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  • Interview with Margaret VandenburgThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 303 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about:

    Too many things to list individuallyBooks and people mentionedMagnus HirschfeldVirginia Woolf - A Room of One’s OwnMargaret Vandenburg - An American in ParisDjuna Barnes - NightwoodVirginia Woolf - OrlandoChappell RoanOscar WildeEmma Donoghue – The Pull of the StarsGertrude SteinMichel Foucault - The History of SexualityGolden Crown Literary SocietyOlivia Waite - Feminine Pursuits 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/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 Margaret Vandenburg Online

    Website: https://www.margaretvandenburg.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/margaretvandenburgwriter
  • On the Shelf for December 2024The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 302 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 978-3-030-35299-8Hutchison, Emily & Sara McDougall. 2022. “Pardonable Sodomy: Uncovering Laurence’s Sin and Recovering the Range of the Possible” in Medieval People, vol. 37, pp. 115-146.Derry, Caroline. 2022. “The ‘legal’ in socio-legal history: Woods and Pirie v. Cumming Gordon” in Journal of Law and Society 49:778-799.Roelens, Jonas. 2015. “Visible Women: Female Sodomy in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Southern Netherlands (1400-1550)” in BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review vol. 130 no. 3.Lee, L.J. 2024. “Sossang and Danji: 15th century Korean maidservants in love” published as part of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project at alpennia.com.A new resource for forthcoming sapphic/lesbian fiction2025 Sapphic Fiction compiled by @lavendersbookRecent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionThe Lady and the Maid by Paul JacksonThe Potent Solution by Ashley NovaThe Long Winter of Mi?gar?r (Tales from Norvegr) by Edale LaneFemale Sharpshooter in the Civil War by Kenneth AlderVictory, Virus, Votes: 1917-1920 (Deborah and Miriam's Boston Marriage #4) by Ellen M. LevyBeyond the Boundaries of Time by Hazel BennettThe Case of the Missing Maid (Harriet Morrow Investigates #1) by Rob OslerSpeak EZ by Elle E. IreClara, Darling by Chace VerityEncrypted Hearts (A Women in War Historical Romance #3) by E.V. BancroftUnbroken by Kim PritekelWhat I’ve been consumingYou're the Problem, It's You by Emma R. AlbanBrides of High Hill by Nghi VoA Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose SutherlandHarvest Season by Annick Trent

    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)
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  • A Very Long Malaise by L.J. LeeThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 301 with Heather Rose Jones

    This quarter’s fiction episode presents “A Very Long Malaise” by L.J. Lee, narrated by Bailey Wolfe.

    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 L.J. Lee Online

    Website: ljwrites.blog Mastodon: @[email protected]

    Links to Bailey Wolfe Online

    Website: bbwolfevox.com
  • Where I Have Been, Where I Will GoThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 300 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about:

    A look back at what the Project has accomplishedPlans for publishing a research sourcebookOutline of the sourcebook contents

    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 November 2024The 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 978-3-030-35299-8Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionRedway Acres: Grace by Trish Henry GreenAnother Victorian Tale of Life and Love (Victorian Tales #2) by Nicole KotomanWhen Hearts are True by L.J. CorelliThe Lotus Empire (The Burning Kingdoms #3) by Tasha SuriAll the Painted Stars (14th Century Oxfordshire #2) by Emma Denny Time and Tide by J.M. FreyMonsoon Queen (The War Between Cedar and Oak #1) by Jo CarthageA Pearl Enraptured by Andrea K. SteinOutlaw Hearts by Lori G. MatthewsTimeless by Nicole PylandTaiwan Travelogue by Shuang-zi Yang (trans. Lin King)What I’ve been consumingMary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout, translated by Laura WatkinsonThe Duke at Hazard by K. J. CharlesCraze by Margaret VandenburgThe Cloud Roads by Martha WellsThe Fire and the Place in the Forest by Jeannelle M. FerreiraA special book appreciation segmenton books set in the 1920sNghi Vo The Chosen and the BeautifulSarah 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 GirlsKip Wilson The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin April Yates AshthorneA.L. Lester The Fog of WarCharlotte 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/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)
  • Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 15: Gender DisguiseThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 298 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about:

