{"product_id":"9781844087198","title":"The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister","description":"These remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller - and lesbian. She kept extensive diaries, written partly in code, of her life and loves. The diaries have been edited by Helena Whitbread, who spent years decoding and transcribing them.\u003cp\u003e'[Anne Lister's] sense of self, and self-awareness, is what makes her modern to us. She was a woman exercising conscious choice. She controlled her cash and her body. At a time when women had to marry, or be looked after by a male relative, and when all their property on marriage passed to their husband, Anne Lister not only dodged the traps of being female, she set up a liaison with another woman that enhanced her own wealth and left both of them free to live as they wished . . . The diaries gave me courage' Jeanette Winterson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing: Anne Lister's diaries are an indispensable read for anyone interested in the history of gender, sexuality, and the intimate lives of women' Sarah Waters\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Virago UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47037973856496,"sku":"9781844087198","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781844087198_p0.jpg?v=1763742688","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781844087198","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}