I take your point about Gentleman Jack and I enjoyed the first series v. much.
Then I read a biography of her, and she was an awful woman in many ways. Clever, charming, brilliant even, courageous, enterprising, also a liar, money-grubbing, and cruel to the Anne she ended up with.
It is quite an eye-opener though, the sexual goings-on in Yorkshire of the 1830s. If she had been a man, she would not have been allowed unchaperoned with all those women – she would not have had access to them. However if she had been a man of those times with the same sense of entitlement and strong sexual appetite, she would have been rogering servant girls and dairy maids.
I was thinking that the woman in the back left must be a bit hurt that even Glinner’s mail update didn’t identify her. I hope someone can correct that, because if she’s with that group and it’s trending on Twitter, she should get some acknowledgment.
I know, apologies for the “don’t know,” I disliked saying it. I didn’t know Lianne Timmerman or Angela Wild either at first but they were named quickly & often, I don’t know why this one amiga remains so elusive.
Anyway JKR knows and invited her so that’s considerable consolation. Lucky lucky.
I was thinking of Foundation and Empire, and perhaps she is the feminist equivalent of The Mule. Keeps in the background, unassuming, but pulling all the strings.
Glorious.
The second series of Gentleman Jack started last night (brilliant; I love Suranne Jones). The IMDb entry for it starts
Surely Anne Lister wasn’t the whole alphabet soup, just the first letter. It’s inclusivity gone mad, I tell you!
Quite a line-up, isn’t it?
“They few, they happy few, they band of sisters.”
Solidarity.
@ Graham Douglas
I take your point about Gentleman Jack and I enjoyed the first series v. much.
Then I read a biography of her, and she was an awful woman in many ways. Clever, charming, brilliant even, courageous, enterprising, also a liar, money-grubbing, and cruel to the Anne she ended up with.
It is quite an eye-opener though, the sexual goings-on in Yorkshire of the 1830s. If she had been a man, she would not have been allowed unchaperoned with all those women – she would not have had access to them. However if she had been a man of those times with the same sense of entitlement and strong sexual appetite, she would have been rogering servant girls and dairy maids.
I don’t know all the players without a scorecard. Forstater I recognize by sight, but the others with JKR I don’t.
Back row left to right: I don’t know; Doc Stock; Maya; Allison Bailey; Helen Joyce; Liane Timmermann, activist and campaigner at Get The L Out.
Front row: Angela Wild; JKR; Suzanne Moore; Julie Bindel.
I was thinking that the woman in the back left must be a bit hurt that even Glinner’s mail update didn’t identify her. I hope someone can correct that, because if she’s with that group and it’s trending on Twitter, she should get some acknowledgment.
I know, apologies for the “don’t know,” I disliked saying it. I didn’t know Lianne Timmerman or Angela Wild either at first but they were named quickly & often, I don’t know why this one amiga remains so elusive.
Anyway JKR knows and invited her so that’s considerable consolation. Lucky lucky.
I was thinking of Foundation and Empire, and perhaps she is the feminist equivalent of The Mule. Keeps in the background, unassuming, but pulling all the strings.