{"product_id":"the-secret-diaries-of-miss-anne-lister-vol-1","title":"The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister: Vol. 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Engaging revealing at times simply astonishing: Anne Lister's diaries are an indispensable read for anyone interested in the history of gender sexuality and the intimate lives of women' SARAH WATERS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'[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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThese diaries include the years 1816-1824. The second volume continuing Anne's story THE SECRET DIARIES OF MISS ANNE LISTER: NO PRIEST BUT LOVE is now available.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u0026gt;","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44789136162995,"sku":"9781844087198","price":639.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17478056769781844087198.jpg?v=1762841846","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/the-secret-diaries-of-miss-anne-lister-vol-1","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}