Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 259 – Interview with Jill Liddington

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 259 – Interview with Jill Liddington - transcript

(Originally aired 2023/05/20 - listen here)

This episode is an interview with historian Jill Liddington, whose book Female Fortune inspired Sally Wainwright to create the Gentleman Jack tv series about Anne Lister.

A transcript will be posted when available.

Show Notes

In this episode we talk about:

• The social and economic landscape of Anne Lister’s life
• The dynamics of Lister’s “marriage” to Ann Walker
• The history of the diaries and their amazing legacy
• Jill Liddington’s books about Anne Lister
  • Presenting The Past: Anne Lister Of Halifax, 1791–1840, Pennines Pens, 1994.
  • Female Fortune: Land, Gender and Authority: The Anne Lister Diaries and Other writings, 1833–36, Manchester University Press (original edition: Rivers Oram Press, 1998).
  • Nature's Domain: Anne Lister and the Landscape of Desire, Pennine Pens, 2019.
  • As Good as a Marriage: The Anne Lister Diaries 1836-38, Manchester University Press, 2023.
• This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Anne Lister

A transcript of this podcast will be available here when transcribed.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
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• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
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• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
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• Twitter: @heatherosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Links to Jill Liddington Online

• Website: jliddington.org.uk
• YouTube: Anne Lister historian Jill Liddington discusses her new book, As Good as a Marriage