The wording was criticised for not mentioning Lister's sexuality, [65] and in 2019, it was replaced with a similar plaque with the wording "Anne Lister 1791–1840 of Shibden Hall, Halifax / Lesbian and Diarist; took sacrament here to seal her union with Ann Walker / Easter 1834". After it was known that the programme would be discontinued after the second series, The Guardian published reactions by many people who described how it had powerfully affected their lives for the good. This strikes me as a rather eccentric hobby: spending your free time doing exactly what you do as your day job, except not getting paid.

Gentleman Jack: A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner

At 100 pages in and reading this as an adjunct to the HBO series by the same name, I find this book a mixed bag.

Due to the historic nature of the architecture of Shibden Hall there is restricted access for wheelchair users to the Ground Floor only. A formidable woman who defied every convention of the society she lived in, Lister became an icon for individuality. a b "HBO/BBC Drama Series GENTLEMAN JACK, Created, Written and Directed by Sally Wainwright, Debuts April 22 on HBO" (Press release). Suranne Jones to star in Gentleman Jack, Sally Wainwright's new drama for BBC One and HBO" (Press release). A romance novel about a character inspired by Anne Lister to leave California and open a bed and breakfast, set in present day Halifax and Hebden Bridge.

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Some volumes have been reprinted, re-edited and republished over the years—sometimes under different titles, with and without updates, and under different covers. Lister's diaries reveal much about contemporary life in West Yorkshire, including her development of historic Shibden Hall, and her interests in medicine, mathematics, landscaping, mining, railways, and canals. First published in 1997 under the title Female Fortune: The Anne Lister Diaries and Other Writings 1833-36, it has seen a few revisions, including an excellent 2019 preface, with a new edition to be released in March 2022. This early 19th-century diarist and sometime colliery owner was known as the first modern lesbian: her notional wedding to Ann Walker in a York church was arguably Britain’s first gay marriage.Eliza was the illegitimate, half-Indian daughter of an East India Company surgeon in Madras, brought to Yorkshire after his death and set to inherit a substantial amount of money. First published in 2003, this book has been revised multiple times, most recently in 2019 (with a new expanded preface). An essential “other side” of Anne’s prolific and often charming writing is revealed to those who meant so very much to her. 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. These graphic portrayals of lesbian relationships were so frank that they were thought to be a hoax until their authenticity was confirmed.

Gentleman Jack: A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Lan…

While Anne Lister proposes marriage to Miss Walker, Mrs Priestley spreads vicious statements to Miss Parkhill about Anne Lister's character and her being a lesbian, which ultimately leads to Ann Walker's detriment. Few West Europeans had visited this area, let alone West European women, in part because of unrest amongst the local population against the Tsarist regime. In her will, Lister's estate was left to her paternal cousins, but Walker was given a life interest. The sinking of the coal pit runs into unexpected financial problems, putting ownership of Shibden Hall at risk.The majority of her diary deals with her daily life, and not merely her sexuality, [13] and provides detailed information on social, political, and economic events of the time. While restoring the estate she finds that the family land has a coal mine and that it is being stolen by two brothers. While Anne is enjoying herself in Copenhagen and socialising with the royal court, she is summoned home after receiving a letter that her Aunt Anne may die of gangrene. There is a plaque in Shibden Hall and anoth

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Anne and Eliza shared a bedroom at the boarding school, but Anne was asked to leave after two years.She blithely overlooked her own significant character flaws and blamed everyone else for her problems. This novel was published in 1872 and it was modeled after Anne Lister and Shibden Hall - this was confirmed by the author herself in a letter to John Lister , whom she knew well. Scenes in episode six were filmed at one of the historic mines in the Shibden Valley, near the Bare Head Tunnel. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.