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Title: Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Author: Anne Lister
ISBN: 9781844087198
Publisher: Little, Brown UK
Published: 2012
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 448
Publisher Description: <p><b>Discover the extraordinary diaries of the real Anne Lister: the inspiration for <i>Gentleman Jack</i> and Emma Donoghue's new novel <i>Learned By Heart</i></b> <p/><b>'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing' SARAH WATERS</b> <p/><b>'[Anne Lister's] sense of self, and self-awareness, is what makes her modern to us . . . The diaries gave me courage' JEANETTE WINTERSON</b> <p/><b>'The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian history' EMMA DONOGHUE</b> <p/>When this volume of Anne Lister's diaries was first published in 1988, it was hailed as a vital piece of lost lesbian history. The editor, Helena Whitbread, had spent years painstakingly researching and transcribing Lister's extensive journals, much of which were written in an elaborate code - what Lister called her 'crypthand', which allowed her to record her life in intimate, and at times, explicit, detail. Until then, Anne Lister's lesbianism had been supressed or hinted at; this was the first time her story had been told. Anne Lister defied the role of nineteenth century womanhood: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller and lesbian - a woman who lived her life on her own terms. <p/><b>These diaries include the years 1816-1824. The second volume, continuing Anne's story, <i>THE SECRET DIARIES OF MISS ANNE LISTER: NO PRIEST BUT LOVE</i>, is now available.</b></p>
Author: Anne Lister
ISBN: 9781844087198
Publisher: Little, Brown UK
Published: 2012
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 448
Publisher Description: <p><b>Discover the extraordinary diaries of the real Anne Lister: the inspiration for <i>Gentleman Jack</i> and Emma Donoghue's new novel <i>Learned By Heart</i></b> <p/><b>'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing' SARAH WATERS</b> <p/><b>'[Anne Lister's] sense of self, and self-awareness, is what makes her modern to us . . . The diaries gave me courage' JEANETTE WINTERSON</b> <p/><b>'The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian history' EMMA DONOGHUE</b> <p/>When this volume of Anne Lister's diaries was first published in 1988, it was hailed as a vital piece of lost lesbian history. The editor, Helena Whitbread, had spent years painstakingly researching and transcribing Lister's extensive journals, much of which were written in an elaborate code - what Lister called her 'crypthand', which allowed her to record her life in intimate, and at times, explicit, detail. Until then, Anne Lister's lesbianism had been supressed or hinted at; this was the first time her story had been told. Anne Lister defied the role of nineteenth century womanhood: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller and lesbian - a woman who lived her life on her own terms. <p/><b>These diaries include the years 1816-1824. The second volume, continuing Anne's story, <i>THE SECRET DIARIES OF MISS ANNE LISTER: NO PRIEST BUT LOVE</i>, is now available.</b></p>
