The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

Heather Rose Jones
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

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.

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    On the Shelf for November 2024 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 299

    On the Shelf for November 2024 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 299 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: Call for submissions for the 2024 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details. Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogDerry, Caroline. 2020. Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-35299-8 Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionRedway Acres: Grace by Trish Henry Green Another Victorian Tale of Life and Love (Victorian Tales #2) by Nicole Kotoman When Hearts are True by L.J. Corelli The Lotus Empire (The Burning Kingdoms #3) by Tasha Suri All the Painted Stars (14th Century Oxfordshire #2) by Emma Denny Time and Tide by J.M. Frey Monsoon Queen (The War Between Cedar and Oak #1) by Jo Carthage A Pearl Enraptured by Andrea K. Stein Outlaw Hearts by Lori G. Matthews Timeless by Nicole Pyland Taiwan Travelogue by Shuang-zi Yang (trans. Lin King) What I’ve been consumingMary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout, translated by Laura Watkinson The Duke at Hazard by K. J. Charles Craze by Margaret Vandenburg The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells The Fire and the Place in the Forest by Jeannelle M. Ferreira A special book appreciation segmenton books set in the 1920sNghi Vo The Chosen and the Beautiful Sarah Zane Beautiful Little Fool Alyssa Linn Palmer Midnight at the Orpheus Brandy T. Wilson The Palace Blues Katharine Schellman Last Call at the Nightingale Margaret Vandenburg Craze Missouri Vaun Whiskey Sunrise Stacy Lynn Miller Devil’s Slide Anne Shade Masquerade Ava Freeman The Sweetest Taboo Nekesa Afla Dead Dead Girls Kip Wilson The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin April Yates Ashthorne A.L. Lester The Fog of War Charlotte Anne Hamilton Of Trust and Heart 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: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop Bluesky: @heatherrosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

    27 min
  2. 5 OCT

    On the Shelf for October 2024 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 297

    On the Shelf for October 2024 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 297 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: Disaster fiction Announcing the 2025 fiction series and some milestones The challenge that large language models present to publishing Book ShoppingDerry, Caroline. 2020. Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-35299-8 Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionA Victorian tale of life and love by Nicole Kotoman My Beloved Viking by Victoria Valberg The Legend of Pope Joan - Part 1: Frankia by author The Legend of Pope Joan - Part 2: Athens by author The Legend of Pope Joan - Part 3: Rome by author Her Fair Lady by Catherine Stein All Bets Off by Jaime Clevenger Hearts in the Shadows by Zara Voss Peril in Provence (The Mary Grey Mysteries #4) by Winnie Frolik Gentlest of Wild Things by Sarah Underwood Sor Juana, My Beloved: The Poetry, The Passion That Is Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz by MaryAnn Shank The Greymere Cliffs: A gothic romance short story by Anne Knight Strange Beasts by Susan J. Morris Moonshine by Olivia Hampton Her Last Secret by Renee Bess Islands of Mice by Lucy Jacobs The People Next Door by Anna Woiwood Other Titles of InterestI Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner Women's Hotel by Daniel M. Lavery What I’ve been consumingA Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell A Liaison with Her Leading Lady by Lotte R. James Netherford Hall by Natania Barron How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne The First Rebellion by M.C. Beaton Any Old Diamonds by K.J. Charles Gilded Cage by K.J. Charles Rag and Bone by K.J. Charles Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton 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: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop Bluesky: @heatherrosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

    30 min
  3. 21 SEPT

    Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 14b: Actresses and the Stage - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 296

    Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 14b: Actresses and the Stage The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 296 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: Actresses as sexual outlaws Specific actresses known to have had same-sex romances Bibliography Blanc, Olivier. 2001. “The ‘Italian Taste’ in the Time of Louis XVI, 1774-92” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3 Cheek, Pamela. 1998. "The 'Mémoires secrets' and the Actress: Tribadism, Performance, and Property", in Jeremy D. Popkin and Bernadette Fort (eds), The "Mémoires secrets" and the Culture of Publicity in Eighteenth-Century France, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. Choquette, Leslie. 2001. “’Homosexuals in the City: Representations of Lesbian and Gay Space in Nineteenth-Century Paris” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3 Craft-Fairchild, Catherine. 2006. “Sexual and Textual Indeterminacy: Eighteenth-Century English Representations of Sapphism” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 15:3 Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4 Donoghue, Emma. 2010. “'Random Shafts of Malice?': The Outings of Anne Damer” in Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4 Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-688-00396-6 Gonda, Caroline. 2010. “The Odd Women: Charlotte Charke, Sarah Scott and the Metamorphoses of Sex” in Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4 Katritzky, M.A. 2005. “Reading the Actress in Commedia Imagery” in Women Players in England, 1500-1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage, edited by Pamela Allen Brown & Peter Parolin. Ashgate, Burlington. ISBN 978-0-7546-0953-7 Manion, Jen. 2020. Female Husbands: A Trans History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-48380-3 Merrick, Jeffry. 1990. “Sexual Politics and Public Order in Late Eighteenth-Century France: the Mémoires secrets and the Correspondance secrete” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 1, 68-84. Merrill, Lisa. 2000. When Romeo was a Woman: Charlotte Cushman and her Circle of Female Spectators. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. ISBN 978-0-472-08749-5 Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5 Straub, Kristina. 1991. “The Guilty Pleasures of Female Theatrical Cross-Dressing and the Autobiography of Charlotte Charke” in Body guards : the cultural politics of gender ambiguity edited by Julia Epstein & Kristina Straub. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-90388-2 Todd, Janet & Elizabeeth Spearing ed. 1994. Counterfeit Ladies: The Life and Death of Mary Frith Case of Mary Carleton. William Pickering, London. ISBN 1-85196-087-2 Velasco, Sherry. 2000. The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire and Catalina de Erauso. University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-78746-4 Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3 Wahl, Elizabeth Susan. 1999. Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford University Press, Stanford. ISBN 0-8047-3650-2 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 He

    18 min
  4. 7 SEPT

    On the Shelf for September 2024 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 295

    On the Shelf for September 2024 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 295 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: What I did on my summer vacation Book ShoppingLiddington, Jill. 2010. Presenting the Past: Anne Lister of Halifax 1791-1840. Pennine Press, Hebden Bridge. ISBN 978-873378-02-1 Liddington, Jill. 2019. Nature's Domain: Anne Lister and the Landscape of Desire. Pennine Press, Hebden Bridge. ISBN 1-873378-48-9 Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionChivalry in the Shadows by Meg Merriet Wahlberg Generations by Madison Locke Netherford Hall by Natania Barron Between Feud and Treason by Francis Grash The Pudding Lane Witch by A.W. Jackson The Pirate's Willing Captive (Swain Cove #1) by Renee Dahlia The Market Women of Diamond Square by Jan Ellen Kurth Everything Glittered by Robin Talley Beyond a World Apart by Caitlin E. Myers The Dishonest Miss Take by Faye Murphy The Duke's Sister and I by Emma-Claire Sunday Frederica and the Viscountess by Barbara Davies What I’ve been consumingPaladin's Faith (Saint of Steel #4) by T. Kingfisher This month we interview Natania Barron and talk about:The historical and fantasy contributions to Netherford Hall The structure of the series Natania’s Arthurian series Netherford Hall by Natania Barron Queens of Fate (series) 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: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop Bluesky: @heatherrosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page) Links to Natania Barron Online Website: NataniaBarron.com Bluesky: @natania.bsky.social Threads: @NataniaBarron TicTok: @NataniaBooks

    36 min
  5. 17 AUG

    Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 14a: Actresses and the Stage - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 293

    Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 14a: Actresses and the Stage The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 293 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: Historic romance tropes on stagePlays that include or suggest f/f desire Contexts for women playing romantic roles opposite women Breeches Roles and f/f desire BibliographyBoehringer, Sandra (trans. Anna Preger). 2021. Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-367-74476-2 Bruster, Douglas. 1993. “Female-Female Eroticism and the Early Modern Stage” in Renaissance Drama 24: 1-32. Clark, Robert L. A. & Claire Sponsler. 1997. "Queer Play: The Cultural Work of Crossdressing in Medieval Drama" in New Literary History, 28:219-344. Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4 Drouin, Jennifer. 2009. “Diana’s Band: Safe Spaces, Publics, and Early Modern Lesbianism” in Queer Renaissance Historiography, Vin Nardizzi, Stephen Guy-Bray & Will Stockton, eds. Ashgate, Burlington VT. ISBN 978-0-7546-7608-9 Duggan, Lisa. 1993. “The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America” in Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader, ed. Robert J. Corber and Stephen Valocchi. Oxford: Blackwell. pp.73-87 Gonda, Caroline. 2015. “Writing Lesbian Desires in the Long Eighteenth Century” in The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature, edited by Jodie Medd. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-107-66343-5 Gough, Melinda J. 2005. “Courtly Comédiantes: Henrietta Maria and Amateur Women’s Stage Plays in France and England” in Women Players in England, 1500-1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage, edited by Pamela Allen Brown & Peter Parolin. Ashgate, Burlington. ISBN 978-0-7546-0953-7 Hallett, Judith P. 1997. “Female Homoeroticism and the Denial of Roman Reality in Latin Literature” in Roman Sexualities, ed. By Judith P. Hallett & Marilyn B. Skinner, Princeton University Press, Princeton. Katritzky, M.A. 2005. “Reading the Actress in Commedia Imagery” in Women Players in England, 1500-1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage, edited by Pamela Allen Brown & Peter Parolin. Ashgate, Burlington. ISBN 978-0-7546-0953-7 Klein, Ula Lukszo. 2021. Sapphic Crossings: Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville. ISBN 978-0-8139-4551-4 Kranz, Susan E. 1995. The Sexual Identities of Moll Cutpurse in Dekker and Middleton’s The Roaring Girl and in London in Renaissance and Reformation 19: 5-20. Krimmer, Elisabeth. 2004. In the Company of Men: Cross-Dressed Women Around 1800. Wayne State University Press, Detroit. ISBN 0-8143-3145-9 Lanser, Susan S. 2014. The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-18773-0 Merrill, Lisa. 2000. When Romeo was a Woman: Charlotte Cushman and her Circle of Female Spectators. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. ISBN 978-0-472-08749-5 Orvis, David L. 2014. “Cross-Dressing, Queerness, and the Early Modern Stage” in The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature ed. E.L. McCallum & Mikko Tuhkanen. Cambridge University Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-107-03521-8 Poulsen, Rachel. 2005. “Women Performing Homoerotic Desire in English and Italian Comedy: La Calandria, Gl’Ingannati and TwelfthNight” in Women Players in England, 1500-1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage, edited by Pamela Allen Brown & Peter Parolin. Ashgate, Burlington. ISBN 978-0-7546-0953-7 Rose, Mary Beth. 1984. “Women in Men’s Clothing: Apparel and Social Stability in The Roaring Girl,” in ELR: English Literary Renaissance 14:3 (1984): 367-91 Stokes, James 2005. “Women and Performance: Evidences of Universal Cultural Suffrage in Medieval and Early Modern Lincolnshire” in Women Players in England, 1500-1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage, edited by Pamela Allen

    33 min
  6. 3 AUG

    On the Shelf for August 2024 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 292

    On the Shelf for August 2024 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 292 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: Your host’s travels in August Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogBrown, Pamela Allen & Peter Parolin (eds). 2005. Women Players in England, 1500-1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage. Ashgate, Burlington. ISBN 978-0-7546-0953-7 Grist, Elizabeth Rosalind. 2001. The Salon and the Stage: Women and Theatre in Seventeenth-century France. Dissertation. Shapiro, Michael. 1994. Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages. Ann Arbor. (Chapter 1: A Brief Social History of Female Cross-Dressing) Tomlinson, Sophie. 2009. Women on Stage in Stuart Drama. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-0-521-81111-8 Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionMurder by Multiples (Meredith and Alec Thatch Mystery #1) by Rachel Ford Murder by Rote (Meredith and Alec Thatch Mystery #2) by Rachel Ford Shadow of the Moon by T. Lona The Palace of Eros by Caro De Robertis Teleios: Flaw, is Perfect by Asvoria K. Craze by Margaret Vandenburg Not for the Faint of Heart by Lex Croucher Other Titles of InterestAccidental Darlings by Crystal Jeans What I’ve been consumingA Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence by Jess Everlee The Perils of Lady Catherine De Bourgh by Claudia Gray Unfit to Print by K.J. Charles This month we interview Melissa Addey and talk about:Her several historical fiction series Her sapphic historical romance set in 18th c China Balancing research and invention Sign up for Melissa’s readers’ group to get a free copy of The Consorts 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: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop Bluesky: @heatherrosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page) Links to Melissa Addey Online Website: MelissaAddey.com

    35 min

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