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 28, 2023The Salt Price by B. Pladek - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 271
The Salt Price by B. Pladek
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 271 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents “The Salt Price” by B. Pladek, narrated by Jasmine Arch.
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]
Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to B. Pladek Online
Website: bpladek.net
Twitter: @bpladek
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38min
October 22, 2023Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 10: Rakes - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 270
Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 10: Rakes
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 270 with Heather Rose Jones
The continuing series about historic romance tropes looks at female rakes.
Other episodes mentioned
Madame de Murat: Author of Fairy Tales, Lover of Women
Delariviere Manley’s The New Atalantis
The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu
The True History of Catharina Vizzani
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]
Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
...more
15min
October 08, 2023On the Shelf for October 2023 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 269
On the Shelf for October 2023
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 269 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
Getting back to blogging
The Anne Lister Research Summit, Oct. 14-15, 2023
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Palmer, Paulina. 1999. Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions. Cassell, New York. ISBN 0-304-70154-8
Yiannitsaros, Chirstopher. 2010. “’I’m scared to death she’ll kill me: Devoted Ladies, feminine monstrosity, and the (lesbian) Gothic Romance” in The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies 8: 41-52.
Parker, Sarah. 2008. “’The Darkness is the Closet in Which Your Lover Roosts Her Heart’: Lesbians, Desire and the Gothic Genre” in Journal of International Women’s Studies, Vol. 9, Issue 2: 3-16.
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
Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
War and Solace (Tales from Norvegr #3) by Edale Lane
Cities of Women by Kathleen B. Jones
Let the Waters Roar by Geonn Cannon
The Heart of the Banshee (series #2) by Carolyn Elizabeth
A Lady to Treasure by Marianne Ratcliffe
Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout
Western Blue by Suzie Clarke
Deeds and Words: A Sapphic Historical Mystery (Louisa & Ada #2) by Sarah Bell
Lovesick Blossoms by Julia Watts
Other Titles of Interest
Menewood (The Light of the World #2) by Nicola Griffith
Unsettled by Patricia Reis
Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue by Christine Higdon
A Glimpse into Your Soul by Char Dafoe
Songs of Irie by Asha Ashanti Bromfield
What I’ve been consuming
A Study in Garnet by Meredith Rose
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
A Nobleman’s Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by K.J. Charles
Call for submissions for the 2024 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
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]
Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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26min
September 24, 2023Lesbian Gothics, Gothic Lesbians - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 268
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 268 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
The history and definition of the gothic genre
Features of female-centered gothics
Sapphic characters as protagonists and antagonists
A selection of lesbian gothics
The Marquise and the Novice by Victoria Ramstetter
Shadows of the Heart by Patty G. Henderson
The Wife in the Attic by Rose Lerner - Interview with the author
Lily of the Tower by Elizabeth Hart
Reader, I Murdered Him by Betsy Cornwell
The Secret of Matterdale Hall by Marianne Ratcliffe - Interview with the author
Beulah Lodge by Cathy Dunnell
Wildthorn by Jane Eagland
Harkworth Hall by L.S. Johnson
The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan - Interview with the author
The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh by Molly Greeley
The Ghost and the Machine by Benny Lawrence
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Affinity by Sarah Waters
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
27min
September 02, 2023On the Shelf for September 2023 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 267
On the Shelf for September 2023
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 267 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
Book Shopping
Goodman, Ruth. 2016. How to be a Tudor: A Dawn to Dusk Guide to Tudor Life. W.W. Norton & Company, New York. ISBN 978-1-63149-253-2
Cleland, Elizabeth & Adam Eaker. 2022. The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. ISBN 978-1-58839-692-1
Ball, Krista D. 2012. What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank. Tyche Books, Ltd, Alberta. ISBN 978-0-9878248-9-9
Ndiaye, Noémie & Lia Markey. 2023. Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Press, Tempe. ISBN 978-0-86698-842-1
Leonardi, Camillo (trans. Liliana Leopardi). 2023. Speculum Lapidum: A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones. The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park. ISBN 978-0-271-09539-4
Hindley, Katherine Storm. 2023. Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-82533-5
Warr, Cordelia. 2023. Medieval Clothing and Textiles 17. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge. ISBN 978-1-78327-598-4
