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Anne Lister

January 01, 1970

For the English natural history illustrator, see Anne Lister (illustrator).

Anne Lister (3 April 1791 – 22 September 1840) was an English diarist, famous for revelations for which she was dubbed "the first modern lesbian."

Anne Lister
Portrait (c. 1830)
Born(1791-04-03)3 April 1791
Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died22 September 1840(1840-09-22) (aged 49)
Kutaisi, Georgia-Imeretia Governorate, Russian Empire
Resting placeSt John the Baptist Church Halifax Minster
OccupationLandowner
Partner(s)Mariana Lawton
(1813–1834)
Ann Walker
(1834–1840; Lister's death)

Lister was from a minor landowning family at Shibden in Calderdale, West Riding of Yorkshire, and had several lesbian love affairs from her schooldays onwards, often on long trips abroad. Muscular and androgynous in appearance, dressed only in black, and highly educated, she was later known, generally unkindly, as "Gentleman Jack". Her final significant relationship was with Ann Walker, to whom she was notionally married in Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York, now celebrated as the birthplace of lesbian marriage in Britain.

Lister's diaries reveal much about contemporary life in West Yorkshire, including her development of historic Shibden Hall, and her interests in medicine, mathematics, landscaping, mining, railways, and canals. Many entries were written in code that was not decrypted until long after her death. These graphic portrayals of lesbian relationships were so frank that they were thought to be a hoax until their authenticity was confirmed.

Life edit

Early life and education edit

Anne Lister was the second child and eldest daughter of Captain Jeremy Lister (1753–1836) who, as a young man in 1775, served with the British 10th Regiment of Foot in the Battles of Lexington and Concord in the American War of Independence.[1] In August 1788, he married Rebecca Battle (1770–1817) of Welton in East Riding, Yorkshire. Their first child, John, was born in 1789 but died the same year. Anne Lister was born in Halifax on 3 April 1791. In 1793, the family moved to an estate named Skelfler House at Market Weighton. Skelfler was where young Anne spent her earliest years. A second son, Samuel, who was close to Anne, was born in 1793.[2] The Listers had four sons and three[a] daughters, but only Anne and her younger sister, Marian (born 13 October 1798), survived past 20 years old.[1]

At the age of seven, Lister was sent to a school run by a Mrs Hagues and a Mrs Chettle in Agnesgate, Ripon. Between 1801 and 1804, Lister was educated at home by the Reverend George Skelding, the vicar of Market Weighton. On her visits to her aunt Anne and uncle James at Shibden Hall, the Misses Mellin gave her lessons.

While being educated at home, Lister developed an interest in classical literature. In a surviving letter to her aunt from 3 February 1803, a young Lister explains "My library is my greatest pleasure... The Grecian History had pleased me much."[4]

Relationship with Eliza Raine edit

In 1805, Anne Lister was sent to the Manor House School in York (in the King's Manor buildings), where Anne met her first love, Eliza Raine (1791–1860).[5] Raine was the illegitimate, half-Indian daughter of an East India Company surgeon in Madras, brought to Yorkshire after his death and set to inherit a substantial amount of money.[6] Lister and Raine shared a bedroom at the boarding school, but Lister was asked to leave after two years. Raine expected to live with Lister as an adult, but Lister began affairs with other women including Isabella Norcliffe and Mariana Belcombe. In despair and frustration, Raine became a patient at Clifton House Asylum, run by Belcombe's father, William, in 1814.[7][8] Eliza Raine was later transferred to Terrace House in Osbaldwick and died there on 31 January 1860. She is buried in the Osbaldwick churchyard across the road.[9]

Shibden Hall edit

Lister inherited the Shibden estate on her uncle's death in 1826, but only controlled part of its income until both her father's and her aunt's deaths in 1836, when their shares of the income passed to her. Her wealth allowed her some measure of freedom to live as she pleased.

 
James Lister (from whom Anne Lister inherited the Shibden estate) by Joshua Horner (1812–1884)

In addition to income from the agricultural tenancy, Lister's financial portfolio included properties in town, shares in the canal and railway industries, mining, and stone quarries. Lister used the income from this varied portfolio to finance her two passions, the renovation of Shibden Hall, and European travel.[10]

Lister is described as having a "masculine appearance". One of her lovers, Mariana Lawton (née Belcombe), was initially ashamed to be seen in public with Lister because of the comments made on Lister's appearance.[11] She dressed entirely in black (as was normal for gentlemen at the time) and took part in many activities that were not perceived as the norm for women of the time, such as opening and owning a colliery.[12][13] She was referred to as "Gentleman Jack" in some quarters.[14] Lawton and Lister were lovers for about two decades, including a period during which Lawton was married and to which her husband became resigned.[11] In 1822, they visited the Ladies of Llangollen at Plas Newydd in Llangollen.[15]

 
Shibden Hall, in 2010, with the library tower added by Anne Lister on the left

Although Lister had met her on various occasions in the 1820s, Ann Walker, who by 1832 had become a wealthy heiress, took on a much more substantial role in Lister's life.[16] Eventually the women took communion together on Easter Sunday (30 March) 1834 in Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York, and thereafter considered themselves married, but without legal recognition. The church has been described as "an icon for what is interpreted as the site of the first lesbian marriage to be held in Britain", and the building now hosts a commemorative blue plaque.[17] The couple lived together at Shibden Hall until Lister's death in 1840.