    My definition of gender-disguise plotsThe dynamics of gender disguise in m/f romanceThe dynamics and considerations of gender disguise in f/f romanceSome considerations of gender disguise in m/m romance

    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 2024The 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 fictionAnnouncing the 2025 fiction series and some milestonesThe challenge that large language models present to publishingBook ShoppingDerry, Caroline. 2020. Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-35299-8Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionA Victorian tale of life and love by Nicole KotomanMy Beloved Viking by Victoria ValbergThe 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 SteinAll Bets Off by Jaime ClevengerHearts in the Shadows by Zara VossPeril in Provence (The Mary Grey Mysteries #4) by Winnie FrolikGentlest of Wild Things by Sarah UnderwoodSor Juana, My Beloved: The Poetry, The Passion That Is Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz by MaryAnn ShankThe Greymere Cliffs: A gothic romance short story by Anne KnightStrange Beasts by Susan J. MorrisMoonshine by Olivia HamptonHer Last Secret by Renee BessIslands of Mice by Lucy JacobsThe People Next Door by Anna WoiwoodOther Titles of InterestI Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari ConnerWomen's Hotel by Daniel M. LaveryWhat I’ve been consumingA Shore Thing by Joanna LowellA Liaison with Her Leading Lady by Lotte R. JamesNetherford Hall by Natania BarronHow to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django WexlerCan’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca ThorneThe First Rebellion by M.C. BeatonAny Old Diamonds by K.J. CharlesGilded Cage by K.J. CharlesRag and Bone by K.J. CharlesTooth 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/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)
  • Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 14b: Actresses and the StageThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 296 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about:

    Actresses as sexual outlawsSpecific 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 1-56023-263-3Cheek, 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 1-56023-263-3Craft-Fairchild, Catherine. 2006. “Sexual and Textual Indeterminacy: Eighteenth-Century English Representations of Sapphism” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 15:3Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4Donoghue, 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 978-0-7546-7335-4Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-688-00396-6Gonda, 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 978-0-7546-7335-4Katritzky, 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 978-0-7546-0953-7Manion, Jen. 2020. Female Husbands: A Trans History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-48380-3Merrick, 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 978-0-472-08749-5Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5Straub, 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 0-415-90388-2Todd, Janet & Elizabeeth Spearing ed. 1994. Counterfeit Ladies: The Life and Death of Mary Frith Case of Mary Carleton. William Pickering, London. ISBN 1-85196-087-2Velasco, Sherry. 2000. The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire and Catalina de Erauso. University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-78746-4Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3Wahl, 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/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 September 2024The 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 vacationBook ShoppingLiddington, Jill. 2010. Presenting the Past: Anne Lister of Halifax 1791-1840. Pennine Press, Hebden Bridge. ISBN 978-873378-02-1Liddington, Jill. 2019. Nature's Domain: Anne Lister and the Landscape of Desire. Pennine Press, Hebden Bridge. ISBN 1-873378-48-9Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionChivalry in the Shadows by Meg Merriet WahlbergGenerations by Madison LockeNetherford Hall by Natania BarronBetween Feud and Treason by Francis GrashThe Pudding Lane Witch by A.W. JacksonThe Pirate's Willing Captive (Swain Cove #1) by Renee DahliaThe Market Women of Diamond Square by Jan Ellen KurthEverything Glittered by Robin TalleyBeyond a World Apart by Caitlin E. MyersThe Dishonest Miss Take by Faye MurphyThe Duke's Sister and I by Emma-Claire SundayFrederica and the Viscountess by Barbara DaviesWhat I’ve been consumingPaladin's Faith (Saint of Steel #4) by T. KingfisherThis month we interview Natania Barron and talk about:The historical and fantasy contributions to Netherford HallThe structure of the seriesNatania’s Arthurian seriesNetherford Hall by Natania BarronQueens 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/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 Natania Barron Online

    Website: NataniaBarron.comBluesky: @natania.bsky.social Threads: @NataniaBarronTicTok: @NataniaBooks
  • Follow the Monkey by Jamie McGheeThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 294 with Heather Rose Jones

    This quarter’s fiction episode presents “Follow the Monkey” by Jamie McGhee, narrated by Cláudia Cruz Machado.

