Interview with Catherine Lundoff of Queen of Swords Press The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 149 with Heather Rose Jones An interview with the founder of Queen of Swords Press about the process of starting a publishing company. In this episode we talk about: Moving from being published to being a publisher Schedules and timelines Finding the balance in content What to tackle by yourself and when to bring in experts Making the finances work How success can trip you up The surprising cross-market potential of dapper lesbian capybara pirates Books mentioned - you are encouraged to buy through the Queen of Swords websiteSilver Moon by Catherine Lundoff Out of This World by Catherine Lundoff Murder on the Titania by Alex Acks Medusa’s Touch by Emily L. Byrne Scourge of the Seas of Time and Space edited by Catherine Lundoff Wireless by Alex Acks Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic by Catherine Lundoff The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper by A.J. Fitzwater A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 Queen of Swords Press and Catherine Lundoff Online Website: Queen of Swords Press Twitter: @QoSPress Facebook: Queen of Swords Press Website: Catherine Lundoff Twitter: @clundoff Facebook: Catherine Lundoff (author page)

On the Shelf for March 2020 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 148 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing. In this episode we talk about: In the spring, a historian’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of...historic gardening. Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogAndreadis, Harriette. 1989. “The Sapphic-Platonics of Katherine Philips, 1632-1664” in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 15(1):34-60. Gubar, Susan. 1984. "Sapphistries" in Signs vol. 10, no. 1 43-62. Hallett, Judith. 1979. “Sappho and Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality. in Signs 4: 447-464. Stigers, Eva Stehle. 1979. “Romantic Sensuality, Poetic Sense: A Response to Hallett on Sappho” in SIgns vol 4, no 3: 465-471. Katz, Marilyn A. 2000. "Sappho and Her Sisters: Women in Ancient Greece" in Signs vol. 25, no. 2 505-531. Bray, Alan. 2003. The Friend. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-07181-7 Verini, Alexandra. 2016. "Medieval Models of Female Friendship in Cristine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies and Margery Kempe's The Book of Margery Kempe" in Feminist Studies vol. 42, no. 2 365-391. Lasser, Carol. 1988. "'Let Us Be Sisters Forever': The Sororal Model of Nineteenth-Century Female Friendship" in Signs vol. 14, no. 1 158-181. Moore, Lisa. 1992. "'Something More Tender Still than Friendship': Romantic Friendship in Early-Nineteenth-Century England" in Feminist Studies vol. 18, no. 3 499-520. Announcing this month’s guest, Catherine Lundoff talking about Queen of Swords Press New and forthcoming fictionTooth and Blade by Julian Barr The Flowers of Time (Lost in Time Book 3) by A.L. Lester Red Kate: a tale of lesbian piracy by Sarah Tighe-Ford Dangerous Remedy by Kat Dunn Never Anyone But You: A Novel by Rupert Thomson The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey Behind the Bandstand by Theresa J. Everlove Music from Another World by Robin Talley The Mail Order Bride by R. Kent 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)

Talking to Ghosts by Caitlin Flavell The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 147 with Heather Rose Jones The first story in our 2020 fiction series, set in Victorian Scotland. The narrator is your host. 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 Caitlin Flavell Online Website: Clitbait (as a contributor) Email: [email protected] Twitter: @Flavell97

The Evolution of Butch as a Lesbian Signifier The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 146 with Heather Rose Jones An investigation across time of how the use of “masculine” clothing developed into a deliberate signal of women’s same-sex interests. A slideshow version of this show is available on our YouTube channel. (This version does not have the re-mastered intro and references to TLT are obsolete.) In this episode we talk about: Historic Attitudes Toward Clothing Gender How Gendered Clothing Confers Gender Characteristics Cross-gender Garments Signifying Sexual Unruliness Theatrical Contexts Interpreted as Sexually Desirable to Men but Also to Women Male-coded Garments in Gender Play Combined with Same-Sex Erotics Women with Same-Sex Interests Depicted as Behaving Mannishly The Sartorial Stylings of Amazons and Bluestockings Lesbians in Riding Habits “Mannish” Clothing and the Decadent Movement People and Publications (Links are to LHMP blog posts or podcasts unless otherwise noted)Tournament with Cross-dressing Women 14th c Hic Mulier Mary Frith/Moll Cutpurse (podcast) The Roaring Girl by Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton Julie d’Aubigny Charlotte Cibber Charke Charlotte Cushman (podcast) The Convent of Pleasure by Margaret Cavendish (1668) The New Atalantis by Delarivier Manley (1709) The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu (1744) (podcast) Memoirs of the Life of Count Grammont by Anthony Hamilton (1713) Pamela by Samuel Richardson (1740) Sir Charles Grandison by Samuel Richardson (1753) Belinda by Maria Edgeworth (1801) Diaries of Samuel Pepys (1666) (Wikipedia) Anne Damer (podcast) Ladies of Llangollen: Eleanor Butler & Sarah Ponsonby (podcast) Anne Lister Eupheia by Charlotte Lennox (1790) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844) (Wikipedia) Mademoiselle de Maupin Théophile Gautier (1835) Nana by Émile Zola (1880) Lélia by George Sand (1833) Natalie Clifford Barney (Wikipedia) Colette (Wikipedia) Rosa Bonheur Other References UsedAlbert, Nicole G. 2016. Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France. Harrington Park Press. (not yet blogged) Bennett, Judith and Shannon McSheffrey. 2014. “Early, Exotic and Alien: Women Dressed as Men in Late Medieval London” in History Workshop Journal. 77 (1): 1-25. 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 Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4 Donoghue, Emma. 2010. Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. ISBN 978-0-307-27094-8 Faderman, Lillian. 1981.  Surpassing the Love of Men. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-688-00396-6 Lanser, Susan S. 2014. The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-18773-0 Loughlin, Marie H. 2014. Same-Sex Desire in Early Modern England, 1550-1735: An Anthology of Literary Texts and Contexts. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-8208-5 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)

Book Appreciation with Stephanie Burgis The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 145 with Heather Rose Jones In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors (or your host) will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting. In this episode we talk about: Books mentionedProper English by K.J. Charles “Of Books and Earth and Courtship” by Aliette de Bodard House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 Stephanie Burgis Online Website: stephanieburgis.com Instagram: stephanieburgisinwales Twitter: @stephanieburgis Goodreads: Stephanie Burgis

