Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister The Official Companion to the BBC Series

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Harp, Justin (7 January 2020). "National Television Awards 2020 shortlist is in – with Line of Duty, Peaky Blinders and Ant & Dec in the running". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 7 January 2020 . Retrieved 7 January 2020. I’m sure I’ll also soon buy the two Helena Whitbread volumes, exploring the diaries of Anne’s earlier years (and all her many girlfriends!), The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (previously: I Know My Own Heart), and The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, Volume II (previously: No Priest But Love).

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They have devoted decades of their life to researching Anne Lister, they understand and respect her as a human being. Ethics are a big thing currently in historical research and this biographer didn't use the best ethics in producing this book. Lister didn't make a lot of friends among her tenants. She used to pressure them into voting Tory and refused to rent land to people who didn’t share her political beliefs. Her notoriety only increased after she began her new domestic life with Walker. Lister took an active role in managing her significant other’s estate, which was located near Shibden Hall. Soon, a dispute broke out over a drinking well on Walker’s land. Although residents of the broader community depended on that well, Lister considered it family property. So to assert her control over the situation, she had a barrel of tar dumped into the water—making it unfit for consumption. In retaliation, effigies of both Lister and Walker were burned. (Ultimately, a magistrate ruled that the water belonged to the public, and that Lister’s actions were unjustified.) 8. Lister died while vacationing in the country of Georgia. One American woman has launched an Anne Lister festival in Halifax. It started as a weekend and has now ballooned into a fortnight-long event. The University of York has named a college after her, while Halifax has put up a statue. Overturning two centuries of erasure is no small achievement, but the other thing viewers liked, Wainwright thinks, “is that her story was so life-affirming, uplifting and clever. She didn’t die at the end – she got her big romantic reconciliation. That’s what gay women responded to. I mean, she will die eventually.” Wainwright still feels bad about killing off Kate in Last Tango in Halifax. “I got slated for that – apparently, all lesbians die in telly, which I just didn’t know.” BBC One released a teaser trailer for series one on 8 March 2019, [49] followed by the first official trailer on 18 March 2019. [50] [51] The first trailer from HBO was also released on 18 March 2019. [52] Broadcast [ edit ]Anyway, I did get quite a bit of what interested me, which I could sum up as Lister's drive for adventure. That was what it was all about, really--she couldn't bear the domesticity that was her lot as an 18th-century woman. She wanted the life of a man, and not any man--she wanted to be a Romantic hero, a true Don Juan. Which, of course, involved constant romantic intrigue, generally being a shit to women, spending far too much money (often not hers) and traveling far and wide. Her real drive was for experiences, and by damn she got them. While being educated at home, Lister developed an interest in classical literature. In a surviving letter to her aunt from 3 February 1803, a young Lister explains "My library is my greatest pleasure... The Grecian History had pleased me much." [9] Shibden Hall, in 2010, with the library tower added by Anne Lister on the left

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Although Lister’s diaries are mostly read today for their lesbian interest, they also give a fascinating account of day-to-day life in Yorkshire at that time. Ingham, Vivien (1968). "Anne Lister's Ascent of Vignemale" (PDF). Alpine Journal. 73 (316–317): 199 . Retrieved 22 January 2011. Trigg, W.B. (1943). Miss Wadsworth's Diary. West Yorkshire Archive Service: Halifax Antiquarian Society. p.123.She was an egomaniac, finding fault in all of her lovers for swathes of reasons, all of them demonstrating more about Anne's personality flaws and inflated pride than damning any of her rejected women. She found some too unintelligent, others weren't rich enough, others too far below her in social standing. She didn't like any woman who had slept with a man, preferring virgins who had not been 'spoiled.' She didn't like her lovers to be assertive, preferring them passive and docile both in the bedroom and in day to day life. There is a large car park (Mereside carpark) off the A58 providing access to the park, café and Hall. From here there is a short, uphill walk to the Hall. Remember to allow time to find parking and walk to the Hall (approx. 10 mins) so that you do not miss your time slot. Salem, Mitch (24 May 2022). "ShowBuzzDaily's Monday 5.23.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals Updated". Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022 . Retrieved 24 May 2022. Lister's diaries have been described as part of a "trilogy of early 19th century diaries" by local women, covering the same period from different perspectives, along with those of Caroline Walker from 1812 to 1830, and Elizabeth Wadsworth from 1817 to 1829. [47] In 2020, Ann Walker's own journal [48] was discovered. Although brief, covering June 1834 to February 1835, it covers a pivotal period that weaves through the corresponding narratives in Lister's diary. [49] Research [ edit ] Liddington, Jill (1993). "Anne Lister of Shibden Hall, Halifax (1791–1840): Her Diaries and the Historians". History Workshop Journal. 35 (1): 45–77. doi: 10.1093/hwj/35.1.45.

