{"product_id":"the-secret-diaries-of-miss-anne-lister-vol-1-anne-lister-9781844087198","title":"The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister: Vol. 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eANNE LISTER IS THE INSPIRATION FOR GENTLEMAN JACK, A NEW BBC\/HBO SERIES BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT, STARRING SURANNE JONES.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'[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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese diaries include the years 1816-1824. The second volume, NO PRIEST BUT LOVE, is available in ebook and paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anne Lister","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46843064942835,"sku":"9781844087198","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781844087198.jpg?v=1743102412","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-secret-diaries-of-miss-anne-lister-vol-1-anne-lister-9781844087198","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}