#anne choma

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GOOD LORD! Happy Pride to us indeed! Tom Pye has outdone himself with that stunning waistcoat and embroidery 😍😍😍 Cannot wait to see what else he’s magicked together for season 2!

Posted @withregram • @suranne_jones Anne Lister in a rainbow cardi?!! What’s not to love❤️🌈 #PRIDE ❤️

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Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister

Anne Choma

Publisher: Penguin Genre: nonfiction, biography Year: 2019

Don’t make fun of me but I’ve just discovered Libby, and I’ve been loving it. I don’t like listening to fiction so I’ve been listening to nonfiction and it’s been GREAT.

I just finished Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister by Anne Choma, the account of one of the first explicitly lesbian historical figures. Anne kept a meticulous diary from her 25th birthday to her death at 49, that totaled 28 volumes and over 5 million words, half of it written in code. When her ancestor discovered her diaries behind old paneling in the 1930s, discovering her lesbianism, he was going to burn them but decided against it and they were rediscovered decades later.

Anne Lister is one of my favorite historical figures because she’s such a contradiction. She was a true blue Tory (🤮) and ardent classist, but also a world traveler, landowner, shrewd businesswoman, and lesbian. She had many lovers and often seduced other women, even developing a secret code for orgasms and bringing other women orgasms in her diary.

The book offers a disappointingly short look at her life from 1828 when she had love troubles when one of her paramour’s married a man, to 1834 wedding to Anne Walker (so many Anne’s!!!). While I enjoyed the detail this book brings, and how it brought the story to life, I bitterly wish it was a full biography and not just a snippet of her pursuit of a wife.

But alas, it is all I have, and I enjoyed it greatly.

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★★★★ land-owning lesbian stars

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Welp, trailers are in and production is set. Fingers crossed the Level 3 in Yorkshire doesn't shut them down. FAnn(e)dom, now is the time to send some good vibes to our gals that everyone stays safe and healthy!

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[Ann Walker] took me up to her room. I kissed her and she pushed herself to me ... If I stay all night, it will be my own fault if I do not have all of her I can ... she wishes to know what metal I am made of, and I begin to fear not being able to do enough.

Anne Lister fearing she might not be able to satisfy Ann Walker sexually, 5th October 1832

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Late night reading <3

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Hello, just wanted to say I really love your blog, and how quality the content is, not just your gifs but everything you post. Also, this might be a stupid question but I’m really interested, so hey-ho. Are there any surviving letters that AW wrote to AL? I mean, I’m dying to see her actual handwriting, not just the content of it. Thanks, and sorry if you’ve already answered this.

First of all, thank you so much for your nice message :) I’m happy to read that you enjoy my content. Thank you so much, really!

And now, if you want to see AW’s handwriting you can see it in the two letters linked below in this post. One of the two letters is an actual letter AW wrote to AL, the other one is a letter AW wrote to Booth after Anne’s death (depressing, I know). 

• Actual letter written by Ann Walker to Anne Lister, and written verbatim in code by Anne in her journal 12/11/1832.

• Transcription of letter from Ann Walker, Moscow, 17 Dec1840, to Booth in Halifax, shortly after Anne Lister’s death.

I would advise to follow Anne Chome on twitter because she usually posts “new stuff” about the Ann(e)s’ while she keeps on transcribing and researching. Very interesting.

If you check the West Yorkshire Archive Collection of the Shibden papers and documents, you can see that there are a lot of letters from Ann Walker to Anne Lister listed among other things.

I’ve tried to access them but it seems that they are just listed and not scanned so when you open one of them you can only see the description of the contents + the date, and not the actual document. Example:

This is why it took me so long to answer you, I’ve been trying to access the scanned documents to link you one of the actual letters but it seems that the scanned letters are not in the archive (that or I’m just missing something or doing something wrong).

If someone knows more about this, please let me know, I’d love to access the documents and read AW’s letters :)

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I'm not ready for the season to end yet!

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The Hungarian edition of Anne Choma's book Gentleman Jack, published in 2019.