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  • On the Shelf for June 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 316

    On the Shelf for June 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 316
    Jun 8 2025
    On the Shelf for June 2025 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 316 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogBronski, Michael. 2012. A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History). Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0807044650Rouse, Wendy L. 2022. Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. New York: NYU Press. ISBN 9781479813940Boag, Peter. 2011. Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-27062-6Boag, Peter. 2011. “The Trouble with Cross-Dressers: Researching and Writing the History of Sexual and Gender Transgressiveness in the Nineteenth-Century American West” in Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 112, No. 3: 322-339Brown, Judith, C. 1986. Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-504225-5 Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionAn American in Paris by Margaret VandenburgWhispers of Love Beneath the Hidden Manor by Aiyo SaThe Ladies by Caitlin CroweThe Eye of the Water: Between Creek and Roots by Stephanie Hager-LyonsA Soft Place to Land by Kelsey KranzLady's Knight by Amie Kaufman & Meagan SpoonerSix Wild Crowns by Holly RaceDaughter of Doom by Jean-Claude van RijckeghemA Rare Find by Joanna LowellMurder by Proxy (Meredith and Alex Thatch Mystery #3) by Rachel FordBury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab Other Titles of InterestDamsels and Dinosaurs by Wren JonesBy Her Sword: A Sapphic Fantasy Romance Anthology (Sunset Wave Sapphic Anthologies #2) edited by Erin Branch What I’ve been consumingInventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer This month we interview Joanna Lowell and talk about:Working with historical language and issues around characters who don’t fall neatly in the gender binaryHow her previous books connect togetherActor Charlotte Charke as an inspiration for the character of GeorgieTheater as a place for queer themesAvoiding being locked into incorrect historical tropesHow the novels of Alexis Hall and Sarah Waters work differently with genderThe difficulty of getting away from modern identity categoriesBooks Joanna has recently enjoyed:A Gentleman’s Gentleman by T.J. Alexander Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti 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) Links to Joanna Lowell Online Website: https://www.joannalowell.com/Instagram: @joannalowellauthor
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  • The House of the Women by Jeannelle M. Ferreira - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 315

    The House of the Women by Jeannelle M. Ferreira - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 315
    May 31 2025
    The House of the Women by Jeannelle M. Ferreira The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 315 with Heather Rose Jones

    This quarter’s fiction episode presents “The House of the Women” by JEannelle M. Ferreira, narrated by Violet Dixon.

    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 Jeannelle M. Ferreria Online

    • Website: https://jeannellewrites.wordpress.com/
    • Bluesky: @jeannellewrites.bsky.social
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  • Benedetta Carlini, Lesbian Nun - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 314

    Benedetta Carlini, Lesbian Nun - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 314
    May 17 2025
    Benedetta Carlini, Lesbian Nun The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 314 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about:

    • The historic and religious context of Benedetta’s life
    • Benedetta’s sexual encounters
    • Sources mentioned
      • Brown, Judith C. 1984. “Lesbian Sexuality in Renaissance Italy: The Case of Sister Benedetta Carlini” in Signs 9 (1984): 751-58. (reprinted in: Freedman, Esteele B., Barbara C. Gelpi, Susan L. Johnson & Kathleen M. Weston. 1985. The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-2256-26151-4)
      • Brown, Judith C. 1986. Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-504225-5
      • Holler, Jacqueline. 1999. “’More Sins than the Queen of England’: Marina de San Miguel before the Mexican Inquisition” in Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World, ed. Mary E. Giles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. ISBN 0-8018-5931-X pp.209-28
      • 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.
      • Watt, Diane. 1997. “Read My Lips: Clipping and Kyssyng in the Early Sixteenth Century” in Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality, ed. Anna Livia and Kira Hall. New York, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-510471-4
    • This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Benedetta Carlini

    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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  • On the Shelf for May 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 313

    On the Shelf for May 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 313
    May 3 2025
    On the Shelf for May 2025 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 313 with Heather Rose Jones

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

    In this episode we talk about:

    • Retirement
    • Financing the podcast
    • Expanded analysis projects
    • A new policy affecting the new book listings
    • Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
      • The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod
      • Midnight Letters by Rowan Wilder
      • The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling
      • Murder at the Cabaret by Dana Gricken
      • Give My Love to Berlin by Katherine Bryant
      • To the Fairest by M. Walker
      • Time After time by Mikki Daughtry
      • A Spell for Change by Nicole Jarvis
    • Other Titles of Interest
      • The Olive and the Spear by J.A. Rainbow
    • What I’ve been consuming
      • The Chatelaine by Kate Heartfield
    • This month we interview Lindz McLeod and talk about:
      • The appeal of adapting Jane Austen’s fiction
      • Communicating with the language of flowers
      • Other Austen characters who might have interesting stories
      • The wide variety of Lindz’s work
      • The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod
      • The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley by Lindz McLeod (forthcoming)
      • An Honour and a Priviledge by Lindz McLeod (forthcoming)

    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 Lindz McLeod Online

    • Website: https://lindzmcleod.co.uk/
    • Twitter: @lindzmcleod
    • Instagram: @lindz.mcleod
    • Bluesky: @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
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  • Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 17: The Governess - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 312

    Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 17: The Governess - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 312
    Apr 21 2025
    Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 17: The Governess The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 312 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about:

    • The dynamics of the “governess romance”
    • F/f possibilities for governess romances

    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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  • On the Shelf for April 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 311

    On the Shelf for April 2025 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 311
    Apr 6 2025
    On the Shelf for April 2025 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 311 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: A special announcement about your hostRecent and upcoming publications covered on the blogRagan, Bryant T. Jr. 1996. “The Enlightenment Confronts Homosexuality” in Homosexuality in Modern France ed. by Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-509304-6Merrick, Jeffrey. 1996. “The Marquis de Villette and Mademoiselle de Raucourt: Representations of Male and Female Sexual Deviance in Late Eighteenth-Century France” in Homosexuality in Modern France ed. by Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-509304-6Colwill, Elizabeth. 1996. “Pass as a Woman, Act like a Man: Marie-Antoinette as Tribade in the Pornography of the French Revolution” in Homosexuality in Modern France ed. by Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-509304-6Sautman, Francesca Canadé. 1996. “Invisible Women: Lesbian Working-class Culture in Ferance, 1880-1930” in Homosexuality in Modern France ed. by Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-509304-6Oram, Alison & Annmarie Turnbull. 2001. The Lesbian History Sourcebook: love and sex between women in Britain from 1780 to 1970. Routledge, New York. ISBN 9-78-0-415-11485-3Choma, Anne. 2019. Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister. Penguin Books, New York. ISBN 978-0-14-313456-5Ó Síocháin, Tadhg. 2017. The Case of The Abbot of Drimnagh: A Medieval Irish Story of Sex-Change. Cork Studies in Celtic Literatures. ISBN 978-0-9955469-1-2 Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical FictionGlitter in the Dark by Olesya LyuznaThat Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga #1) by Brittany N. WilliamsSaint-Seducing Gold (The Forge & Fracture Saga #2) by Brittany N. WilliamsIron Tongue of Midnight (The Forge & Fracture Saga #3) by Brittany N. WilliamsMere by Danielle Giles Renegade Girls: A Queer Tale of Romance and Rabble-Rousing by Nora Neus and Julie Robine The Scarlett Highwaywoman (The Highwaywomen #1) by Delilah KentA Thief's Kiss (The Highwaywomen #2) by Delilah KentVelvet & Vengeance (The Highwaywomen #3) by Delilah KentThe Butchers Bride (The Highwaywomen #4) by Delilah KentThe Duchess and the Dagger (The Highwaywomen #5) by Delilah KentReckless Hearts (The Highwaywomen #6) by Delilah KentBanshee's Cry (Lesbian Pirates #3) by Marina TempestLucky Harp (Lesbian Pirates #4) by Marina TempestMercy's Blade (Lesbian Pirates #5) by Marina TempestMidnight Serpent (Lesbian Pirates #6) by Marina TempestRum & Roses (Velvet & Vice #3) by V.C. SterlingBrandy & Betrayal (Velvet & Vice #4) by V.C. SterlingAbsinthe & Affection (Velvet & Vice #5) by V.C. SterlingMoonshine & Mayhem (Velvet & Vice #6) by V.C. SterlingScotch & Secrets (Velvet & Vice #7) by V.C. Sterling What I’ve been consumingGentleman Jack by Anne ChomaThe Tomb of Dragons by Katherine AddisonThe Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan 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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  • A Falling Star and a Flying Bird by Rhiannon Grant - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 310

