Gentleman Jack A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist
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Beschreibung
Details
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
07.01.2020
Abbildungen
b&w integrated illustrations
Verlag
KNV BesorgungSeitenzahl
352
Maße (L/B/H)
19,8/12,9/2,5 cm
Gewicht
285 g
Übersetzt von
Derbyshire Katy
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-78816-099-5
Anne Lister's rich and unconventional life is now the subject of the major BBC TV drama series Gentleman Jack
Anne Lister's journals were so shocking that the first person to crack their secret code hid them behind a fake panel in his ancestral home. Lister was a Regency landowner, an intrepid world traveller ... and an unabashed lover of other women.
In this bold new biography, prizewinning author Angela Steidele uses the diaries to create a portrait of Anne Lister as we've never seen her before: a woman in some ways very much of her time and in others far ahead of it. Lister recorded everything from the most intimate details of her numerous liaisons through to her plans to make her fortune by exploiting the coal seams under her family estate in Halifax and her reaction to the Peterloo massacre. She conducted a love life of labyrinthine complexity, while searching for a girlfriend who could provide her with both financial security and true love.
'A fascinating book about a remarkable woman.'
The Times
'Angela Steidele has written a Regency romp which gives a vivid glimpse into a hidden world of female eroticism.'
Spectator
'Steidele's steely account of the lives behind the first rainbowed plaque is a triumph of truth over fantasy. Lister's extraordinary pioneering life deserves to be remembered.'
Guardian
Anne Lister's journals were so shocking that the first person to crack their secret code hid them behind a fake panel in his ancestral home. Lister was a Regency landowner, an intrepid world traveller ... and an unabashed lover of other women.
In this bold new biography, prizewinning author Angela Steidele uses the diaries to create a portrait of Anne Lister as we've never seen her before: a woman in some ways very much of her time and in others far ahead of it. Lister recorded everything from the most intimate details of her numerous liaisons through to her plans to make her fortune by exploiting the coal seams under her family estate in Halifax and her reaction to the Peterloo massacre. She conducted a love life of labyrinthine complexity, while searching for a girlfriend who could provide her with both financial security and true love.
'A fascinating book about a remarkable woman.'
The Times
'Angela Steidele has written a Regency romp which gives a vivid glimpse into a hidden world of female eroticism.'
Spectator
'Steidele's steely account of the lives behind the first rainbowed plaque is a triumph of truth over fantasy. Lister's extraordinary pioneering life deserves to be remembered.'
Guardian
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Read it and then watch the TV-Show
Milli aus Wien am 29.06.2019
Bewertungsnummer: 343582
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)
Anne Lister is one of the more interesting people in queer history. Especially because she chronicled the details of her daily life - and man what a life it was.
A gender nonconformist, lesbian landowner, who lived in the 1800s, what more do you need to know?
And I especially like this biography here, because not only does Angela Steidele retell the important moments and relationships (better known as her sexual encounters) in a really interesting and gripping way, but she also underlies them with parts of Listers diary entries, like to proof a point - which gives the whole thing a more authentic feeling. Like you can grasp the inner life of this woman more, like there is more truth behind every story. Or as much truth as there can be when your main source of information is an unreliable narrator.
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