Anne Lister

Originally published as No Priest But Love. ANNE LISTER IS THE INSPIRATION FOR GENTLEMAN JACK, THE ACCLAIMED BBC/HBO SERIES BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT, STARRING SURANNE JONES. 'The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian history; they changed everything. By resurrecting them and editing them with such loving attention and intelligence, Helena Whitbread has earned the gratitude of a whole generation' EMMA DONOGHUE 'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing: Anne Lister's diaries are an indispensable read' SARAH WATERS When Helena Whitbread first published excerpts from Anne Lister's diary, which was written in a complicated, esoteric code, it was hailed as a lost piece of lesbian history. Whitbread has devoted years to researching and transcribing Lister's extensive journals; the 'crypthand' had allowed Lister to record her life in intimate, and at times, explicit, detail. It was the first time her story had been told. This second volume continues the story of one of the most remarkable women of her time: landowner, industrialist, traveller and lesbian. Anne Lister arrives in post-revolutionary Paris in 1824, attempting to recover from a doomed love affair with a married woman. There she becomes emotionally entangled with a young widow. Anne's efforts, firstly to extricate herself from this new 'scrape' and then to make a choice between the two women in her life, provides an absorbing sexual and social drama. We follow Anne Lister to Buxton, Derbyshire, where a husband appears in hot pursuit of his straying wife who has, in turn, followed Anne there; in Halifax, the Yorkshire town of Anne's birth; to London; and to post-revolutionary Paris, a city alive with political intrigue. Anne's descriptive powers bring each scene vividly to life, providing a brilliant, kaleidoscopic background to her story.

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

Jill Liddington

Anne Lister, heiress, scholar, traveler, and estate owner, is known to us through her diaries -- an unusually vivid record of an extraordinary life. She inherited Shibden Hall, Yorkshire, seduced a neighbouring heiress, consolidated their estates (effectively a dynastic lesbian marriage), and developed the coal deposits there, managing them with flair and energy. The extensive appraisal of Anne Lister's life and the themes drawn from the diaries make Female Fortune required reading for anyone engaged in current feminist analysis.

Land, Gender, and Authority : the Anne Lister Diaries and Other Writings, 1833-36

Female Fortune

Anne Choma

Sally Wainwright

'There are more ways than one of being happy... I am living proof of this.' Anne Lister was remarkable. Fearless, charismatic and determined to explore her lesbian sexuality, she forged her own path in a society that had no language to define her. She was a landowner, an industrialist and a prolific diarist, whose output has secured her legacy as one of the most fascinating figures of the 19th century. Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister follows Anne from her crumbling ancestral home in Yorkshire to the glittering courts of Denmark as she resolves to put past heartbreak behind her and find herself a wife. This book introduces the real Gentleman Jack, featuring unpublished journal extracts decrypted for the first time by series creator Sally Wainwright and writer Anne Choma.

The Life and Times of Anne Lister the Official Companion to the BBC Series

Gentleman Jack

Whitbread, the editor of these diaries, here allows us an inside look at the long-running love affair between Anne Lister and Marianna Lawton, an affair complicated by Anne's infatuation with Maria Barlow. Anne travels to Paris where she discovers a new love interest that conflicts with her developing social aspirations. For the first time, she begins to question the nature of her identity and the various roles female lovers may play in the life of a gentrywoman.

Excerpts from the Diaries of Anne Lister, 1824-1826

No Priest But Love

Helena Whitbread

The Diaries of Anne Lister

Selected Letters (1800-1840)

Miss Lister of Shibden Hall

Learn to write in Anne Lister's Code! Anne Lister is renowned for recording so much of her illustrious life in her famous diaries. Much of her writing was done in the code that she devised herself. Anne's diaries have huge historical and cultural importance as they give a window into the life of the "first modern lesbian"- how she lived, her hopes and aspirations and how she dealt with day to day life. This notebook includes Anne Lister's Code and some basic words to start you off. 150 pages of lined paper with space for the date at the top of each page to write your own diary Cream colour pages, as Anne's diaries were Vintage leather front cover design with plain back cover Softback cover in matte effect to complement the leather design Large, nearly A4 in size so plenty of room for all your writing Perfect gift for any Anne Lister fan, or treat yourself.

Anne Lister Code

Diary

los diarios de Anne Lister

Caballero Jack

The Anne Lister Diaries collection from the West Yorkshire Archive Service comprises 24 completed diaries and three further extracts written by Anne Lister between 1806 and 1840. Lister, a landowner from Halifax in Yorkshire, kept diaries throughout her life and in them recorded details of her daily life and routine, relationships, financial business and concerns, academic and literary interests, local industry and her work at her ancestral home, Shibden Hall. The diaries are remarkable for the detail with which they were compiled: a number of volumes include indexes of the people, books and pamphlets mentioned throughout.

Anne Lister diaries

Sex & Sexuality

Eliza Raine

Patricia Hughes

The Early Life of Miss Anne Lister and the Curious Tale of Miss Eliza Raine

"This tale of Georgian England, from real diaries and letters, shows how money, colour and social background create discord for two young women."--Back cover.

Does it really help women to think of sexual harassment primarily as a legal issue? High-profile sexual harassment suits, such as that of Paula Jones against President Clinton, are often life-changing events, with all parties coming away with careers, reputations, and lives profoundly affected. Women have long suffered on the job from sexual extortion, now called quid pro quo harassment, but today the controversy centers on "hostile environment" harassment. Every one has an opinion about it; managements spend more and more money training people not to do it; and still the suits strike like lightning-devastating and seemingly random. Women and men often feel polarized in the workplace by what they perceive to be general hostility couched in sexual terms. What to Do When You Don't Want to Call the Cops questions establishment assumptions that women are, by definition, passive victims who require government help. It sees instead a period of transition toward a more balanced population of women in the workplace, with accompanying disruptions that can be minimized by understanding. Joan Kennedy Taylor presents what we know about the workplace and interviews managers, labor experts, and workers in such male-dominated fields as construction, engineering, business, and medicine to shed light on the male group culture that exists without women. She illustrates expressive behaviors that may be objectionable but are not sexual harassment and proposes specific strategies by which these objectionable behaviors can be countered, including a new feminist approach in company training programs. Taylor examines traditional and nontraditional workplaces, and female on male as well as male on male harassment, in order to apply these strategies to the entire picture. Lively and anecdotal, Taylor's balanced, non-adversarial study fills an important gap by providing strategies for businesses and employees, as well as for those who find themselves the target of sexual harassment.

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