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'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing: Anne Lister's diaries are an indispensable read for anyone interested in the history of gender, sexuality, and the intimate lives of women' SARAH WATERS'The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian history; they changed everything. By resurrecting them and editing them with such loving attention and intelligence, Helena Whitbread has earned the gratitude of a whole generation' EMMA DONOGHUEWhen this volume of Anne Lister's diaries was first published in 1988, it was hailed as a vital piece of lost lesbian history. The editor, Helena Whitbread, had spent years painstakingly researching and transcribing Lister's extensive journals, much of which were written in an elaborate code - what Lister called her 'crypthand', which allowed her to record her life in intimate, and at times, explicit, detail. Until then, Anne Lister's lesbianism had been supressed or hinted at; this was the first time her story had been told. Anne Lister defied the role of nineteenth-century womanhood: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller and lesbian - a woman who lived her life on her own terms.'[Anne Lister's] sense of self, and self-awareness, is what makes her modern to us. She was a woman exercising conscious choice. She controlled her cash and her body. At a time when women had to marry, or be looked after by a male relative, and when all their property on marriage passed to their husband, Anne Lister not only dodged the traps of being female, she set up a liaison with another woman that enhanced her own wealth and left both of them free to live as they wished . . . The diaries gave me courage' JEANETTE WINTERSONThese diaries include the years 1816-1824. The second volume, continuing Anne's story, THE SECRET DIARIES OF MISS ANNE LISTER: NO PRIEST BUT LOVE, is now available.

At this time of writing, The Ebook The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister: Vol. 1: I Know My Own Heart has garnered 10 customer reviews with rating of 5 out of 5 stars. Not a bad score at all as if you round it off, it’s actually a perfect TEN already. From the looks of that rating, we can say the Ebook is Good TO READ!

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This is such a wonderful book. I feel both as a voyeur and as a researcher and just as a cozy reader going through the pages. In fact, I'm not through the book completely yet, and I don't want it to end: I find it both engrossing and relaxing at the same time.Although I've considered myself fairly well versed in that time period of England, I've learned so much from this diary. And the details are simply fascinating. In fact, I wish there were more of them: I wish this book included the whole diary, not just the excerpts. Anne counting her money and detailing the specifics of trying to heal her venerial disease? I want to read it. I want to know more about the relative costs of things, about her day-to-day goings, about what it was like to travel at that time.The editor (translator) never explains how she chose what to include and what to omit, and those omissions is why I took off one star from my rating. Was there more to the diary? Or is it all? How are the cuts made? I wish the editor would have at least explained. The other editorial choice I didn't quite understand is her perchance for summarizing the events to come. Perhaps it makes the following pages more easily understandable, but, at the same time, it removes what suspense can be found in a diary. I also found that there were at least a couple of places where I disagreed with the editor's summary. E.g. before the pages detailing the last few months of Anne's acquaintance with Miss Browne, the editor summarizes it as "Miss Browne went away never completely understanding what Anne wanted from her." Oh, but from the dialogues Anne relays, I think Miss Browne understood it very well! In fact, how much clearer can she be when she says "I wish you were a gent"? Maybe there were more material included that made the editor think Miss Browne so naive and unaware. But maybe not. All in all I could've done without those editorializing comments.On the other hand, I think this diary is ripe for more research and more annotations explaining some details of what Anne is doing or why she's doing certain things. I was able to piece some things together, but others remained unclear -- but it would make for a wonderful volume to have more explanations and illustrations (e.g. a detailed explanation of the systems of measures for money and other measurements).Still, overall it's an enjoyable read and an invaluable work was done by the translator/editor, for which I give her my huge thanks.

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