Walker's fortune was used to improve Shibden Hall and the property's waterfall and lake.[18] Lister renovated Shibden Hall quite significantly to her own design.[13] In 1838, she added a Gothic tower to the main house, to serve as her private library. She also had a tunnel dug under the building which allowed the staff to move about without disturbing her.[18]

Throughout her life, Lister had a strong Anglican faith,[19] and also remained a Tory, "interested in defending the privileges of the land-owning aristocracy".[20]

Travel edit

 
Watercolour portrait of Lister, probably by a Mrs Turner of Halifax, 1822

Lister greatly enjoyed travel, although her biographer Angela Steidele suggests her trips in later life were also a way to "evade the self realisation that she had failed at everything she set her hand to".[21] She made her first trip to continental Europe in 1819, when she was 28 years old. She travelled with her 54-year-old aunt, also called Anne Lister, on a two-month trip to France.[22]

In 1824, Lister returned to Paris and stayed until the following year.[23] In 1826, she was returned to Paris with her Aunt Anne, where she resumed an affair from her earlier visit to the city with a widow named Maria Barlow. In 1827, she set out from Paris with both Barlow and her Aunt Anne on a tour of northern Italy and Switzerland, returning to Shibden Hall the following year. In 1828, she travelled extensively in Scotland with Sibella MacLean.

She left for the continent again in 1829. With Paris as her base, she visited Belgium and Germany before heading south to the Pyrenees. Here she did hiking as well as crossed the border into Spain. While in Spain she demonstrated both her strong adventurous streak and considerable physical fitness by ascending Monte Perdido 11,007 ft (3,355 m), the third highest peak in the Pyrenees.[24][25]

Returning to Shibden Hall in 1831, she found life with her father and sister Marian so uncomfortable that she almost immediately left again, visiting the Netherlands for a short trip with Mariana Lawton.[26] All in all, between 1826 and 1832, she only spent a short period of time at Shibden Hall, with travels around Britain and Europe allowing her to avoid her family at home.[27]

In 1834, she again visited France and Switzerland, this time for her honeymoon with Ann Walker. Returning with Walker in 1838, she again headed south to the Pyrenees and completed the first "official" ascent of the Vignemale (10,820 feet; 3,298 m), the highest peak in the French Pyrenees.[28][29] This required a ten-hour hike to reach the top and another seven hours to descend.[30] 

Her last and greatest trip began in 1839. Leaving Shibden Hall in June with Walker and two servants, they travelled in their own carriage through France, Denmark, Sweden and Russia, arriving in St Petersburg in September and in Moscow in October.[31] With a reluctant Walker in tow, she left Moscow in February 1840 in a new Russian carriage and very warm clothing.[32] They travelled south, along the frozen Volga river, to the Caucasus. Few West Europeans had visited this area, let alone West European women, in part because of unrest amongst the local population against the Tsarist regime.[33] At times they needed a military escort. The two women were a source of great curiosity to the people they visited. As Lister noted in her diary, "The people coming in to look at us as if we were some strange animals such as they had not seen the like before."[34]

Death edit

 
Halifax Minster, where Anne Lister is buried

Lister died on 22 September 1840, aged 49, of a fever at Koutais (now Kutaisi in Georgia) while travelling with Ann Walker.[35][36] Walker had Lister's body brought back to the UK, where she was buried in Halifax Minster, on 29 April 1841.[37] Her tombstone was rediscovered in 2000, having been covered by a floor in 1879.[38]

In her will, Lister's estate was left to her paternal cousins, but Walker was given a life interest.[37] After being declared to be of "unsound mind", Walker spent time briefly in Terrace House, a private house in Osbaldwick, and then in the London area with her sister and brother-in-law. Walker returned to Shibden Hall in 1845 and moved back to her family's estate in Lightcliffe in 1848. She died in 1854 at her childhood home, Cliff Hill in Lightcliffe, West Yorkshire.[39]

More than 40 years after her death, while reporting on a dispute over the ownership of Shibden Hall, the Leeds Times in 1882 stated, "Miss Lister's masculine singularities of character are still remembered".[37]

Diaries edit

During her life, Lister wrote a five-million-word diary.[40] It began in 1806 as scraps of paper, recording in secret code parcels sent to and from Eliza Raine, and eventually became the 26 quarto volumes, ending at her death in 1840. In addition to her handwriting being difficult to decipher,[41] around one-sixth of the diary is encrypted in a simple code Eliza and she had devised, combining the Greek alphabet, zodiac, punctuation, and mathematical symbols,[11] and it describes in great detail her lesbian identity and affairs,[42] as well as the methods she used for seduction. The diaries also contain her thoughts on the weather, social events, national events, and her business interests. The majority of her diary deals with her daily life, and not merely her sexuality,[13] and provides detailed information on social, political, and economic events of the time.

