Female Fortune: The Anne Lister Diaries, 1833-36: Land, Gender and Authority: New Edition Liddington Jill
Female Fortune: The Anne Lister Diaries, 1833-36: Land, Gender and Authority: New Edition Liddington Jill 'A unique and thrilling insight into the brilliant mind of Anne Lister' Sally Wainwright,…
Specifikacia Female Fortune: The Anne Lister Diaries, 1833-36: Land, Gender and Authority: New Edition Liddington Jill
Female Fortune: The Anne Lister Diaries, 1833-36: Land, Gender and Authority: New Edition Liddington Jill
'A unique and thrilling insight into the brilliant mind of Anne Lister' Sally Wainwright, creator of Gentleman Jack Female Fortune is the book which inspired Sally Wainwright to write Gentleman Jack, now a major drama series for the BBC and HBO. She was an impressive scholar, fearless traveller and successful businesswoman, even developing her own coalmines. Lesbian landowner Anne Lister inherited Shibden Hall in 1826.
The diaries were included on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2011. Her extraordinary diaries, running to 4-5 million words, were partly written in her own secret code and recorded her love affairs with startling candour. Jill Liddington's classic edition of the diaries tells the story of how Anne Lister wooed and seduced neighbouring heiress Ann Walker, who moved in to live with Anne and her family in 1834.
Politically active, Anne