#the secret diaries of miss anne lister

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Top 5 First-Time Watches of December 2022 1. Aftersun (2022, dir. Charlotte Wells) 2. The Fabelmans (2022, dir. Steven Spielberg) 3. Les Années Super 8 (2022, dir. Annie Ernaux & David Ernaux-Briot) 4. The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010, dir. James Kent) 5. Another Round (2020, dir. Thomas Vinterberg) A special month with my favourite film of the year!

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The secret diaries of Miss Anne Lister, 2020

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This lovely Blue Dark Dress is worn on Maxine Peake as Anne Lister in The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister 2010 and many years later in 2023 is worn on Crystal Clarke as Georgiana Lambe in Sanditon.

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There are soooo many beautiful things circulating around the Gentleman Jack fandom born out of pure passion for the series, our history etc but nothing catches my eye more than our Ann(e)s in a kiss.

It really doesn’t take much to be seen, and yet it’s still something we have to fight tooth and nail for. Representation Matters.

No matter how hard to try to erase us, pretend we don’t exist, we are still here and we will fight for our place. And if not for ourselves, for our next generation. Not just for Gentleman Jack but for all wlw series/movies. Visual representation is so important!

Art credit: Art By Kylie @wildheart71

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THE SECRET DIARIES OF MISS ANNE LISTER (2010) dir. James Kent Anne Lister is a young unmarried woman living in 19th-century Yorkshire with her aunt and uncle. The one thing she wants from life is to have someone to love and to share her life with, but the person she has in mind, her lover Mariana Belcombe, marries a rich widower and breaks off their affair. Depressed, Anne devotes her time to studying, while longing takes over her heart. A year after Mariana's wedding, Anne begins to think about finding another lover. (link in title)

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the secret diaries of miss anne lister

Saturday 9 November [Halifax]

Talking to Anne almost all the morning telling [her] she should either be on or off, that she was acting very unfairly & ought either to make up her mind to let me have a kiss at once or change her manners altogether. I said she excited my feelings in a way that was very unjustifiable unless she meant to gratify them & that, really, that sort of thing made me far from well, as I was then very sick, languid & uncomfortable – not able to relish anything.

Monday 11 November [Halifax]

Had a very good kiss last night. Anne gave it me with pleasure, not thinking it necessary to refuse me any longer.

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round 2 (36/64)

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“You look at Miss Walker's face—could she be any happier?”

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“There is one thing that I wish for. There is one thing without which my happiness in this world seems impossible. I was not born to live alone. I must have the object with me & in loving & being loved, I could be happy.” ― Anne Lister, The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

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"Consider it an engagement. The day you come to live with me, we shall wear these rings on our fingers."

MAXINE PEAKE & ANNA MADELEY as Anne & Mariana THE SECRET DIARIES OF MISS ANNE LISTER (2010, dir. James Kent)

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The secret diaries of Miss Anne Lister, 2010

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Don’t know if this has been asked before but do u have any book recs for exploring butch identity, lesbian-ism, and queerness in general? Love your work by the way! Both blood choke and northern passage are my top favs right now and the way you navigate and explore gender identity is just chefs kiss

thank you!

i've recommended a few books here and there... stone butch blues, obviously, and then s/he by minnie bruce pratt, the persistent desire: a butch/femme reader, transgender warriors by leslie feinberg, whipping girl by julia serano, sister outsider by audre lorde, we both laughed in pleasure by lou sullivan, gender outlaw by kate bornstein... some of these are dated of course but still worth the read. when it comes to reading dated queer literature i always approach it with compassion and remind myself that the community was different back then, and the community will be different twenty years from now, and that it's worthwhile to understand these differences and respect them. also a lot of these authors have huge catalogues of work, i'm just suggesting their more well-known pieces.

some more "modern" books i'd suggest are gender failure by ivan coyote and rae spoon, tomboy survival guide by ivan coyote, black on both sides: a racial history of trans identity by c. riley snorton, hijab butch blues by lamya h, the will to change: men, masculinity, and love by bell hooks, miss major speaks with toshio meronek, my lesbian experience with loneliness by kabi nagata, burning butch by r/b mertz, the secret diaries of miss anne lister (not modern but the presentation is)

i haven't read all of these myself, most of these are lifted right from my to read shelf, but hopefully you see something that interests you! also keep an eye out for content warnings, i think a few of these are pretty heavy reads.

for the older work i always suggest checking if it's on the internet archive (i think almost if not all of them are, i'm just too lazy to look and link them myself rn) there's also the digital transgender archives which are fun to explore!

