The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

On the Shelf for September 2023 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 267 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: Book ShoppingGoodman, Ruth. 2016. How to be a Tudor: A Dawn to Dusk Guide to Tudor Life. W.W. Norton & Company, New York. ISBN 978-1-63149-253-2 Cleland, Elizabeth & Adam Eaker. 2022. The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. ISBN 978-1-58839-692-1 Ball, Krista D. 2012. What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank. Tyche Books, Ltd, Alberta. ISBN 978-0-9878248-9-9 Ndiaye, Noémie & Lia Markey. 2023. Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Press, Tempe. ISBN 978-0-86698-842-1 Leonardi, Camillo (trans. Liliana Leopardi). 2023. Speculum Lapidum: A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones. The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park. ISBN 978-0-271-09539-4 Hindley, Katherine Storm. 2023. Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-82533-5 Warr, Cordelia. 2023. Medieval Clothing and Textiles 17. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge. ISBN 978-1-78327-598-4 Not Just the Tudors (podcast) Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Deanne Williams Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionEmber of a New World by Ishtar Watson Sanditon: The Lesbian Solution by Garnet Marriott and Jane Austen Where Pleasant Fountains Lie (The New Countess #3) by Lady Vanessa S.-G Haven's End (Daughters Under the Black Flag #2) by Eden Hopewell The Birdwatchers by Louise Vetroff The Haunted Diamond by Becky Black He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor #2) by Shelley Parker-Chan Carving a New Shape by Rhiannon Grant For Love and Liberty by Eden Hopewell Her Duchess by Brooke Winters Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix (Remixed Classics # 8) by Cherie Dimaline Other Titles of InterestThe Girl Who Fled the Picture by Jane Anderson The Valkyrie by Kate Heartfield What I’ve been consumingThe Great Roxhythe by Georgette Heyer Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente Call for submissions for the 2024 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details. This month we interview Rhiannon Grant and talk about:The appeal of a Neolithic setting Worldbuilding in archaeological settings Exploring spirituality Publications mentioned:Carving a New Shape by Rhiannon Grant Between Boat and Shore by Rhiannon Grant The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss Ember of a New World by Ishtar Watson Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel This month we interview Katharine Quarmby and talk about:The historic inspiration for the story The work of turning archives into fiction Finding queer relationships in the historic record Fiction and non-fiction as reflections of each other Reclaiming marginalized histories Publications mentioned:The Low Road by Katharine Quarmby The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph Gentleman Jack (tv series) The Fascination by Essie Fox 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: @[email protected] Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page) Links to Rhiannon Grant Online Facebook: Rhiannon Grant TikTok (main): @ rhiannonbookgeek TikTok (books): @ sapphicprehistory Twitter: @bookgeekrelng Bluesky: @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social Mastodon: >@[email protected] Links to Katharine QuarmbyOnline Website: katharinequarmby.com Twitter: @KatharineQ Facebook: Katharine Quarmby (writer)

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 9: Spies The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 266 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about women in espionage through the ages and why this makes a great context for romance Sources mentioned Akkerman N.N.W. 2018. Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press. If you’re at all interested in early modern female spies, I recommend Akkerman’s entire publications page. Wikipedia index of spies by century “African American Women Spies” (specific author not listed) 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: @[email protected] Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

On the Shelf for August 2023 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 265 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: The blog’s continuing hiatus Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionOur Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill By Moonlight by Lisabet Sarai Emma: The Nature of a Lady by Kate Christie The Low Road by Katharine Quarmby Love in the Shadows by Eden Hopewell Behind the Red Curtain by Eve Morton Her Dangerous Journey Home (No Man is Her Master #3) by Lee Swanson Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue Other Titles of InterestThe Ghost Ship (Burning Chambers #3) by Kate Mosse A Lady's Guide to Scandal by Sophie Irwin Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott What I’ve been consumingThe Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman The Disenchantment by Celia Bell Nimona by N.D. Stevenson (Netflix movie) Call for submissions for the 2024 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details. This month we interview Annemarie KD:Aphra Behn: A Secret Life by Janet Todd New Light on Aphra Behn by W.J. Cameron Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Nadine Akkerman This month we interview Meredith Rose:A Study in Garnet by Meredith Rose Alchemy Empire Series by Meredith Rose Critical Role (webcast) Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill This month we interview Lee Swanson:Her Dangerous Journey Home (No Man is Her Master #3) by Lee Swanson The Cloistered Lady by Coirle Mooney The Lady’s Keeper</em by Coirle Mooney 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: @[email protected] Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page) Links to Annemarie KD Online Annemarie does not have active social media at this time. Links to Meredith Rose Online Website: meredithrosebooks.com Links to Lee Swanson Online Website: LeeSwansonAuthor.me

