![]() ![]() "Although bits of it do talk about things like the financial aspects of her life - which she was quite embarrassed about as she didn't have a lot of money - a large proportion of it does talk about her lesbian relationships in quite intimate detail."Īnne Lister's diaries really do contain the sort of information one might find in many modern diaries - something which might come as a surprise when you think they were written for the most part before Queen Victoria was even on the throne.Ĭlaire says: "She talks about her tactics for wooing women. ![]() It is this aspect of her life which forms the basis for the new BBC film.Ĭlaire explains: "The part of the diary which I think will be featured most in the film, and I think what a lot of people are interested in, is the sixth of the diary which is in code, a code of her own devising. ![]() "She recorded things like the weather, social events, national events and her business interests."ĭue to the strictures of the time, Anne was forced to keep her sexuality a secret from society at large, but her diaries reveal the truth about just what she got up to. Anne Lister oversaw the building of the tower library at Shibden HallĬlaire Selby, who is curator of Social History for Calderdale Museums and is based at Shibden Hall, says Anne's diaries are an amazing achievement in themselves.Ĭlaire says: "She wrote over 4,000,000 words and she talks about everything in her diary. ![]()
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