Grubbling
Dinah Birch: Anne Lister, 21 January 1999
Female Fortune: Land, Gender and Authority. The Anne Lister Diaries and Other Writings 1833-36
edited by Jill Liddington.
Rivers Oram, 298 pp., £30, September 1998,1 85489 088 3 Show More
edited by Jill Liddington.
Rivers Oram, 298 pp., £30, September 1998,
“... Anne Lister was undoubtedly one of the most unorthodox women of the early 19th century. She was an active and entirely unashamed lesbian, a scholar, a dauntless traveller and a resourceful businesswoman. As an example of what female tenacity could achieve in the pre-Victorian period, she might be seen as a fortifying ideal ... ”