The cypher used in her diaries was deciphered by the last inhabitant of Shibden Hall, John Lister (1847–1933) and a friend of his, Arthur Burrell. When the content of the secret passages was revealed, Burrell advised John Lister to burn all the diaries. Lister did not take this advice, but instead continued to hide Anne Lister's diaries behind a panel at Shibden Hall.[43][44]

The cypher is as follows:[45]

 a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h   i   j   k   l   m   n   o   p   q   r   s   t   u   v   w   x   y   z   ch   sh   th   & 
2 ( ) 0 3 v n o 4 4 ǀ d — \ 5 + ǁ p = ~ 6 g 8 w 7 9 ∇ Λ 🗸 ×

Underlining or dotting a letter was used to double it; in the cases of ⟨(⟩, ⟨)⟩ and ⟨+⟩ the doubling line went through the letter (so that pp looked rather like ⟨ǂ⟩), and in the case of ⟨~⟩, the doubling line was vertical (so that tt looked a bit like ⟨ɫ⟩), but the following double letters had special forms: ee ⟨;⟩, ff ⟨Q⟩, ll ⟨:⟩, oo ⟨!⟩, ss ⟨?⟩. Mr was an ⟨x⟩, with single and double cross-bars for Mrs and Miss, so that Mrs looked rather like ⟨𝔛⟩.

In 2011, Lister's diaries were added to the register of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme.[18][46] The register citation notes that, while a valuable account of the times, it was the "comprehensive and painfully honest account of lesbian life and reflections on her nature, however, which have made these diaries unique. They have shaped and continue to shape the direction of UK Gender Studies and Women's History."[46]

Lister's diaries have been described as part of a "trilogy of early 19th century diaries" by local women, covering the same period from different perspectives, along with those of Caroline Walker from 1812 to 1830, and Elizabeth Wadsworth from 1817 to 1829.[47] In 2020, Ann Walker's own journal[48] was discovered. Although brief, covering June 1834 to February 1835, it covers a pivotal period that weaves through the corresponding narratives in Lister's diary.[49]

Research edit

Helena Whitbread published some of the diaries in two volumes (1988 and 1992). Their graphic nature meant at first they were believed by some to be a hoax, but documentary evidence has since established their authenticity.[11] A biography by the British writer Jill Liddington appeared in 1994. In 2014, a conference held at Shibden Hall focused on Lister's life along with gender and sexuality in the 19th century.[50]

A biography by Angela Steidele in the German language was published in 2017, and published in English in 2018.[51] In 2022 Russian researcher Olga Khoroshilova published a book about Lister's final and dramatic journey in Russia.[52] In a 2013 Journal of Lesbian Studies paper, by Chris Roulston, she was described as "the first modern lesbian".[53]

Popular culture edit

Work by Dorothy Thompson and Patricia Hughes in the late 1980s at Birmingham University's Department of Modern History resulted in translation of much of the code, as well as discovery of the first juvenile Lister diaries and decoding of the other two Lister codes.[citation needed] Hughes self-published Anne Lister's Secret Diary for 1817[54] (2019) and The Early Life of Miss Anne Lister and the Curious Tale of Miss Eliza Raine (2015),[55] both of which make extensive use of other materials in the Lister archives including letters, diaries, and ancillary documents.

The first episode of the 1994 BBC Two series A Skirt Through History, titled "A Marriage", features Julia Ford as Anne Lister, and Sophie Thursfield as Marianna Belcombe.[56][57]

On 31 May 2010, BBC Two broadcast a production based on Lister's life, The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, starring Maxine Peake as Lister.[58] Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary featuring Sue Perkins, was broadcast on the same night on BBC Two.[59]

Chamber folk duo O'Hooley & Tidow included a song about Anne Lister, "Gentleman Jack", on their 2012 album The Fragile.[60]

The 2019 BBC-HBO historical TV drama series Gentleman Jack, starring Suranne Jones as Lister, depicts her life as "the first modern lesbian". The series is billed as "inspired by" two books about Lister by Jill Liddington, Female Fortune and Nature's Domain. Liddington also acted as a consultant for the series.[61] O'Hooley & Tidow's "Gentleman Jack" serves as the series' closing theme music. In 2019 Penguin Books published a companion volume by the series' senior consultant, Anne Choma, which includes newly transcribed and decoded entries from Lister's diaries.[62]

In 2022 a second series of Gentleman Jack aired, first on the BBC One between 10 April and 29 May, and then on HBO between 25 April and 13 June. Shortly after the second series ended a campaign was started to renew the show, which then transformed into an effort to save the show as on 7 July it was announced that Gentleman Jack had been cancelled by HBO.[63]

Plaque edit

 
The rainbow plaque outside Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York, dedicated to Anne Lister and Ann Walker, as seen in May 2019

In 2018, a blue plaque was unveiled at Holy Trinity Church in York to honour Lister; it was York's first LGBT history plaque (or rainbow plaque). The plaque had rainbow edging, and read "Gender-nonconforming entrepreneur. Celebrated marital commitment, without legal recognition, to Ann Walker in this church. Easter, 1834".[64] The wording was criticised for not mentioning Lister's sexuality,[65] and in 2019, it was replaced with a similar plaque with the wording "Anne Lister 1791–1840 of Shibden Hall, Halifax / Lesbian and Diarist; took sacrament here to seal her union with Ann Walker / Easter 1834".[66][67]

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Per the church's burial records of All Saints Church in Market Weighton, there is a Lister infant, a sister of Anne Lister, who was also buried at the Minster in April 1806, shortly after birth.[3]

