Gentleman Jack from Halifax
Elizabeth Mavor, 4 February 1988
I know my own heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister, 1791-1840
edited by Helena Whitbread.
Virago, 370 pp., £7.95, February 1988,0 86068 840 2 Show More
edited by Helena Whitbread.
Virago, 370 pp., £7.95, February 1988,
“... of the waverings are in code, though for each friend a key was usefully provided, by which means Helena Whitbread has been enabled to penetrate a secret life quite remarkable in the openness of its expression. Dramas both melancholy and uproarious with ‘M’ and ‘Tib’ (at one point Anne had a mind to disguise herself as a man and marry Tib in ... ”