The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

The Long History of the Lavender Menace The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 230 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: The changing focus of feminist activism across the centuries Different ways in which feminism was attacked The rationale behind accusing feminists of lesbianism Cycles of activism and backlash 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 Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

On the Shelf for May 2022 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 229 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: The merry month of May Book shopping!The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature edited by Jodie Medd Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London by Laura Gowing New and forthcoming fictionFractures and Hinges by Edith Zeitlberger The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave Don't You Dare: Uncovering Lost Love by Gayla Turner The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan Siren Queen by Nghi Vo That Green Eyed Girl by Julie Owen Moylan The Teachers' Room by Lydia Stryk What I’ve been reading:The Company Daughters by Samantha Rajaram Passing as Elias by Kate Bloomfield Swordheart by T. Kingfisher Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Stormsong (Kingston Cycle #2) by C.L. Polk Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott This month we interview Ursula Whitcher about her story in the previous episode.The inspirations for the story Writing disability in a historic context Braiding different interests into a single story Ursula’s previous fiction appearances on the LHMPodcast Huebner, Sabine R. & Christian Laes (eds). 2019. The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-47017-9 ”The Last Tutor” by Ursula Whitcher in Asimov’s Science Fiction May/June 2022 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 Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page) Links to Ursula Whitcher Online Website: yarntheory.net Twitter: @superyarn

”The Spirits of Cabassus” by Ursula Whitcher The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 228 with Heather Rose Jones This quarter’s fiction episode presents “The Spirits of Cabassus” by Ursula Whitcher, 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 Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page) Links to Ursula Whitcher Online Website: yarntheory.net Twitter: @superyarn

Charlotte Charke The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 227 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: The decidedly queer life of 18th c English actor Charlotte Charke The full text of A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke…Written by herself can be found through Google Books This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Charlotte Charke 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 Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

On the Shelf for April 2022 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 226 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: When is a fairy tale retelling a historic story? Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogFrye, Susan & Karen Robertson (eds). Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women’s Alliances in Early Modern England. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-511735-2 Book ShoppingHuebner, Sabine R. & Christian Laes (eds). 2019. The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-47017-9 New and forthcoming fictionPromises in Pompeii (Ancient Ashes #1) by Violet Morley Cowboys and Kisses by Karin Kallmaker Once in Berlin by Jo Havens The Undesirables by Lumen Reese Walks with Spirits by Edale Lane Spear by Nicola Griffith The Language of Roses by Heather Rose Jones Something Bright by R. Cooper This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke What am I reading?A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock #2) by Sherry Thomas The Hollow of Fear (Lady Sherlock #3) by Sherry Thomas The Art of Theft (Lady Sherlock #4) by Sherry Thomas Band Sinister by K.J. Charles Backwards to Oregon by Jae Orlando Furioso by Ariosto (trans. Guido Waldman) 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 Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

A History of Lesbian Sex in Pornography The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 225 with Heather Rose Jones With apologies for the sound quality problems in the originally-posted version of this episode. Note: This episode has an accompanying slide show, which can be accessed through the YouTube version of the podcast. (See transcript link.) Please note that the video includes explicit sexual imagery. In this episode we talk about: A brief history of pornography/erotica as a social and legal category The varied and changing place of sex between women in pornography The rise of pornography as a socio-political force across the 18th and 19th centuries The intertwined history of pornography and sensational medical literature How pornography of the “decadent” era both objectified lesbian sex and opened doors to lesbian self-representation Images—all images are sincerely believed to be in the public domain, based on the evidence cited in Wikimedia, which is linked when available.1. From Jean-Charles de Latouche(?) Histoire de Dom Bougre, portier des Chartreux 1748 2. From I Modi (The modes), sonnet by Pietro Aretino art by Marcantonio Raimondi, mid-16th c 3. Marcantonio Raimondi Woman with a dildo mid-16th c 4. Johann Heinrich Tischbein Diana & Callisto 18th c 5. Pompeii - fresco in a bathhouse 6. Illustration of “sodomites” from a Bible Moralisée Vienna MS 2554 7. Jean Mignon Women bathing ca. 1535-1555 8. Nicholas Chorier L’Academie des Dames 1660 9. L’Ecole des filles (The School for Venus) 19th c. illustration 10. Jean Barrin Venus dans le Cloitre, ou La Religieuse en Chemise (Venus in the Convent) 1683 11. Delarivere Manley The New Atalantis 1714 12. Denis Diderot La Religieuse (The Nun) 1797 edition 13. Thérèse Philosophe (Therese the Philosopher) 1748 14. From Jean-Charles de Latouche(?) Histoire de Dom Bougre, portier des Chartreux 1748 15. Illustration from Giacomo Casanova A History of My Life by Jules-Adolphe Chauvet, late 19th c illustration for 18th c text 16. Marquis de Sade Juliette 1797 17. Illustration from Le paysan ét la paysane pervertis; ou Les dangérs de la ville (The Perverted Peasant-man and Peasant-woman; or the Dangers of the Town by Restif de La Bretonne 1787 18. Political attack pamphlet showing Queen Marie Antoinette in a lesbian embrace 19. Political attack pamphlet showing Queen Marie Antoinette in a lesbian embrace 20. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres The Turkish Bath 1862 21. Les Deux Amies (The Two Girlfriends) by Jean-Jacques Lagrenée 22. Lesbian Games – anonymous lithograph ca. 1840 23. Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for Théophile Gautier’s Mademoiselle de Maupin, 1835 24. Nicolas Francois Octave Tassaert Le Femme Damnée (inspired by the poetry of Baudelaire) 1859 25. Cover for Adolphe Belot Mademoiselle Giraud ma Femme (Mlle. Giraud my Wife) 1870 26. George Barbier 1922 illustration for Pierre Louÿs The Songs of Bilitis 1894 27. Frontispiece for Catulle Mendès Lila and Colette 1885 28. Gustave Courbet Le Sommeil (the sleepers) 1866 This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Sex between women 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 Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

A History of Lesbian Sex in Pornography The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 225 with Heather Rose Jones Note: This episode has an accompanying slide show, which can be accessed through the YouTube version of the podcast. (See transcript link.) Please note that the video includes explicit sexual imagery. In this episode we talk about: A brief history of pornography/erotica as a social and legal category The varied and changing place of sex between women in pornography The rise of pornography as a socio-political force across the 18th and 19th centuries The intertwined history of pornography and sensational medical literature How pornography of the “decadent” era both objectified lesbian sex and opened doors to lesbian self-representation Images—all images are sincerely believed to be in the public domain, based on the evidence cited in Wikimedia, which is linked when available.1. From Jean-Charles de Latouche(?) Histoire de Dom Bougre, portier des Chartreux 1748 2. From I Modi (The modes), sonnet by Pietro Aretino art by Marcantonio Raimondi, mid-16th c 3. Marcantonio Raimondi Woman with a dildo mid-16th c 4. Johann Heinrich Tischbein Diana & Callisto 18th c 5. Pompeii - fresco in a bathhouse 6. Illustration of “sodomites” from a Bible Moralisée Vienna MS 2554 7. Jean Mignon Women bathing ca. 1535-1555 8. Nicholas Chorier L’Academie des Dames 1660 9. L’Ecole des filles (The School for Venus) 19th c. illustration 10. Jean Barrin Venus dans le Cloitre, ou La Religieuse en Chemise (Venus in the Convent) 1683 11. Delarivere Manley The New Atalantis 1714 12. Denis Diderot La Religieuse (The Nun) 1797 edition 13. Thérèse Philosophe (Therese the Philosopher) 1748 14. From Jean-Charles de Latouche(?) Histoire de Dom Bougre, portier des Chartreux 1748 15. Illustration from Giacomo Casanova A History of My Life by Jules-Adolphe Chauvet, late 19th c illustration for 18th c text 16. Marquis de Sade Juliette 1797 17. Illustration from Le paysan ét la paysane pervertis; ou Les dangérs de la ville (The Perverted Peasant-man and Peasant-woman; or the Dangers of the Town by Restif de La Bretonne 1787 18. Political attack pamphlet showing Queen Marie Antoinette in a lesbian embrace 19. Political attack pamphlet showing Queen Marie Antoinette in a lesbian embrace 20. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres The Turkish Bath 1862 21. Les Deux Amies (The Two Girlfriends) by Jean-Jacques Lagrenée 22. Lesbian Games – anonymous lithograph ca. 1840 23. Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for Théophile Gautier’s Mademoiselle de Maupin, 1835 24. Nicolas Francois Octave Tassaert Le Femme Damnée (inspired by the poetry of Baudelaire) 1859 25. Cover for Adolphe Belot Mademoiselle Giraud ma Femme (Mlle. Giraud my Wife) 1870 26. George Barbier 1922 illustration for Pierre Louÿs The Songs of Bilitis 1894 27. Frontispiece for Catulle Mendès Lila and Colette 1885 28. Gustave Courbet Le Sommeil (the sleepers) 1866 This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Sex between women 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 Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

On the Shelf for March 2022 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 224 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: The 2022 fiction line-up What I look for when buying fiction Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogFisher, Will. 2013. “The Erotics of Chin Chucking in Seventeenth-Century England” in Sex Before Sex: Figuring the Act in Early Modern England. ed. James M. Bromley and Will Stockton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-8076-4 pp.141-69 Ballaster, Ros "`The Vices of Old Rome Revived': Representations of Female Same-Sex Desire in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England", in Suzanne Raitt (ed.), Volcanoes and Pearl-Divers: Lesbian Feminist Studies. Onlywomen, 1993. Frangos, Jennifer. 2009 “The Woman in Man’s Clothes and the Pleasures of Delarivier Manley’s ‘New Cabal’” in Sexual Perversions, 1670–1890, ed. by Julie Peakman. Palgrave Macmillan, London. ISBN 978-1-349-36397-1 pp.95-116 Barker, Jessica. 2020. Stone Fidelity: Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture. The Boydel Press, Woodbridge. ISBN 978-1-78327-271-6, pp.79-88 Wilson, Jean. 1995. “Two names of friendship, but one Starre: Memorials to Single-Sex Couples in the Early Modern Period” in Church Monuments: Journal of the Church Monuments Society 10:70-83 Frye, Susan & Karen Robertson (eds.). 1999. Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women’s Alliances in Early Modern England. Oxford University Press, New York & Oxford. New and forthcoming fictionQueen and Bandit by Geonn Cannon Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix (Remixed Classics #3) by Aminah Mae Safi Daughters of the Deer by Danielle Daniel One for All by Lillie Lainoff Her Duchess to Desire by Jane Walsh A Lady's Finder (When the Blood is Up #3) by Edie Cay Wild and Wicked Things by Francesca May The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin by Kip Wilson The Ribbon Leaf by Lori Weber Into the Underwood: Maiden by J.L. Robertson What I’m reading:The Odyssyey translated by Emily Wilson (audiobook) ”Of Charms, Ghosts, and Grievances” by Aliette de Bodard (no f/f content) The Phoenix Empress by K. Arsenault Rivera (audiobook) The Company Daughters by Samantha Rajaram 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 Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

The Marriage(?) of Berenike and Mesopotamia The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 223 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: References to women’s same-sex desire in 2-5th c Egypt The 2nd c Greek novel Babyloniaka and it’s possible presentation of marriage between two women. The full discussion of Iamblichos’ Babyloniaka can be found in this blog entry which has links to the source materials I used. This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Babyloniaka (Iamblichos) 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 Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

On the Shelf for February 2022 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 222 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: Visibility and advance publicity Bid on my research consultation in the Romancing the Vote 2022 fundraiser. Classics…But Make It Gay volumes 1 and 2 available to order Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog Blondell, Ruby & Kirk Ormand (eds). 2015. Ancient Sex: New Essays. The Ohio State University Press, Columbus. ISBN 978-0-8142-1283-7 New and forthcoming fiction The Raven and the Firebird (From the Ashes of Victory #5) by Cameron Darrow Daring Duplicity, the Wellington Mysteries, Vol.1: Adventures of a Lesbian Victorian Detective by Edale Lane The Luring of a Lovely Lady (Scandalous Spinsters #8) by Emma Locke March in Time by E.A. McNulty Flung Out of Space: The Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith by Grace Ellis & Hannah Templer (graphic novel) The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker Sweet Paladin: A Lesbian time-travel fantasy romance (In the Queerness of Time Book 1) by Alex Washoe 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 Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)