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Summary:

In 1834, Anne Lister made history by celebrating and recording the first ever known marriage to another woman. Now the basis for the HBO series Gentleman Jack, this is her remarkable, true story. Anne Lister was extraordinary. Fearless, charismatic and determined to explore her lesbian sexuality, she forged her own path in a society that had no language to define her. She was a landowner, an industrialist and a prolific diarist, whose output has secured her legacy as one of the most fascinating figures of the nineteenth century. Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister follows Anne from her crumbling ancestral home in Yorkshire to the glittering courts of Denmark as she resolves to put past heartbreak behind her and find herself a wife. This book introduces the real Gentleman Jack, featuring unpublished journal extracts decrypted for the first time by series creator Sally Wainwright and writer Anne Choma.

Table of Contents:

• 1. High Society Ambition and Heartbreak in Hastings
• 2. Shibden Hall, Trespassers, George Playforth's Death, Miss Walker of Lightcliffe and Coal Talk with Jeremiah Rawson
• 3. More of Miss Walker, Vere's Marriage, Beloved Aunt Anne, Anne's Constipation and Shibden's Errant Tenants
• 4. The Demands of Propriety, Progression with Miss Walker, Lady Vere Cameron, a New French Lady's Maid, Money and Coal
• 5. Early Warning Signs and Sexual Confidence
• 6. Miss Walker's Mumbling Kisses and Nervous Inconsistency, John Booth's Mistake and Suspicious Eliza Priestley
• 7. A Trip to York and Bad News for Miss Walker
• 8. The Reverend Ainsworth, Miss Walker's Insulting Purse Offer, Attacked by a Thug, and an Uncertain End to the Year
• 9. Miss Walker's Departure, Catherine Rawson and Plans for Getting Off
• 10. Halifax, London, Paris and Beyond
• 11. Copenhagen.

Author/Creator:

Choma, Anne , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Gentleman Jack: the real Anne Lister [by Choma, A.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Gentleman Jack [by Choma, A.] (New York : Penguin Books, [2019] — ISBN 0525506373; LCCN 2019011685; OCLC Number 1089840802)

Subjects:

Lister, Anne, 1791-1840

Lesbians — England — Yorkshire — Biography

LGBTQ+ people

Sexual minorities

Lesbians

England — Yorkshire

Genres:

Biographies

LGBTQ+ biographies

Lesbian biographies

Physical Description:

xi, 258 pages ; 21 cm

Call Numbers:

HQ75.4.L57 C46 2019

ISBNs:

9780143134565 (pbk.)
0143134566 (pbk.)
9780525506379 (ebk.) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2019009932

OCLC Numbers:

1089882875