Not Just the Tudors (podcast)
Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Deanne Williams
Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
Ember of a New World by Ishtar Watson
Sanditon: The Lesbian Solution by Garnet Marriott and Jane Austen
Where Pleasant Fountains Lie (The New Countess #3) by Lady Vanessa S.-G
Haven's End (Daughters Under the Black Flag #2) by Eden Hopewell
The Birdwatchers by Louise Vetroff
The Haunted Diamond by Becky Black
He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor #2) by Shelley Parker-Chan
Carving a New Shape by Rhiannon Grant
For Love and Liberty by Eden Hopewell
Her Duchess by Brooke Winters
Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix (Remixed Classics # 8) by Cherie Dimaline
Other Titles of Interest
The Girl Who Fled the Picture by Jane Anderson
The Valkyrie by Kate Heartfield
What I’ve been consuming
The Great Roxhythe by Georgette Heyer
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
Call for submissions for the 2024 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
This month we interview Rhiannon Grant and talk about:
The appeal of a Neolithic setting
Worldbuilding in archaeological settings
Exploring spirituality
Publications mentioned:
Carving a New Shape by Rhiannon Grant
Between Boat and Shore by Rhiannon Grant
The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss
Ember of a New World by Ishtar Watson
Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel
This month we interview Katharine Quarmby and talk about:
The historic inspiration for the story
The work of turning archives into fiction
Finding queer relationships in the historic record
Fiction and non-fiction as reflections of each other
Reclaiming marginalized histories
Publications mentioned:
The Low Road by Katharine Quarmby
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph
Gentleman Jack (tv series)
The Fascination by Essie Fox
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 Rhiannon Grant Online
Facebook: Rhiannon Grant
TikTok (main): @ rhiannonbookgeek
TikTok (books): @ sapphicprehistory
Twitter: @bookgeekrelng
Bluesky: @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social
Mastodon: >@[email protected]
Links to Katharine QuarmbyOnline
Website: katharinequarmby.com
Twitter: @KatharineQ
Facebook: Katharine Quarmby (writer)
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59min
August 19, 2023Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 9: Spies - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 266
Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 9: Spies
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 266 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about women in espionage through the ages and why this makes a great context for romance
Sources mentioned
Akkerman N.N.W. 2018. Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
If you’re at all interested in early modern female spies, I recommend Akkerman’s entire publications page.
Wikipedia index of spies by century
“African American Women Spies” (specific author not listed)
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
August 05, 2023On the Shelf for August 2023 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 265
On the Shelf for August 2023
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 265 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
The blog’s continuing hiatus
Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill
By Moonlight by Lisabet Sarai
Emma: The Nature of a Lady by Kate Christie
The Low Road by Katharine Quarmby
Love in the Shadows by Eden Hopewell
Behind the Red Curtain by Eve Morton
Her Dangerous Journey Home (No Man is Her Master #3) by Lee Swanson
Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue
Other Titles of Interest
The Ghost Ship (Burning Chambers #3) by Kate Mosse
A Lady's Guide to Scandal by Sophie Irwin
Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott
What I’ve been consuming
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman
The Disenchantment by Celia Bell
Nimona by N.D. Stevenson (Netflix movie)
Call for submissions for the 2024 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
This month we interview Annemarie KD:
Aphra Behn: A Secret Life by Janet Todd
New Light on Aphra Behn by W.J. Cameron
Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Nadine Akkerman
This month we interview Meredith Rose:
A Study in Garnet by Meredith Rose
Alchemy Empire Series by Meredith Rose
Critical Role (webcast)
Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill
This month we interview Lee Swanson:
Her Dangerous Journey Home (No Man is Her Master #3) by Lee Swanson
The Cloistered Lady by Coirle Mooney
The Lady’s Keeper
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 Annemarie KD Online
Annemarie does not have active social media at this time.
Links to Meredith Rose Online
Website: meredithrosebooks.com
Links to Lee Swanson Online
Website: LeeSwansonAuthor.me
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1h 7min
July 29, 2023To the Fair Muse who, Loving Me, Imagin’d More by Annemarie KD - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 264
To the Fair Muse who, Loving Me, Imagin'd More by Annemarie KD
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 264 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents “To the Fair Muse who, Loving Me, Imagin'd More” by Annemarie KD, 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)
...more
35min
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)
...more
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

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