Poetry about Love between Women from the 18th Century - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 186

Poetry about Love between Women from the 18th Century The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 186 with Heather Rose Jones

A tour through various poems of the 18th century that touch of different aspects of love between women.

In this episode we talk about:

• Anne Finch “Friendship between Ephelia and Ardelia” (1713)
• Mary Chudleigh “To Lerinda” (1703)
• Elizabeth Thomas “To Clemena” (1722)
• John Hoadly “On the Friendship of Two Young Ladies” (1730)
• Anonymous “Cloe to Artimesa” (1720)
• Susanna Highmore Duncombe “To Aspasia” (1751)
• Pauline de Simiane “Madrigal” (1715, French)
• Pauline de Simiane “Letter to Madame la Marquise de S--, On Sending Her Tobacco” (1715, French)
• Mary Matilda Betham “A Valentine” (1797)
• Anna Seward “Elegy Written at the Sea-Side, and Addressed to Miss Honora Sneyd” ( c. 1780)
• Anna Seward “To Honora Sneyd” (1773)
• Faustina Bordoni (nominally) “An Epistle from Signora F—to a Lady” (1727)
• Anonymous “The Adulteress” (1773)
• William King “The Toast” (1732)
• Anonymous “The Sappho-an” (1735)
• Anonymous “Monsieur Thing’s Origin” (1722)
• Sarah Ponsonby “Song” (1789)
• Specific sources for the poems are given in the transcript. Books that have been particularly useful are:
  • 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
  • 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 (Not yet blogged for the LHMP
  • 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 (Not yet blogged for the LHMP)
  • Loughlin, Marie H. 2014. Same-Sex Desire in Early Modern England, 1550-1735: An Anthology of Literary Texts and Contexts. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-8208-5
  • McCormick, Ian (ed). 1997. Secret Sexualities: A Sourcebook of 17th and 18th Century Writing. Routledge, London. ISBN 0-415-13954-6 (Not yet blogged for the LHMP)

A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (Transcripts added when available.)

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