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The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian history; they changed everything. By resurrecting them and editing them with such loving attention and intelligence, Helena Whitbread has earned the gratitude of a whole generation―Emma Donoghue[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 . . . The diaries gave me courage―Jeanette Winterson
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About the Author
Anne Lister (1791–1840) was an English landowner, industrialist, and diarist. Helena Whitbread is a historian.
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Product details
Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown UK (June 19, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781844087198
ISBN-13: 978-1844087198
ASIN: 1844087190
Product Dimensions:
5 x 1.1 x 7.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.5 out of 5 stars
10 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#306,331 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This is such a wonderful book. I feel both as a voyeur and as a researcher and just as a cozy reader going through the pages. In fact, I'm not through the book completely yet, and I don't want it to end: I find it both engrossing and relaxing at the same time.Although I've considered myself fairly well versed in that time period of England, I've learned so much from this diary. And the details are simply fascinating. In fact, I wish there were more of them: I wish this book included the whole diary, not just the excerpts. Anne counting her money and detailing the specifics of trying to heal her venerial disease? I want to read it. I want to know more about the relative costs of things, about her day-to-day goings, about what it was like to travel at that time.The editor (translator) never explains how she chose what to include and what to omit, and those omissions is why I took off one star from my rating. Was there more to the diary? Or is it all? How are the cuts made? I wish the editor would have at least explained. The other editorial choice I didn't quite understand is her perchance for summarizing the events to come. Perhaps it makes the following pages more easily understandable, but, at the same time, it removes what suspense can be found in a diary. I also found that there were at least a couple of places where I disagreed with the editor's summary. E.g. before the pages detailing the last few months of Anne's acquaintance with Miss Browne, the editor summarizes it as "Miss Browne went away never completely understanding what Anne wanted from her." Oh, but from the dialogues Anne relays, I think Miss Browne understood it very well! In fact, how much clearer can she be when she says "I wish you were a gent"? Maybe there were more material included that made the editor think Miss Browne so naive and unaware. But maybe not. All in all I could've done without those editorializing comments.On the other hand, I think this diary is ripe for more research and more annotations explaining some details of what Anne is doing or why she's doing certain things. I was able to piece some things together, but others remained unclear -- but it would make for a wonderful volume to have more explanations and illustrations (e.g. a detailed explanation of the systems of measures for money and other measurements).Still, overall it's an enjoyable read and an invaluable work was done by the translator/editor, for which I give her my huge thanks.
I really enjoyed getting into the head of a 19th lesbian with these diaries. Not just any woman could have endured or survived the vicissitudes of what life was like back then. It's a very interesting read on how she goes about her life, business, love, education, and her untimely death.Another very inspiring part of the diary is when she visits the Ladies of Llangollen, 2 Irish lesbians who relocated to the north of Wales to escape their family and societies prejudice against their sexuality. Here's an interesting thing about that meeting, she's only able to meet one of them, the other sick. Anne realizes that these women are living the life she wants--outside of loneliness, in their own love for each other, in the context of community tolerance. She alludes to their lifestyle inspiring her in her own goals of living.The diaries are filled with the day to day responsibilities of taking care of herself and family, while trying to live as a woman in society. Evidently Anne's butchness is very apparent, prompting insults from strangers at times claiming she's a man dressed as a woman. The details of these encounters with people, acquaintances and other closeted women is interesting from a sociological point of view.The only other thing I wished this volume (2010) included, was the relationship with Ann Walker, which was absent of all mention. This relationship, I'm assuming, took place between 1825 to 1840; so essentially there is 15 years missing from the diaries. I'm not sure why these years are not included; from what I've gathered these years are Anne's most rewarding years in terms of relationship and commercial enterprise and development of the Shibden estate along with Miss Walker's property in coal mining. There's a very good documentary by Sue Perkins called: Revealing Anne Lister, which details some of that story, and the film "The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister" tells a little of this story as well. This last relationship with Ann Walker is a sort of happy ending for Anne until their travels abroad begin in 1839, only to end tragically with Anne's death.So the only big disappointment is the missing entries from these years. I wanted to know how that relationship with Miss Walker evolved with both of them keeping house in the end as partners. I almost think that there should be another volume, part 2 revealing the life of these years--I'll buy it in a New York minute when it comes out!Bottom line of these diaries is that they are a treasure, since there is not much documentation of a lesbian life of this era with such detail until these were published completely very recently (1992?). They represent a very important part of invisible lesbian history--now visible--and should be celebrated and read.
This book provides excerpts from Lister's remarkable diary for the period of 1816-1825 only. It is a snapshot of a specific period and doesn't attempt to act as a biography. The title of the book might have included these dates to help readers know what they're getting.The book is very badly indexed; a casual perusal turned up 3 different mistakes, along with obvious misspellings. It is also very brief.Also, for the reader who jumps around, you can't find out what year you're in without paging back to the beginning of the chapter. You have to go back one page at a time, since there are no page headings telling which chapter we're in (which also could have listed the year). Or simply including the year in each diary entry's date would have solved the problem.I'm grateful the book exists and respect the work done by Whitbread, but the mechanics of the book are not great. The publisher let her down.
Disappointed in ending no details of her finding a new companion I feel like a lot of details of her finally finding a companion left out. Watched movie which had a scene of her final companion and how came to be but book nothing of coal mining and how she met final companion. Also what happened to her companion after her death?
What an amazing discovery and an amazing story. Telling all of my friends.
It was so slow.
They made a darn good TV series out of this by ignoring all the boring dull bits where she counts every shilling she owns. Whilst she was amazing the diary is really dreary & dull.
I found the historical content interesting yet the pace was slow and didn't have a clear story line. Often very mundane taks were included in the diary.
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