Interview with Stephanie Burgis The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 144 with Heather Rose Jones A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women. In this episode we talk about: Books mentionedSnowspelled by Stephanie Burgis (YA/adult, f/f minor characters) Thornbound by Stephanie Burgis (YA/adult, f/f minor characters) Moontangled by Stephanie Burgis (YA/adult, f/f romance) Masks and Shadows by Stephanie Burgis (adult, not f/f) Kat, Incorrigible by Stephanie Burgis (middle-grade, not f/f) The Disastrous Debut of Agatha Tremaine by Stephanie Burgis (adult f/f, short story) Congress of Secrets by Stephanie Burgis (adult, not f/f) The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart by Stephanie Burgis (middle-grade, not f/f) A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 Stephanie Burgis Online Website: stephanieburgis.com Instagram: stephanieburgisinwales Twitter: @stephanieburgis Goodreads: Stephanie Burgis

On the Shelf for February 2020 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 143 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing. In this episode we talk about: What your host has been writing lately What’s New at Bella - A new lesfic podcast from Bella books Submissions are closed for the 2020 Fiction Series. Check the LHMPodcast Index Page for an announcement of the first story. Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogRupp, Leila J. 2013. "Thinking About 'Lesbian History'" in Feminist Studies vol. 39, no 2 357-361. Vicinus, Martha. 2012. "The History of Lesbian History" in Feminist Studies vol. 38, no. 3 566-596. Foucault, Michel. 1990. The History of Sexuality. Vintage Books, New York. ISBN 978-0-679-72469-8 Andreadis, Harriette. 1989. “The Sapphic-Platonics of Katherine Philips, 1632-1664” in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 15(1):34-60. (link will only be live after the blog posts) Gubar, Susan. 1984. "Sapphistries" in Signs vol. 10, no. 1 43-62. (link will only be live after the blog posts) Hallett, Judith. 1979. “Sappho and Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality. in Signs 4: 447-464. (link will only be live after the blog posts) Announcing this month’s author guest, Stephanie Burgis New and forthcoming fictionThe Traveler - Book One: The Hunted by Kim Pritekel Merchants of Milan: Book One of the Night Flyer Trilogy by Edale Lane Pioneer Hearts by Becky Harris Belle Revolte by Linsey Miler Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland Moontangled by Stephanie Burgis The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave End of War in Thermopylae (Thermopylae Bound Book 6) by Belinda Harrison 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)

Iphis and Ianthe The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 142 with Heather Rose Jones Tracing same-sex and transgender themes in Ovid’s Classical Roman tale of forbidden love across the ages. In this episode we talk about: Who was Ovid and what type of story was the Metamorphoses? The basic plot of the story and the motif of inappropriate love objects Gender identity and sexuality in Iphis and Ianthe Medieval transmission and the purpose of the “moralized Ovid” The Renaissance translations return to Ovid’s original Adapting Iphis in Yde and Olive and Gallathea Iphis and Ianthe as a mirror for women through the centuries looking for a model of same-sex love ReferencesCaxton, William. 2013. The Booke of Ovyde Named Methamorphose. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto. ISBN 978-0-88844-182-9 Durling, Nancy Vine. 1989. “Rewriting Gender: Yde et Olive and Ovidian Myth” in Romance Languages Annual 1: 256-62. Golding, Arthur. 1567. P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, translated oute of Latin into English meeter. Willyam Seres, London. Gower, John. 2013. Confessio Amantis vol. 2 edited by Russell A. Peck, with Latin translations by Andrew Galloway. TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. Medieval Institute Publications, Kalamazoo. Hallett, 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. Hubbard, Thomas K. 2003. Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-23430-7 Mills, Robert. 2015. Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-16912-5 Pintabone, Diane T. "Ovid's Iphis and Ianthe: When Girls Won't Be Girls” 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 0-29-77113-4 Watt, Diane 1998. "Behaving like a man? Incest, Lesbian desire, and gender play in 'Yde et Olive' and its adaptations", Comparative Literature, 50, 4 (Fall 1998): 265-85. Walen, Denise A. 2005. Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6875-3 The full text of Gower’s Confessio Amantis can be found at the website of the TEAMS Middle English Texts Series The full text of Golding’s 1567 translation of the Metamorphoses is available from Wikisource This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Metamorphoses: Iphis and Ianthe (Ovid) 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)

Book Appreciation with Kate Heartfield The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 141 with Heather Rose Jones In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors (or your host) will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting. In this episode we talk about: Books mentionedEverfair by Nisi Shawl Orlando by Virginia Woolf A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 Kate Heartfield Online Website: heartfieldfiction.com Twitter: @kateheartfield Facebook: Kate Heartfield

Interview with Kate Heartfield The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 140 with Heather Rose Jones A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women. In this episode we talk about: Time-travel novels Books mentionedAlice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield Alice Payne Rides by Kate Heartfield Armed in Her Fashion by Kate Heartfield A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 Kate Heartfield Online Website: heartfieldfiction.com Twitter: @kateheartfield Facebook: Kate Heartfield

On the Shelf for January 2020 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 139 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing. In this episode we talk about: Future Patreon content The 2020 fiction series Current markets for f/f historical short fiction Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogValerie Traub “The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England” Tim Hitchcock "The Reformulation of Sexual Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century England" Randolph Trumbach "The Transformation of Sodomy from the Renaissance to the Modern World and Its General Sexual Consequences” John Boswell Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century John Boswell Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe Leila Rupp “Thinking about ‘Lesbian History’” Martha Vicinus “The History of Lesbian History” Michel Foucault The History of Sexuality Announcing this month’s author guest, Kate Heartfield New and forthcoming fictionWhere There Are Mountains by Sarah Pearlman Clara's Way by Roberta R. Carr Lady Hotspur by Tessa Gratton Nottingham by Anna Burke Spellbound by Jackie D. and Jean Copeland The Companion by Kim Taylor Blakemore Blood Countess by Lana Popovic Markets and Calls for Submissions Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details. Call for submissions for the Silk and Steel anthology (not affiliated with this podcast) See here for details. Market information for “A Story Most Queer” podcast 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)