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External links edit

Library resources about
Anne Lister
By Anne Lister

January 01, 1970
anne, lister, english, natural, history, illustrator, illustrator, april, 1791, september, 1840, english, diarist, famous, revelations, which, dubbed, first, modern, lesbian, portrait, 1830, born, 1791, april, 1791halifax, west, riding, yorkshire, englanddied2. For the English natural history illustrator see Anne Lister illustrator Anne Lister 3 April 1791 22 September 1840 was an English diarist famous for revelations for which she was dubbed the first modern lesbian Anne ListerPortrait c 1830 Born 1791 04 03 3 April 1791Halifax West Riding of Yorkshire EnglandDied22 September 1840 1840 09 22 aged 49 Kutaisi Georgia Imeretia Governorate Russian EmpireResting placeSt John the Baptist Church Halifax MinsterOccupationLandownerPartner s Mariana Lawton 1813 1834 Ann Walker 1834 1840 Lister s death Lister was from a minor landowning family at Shibden in Calderdale West Riding of Yorkshire and had several lesbian love affairs from her schooldays onwards often on long trips abroad Muscular and androgynous in appearance dressed only in black and highly educated she was later known generally unkindly as Gentleman Jack Her final significant relationship was with Ann Walker to whom she was notionally married in Holy Trinity Church Goodramgate York now celebrated as the birthplace of lesbian marriage in Britain Lister s diaries reveal much about contemporary life in West Yorkshire including her development of historic Shibden Hall and her interests in medicine mathematics landscaping mining railways and canals Many entries were written in code that was not decrypted until long after her death These graphic portrayals of lesbian relationships were so frank that they were thought to be a hoax until their authenticity was confirmed Contents 1 Life 1 1 Early life and education 1 2 Relationship with Eliza Raine 1 3 Shibden Hall 2 Travel 3 Death 4 Diaries 5 Research 6 Popular culture 7 Plaque 8 See also 9 Notes 10 References 11 Sources 12 External linksLife editEarly life and education edit Anne Lister was the second child and eldest daughter of Captain Jeremy Lister 1753 1836 who as a young man in 1775 served with the British 10th Regiment of Foot in the Battles of Lexington and Concord in the American War of Independence 1 In August 1788 he married Rebecca Battle 1770 1817 of Welton in East Riding Yorkshire Their first child John was born in 1789 but died the same year Anne Lister was born in Halifax on 3 April 1791 In 1793 the family moved to an estate named Skelfler House at Market Weighton Skelfler was where young Anne spent her earliest years A second son Samuel who was close to Anne was born in 1793 2 The Listers had four sons and three a daughters but only Anne and her younger sister Marian born 13 October 1798 survived past 20 years old 1 At the age of seven Lister was sent to a school run by a Mrs Hagues and a Mrs Chettle in Agnesgate Ripon Between 1801 and 1804 Lister was educated at home by the Reverend George Skelding the vicar of Market Weighton On her visits to her aunt Anne and uncle James at Shibden Hall the Misses Mellin gave her lessons While being educated at home Lister developed an interest in classical literature In a surviving letter to her aunt from 3 February 1803 a young Lister explains My library is my greatest pleasure The Grecian History had pleased me much 4 Relationship with Eliza Raine edit In 1805 Anne Lister was sent to the Manor House School in York in the King s Manor buildings where Anne met her first love Eliza Raine 1791 1860 5 Raine was the illegitimate half Indian daughter of an East India Company surgeon in Madras brought to Yorkshire after his death and set to inherit a substantial amount of money 6 Lister and Raine shared a bedroom at the boarding school but Lister was asked to leave after two years Raine expected to live with Lister as an adult but Lister began affairs with other women including Isabella Norcliffe and Mariana Belcombe In despair and frustration Raine became a patient at Clifton House Asylum run by Belcombe s father William in 1814 7 8 Eliza Raine was later transferred to Terrace House in Osbaldwick and died there on 31 January 1860 She is buried in the Osbaldwick churchyard across the road 9 Shibden Hall editLister inherited the Shibden estate on her uncle s death in 1826 but only controlled part of its income until both her father s and her aunt s deaths in 1836 when their shares of the income passed to her Her wealth allowed her some measure of freedom to live as she pleased nbsp James Lister from whom Anne Lister inherited the Shibden estate by Joshua Horner 1812 1884 In addition to income from the agricultural tenancy Lister s financial portfolio included properties in town shares in the canal and railway industries mining and stone quarries Lister used the income from this varied portfolio to finance her two passions the renovation of Shibden Hall and European travel 10 Lister is described as having a masculine appearance One of her lovers Mariana Lawton nee Belcombe was initially ashamed to be seen in public with Lister because of the comments made on Lister s appearance 11 She dressed entirely in black as was normal for gentlemen at the time and took part in many activities that were not perceived as