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  • 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.)

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    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

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    Website: jamie-mcghee.com

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    Itch.io: clawofalltradesEmail: [email protected]: @ccmenglish
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  • 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.

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  • 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.)

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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: 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

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

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    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

    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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  • 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

    A transcript of this podcast is available here.

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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

    A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)

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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

    A transcript of this podcast is available here.

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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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  • 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

    A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)

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

    In this episode we talk about:

    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

    A transcript of this podcast is available here.

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  • 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

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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

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  • 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)

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  • 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.

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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.)

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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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  • 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.

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

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    Website: R.M. Cullen