Nature's Domain: Anne Lister and the Landscape of Desire

Nature's Domain: Anne Lister and the Landscape of Desire

May 1832: Anne Lister was making her way home to Halifax and ancient Shibden Hall. Betrayed once again by another womanâ€™s marriage plans, she knew her romantic youth was over. So many of her female friends had married and settled.

Anne cast around forlornly for the life-companion she had so long sought. She held melancholy spirits at bay by reading new geology and new gardening books in Shibdenâ€™s well-stocked library.â€¨ Then a chance re-acquaintance with neighbouring heiress Ann Walker changed all that. Anne Lister is best known to us as a lesbian diarist. Natureâ€™s Domain tracks her intense courtship of Ann Walker, vividly and candidly recorded in Anneâ€™s daily journals - and partly written in her own secret code.

This influential Anne Lister book also documents how she began redesigning the Shibden landscape and playing a powerful new role in the local political tumult after the passing of the great Reform Bill.

This dramatic story, hitherto unknown and never before unpublished, unfolds to New Yearâ€™s Eve 1832. It records how Anne Listerâ€™s indomitable will enabled her to mould nature to her own powerful desires.

â€œNatureâ€™s Domain gives a compelling overview of a key time in Anne Listerâ€™s remarkable life. Jill Liddington guides us knowledgeably through the diaries of 1832, offering crucial insight into Anneâ€™s private and candour observations about love, sex, money and politics.â€
Laura Johansen, Cultural Destinations Manager, Halifax.

Jill Liddington is co-author of One Hand Tied Behind Us (1978) which became a suffrage classic. She is author of Presenting the Past: Anne Lister of Halifax 1791-1840 (1994) and of Female Fortune: the Anne Lister diaries 1833-36 (1998). She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, and lives in Mytholmroyd near Halifax.

Sally Wainwrightâ€™s BBC1 drama series, Gentleman Jack was inspired by Female Fortune and Natureâ€™s Domain
Country USA
Manufacturer Pennine Pens
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2019-04-22
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Pennine Pens
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2019-04-22
Format	Kindle eBook

Nature's Domain: Anne Lister and the Landscape of Desire

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