the norm for women of the time such as opening and owning a colliery 12 13 She was referred to as Gentleman Jack in some quarters 14 Lawton and Lister were lovers for about two decades including a period during which Lawton was married and to which her husband became resigned 11 In 1822 they visited the Ladies of Llangollen at Plas Newydd in Llangollen 15 nbsp Shibden Hall in 2010 with the library tower added by Anne Lister on the left Although Lister had met her on various occasions in the 1820s Ann Walker who by 1832 had become a wealthy heiress took on a much more substantial role in Lister s life 16 Eventually the women took communion together on Easter Sunday 30 March 1834 in Holy Trinity Church Goodramgate York and thereafter considered themselves married but without legal recognition The church has been described as an icon for what is interpreted as the site of the first lesbian marriage to be held in Britain and the building now hosts a commemorative blue plaque 17 The couple lived together at Shibden Hall until Lister s death in 1840 Walker s fortune was used to improve Shibden Hall and the property s waterfall and lake 18 Lister renovated Shibden Hall quite significantly to her own design 13 In 1838 she added a Gothic tower to the main house to serve as her private library She also had a tunnel dug under the building which allowed the staff to move about without disturbing her 18 Throughout her life Lister had a strong Anglican faith 19 and also remained a Tory interested in defending the privileges of the land owning aristocracy 20 Travel edit nbsp Watercolour portrait of Lister probably by a Mrs Turner of Halifax 1822 Lister greatly enjoyed travel although her biographer Angela Steidele suggests her trips in later life were also a way to evade the self realisation that she had failed at everything she set her hand to 21 She made her first trip to continental Europe in 1819 when she was 28 years old She travelled with her 54 year old aunt also called Anne Lister on a two month trip to France 22 In 1824 Lister returned to Paris and stayed until the following year 23 In 1826 she was returned to Paris with her Aunt Anne where she resumed an affair from her earlier visit to the city with a widow named Maria Barlow In 1827 she set out from Paris with both Barlow and her Aunt Anne on a tour of northern Italy and Switzerland returning to Shibden Hall the following year In 1828 she travelled extensively in Scotland with Sibella MacLean She left for the continent again in 1829 With Paris as her base she visited Belgium and Germany before heading south to the Pyrenees Here she did hiking as well as crossed the border into Spain While in Spain she demonstrated both her strong adventurous streak and considerable physical fitness by ascending Monte Perdido 11 007 ft 3 355 m the third highest peak in the Pyrenees 24 25 Returning to Shibden Hall in 1831 she found life with her father and sister Marian so uncomfortable that she almost immediately left again visiting the Netherlands for a short trip with Mariana Lawton 26 All in all between 1826 and 1832 she only spent a short period of time at Shibden Hall with travels around Britain and Europe allowing her to avoid her family at home 27 In 1834 she again visited France and Switzerland this time for her honeymoon with Ann Walker Returning with Walker in 1838 she again headed south to the Pyrenees and completed the first official ascent of the Vignemale 10 820 feet 3 298 m the highest peak in the French Pyrenees 28 29 This required a ten hour hike to reach the top and another seven hours to descend 30 Her last and greatest trip began in 1839 Leaving Shibden Hall in June with Walker and two servants they travelled in their own carriage through France Denmark Sweden and Russia arriving in St Petersburg in September and in Moscow in October 31 With a reluctant Walker in tow she left Moscow in February 1840 in a new Russian carriage and very warm clothing 32 They travelled south along the frozen Volga river to the Caucasus Few West Europeans had visited this area let alone West European women in part because of unrest amongst the local population against the Tsarist regime 33 At times they needed a military escort The two women were a source of great curiosity to the people they visited As Lister noted in her diary The people coming in to look at us as if we were some strange animals such as they had not seen the like before 34 Death edit nbsp Halifax Minster where Anne Lister is buried Lister died on 22 September 1840 aged 49 of a fever at Koutais now Kutaisi in Georgia while travelling with Ann Walker 35 36 Walker had Lister s body brought back to the UK where she was buried in Halifax Minster on 29 April 1841 37 Her tombstone was rediscovered in 2000 having been covered by a floor in 1879 38 In her will Lister s estate was left to her paternal cousins but Walker was given a life interest 37 After being declared to be of unsound mind Walker spent time briefly in Terrace House a private house in Osbaldwick and then in the London area with her sister and brother in law Walker returned to Shibden Hall in 1845 and moved back to her family s estate in Lightcliffe in 1848 She died in 1854 at her childhood home Cliff Hill in Lightcliffe West Yorkshire 39 More than 40 years after her death while reporting on a dispute over the ownership of Shibden Hall the Leeds