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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister is a 2010 British biographical historical drama film about 19th-century Yorkshire landowner Anne Lister. Made for television, the film was directed by James Kent and starred Maxine Peake as Lister. The script by Jane English drew from Lister's diaries, written in code, and decoded many years after her death.
May 31, 2010 · A TV movie based on the life and diaries of Anne Lister, a 19th-century lesbian landowner in Yorkshire. Starring Maxine Peake, Anna Madeley, Susan Lynch and others, the film explores her love, family and business struggles.
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- Biography, Drama, Romance
- James Kent
- 2010-05-31
Aug 1, 1992 · A book review site for Anne Lister's diaries, edited by Helena Whitbread. The diaries reveal her life as a lesbian landowner, industrialist, traveler and code-breaker in the 19th century.
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- Paperback
- Anne Lister, Helena Whitbread
Jan 28, 2023 · These remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller - and lesbian. She kept extensive diaries, written partly in code, of her life and loves First published in 1988
A movie based on the real diaries of Anne Lister, a 19th-century English landowner who wrote about her lesbian affairs. See ratings, reviews, cast, and where to watch online or in theaters.
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- James Kent
- Drama
- Maxine Peake
Jun 19, 2012 · Discover the extraordinary diaries of the real Anne Lister: the inspiration for Gentleman Jack and Emma Donoghue's new novel Learned By Heart. 'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing' SARAH WATERS.
- Anne Lister
May 31, 2010 · A drama based on the journals of Anne Lister, a 19th-century Yorkshire landowner and industrialist who lived a secret life with her female lover. The programme is not available on BBC iPlayer and was last broadcast in 2012.