    A Falling Star and a Flying Bird by Rhiannon Grant - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 310
    Mar 29 2025
    A Falling Star and a Flying Bird by Rhiannon Grant The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 310 with Heather Rose Jones

    This quarter’s fiction episode presents A Falling Star and a Flying Bird by Rhiannon Grant, 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: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
    • Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
    • Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

    Links to Rhiannon Grant Online

    • Website: https://brigidfoxandbuddha.wordpress.com
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  • Lesbians and Sex Work - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 309

    Lesbians and Sex Work - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 309
    Mar 24 2025
    Lesbians and Sex Work The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 309 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: Four motifs that connect women loving women and sex work in historic sourcesSources usedBennett, Judith and Shannon McSheffrey. 2014. “Early, Erotic and Alien: Women Dressed as Men in Late Medieval London” in History Workshop Journal. 77 (1): 1-25.Beynon, John C. 2010. “Unaccountable Women” in Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4Blackmore, Josiah. 1999. “The Poets of Sodom” in Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance ed. Josiah Blackmore and Gregory S. Hutcheson. Duke University Press, Durham. ISBN 9780822323495Boehringer, Sandra (trans. Anna Preger). 2021. Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-367-74476-2Burford, E.J. 1986. Wits, Wenchers and Wantons - London’s Low Life: Covent Garden in the Eighteenth Century. Robert Hale, London. ISBN 0-7090-2629-3Cheek, Pamela. 1998. "The 'Mémoires secrets' and the Actress: Tribadism, Performance, and Property", in Jeremy D. Popkin and Bernadette Fort (eds), The "Mémoires secrets" and the Culture of Publicity in Eighteenth-Century France, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation.Choquette, Leslie. 2001. “’Homosexuals in the City: Representations of Lesbian and Gay Space in Nineteenth-Century Paris” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3Craft-Fairchild, Catherine. 2006. “Sexual and Textual Indeterminacy: Eighteenth-Century English Representations of Sapphism” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 15:3DeJean, Joan. 1989. Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-14136-5Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4Engelstein, Laura. 1990. "Lesbian Vignettes: A Russian Triptych from the 1890s" in Signs vol. 15, no. 4 813-831.Garber, Marjorie. 1992. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-91951-7Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-688-00396-6Gilhuly, Kate. 2015. “Lesbians are Not from Lesbos” in Blondell, Ruby & Kirk Ormand (eds). Ancient Sex: New Essays. The Ohio State University Press, Columbus. ISBN 978-0-8142-1283-7Habib, Samar. 2007. Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations. Routledge, New York. ISBN 78-0-415-80603-9Haley, 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 0-29-77113-4Ingrassia, Catherine. 2003. “Eliza Haywood, Sapphic Desire, and the Practice of Reading” in: Kittredge, Katharine (ed). Lewd & Notorious: Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. ISBN 0-472-11090-XJones, Ann Rosalind & Peter Stallybrass. 1991. “Fetishizing gender: constructing the Hermaphrodite in Renaissance Europe” in Body guards : the cultural politics of gender ambiguity edited by Julia Epstein & Kristina Straub. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-90388-2Jones, Heather Rose. 2021. “Researching the Origins of Lesbian Myths, Legends, and Symbols” (podcast). https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-201-researching-origins-lesbian-myths-legends-andKatritzky, 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.Merrick, Jeffrey. 1990. “Sexual Politics and Public Order in Late Eighteenth-Century France: the Mémoires secrets and the Correspondance secrète” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 1, 68-84.Merrick, Jeffrey & Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. 2001. Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-510257-6Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5Sears, Clare. 2015. Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-5758-2Shapiro, Michael. 1994. Gender in ...
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