Its timely lessons in risk-taking and self-acceptance are relevant for every woman today. The Gentleman Jack Effect chronicles how a prime time television drama spurred the creation of an international community of gay women and their allies, sparked a movement to update queer history, and emboldened women, regardless of whom they love, to throw off society’s restraints to live fearlessly and fully be themselves. This illustrated anthology details how a TV show about a adventurous 231-year-old lesbian inspired women worldwide to embrace their sexuality, discover love and friendship among the burgeoning Gentleman Jack fandom, climb the same mountain Lister was the first person in the world to conquer, morph into history detectives, and embark on pilgrimages to Halifax, Lister's hometown in northern England and now the new lesbian mecca. It also prompted epic transformations among its fans, documented in Janet Lea's engaging collection of dozens of first-person narratives about what she calls 'the Gentleman Jack effect.' Table of Contents Preface Introduction Note on the Text I. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Universityof Leeds. HBO/BBC’s ground-breaking 2019 television series electrified women worldwide and vaulted Anne Lister, aka Gentleman Jack, to lesbian icon status. Jill Liddington is the author of Female Fortune: The Anne Lister Diaries 1833'36 (2022), and Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census (2014).

It takes her story from 1836 where Female Fortune ends, up to mid-1838 when she heroically scales Vignemale, the highest peak in the French Pyrenees. Now, the true story of how these two daring souls rose above 19th century social conventions is an inspiration to others yearning to be their most authentic selves. Jill Liddington JillLiddington Mar 7 Many thanks to MUP for publishing my new Anne Lister book.

So was Ann Walker, the wealthy heiress who married her-in 1834. Until the period drama Gentleman Jack first aired in 2019, English landowner, world traveler, prolific diarist, and unapologetic lesbian Anne Lister was a well-kept secret.

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