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Gentleman Jack - A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist Author Angela Steidele in conversation with Dr. Erica Gillinghman of Gay's the Word. Doors 7pm. Free but please RSVP here on this facebook event page (or by calling 0207 278 7654 if not on facebook). The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who inspired the television series Gentleman Jack Anne Lister's journals were so shocking that the first person to crack their secret code hid them behind a fake panel in his ancestral home. Anne Lister was a Regency landowner, an intrepid world traveller ... and an unabashed lover of other women. In this bold new biography, prizewinning author Angela Steidele uses the diaries to create a portrait of Anne Lister as we've never seen her before: a woman in some ways very much of her time and in others far ahead of it. Anne Lister recorded everything from the most intimate details of her numerous liaisons through to her plans to make her fortune by exploiting the coal seams under her family estate in Halifax and her reaction to the Peterloo massacre. She conducted a love life of labyrinthine complexity, all while searching for a girlfriend who could provide her with both financial security and true love. Anne Lister's rich and unconventional life is now the subject of the major BBC TV drama series Gentleman Jack. About the author Angela Steidele has written several books about LGBTQ+ lives in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Love Story: Adele Schopenhauer and Sibylle Mertens was shortlisted for the NDR Kultur non-fiction prize. She won the Gleim Literature Prize for In Men's Clothes, her biography of Catharina Linck, and the Bavarian Book Prize for her novel Rosenstengel. Angela Steidele lives in Cologne. Erica Gillingham is an academic, writer, and expert in LGBTQ+ childrens and young adult literature. She currently works as a bookseller at Gays the Word bookshop, the UKs oldest LGBTQ+ bookshop, an Associate Tutor at the University of East Anglia, and a Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton. Reviews A fascinating book about a remarkable woman - Robbie Millen, The Times Steidele's steely account of the lives behind the first rainbowed plaque is a triumph of truth over fantasy. Lister's extraordinary pioneering life deserves to be remembered - Ruth Scurr, Guardian Angela Steidele has written a Regency romp which gives a vivid glimpse into a hidden world of female eroticism - Spectator Paints a vivid picture of a woman who lived and loved as she pleased - Stylist Steidele might just be a German equivalent to Jeanette Winterson - New Books in German
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