    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 Jamie McGhee Online

    Website: jamie-mcghee.com

    Links to Cláudia Cruz Machado Online

    Itch.io: clawofalltradesEmail: [email protected]: @ccmenglish
  • Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 14a: Actresses and the StageThe 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 desireContexts for women playing romantic roles opposite womenBreeches Roles and f/f desireBibliographyBoehringer, Sandra (trans. Anna Preger). 2021. Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-367-74476-2Bruster, 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 0-06-017261-4Drouin, 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 978-0-7546-7608-9Duggan, 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.73-87Gonda, 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 978-1-107-66343-5Gough, 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 978-0-7546-0953-7Hallett, 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 978-0-7546-0953-7Klein, Ula Lukszo. 2021. Sapphic Crossings: Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville. ISBN 978-0-8139-4551-4Kranz, 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 0-8143-3145-9Lanser, Susan S. 2014. The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-18773-0Merrill, Lisa. 2000. When Romeo was a Woman: Charlotte Cushman and her Circle of Female Spectators. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. ISBN 978-0-472-08749-5Orvis, 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 978-1-107-03521-8Poulsen, 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 978-0-7546-0953-7Rose, Mary Beth. 1984. “Women in Men’s Clothing: Apparel and Social Stability in The Roaring Girl,” in ELR: English Literary Renaissance 14:3 (1984): 367-91Stokes, 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 Brown & Peter Parolin. Ashgate, Burlington. ISBN 978-0-7546-0953-7Straub, 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 0-415-90388-2Traub, Valerie. 2001. "The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England" in GLQ 7:2 245-263.Trumbach, Randolph. 1991. “London's Sapphists : From Three Sexes to Four Genders in the Making of Modern Culture” in Body guards : the cultural politics of gender ambiguity edited by Julia Epstein & Kristina Straub. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-90388-2Velasco, Sherry. 2000. The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire and Catalina de Erauso. University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-78746-4Velasco, Sherry. 2011. Lesbians in Early Modern Spain. Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville. ISBN 978-0-8265-1750-0Velasco, Sherry. 2014. “How to Spot a Lesbian in the Early Modern Spanish World” in The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature ed. E.L. McCallum & Mikko Tuhkanen. Cambridge University Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-107-03521-8Wahl, 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 978-1-4039-6875-3

    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 August 2024The 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 AugustRecent 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 978-0-7546-0953-7Grist, 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 978-0-521-81111-8Recent 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. LonaThe Palace of Eros by Caro De RobertisTeleios: Flaw, is Perfect by Asvoria K.Craze by Margaret VandenburgNot for the Faint of Heart by Lex CroucherOther Titles of InterestAccidental Darlings by Crystal JeansWhat I’ve been consumingA Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence by Jess EverleeThe Perils of Lady Catherine De Bourgh by Claudia GrayUnfit to Print by K.J. CharlesThis month we interview Melissa Addey and talk about:Her several historical fiction seriesHer sapphic historical romance set in 18th c ChinaBalancing research and inventionSign 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/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 Melissa Addey Online

    Website: MelissaAddey.com
  • The Font of Liberty by Elizabeth Porter BirdsallThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 291 with Heather Rose Jones

    This quarter’s fiction episode presents “The Font of Liberty” by Elizabeth Porter Birdsall, narrated by C. J. Lavigne.

