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Interview with Farah Mendlesohn The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 27 with Heather Rose Jones

A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.

In this episode we talk about:

• I chat with Farah Mendlesohn about her brand new lesbian Regency romance Spring Flowering.
• How did a literary theorist specializing in fantasy and science fiction come to write historic romance?
• Why was the 17th century a great time to set fiction about women loving women?
• How does historical fiction writer Geoffrey Trease come into things?
• How Spring Flowering came out of a challenge and a NaNoWriMo project.
• Books mentioned
  • Spring Flowering by Farah Mendlesohn
  • In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 by Jenny Uglow
  • Beulah Marie Dix (she wrote historical fiction in the early 20th century and was known to have relationships with women)
  • Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery (mentioned as “In the Georgian Household”)
  • A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain by Simon Goldhill

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 Farah Mendlesohn Online

• Website: Farah Mendlesohn
• Twitter: @effjayem