Times in 1882 stated Miss Lister s masculine singularities of character are still remembered 37 Diaries editDuring her life Lister wrote a five million word diary 40 It began in 1806 as scraps of paper recording in secret code parcels sent to and from Eliza Raine and eventually became the 26 quarto volumes ending at her death in 1840 In addition to her handwriting being difficult to decipher 41 around one sixth of the diary is encrypted in a simple code Eliza and she had devised combining the Greek alphabet zodiac punctuation and mathematical symbols 11 and it describes in great detail her lesbian identity and affairs 42 as well as the methods she used for seduction The diaries also contain her thoughts on the weather social events national events and her business interests The majority of her diary deals with her daily life and not merely her sexuality 13 and provides detailed information on social political and economic events of the time The cypher used in her diaries was deciphered by the last inhabitant of Shibden Hall John Lister 1847 1933 and a friend of his Arthur Burrell When the content of the secret passages was revealed Burrell advised John Lister to burn all the diaries Lister did not take this advice but instead continued to hide Anne Lister s diaries behind a panel at Shibden Hall 43 44 The cypher is as follows 45 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ch sh th amp 2 0 3 v n o 4 4 ǀ d 5 ǁ p 6 g 8 w 7 9 L Underlining or dotting a letter was used to double it in the cases of and the doubling line went through the letter so that pp looked rather like ǂ and in the case of the doubling line was vertical so that tt looked a bit like ɫ but the following double letters had special forms ee ff Q ll oo ss Mr was an x with single and double cross bars for Mrs and Miss so that Mrs looked rather like 𝔛 In 2011 Lister s diaries were added to the register of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme 18 46 The register citation notes that while a valuable account of the times it was the comprehensive and painfully honest account of lesbian life and reflections on her nature however which have made these diaries unique They have shaped and continue to shape the direction of UK Gender Studies and Women s History 46 Lister s diaries have been described as part of a trilogy of early 19th century diaries by local women covering the same period from different perspectives along with those of Caroline Walker from 1812 to 1830 and Elizabeth Wadsworth from 1817 to 1829 47 In 2020 Ann Walker s own journal 48 was discovered Although brief covering June 1834 to February 1835 it covers a pivotal period that weaves through the corresponding narratives in Lister s diary 49 Research editHelena Whitbread published some of the diaries in two volumes 1988 and 1992 Their graphic nature meant at first they were believed by some to be a hoax but documentary evidence has since established their authenticity 11 A biography by the British writer Jill Liddington appeared in 1994 In 2014 a conference held at Shibden Hall focused on Lister s life along with gender and sexuality in the 19th century 50 A biography by Angela Steidele in the German language was published in 2017 and published in English in 2018 51 In 2022 Russian researcher Olga Khoroshilova published a book about Lister s final and dramatic journey in Russia 52 In a 2013 Journal of Lesbian Studies paper by Chris Roulston she was described as the first modern lesbian 53 Popular culture editWork by Dorothy Thompson and Patricia Hughes in the late 1980s at Birmingham University s Department of Modern History resulted in translation of much of the code as well as discovery of the first juvenile Lister diaries and decoding of the other two Lister codes citation needed Hughes self published Anne Lister s Secret Diary for 1817 54 2019 and The Early Life of Miss Anne Lister and the Curious Tale of Miss Eliza Raine 2015 55 both of which make extensive use of other materials in the Lister archives including letters diaries and ancillary documents The first episode of the 1994 BBC Two series A Skirt Through History titled A Marriage features Julia Ford as Anne Lister and Sophie Thursfield as Marianna Belcombe 56 57 On 31 May 2010 BBC Two broadcast a production based on Lister s life The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister starring Maxine Peake as Lister 58 Revealing Anne Lister a documentary featuring Sue Perkins was broadcast on the same night on BBC Two 59 Chamber folk duo O Hooley amp Tidow included a song about Anne Lister Gentleman Jack on their 2012 album The Fragile 60 The 2019 BBC HBO historical TV drama series Gentleman Jack starring Suranne Jones as Lister depicts her life as the first modern lesbian The series is billed as inspired by two books about Lister by Jill Liddington Female Fortune and Nature s Domain Liddington also acted as a consultant for the series 61 O Hooley amp Tidow s Gentleman Jack serves as the series closing theme music In 2019 Penguin Books published a companion volume by the series senior consultant Anne Choma which includes newly transcribed and decoded entries from Lister s diaries 62 In 2022 a second series of Gentleman Jack aired first on the BBC One between 10 April and 29 May and then on HBO between 25 April and 13 June Shortly after the second series ended a campaign was started