Lesbian Vikings The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 138 with Heather Rose Jones An episode by request about research into women’s same-sex relations in early medieval Norse culture, and f/f fiction inspired by it. In this episode we talk about: What do we mean by “Viking”? Homosexuality in Norse culture Lesbian-relevant themes in Norse culture Stories of women warriors and gender-crossing Warrior women and the archaeology of gender Other contexts Research ReferencesThe Viking Answer Lady Guldgubber: Sharon Ratke’s catalog site Clover, Carol J. 1995. "Maiden Warriors and Other Sons" in Robert R. Edwards & Vickie Ziegler (eds). Matrons and Marginal Women in Medieval Society. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge. Tolkien, Christopher tran. 1960. Saga Heidreks Kunungs ins Vitra. Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, London. There are many other sources of information on both Norse history and on queer themes or warrior women in early Norse culture. Check out the Viking Answer Lady’s site, or the research blog https://kyngervi.wordpress.com for more leads. Books mentioned“Peace-weaver” by Jennifer Nestoiko. The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast 2018 fiction series Thyra's Promise by Natalie Debrabandere Taken By the Shield Maiden: A "Bawdy" Tale of Lust by Echo Stardust Raw: Dein Leben vor Meinem or “Your Life Before Mine” by Jolene Walker Vikings (tv series) The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember The Navigator’s Touch by Julia Ember Wolf and Raven by Dallas Jessica Owen The Last Shaman by Dallas Jessica Owen Thrall: Beyond Gold and Glory by Barbara Ann Wright The Amber Necklace by Alex Pyott Heathen by Natasha Alterici (graphic novel) 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)

Things I Loved in 2019 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 137 with Heather Rose Jones I talk about the novels, non-fiction, and visual media relevant to queer women in history that I enjoyed in 2019 Novels Life Mask by Emma Donoghue The Ghost and the Machine by Benny Lawrence Two Wings to Fly Away by Penny Mickelbury A Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite The True Queen by Zen Cho Bonus non-historical book: The Hounds of Justice by Claire O’Dell Non-Fiction Brown, Kathleen. 1995. “’Changed...into the Fashion of a Man’: The Politics of Sexual Difference in a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Settlement” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:2 pp.171-193. Nederman, Cary J. and Jacqui True. 1996. “The Third Sex: The Idea of the Hermaphrodite in Twelfth-Century Europe” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:4: 497-517. Abbouchi, Mounawar. 2018. “Yde and Olive” in Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality, vol 8. Staples, Kate Kelsey. 2011. Daughters of London: Inheriting Opportunity in the Late Middle Ages. Brill, Leiden. ISBN 978-9004203112 Ehrenhalt, Lizzie and Tilly Laskey (eds). 2019. Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890-1918. Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul. ISBN 978-1-68134-129-3 Bonus non-fiction item: Examining the OED - Case Study: Terms for Lesbian(ism) - http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/content/view/435/485/index.html accessed 2019/04/28 Visual Media Wild Nights with Emily Gentleman Jack 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)

The Highwaywoman Special (Reprise) The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 136 with Heather Rose Jones This is a reprise of my first “fifth week special” episode, when I have to come up with something outside my 4-topic rotation. Today we have a multi-media look at female highwaymen in history, song, and story, including five lesbian highwaywoman romances. In this episode we talk about: The historic era of the highwaymen Ballads featuring female highwaymen (you get to hear me sing!) Women in history who went “on the pad” as they say, or who were rumored to have done so The most popular formula for lesbian highwaywoman novels Five lesbian highwaywoman romances, plus one bonus highway robbery incident The various persons and works discussed or presented in this podcast (in order of appearance) are as follows. Some historic references may apply to more than one person. “The Highwayman” (excerpt, lyrics by Alfred Noyes music by Phil Ochs, performed by Heather Rose Jones)“The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes, 1906 Phil Ochs performing his interpretation, originally released on I Ain’t Marching Anymore, 1965 “The Female Highway Hector”, 1683-1703 (excerpt, anonymous broadside ballad, sung to the tune “The Rant”, performed by Heather Rose Jones)Facsimile of the original broadside ballad The Rant, collected by William Chappell in 1858 Historic highwaywomen Joan Bracey, Ann Meders, Nan Hereford“Women of the Road” by Isabelle Goddard Rumored highwaywomen Katherine Ferrers (“The Wicked Lady”) and Mary Frith (Moll Cutpurse)“The Wicked Lady” movie “The female highwayman, or the blighted lily: A drama in three acts” play “Female Highwaymen” by Stephen Basdeo, 2015 “Sovay, or The Female Highwayman” (full text, traditional ballad, music traditional?, performed by Heather Rose Jones)Oldest version of the lyrics, collected by Rev. S. Baring-Gould in 1890 A popular later variant, with the most popular tune can be found at the Mudcat Cafe folk music site For cross-dressing motifs in literature in general:Walen, Denise A. 2005. Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6875-3 Novels with Highwaywoman Romances Rebeccah and the Highwayman by Barbara Davies (Bedazzled Ink, 2008) The Locket and the Flintlock by Rebecca S Buck (Bold Strokes Books, 2012) Daring and Decorum by Lawrence Hogue (Supposed Crimes, 2017) The Mask of the Highwaywoman by Niamh Murphy (self-published, 2017) Behind the Mask by Kim Larabee (Alyson Books, 1989 out of print) “The Mazarinette and the Musketeer” by Heather Rose Jones (self-published, 2016) 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 December 2019 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 135 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing. In this episode we talk about: A look back at what the podcast has accomplished this year Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details. Call for submissions for the Silk and Steel anthology (not affiliated with this podcast) See here for details. Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog“Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” by Adrienne Rich Constructing Medieval Sexuality edited by Karma Lochrie, Peggy McCracken and James A. Schultz Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Post-Modern by Carolyn Dinshaw “The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England” by Valerie Traub "The Reformulation of Sexual Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century England" by Tim Hitchcock "The Transformation of Sodomy from the Renaissance to the Modern World and Its General Sexual Consequences” by Randolph Trumbach Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell December ScheduleReprise show: Highwaywomen Essay: Lesbian Vikings? Bonus show: Heather’s End-of-year Round-up New and forthcoming fictionCinderella and the Lady by K.T. Grant O Venus ! Morior ! (Ô Vénus ! Je meurs !) by Le Jardin de Sappho (in French) The Shona Jackson Trilogy (Shona, Meet Me at 10, The Beach House) by Vicky Jones & Claire Hackney Donning the Beard by EA Kafkalas The Little Wife: A gothic Victorian tale of grief, desire and revenge by Delphine Woods The Wonderful by Saksia Sarginson 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)

