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Anne Lister
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English landowner and lesbian diarist (1791–1840)
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Anne Lister (1791–1840) was a British landowner, traveler, diarist, and writer. Born in Halifax and dying in Kutaisi, she held citizenship in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. An Anglican who spoke English, she engaged in mountaineering and travel as both a sport and a field of work.
Her literary output includes seven works, such as *Slipping Through the Cracks*, *Tale of Jaufre*, and *Caballero Jack*. Her diaries appear in the works *The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister* and *Gentleman Jack*. Lister was a lesbian and was unmarried partner to Ann Walker.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Slipping Through the Cracks
- Tale of Jaufre
- Telling the Tale of Jaufre
- Caballero Jack
- Caballero Jack
via Open Library + Wikidata
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1791-04-03 ) 3 April 1791, Halifax , West Riding of Yorkshire , England
- Died
- 22 September 1840 (1840-09-22) (aged 49), Kutaisi , Georgia-Imeretia Governorate , Russian Empire
- Resting place
- St John the Baptist Church Halifax Minster
- Occupation
- Landowner
- Known for
- The First modern Lesbian
- Partner
- Ann Walker (1834–1840; Lister's death)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Anne
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Halifax
- Place of death
- Kutaisi
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Sport
- mountaineering
- Image
- Lister anne.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1791-04-03
- date of death
- 1840-09-22
- present in work
- The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
- unmarried partner
- Ann Walker
- sexual orientation
- lesbianism
- Commons category
- Anne Lister
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Anne Lister (3 April 1791 – 22 September 1840) was an English diarist, famous for revelations for which she was dubbed "the first modern lesbian".
Lister was from a minor landowning family at Shibden in Calderdale, West Riding of Yorkshire. She had several lesbian love affairs from her schooldays onwards, often on long trips abroad; muscular and androgynous in appearance, always dressed in black and highly educated, she was later known—generally unkindly—as "Gentleman Jack". Her final significant relationship was with Ann Walker, to whom she was notionally married in Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York, which is now celebrated as the birthplace of lesbian marriage in Britain.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anne Lister” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.