Anne Lister (1791-1840) was a lesbian, traveler, heiress, scholar, and estate owner, and she is known to us through her diaries -- an unusually vivid record of an extraordinary life. She inherited Shibden Hall, Yorkshire, seduced a neighbouring heiress, consolidated their estates (effectively a dynastic lesbian marriage), and developed the coal deposits there, managing them with flair and energy. In her account of this remarkable story, Female Fortune, Jill Liddington analyzes the role of gender in Lister's invasion of what were, at the time, almost exclusively male domains. The book is supported by generous selections from the diaries themselves. The extensive appraisal of Anne Lister's life and the themes drawn from the diaries make Female Fortune required reading for anyone engaged in current feminist analysis. It is an important text for students of women's studies, gender studies. social and cultural history, and lesbian and gay studies.
Order the book Female Fortune - Land, Gender and Authority from LGBT bookshop Vrolijk Online in Amsterdam.
15 March 2012 Joke Weenink held a lecture in Pintohuis in collaboration with Vrolijk
Also on Anne Lister: a book by editor Helena Whitbread • The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister • Isbn 9781844087198 - Eerder verschenen als I KNOW MY OWN HEART
Zie ook de James Kent film THE SECRET DIARIES OF MISS ANNE LISTER (inclusief extra filmpje The Real Anne Lister, door Sue Perkins verteld) welke DVD je eveneens in de Amsterdamse winkel van Boekhandel Vrolijk kopen kan.
Excerpt from diary Anne Lister:
Sunday 14 September 1823 — At [first], we thought someone [was] breaking into the house but the continuance of the noises & the pattering of rain soon ushered in a tremendous thunder storm. Very vivid, fast-succeeding flashes of lightning enlightened the whole room. After some time came 1 or 2 tremendous peals of thunder & the heaviest rain I almost ever heard. In the midst of all this, we drew close together, made love & had one of the most delightfully long, tender kisses we have ever had. Said she, in the midst of it, 'Oh, don't leave me yet.' This renewed & redoubled my feelings & we slept in each other's arms.
Composed in a secret cipher - a kiss is Lister's codeword for orgasm, as in Two kisses last night, one almost immediately after the other, before we went to sleep- and ably decoded by Helena Whitbread, who spent six years editing them, the diaries trace not only Lister's relationships, but her attempts at self-definition and her strikingly confident and guilt free outlook. Lister's account of her daily life and her sometimes snobbish, but always compelling and unflinching commentary about the failings and shortcomings of her friends and acquaintances only add to the book's readability. One may take delight in what is here: the souvenir of an unabashed and often triumphant erotic life.
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