Heather Rose Jones

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Author of queer historic fantasy, amateur historian, I blog and podcast as The Lesbian Historic Motif Project, with resources and discussion about sapphic historical fiction.

For more info, see my website alpennia.com

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The last of the substantial articles in "Women Players in England" falls in one of the categories-of-interest for the Lesbian Historic Motif Project, not for its dramatic content, but for an interesting sidelight on women's cross-dressing. alpennia.com/blog/jokes-you

The Joke's On You | Alpenniaalpennia.com Did you know that books of jokes and amusing tales were a popular staple of early modern English literature? In addition to published collections, people put together their own, like the one discussed...

Huh, I could have sworn that I utterly failed on applying to Glasgow Worldcon programming, but evidently at some point I managed to complete the surveys sufficiently to get on a perfect panel. Sweet.

Ok, look, not all the articles in Women Players in England 1500-1660 are of equal interest to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project. Here are a handful of them. (Note: this is simply a link to the most recent posts on my blog feed. Disclaimer only applies today.) alpennia.com/blog

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When establishing the contexts in which women performed on stage, we need to be clear about what we mean by "perform" and "stage." alpennia.com/blog/depends...

Depends on What You Mean by Stage and Acting | Alpenniaalpennia.com This article points out that the position "women didn't act on the English stage until the Restoration" leans heavily on some very specific definitions of "act" and "stage." In particular, it erases n...

Just in case you were wondering if Women Players in England was ever going to have directly relevant content for the Lesbian Historic Motif Project... alpennia.com/blog/italian...

The Italian Sources for Shakespeare's F/F Comedy | Alpenniaalpennia.com So I picked up Women Players in England for the general background on the history of women in theater, but it does have one article directly touching on female homoeroticism on stage. And how Shakespe...

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#Booksky And we’re set up at #GCLS and will be here today and tomorrow! Come see us if you’re here! And if not, our books are on sale at Smashwords all weekend too! www.smashwords.com/dashboard

Reading a cozy historical mystery and I’m pretty sure I know whodunnit about a third of the way in, because there’s one potential suspect that our amateur detectives are—rather curiously—never including in their investigation notes.

Yet another early modern theater article. Running out of clever ways to introduce them. alpennia.com/blog/actress...

Actresses Influencing the Stage Even in Absence | Alpenniaalpennia.com A bit tangential to the reasons I'm blogging this collection -- although not as tangential as some of the later articles will be. Stay with me.

Hey, my favorite romance website starts off a rec list for closed-door queer romances with my Alpennia series! Way to make my day! smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2024/07/the-...

The Rec League: Closed Door Queer Romancessmartbitchestrashybooks.com This Rec League comes from Katie! Hi, I am requesting this for a coworker who was lamenting that there are no adult closed door queer romances, as everything closed door is either YA or adult but n…

As the collection expands to look at women on stage outside England, we have what may be my favorite article of the bunch. alpennia.com/blog/how-ita...

How Italian Commedia Actresses Changed 16th Century Theater | Alpenniaalpennia.com This may have been my favorite article in the whole collection. Not only were actresses hitting it big on stage in Italy in the 16th century, they took the show on the road and influenced the receptio...

Another fascinating article about women in early modern dramatic professions. alpennia.com/blog/mouteba...

Moutebanks and Snake-Oil Sellers as Dramatic Artists | Alpenniaalpennia.com This is a fascinating article drawing connections between early modern "traveling medicine show" performers and more commedia traditions, as well as simply recognizing the mountebank tradition as a fo...

Where else can you get so much positive political action, enthusiasm, community, and entertainment packed into one box? (In 2 years I hope to have something worthwhile to donate to the next auction.)

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#Booksky Title comparison time! If you like Heather Rose Jones’s lovely Beauty and Beast retelling, THE LANGUAGE OF ROSES, you might like Catherine Lundoff’s collection of queer fantasy, OUT OF THIS WORLD and vice versa! Both on sale at Smashwords! www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

Not all the articles in the collection I'm currently blogging are as clearly "about women in theater" as one might expect. But Moll Cutpurse is always on-brand. alpennia.com/blog/mary-fr...

Mary Frith and the Underground Economy Around Theaters | Alpenniaalpennia.com Some of the articles in this collection are of insufficient relevance to my interests that I probably won't cross-post them on social media. This one comes close, although Moll Cutpurse is always on-b...

