• Follow the Monkey by Jamie McGhee - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 294
    Aug 31 2024
    Follow the Monkey by Jamie McGhee The 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/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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    Links to Jamie McGhee Online

    • Website: jamie-mcghee.com

    Links to Cláudia Cruz Machado Online

    • Itch.io: clawofalltrades
    • Email: clawofalltrades@gmail.com
    • Instagram: @ccmenglish
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    45 mins
  • Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 14a: Actresses and the Stage - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 293
    Aug 17 2024
    Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 14a: Actresses and the Stage The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 293 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: Historic romance tropes on stagePlays that include or suggest f/f desireContexts for women playing romantic roles opposite womenBreeches Roles and f/f desire BibliographyBoehringer, Sandra (trans. Anna Preger). 2021. Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-367-74476-2Bruster, 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 ...
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    33 mins
  • On the Shelf for August 2024 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 292
    Aug 3 2024
    On the Shelf for August 2024 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 292 with Heather Rose Jones

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

    In this episode we talk about:

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

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

    Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

    • Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
    • Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
    • RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
    • Twitter: @LesbianMotif
    • Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
    • The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

    Links to Heather Online

    • Website: http://alpennia.com
    • Email: Heather Rose Jones
    • Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
    • Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
    • Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

    Links to Melissa Addey Online

    • Website: MelissaAddey.com
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    35 mins
  • The Font of Liberty by Elizabeth Porter Birdsall - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 291
    Jul 20 2024
    The Font of Liberty by Elizabeth Porter Birdsall The 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/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 Elizabeth Porter Birdsall Online

    • Bluesky: @epbirdsall.bsky.social
    • Mastodon: @epbirdsall@wandering.shop

    Links to C.J. Lavigne Online

    • Website: CJLaVigne.com
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    37 mins
  • On the Shelf for July 2024 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 290
    Jul 6 2024
    On the Shelf for July 2024 The 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.137-156 Book 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 0-300-02776-1 Recent 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. Lowe Other Titles of InterestA Shore Thing by Joanna LowellThe Hollywood Governess by Alexandra Weston What 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 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: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.ShopBluesky: @heatherrosejonesFacebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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    29 mins
  • Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 13: Mothers, Sisters, Daughter – Pseudo-familial Relationships - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 289
    Jun 15 2024
    Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 13: Mothers, Sisters, Daughter – Pseudo-familial Relationships The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 289 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about:

    • Relationships using the imagery of sisters and mother/daughter
    • Age-gap relationships
    • References
      • Babayan, 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 978-0-674-03204-0
      • Boswell, John. 1994. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe. Villard Books, New York. ISBN 0-679-43228-0
      • Hansen, 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 978-0-472-08749-5
      • Morgan, 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 978-1-7831-6863-7
      • Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5
      • Smith-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 0-231-10551-7
      • Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3
      • Wiethaus, 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.

    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)
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    18 mins
  • On the Shelf for June 2024 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 288
    Jun 1 2024
    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 Shopping
      • Mortimer, 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 Fiction
      • Uncharted 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 consuming
      • The 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
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    18 mins
  • All the Historic Lesbianisms - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 287
    May 19 2024
    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)
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    22 mins