The Mermaid by Kathleen Jowitt The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 134 with Heather Rose Jones The fourth and final story in our 2019 Fiction Series A transcript of this podcast is available here. Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details. 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 Kathleen Jowitt Online Website: kathleenjowitt.com Twitter: @KathleenJowitt

Class and Models of Lesbian Desire The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 133 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: The place of class in archetypes of lesbianism and same-sex desire How class affects perceptions of sexuality Class and money: who has it, what do then need to do to keep it? Class and family responsibility: how do different groups balance individualism and group identity? How does class influence marriage options, and the ability to reject them? How does class affect the potential for economic independence? Working through the dynamics of class in some popular lesbian historical archetypes 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)

Book Appreciation with Heather Rose Jones The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 132 with Heather Rose Jones In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors (or your host) will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting. Books mentioned The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher A Study in Honor by Claire O’Dell The Hounds of Justice by Claire O’Dell A Jewel-Bright Sea by Claire O’Dell Silver Moon by Catherine Lundoff A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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)

Interview with Heather Rose Jones The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 131 with Heather Rose Jones A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women. In this episode we talk about: What are the advantages to setting stories in an invented country like Alpennia? The roots of Heather’s love for language and history Themes and tropes in the Alpennia books Why weren’t the books written as romances? Complex intersections of gender and sexuality in the books Queer coming of age in the 19th century What books inspired the Alpennia series? Why a laundry maid as a protagonist? Writing precarious lives. Touch-points for writing historic disasters and sowing seeds of revolution Why write a stand-alone book in the middle of a series? Why write in first versus third person? Finding the people of color in Alpennia Planting story-seeds to harvest in later books What’s next for the Alpennia series? Giving characters failure modes What else does Heather want to write? Books mentionedFloodtide by Heather Rose Jones Alpennia series by Heather Rose Jones A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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)

On the Shelf for November 2019 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 130 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing. In this episode we talk about: Fiction series: “The Mermaid” by Kathleen Jowitt Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details. Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogCadden, Joan. 1993. Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-48378-6 Rich, Adrienne. 1980. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” in Signs 5: 631-60. Lochrie, Karma, Peggy McCracken and James A. Schultz. 1997. Constructing Medieval Sexuality. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. ISBN 0-8166-2829-7 Dinshaw, Carolyn. 1999. Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Announcing this month’s author guest: Heather Rose Jones New and forthcoming fictionThe Hidden Room by C.S. Joseph & Kathleen Greyson Wanted by Lyzzy Burns Heart of Sherwood by Edale Lane Her Particular Friend by J.L. Merrow Trafalgar & Boone Against the Forty Elephants by Geonn Cannon A Transcontinental Affair by Jodi Daynard Floodtide 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)

The Goblin Market (Reprise) The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 129 with Heather Rose Jones This is an analysis and recitation of the poem “The Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti, with special attention to its homoerotic themes. 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)

Poetry about Love Between Women from the 16th and 17th Centuries (Reprise) The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 128 This episode takes a poetic tour through expressions of, and reactions to, love between women in 16th and 17th century Europe. In this episode we talk about: Poems about the pangs of love“To Mrs M Awbrye” by Katherine Philips “A Song” by Aphra Behn, see also the podcast on Behn “Love and Friendship: A Pastoral” by Elizabeth Singer Rowe “On the Death of my Dear Friend and Play-fellow” by Jane Barker Men jealous of women’s love for each other“Elegy for a Lady Enamoured of Another Lady” by Pontus de Tyard “On the Friendship Betwixt Two Ladies” by Edmund Waller “Two Beauties, Tender Lovers” by Denis Sanguin de Saint-Pavin Men appropriating lesbian imagery“Sappho to Philaenis” by John Donne “To Mr. J.D. (T.W.)” by Thomas Woodward Poems of satire and vituperation“Epigram on Cecilia Bulstrode” by Ben Johnson “Tribades or Lesbia” by François de Maynard “Women’s Complaint to Venus” and “Venus’s Reply” by anonymous The triumph of loveMaitland Quarto MS Poem 49 “My Divine Lysi” by Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz “On a Lady Named Beloved” by Anne de Rohan-Chabot 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)

Medieval Love Poetry (Reprise) The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 127 with Heather Rose Jones This episode looks at examples of courtly love--both in poetry and in prose--expressed between two women, or by two female characters. In this episode we talk about: The context and conventions of the “courtly love” genre The problems of relating the sentiments expressed in courtly love literature to everyday lives and experiences Scholarly blind spots when interpreting same-sex expressions of courtly love Love, desire, and friendship between women in the 13th century French story L’Escoufle The 13th century troubariz (female troubador) Bieiris de Romans and the love poem she wrote to a woman named Maria A passionate poem of love and longing written by one anonymous 12th century German woman to another Books mentioned The full text of Na Maria by Bieris de Romans can be found in: Bogin, Meg. 1976. The Women Troubadours. Paddington Press, Ltd., New York. ISBN 0-8467-0113-8 The full text of the Tegernsee MS poem can be found in: 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. This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: L’Escoufle Na Maria (Bieiris de Romans) Tegernsee ms 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 October 2019 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 126 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing. In this episode we talk about: My recording vacation this month and why you’re getting three reprises of poetry shows Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogAmtower, Laurel and Dorothea Kehler, eds. 2003. The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England: Her Life and Representation. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe. ISBN 0-06698-306-6 Laqueur, Thomas. 1990. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-674-54349-1 Rich, Adrienne. 1980. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,” Signs vol 5, no. 4, pp. 631-60 at 650. New and forthcoming fictionCurious Toys by Elizabeth Hand House of Bliss by T. T. Thomas Flying Aces: A 1920s Drama by Shiralyn Lee Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details. 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)

