#Angela Steidele

[intellectures]

Sprachgewaltige Gespensterjagd

Die Schriftstellerin, Lyrikerin und Literaturprofessorin Ulrike Draesner lüftet den Deckmantel des Schweigens und lässt Frauen erzählen, wie sich Krieg und Gewalt in Körper und Seele festkrallen.

Die Schriftstellerin, Lyrikerin und Literaturprofessorin Ulrike Draesner lüftet den Deckmantel des Schweigens und lässt Frauen erzählen, wie sich Krieg und Gewalt in Körper und Seele festkrallen. Continue reading Untitled

[hoerbahnblog]

Literaturkritik.de: "Dichtung und Wahrheit" Angela Steideles Roman „Aufklärung“ entführt die Lesenden in die Stadt Leipzig zur Zeit des 18. Jahrhunderts"

Literaturkritik.de: “Dichtung und Wahrheit” Angela Steideles Roman „Aufklärung“ entführt die Lesenden in die Stadt Leipzig zur Zeit des 18. Jahrhunderts” Hördauer ca. 18 Minuten) https://literaturradiohoerbahn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Literaturkritik-de-Dichtung-und-Wahrheit-upload.mp3 Der Begriff der Aufklärung wird zumeist mit Philosophen wie Immanuel Kant, Voltaire oder David Hume…

[amphibious-thing]

The thing about Anne Lister is that her diaries are an incredibly valuable source on what was like for sapphic women in early 19th century England but Anne herself is kinda unlikable.

[m-madeleine]

hi! for the end of the year asks: 1, 3, 9, 14, 22, 24?

Hiiii!

1. How many books did you read this year?

Officially 33, although counting is difficult because I interned in publishing this summer and read some books that weren't out at the time. I keep thinking of more books I finished half a year ago. There's one that's announced for February and I guess I'll be counting it for this year instead??

Then there were also a couple that I technically finished, but am not counting for my goodreads challenge for Reasons, like I was basically skimming because of fast review deadline...or found so artrociously horrible I don't even want it to stain my account lmao. And that last one, I did the final edit for, so I know how bad it was even after multiple professional editing rounds :P

3. What were your top five books of the year?

In no particular order

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (EL!!! El, the girl who was born to be evil and fights tooth and nail to stay good out of spite T-T) (Also I realized I operate nigh daily on the exact same level of vigilance as a kid in a school that will KILL YOU and that's....a lot)

The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane (chill nonfiction about hiking and sailing mostly around Britain)

Shadow Girls by Carol Birch (girl's schools and ghostssss)

The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell (two girls bury their own parents in their backgarden; macabre in the best ways, grim but full of love)

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (essentially a fictional true crime case where you actually get the satisfaction of unpeeling all the layers through a round dance of POVs, left me Pondering for daysss)

Bonus: Along the Trenches by Navid Kermani (a travelogue that gets into the nitty gritty of the history and politics of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus) (I've only gotten halfway through, but I have to mention it NOW because it's amazing and Kermani has been cemented as my non-fiction crush)

9. Did you get into any new genres?

Not really! I def felt a taste for dark stuff this year though.

For the opposite of Getting Into, I had to read a lot of r0mance novels and new adult fiction for work, and mmmmmmm no. No shade, I did enjoy a couple, even though I'm not sure I would've finished them if I didn't have to. But they're just so formulaic T-T I need my books to have a kick.

14. What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

Worked hard on finishing In Männerkleidern by Angela Steidele. It's somewhere between an academic work and a conventional biography? The subject is a working class AFAB person in early 1700s Germany who lived sometimes as a woman and sometimes as a man, had a really interesting life, married a woman but eventually got busted and executed for "sodomy with a woman".

I think Steidele is pretty solid about dealing with the transman or lesbian or?? controversy potential, refers to the main character as whatever gender they were presenting as at the time and when discussing the possibility of interpretation at the end gives evidence for and against all possibilities fairly imo.

You're usually not gonna catch me reading history stuff outside uni, but this was a treat.

22. What’s the longest book you read?

Mansfield Park!

24. Did you DNF anything? Why?

Oh yea. For one, a lot of that was involuntary through work, often you'll only get a 50 page sample, sometimes the rest isn't even written yet.