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Rupp, Leila J. (1999). A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America. The University of Chicago Press. p.10. ISBN 978-0-226-73156-8.Barker, D.M. (2018). "Ann Walker, Anne Lister and St Matthew's Church, Lightcliffe" (PDF). www.lightcliffechurchyard.org.uk. p.18 . Retrieved 24 April 2022. Worse, the biographer is making blatant value judgements along the way, without at any point engaging with the context in which her subject lived. In the last third of the book, she is openly derisive when describing Lister’s activities. Anne Lister was the second child and eldest daughter of Captain Jeremy Lister (1753–1836) who, as a young man in 1775, served with the British 10th Regiment of Foot in the Battles of Lexington and Concord in the American War of Independence. [1] In August 1788, he married Rebecca Battle (1770–1817) of Welton in East Riding, Yorkshire. Their first child, John, was born in 1789 but died the same year. Anne Lister was born in Halifax on 3 April 1791. In 1793, the family moved to an estate named Skelfler House at Market Weighton. Skelfler was where young Anne spent her earliest years. A second son, Samuel, who was close to Anne, was born in 1793. [2] The Listers had four sons and three [a] daughters, but only Anne and her younger sister, Marian (born 13 October 1798), survived past 20 years old. [1] Anne and Miss Walker's relationship begins to become intimate. Anne proposes a future with Miss Walker of them living together as a married couple. Miss Walker responds by saying they should wait six months before committing. The Rawson brothers try to outmanoeuvre Anne in the coal business by making a low offer. Mr. Booth proposes marriage to Eugénie to protect her honour. Feeling powerless, Marian threatens her sister by saying she will marry a man to bear a male heir and challenge the ownership of Shibden. When Anne realises that Sam Sowden, one of her tenants who is working with her on the coal mine, arrived to work drunk she dismisses him. Sowden's drunken threats force his son Thomas to take him home and tie him up. Later on, Thomas kills him and feeds him to the family pigs.

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a b c Crampton, Caroline (5 December 2013). "The lesbian Dead Sea Scrolls: Anne Lister's diaries". New Statesman. London . Retrieved 25 August 2014. Portrait at very top of Lister from Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation. Lister seems to have had quite a number of female lovers before settling down with Walker; she talked quite openly about her preferences with women who did not necessarily share them but were fascinated to understand. 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. I am resolved not to let my life pass without some private memorial that I may hereafter read, perhaps with a smile, when Time has frozen up the channel of those sentiments which flow so freely now. (19th February 1819)Jodhi May as Vere Hobart, later Lady Vere Cameron, Anne Lister's former travelling companion and unrequited love Metcalf, Mitch (1 June 2022). "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Monday 5.30.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED". Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on 1 June 2022 . Retrieved 2 June 2022. Nominations announced for the RTS Programme Awards 2020". Royal Television Society. 17 March 2020. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020 . Retrieved 5 June 2022. BBC Two announces brand new drama: The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister". BBC Press Office. BBC. 11 November 2009 . Retrieved 1 February 2010. Rosie Cavaliero as Elizabeth Cordingley, cook-housekeeper for the Listers and former lady's maid to Anne Lister



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