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The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

By: Heather Rose Jones
  • Summary

  • A show about queer women in history and historic literature, plus coverage of the field of sapphic historical fiction. Content note: May include discussions of sex within an academic context.
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  • Poetry about Love between Women from the 19th Century - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 285
    Apr 23 2024
    Poetry about Love between Women from the 19th Century The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 285 with Heather Rose Jones

    In this episode we talk about:

    • 19th century poetry
    • Connections and cross-references between women poets
    • Sources mentioned
      • In addition to being found in the following sources, the text of many of these poems have been taken from various online sources not mentioned.
      • 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
      • Domna C. Stanton. 1986. The Defiant Muse: French Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present. The Feminist Press, New York. ISBN 0-935312-52-8
      • Donoghue, Emma. 1997. Poems Between Women: Four centuries of love, romantic friendship, and desire. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-231-10925-3
      • Faderman, Lillian (ed). 1994. Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. New York: VIking. ISBN 0-670-84368-4
      • Faderman, Lillian. 1999.To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America – A History. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. ISBN 0-395-85010-X
      • Greene, Ellen (ed). 1996. Re-Reading Sappho: Recepton and Transmission. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 0-520-20602-9
      • Griffin, Farah Jasmine. 1999. Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. ISBN 0-679-45128-5
      • Johnson, Thomas R. (ed). 1961. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston. ISBN 0-316-18413-6
      • Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3

    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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    41 mins
  • On the Shelf for April 2024 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 284
    Apr 6 2024
    On the Shelf for April 2024 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 284 with Heather Rose Jones

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

    In this episode we talk about:

    • Book Shopping
      • Norman, Ben. 2023. Pomp and Piety: Everyday Life of the Aristocracy in Stuart England. Amberley Publishing. ISBN 978-1-3981-1017-5
      • Southon, Emma. 2023. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire. New York: Abrams Press. ISBN 978-1-4197-6018-1
      • Turton, Stephen. 2024. Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600-1930. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1-31651873-1
    • Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
      • Lighthouse Keeper by Eliza Lentzski
      • Eine Lady für die Diebin (Lovers and Liaisons) by Dani Collins (trans: Emma Schwarz)
      • A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland
      • Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis
    • Other Titles of Interest
      • Teach the Children to Pray by Rebecca Harwick
      • Grey Dog by Elliott Gish
      • The Final Curse of Ophelia Gray by Christine Calella
    • What I’ve been consuming
      • A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard
      • Starter Villain by John Scalzi

    A transcript of this podcast is available here.

    Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

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

    Links to Heather Online

    • Website: http://alpennia.com
    • Email: Heather Rose Jones
    • Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
    • Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
    • Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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    18 mins
  • Daughters of Derbyshire by Daniel Stride - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 283
    Apr 1 2024
    Daughters of Derbyshire by Daniel Stride The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 283 with Heather Rose Jones

    This quarter’s fiction episode presents “Daughers of Derbyshire” by Daniel Stride, 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 Daniel Stride Online

    • Website: A Phuulish Fellow
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    29 mins

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