How to Be a Feminist in History The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 125 with Heather Rose Jones So you want your historic character to be a feminist. What does that mean? How early can we find women expressing opinions about gender equality and what did they think it looked like? What would your historic feminist’s blind spots be? What arguments and evidence would she bring to the table? In this episode we talk about: Christine de PisanExcerpts from: Christine de Pizan (trans by Earl Jeffrey Richards). 1982. The Book of the City of Ladies. Persea Books, New York. Moderata Fonte (Modesta di Pozzo)Excerpts from: Fonte, Moderata (trans by Virginia Cox). 2018. The Merits of Women (Wherein is Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men). The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Marie de GournayExcerpt from: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Olympe de GougesExcerpts from: Olympe de Gouges: English Translations of the Original French Texts Mary WollstonecraftExcerpts from: A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Project Gutenberg) 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)

Book Appreciation with Olivia Waite The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 124 with Heather Rose Jones In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured author will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting. In this episode we talk about: Books mentionedThe Ladies’ Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite Proper English by KJ Charles Spring Flowering by Farah Mendlesohn A Thin Bright Line by Lucy Jane Bledsoe A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 Olivia Waite Online Website: oliviawaite.com Twitter: @O_Waite Instagram: o_wow_waite

Interview with Olivia Waite The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 123 with Heather Rose Jones A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women. In this episode we talk about: What attracted her to writing historical stories How the Ladies’ Guide started as a straight romance and the contrast in social dynamics Exerience versus imagination in writing romance Bi representation in romance Figuring out how your characters understand their sexuality What it’s like to publish f/f romance with a mainstream publisher The experience of being a bisexual woman reading lesfic Classical erotic literature and the range of sexual experiences Trying to get into the heads (or other organs) of people in history The next two books in the “Feminine Pursuits” series Books mentionedThe Ladies’ Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite Rule Breaker by Cathy Pegau An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole (m/f historical romance) A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 Olivia Waite Online Website: oliviawaite.com Twitter: @O_Waite Instagram: o_wow_waite

On the Shelf for September 2019 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 122 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing. In this episode we talk about: My trip to Ireland and Worldcon Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogArticles from The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England: Her Life and Representation Classics in the field of the history of gender and sexuality (specific titles TBD) Announcing this month’s author guest, Olivia Waite New and forthcoming fictionUnder the Microscope by Kim Finney (Cygneture Books) Worlds Apart by Stein Willard Beggar’s Flip by Benny Lawrence (Bedazzled Ink) Les révolutions d'Olympe by Le Jardin de Sappho Outlaw: A Lesbian Retelling of Robyn Hood by Niamh Murphy Prairie Hearts by JB Marsden (Sapphire Books) Bloomsbury’s Late Rose: A Novel by Pen Pearson (Chickadee Prince Books) Stage Dreams by Melanie Gilman (Graphic Universe) Somewhere Along the Way by Kathleen Knowles (Bold Strokes Books) Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis (Knopf) Sappho’s Soapbox: Mainstream historic fantasy featuring queer women“Why are There So Many Books about Time-Traveling Lesbians?” by Amal El-Mohtar Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details. 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)

The Black Handkerchief by Gwen C. Katz The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 121 with Heather Rose Jones The third story in our 2019 fiction series. 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 Gwen C. Katz Online Website: gwenckatz.com Twitter: @gwenckatz Links to Lara Zielinsky Online Twitter: @lczielinsky Facebook: AuthorLaraZielinsky

Postcards from Worldcon The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 120 with Heather Rose Jones A collection of micro-interviews recorded live at Worldcon in Dublin, Ireland. Recommendations and shout-outs from: Adri JoyNerds of a Feather Flock Together (website) The Ascent to Godhood by JY Yang Freya MarskeBe the Serpent (podcast) The Covert Captain by Jeannelle M. Ferreira Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Everina MaxwellWinter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell (forthcoming in 2021) Liz BourkeThis is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (forthcoming in 2020) Jennifer MaceJulie d’Aubigny (Wikipedia entry) Julie d’Aubigny (link page) Sara UckelmanShort Reviews of Short SFF (website) KatriAlpennia series by Heather Rose Jones Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield @fromankyraThis is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Floodtide 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)

Bosom Sex The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 119 with Heather Rose Jones The lives and loves of two African-American women in the post Civil War era, as discovered in their correspondence. In this episode we talk about: Who were Addie Brown ad Rebecca Primus? What did their families and communities think about their relationship? The ways in which individual histories can surprise us. This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Addie Brown & Rebecca Primus 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)

Interview with Penny Mickelbury The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 118 with Heather Rose Jones A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women. In this episode we talk about: The difference between writing contemporary mysteries and historic romance Getting inside the heads of an interracial couple in the 19th century Hints of a coming sequel The joy of being able to write the books that thrill you Books mentionedTwo Wings to Fly Away - a historical mystery of the 1850s with a f/f romance Belle City - a family saga set across the 20th century with an interracial couple (m/f) The Mimi and Gianna series (4 books) - contemporary mystery/thriller with a f/f romance The Carole Ann Gibson series (4 books) - contemporary mystery/thriller Gods Will and Other Lies - a story collection about women of a certain age A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 Penny Mickelbury Online Website: https://www.pennymickelbury.com Email: [email protected] Twitter: @PennyMickelbury Facebook: Penny Mickelbury

On the Shelf for August 2019 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 117 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing. In this episode we talk about: Your podcast host at Worldcon in Ireland Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogStaples, Kate Kelsey. 2011. Daughters of London: Inheriting Opportunity in the Late Middle Ages. Brill, Leiden. ISBN 978-9004203112 Amtower, Laurel and Dorothea Kehler (eds). 2003. The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England: Her Life and Representation. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe. ISBN 0-06698-306-6 Clark, Anna (ed). 2011. The History of Sexuality in Europe: A Sourcebook and Reader. New York: Routledge. Announcing this month’s author guest, Penny Mickelbury Announcing this month's fiction episode: "The Black Handkerchief" by Gwen C. Katz New and forthcoming fiction The Pages of Adeena by C. M. Castillo Jobyna's Blues by Jane Alden Paris for Two: Til Death Do We Part by Dolores Maggiore The Snow Queen by Amy Selvidge The Moss House by Clara Barley Valerie: or, the Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg (translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner) A Summer of Fever and Freedom by Chelsey Engel A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian The Ventriloquists by E.R. Ramzipoor Heroine of Her Own Life by Constance Emmett Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details. 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)

