Gentleman Jack : the biography of Anne Lister - regency landowner, seducer & secret diarist
Steidele, Angela, 1968-2019
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Total copies: 17
A substantial biography of the Regency era openly gay heiress who kept a diary detailing her liaisons with women, but written in a code derived from Ancient Greek. The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who inspired the television series Gentleman Jack Anne Lister's journals were so shocking that the first person to crack their secret code hid them behind a fake panel in his ancestral home. Anne Lister was a Regency landowner, an intrepid world traveller ... and an unabashed lover of other women. In this bold new biography, prizewinning author Angela Steidele uses the diaries to create a portrait of Anne Lister as we've never seen her before: a woman in some ways very much of her time and in others far ahead of it. Anne Lister recorded everything from the most intimate details of her numerous liaisons through to her plans to make her fortune by exploiting the coal seams under her family estate in Halifax and her reaction to the Peterloo massacre. She conducted a love life of labyrinthine complexity, all while searching for a girlfriend who could provide her with both financial security and true love. Anne Lister's rich and unconventional life is now the subject of the major BBC TV drama series Gentleman Jack.
Main title:
Gentleman Jack : the biography of Anne Lister - regency landowner, seducer & secret diarist / Angela Steidele ; translated by Katy Derbyshire.
Author:
Steidele, Angela, 1968-, authorDerbyshire, Katy, translator
Imprint:
London : Serpent's Tail, 2019.
Collation:
xi, 338 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the German.This translation originally published: 2018.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781788160995 (pbk)9781788161008 (ebook)
Dewey class:
942.81092B LIS
LC class:
HQ75.4.L57
Language:
EnglishGerman
Added title:
Subject:
Lister, Anne, 1791-1840Lesbians -- England -- Yorkshire -- BiographyBiographyGay/Lesbian InterestBiography & non-fiction proseBiography: historical, political & militaryHistoryBiography: generalUnited Kingdom, Great Britain19th century, c 1800 to c 1899LesbianEuropean historyTravel & holiday guidesGay & Lesbian studiesRelating to Gay & LesbianRelating to Transgender people
BRN:
332324