The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Heather Rose Jones

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

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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
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Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
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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.
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Links to Daniel Stride Online
Website: A Phuulish Fellow

Amazons
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 282 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
Possible historic sources for the Amazon myth
Classical and post-classical Amazons
Homoeroticism and Amazon characters
Sources 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 978-0-367-74476-2
Crane, 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 0-333-41253-2
Donoghue, Emma. 2010. Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. ISBN 978-0-307-27094-8
Habib, Samar. 2007. Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations. Routledge, New York. ISBN 78-0-415-80603-9
Hinds, 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 1-56023-263-3
Kruk, 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 0-312-21057-4
Mayor, Adrienne. 2014. The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14720-8
Morrison, Susan Signe. 2017. A Medieval Woman's Companion. Oxbow Books, Oxford. ISBN 978-1-78570-079-8
Murray, 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 0-8147-7468-7
Schwarz, Kathryn. 2000. Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-2599-3
Stephens, Dorothy. 1994. “Into Other Arms: Amoret’s Evasion” in Queering the Renaissance ed. by Jonathan Goldberg. Duke University Press, Durham and London. ISBN 0-8223-1381-2
Wahl, Elizabeth Susan. 1999. Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford University Press, Stanford. ISBN 0-8047-3650-2
Walen, Denise A. 2005. Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6875-3
Westphal, 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 0-09-148080-3

This 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/lhmp
Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
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Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon
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Email: Heather Rose Jones
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On the Shelf for March 2024
The 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 shenanigans
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogLoehr, Kirsty. 2022. A Short History of Queer Women. Oneworld Publications, London. ISBN 978-0-86154-284-0
Bohata, Kirsti. 2017. “Mistress and Maid: Homoeroticism, Cross-Class Desire, and Disguise in Nineteenth-Century Fiction” in Victorian Literature and Culture 45:2 pp.341-359

Book ShoppingFiennes, Celia (ed. Christopher Morris). 1982. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes: 1685-1712. MacDonald & Co, London. ISBN 356-08631-3

Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionAbove Rubies by Fyn Alexander
Silver Heels: Women of the Wild West by Olivia Hampton
Whispers in the Shadows: The Untold Story of a Love that Defied Convention by Haley Ruby
Lies that Bind by Rae Knowles & April Yates
Of Socialites and Prizefights (Flos Magicae) by Arden Powell
Song of the Huntress by Lucy Holland
Pelican Girls by Julia Malye
Julieta e Cinderela by Vicky Fiorez
Last Barrel (Speakeasy #3) by Stacy Lynn Miller
The Weavers of Alamaxa (Alamaxa #2) by Hadeer Elsbai

Other Titles of InterestComing of Age (Bintanath #1) by Joan Fennelly
Jewels of the Harem: Love's Secret Treasures by Lucilla Leigh
Victorian Passions: Lesbian Romance Amidst Historical Intrigue by Lucilla Leigh

What I’ve been consumingBabel by R. F. Kuang
The Duke who Didn't by Courtney Milan
The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal by K.J. Charles

This month we interview Lucy Holland and talk about:Song of the Huntress by Lucy Holland
Sistersong 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
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Website: LucyHounsom.co.uk
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Twitter: @silvanhistorian
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Facebook: Lucy Hounsom

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 12: Bluestockings and Amazons
The 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/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
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Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)