As Good as a Marriage
- 384 stránek
- 14 hodin čtení
The authoritative sequel to Female Fortune, continuing the diaries of Anne Lister up to 1838, when she was at her most powerful. -- .
Jill Liddington Pořadí knih (chronologicky)
Jill Liddington je britská autorka a akademička, která se specializuje na historii žen. Její práce se zaměřuje na zkoumání a vyzdvihování zapomenutých ženských příběhů a jejich dopadu na společnost. Prostřednictvím svého výzkumu a psaní se Liddington snaží přepsat historické narativy a poskytnout komplexnější pohled na minulost. Její přístup kombinuje pečlivý akademický výzkum s poutavým vypravěčským stylem, který oživuje historické postavy a události pro moderní čtenáře.
Anne Lister (1791-1840), heiress, scholar, traveler, and estate owner, 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.
Pennine Pens proudly published Presenting the Past in 1994, with a second edition following in 2010. This groundbreaking work has remained in print for over twenty years, and now a new eBook edition makes it accessible worldwide on devices like iPads and Kindles. Anne Lister, a scholar, lesbian, and diarist, managed her Shibden Hall estate in Halifax and left behind an extensive diary of four million words, much of it in her secret code. Presenting the Past narrates the remarkable journey of how Lister's diaries and letters survived after her death in 1840. For the first time, Jill Liddington details how John Lister, her heir, deciphered the code in the 1890s, uncovering Lister's bold lesbian relationships. Subsequent editors and historians have since explored different facets of Anne Lister's life. The book immerses readers in the Halifax Archives, where the Shibden Hall papers are preserved, offering a critical reassessment of the varied portrayals of Lister and questioning the choices made by earlier editors. Additionally, another book from Pennine Pens, Nature’s Anne Lister and the Landscape of Desire, has inspired episodes of Sally Wainwright’s upcoming TV drama series, the first full-length drama about Lister, set to air on BBC1 in 2019, with filming commencing at Shibden in May 2018.