🎧 Anne Lister: The First Modern Lesbian?
🎧 Betwixt the Sheets • 35m
t’s a rare thing to hear first hand the experiences of marginalised people in history. So often their voices are silenced, and their histories erased.Â
Which is why Anne Lister’s diaries, which tell us in intimate details what it was like to be a proud lesbian in 19th century Yorkshire, are such an important resource.Â
What was grobbling? What is Anne Lister’s legacy? And what do her coded diaries tell us about life as a lesbian during the industrial revolution? Join us today as we delve Betwixt the Sheets on the legacy of Anne Lister, with historian Anne Choma, the lead adviser on BBC One’s series of Anne Lister, Gentleman Jack, and author of ‘Gentleman Jack - The Real Anne Lister’.
Produced and edited by Stuart Beckwith. Senior Producer Charlotte Long.Â
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