Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 312 – Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 17: The Governess - transcript
(Originally aired 2025/04/20 - listen here)
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Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 311 - On the Shelf for April 2025 - Transcript
(Originally aired 2025/04/06 - listen here)
Welcome to On the Shelf for April 2025.
The Project has very fuzzy boundaries, but I'll admit this falls outside them. Sometimes a publication is just too interesting to skip.
When I have a bunch of items written up in advance, I usually like to space them out to give the appearance of having a regular blog schedule. But the way life has gone lately, if I don't roll these out one after the other, I have half a chance of forgetting entirely that I've written them up. Life is just fighting with one bureaucracy after another these days. Still trying to get all my retirement ducks in a row. Only 35 days to go and some of those ducks are still running around quacking.
There's a whole genre of "a general history of lesbians/homosexuality in Britain" with approaches ranging from lighthearted (and often inaccurate) pop history to very serious academic studies and sourcebooks. (This genre may also exist for other countries -- I've collected a smaller set for the USA -- but I haven't run across them as often.) This one falls in the mid-range, probably intended as a textbook for a non-specialist social history course.
This is the last article from this collection and brings the topic up to the late 19th and early 20th century, as well as focusing on the working classes and others who aren't well documented in earlier ages.
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 310 – A Falling Star and a Flying Bird by Rhiannon Grant - transcript
(Originally aired 2025/03/29 - listen here)
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 309 – Lesbians and Sex Work - transcript
(Originally aired 2025/03/22 - listen here)
Introduction
I'm not quite sure why I keep forgetting that I have blogs all written up and ready to post. (This is why I plan to have a posted work schedule in retirement: so everything gets pushed along the path at regular intervals.)
Mademoiselle de Raucourt is on my short list for "historic lesbians who deserve a major media property about them.
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