To the Fair Muse who, Loving Me, Imagin'd More by Annemarie KD The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 264 with Heather Rose Jones This quarter’s fiction episode presents “To the Fair Muse who, Loving Me, Imagin'd More” by Annemarie KD, narrated by Heather Rose Jones. A transcript of this podcast is available here. Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/ Twitter: @LesbianMotif Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon Links to Heather Online Website: http://alpennia.com Email: Heather Rose Jones Mastodon: @[email protected] Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Lesbians as a “Third Sex” The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 263 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: Historic contexts in which people conceived as lesbians as belonging to a “third sex” Academic studies that use the concept of a “third sex” as a way of understanding historic models of gender and sexuality 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: @[email protected] Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

On the Shelf for July 2023 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 262 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: Librivox’s “Out of the Closet” short fiction collection Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionThe Hells of Notre Dame (The Phantom of Notre Dame #1) by R.L. Davennor Catmint's Moth by Laura Jean Mason A Study in Garnet (The Ladies of Baker Street #1) by Meredith Rose A Field of Foxglove (Lavender and Foxglove #1) by Hilary Rose Berwick Boadicea: Bowed not Broken by Jana Williams Northwoman: Part Two by M. Jeffrey Sweet Nothings and Other Confections by Sula Sullivan Ann's Angel (School of Enlightenment) by Maggie Sims Bunny by Annie Moon A Crime of Secrets (Donner & Longstreet Mystery #1) by Ann Aptaker Devil's Slide (Speakeasy #1) by Stacy Lynn Miller Her Forgotten Promise by Corin Burnside Other Titles of InterestThe Dawn of Eternal Winter by Veronika Sizova Not Just Another to Bury by Cyan Vidales Nicoletti The Madwomen of Paris by Jennifer Cody Epstein Women of the Post by Joshunda Sanders updated title and link: The Poisoned Pen Pal (The Kendallville Librarian #1) by Julie Kortidis What I’ve been consumingSixpenny Octavo by Annick Trent The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women by Elizabeth Norton This month we interview Dee Holloway and talk about:Stories inspired by Alfred Noyes’ “The Highwayman” Origins of the magical water-horses “Weird Florida” as a story setting Little Nothing by Dee Holloway Lamplit Underground (periodical) “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes, 1906 The musical version I was trying to remember the composer for: Phil Ochs performing his interpretation, originally released on I Ain’t Marching Anymore, 1965 This month we interview Lianyu Tan and talk about:Winning a Lambda Literary Award as an indie author Singapore and writing as a diasporic author Vampirism/colonialism The attractions of gothic horror ”Choose your own ending” The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson Captive in the Underworld by Lianyu Tan Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho 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: @[email protected] Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page) Links to Dee Holloway Online Twitter: @_deeholloway Instagram: @menshevixen Itch.io: menshevixen Links to Lianyu Tan Online Website: LianyuTan.com Twitter: @LianyuTan Mailing List: Subscribe

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 7: Aristocrats and Billionaires The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 261 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: Structural parallels between tropes involving titled aristocrats and billionaires Different dynamics when adapting those tropes for f/f historic romance The complicated problem of providing your heroine with either a noble title or a fortune This topic of women’s sources of financial independence is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Economic Independence A detailed (if technical) article on women’s inheritance of noble titles in French history 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: @[email protected] Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

On the Shelf for June 2023 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 260 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: Pride Month and book discoverability What I did on my summer vacation Yes, there will be a 2024 fiction series Book ShoppingKoch, Bea. 2020. Mad & Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency. Grand Central Publishing, New York. ISBN 978-1-5387-0101-0 Straubhaar, Sandra Ballif. 2011. Old Norse Women's Poetry: The Voices of Female Skalds. D.S. Brewer, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-84384-271-2 Allen-Goss, Lucy M. 2020. Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance. D.S. Brewer, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-84384-679-6 Liddington, Jill. 2023. As Good as a Marriage: The Anne Lister Diaries 1836-38. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 978-1-5261-5735-5 Kahf, Mohja. 1999. Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque. University of Texas Press, Austin. ISBN 978-0-292-74337-3 New and forthcoming fictionTwelve Nights with Viola & Olivia (The New Countess: A Story of Sexy 16th Century Sapphists of Shakespeare) (Book 1 of 2: The New Countess: A Story of Sexy 16th Century Sapphists of Shakespeare ) by by Lady Vanessa S.-G. (Author), Hannah Miyamoto (Editor) If I Should Tell my History (The New Countess: A Story of Sexy 16th Century Sapphists of Shakespeare) (Book 2 of 2: The New Countess: A Story of Sexy 16th Century Sapphists of Shakespeare ) by by Lady Vanessa S.-G. (Author), Hannah Miyamoto (Editor) Sicili and the Penniless Lad by Rachel C. Neale Do Unto Others by Geonn Cannon Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens Killingly by Katharine Beutner The First Bright Thing by J.R. Dawson The Gulf by Rachel Cochran Just One Dance (The Regency Romance Club #1) by Jenny Frame What am I reading?The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin The Murder of Mr Wickham by Claudia Gray The Late Mrs Willoughby by Claudia Gray The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher Ruby Finley vs the Interstellar Invasion by Tempest Bradford Harriet the Invincible (Hamster Princess #1) by Ursula Vernon The Bluestocking Beds Her Bride by Fenna Edgewood An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera 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: @[email protected] Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Interview with Jill Liddington The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 259 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: The social and economic landscape of Anne Lister’s life The dynamics of Lister’s “marriage” to Ann Walker The history of the diaries and their amazing legacy Jill Liddington’s books about Anne ListerPresenting The Past: Anne Lister Of Halifax, 1791–1840, Pennines Pens, 1994. Female Fortune: Land, Gender and Authority: The Anne Lister Diaries and Other writings, 1833–36, Manchester University Press (original edition: Rivers Oram Press, 1998). Nature's Domain: Anne Lister and the Landscape of Desire, Pennine Pens, 2019. As Good as a Marriage: The Anne Lister Diaries 1836-38, Manchester University Press, 2023. This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Anne Lister A transcript of this podcast will be available here when transcribed. 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: @[email protected] Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page) Links to Jill Liddington Online Website: jliddington.org.uk YouTube video: Anne Lister historian Jill Liddington discusses her new book, As Good as a Marriage

On the Shelf for May 2023 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 258 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: Teaser for a potential upcoming guest Recent book shoppingBoag, Peter. 2011. Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-27062-6 Bullough, Vern L. & Bonnie Bullough. 1993. Crossdressing, Sex, and Gender. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 0-8122-1431-5 New and forthcoming fictionA Wound Like Lapis Lazuli by Melody Wiklund The Disenchantment by Celia Bell The Accidental Bride (The Spinsters of Inverley #1) by Jane Walsh A Long Time Dead by Samara Breger They Ain't Proper by M.B. Guel An Island Princess Starts a Scandal (Las Leonas #2) by Adriana Herrera House of Longing by Tara Calaby Showing Mercy by Kim Pritekel What I’ve been consumingA Tempest at Sea (Lady Sherlock 7) by Sherry Thomas The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue This month we interview Catherine Lundoff and talk about: ”The Letter of Marque” on Catherine’s Patreon The Four Musketeers: The True Story of D'Artagnan, Porthos, Aramis & Athos by Kari L. Maund (aka Kari Sperring) and Phil Nanson The Secret Life of Aphra Behn by Janet Todd ”Born with Teeth” by Liz Duffy Adams (play about Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare) The historic Jacquotte de la Haye The historic inspirations for the series Media mentioned: 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: @[email protected] Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page) Links to Catherine Lundoff Online Website: catherinelundoff.net Website: queenofswordspress.com/ Mastodon: @[email protected] Twitter: @clundoff Facebook: Clundoff