The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Heather Rose Jones

On the Shelf for June 2024
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 288 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
New podcast Period – feminist look at historical dramas
Lesbiantiquity
Book ShoppingMortimer, Ian. 2012. The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England. Penguin Books, New York. ISBN 978-0-14-312563-1
Brown, Pamela Allen & Peter Parolin (eds). 2005. Women Players in England, 1500-1660. Ashgate, Burlington. ISBN 978-0-7546-6535-9
Colonna, Pompeo (intro Franco Minonzio, trans Margaret L. King). 2024. In Defense of Women: A Bilingual Edition. Iter Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-64959-113-5

Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionUncharted Waters (The Savages of Falcote) by Ally Hastings
Three Times Elspeth Harris Rode to Town by Becky Black
She Serves the Realm (No Man is her Master #4) by Lee Swanson
The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron
A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence (Lucky Lovers of London #3) by Jess Everlee
Her Runaway Bride (Hers: Victorian Lesbian Romance) by Brooke Winters
Tides of Captivation: A sapphic pirate tale (Daughters Under the Black Flag #1) by Eden Hopewell

What I’ve been consumingThe Witch King by Martha Wells
Travelers Along the Way by Aminah Mae Safi
Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban

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)

All the Historic Lesbianisms
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 287 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
Social models of women loving women
Variables and features of those models
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: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

On the Shelf for May 2024
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 286 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
Book ShoppingTomlinson, Sophie. 2005. Women on Stage in Stuart Drama. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-81111-2

Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionUnholy with Eyes like Wolves by Morgan Dante
Harvest Season (The Old Bridge Inn #3) by Annick Trent
The Summer of Second Chances (Desiring the Dexingtons #4) by Renee Dahlia
2 Screams 1 Sugar: A Sapphic Friends to Lovers Romance by Sula Sullivan
The Good Women of Fudi by Liu Hong
Adrift by Sam Ledel
My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen
A Liaison with Her Leading Lady by Lotte R. James
The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields

Other Titles of InterestFlight Lines (WASPS #2) by Jana Williams
Pebble in the Pond by Alex Westmore (Linda Kay Silva)
A Heart Divided by Angie Williams

What I’ve been consumingSong of the Huntress by Lucy Holland
Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo
Death in the Spires by K.J. Charles
The Time Travelers Guide to Regency Britain by Ian Mortimer
The Time Travelers Guide to Restoration Britain by Ian Mortimer

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)

Poetry about Love between Women from the 19th Century
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 285 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
19th century poetry
Connections and cross-references between women poets
Sources mentionedIn addition to being found in the following sources, the text of many of these poems have been taken from various online sources not mentioned.
Castle, Terry (ed). 2003. The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 0-231-12510-0
Domna C. Stanton. 1986. The Defiant Muse: French Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present. The Feminist Press, New York. ISBN 0-935312-52-8
Donoghue, Emma. 1997. Poems Between Women: Four centuries of love, romantic friendship, and desire. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-231-10925-3
Faderman, Lillian (ed). 1994. Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. New York: VIking. ISBN 0-670-84368-4
Faderman, Lillian. 1999.To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America – A History. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. ISBN 0-395-85010-X
Greene, Ellen (ed). 1996. Re-Reading Sappho: Recepton and Transmission. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 0-520-20602-9
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 0-679-45128-5
Johnson, Thomas R. (ed). 1961. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston. ISBN 0-316-18413-6
Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3

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: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

On the Shelf for April 2024
The 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 978-1-3981-1017-5
Southon, Emma. 2023. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire. New York: Abrams Press. ISBN 978-1-4197-6018-1
Turton, Stephen. 2024. Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600-1930. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1-31651873-1

Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionLighthouse Keeper by Eliza Lentzski
Eine Lady für die Diebin (Lovers and Liaisons) by Dani Collins (trans: Emma Schwarz)
A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland
Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis

Other Titles of InterestTeach the Children to Pray by Rebecca Harwick
Grey Dog by Elliott Gish
The Final Curse of Ophelia Gray by Christine Calella

What I’ve been consumingA Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard
Starter Villain by John Scalzi

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: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Daughters of Derbyshire by Daniel Stride
The 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/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 Daniel Stride Online
Website: A Phuulish Fellow