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Anne Lister Photoshoot at Shibden Hall in Halifax

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October 22, 2024 at 5:55 AM
emilylhauser.bsky.social
I've finally watched #GentlemanJack and (aside from the fact that, holy exploding cows, @BBC, @HBO, or some other, wiser streaming service must #SaveGentlemanJack) I know the 4th wall thing got under some folks' skins—but can't you see, in those moments, WE are Anne's journal?
November 11, 2024 at 8:15 AM
moirahampton61.bsky.social
We are ready for venturing out together this Winter Puncture-resistant tyres on both (the one on the left is a Richmond from the 198Os) and gears/brakes spot on.
(Lights and hi-vis - they see us coming 🚲🚲) #Raleigh #Buddhism #GentlemanJack #SaveGentlemanJack
November 12, 2024 at 11:14 PM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
‘Isabella Norcliffe wondered at my choice, but did not say much when she found the thing so settled. I said she (Miss Walker) had more in her people thought and was a nice girl, as would appear more by and by.’
🔹Anne Lister, 17 june 1834, Paris
🔏@Frankie31834
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February 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
‘This solitary journey may do me good, it will shew me how far I may really trust to the resources of my own mind. From the moment they fail me, or threaten to do so, I shall date my return.’
🪶Anne Lister to Lady Stuart, 29 july 1833
🔏@Frankie31834
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February 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
‘What a comfort my journal is. How I can write in crypt all as it really is and throw it off my mind and console myself. Thank God for it.’
🔹Anne Lister, 29 april 1832
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February 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
“I like the feeling of to feel, and would absolutely rather feel unhappy than not feel at all.”
🪶Anne Lister to Sibella Maclean,
9 january 1822
🔎@wyorksarchives
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February 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
‘Begged her not to stay longer than three weeks [in the Lake district] (...) Joked & said she had better go with me and be at Rome for Easter. Her refusal was weak enough to make me guess her going as possible.’
🔹Anne Lister, 3 september 1832
🔓@Frankie31834
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February 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
‘I saw, while yet it was afar off, the little curl upon the wave that betokened the coming storm. I warned you from the first, yet every eye saw better than your own.’
🪶Anne Lister to Mariana Lawton, 13 april 1834
🔓@Frankie31834
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February 4, 2025 at 9:13 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
‘Note to A[nn], Cliff Hill. Very dull but had written merely not to tell her that – should be delighted to have her back but had not written merely to tell her that.’
🔹Anne Lister, 9 january 1837
🔓@Frankie31834
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February 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
...I know not when I have been out in such a storm of rain and hurricane of wind, which last was so strong against me that I was literally blown off the causeway five or six times.’
🪶Anne Lister to Ann Walker, 9 october 1832
🔓@Frankie31834
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February 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
‘Your friendship & affection I may still claim, and if you can at all guess how necessary they are to my peace of mind, I am quite certain you will at no period deny me either the one or the other.’
🔹Mariana Lawton to Anne Lister, 31 oct 1834
🔓@Frankie31834
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February 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
‘Off to Lidgate at 5 – Miss [Walker] wished me to stay all night. Dinner at 6 ½, then immediately afterwards tea. Came to my room at 10.40 (...) Miss W- low as of late but always better on seeing me and while I am there.’
🔹Anne Lister, 19 jan 1833
🔓JY Jiang
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February 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
‘Adney has no fancy for going to Germany - mentioned the Pyrénées but said the not being able to cross into Spain would be tantalizing. A- mentioned Switzerland and might like to see the Savoy protestant valleys.’
🔹Anne Lister, 24 feb 1836
#WanderlustWednesday
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February 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
‘I loved you dearly and fondly, I do love you dearly and fondly (...) I am sick, I am sorry, my Fred, I could be miserable. Love me, think of me in pity, do both.’
🪶Mariana Lawton to Anne Lister, 7 april 1834
🔓@Frankie31834
#FreddyFriday
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February 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
‘[Mariana] will take Mr. Crewe and I may be at liberty. How extraordinarily providence rids me of people when I no longer want them and apparently without fault of mine - Eliza Raine, Isabella, Mrs Barlow, Mariana herself.’
🔹Anne Lister, 29 feb 1832
🔓JY Jiang
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February 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
‘[Mrs Priestley] told me her surprise at Miss Walker’s going to Dr Belcombe. I said it was my doing. I was now put upon my metal to make it answer and I would move heaven and earth if I could for this purpose.’
🔹AL, 17 november 1832
🔓@skgway
#TrueLoveTuesday
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February 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
Anne Lister🔸‘At 5.50/.. to 6 and afterwards the fine white rugged mountains magnificent – finely standing out like mountain headlands at sea – at 6 10/.. fine, beautiful magnificent descent up the the hill-strewed plain, and fine view of Annecy.’
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February 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
‘For someone 200 years ago to have the courage & intelligence to be able to navigate her way through society and to be truthful to who she was (...) that’s a beautiful message for anyone, no matter what gender or sexuality they are.’
Sally #WainwrightWednesday
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February 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
‘[Adney] said she had hurried into bed – Could not bear to sit up any longer. Would take a glass of wine, which I gave her (...) I fear poor A- is beginning in the influenza – I have dreaded it for some time past.’
🔹Anne Lister, 28 feb 1837
🔓@janekendalljane
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February 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
‘Miss Valance said she had assured [Charlotte & Tib] that she knew I liked Tib better than Mrs Lawton for I had told her so (...) I was sorry she had made such an assertion and betted she would not repeat it.’
🔹Anne Lister, 15 october 1818
🔎@wyorksarchives
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February 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
‘All would be well if Mr Lawton would be a little more consistent, a little more sociable, a little more forbearing, a little more pleased to see others happy, and a little better tempered.’
🪶 Mariana Lawton to Anne Lister, 20 august 1832
🔓@Frankie31834
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February 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
‘No kiss. My cold very bad – Hardly any voice at all (...) I lay in bed the whole day – only getting up for about 1/4 hour at 9 for the bed to be made. Sat up in Ann’s flannel dressing gown and my greatcoat over all.’
🔹Anne Lister, 26 feb 1837
#FlannelFriday
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February 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
« Mr. S. Gray is coming. Adney will consult him – I think he will advice judiciously – and I am satisfied (...)
I am anxious that A-’s concerns should never appear to have interested me less than my own. »
🔹Anne Lister, 1st april 1837
🔓@Frankie31834
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February 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
annelisterinparis.bsky.social
‘Thought she had better not write to me (...) I could hear of her from her sister, for being abroad & uncertain of the fate of letters, must be careful, must begin with « my dear Miss Walker » and end with « very truly yours ».’
🔹AL, 22 jan 1833
🔓 JY Jiang
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February 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM