Autor/-in: Patricia Hughes

If you enjoy reading these diary entries and letters written by Anne Lister (1791-1840) and Eliza Raine (1791-1860) and their friends and associates, you might also enjoy "Anne Lister's Secret Diary for 1817". Using only her secret, encrypted diary entries for that year from March, after she is ejected from her partner Mariana's new marital home, she describes having to remake her life as a single woman. As a woman she does not expect to inherit, and as a lesbian she does not intend to marry. Suddenly her life begins to change.