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

2020-09-18

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...

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