dressing to Empowerment. Pen & Sword History, Philadelphia. ISBN 978-1-52678-767-5
Vanita, Ruth , ed. 2002. Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-92950-4
Rouse, Wendy L. 2022. Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-47981394-0
New and forthcoming fiction
She Who Would be King by Kim Pritekel
The Pirate's Pursuit (Sapphic Seas #2) by Wren Taylor
Blood in the Tea Leaves by Beka Westrup
The Secret Life of Spinsters: A Sapphic Regency Romance (Desiring The Dexingtons # 2) by Renee Dahlia
Dangerous Flames (Good Neighbors) by Stephanie Burgis
For Lamb by Lesa Cline-Ransome
What I’ve been consuming
Valiant Ladies by Melissa Grey
Hen Fever by Olivia Waite
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nhi Vo
The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by K.J. Charles
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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17min
January 28, 2023All is Silence by Heather Rose Jones - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 250
All is Silence by Heather Rose Jones
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 250 with Heather Rose Jones
A bonus fiction episode to celebrate episode #250: “All is Silence” by Heather Rose Jones, narrated by the author.
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
37min
January 21, 2023The Romance of Silence - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 249
The Romance of Silence
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 249 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
The medieval “Romance of Silence”
Ideas about gender, and nature vs nurture
An extended plot synopsis
Sources mentioned
Roche-Mahdi, Sarah. 1999. Silence. Michigan State University Press, Lansing. ISBN 0-87013-543-0
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Roman de Silence (Heldris de Cornuälle)
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
34min
January 07, 2023On the Shelf for January 2023 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 248
On the Shelf for January 2023
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 248 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
A summary of what the podcast and blog have covered this year
Upcoming BBC series with a sapphic take on Marie Antoinette
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Moore, Lisa. 1997. Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel. Duke University Press, Durham, 1997. ISBN 0-8223-2049-5
New and forthcoming fiction
A Rose Blooms at Golden Fork by Rachel Anderson
Just Wide Enough for Two by Kacey M. Martin
Rachel Kelly And The Vigilantes (Rachel Kelly in Oregon County # 1) by Pamela Cabot
Unchain My Heart: A Fantasy Lesbian Romance in Classical Greece (Bonds of Fate #1) by R.J. Martin
Sixpenny Octavo by Annick Trent
Vanilla Kisses (Diary of an Obstinate, Headstrong Female #1) by C.C. Burns
Appetence (Diary of an Obstinate, Headstrong Female #2) by C.C. Burns
Midwinter (Diary of an Obstinate, Headstrong Female #3) by C.C. Burns
Hen Fever by author
White Star: A lesbian Gilded Age romance set on the Titanic by Laura Jelenkovich
The Demon Gospel (Hidden Gods #2) by Ariel Dalziel
Her Enticing Muse (Ladylike Inclinations #3) by Violet Cowper
Forever's Promise by Missouri Vaun
The Ashes of the Brothel: Betrayal in the Wickedest Little Town in the West by Katryna Lalock
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
In the Shadow of Truth (Shadow Series 3) by J.E. Leak
What I’ve been consuming
The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin
The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones
Reader, I Murdered Him by Betsy Cornwell
Call for submissions for the 2023 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
This month we interview Jennifer Nestojko and talk about:
The inspirations for “From the Bird’s Nest”
The joys of epistolary stories
Writing disabilities in a historic context
Being a writer and a teacher
Ideas for an Anglo-Saxon setting and playing around with Beowulf
Books and authors mentioned:
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
Emily Dickinson
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Work by Louisa May Alcott
Sarah Orne Jewett
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Re: Beowulf-related novels:
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49min
December 31, 2022From the Bird’s Nest by Jennifer Nestojko - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 247
From the Bird’s Nest by Jennifer Nestojko
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 247 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents “From the Bird’s Nest” by Jennifer Nestojko, narrated by Emma Ross.
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
32min
December 17, 2022Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 5: Widows - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 246
Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 5: Widows
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 246 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
The trope of widowed characters in historic romance
A survey of the legal, economic, and cultural norms for widows across many societies
How widows interact differently in f/f romances than in f/m stories
Brainstorming romantic plots for widowed heroines
Background reading from the blog
Beattie, Cordelia. 2007. Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-928341-5
Froide, Amy M. 1999. “Marital Status as a Category of Difference: Singlewomen and Widows in Early Modern England” in Bennett, Judith M. & Amy M. Froide eds. Singlewomen in the European Past 1250-1800. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 0-8122-1668-7
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Widows
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
29min
December 03, 2022On the Shelf for December 2022 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 245
On the Shelf for December 2022
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 245 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Altman, Meryl. 2009. “Parthenoi to Watch Out For? Looking at Female Couples in Vase-Painting and Lyric” in CAMWS.
Omar, Sara. 2012. “From Semantics to Normative Law: Perceptions of Liwat (Sodomy) and Sihaq (Tribadism) in Islamic Jurisprudence (8th - 15th Century CE)” in Islamic Law and Society 19. pp.222-256
Antrim, Zayde. 2020. “Qamarayn: The Erotics of Sameness in the 1001 Nights” in Al-Usur al-Wusta vol. 28. pp.1-44
Bosman, Frank G. 2021. “’I Am Not Good at Any of This’ Playing with Homoeroticism in The Arabian Nights” in Religions 12: 480.
New and forthcoming fiction
Julie & Winifred's Most Excellent Adventure by Heather Massey
Observations on the Danger of Female Curiosity by Suzanne Moss
”A Defence of Astronomical Curiosity for Ladies” by Suzanne Moss
My Life with Rachel: A Tale of Two Women in 1920's New York by Ariel Archer
Elsie Sees It Through by Derek Ansell
The Fire and the Place in the Forest: Collected Stories and Poems by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
A Chaperoned Christmas (Christmas masquerade #3) by Meg Mardell
The Captain's Choice: A Sapphic Seas Romance by Wren Taylor
Daunting Dilemmas (Wellington Mysteries #3) by Edale Lane
What I’ve been consuming
Longshadow by Olivia Atwater (as audiobook)
A Restless Truth by Freya Marske (as audiobook)
Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk (as audiobook)
The Woman King (movie)
Wakanda Forever (movie)
Warrior Nun (TV series)
Young Royals (TV series)
Call for submissions for the 2023 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
This month we interview Marianne Ratcliffe about her gothic novel The Secret of Matterdale Hall
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 Marianne Ratcliffe Online
Website: http://www.marianneratcliffe.com/
Twitter: @ratcliffe_mj
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39min
November 19, 2022Our F/Favorite Tropes: Kissing Lessons - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 244
Our F/Favorite Tropes: Kissing Lessons
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 244 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
The “kissing lessons” trope in historic romance
The culture of kissing and how it interacts with gender
Scenarios for using kissing lessons between women to drive a romance plot
Sources mentioned
Berry, Helen. 2005. “Lawful Kisses? Sexual Ambiguity and Platonic Friendship in England, c. 1660-1720” in The Kiss in History, ed. Karen Harvey, 62-79. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-6594-1
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Kissing
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

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