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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister: Vol. 1

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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister: Vol. 1

By: Anne Lister, Helena Whitbread - editor
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
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Summary

Discover the extraordinary diaries of the real Anne Lister: the inspiration for Gentleman Jack and Emma Donoghue's novel Learned By Heart.

When this volume of Anne Lister's diaries was first published in 1988, it was hailed as a vital piece of lost lesbian history. The editor, Helena Whitbread, had spent years painstakingly researching and transcribing Lister's extensive journals, much of which were written in an elaborate code - what Lister called her 'crypthand', which allowed her to record her life in intimate, and at times, explicit, detail. Until then, Anne Lister's lesbianism had been supressed or hinted at; this was the first time her story had been told. Anne Lister defied the role of nineteenth century womanhood: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller and lesbian - a woman who lived her life on her own terms.

These diaries include the years 1816-1824.

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Critic reviews

'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing.' Sarah Waters

'[Anne Lister's] sense of self, and self-awareness, is what makes her modern to us... The diaries gave me courage.' Jeanette Winterson

'The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian history.' Emma Donoghue
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I love this and the others about Anne lister, I hope once all the diaries are de coded we will get an entire book and audio, THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT LISTENING TO HER WORDS, IF I LY WE COULD GET HEATHER PEACE TO READ THEM OR SURRANE JONES!

PLEASE DO THE OTHER ONE!! PRIEST

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A well-narrated audiobook. This is a fantastic bit of history I feel privileged to be able to read. PLEASE make an audiobook for volume 2!

A real privilege

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Absolutely loved this listen ❤️The narrator sounded like Suranne ! Fascinating woman,strong & comical too!
Just gutted vol 2 isn’t on here which is very annoying 😢
Sleep Well lovely Fred ❤️
Bet you didn’t realise when you wrote your crypto 200 years later we would be listening to you ❤️

Fred

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A fascinating look into british and european history from an every day perspective and the life of a particularly fascinating woman. Especially recommended to anyone who enjoyed the show Gentleman Jack, as this is the diary of her earlier life.

I hope they make an audio book for the second volume!

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This book just didnt flow. it was not presented as a story like the program like expected it went back and forth like a documentary. someone reading out the extracts fromnthr diary as written and thej discussing them. Gutted audible wouldn't give me my credit back that's 3 rubbish books ive had recently and 3 wasted credits. I get that thr author didnt want to change much and keep it as original as possible byt it therefore lacked any story line and any flow. The diary entries were brief, short and to the point so after watching thr TV program which was excellent this in comparison was a disappointment.

Disappointed

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