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This tale of Georgian England from real diaries and letters shows how money, colour and social background created discord for two young women. The county of Yorkshire, made famous by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë who lived nearby, was where Anne and Eliza met. Both girls were born in 1791. Anne came from the poorest branch of a set of Halifax landed gentry. She wrote journals from 1806 when she was 15 until her death in 1840, and filed al...

For Anne Lister 1817 was a year of letting go of the past and starting again. The coded entries for this year reveal decisions and events that form the rest of her adult life.