In this episode we talk about:

• The factual story of Mary/Charles Hamilton
• Henry Fielding’s fictional version in The Female Husband
• The larger historic and literary context
• Sources mentioned
  • Baker, S. 1959. “Henry Fielding’s The Female Husband: Fact and Fiction” in PMLA, 74 pp.213-24.
  • Castle, T. 1983-4. “Eros and Liberty at the English Masquerade, 1710-90” in Eighteenth-Century Studies, XVII, 2: 156-76.
  • Derry, Caroline. 2020. Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-35299-8
  • Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4
  • Friedli, Lynne. 1987. “Passing Women: A Study of Gender Boundaries in the Eighteenth Century” in Rousseau, G. S. and Roy Porter (eds). Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 0-8078-1782-1
  • Fielding, Henry. 1746. The Female Husband: or, the Surprising History of Mrs Mary, Alias Mr George Hamilton. Liverpool, M. Cooper. (https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-female-husband-or-_fielding-henry_1746)
  • Lanser, Susan. 2001. “Sapphic Picaresque: Sexual Difference and the Challenges of Homoadventuring” in Textual Practice 15:2 (November 2001): 1-18.
  • Lyons, Clare A. 2007. “Mapping an Atlantic Sexual Culture: Homoeroticism in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia” in: Foster, Thomas A. (ed). Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 13-978-0-8147-2749-2
  • Manion, Jen. “The Queer History of Passing as a Man in Early Pennsylvania.” Pennsylvania Legacies, vol. 16, no. 1, 2016, pp. 6–11.
  • Manion, Jen. 2020. Female Husbands: A Trans History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-48380-3
• The full text of The Female Husband by Henry Fielding can be found at archive.org
• This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Charles/Mary Hamilton, The Female Husband (Henry Fielding)

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

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• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
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In this episode we talk about:

• Female pirates
• Anne Bonny and Mary Read in the General History of the Pyrates
• The motif of “lesbian Bonny & Read”
• Bonny and Read in lesbian historical fiction
• Sources mentioned
  • Wikipedia entry: Women in Piracy
  • Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger by Ulrike Klausmann, Marion Meinzerin, and Gabriel Kuhn
• This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
  • Anne Bonny
  • Mary Read
  • LHMP Entry #547 A General History of the Pyrates
• Works mentioned by Helen Rodriguez:
  • The History and Lives of Notorious Pirates (1735)
  • The Extraordinary Adventures and Daring Exploits of Captain Henry Morgan (1813)
  • The Naval History of the United States by Willis J. Abbott (1896)
  • The Buccaneers and their Reign of Terror by C.M. Stevens (1899)
  • The Homosexuality of Men and Women by Magnus Hirschfield (1920)
  • ”Anne Bonny & Mary Read: They Killed Pricks” by Susan Baker in The Furies: Lesbian/Feminist Monthly Vol. 1, issue 6 (August 1972)
  • Mistress of the Seas (novel) by John Carlova (1964)
  • Forgotten Women ed. By Nancy M[???] (couldn’t identify this book)
  • The Women Pirates (play) by Steve Gooch (
  • Mary Read, Buccaneer (novel) by Philip Rush (1945)
  • Beneath the Black Flag by David Cordingly
  • Kingston by Starlight (novel) by Christopher John Farley
  • Black Sails (tv series)
  • Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (video game)
  • The Pirates of Neverland (video game)
  • Our Flag Means Death (tv series)
  • Hellcats (podcast fiction)

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
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• 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
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Bluesky: @heatherrosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Links to Helen Rodriguez Online

• Email: Helenrodriguez1720@gmail.com
• Bluesky: @ladytyler.bsky.social