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My wife just gave me an early wedding anniversary present. She had commissioned a friend to make it for me before she knew of @hbo ‘s decision to cancel the series. It took so much out of me to not break down into sobs when I unwrapped it. The power of words. Between Anne’s diaries and Sally’s scripts, the melding of 2 minds… Anne seeking solace in her diaries by living her truest life, and Sally realising her dream by making @gentlemanjackofficial after all these years since she learnt of Anne’s existence and knowing in her bones what an impact it will have. It has certainly changed my life with my new found confidence in living more authentically!

I asked the wife what made her choose this quote and she said “these are fighting words”, and that blew me away. I mean she knows me, obviously, having been with me for coming to 20 yrs and married for almost 4, but this sums it up perfectly. Anne loving and living the way she did, true to herself, her nature, the way God intended, reconciling her faith with her sexuality in a time where there wasn’t even a term for lesbians.

I get @bbc ‘s reluctance to go it alone and risk making a sub-par product after such a high production standard all round. We have to keep pushing and marshal the troops in seeking help to resurrect the series. Come on! Let’s crack on with it!

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@echoofheartbeats here you are an incomplete list of movies I watched. I should have something else on my pc.

Badhaai do, India. wlw and mlm, the story is entwined. Netflix with subs

Ammonite

The handmaiden, adaptation from the book "Fingersmith". Read the plot because there are several triggering things

The secret diaries of miss Ann Lister, movie. There's also a 2 seasons series (they didn't renew for the 3rd so the story is unfinished) and 2 books with the same title.

Benedetta based on "Immoral acts: the life of a lesbian nun in Renaissance Italy". I had to manually put the subtitles because it's a French movie

The Favourite

The half of it (Netflix)

Portrait of a lady on fire (that I love with all my heart)

Elisa and Marcela (Netflix, Spain but there are the subs), based on a true story.

I can't think straight

Saving face

Tipping the velvet, 3 episodes based on the homonymous book

Ed ladki ko dekha toh aisa laga (Netflix, India, there are subs)

A secret love, documentary, Netflix. I cried almost all the time

Imagine me and you

Loving Annabelle

Kyss mig, Sweden

The girl king, based on a true story (Queen Christina of Sweden)

Sadly there are few wlw movies, documentaries and series on legal streaming apps, so I found most of them everywhere else, sometimes had to find subs online and add them with a specific pc program. Just to be honest: I didn't add few movies because they were so bad that I want to erase them from my mind like Blue is the warmest colour or Room in Rome.

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3, 6, 17, 19 for the book asks!

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

(i made a separate top five with only queer books here)

5) the midnight library - Matt Haig

this book had quite the influence on me, after coming out of a deep depression myself. the protagonist wants to commit suicide and lands in a place between life and death, where she is able to visit alternate life paths. it's very thought provoking and heartfelt.

4) the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse - Charlie Mackesy

this book is so sweet and so comforting. it's for days where you feel alone and discouraged and frustrated and need a reminder that you'll be okay. i gifted it to three other people already, because it's so lovely and such a quick 30-minute-read to lift your spirits and give you hope

3) the help - Kathryn Stockett

a friend gave it to me and I didn't expect to like it, but I enjoyed it immensely. i feel like the topic was handled with so much care and a genuine wish to change people's perspective and make them reflect. also the plotting was just really well done from a writer's perspective.

2) I'm glad my mom died - Jeanette McCurdy

not only was the book incredibly moving, but it was also just so well written. the way the chapters contain different moments of her life and are always presented with a somehow neutrality was so striking. like, the assessment of a situation is often left to the reader and I really liked that she chose to do it that way.

1) complex ptsd - Pete Walker

this book is insanely good for people like me who have abusive or neglecting parents. it's very practical and well explained and helped me wonderfully with understanding my trauma, my triggers and how to deal with flashbacks. i come back to it regularly and can highly recommend it.

6. Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to?

lots of books! currently on my reading list (amongst others): the secret diaries of Miss Anne Lister, Daisy Jones and the six, when Hitler stole pink rabbit, James Baldwin and essays by Toni Morrison

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

girls like girls and the help

19. Did you use your library?

i didn't :( i really can't stand it to love a book and then having to part ways with it again. i need to have it with me and cherish it with loving glances and touches every once in a while.

thanks for asking :)

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Top 5 movies u like

YAY um.

the last unicorn

Ravenous (1999)

The LOTR trilogy

Practical magic

The secret diaries of miss anne lister