Research Catalog

Title

Gentleman Jack : a biography of Anne Lister, regency landowner, seducer & secret diarist / Angela Steidele ; translated by Katy Derbyshire.

Author

Steidele, Angela, 1968-

Publication

• London : Serpent's Tail, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

Derbyshire, Katy

Description

xi, 338 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

"Anne Lister was a wealthy Yorkshire heiress, a world traveller and a lesbian in an era when it was difficult simply to be female. She wrote her diary in code derived from Ancient Greek, including details of her liaisons with women. Liberated by her money, she remained unmarried, opened a colliery and chose to dress in men's clothes. Some locals referred to her as Gentleman Jack and sent her poison pen letters, but this did not dissuade her from living mostly as she pleased. On inheriting Shibden Hall, Anne chose to travel abroad, before returning to Halifax and courting Ann Walker, another wealthy heiress twelve years her junior. They renovated Shibden Hall together and considered themselves married, to the horror of Walker's relatives. On a trip to Georgia, Lister caught a fever and died. Walker was subsequently shut up in the same lunatic asylum as Eliza, one of Lister's earlier conquests. The biography combines excerpts of Lister's own diaries with Angela Steidele's erudite and lively commentary."--Provided by publisher.

Uniform Title

Anne Lister. English

Alternative Title

Anne Lister.

Subject

• Lister, Anne, 1791-1840
• Lesbians > England > Yorkshire > Biography
• Lesbians
• England > Yorkshire

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-322).

Language (note)

• Translated from the German.

ISBN

• 9781788160988
• 1788160983
• 9781788161008 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• on1065303744
• SCSB-9251548

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library