to renew the show which then transformed into an effort to save the show as on 7 July it was announced that Gentleman Jack had been cancelled by HBO 63 Plaque edit nbsp The rainbow plaque outside Holy Trinity Church Goodramgate York dedicated to Anne Lister and Ann Walker as seen in May 2019 In 2018 a blue plaque was unveiled at Holy Trinity Church in York to honour Lister it was York s first LGBT history plaque or rainbow plaque The plaque had rainbow edging and read Gender nonconforming entrepreneur Celebrated marital commitment without legal recognition to Ann Walker in this church Easter 1834 64 The wording was criticised for not mentioning Lister s sexuality 65 and in 2019 it was replaced with a similar plaque with the wording Anne Lister 1791 1840 of Shibden Hall Halifax Lesbian and Diarist took sacrament here to seal her union with Ann Walker Easter 1834 66 67 See also editBoston marriage Anne Lister CollegeNotes edit Per the church s burial records of All Saints Church in Market Weighton there is a Lister infant a sister of Anne Lister who was also buried at the Minster in April 1806 shortly after birth 3 References edit a b Dugdale Sir William 1894 Dugdale s Visitation of Yorkshire with Additions W Pollard amp Company p 118 Retrieved 6 December 2018 Jeremy Liste Green Muriel 1992 Miss Lister of Shibden Hall Selected Letters 1800 1840 Sussex England The Book Guild p 18 ISBN 0 86332 672 2 Oliveira Marlene Smith Shantel Pryce Amanda Gallaway Steph Labate Livia Dobson Jude 6 August 2021 Where is Anne Lister Finding her final resting place www packedwithpotential org Retrieved 19 June 2022 Whitbread Helena 1992 No Priest but Love Excerpts from the Diaries of Anne Lister 1824 1826 New York University Press p 2 The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister St Thomas s Church Osbaldwick Lane Osbaldwick York Archived from the original on 4 April 2020 Retrieved 5 January 2020 Woods Rebecca The life and loves of Anne Lister BBC News Retrieved 19 June 2022 Hughes Patricia 2010 The Early Life of Miss Anne Lister and the Curious Tale of Miss Eliza Raine Green Muriel 1992 Miss Lister of Shibden Hall Selected Letters 1800 1840 pp 7 19 The parish of St Thomas Osbaldwick with St James Murton About the Parish St Thomas s www osbaldwickandmurtonchurches org uk Archived from the original on 6 July 2020 Retrieved 7 June 2020 Liddington Jill 1993 Anne Lister of Shibden Hall Halifax 1791 1840 Her Diaries and the Historians History Workshop Journal 35 35 45 77 doi 10 1093 hwj 35 1 45 a b c d Norton Rictor Anne Lister The First Modern Lesbian Lesbian History Retrieved 29 May 2010 Castle Terry January 1989 Review The Pursuit of Love The Women s Review of Books 6 4 6 7 doi 10 2307 4020468 JSTOR 4020468 a b c The life and loves of Shibden Hall s Anne Lister BBC 25 May 2010 Retrieved 29 May 2010 Mavor Elizabeth 4 February 1988 Gentleman Jack of Halifax London Review of Books 10 3 London LRB Ltd ISSN 0260 9592 Retrieved 14 June 2010 queerplaces Anne Lister Choma Anne 2019 Gentleman Jack The Real Anne Lister Penguin Books p 66 Sherwood Harriet 28 July 2018 Recognition at last for Gentleman Jack Britain s first modern lesbian The Guardian Retrieved 3 September 2018 a b c Crampton Caroline 5 December 2013 The lesbian Dead Sea Scrolls Anne Lister s diaries New Statesman London Retrieved 25 August 2014 Clark Anna July 1996 Anne Lister s Construction of Lesbian Identity Journal of the History of Sexuality 7 1 35 PMID 11613422 Steidele Angela 2018 Gentleman Jack A Biography of Anne Lister p 207 Steidele Angela 2018 Gentleman Jack A Biography of Anne Lister Regency Landowner Seducer and Secret Diarist London Serpent s Tail p 256 ISBN 978 1 78816 098 8 Steidele Angela 2018 Gentleman Jack A Biography of Anne Lister pp 64 68 Steidele Angela 2018 Gentleman Jack A Biography of Anne Lister p 133 Saint Lebe Nanou 2002 Les Femmes a la decouverte des Pyrenees in French Toulouse Privat Steidele Angela 2018 Gentleman Jack A Biography of Anne Lister p 174 Steidele Angela 2018 Gentleman Jack A Biography of Anne Lister p 179 Steidele Angela 2018 Gentleman Jack A Biography of Anne Lister p 186 Lister Ann 2000 Premiere ascension du Vignemale le 7 aout 1838 in French Translated by Maury Luc Pau Cairn ISBN 2 912233 25 9 Ingham Vivien 1968 Anne Lister s Ascent of Vignemale PDF Alpine Journal 73 316 317 199 Retrieved 22 January 2011 Steidele Angela 2018 Gentleman Jack A Biography of Anne Lister pp 248 249 Khoroshilova Olga 2022 Gentleman Jack in Russia in Russian language pp 10 400 Steidele Angela 2018 Gentleman Jack A Biography of Anne Lister pp 266 267 Steidele Angela 2018 Gentleman Jack A Biography of Anne Lister p 291 Steidele Angela 2018 Gentleman Jack p 273 Bray Alan 2003 The Friend University of Chicago Press ISBN 0 226 07180 4 Retrieved 3 August 2008 Lang David M 1990 Georgia in 1840 The Lister Diaries Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 53 1 115 120 doi 10 1017 s0041977x00021303 S2CID 162804870 a b c The Shibden Hall Estate Leeds Times 22 July 1882 Retrieved 5 February 2015 via British Newspaper Archive Explore Anne Gentleman Jack Lister s Halifax Visit Calderdale 12 August 2021 Retrieved 24 April 2022 Barker D M 2018 Ann Walker Anne Lister and St Matthew s Church Lightcliffe PDF www lightcliffechurchyard org uk p 18 Retrieved 24 April 2022 Anne Lister An Introduction Catablogue West Yorkshire Archive