When Helena Whitbread first published excerpts from Anne Lister's diary, which was written in a complicated, esoteric code, it was hailed as a lost piece of lesbian history. 'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing: Anne Lister's diaries are an indispensable read' SARAH WATERS By resurrecting them and editing them with such loving attention and intelligence, Helena Whitbread has earned the gratitude of a whole generation' EMMA DONOGHUE
'The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian history they changed everything. Following from THE SECRET DIARIES OF ANNE LISTER (whose life has been dramatised in the BBC/HBO series GENTLEMAN JACK), this continues the story of one of the most remarkable women of her time - landowner, industrialist, traveller and lesbian.ĪNNE LISTER IS THE INSPIRATION FOR GENTLEMAN JACK, THE ACCLAIMED BBC/HBO SERIES BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT, STARRING SURANNE JONES.
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