Gentleman Jack (Movie Tie-In)

By Anne Choma

Gentleman Jack (Movie Tie-In) - Anne Choma
  • Release Date: 2019-04-23
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 4.5
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Description

In 1834, Anne Lister made history by celebrating and recording the first ever known marriage to another woman. Now the basis for the HBO series Gentleman Jack, this is her remarkable, true story.

Anne Lister was extraordinary. Fearless, charismatic and determined to explore her lesbian sexuality, she forged her own path in a society that had no language to define her. She was a landowner, an industrialist and a prolific diarist, whose output has secured her legacy as one of the most fascinating figures of the 19th century. Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister follows Anne from her crumbling ancestral home in Yorkshire to the glittering courts of Denmark as she resolves to put past heartbreak behind her and find herself a wife. This book introduces the real Gentleman Jack, featuring unpublished journal extracts decrypted for the first time by series creator Sally Wainwright and writer Anne Choma.

Reviews

  • A must read. Anne Lister’s diaries give us into lesbian sexuality in the 1800s!

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    By judevelez
    Thank you Anne Lister for being so honest, detailed and poignant in your own personal writing. Thanks to her family members who cracked the code and to the scholar and writer who decided to share this s story with us. I think we all see a little but of Anne Lister in us and aspire to embody the courage and resilience that she had in her day.