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On the Shelf for July 2018 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 61 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.

In this episode we talk about:

• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • The Zimmern Chronicle
  • Brantôme’s Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies
  • “From Huw Arwystli to Siôn Eirian” by MIhangel Morgan, queer Welsh literature
  • Primary source material for the study of 17th century English women
  • Emma Donoghue looks at the intersection of the motifs of hermaphrodite and lesbian in 17-18th century England
  • Clorinda Donato considers John Cleland’s translation of the life of Catherine VIzzani as a satirical attack on Mary Wortley Montagu
  • Jacqueline Holler considers the trial confessions of a 16th c Mexican holy woman, heretic, and sexual outlaw
  • Susan Lanser discusses the political implications of women’s same-sex relationships in 17th century England
  • Tim Hitchcock looks at homosexual subcultures in 18th century England
• Announcing this month’s author guest, Justine Saracen
• New and forthcoming fiction
  • J B Marsden The Travels of Charlie (Sapphire Books)
  • Kelly Wacker Holding Their Place (Bold Strokes Books)
  • Rebecca Harwell Shadow of the Phoenix (Bold Strokes Books)
  • Natalie Debrabandere Thyra's Promise (self-published)
  • Claire O’Dell A Study in Honor (Harper Collins)
• Ask Sappho: Sheena asks, "Were there 'drag king' performances before the 20th century?"
  • Rowson 2003 Gender Irregularity as Entertainment: Institutionalized Transvestism at the Caliphal Court in Medieval Baghdad
  • Westphal-Wihl 1989 “The Ladies’ Tournament: Marriage, Sex, and Honor in Thirteenth-Century Germany”
  • Knighton 1995 Knighton’s Chronicle 1337-1396
  • Mary Frith aka Moll Cutpurse
  • Hannah Snell
  • Straub, Kristina. 1991. “The Guilty Pleasures of Female Theatrical Cross-Dressing and the Autobiography of Charlotte Charke”
  • Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 19d - Charlotte Cushman
  • Sears, Clare. 2015. Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco.

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: