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  • On the Shelf for April 2024The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 284 with Heather Rose Jones

    Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

    In this episode we talk about:

    Book ShoppingNorman, Ben. 2023. Pomp and Piety: Everyday Life of the Aristocracy in Stuart England. Amberley Publishing. ISBN 978-1-3981-1017-5Southon, Emma. 2023. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire. New York: Abrams Press. ISBN 978-1-4197-6018-1Turton, Stephen. 2024. Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600-1930. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1-31651873-1Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionLighthouse Keeper by Eliza LentzskiEine Lady für die Diebin (Lovers and Liaisons) by Dani Collins (trans: Emma Schwarz)A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose SutherlandSpitting Gold by Carmella LowkisOther Titles of InterestTeach the Children to Pray by Rebecca HarwickGrey Dog by Elliott GishThe Final Curse of Ophelia Gray by Christine CalellaWhat I’ve been consumingA Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de BodardStarter Villain by John Scalzi

    A transcript of this podcast is available here.

    Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

    Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

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    Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[email protected]: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
  • Daughters of Derbyshire by Daniel StrideThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 283 with Heather Rose Jones

    This quarter’s fiction episode presents “Daughers of Derbyshire” by Daniel Stride, 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/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

    Links to Heather Online

    Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[email protected]: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

    Links to Daniel Stride Online

    Website: A Phuulish Fellow
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  • AmazonsThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 282 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about:

    Possible historic sources for the Amazon mythClassical and post-classical AmazonsHomoeroticism and Amazon charactersSources mentionedAmer, S. 2009. “Medieval Arab Lesbians and 'Lesbian-Like'” in Journal of the History of Sexuality, 18(2), 215-236.Blythe, James M. 2001. “Women in the Military: Scholastic Arguments and Medieval Images of Female Warriors” in History of Political Thought, vol. 22 no. 2, pp.242-269.Boehringer, Sandra (trans. Anna Preger). 2021. Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-367-74476-2Crane, Susan. 1996. “Clothing and Gender Definition: Joan of Arc,” in Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 26:2 : 297-320.Dekker, Rudolf M. and van de Pol, Lotte C. 1989. The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe. Macmillan, London. ISBN 0-333-41253-2Donoghue, Emma. 2010. Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. ISBN 978-0-307-27094-8Habib, Samar. 2007. Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations. Routledge, New York. ISBN 78-0-415-80603-9Hinds, Leonard. 2001. “Female Friendship as the Foundation of Love in Madeleine de Scudéry’s ‘Histoire de Sapho’” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3Kruk, Remke. 1998. “The Bold and the Beautiful: Women and ‘fitna’ in the S?rat Dh?t al-Himma: The Story of N?r?” in Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety, ed. Gavin R. G. Hambly. New York: St. Martin’s Press. ISBN 0-312-21057-4Mayor, Adrienne. 2014. The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14720-8Morrison, Susan Signe. 2017. A Medieval Woman's Companion. Oxbow Books, Oxford. ISBN 978-1-78570-079-8Murray, Stephen O. 1997. “Woman-Woman Love in Islamic Societies” in Islamic Homosexualities - Culture, History, and Literature, ed. by Stephen O. Murray & Will Roscoe. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 0-8147-7468-7Schwarz, Kathryn. 2000. Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-2599-3Stephens, Dorothy. 1994. “Into Other Arms: Amoret’s Evasion” in Queering the Renaissance ed. by Jonathan Goldberg. Duke University Press, Durham and London. ISBN 0-8223-1381-2Wahl, Elizabeth Susan. 1999. Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford University Press, Stanford. ISBN 0-8047-3650-2Walen, Denise A. 2005. Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6875-3Westphal, Sarah. 1997. "Amazons and Guérillères" in Medieval Feminist Newsletter, No. 23: 24-28.Wilde, Lyn Webster. 1999. On the Trail of the Women Warriors. London: Constable. ISBN 0-09-148080-3This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Amazons

    A transcript of this podcast is available here.

    Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

    Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

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    Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[email protected]: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
  • On the Shelf for March 2024The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode # with Heather Rose Jones

    Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

    In this episode we talk about:

    The 2024 fiction line-up”Charting the Cliff” – Hugo nomination shenanigansRecent and upcoming publications covered on the blogLoehr, Kirsty. 2022. A Short History of Queer Women. Oneworld Publications, London. ISBN 978-0-86154-284-0Bohata, Kirsti. 2017. “Mistress and Maid: Homoeroticism, Cross-Class Desire, and Disguise in Nineteenth-Century Fiction” in Victorian Literature and Culture 45:2 pp.341-359Book ShoppingFiennes, Celia (ed. Christopher Morris). 1982. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes: 1685-1712. MacDonald & Co, London. ISBN 356-08631-3Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionAbove Rubies by Fyn AlexanderSilver Heels: Women of the Wild West by Olivia HamptonWhispers in the Shadows: The Untold Story of a Love that Defied Convention by Haley RubyLies that Bind by Rae Knowles & April YatesOf Socialites and Prizefights (Flos Magicae) by Arden PowellSong of the Huntress by Lucy HollandPelican Girls by Julia MalyeJulieta e Cinderela by Vicky FiorezLast Barrel (Speakeasy #3) by Stacy Lynn MillerThe Weavers of Alamaxa (Alamaxa #2) by Hadeer ElsbaiOther Titles of InterestComing of Age (Bintanath #1) by Joan Fennelly Jewels of the Harem: Love's Secret Treasures by Lucilla LeighVictorian Passions: Lesbian Romance Amidst Historical Intrigue by Lucilla LeighWhat I’ve been consumingBabel by R. F. KuangThe Duke who Didn't by Courtney MilanThe Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal by K.J. CharlesThis month we interview Lucy Holland and talk about:Song of the Huntress by Lucy HollandSistersong by Lucy Holland Breaking the Glass Slipper (podcast)

    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/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

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    Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[email protected]: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

    Links to Lucy Holland Online

    Website: LucyHounsom.co.ukPatreon: Lucy HollandTwitter: @silvanhistorianInstagram: @silvanhistorianFacebook: Lucy Hounsom
  • Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 12: Bluestockings and AmazonsThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 280 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about:

    The archetypes of the bluestocking and the amazon and why they make a natural romantic pairing

    A transcript of this podcast is available here.

    Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

    Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

    Links to Heather Online

    Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[email protected]: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
  • On the Shelf for February 2024The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 279 with Heather Rose Jones

    Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

    In this episode we talk about:

    Close of submissions for the 2024 fiction seriesRecent and upcoming publications covered on the blogBlake, Liza. 2011. “Dildos and Accessories: The Functions of Early Modern Strap-Ons” in Ornamentalism: The Art of Renaissance Accessories. University of Michigan Press. pp. 130-156Book ShoppingLoehr, Kirsty. 2022. A Short History of Queer Women. Oneworld Publications, London. ISBN 978-0-86154-284-0Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionAlice: A Ghost Story by Mats EvenssonThe Belle (One of the Outcasts #1) by Violet KnightThe Knowing by Emma HindsBeards by Cheyenne IslesThe Scrolls of Deborah (Desert Songs Trilogy #1) by Esther GoldenburgLetters to Her Love (Northfield Hall Novellas #3) by Katherine Grant The Absinthe Underground by Jamie PactonOther Titles of InterestThe Fox Maidens by Robin Ha Guide Us Home by Jesse J Thoma & CF FrizzellAn Education in Malice by S.T. GibsonWhat I’ve been consumingPerfect Rhythm by JaeA Dangerous Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn

    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/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

    Links to Heather Online

    Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[email protected]: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
  • The Dildo EpisodeThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 278 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about:

