Name: 初代モダンレズ // ジェントルマンジャック【CC (The First Modern Lesbian // Gentleman Jack [CC])
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:17:34.000Z
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If you’re new here, hi, I’m Jessica, I make a range of videos about LGBTQ+ things,

disability things, vintage fashion things… and profiles of historical people who are

disabled or gay or both! … or a Tudor. Because I have lots of feelings about the Tudors.

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Today’s historical profile is very exciting because I’m profiling Anne Lister:

Okay, she wasn’t. But she WAS probably the one who talked about it the most.

During her life, Anne wrote a four-million-word diary and she dedicated about 700,000 words

Born in 1791, Anne was an openly butch English landowner, diarist, mountaineer, and traveller

from Yorkshire. She’s often called the "the first modern lesbian" for her clear self-knowledge

and openly lesbian lifestyle. Despite suffering harassment for her sexuality she was called

Now a new BBC/HBO series about her has been made telling her true story and it’s a series

the creator doesn’t think could have been made at any other time. The pitch was shot

- Available in my shop again from today, check the merch link in the description.

But the times they are a changing and if we’ve learnt anything from Killing Eve it’s that

the internet loves to gif some girl love. Of course there are always some people...

who think they’re allowed to have some kind of a say in two

consenting adults who are happily in love.

But for this video we’re going to ignore them and just enjoy clips of Suranne Jones

as Anne Lister being awesome while I treat you to some fun history.

- do note that Gentleman Jack premiered on 22nd April on HBO in America and will be out

on BBC One on the 19th May in the UK so you may already be able to watch it, I’ve seen

the first episode and I’m not kidding, she really is awesome.

Also Anne’s endless optimism in the face of adversity was one of her defining character

traits and let’s be honest, ‘relentless optimism’ is my brand so I’m very clearly

Anne was the second child and eldest daughter of Jeremy Lister who in 1775 served with the

British Army in the American War of Independence. Ten years later he married Rebecca Battle

and their first child, John, was born in 1789 but died the same year. Anne was born two

years later and was followed by another four children. Although the Listers had six children

only Anne and her younger sister Marian survived past 20 years old.

Anne was first educated at home then sent away to school at the age of seven. At the

age of 13 she was sent to the Manor House School in York… and that’s when things

It was there she met her first love, Eliza Raine, who was the incredibly rich daughter

of a surgeon in the East India Company and had only just been brought back to England

after his death. The girls shared a room and… well, let’s just say that Anne was asked

to leave and wasn’t allowed back until Eliza had left!

Poor Eliza really got the short end of the stick however as she expected to live with

Anne as an adult and that they would be together forever. Sadly, in her absence, Anne began

affairs with two other girls, Isabella Norcliffe and Mariana Belcombe- whose father ran an

asylum that Eliza was then sent to in the pit of her lesbian depression.

To be fair though, women were treated pretty badly at the time so it may have been just

Anne had an unfortunate habit of sending her lady lovers to Dr Belcombe’s

One thing Eliza did have going for her was that she inspired Anne’s love of writing

prolific diaries. As I told you earlier, during her life Anne wrote a four-million-word diary.

It had begun in 1806 as scraps of paper in secret code parcels sent to and from Eliza

Raine but went on to become the 26 Quarto volumes, ending at her death in 1840.

- mainly those concerning the intimate details of her romantic and sexual relationships-

The code she and Eliza developed was derived from a combination of algebra, zodiac, puctuation

and Ancient Greek. Anne also had really bad handwritting so that probably helped(!)

She wrote about the women she had crushes on, the women she fell in love with, her feelings

about gender and gender presentation and… lots and lots of sex.

Although the diaries do also contain her thoughts on the weather, social events, national events,

and her business interests so it’s an interesting social history of the time as well.

At the age of 35 she took over management of her aunt’s property, Shibden Hall, and

inherited it ten years later. She drew a good income from the property and lands, along

with a varied financial portfolio she had built that included properties in town, shares

in the canal and railway industries, mining, and stone quarries.

Her wealth allowed her a measure of freedom to live as she pleased. See, they say money

doesn’t buy happiness… but  guess it gives you a better shot at it!

Her two great passions were European travel and developing Shibden Hall which, again:

By far the most important thing to her that she talks often about in her diaries was the

ability to live as she pleased and be who she really wanted to be. Locals referred to

her as “Gentleman Jack” and she loved it. She was described as having a “masculine

appearance” to the extent that one of her lovers, Marianna Lawton (née Belcombe)- the

daughter of the asylum guy who collected Anne’s conquests- was noted as being initially ashamed

to be seen in public with her. She dressed entirely in black and took part in many activities

that were not the ‘norm’ for gentlewomen, such as…

To be fair, anything other than looking pretty, keeping her mouth shut and having lots and

Clearly Marianna didn’t mind that much though as she called Anne “Fred” and the two

including after Marianna got married. But that was with

the permission of her husband who obviously didn’t think that being with a woman was

cheating which… I’m annoyed about for obvious reasons.

[harp music] After all: if lesbianism doesn’t mean anything…

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