One thing for work I DNFd more or less voluntarily was What Doesn't Kill Us by Ajay Close (sent in for translation licensing). I actually loved it and for the first and last time felt that famed editor "This is MY manuscript and I'm FIGHTING for it" feeling. Buuuuut it's very dark and visceral and I wasn't in a great headspace at the time, so I kind of just quiet quit on it during my last week. I did still write it a recommendation for as far as I got.

Outside of work, The First Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker. Only took me a couple pages to realize it was based on Mary Bell. I actually thought it was very well done, but it was tough to read just because of the subject and even flipping forward didn't help. I don't think I'll go back to it, I feel like I kind of know what it was doing and where it was going and I liked it, but don't need to experience it page by page.

[libraryofglitter]

Thank you @tessabennet for this tag! I've never been tagged in anything on Tumblr so I appreciate it a lot 💕

Last Song: "Good Guys" by MIKA. I love that man

Last show: I'm almost done with Ted Lasso! There are 4 episodes left for me, I think

Last movie: That might have been Magic Mike 3... Which I watched with a group that consisted almost entirely of lesbians

Currently watching: Parks & Recreation! I'm on season 2 and it's fun so far. I love workplace comedies.

Currently reading: Legends & Lattes (fun and relaxing!), Der Boulevard by Tove Jansson and also Aufklärung bei Angela Steidele but I can't find my copy of that one. Oh, and The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel.

Current obsession: Literally NOTHING and that's a big problem. My Patricia Highsmith phase is still ongoing, but it's not all-consuming, and there's no fandom that I'm truly obsessed with at the moment. That's so sad! I need something to fixate on!

[lurkiestvoid]

I fucking love Libby so much. ADHD makes it hard to make Going To The Library a regular routine (hard to remember to return books on time, hard to remember to just Go and Browse), and poverty makes it impossible to collect and read everything I want.

anyways thanks to Libby and my local library card plus a Queer Liberation Library card I've been able to read 79 books since August 2023 and still going strong, AND my "to read" tag STILL has nearly 400 titles in it.

So this post will be a running list of the books I read from Aug23-Aug24:

"Mort," Terry Pratchett

"The Fifth Season," N.K. Jemison

"Celtic Gods and Heroes," Marie-Louise Sjoestedt

"A Very Brief Introduction: The Celts," Barry Cunliff

"Princess Princess Ever After," K. O'Niell

"Gentleman Jack," Angela Steidele

"Hatchet," Gary Paulson

"Equal Rites," Terry Pratchett

"The Religion of the Ancient Celts," J. A. MacCulloch

"The Light Fantastic," Terry Pratchett

"The Giver," Lois Lowry

"The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes," Suzanne Collins

"The Sandman (Vol 2)," Neil Gaiman

"Fourth Wing," Rebecca Yaros

"The Color of Magic," Terry Pratchett

"The Sandman (Vol 1)," Neil Gaiman

"American Gods," Neil Gaiman

"The Song of Achilles," Madeline Miller

"The Handmaid's Tale," Margaret Atwood

"Good Omens," Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

"Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal Edition," Naoko Takeuchi (1-10)

"The Invasion," K. A. Applegate

"Dragon Ball," Akira Toriyama (1&2)

"Dragon Ball Z," Akira Toriyama (1&2)

"The Eight," Katherine Neville

"Behemoth," Scott Westerfield

"Warriors: Dawn of the Clans," Erin Hunter (1-6)

"Warriors: Omen of the Stars," Erin Hunter (1-6)

"Warriors: Power of Three," Erin Hunter (1-6)

"Warriors," Erin Hunter (1-6)

"Leviathan," Scott Westerfield

"The Turn," Kim Harrison (series reread, 0-17)

[annelistersthermometer]

I've certainly got some reading to do and honestly? I can't wait. 💖

[intellectures]

Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse: Geschichte(n) als Spiegel der Gegenwart

Die Jury gibt die Nominierten für den Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse bekannt. Neben einem alten Bekannten finden sich einige echte Überraschungen unter den Nominierten. nach den Indie- und Kleinstverlagen kann nun erstmals auch ein Comicverlag auf eine Auszeichnung hoffen. (more…) “”

[b-case]

“from then on, their letters concerned only chemical gases and armenian grammar” (107). 