    The cultural dynamics of dildo useA history of dildos in western cultureThe social and legal consequences of dildo useTerminology and materials of constructionSources usedArvas, Abdulhamit. 2014. “From the Pervert, Back to the Beloved: Homosexuality and Ottoman Literary History, 11453-1923” in The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature ed. E.L. McCallum & Mikko Tuhkanen. Cambridge University Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-107-03521-8Auanger, Lisa. “Glimpses through a Window: An Approach to Roman Female Homoeroticism through Art Historical and Literary Evidence” in Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin & Lisa Auanger eds. 2002. Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World. University of Texas Press, Austin. ISBN 0-29-77113-4Benkov, Edith. “The Erased Lesbian: Sodomy and the Legal Tradition in Medieval Europe” in Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages. ed. by Francesca Canadé Sautman & Pamela Sheingorn. Palgrave, New York, 2001.Blake, Liza. 2011. “Dildos and Accessories: The Functions of Early Modern Strap-Ons” in Ornamentalism: The Art of Renaissance Accessories. University of Michigan Press. pp. 130-156Boehringer, Sandra (trans. Anna Preger). 2021. Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-367-74476-2Bon, Ottaviano. 1587. Descrizione del serraglio del Gransignore. Translated by Robert Withers (1625) as The Grand Signiors Serraglio, published in: Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes edited by Samuel Purchas.Borris, Kenneth (ed). 2004. Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance: A Sourcebook of Texts, 1470-1650. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-1-138-87953-9Brantôme (Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme). 1740. Vies des Dames Galantes. Garnier Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs, Paris.Burshatin, Israel. “Elena Alias Eleno: Genders, Sexualities, and ‘Race’ in the Mirror of Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Spain” in Ramet, Sabrina Petra (ed). 1996. Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives. Routledge, London. ISBN 0-415-11483-7Castle, Terry (ed). 2003. The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 0-231-12510-0Clark, Anna. 1996. "Anne Lister's construction of lesbian identity", Journal of the History of Sexuality, 7(1), pp. 23-50.Clarke, John R. 1998. Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art 100 B.C.-A.D. 250. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 0-520-20024-1Crompton, Louis. 1985. “The Myth of Lesbian Impunity: Capital Laws from 1270 to 1791” in Licata, Salvatore J. & Robert P. Petersen (eds). The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 0-918393-11-6 (Also published as Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 6, numbers 1/2, Fall/Winter 1980.)Donato, Clorinda. 2006. “Public and Private Negotiations of Gender in Eighteenth-Century England and Italy: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Case of Catterina Vizzani” in British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 29. pp.169-189Donato, Clorinda. 2020. The Life and Legend of Catterina Vizzani: Sexual identity, science and sensationalism in eighteenth-century Italy and England. Voltaire Foundation, Oxford. ISBN 978-1-78962-221-8Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4Eriksson, Brigitte. 1985. “A Lesbian Execution in Germany, 1721: The Trial Records” in Licata, Salvatore J. & Robert P. Petersen (eds). The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 0-918393-11-6 (Also published as Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 6, numbers 1/2, Fall/Winter 1980.)Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-688-00396-6Halberstam, Judith (Jack). 1997. Female Masculinity. Duke University Press, Durham. ISBN 978-1-4780-0162-1Haley, Shelley P. “Lucian’s ‘Leaena and Clonarium’: Voyeurism or a Challenge to Assumptions?” in Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin & Lisa Auanger eds. 2002. Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World. University of Texas Press, Austin. ISBN 0-29-77113-4Hubbard, Thomas K. 2003. Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-23430-7Karras, Ruth Mazo. 2005. Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-415-28963-4Klein, Ula Lukszo. 2021. Sapphic Crossings: Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville. ISBN 978-0-8139-4551-4Krimmer, Elisabeth. 2004. In the Company of Men: Cross-Dressed Women Around 1800. Wayne State University Press, Detroit. ISBN 0-8143-3145-9Lansing, Carol. 2005. “Donna con Donna? A 1295 Inquest into Female Sodomy” in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History: Sexuality and Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, Third Series vol. II: 109-122.Lardinois, André. “Lesbian Sappho and Sappho of Lesbos” in Bremmer, Jan. 1989. From Sappho to de Sade: Moments in the History of Sexuality. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-02089-1Linkinen, Tom. 2015. Same-sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam. ISBN 978-90-8964-629-3Matter, E. Ann. 1989. “My Sister, My Spouse: Woman-Identified Women in Medieval Christianity” in Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality, eds. Judith Plaskow & Carol P. Christ. Harper & Row, San Francisco.Michelsen, Jakob. 1996. “Von Kaufleuten, Waisenknaben und Frauen in Männerkleidern: Sodomie im Hamburg des 18. Jahrhunderts” in Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung 9: 226-27.Mills, Robert. 2015. Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-16912-5O’Driscoll, Sally. 2010. “A Crisis of Femininity: Re-Making Gender in Popular Discourse” in Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4Phillips, Kim M. & Barry Reay. 2011. Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History. Polity Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-0-7456-2522-5Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin. “Excavating Women’s Homoeroticism in Ancient Greece: The Evidence from Attic Vase Painting” in Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin & Lisa Auanger eds. 2002. Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World. University of Texas Press, Austin. ISBN 0-29-77113-4Rowson, Everett K. 1991. “The categorization of gender and sexual irregularity in medieval Arabic vice lists” in Body guards : the cultural politics of gender ambiguity edited by Julia Epstein & Kristina Straub. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-90388-2Schleiner, Winfried. “Cross-Dressing, Gender Errors, and Sexual Taboos in Renaissance Literature” in Ramet, Sabrina Petra (ed). 1996. Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives. Routledge, London. ISBN 0-415-11483-7Traub, Valerie. 1994. “The (In)Significance of ‘Lesbian’ Desire in Early Modern England” in Queering the Renaissance ed. by Jonathan Goldberg. Duke University Press, Durham and London. ISBN 0-8223-1381-2Traub, Valerie. 2002. The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-44885-9Van der Meer, Theo. 1991. “Tribades on Trial: Female Same-Sex Offenders in Late Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:3 424-445.Velasco, Sherry. 2011. Lesbians in Early Modern Spain. Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville. ISBN 978-0-8265-1750-0Wahl, Elizabeth Susan. 1999. Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford University Press, Stanford. ISBN 0-8047-3650-2Walen, Denise A. 2005. Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6875-3This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Dildo