Service Blog 18 September 2019 Retrieved 19 June 2022 Liddington Jill 1993 Anne Lister of Shibden Hall Halifax 1791 1840 Her Diaries and the Historians History Workshop Journal 35 1 45 77 doi 10 1093 hwj 35 1 45 Rupp Leila J 1999 A Desired Past A Short History of Same Sex Love in America The University of Chicago Press p 10 ISBN 978 0 226 73156 8 Brown Jonathan The Independent 16 October 2009 BBC Unveils Drama About Gentleman Jack The First Modern Lesbian San Francisco Sentinel Archived from the original on 28 September 2011 Retrieved 6 June 2010 Dempster Sarah 1 June 2010 The Secret Diary of Miss Anne Lister and 30 Rock The Guardian Archived from the original on 3 June 2010 Retrieved 4 June 2010 Anne Lister Reading Anne s Diaries Catablogue West Yorkshire Archive Service Blog 17 April 2019 Retrieved 27 July 2022 a b UK Memory of the World Register UK National Commission for UNESCO UNESCO 2011 Archived from the original on 7 July 2011 Retrieved 1 June 2019 Trigg W B 1943 Miss Wadsworth s Diary West Yorkshire Archive Service Halifax Antiquarian Society p 123 Ann Walker s journal Journal of Ann Walker West Yorkshire Archive Service WYC 1525 7 1 5 1 Archived from the original on 9 March 2021 Anne Lister Conference The Inaugural Anne Lister Conference women gender and sexuality in the 19th Century Archived from the original on 25 May 2014 Steidele Angela 2018 Gentleman Jack A Biography of Anne Lister Regency Landowner Seducer and Secret Diarist Translated by Katy Derbyshire London Serpent s Tail ISBN 978 1 78816 098 8 Khoroshilova Olga 2022 Gentleman Jack in Russia in Russian Moscow MIF ISBN 978 5 00169 736 7 Roulston Chris 2013 The Revolting Anne Lister The U K s First Modern Lesbian Journal of Lesbian Studies 17 3 4 267 268 doi 10 1080 10894160 2013 731866 PMID 23855940 S2CID 3058406 Hughes Patricia 2019 Anne Lister s Secret Diary for 1817 Hues Books ISBN 978 1 909275 30 0 Lister Anne Raine Eliza Hughes Patricia April 2014 1st pub Hues 2010 The Early Life of Miss Anne Lister and the Curious Tale of Miss Eliza Raine Hues Books ISBN 978 1 909275 06 5 Collections Search BFI British Film Institute collections search bfi org uk BBC Programme Index genome ch bbc co uk 6 May 1994 BBC Two announces brand new drama The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister BBC Press Office BBC 11 November 2009 Retrieved 1 February 2010 Revealing Anne Lister BBC Two Programmes BBC Archived from the original on 4 June 2010 Retrieved 10 June 2010 Music and Performance Interview with O Hooley and Tidow When Sally Met Sally 12 September 2012 Archived from the original on 17 September 2012 Retrieved 15 September 2012 Liddington Jill Who was Anne Lister Retrieved 20 May 2019 Choma Anne 2019 Gentleman Jack The Real Anne Lister PenguinRandomhouse ISBN 978 0 14 313456 5 Retrieved 1 March 2019 Andreeva Nellie 8 July 2022 Gentleman Jack Canceled By HBO After 2 Seasons Deadline Retrieved 18 August 2022 Plaque in York honours first modern lesbian Anne Lister BBC News 24 July 2018 Retrieved 28 July 2018 Anne Lister Plaque wording to change after lesbian row BBC News September 2018 Retrieved 3 September 2018 Video York s rainbow plaque to Anne Lister is back with the word Lesbian front and centre YorkMix 29 January 2019 Retrieved 1 March 2019 Rainbow Plaque Unveiling York Civic Trust 28 February 2019 Retrieved 17 May 2019 Sources editChoma Anne Gentleman Jack The Real Anne Lister Penguin Books amp BBC Books 2019 Green Muriel Miss Lister of Shibden Hall Selected Letters 1800 1840 The Book Guild Ltd 1992 Hughes Patricia Anne Lister s Secret Diary for 1817 Hues Books Ltd 2006 Hughes Patricia The Secret Life of Miss Anne Lister and the Curious Tale of Miss Eliza Raine Hues Books Ltd 2010 Khoroshilova Olga Gentleman Jack in Russia in Russian Moscow Mann Ivanov amp Ferber 2022 Liddington Jill Presenting the Past Anne Lister of Halifax 1791 1840 Pennine Pens 1994 Liddington Jill Female Fortune Land Gender and Authority The Anne Lister Diaries and Other Writings 1833 36 Rivers Oram Press 1998 Steidele Angela Gentleman Jack A Biography of Anne Lister Regency Landowner Seducer and Secret Diarist Serpent s Tail London 2018 First published as Anne Lister Eine erotische Biographie Matthes amp Seitz Berlin 2017 Vicinus Martha Intimate Friends Women Who Loved Women 1778 1928 University of Chicago Press 2004 Whitbread Helena I Know My Own Heart The Diaries of Anne Lister 1791 1840 Virago 1988 Whitbread Helena No Priest But Love Excerpts from the Diaries of Anne Lister NYU Press 1993 External links editLibrary resources about Anne Lister Resources in your library Resources in other libraries By Anne Lister Resources in your library Resources in other libraries Anne Lister s encoded diary shows scanned images of Anne Lister s encoded diary pages Anne Lister page at From History to Her Story Yorkshire Women s lives on line provides excerpts of her translated diaries as well as images from the original Site of Anne Lister s family grave Saint Ann s Church Archival material relating to Anne Lister UK National Archives nbsp The West Yorkshire Archive Service which holds the Anne Lister Diaries at its Calderdale office Portals nbsp Biography nbsp LGBT Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Anne Lister amp oldid 1220694072, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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