Anne Lister Archives

Season 2 might have reached a conclusion without a cliffhanger, but Anne Lister (Suranne Jones) and Ann Walker's (Sophie Rundle) story was far from over. "Gentleman Jack", BBC "I mean, my ambition when we started was to tell the story of the rest of her life which would have hopefully been about four series," she said[...]

Gentleman Jack stars Suranne Jones as Anne Lister, a real-life landowner and polymath who lived in 1830s Yorkshire and kept a diary that documented her various lesbian relationships in the days before the word "lesbian" even existed "Gentleman Jack" was a derogatory old England slang for women who pursued and seduced other women The title[...]