    A transcript of this podcast is available here.

    Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

    Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

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    Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[email protected]: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
  • On the Shelf for January 2024The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 277 with Heather Rose Jones

    Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

    In this episode we talk about:

    Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionThe Lady's Wager by Olivia HamptonHelen's House (School of Enlightenment) by Maggie SimsThe Ease of Time by Charlotte RowanThe Secret Duchess (The Spinsters of Inverley #3) by Jane WalshEscaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinneyDon't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking #1) by Emma R. AlbanEve of Kilcargin by Susan M. GaffneyDon't Stop Me Now: Forbidden Love in Wartime by Roo BannisterYou Stumble, I Fall (Generations of Love #1) by Christine CollinsOther Titles of InterestKiss of Death by Bryony RosehurstL'Héritière des Secrets by Heather Rose Jones (trans: Anne Bénédicte Damon)What I’ve been consumingLearned by Heart by Emma DonoghueThink of England by K.J. CharlesWanted, A Gentleman by K.J. CharlesDeath Below Stairs by Jennifer AshleyCall 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/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

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    Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[email protected]: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
  • Battling Poll by Rose CullenThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 276 with Heather Rose Jones

    This quarter’s fiction episode presents “Battling Poll” by Rose Cullen, 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/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

    Links to Heather Online

    Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[email protected]: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

    Links to Rosie Cullen Online

    Website: R.M. Cullen
  • Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 11: Employment RelationshipsThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 275 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about:

    Historic differences in employment-romance dynamicsGender differences in employmentSome historic and literary examples

    A transcript of this podcast is available here.

    Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

    Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

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    Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[email protected]: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
  • On the Shelf for December 2023The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 274 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 blogde Nicolay, Nicolas. 1567. Quatre premiers livres des navigations. Translated by T. Washinton (1585) as The Navigations, Peregrinations, and Voyages, Made into Turkie. Collected in: Osborne, Thomas. 1745. Collection of Voyages and Travels…, vol. 1. London: Thomas Osborne of Gray’s-Inn.Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq. 1581. Itinera Constantinopolitanum et Amasianum (Journey to Constantinople and Amasya. Translated into English 1694 as: Four Epistles of A.G. Busbequius, Concerning His Embassy Into Turkey. Being Remarks Upon the Religion, Customs Riches, Strength and Government of that People. As Also a Description of Their Chief Cities, and Places of Trade and Commerce. Reprinted in 1744 as: Travels into Turkey: Containing the Most Accurate Account of the Turks, and Neighbouring Nations, Their Manners, Customs, Religion, Superstition, Policy, Riches, Coins, &c.Bon, Ottaviano. 1587. Descrizione del serraglio del Gransignore. Translated by Robert Withers (1625) as The Grand Signiors Serraglio, published in: Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes edited by Samuel Purchas.Glover, Thomas. 1610. The Muftie, Cadileschiers, Divans: Manners and attire of the Turkes. The Sultan described, and his Customes and Court. Included in George Sandys A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610 published in: Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes edited by Samuel Purchas (1625).Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste. 1675. Nouvelle Relation De l’intéreur Du Sérail Du Grand Seigneur Contenant Plusieurs Singularitex Qui Jusqu’icy N’ont Point esté mises En Lumiere. Translated into English by J. Phillips as: A New Relation Of The Inner-Part of The Grand Seignor’s Seraglio, Containing Several Remarkable Particulars, Never Before Expos’d To Public View bound with A Short Description of all the Kingdoms Which Encompas the Euxine and Caspian Seas, Delivered by the author after Twenty Years Travel Together with a Preface Containing Several Remarkable Observations concerning divers of the forementioned countries. 1677. R. L. and Moses Pitt.Montague, Mary Wortley. 1763. Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M——e: Written during her Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa. T. Becket and P.A. DeHondt, in the Strand.Walsh, William. 1691. A Dialogue Concerning Women, being a Defence of the Sex. London, Printed for R. Bentley in Russel-street in Covent-Garden, and I. Tonson at the Judge’s-Head in Chancery-Lane.Anonymous. 1749. Satan's Harvest Home: or the Present State of Whorecraft, Adultery, Fornication, Procuring, Pimping, Sodomy, And the Game of Flatts, (Illustrated by an Authentick and Entertaining Story) And other Satanic Works, daily propagated in this good Protestant Kingdom. London.Book ShoppingSeed, David (ed). 1995. Anticipations: Essays on Early Science Fiction and its Precursors. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 0-8156-2640-1Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionSay Their Names by Karen BadgerRest in Paper by Jay MullingShoot the Moon by Isa ArsénTwo Wings to Hide My Face by Penny MickelburyWhiskey War (Speakeasy #2) by Stacy Lynn MillerThe Apple Diary by Gerri HillVirgin Flight by E.V. BancroftIn the Shadow of Victory (Shadow Series #4) by J.E. LeakOther Titles of InterestBone Rites by Natalie BayleyVyking Queen: A 3rd Gender Romance by Elora RozeA Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina RatherWhat I’ve been consumingMenewood by Nichola GriffithNettle and Bone by T. KingfisherCall 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.)

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    Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

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    Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[email protected]: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
  • Turkish Delights: The European Fascination with Lesbianism in the Ottoman EmpireThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 273 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about:

    The socio-political context of Europeans in Ottoman TurkeyEuropean texts describing lesbianism in early modern ConstantinopleHow Turkey became associated with lesbianism in European pop cultureMore extensive versions of the texts can be found at the following links:Nicolas de NicolayOgier Ghiselin de BusbecqOttaviano BonThomas GloverJean-Baptiste TavernierBrantômeWilliam WalshSatan’s Harvest HomeMary Wortley Montagu

    A transcript of this podcast is available here.

    Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

    Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

    Links to Heather Online

    Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[email protected]: @heatherosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
  • On the Shelf for November 2023The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 272 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 blogMcCallum, E.L. & Mikko Tuhkanen, eds. 2014. The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature. Cambridge University Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-107-03521-8Wilson, Kathleen. 2004. “The Female Rake: Gender, Libertinism, and Enlightenment” in Peter Cryle & Lisa O’Connell (eds.) Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty, and License in the Eighteenth-century. Palgrave, Basingstoke. pp.99-111.Book ShoppingKoppelman, Susan (ed). 1994. Two Friends and Other Nineteenth-Century Lesbian Stories by American Women Writers. Meridian, New York. ISBN 0-452-01119-1Goldsmith, Margaret. 1935. Christina of Sweden: A Psychological Biography. Doubleday,Doran & Company, Inc., New York.Griffin, Farah Jasmine. 1999. Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. ISBN 0-679-45128-5Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionThe Price of Lemon Cake (Kat Holloway #6.5) by Jennifer AshleyThe Illhenny Murders (The Mary Grey Mysteries #1) by Winnie FrolikDeath at Bayard Lodge (The Mary Grey Mysteries #2) by author A Swing of the Axe (The Mary Grey Mysteries #3) by author A Preposterous Alibi (Winslow & Fitzgerald Investigations Mystery #1) by author An Unforeseen Motive (Winslow & Fitzgerald Investigations Mystery #2) by author By Indelicate Means (Winslow & Fitzgerald Investigations Mystery #3) by author Charlotte and Me by Carol LeylandAnne Through Time: A Magical Bookshop Novel by Harmke BuursmaGwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex CroucherMary's Grace by John MusgroveMy Christmas Gift to You: Forbidden Love (The Pride) by Julia C. OliverThe Rossetti Diaries by author Other Titles of InterestThe Grass Widow by D.A. ChadwickWhat I’ve been consumingTranslation State by Ann LeckieCall 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/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

    Links to Heather Online

    Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[email protected]: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
  • The Salt Price by B. PladekThe 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/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

    Links to Heather Online

    Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[email protected]: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

    Links to B. Pladek Online

    Website: bpladek.netTwitter: @bpladek
  • Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 10: RakesThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 270 with Heather Rose Jones

    The continuing series about historic romance tropes looks at female rakes.

    Other episodes mentionedMadame de Murat: Author of Fairy Tales, Lover of WomenDelariviere Manley’s The New AtalantisThe Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de RichelieuThe 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/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

    Links to Heather Online

    Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[email protected]: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
  • On the Shelf for October 2023The 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 bloggingThe Anne Lister Research Summit, Oct. 14-15, 2023Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogPalmer, Paulina. 1999. Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions. Cassell, New York. ISBN 0-304-70154-8Yiannitsaros, 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 978-1-107-03521-8Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionWar and Solace (Tales from Norvegr #3) by Edale LaneCities of Women by Kathleen B. JonesLet the Waters Roar by Geonn CannonThe Heart of the Banshee (series #2) by Carolyn ElizabethA Lady to Treasure by Marianne RatcliffeMary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne EekhoutWestern Blue by Suzie ClarkeDeeds and Words: A Sapphic Historical Mystery (Louisa & Ada #2) by Sarah BellLovesick Blossoms by Julia WattsOther Titles of InterestMenewood (The Light of the World #2) by Nicola GriffithUnsettled by Patricia ReisGin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue by Christine HigdonA Glimpse into Your Soul by Char DafoeSongs of Irie by Asha Ashanti BromfieldWhat I’ve been consumingA Study in Garnet by Meredith RoseThornhedge by T. KingfisherThe Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon ChakrabortyA Nobleman’s Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by K.J. CharlesCall 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/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

    Links to Heather Online

    Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[email protected]: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
  • The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 268 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about:

    The history and definition of the gothic genreFeatures of female-centered gothicsSapphic characters as protagonists and antagonistsA selection of lesbian gothicsThe Marquise and the Novice by Victoria RamstetterShadows of the Heart by Patty G. HendersonThe Wife in the Attic by Rose Lerner - Interview with the authorLily of the Tower by Elizabeth HartReader, I Murdered Him by Betsy CornwellThe Secret of Matterdale Hall by Marianne Ratcliffe - Interview with the authorBeulah Lodge by Cathy DunnellWildthorn by Jane EaglandHarkworth Hall by L.S. JohnsonThe Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan - Interview with the authorThe Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh by Molly GreeleyThe Ghost and the Machine by Benny LawrenceFingersmith by Sarah WatersAffinity by Sarah Waters

    A transcript of this podcast is available here.

    Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

    Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

    Links to Heather Online

    Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[email protected]: @heatherosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
  • On the Shelf for September 2023The 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 ShoppingGoodman, Ruth. 2016. How to be a Tudor: A Dawn to Dusk Guide to Tudor Life. W.W. Norton & Company, New York. ISBN 978-1-63149-253-2Cleland, Elizabeth & Adam Eaker. 2022. The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. ISBN 978-1-58839-692-1Ball, Krista D. 2012. What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank. Tyche Books, Ltd, Alberta. ISBN 978-0-9878248-9-9Ndiaye, 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 978-0-86698-842-1Leonardi, Camillo (trans. Liliana Leopardi). 2023. Speculum Lapidum: A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones. The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park. ISBN 978-0-271-09539-4Hindley, Katherine Storm. 2023. Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-82533-5Warr, Cordelia. 2023. Medieval Clothing and Textiles 17. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge. ISBN 978-1-78327-598-4Not Just the Tudors (podcast)Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Deanne Williams Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionEmber of a New World by Ishtar WatsonSanditon: The Lesbian Solution by Garnet Marriott and Jane Austen Where Pleasant Fountains Lie (The New Countess #3) by Lady Vanessa S.-GHaven's End (Daughters Under the Black Flag #2) by Eden Hopewell The Birdwatchers by Louise Vetroff The Haunted Diamond by Becky BlackHe Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor #2) by Shelley Parker-ChanCarving 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 InterestThe Girl Who Fled the Picture by Jane Anderson The Valkyrie by Kate HeartfieldWhat I’ve been consumingThe Great Roxhythe by Georgette HeyerSpace Opera by Catherynne M. ValenteCall 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 settingWorldbuilding in archaeological settingsExploring spiritualityPublications mentioned:Carving a New Shape by Rhiannon Grant Between Boat and Shore by Rhiannon GrantThe Dazzle of Day by Molly GlossEmber of a New World by Ishtar WatsonClan of the Cave Bear by Jean AuelThis month we interview Katharine Quarmby and talk about:The historic inspiration for the storyThe work of turning archives into fictionFinding queer relationships in the historic recordFiction and non-fiction as reflections of each otherReclaiming marginalized historiesPublications mentioned:The Low Road by Katharine QuarmbyThe Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson JosephGentleman 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/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

    Links to Heather Online

    Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[email protected]: @heatherosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

    Links to Rhiannon Grant Online

    Facebook: Rhiannon GrantTikTok (main): @ rhiannonbookgeek TikTok (books): @ sapphicprehistory Twitter: @bookgeekrelngBluesky: @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.socialMastodon: >@[email protected]

    Links to Katharine QuarmbyOnline

    Website: katharinequarmby.comTwitter: @KatharineQFacebook: Katharine Quarmby (writer)
  • Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 9: SpiesThe 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/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

    Links to Heather Online

    Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[email protected]: @heatherosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
  • On the Shelf for August 2023The 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 hiatusRecent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionOur Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGillBy Moonlight by Lisabet SaraiEmma: The Nature of a Lady by Kate ChristieThe Low Road by Katharine QuarmbyLove in the Shadows by Eden HopewellBehind the Red Curtain by Eve MortonHer Dangerous Journey Home (No Man is Her Master #3) by Lee Swanson Learned By Heart by Emma DonoghueOther Titles of InterestThe Ghost Ship (Burning Chambers #3) by Kate MosseA Lady's Guide to Scandal by Sophie IrwinPride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael LippincottWhat I’ve been consumingThe Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison GoodmanThe Disenchantment by Celia BellNimona 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 ToddNew Light on Aphra Behn by W.J. CameronInvisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Nadine AkkermanThis 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. McGillThis month we interview Lee Swanson:Her Dangerous Journey Home (No Man is Her Master #3) by Lee SwansonThe Cloistered Lady by Coirle MooneyThe Lady’s Keeper</em by Coirle Mooney

    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/lhmpBlog: http://alpennia.com/blogRSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/Twitter: @LesbianMotifDiscord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord serverThe Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

    Links to Heather Online

    Website: http://alpennia.comEmail: Heather Rose JonesMastodon: @[email protected]: @heatherosejonesFacebook: 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