Anne Lister Archives

Being a True History of Eliza Raine.A graphic novel inspired by Gentleman Jack Anne Lister's first "wife" and British Indian woman Eliza Raine And the feminist-focused publisher Virago will be publishing it in the summer of 2028, after publisher Sarah Savitt acquired world all-language rights to Eliza from Carol Adlam's agent James Spackman at The Bks Agency. Carol[...]

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[...]