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Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister The Official Companion to the BBC Series

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Two of her lovers ended up in mental asylums - the first and the last - the first, Eliza Raine, Anne encouraged to have incarcerated for life so she would be unable to testify against her in court. Renegade Nell started life as a play years ago. Wainwright was writing something for her amateur dramatics group and wanted to set it around her local area in the Cotswolds. This strikes me as a rather eccentric hobby: spending your free time doing exactly what you do as your day job, except not getting paid. But maybe it makes Wainwright the ultimate artist, never thinking about the splash a show will make, whether it’ll be in a tiny village hall – or go global.

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a b c Crampton, Caroline (5 December 2013). "The lesbian Dead Sea Scrolls: Anne Lister's diaries". New Statesman. London . Retrieved 25 August 2014. Anyway, I did get quite a bit of what interested me, which I could sum up as Lister's drive for adventure. That was what it was all about, really--she couldn't bear the domesticity that was her lot as an 18th-century woman. She wanted the life of a man, and not any man--she wanted to be a Romantic hero, a true Don Juan. Which, of course, involved constant romantic intrigue, generally being a shit to women, spending far too much money (often not hers) and traveling far and wide. Her real drive was for experiences, and by damn she got them.She's fighting the tribe. She's protecting her assets. She's fighting for what she wants for their wills and the division of the estate. She's not just on fire, she's dangerous because there's so much going on with her that she is on the cusp of losing control almost at any point because she's so excited with her life."

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Metcalf, Mitch (21 May 2019). "Updated: ShowBuzzDaily's Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 5.20.2019". Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on 23 May 2019 . Retrieved 21 May 2019. Reverend Thomas Ainsworth travels to Halifax and sets his sights on Ann Walker. Hearing of Ainsworth's arrival, Miss Lister sets out to deal with him in her own way. While Anne Lister proposes marriage to Miss Walker, Mrs Priestley spreads vicious statements to Miss Parkhill about Anne Lister's character and her being a lesbian, which ultimately leads to Ann Walker's detriment. Thomas Sowden's mother comes to the realisation of Sam Sowden's mysterious disappearance. Ann Walker fights and struggles to reconcile her desire for Anne Lister with the mix of her family's expectations and her faith eventually leading to Ann vociferously shunning Anne. In an attempt to keep Lister away from Walker to stop her from taking Ann's money to sink her coal-pits, Christopher Rawson sends a thug to beat up and intimidate Anne. Green, Muriel, Miss Lister of Shibden Hall: Selected Letters (1800–1840). (The Book Guild Ltd, 1992) Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. Martha Vicinus, 2004, University of Chicago Press . See chapter: "'A Scheme of Romantic Friendship': Love and Same-Sex Marriage", pp.18-28. Anne Lister's wife, Ann Walker, seems to have been an extraordinarily brave woman to have gone against her friends and family and social opinion to move in with Anne Lister having 'married' her. Especially since she was of a naturally shyer disposition than AL.She inherited Shibden Hall, Halifax from her uncle and massively improved it, managing its farms with great efficiency. It was at Shibden that she met Ann Walker whom she would ‘marry’. The book recounts the affairs that she had up to meeting heiress Ann in 1832; her most passionate affair prior to this was to Mariana Belcombe who broke Anne’s heart when she married Charles Lawton. The relationship between Anne and Ann was a strange one in some ways as for the first two years of the relationship Ann would not commit to them being together and to AL’s frustration frequently prevaricated. Their relationship became sexual and this was described in the dairies. AL felt that Ann was far more sexually aware than she ever let on and certainly wasn’t an innocent. It emerged later that she had some form of affair with Reverend Ainsworth.

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