Swinging Singles and Lesbian Opportunities The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 116 with Heather Rose Jones A consideration of how the study of single women's lives is relevant to the writing of lesbian historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: Some of the myths about women's lives in the past How geography, class, and circumstance affected women's likelihood of remaining single Some specific strategies for keeping your fictional characters single without the need for special pleading Useful books on singlewomen studiesBennett, Judith M. & Amy M. Froide eds. 1999. Singlewomen in the European Past 1250-1800. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 0-8122-1668-7 Beattie, Cordelia. 2007. Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-928341-5 Froide, Amy. 2005. Never Married: Singlewomen in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Amtower, Laurel and Dorothea Kehler (eds). 2003. The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England: Her Life and Representation. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe. ISBN 0-06698-306-6 Staples, Kate Kelsey. 2011. Daughters of London: Inheriting Opportunity in the Late Middle Ages. Brill, Leiden. ISBN 978-9004203112 This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Singlewomen 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)

Book Appreciation with KJ Charles The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 115 with Heather Rose Jones In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors (or your host) will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting. Books mentionedSpring Flowering by Farah Mendlesohn Passing Strange by Ellen Klages Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan A Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite Alpennia Series by Heather Rose Jones A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 KJ Charles Online Website: kjcharleswroter.com Twitter: @kj_charles Facebook: KJ Charles Chat (group)

Interview with KJ Charles The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 114 with Heather Rose Jones A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women. In this episode we talk about: The delights of Edwardian genre fiction: country house murders and spies The attractions of writing romance protagonists with wealth and power Why KJ will never write about dukes How does “happily ever after” differ for f/f and m/m romances in history? The economics of women opting out of marriage Historical fiction as a way to avoid dealing with mobile phones in your plot Why KJ tackled an f/f romance The economics of reading and publishing f/f historicals Different flavors of f/f romance Trying to write political disaster fiction in the middle of a political disaster Books mentionedProper English by KJ Charles Think of England by KJ Charles (in same series but with m/m romance) Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan A Lady’s Desire by Lily Maxton A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian A Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite Spectred Isle by KJ Charles Last Couple in Hell (forthcoming) by KJ Charles (sequel to Spectred Isle) Any Old Diamonds by KJ Charles (m/m) A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 KJ Charles Online Website: kjcharleswriter.com Twitter: @kj_charles Facebook: KJ Charles Chat (group)

On the Shelf for July 2019 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 113 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing. In this episode we talk about: Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details. Call for submissions for Bi Bookish Babe's anthology of stories about lgbtq+ women in history. See here for details. Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogEhrenhalt, Lizzie and Tilly Laskey (eds). 2019. Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890-1918. Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul. ISBN 978-1-68134-129-3 Abbouchi, Mounawar. 2018. “Yde and Olive” in Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality, vol 8. Roos, Lena. 2017. “Cross-dressing among medieval Ashkenazi Jews: Confirming challenged group borders” in Nordisk judaistik / Scandinavian Jewish Studies vol 28 no. 2. 4-22 Blud, Victoria. 2017. The Unspeakable, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Literature 1000-1400. D.S. Brewer, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-84384-468-6 Morrison, Susan Signe. 2017. A Medieval Woman's Companion. Oxbow Books, Oxford. ISBN 978-1-78570-079-8 Lowerre, Sandra. 2004. “To Rise Beyond Their Sex: Female Cross-Dressing Saints in Caxton’s Vitas Patrum” in Thomas Honegger (ed). Riddles, Knights and Cross-dressing Saints: Essays on Medieval English Language and Literature. Peter Lang, Bern. ISBN 3-03910-392-X Book Shopping for the blogNikolas Choniatus Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography: Trans & Genderqueer Studies Terminology, Language, and Usage Guide [pre-print version] "How far did medieval society recognize lesbianism in this period?" by Catherine Tideswell This month’s author guest is K.J. Charles This month’s essay topic is: Singlewomen and what they suggest about lesbian possibilities New and forthcoming fictionAmazons: The Sanctuary of Themiscyra by Leïla Hedyth 20 Hours to Charles Town: Madame Elvira's Magnificent Excursions by Charlotte Henley Babb Between Boat and Shore by Rhiannon Grant (Manifold Press) The Women of Dauphine by Deb Jannerson (NineStar Press) The Tattooed Witch by Jules Landry In My Heart by Bette Hawkins (Bella Books) Delayed Rays of a Star: A Novel by Amanda Lee Koe (Nan A. Talese) Secrets Well Kept by Lynn Ames (Phoenix Rising Press) The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall by Sebastian Nothwell The Vampire's Relic: A Gothic Paranormal Romance (Read by Candlelight Book 5) by Gillian St. Kevern 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)

By Her Pen She Conquers by Catherine Lundoff The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 112 with Heather Rose Jones The second story in our 2019 fiction series: "By Her Pen" by previous LHMP author Catherine Lundoff. Catherine is an award-winning writer, editor, and publisher from Minneapolis. She is the author of the queer werewolf novel Silver Moon and the collection Out of This World: Queer Speculative Fiction Stories and is the editor of the fantastical pirate anthology Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space), as well as having a number of published short stories in many genres. She is also the publisher of Queen of Swords Press, a genre fiction publisher specializing in fiction from out of this world. 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 Catherine Lundoff Online Website: Catherine Lundoff Website: Queen of Swords Press Twitter: @clundoff Twitter: @qospress Facebook: Catherine Lundoff

Emily Dickinson Goes to the Movies The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 111 with Heather Rose Jones Was famous American poet Emily Dickinson a lesbian? The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast looks at her life through the lens of the movie camera, and especially the current film Wild Nights with Emily. In this episode we talk about: Different understandings of Dickinson's life The process of mythologizing and de-mythologizing The usefulness of different angles on a historic figure What we loved in Dickinson movies...and what we didn't like quite so much Movies about Emily DickinsonWild Nights with Emily A Quiet Passion The Belle of Amherst Other shows mentionedGentleman Jack Drunk HIstory The Little Hours (Molly Shannon co-stars) Books mentionedSurpassing the Love of Men by Lillian Faderman The Complete Poems of Emily DIckinson edited by LThomas H. Johnson Poems mentioned"Wild nights -- Wild nights!" by Emily Dickinson "Because I could not stop for death" by Emily Dickinson "After great pain, a formal feeling comes" by Emily Dickinson "I died for beauty" by Emily Dickinson This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Emily Dickinson A partial 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 Trystan L. Bass and Frock Flicks Online Website: Frock Flicks Email Frock Flicks Twitter: @FrockFlicks Facebook: Frock Flicks

