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Lecturer, School of Continuing Education, University of Leeds, 1982-2003. Historian, biographer, reader, and writer. Office-School of Continuing Education, The University, Leeds LS2 9JT, England. Home-Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, England. Hobbies and other interests: Landscape photography, country music, hill walking, yoga. Education: Keele University, B.A., 1968 University of Leeds, Ph.D., 2002. 'A unique and thrilling insight into the brilliant mind of Anne Lister.' - Sally Wainwright 194.Born March 13, 1946, in Manchester, England. 9781526164414 Female Fortune 194.7000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/non-fiction /shop/books/non-fiction/history /shop/books/non-fiction/history/general Jill Liddington's classic edition of Anne Lister's extraordinary diaries. 'A unique and thrilling insight into the brilliant mind of Anne Lister.' - Sally Wainwright Female Fortune is essential reading for those who watched Gentleman Jack, and want to know more about the extraordinary woman that was Anne Lister. This 2021 edition includes a fascinating Afterword on the recent discovery of Ann Walker's own diary.

Tensions grew to a melodramatic crescendo when news reached Shibden of the pair being burnt in effigy. Yet Ann Walker had an inconvenient number of local relatives, suspicious of how exactly Anne Lister could pay for all her improvements. Politically active and socially ambitious, Anne Lister door-stepped her tenants at the 1835 Election to vote Tory and employed architects to redesign the Hall and estate, even developing her own coal mines. Jill Liddington's classic edition of the diaries tells the story of how Anne Lister seduced neighbouring heiress Ann Walker, who moved in to live with Anne and her family at Shibden in 1834. The diaries were included on UNESCO's UK Memory of the World Register in 2011. Her extraordinary diaries, running to 4-5 million words, were partly written in her own secret code and recorded her love affairs with startling candour.

Lister was an impressive scholar, a fearless traveller and successful businesswoman. Lesbian landowner Anne Lister inherited Shibden Hall, Halifax in 1826. Jill Liddington's classic edition of Anne Lister's extraordinary diaries. Her extraordinary diaries, running to 4-5 million words, were partly written in her own secret code and recorded her. Jill Liddington's classic edition of Anne Lister's extraordinary diaries.įemale Fortune is the book which inspired Sally Wainwright to write Gentleman Jack, now a major drama series for the BBC and HBO.

Female fortune land gender and authority