The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister – Vol.2
No Priest But Love
$21.85
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2020
Summary
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 a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349013336 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349013330 |
| Author: | Anne Lister, Helena Whitbread |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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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
Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing: Anne Lister’s diaries are an indispensable read for anyone interested in the history of gender, sexuality and the intimate lives of women[Anne Lister’s] sense of self, and self-awareness, is what makes her modern to us. She was a woman exercising conscious choice. She controlled her cash and her body. At a time when women had to marry, or be looked after by a male relative, and when all their property on marriage passed to their husband, Anne Lister not only dodged the traps of being female, she set up a liaison with another woman that enhanced her own wealth and left both of them free to live as they wished … The diaries gave me courageAbout The Author
Anne Lister
Anne Lister (1791-1840) lived an unconventional life compared with most women in Regency England. She was unmarried, a landowner, industrialist, traveller and scholar. She wrote extensive diaries, partly in an esoteric code. Helena Whitbread spent years transcribing the diaries and what she discovered was quite extraordinary: the diaries have been called ‘the Rosetta Stone of lesbian history’.
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