Book Appreciation with Anna Clutterbuck-Cook (part 2) The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 110 with Heather Rose Jones In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors (or your host) will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting. This time we had so much to talk about we split it into two episodes. In this episode we talk about: What is Anna looking for in f/f historical romances? Rich backstories and complex social networks The default assumption that women’s lives can only exist in relation to men, and how this affects even f/f fiction What were the shapes of women’s lives in history and how could f/f stories fit into those spaces The ways in which many popular m/f and m/m historical fiction tropes don’t fit f/f lives and relationships Constructing a “ladder of intimacy” for female characters that feels true to women’s lives How do historic definitions of “sex” affect how we imagine f/f sexuality in historical fiction? Why is actual sex so often absent in f/f fan fiction? Embedding sex scenes in the particularity of the characters’ lives and experience The conflicting tensions in reader reactions around sex scenes--is it “romance novels without sex” or “non-romance novels with romantic elements”? Embedding queer historic characters in a community of marginalized identities K.J. Charles and Cat Sebastian as authors creating series of connected novels that build queer community over time The misperception that queer “happily ever after” is unhistorical Writing characters as part of an existing queer historical continuum--the example of Charlotte Cushman Looking for stories with feminism and intersectional identities: non-white characters, disabled characters, non-privileged characters * Promoting diversity as readers and identifying our own biases Are women inherently uninteresting? The problem of “himpathy”. Books mentionedAll the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister ”A Sweet Yuletide” by E.E. Ottoman Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez Beauty and the Clockwork Beast by Nancy Campbell Allen (m/f) Kiss of the Spindle by Nancy Campbell Allen (m/f) The Soldier’s Scoundrel by Cat Sebastian (m/m but has secondary f/f couple) RWA racism and homophobia letters controversy (blog by Ivy Quinn) LHMPodcast on Charlotte Cushman Sins of the Cities series by K.J. Charles (m/m) Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 Anna Clutterbuck-Cook Online Website: The Feminist Librarian Twitter: @feministlib Archive of Our Own: elizajane

Book Appreciation with Anna Clutterbuck-Cook (part 1) The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 109 with Heather Rose Jones In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors (or your host) will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting. This time we had so much to talk about we split it into two episodes. In this episode we talk about: How the pricing structure of lesbian romance can form a barrier to general readers entering the market Decoding how to find books that hit your sweet spot when entering a new reading community How the history of lesbian small presses shapes price and content expectations Some comparisons between f/f and m/m book communities How latent sexism in the romance market affects the acceptance of f/f stories Popular m/m and m/f romance authors putting a toe in the waters of f/f romance--what does it mean for f/f-only authors? How do we overcome barriers to cross-promotion between siloed reading communities, when recommendation networks don’t overlap Lesbian publishing as a “walled garden”--the ups and downs of curated spaces Dealing with cross-gender motifs in historical fiction Complications of gender and sexuality in historic societies How to identify with characters without owning them--resource scarcity and contested spaces Three models for communicating queer content in books: the donut shop, the whisper network, and the detailed menu Fan fiction and learning acceptance of multiple readings of a text Gender dynamics in fan fiction and the distribution of f/f stories Envisioning independent women in history--how the sexism of popular media lies to us about the lives of historic women Fan fiction generations pre- and post-Xena Books and Resources Mentioned”That Could Be Enough” by Alyssa Cole f/f fiction by K.J. Charles f/f fiction by Jordan Hawke The Ripped Bodice (bookstore) Smart Bitches Trashy Books (website and podcast) ”Black Widow, Scarce Resources And High-Stakes Stories” by Linda Holmes (NPR essay) ”The Mazarinette and the Musketeer by Heather Rose Jones Anna’s f/f fan fiction for Downton Abbey and Upstairs Downstairs Archiev of Our Own A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 Anna Clutterbuck-Cook Online Website: The Feminist Librarian Twitter: @feministlib Archive of Our Own: elizajane

On the Shelf for June 2019 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 108 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing. In this episode we talk about: My recent conferences Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogFrankfurter, David. 2001. “The Perils of Love: Magic and Countermagic in Coptic Egypt” in Journal of the History of Sexuality vol.10 no. 3/4 480-500. Horváth, Aleksandra Djaji?. 2011. ‘Of Female Chastity and Male Arms: The Balkan ‘Man-Woman’ in the Age of the World Picture” in Journal of the History of Sexuality vol. 20 no. 2 358-381. Sienna, Noam (ed). 2019. A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969. Print-O-Craft, Philadelphia. ISBN 978-0-9905155-6-2 Loughlin, Marie H. 2014. Same-Sex Desire in Early Modern England, 1550-1735: An Anthology of Literary Texts and Contexts. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-8208-5 Ehrenhalt, Lizzie and Tilly Laskey (eds). 2019. Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890-1918. Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul. ISBN 978-1-68134-129-3 Abbouchi, Mounawar. 2018. “Yde and Olive” in Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality, vol 8. Perret, Michele. 1985. “Travesties et Transsexuelles: Yde, Silence, Grisandole, Blanchandine” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 25:3 pp.328-340 Book Shopping for the blogIllicit Sex: Identity Politics in Early Modern Culture edited by Thomas Dipiero and Pat Gil The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England: Her Life and Representation edited by Laurel Amtower and Dorothea Kehler The Unspeakable, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Literature 1000-1400 by Victoria Blud This month’s guest is Anna Clutterbuck-Cook This month’s essay topic is: Emily Dickenson in movies New and forthcoming fictionClio Rising by Paula Martinac (Bywater Books) The Rhythm of the Tide: A lesbian novel by Lia Curling (self-published) An Impossible Distance to Fall by Miriam McNamara (Sky Pony Press) A Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics: Feminine Pursuits by Olivia Waite (Avon Impulse) Louisa (Trumbull Family Saga Book 8) by Jenn LeBlanc (Illustrated Romance) 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)

