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The secret diaries of Miss Anne Lister (1791-1840) / edited by Helena Whitbread.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
942.81073 LIS	Adult Non Fiction		Bankstown .	. Available .

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ISBN	9781844087198
Name	Lister, Anne, 1791-1840
Title	The secret diaries of Miss Anne Lister (1791-1840) / edited by Helena Whitbread.
Published	London : Virago, 2010.
Description	xxv, 422 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes	Includes index.
Summary	LESBIAN STUDIES. These remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller ? and lesbian. She kept extensive diaries, written partly in code, of her life and loves. The diaries have been edited by Helena Whitbread, who spent years decoding and transcribing them. '[Anne Lister's] sense of self, and self-awareness, is what makes her modern to us. She was a woman exercising conscious choice. She controlled her cash and her body. At a time when women had to marry, or be looked after by a male relative, and when all their property on marriage passed to their husband, Anne Lister not only dodged the traps of being female, she set up a liaison with another woman that enhanced her own wealth and left both of them free to live as they wished.
Subjects	Lister, Anne, -- 1791-1840 -- Diaries
Subjects	Lesbians -- England -- West Yorkshire -- Biography
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Lesbians -- England -- West Yorkshire -- Biography . Lister, Anne, -- 1791-1840 -- Diaries . Authors: Lister, Anne, 1791-1840 .