#mariana lawton

[lovelydialeonard]

Gentleman Jack, S01E07 (1/2)

MARIANA LAWTON "So it’s all off?" ANNE LISTER "Mm. All off." MARIANA LAWTON "Freddy, are you crying?" ANNE LISTER (yes she is) "No."

[wibblyowzah]

[misswlister]

"my aunt wished me my health and many happy returns of my birthday" abril 3, 1836.

happy birthday miss Lister! 🎂💗

[self-substantialfuel]

A few little sketches I made a while ago but never posted

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[maiagaru]

Mariana’s outfits · Anonymous request. Costume Design: Tom Pye Gentleman Jack s02e04

[likeabxrdinflight]

I think its perfectly fair to watch gentleman jack and dislike Mariana- she's being portrayed at a particularly low point in her life and her actions can be quite manipulative and judgmental. It's entirely fair to see how she treats Anne and think "that's pretty toxic :/"

And you're not wrong.

But I think it's important to remember that most of us, in those days, would have been Marianas. Most queer women were not Anne Listers or Ann Walkers. Most of us would have spent our lives in a miserable closet, forced into marriages to men for financial security and to avoid ridicule or slander or worse. When Mariana says she resents Anne for implying that she really had a choice, she's not wrong. Anne is enormously financially privileged and that is the only thing that allows her to be as openly queer as she is. The rest of us? The working and middle class people that we are? Don't fool yourselves. We'd have been lucky to have been in Mariana's position, with a well off husband who looks the other way when our lover comes calling.

Mariana is the most realistic character in this show for most of us. Maybe we all wouldn't have acted like she does, certainly. But her position is absolutely the one most of us would have been in had we lived in her time. Internalized homophobia and all.

I have deep empathy for that.

[ettucamus]

“ WHY NOT? CAN WE NOT HAVE ONE LAST KISS IN THIS LIFE BEFORE WE TURN TO DUST? ”

- GENTLEMAN JACK (2019-), “I’M NOT THE OTHER WOMAN, SHE IS”

[anti-anticheese]

Well, you asked me the same question about me and Charles all those years ago. I can’t imagine why you’d think it any different me asking you the same thing.

[quietparanoiac]

Gentleman Jack (2019–), 2x04

[marysol7r]

The Anne Lister Effect

[annelistersgirlfriend]

anne lister and mariana lawton

[lovelydialeonard]

Gentleman Jack, S01E07 (2/2)

MARIANA LAWTON “Seriously, you asked her to marry you? To - (she whispers, even though there’s no real need to) To exchange rings? And alter wills? And move in?” ANNE LISTER “Yes. Well. I hadn’t raised the matter of wills yet, but - (MARIANA goes quiet and thoughtful) What’s the matter?” MARIANA LAWTON “All the things we talked about doing?”

[wibblyowzah]

[historicalshenanigans]

A thousand reflections & recollections crowded on me last night. The last time I slept in this room & in this bed, it was with Mariana, in 1815, the summer of. Surely no one ever doted on another as I did then on her. I fondly thought my love & happiness would last for ever. Alas, how changed.

Anne Lister, diary entry 13 September 1817

[maiagaru]

Inspired by @heartsways wonderful fic You Can't Play on Broken Strings  (more specifically, chapter 2) for the SWCU/Gentleman Jack AU

[self-substantialfuel]

This took ages because I hardly had time to work on it. But here's a bit of existential crisis Anne Lister 🙌

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