Gentleman Jack: A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist by Katy Derbyshire, Angela Steidele

Gentleman Jack: A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist

Katy Derbyshire, Angela Steidele

349 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography history lgbtqia+ challenging informative medium-paced
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Gentleman JackAnne 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 ...

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