Queen Anne - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 85

Queen Anne The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 85 with Heather Rose Jones

The social and historic context of Queen Anne of England and the basis for the rumors of lesbianism associated with her court.

In this episode we talk about

• A brief historic timeline
• Passionate friendships and libertine sex in Restoration England
• Some dramatis personae:
  • Princess/Queen Anne
  • Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
  • Abigail Hill Masham
  • Delariviere Manley
• English politics during the reign of Queen Anne
• Anne and Sarah’s break-up
• Where the lesbian accusations came from
• Were they or weren’t they?

Links mentioned in the text:

• LHMP episode 25d: Poetry about Love Between Women from the 16th and 17th Centuries
• The Mazarinette and the Musketeer

LHMP publications used in this research

• Crawford, Julie. 2009. “Women’s Secretaries” in Queer Renaissance Historiography, Vin Nardizzi, Stephen Guy-Bray & Will Stockton, eds. Ashgate, Burlington VT. ISBN 978-0-7546-7608-9
• Andreadis, Harriette. 2001.  Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714.University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226020099
• Traub, Valerie. 2010. “’Friendship So Curst’: Amor Impossibilis, the Homoerotic Lament and the Nature of Lesbian Desire” in Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4
• Lanser, Susan S. 2014. The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-18773-0
• Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4

Other research sources

• Wikipedia: Anne, Queen of Great Britain
• Potts, Cherry - A blog series about the women in Queen Anne’s life.

This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:

• Queen Anne of England
• The New Atalantis (Mary Delarivier Manley)

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
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• 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)