The True History of Catharina Vizzani The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 107 with Heather Rose Jones This is the exciting and somewhat surprising story of an 18th century Italian woman who received a surprising level of acceptance for her sexual orientation, both from her parents and from an employer. In this episode we talk about: The outline of Catherine Vizzani’s life Readings from the English translation of her biography, in all their 18th century glory The full text of the 1755 English translations of Catherine Vizzani’s biography can be found here. This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: The True History and Adventures of Catharine Vizzani / Breve storia della vita di Catterina Vizzani (Giovanni Battista Bianchi) 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)

Historic Lesbians on the Screen: What We Love The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 106 with Heather Rose Jones The folks on the Lesbian Talk Show facebook group tell me about their favorite lesbian historical movies and miniseries Movies Mentioned The Favourite (2018) Gentleman Jack (2019) Wild Nights with Emily (2018) Tipping the Velvet (2002) Fingersmith (2005) The Handmaiden (2016) The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010) If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) Vita and Virginia (2018) Orlando (1992) The Hours (2002) Packed in a Trunk (2015) Carol (2015) Reaching for the Moon (2013) Albert Nobbs (2012) Aimee & Jaguar (1999) Interview by Elizabeth Andersen with Madeleine Olnek about Wild Nights with Emily on The Tenth Voice  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)

Interview with Molly Tanzer The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 105 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: Finding inspiration in 18-19th century literature Queer themes in historic literature and how they are erased Exploring the decadent movement and gender-flipping The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The complexities of signaling queer content in mainstream books--are queer relationships spoilers? Cultural intersections in Vermillion and why there aren’t any sequels at this point Shifts in the social landscape in how authors approach gender, sexuality, and cultural background Molly’s attraction to 18th century settings, being inspired by historic aesthetics and artistic movements Conversations that manifest in artistic output The roots of the modern novel in women’s literature of the 18th century Trying to write in the current political climate Molly’s Books Creatures of Will and Temper Creatures of Want and Ruin Creatures of Charm and Hunger (forthcoming in Spring 2020) Vermillion Rumbullion (novella) - 18th c “Rashomon with fops” (male protagonist) The Pleasure Merchant - 18th c (male protagonist) Other books mentioned The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde A Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson Clarissa: or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 Molly Tanzer Online twitter: https://twitter.com/molly_the_tanz fb: https://www.facebook.com/mollytanzer instagram: https://www.instagram.com/molly_tanzer/ website: http://mollytanzer.com

On the Shelf for May 2019 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 104 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing. In this episode we talk about: Presenting research from the LHMP at the Kalamazoo Medieval Congress The LHMP has a Patreon! Get ready to think about the 2020 fiction series Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogCommentary of Dinshaw’s Getting Medieval Accusations of male and female sodomy in the church Love magic in early Egypt Formal cross-gender roles in the Balkans Book Shopping for the blogEarly 20th century love letters Abbouci, Mounawar ed. and trans. 2018. Yde and Olive. In Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality, Subsidia series vol 8. Medieval Texts in Translation 5. Memoire pour Anne Grandjean, connu sous le nom de Jean-Baptiste Grandjean, Accusé & Appellant. Contre M. le Procureur Génêral. Accusateur & Intimé. 1765. Louis Cellot, Paris. This month’s author guest is Molly Tanzer (for real this time) This month’s essay topic is: TBD New and forthcoming fictionTwo Wings to Fly Away by Penny Mickelbury (Bywater Books) The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins (Harper Collins) Proper English by K.J. Charles (self-published) The Railroad of Threads Riva Zmajoki (self-published) The Lady and Her Secret Lover: a Lords of Time story by Jenn LeBlanc (Illustrated Romance) Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890–1918 edited by Lizzie Ehrenhalt & Tilly Laskey (Minnesota Historical Society Press) Ask Sappho: Anonymous asks “Why doesn’t the LHMP ever talk about trans lesbians in 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 Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Policing Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 103 with Heather Rose Jones A continuing look at the structure of categories for gender and sexuality in history, focusing on how specific individuals challenged category definitions. Previous podcast in this series: Unpacking Gender and Sexuality Categories. In this episode we talk about: Anne Grandjean Primary Souce: Memoire pour Anne Grandjean, Connu sous le Nom de Jean-Baptiste Granjean, Accusé & Appellant. 1765. Imprimerie de Louis Cellot, Paris. Available for free download from Google Books. LHMP Links: Anne Grandjean Jehanne and Laurence Podcast Primary Article: Benkov 2001 LHMP Links: Jehanne & Laurence Elen@ de Céspedes Primary Article: Burshatin 1996 LHMP Links: Elena/Eleno de Céspedes Catalina de Erauso Podcast Primary Article: Velasco 2000 LHMP Links: Catalina de Erauso Amy Poulter and Arabella Hunt Podcast Primary Article: Crawford & Mendelson 1995 LHMP Links: Amy Poulter & Arabella Hunt Greta von Mösskirch Podcast Primary Source: Chronicle of the Counts of Zimmern LHMP Links: Greta von Mösskirch Thomas(ine) Hall Primary Article: Brown 1995 LHMP Links: Thomas(ine) Hall Catharine Vizzani Podcast Primary Source: The True History and Adventures of Catharine Vizzani LHMP Links: Catharine Vizzani Other References Authorized gender-crossing in the Balkans - Horváth 2011 (will be posted 2019/05/13) Nederman & True 1996 - 12th century opinions on a “third sex” 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)

Interview with Zen Cho The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 102 with Heather Rose Jones An interview with fantasy author Zen Cho. NOTE: This month’s On the Shelf incorrectly announced this month’s guest as Molly Tanzer. The Molly Tanzer interview will appear at a future date. In this episode we talk about: The Malaysian influences in Zen’s fiction 19th century English literature and engaging with colonial legacies through fiction Her favorite historic eras that may see stories in the future The challenges of researching less-represented historic eras and regions Being inspired by the gaps and omissions in mainstream history The similar challenges of writing queer characters and writing non-Western characters Books mentionedThe True Queen by Zen Cho Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo by Zen Cho A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 Zen Cho Online Website: zencho.org Mailing Lists: Subscribe Twitter: @zenaldehyde Facebook: Zen Cho Instagram: Zen Cho