It's weird, reading someone's diary.

It serves as a social history document as much as anything, and, although the ‘secret’ part was translated from Anne’s own code, it often refers to cleaning her stays so isn’t at all titillating. *This is not the exact edition I read. . I'm very interested in the lives of queer people throughout history, so I was naturally quite interested to find out more about her. This, Helena Whitbread's second book, first published in 1992, is the lesser-known follow-up, covering the period Sept 1824 to Oct 1826. But it's tragic too. Ann was fanatical in recording even the most mundane matters. covering Latin America to create an extraordinary biography that finally reveals the untold story of Fidel Castro.

"Bloomington" is a coming-of-age drama about a former child actress attending college in search of independence and who ends up becoming romantically involved with a female professor. Camp Belvidere is the story of camp leader Rose and how her friendship with Gin, the camp nurse, evolves into a passionate love affair.

That felt like it took forever. So after buying this book, I looked forward to it hoping it would be just as good. Anne Lister wanted to be a gentleman rogue, and she did quite well for herself, despite the odds. Remarkable that they survived at all, that they were deciphered, that she wrote so much, and that they are so astonishingly frank. Maybe I was more frustrated with him because he had opportunities and money enough etc, but still couldnt do any good.This book is hilarious and eye-opening. The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister book. It is funny, though, because I had no problems at all with the fact that she wasn't very nice. That being said, the fact that she was a woman of independent means and a desire and interest for deep learning fascinates me. Just amazing. Many long passages about scraping out her teeth with a palette knife, venereal pus and an obsession with health which can make her seem neurotic when you forget that these were times when you could drop dead of a cold. went to bed at 10" - but there is quite a lot going on! It is remarkable what Lister was able to do in an age when most women were not educated and homosexuality was frowned upon. foarte frumos, chiar daca e neconventional..multumesc !un film asa si asa…desi sunt o mare fana a acestui gen de filmeFoarte bun….un final fericit, alături de altcineva. And as you're expecting no one else to read the diary, you will be very blunt. Men held the pursestrings.

As this strange summer of staying put winds down, one thing remains truer than ever: Books offer us endless adventure and new horizons to explore... Of the twenty-seven volumes of elaborately-coded diaries which have (thankfully) survived, comprising four million words and covering a thirty-four year period, it has been an absolute delight to read this wonderfully-edited book of journal extracts and to have been provided with a vivid and fascinating insight into the fabric of Anne Lister’s life between 1817 and 1824. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. Although it's fascinating and well worth a read, I think you've got to be interested in particular angles - women's history, Victoriana, Yorkshire, LGBT History, Diary and journal writing etc for it to be of interest, and then it is great, but I wouldn't say it's a read that's going to grab everyone. Start by marking “The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister” as Want to Read: I had to learn more about her, and found these books about her diaries (this is the first one). It was perhaps better for those she termed "vulgar" and to "low" for hInteresting.

studied latin. With Guerrilla Prince, syndicated journalist Georgie Anne Geyer calls on her twenty-five years of experience Freya Penhaligon is eagerly awaiting the return of her beau, the historian Tristan I read it because Id watched Gentleman Jack but this is all set in the period of her life where she's younger (and far more beefy) before the TV series starts. If you’re looking for more of the TV drama, wait for the next series. Initially it seemed like this would be boring - it's a lot of "practice flute for half an hour.

"I love and only love the fairer sex, and thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any love but theirs." I got a bit low over the fact that the part of her life that was covered in this volume was so dull and fruitless. It's like Jane Austen but more beefy and real and also gay.This book represents a good chunk of the diaries of 19th century lesbian Anne Lister, recently made somewhat famous by the Gentleman Jack tv series.

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