'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing: Anne Lister's
diaries are an indispensable read for anyone interested in the
history of gender, sexuality, and the intimate lives of women'
SARAH WATERS 'The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of
lesbian history; they changed everything. By resurrecting them and
editing them with such loving attention and intelligence, Helena
Whitbread has earned the gratitude of a whole generation' EMMA
DONOGHUE 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. '[Anne Lister's] sense of self, and
self-awareness, is what makes her modern to us. She was a woman
exercising conscious choice. She controlled her cash and her body.
At a time when women had to marry, or be looked after by a male
relative, and when all their property on marriage passed to their
husband, Anne Lister not only dodged the traps of being female, she
set up a liaison with another woman that enhanced her own wealth
and left both of them free to live as they wished . . . The diaries
gave me courage' JEANETTE WINTERSON These diaries include the years
1816-1824. The second volume, continuing Anne's story, THE SECRET
DIARIES OF MISS ANNE LISTER: NO PRIEST BUT LOVE, is now available.
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