Anne Lister of Shibden Hall, Halifax (1791-1840)

Her Diaries and the Historians

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4493933
AutoresJill Liddington (autor correspondente)
Ano1993
Volume35
Fascículo1
Páginas45-77
Data de publicação1993-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHistory Workshop Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/hwj/35.1.45
OpenAlexW2047965320
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10

Anne Lister scholar and heiress who later ran her own estate with entrepreneurial flair was one of the most remarkable women of preVictorian England. Born in Halifax on 3 April 1791,1 Anne was the eldest surviving child of Captain Jeremy Lister, footloose veteran of the War of American Independence. After a rural East Riding childhood, Anne attended an elite girls' boarding school in York; then from 1806 she spent most of her life in Halifax, a centre of the West Riding worsted industry. Her father was youngest son of the Listers of Shibden Hall, but his brothers either remained unmarried or their children did not survive infancy; and it was Anne who eventually inherited the Shibden estate with its farms and tenancies, mining and quarrying interests. An intrepid European traveller, her great ambition was to visit Russia and venture beyond Moscow. And this she did. With her companion Ann Walker, she set out in 1839 via St Petersburg, reaching the Caspian Sea and eventually Western Georgia. Bitten by a fever-carrying tick, Anne Lister died near K'ut'aisi in this remote Russian province in September 1840.2 It took Ann Walker six months to bring the body back across Europe for burial in Halifax Parish Church. Only very recently has it become clear Anne Lister was a lesbian

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