Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister These remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. She kept extensive diaries, written partly in code, of her life and loves. Anne Lister defied the role…
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Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
These remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. She kept extensive diaries, written partly in code, of her life and loves. Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller - and lesbian.
'[Anne Lister's] sense of self, and self-awareness, is what makes her modern to us. The diaries have been edited by Helena Whitbread, who spent years decoding and transcribing them. She was a woman exercising conscious choice.
She controlled her cash and her body. At a time when women had to marry