The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol.2: The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, the Inspiration for Gentleman Jack

THE FIRST MODERN LESBIAN

'The details of Anne's love affairs and flirtations are there, free from suppression or euphemism' GUARDIAN

'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing' SARAH WATERS


'The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian history; they changed everything' EMMA DONOGHUE

Anne Lister (1791-1840) was one of the most remarkable women of her time. Fearless and uncompromising, she was determined to live life on her own terms, both financially and sexually. She wrote extensive diaries in 'crypthand', which allowed her to record her life in intimate, and sometimes explicit, detail. When they were decoded by Helena Whitbread, lesbian history was changed for ever. This is the second volume of her diaries.

No Priest But Love begins in 1824. After an ill-fated love affair with a married woman, Anne Lister embarks on a journey alone to post-revolutionary Paris, a city alive with political intrigue. Here, she becomes romantically involved with a young widow, a relationship at odds with her social ambitions. Anne's efforts, firstly to extricate herself from this new 'scrape' and then to make a choice between the two women in her life, provides an absorbing sexual and social drama.

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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol.2: The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, the Inspiration for Gentleman Jack

THE FIRST MODERN LESBIAN

'The details of Anne's love affairs and flirtations are there, free from suppression or euphemism' GUARDIAN

'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing' SARAH WATERS


'The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian history; they changed everything' EMMA DONOGHUE

Anne Lister (1791-1840) was one of the most remarkable women of her time. Fearless and uncompromising, she was determined to live life on her own terms, both financially and sexually. She wrote extensive diaries in 'crypthand', which allowed her to record her life in intimate, and sometimes explicit, detail. When they were decoded by Helena Whitbread, lesbian history was changed for ever. This is the second volume of her diaries.

No Priest But Love begins in 1824. After an ill-fated love affair with a married woman, Anne Lister embarks on a journey alone to post-revolutionary Paris, a city alive with political intrigue. Here, she becomes romantically involved with a young widow, a relationship at odds with her social ambitions. Anne's efforts, firstly to extricate herself from this new 'scrape' and then to make a choice between the two women in her life, provides an absorbing sexual and social drama.

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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol.2: The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, the Inspiration for Gentleman Jack

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol.2: The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, the Inspiration for Gentleman Jack

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol.2: The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, the Inspiration for Gentleman Jack

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol.2: The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, the Inspiration for Gentleman Jack

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THE FIRST MODERN LESBIAN

'The details of Anne's love affairs and flirtations are there, free from suppression or euphemism' GUARDIAN

'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing' SARAH WATERS


'The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian history; they changed everything' EMMA DONOGHUE

Anne Lister (1791-1840) was one of the most remarkable women of her time. Fearless and uncompromising, she was determined to live life on her own terms, both financially and sexually. She wrote extensive diaries in 'crypthand', which allowed her to record her life in intimate, and sometimes explicit, detail. When they were decoded by Helena Whitbread, lesbian history was changed for ever. This is the second volume of her diaries.

No Priest But Love begins in 1824. After an ill-fated love affair with a married woman, Anne Lister embarks on a journey alone to post-revolutionary Paris, a city alive with political intrigue. Here, she becomes romantically involved with a young widow, a relationship at odds with her social ambitions. Anne's efforts, firstly to extricate herself from this new 'scrape' and then to make a choice between the two women in her life, provides an absorbing sexual and social drama.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780349006895
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date: 02/24/2015
Series: Virago Modern Classics , #777
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 443,833
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Anne Lister (1791-1840) lived an unconventional life compared with most women in Regency England. She was unmarried, a landowner, industrialist, traveller and scholar. She wrote extensive diaries, partly in an esoteric code. Helena Whitbread spent years transcribing the diaries and what she discovered was quite extraordinary: the diaries have been called 'the Rosetta Stone of lesbian history'.
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