Gentleman Jack: A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist
Longlisted for the 2019 Portico Prize The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who inspired the popular television series Gentleman Jack.Anne Lister's journals were so shocking that th…
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