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carriegessner's review against another edition
5.0
This is a fascinating look into Anne Lister's life, but I'm glad I read it after watching the show and reading the companion book, which gave me better context for this. There's something weird and wonderful about reading words someone wrote 200 years ago and knowing they lived and breathed just as surely as I do now. I thought about that a lot as I read. And Anne came across as so confident in the previous media I'd consumed that glimpsing her insecurities and flaws was humanizing.
kl92620's review against another edition
4.0
This is a collection of selected diary entries written by Anne Lister from 1816-1824. It mostly covers her daily experiences and personal reflections, so if you're for a thrilling page-turner this is definitely not it. However, I still found this book to be an interesting read because you really get to intimately experience the life of an upper class British lesbian in the early 19th century. It was interesting to learn about the lifestyle of upper middle class British families during this time as well as the way that Anne Lister was simultaneously respected by those around her for her genteel background yet ostracized for her masculine, unorthodox appearance and manners. Although this book didn't exactly keep me on the edge of my seat, I'm interested in checking out the second volume of this series for more.
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