Interview with Jeannelle M. Ferreira - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 53

2020-09-24

Interview with Jeannelle M. Ferreira The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 53 A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women. In this episode we talk about: The attractions of the Regency romance Jeannelle’s earlier works, especially a novel set in the Vilna ghetto during WWII Jewish influences in her writing Jeannelle’s background as a student of history Sexuality and PTSD in the Regency era The National Trust’s website on queer history in the UK Finding queer-coded characters in child...

Interview with Jeannelle M. Ferreira The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 53

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

In this episode we talk about:

The attractions of the Regency romance
Jeannelle’s earlier works, especially a novel set in the Vilna ghetto during WWII
Jewish influences in her writing
Jeannelle’s background as a student of history
Sexuality and PTSD in the Regency era
The National Trust’s website on queer history in the UK
Finding queer-coded characters in childhood favorite books
Researching war in Waterloo diaries of British soldiers
The path through British historical YA fiction that leads to a study of imperial and colonial history
Horses and swords--it always comes back to horses and swords
Future projects: more about Nora and Harriet, gender-bending Kit Marlowe, World War I flying aces, and lesbian pirates
Books mentioned
- The Covert Captain: Or, A Marriage of Equals by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
- A Verse from Babylon by Jeannelle M. Ferreira (out of print)
- Dramatis Personae by Jeannelle M. Ferreira (novelette, out of print)
- Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
- Spring Flowering by Farah Mendlesohn