“the amateur of pictures who has closed his grand tour without a visit to the hermitage palace, ought to die of the spleen forthwith” (262). 

[biandlesbianliterature]

Carmella reviews Gentleman Jack: a Biography of Anne Lister by Angela Steidele

Carmella reviews Gentleman Jack: a Biography of Anne Lister by Angela Steidele

Earlier this year, HBO and the BBC treated us to Suranne Jones swaggering across the screen in butch Victorian get-up, playing the character of Anne Lister. The first season of Gentleman Jack follows just a segment of Anne’s life starting in 1832, as she woos her future life-partner, Ann Walker.

While I loved the show, it left me wanting to know more. What was Anne Lister really like? Who was…

[amphibious-thing]

See Anne doesn’t just want a wife she wants to be a husband. She wants to be a 19th century husband. She wants control over her wife and in particular her wife’s money. She does not see marriage as an equal partnership but as a hierarchical relationship where the wife submits to the husband.

[vitaandvirginia]

I have never seen anything so beautiful as the York Minster.

Do you recognise the view from the street ?  Text : “They stayed in Spa for four days, at Ann’s request, before Anne hurried them up the river Maas to Huy, Namur and Dinant. They viewed Reims Cathedral - but, after all, and as a Gothic building, I prefer York Minster to all I have seen - and visited the Moët champagne cellars in Epernay. They drank a whole bottle with their meal.”  from Angela Steidele’s Gentleman Jack.

[queer-zeener-blog]

first page of Gentleman Jack: Regency Landowner, Seducer & Secret Diarist by Angela Steidele

[aconissa]

hi ana :) can you give some lgbt book recs for pride month? novels and non-fiction?

Of course, happy to! Here's a pretty solid list but you can find even more on my ‘lgbt’ shelf on goodreads or under my ‘recs’ tag ❤️

Biographies:

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave

Gentleman Jack by Angela Steidele 

Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood

Boy Erased by Garrard Conley

In Search of Mary Shelley by Fiona Sampson

History, essays, and criticism:

Homosexuality & Civilisation by Louis Crompton

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd

The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830 by Susan Lanser

Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue

Pride: The Unlikely Story of the True Heroes of the Miner’s Strike by Tim Tate

Gay and After by Alan Sinfield

Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women by Leila J. Rupp

Critical Essays: Gay and Lesbian Writers of Color edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson

Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Segwick

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton

Novels (mlm):

Maurice by E.M. Forster

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

The Charioteer by Mary Renault

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry (+ gnc character)

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Dark Matter by Michelle Paver

Mary Renault’s Alexander the Great trilogy

Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy

A Land So Wild by Elyssa Warkentin

The Binding by Bridget Collins

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet by Myrlin A. Hermes

A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale

Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjón

Novels (wlw):

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

America Is Not The Heart by Elaine Castillo

Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan

A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry (+ mlm & gnc)

Carol (or The Price of Salt) by Patricia Highsmith

How To Be Both by Ali Smith

In at the Deep End by Kate Davies

The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Tell it to the Bees by Fiona Shaw

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer

Disobedience by Naomi Alderman

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (+ mlm)

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

Hot Milk by Deborah Levy

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

The Pull of Stars by Emma Donoghue

Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls

Novels (trans & gnc):

The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara (+ mlm)

Peter Darling by Austin Chant (+ mlm)

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Crimson by Niviaq Korneliussen (+ mlm & wlw)

Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg (+ mlm & wlw)

Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson (+ mlm)

Short story collections:

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Monstress by Lysley Tenorio

A Portable Shelter by Kirsty Logan

The Whole Story and Other Stories by Ali Smith

All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages

[iredreamer]

Reading the biography by Angela steidele and apparently Anne didn’t sleep with Mariana during the Christmas of 1834? Why did they add that if it hadn’t happened irl?

Hello – here you can read what happened during Christmas 1834.

Something between Anne and Mariana did happen, the show dramatized it a lot more, but something between them did happen (Anne gave her “one parting grubble”) even tho it looks like Anne wasn't really into it and regretted it immediatly after.

Angela Steidele's book is full of inaccuracies, take everything she writes with a grain of salt.