    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 Elizabeth Porter Birdsall Online

    Bluesky: @epbirdsall.bsky.social Mastodon: @[email protected]

    Links to C.J. Lavigne Online

    Website: CJLaVigne.com
  • On the Shelf for July 2024The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 290 with Heather Rose Jones

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

    Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogNg, Vivien. 1997. “Looking for Lesbians in Chinese History” in Duberman, Martin (ed) A Queer World. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 0-8247-2874-4Jankowski, Theodora A. 1996. “’Where there can be no cause of affection’: Redefining Virgins, Their Desires, and Their Pleasures in John Lyly’s Gallathea” in Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects, edited by Valerie Traub, M. Lindsay Kaplan, and Dympna Callaghan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-55249-4 pp.253-74.Jankowski, Theodora A. 2000. “...in the Lesbian Void: Woman-Woman Eroticism in Shakespeare’s Plays” in A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare, edited by Dympna Callaghan. Oxford: Blackwell, 299-319. ISBN 0-631-20806-2Cheek, 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.Cameron, A. 1998. “Love (and Marriage) Between Women” in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 39, pp.137-156Book ShoppingGirouard, Mark. 1978. Life in the English Country House. Yale University Press, New Haven. ISBN 0-300-02273-5Thornton, Peter. 1978. Seventeenth-Century Interior Decoration in England, France & Holland. Yale University Press, New Haven. ISBN 0-300-02776-1Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionMeridian Bay: A Linked Collection by A.L. Duncan, McGee Mathews, Nancy SparksCupid's Trap (Cupid's Favorites #1) by Jaye VincentThe Earl's Wife by Jessica Dalvin The Lady's Secret: A Regency Affair by Adela VesperClaire's Young Flame (1920s French Quarter Sapphic Series #1) by Aven Blair Evan's Entanglement (1920s French Quarter Sapphic Series #2) by Aven Blair Julian's Lady Luck (1920s French Quarter Sapphic Series #3) by Aven Blair Love in the Shadows by Emma Nichols Death Has Golden Eyes (Dizzy Dixon Mysteries #1) by Cameron DarrowThe Lotus Empire (The Burning Kingdoms #3) by Tasha SuriA Rose by Any Other Name by Mary McMyneForever Fields by Josh HillDaughters of Chaos by Jen FawkesDoctor's Bitter Pill by Sharon G. ClarkA Lethal Lady (Harlem Renaissance #3) by Nekesa AfiaQueen B (HMRC #3) by Juno DawsonWhispers in the Stacks: An Anthology of Library Love Stories edited by M.J. LoweOther Titles of InterestA Shore Thing by Joanna LowellThe Hollywood Governess by Alexandra WestonWhat I’ve been consumingThe Chatelaine by Kate HeartfieldPaladin’s Grace, Paladin’s Strength, Paladin’s Hope (The Saint of Steel books 1-3) by T. KingfisherRose House by Arkady MartineThe Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

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  • Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 13: Mothers, Sisters, Daughter – Pseudo-familial RelationshipsThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 289 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about:

    Relationships using the imagery of sisters and mother/daughterAge-gap relationshipsReferencesBabayan, Kathryn. “’In Spirit We Ate Each Other’s Sorrow’ Female Companionship in Seventeenth-Century Safavi Iran” in Babayan, Kathryn and Afsaneh Najmabadi (eds.). 2008. Islamicate Sexualities: Translations Across Temporal Geographies of Desire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-03204-0Boswell, John. 1994. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe. Villard Books, New York. ISBN 0-679-43228-0Hansen, Karen V. 1995. "No Kisses is Like Youres" in Gender and History vol 7, no 2: 153-182.Lasser, Carol. 1988. "'Let Us Be Sisters Forever': The Sororal Model of Nineteenth-Century Female Friendship" in Signs vol. 14, no. 1 158-181.Levin, Richard A. 1997. “What? How? Female-Female Desire in Sidney’s New Arcadia” in Criticism 39:4 : 463-49.Matter, 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.Merrill, Lisa. 2000. When Romeo was a Woman: Charlotte Cushman and her Circle of Female Spectators. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. ISBN 978-0-472-08749-5Morgan, Mihangel. 2016. “From Huw Arwystli to Siôn Eirian: Representative Examples of Cadi/Queer Life from Medieval to Twentieth-century Welsh Literature” in Queer Wales: The History, Culture and Politics of Queer Life in Wales. Huw Osborne (ed). University of Wales Press, Cardiff. ISBN 978-1-7831-6863-7Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. 1975. “The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America” in Signs vol. 1, no. 1 1-29.Vanita, Ruth. 1996. Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 0-231-10551-7Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3Wiethaus, Ulrike. 1993. “In Search of Medieval Women’s Friendships: Hildegard of Bingen’s Letters to her Female Contemporaries” in Wiethaus, Ulrike (ed) Maps of Flesh and Light: The Religious Experience of Medieval Women Mystics. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse. ISBN 0-8156-2560-X

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  • On the Shelf for June 2024The 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 dramasLesbiantiquityBook ShoppingMortimer, Ian. 2012. The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England. Penguin Books, New York. ISBN 978-0-14-312563-1Brown, Pamela Allen & Peter Parolin (eds). 2005. Women Players in England, 1500-1660. Ashgate, Burlington. ISBN 978-0-7546-6535-9Colonna, Pompeo (intro Franco Minonzio, trans Margaret L. King). 2024. In Defense of Women: A Bilingual Edition. Iter Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-64959-113-5Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionUncharted Waters (The Savages of Falcote) by Ally HastingsThree Times Elspeth Harris Rode to Town by Becky BlackShe Serves the Realm (No Man is her Master #4) by Lee SwansonThe Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony CameronA Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence (Lucky Lovers of London #3) by Jess EverleeHer Runaway Bride (Hers: Victorian Lesbian Romance) by Brooke WintersTides of Captivation: A sapphic pirate tale (Daughters Under the Black Flag #1) by Eden HopewellWhat I’ve been consumingThe Witch King by Martha WellsTravelers Along the Way by Aminah Mae SafiDon’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban

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  • All the Historic LesbianismsThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 287 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about:

    Social models of women loving womenVariables and features of those models

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  • On the Shelf for May 2024The 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 0-521-81111-2Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionUnholy with Eyes like Wolves by Morgan DanteHarvest Season (The Old Bridge Inn #3) by Annick TrentThe Summer of Second Chances (Desiring the Dexingtons #4) by Renee Dahlia2 Screams 1 Sugar: A Sapphic Friends to Lovers Romance by Sula SullivanThe Good Women of Fudi by Liu HongAdrift by Sam LedelMy Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van VeenA Liaison with Her Leading Lady by Lotte R. JamesThe Honey Witch by Sydney J. ShieldsOther Titles of InterestFlight Lines (WASPS #2) by Jana WilliamsPebble in the Pond by Alex Westmore (Linda Kay Silva)A Heart Divided by Angie WilliamsWhat I’ve been consumingSong of the Huntress by Lucy HollandMammoths at the Gates by Nghi VoDeath in the Spires by K.J. CharlesThe Time Travelers Guide to Regency Britain by Ian MortimerThe Time Travelers Guide to Restoration Britain by Ian Mortimer

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  • Poetry about Love between Women from the 19th CenturyThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 285 with Heather Rose Jones

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    19th century poetryConnections and cross-references between women poetsSources 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 0-935312-52-8Donoghue, Emma. 1997. Poems Between Women: Four centuries of love, romantic friendship, and desire. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-231-10925-3Faderman, Lillian (ed). 1994. Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. New York: VIking. ISBN 0-670-84368-4Faderman, Lillian. 1999.To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America – A History. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. ISBN 0-395-85010-XGreene, Ellen (ed). 1996. Re-Reading Sappho: Recepton and Transmission. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 0-520-20602-9Griffin, 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 0-679-45128-5Johnson, Thomas R. (ed). 1961. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston. ISBN 0-316-18413-6Vicinus, 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 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

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