I'll be posting Lesbian Historic Motif Project blogs pretty much daily for a while, since I've finally gotten up steam on the "actresses and plays" trope topic. alpennia.com/blog/deep-di...

A Deep Dive into Local Theater Records | Alpenniaalpennia.com The source material project that this article draws from--Records of Early English Drama--is far more complete now than it was 20 years ago when this was written. It was being produced on a county-by-...

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Working on getting things set for #GlasgowWorldcon @glasgow2024.bsky.social! Our authors Heather Rose Jones @heatherrosejones.bsky.social, Alex Acks @katsudon.bsky.social, Jennie Goloboy @jenniegoloboy.bsky.social and #CatherineLundoff will all be there! Will we see you there? glasgow2024.org

Glasgow 2024, a Worldcon for Our Futuresglasgow2024.org Bringing the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) to the Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow, Scotland, on August 8-12, 2024

New "On the Shelf" episode of the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast, in which we list all the new releases from June that showed up too late to go into the June episode. (And there's quite a few of them.) alpennia.com/blog/lesbian...

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 290 - On the Shelf for July 2024 | Alpenniaalpennia.com Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 290 - On the Shelf for July 2024 - Transcript (Originally aired 2024-07-06 - listen here) Welcome to On the Shelf for July 2024. It’s the middle of summer and ...

The Lesbian Historic Motif Project blog is looking at the articles in the collection "Women Players in England: 1500-1660" as deep background research for talking about theater-related tropes in f/f historical fiction. alpennia.com/blog/women-t...

Women? In Theatre? | Alpenniaalpennia.com The collection kicks off with a detailed look at the wide variety of performance contexts in 16-17th century England and picks apart the notion that women were not performers.

I can’t believe people have left me the high bid on these fabulous socks* for over 24 hours with no challenge. I know the snipers will circle in at the last minute, so don’t give me in this false sense of security! *socks made to order, so not these exact socks www.32auctions.com/organization...

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Having sped through the collection "Women Players in England, 1500-1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage" in preparation for my LHMPodcast episode on "women and theater" I'm now ready to pump it out to the blog, one article per day for the next couple of weeks. alpennia.com/blog/myth-al...

The Myth of the All-Male Theater | Alpenniaalpennia.com Now that I've read and written up all the articles in this collection, I'm ready to roll them out in the blog, one per day. Not all of them are directly relevant even to my interests in the history of...

I suppose there are more productive ways I could use my "free" vacation day today than writing up articles on women in early modern theater for the Lesbian Historic Motif Project blog. But I'm not sure they'd make me feel this productive. I have a target date looming for the "actress trope" podcast.

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We're just a little over a month out from my little queer romantasy becoming a real book! We're recording the audiobook right now! I'm working on Book III! But most importantly, the elevator pitch:

Me: browsing Prime video randomly. Prime video: Here's something that looks like a fun costume drama. Me: Ok, "My Lady Jane" that could serve for some knitting time. Prime video: Ta-dah! Me: What the fuck am I watching?

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#Booksky We’re having a BIG book sale! Get deals on all our backlist titles on Smashwords for the Summer/Winter sale! #sale www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

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WE ARE OPEN! SEND US YOUR STORIES!!

It's almost July, friends, which means: PodCastle will soon be OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS! General subs call, so: fantasy stories <6k, originals or reprints. You can send one of each at a time, and submit as soon as you're rejected, so get sending! Full guidelines in an algorithm-friendly location below:

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#Booksky Okay, last push: the #PrideStoryBundle this year is full of great reads and it ends in 3.5 hours. We’ve raised a bit over $400 for Rainbow Railroad as of early this AM. Want to get 13 great reads and help us push over the top to $500 before this ends? storybundle.com/pride

So far my sole usefulness to @romancingthevote.bsky.social has been to jack up other people’s bids. I’d go sob in a corner except I’m actually on site at my day-job today. (Ok ok I did a couple of buy-it-nows.)

Ok ok I know that ego-surfing can be bad for you, but sometimes you spot that a book club will be discussing one of your books and it makes the day glow.

My bidding finger is all limbered up!

HERE.... WE.... GOOOOOOO! http://auction.roman...

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While this sounds extremely self-serving, I am going to honestly urge anyone who needs a hit of undiluted hope about the State of Things to follow @romancingthevote.bsky.social next week. There's a reason I'm doing this for the third time even though it basically eats a month of my life.