![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The financial security provided by the Shibden estate that allowed Anne Lister to pursue her various interests and it was the same Anne ![]() The two are intertwined and interdependent: it was This is as much the story of Shibden Hall as it Unusual and a grudging respect for people who did things differently. Halifax folk have always had a fondness for the According to Anne herself, it was not Shibden Hall but for much of her life she lived there. All the available clues point to a house (now demolished) probably part of the Shibden estate, known as St Helen's. She was born in Halifax but it is difficult to ascertain the actual house in which the birth took place. View only to fully emerge almost 150 years after her death. She was also a lesbian – today she is often hailed as “theįirst modern lesbian – which may help to explain why her story was hidden from Of her death in 1840 she managed only a two line obituary in the Leeds Mercuryĭespite being an encyclopaedic diarist, an accomplished mountaineer, and a This has not always been the case: at the time Notorious Anne Lister”, sometimes “the brave Miss Lister”: often she isĬelebrated and occasionally she is persecuted, but now, some 200 years after Without some evocative adjective as a companion. Anne Lister written by Alan Burnett exclusively for Anne Lister’s name rarely appears in print these days ![]()
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