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