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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2023

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Caroline Gonda  and
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Caroline Gonda
Affiliation:
St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Chris Roulston
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario

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Decoding Anne Lister
From the Archives to ‘Gentleman Jack'
 , pp. 277 - 282
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023
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Index

#SaveGentlemanJack campaign, 234
adaptation, 240–241, 243, 244
Agmashenebeli, David, 195–196
Ahmed, Sara, 74, 85, 256
Alexander, Edward Nelson, 138
anachronism, 223
use of, 249
anatomy, understanding of, 50, 53–54, 56–58
Andrews, Kerri, 183
Andrews, Malcolm, 173
Anne Lister College, 34
Anne Lister Society, 34, 235
anti-Catholicism, 119
Aristotle’s Masterpiece, 52–55, 63
Austen, Jane, 83
authenticity, 247, 249, 257
queer, 254
Bailey, Nathan
Universal Etymological English Dictionary, 76
Bainbridge, Simon, 184
Barlow, Maria, 41, 51, 56, 79, 80
Bartmann, Sara, 62
Batten, Charles L., 172
Bayle, Pierre
Historical and Critical Dictionary, 77
Baylis-Green, Caroline, 228
Béclard, Pierre, 59
Belcombe, Mariana, 8, 19, 21, 24, 39, 56, 57, 79, 80, 99–100, 142
Benjamin, Walter, 240
Bennett, Judith, 5
Bennett, Tony, 137
Beyer, Jenna, 101
biblical texts, use of, 40
Bichat, Xavier, 58, 62
Biggs, Rachael
article in Diva, 240, 255–257
Blank, Paula, 243
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 55, 63
Bobker, Danielle, 95, 97
Bostock, John
Physiology, 57
Bouchard, Dominique, 226
boundaries, breaching, 99–100
Boym, Svetlana, 255
Bradley, Katherine. See Field, Michael
Brewer, Charlotte, 83
Brideoake, Fiona, 179
British Women’s Travel Writing bibliographical database, 172
butch, the, 233
Butler, Eleanor, See Ladies of Llangollen
Butler, Judith, 258
Buzard, James, 173
Byron, Lord, 50, 124–125
Don Juan, 124
Calderdale Museum Service, 151
Cameron, Deborah, 224
Cartwright, William, 138
Catholicism, 115. See also Lister, Anne: views on Roman Catholicism
Chawton House Library editions, 172
Cheselden, William, 56
Choma, Anne, 179, 185
Gentleman Jack: the Real Anne Lister, 175
Clark, Anna, 228
Clark, Peter, 134
clitoris, 49–50, 52–54, 56, 57, 59, 60–63
Cloquet, Hippolyte
Traité d’anatomie, 60
Cloquet, Jules, 60
closets/closeting, 95
in Lister diaries, 96–97
self-conscious, 91, 95, 100, 105
code-cover, 91. See also Lister, Anne: crypt hand
Colchic Forest, 197–199
Colclough, Stephen, 144, 229
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Christabel, 98–99
Colley, Linda, 115
Columbus, Renaldo, 49
Cooper, Edith. See Field, Michael
Cowper, William
The Task, 119
cross-dressing, 7, 19, 102
Cuvier, Georges, 36, 54–60, 62
Dalton, John, 143
Darwin, Charles, 37
Davidoff, Lenore, 136
Family Fortunes, 126
De Graaf, Regnier, 50
De Quincey, Thomas, 183
diary locks, 93
dictionaries, 73–78
Dictionary of the Natural History of the Bible, 37
Dictionnaire des sciences médicales, 62
dildo, use of, 81, 85
Dinshaw, Carolyn, 244, 248
dissection, 58
Diva, 242. See also Biggs, Rachael: article in Diva
Doan, Laura, 226
Donoghue, Emma, 35, 227
Drabble, Margaret, 173
Dryden, John, 80–81
Dubois, Frédéric, 195, 201, 205, 208
Voyage autour du Caucase, 191–193
Dupuis-Désormeaux, Nathalie, 233
Dupuytren, Guillaume, 55, 57
Eichwald, Eduard von, 205
Eisner, Caroline L., 179
Elephantis, 77
Eng, David L., 258
enslavement, profits from, 118
Euler, Catherine, 114, 120, 136, 139, 140, 141, 156, 159
Facebook fandom phenomenon, 245–247
Faye, Shon, 224
female intimacy, 4
female masculinity, 6
female orgasm, 49
fertilisation, understanding of, 56, 57
Field, Michael
Works and Days, 104
Fissell, Mary, 52
Forberg, Friedrich Karl
Manual of Classical Erotology, 84
Foucault, Michel, 58, 100
Freccero, Carla, 244
Friars, Rachel M., 243, 244
fricatrice, as term, 32
Fyfe, Andrew
Anatomy, 57
Galloway, Steph, 51
Gelati monastery and academy, 196
gender nonconformity, as term, 223, 225
Genesis, creation story, 30, 36
Genette, Gérard
Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation, 103
Gentleman Jack, 33, 34, 244–245
breaking of fourth wall, 250
development of, 262–267
effect on public perception, 226, 234–235
fanbase, 245–250, 253, 254–258
filming of, 164–165
focus on pair-bond, 229
marriage proposal scene, 252–253
and Portrait of a Marriage, 242
as quality historical drama, 243–244
reception, 240, 242, 244, 245–250, 254–258, 267–268
sartorial seduction in, 250–251
gentry capitalism, 118
George IV, 117
Georgia, 191–212
Georgian wine, 198–199, 208
Georgian women, 201–202
Gilroy, Amanda, 172
Glola, 205–207
Gonda, Caroline, 32
Gordon Riots, 119
Grahn, Judy, 73
Green, Muriel, 155–156
Miss Lister of Shibden Hall, 175
‘grubbling’, 52, 80–81
guidebooks, 192
rise of, 182
Güldenstädt, Johann Anton von, 205
Hagglund, Betty, 181, 184
Halberstam, Jack, 6, 223, 227, 233
Halifax, 21, 34, 121, 132
Bankfield Museum, 146, 151, 175
Circulating Library, 138, 139, 142
Civic Trust, 221
Convivial Society, 138
Literary and Philosophical Society, 135–139
Anne Lister’s involvement in, 126, 139–143
and women, 133–135
Museum, 135–137, 144
Northgate House, 154, 157
Northgate Inn, 141, 144, 147
Piece Hall, 132
Hall, Catherine, 136
Family Fortunes, 126
Harper, John, 156, 158, 159
Harris, Katharine, 241–242, 249
Hazlitt, Sarah, 181
Heyam, Kit, 221, 223, 224–225, 234
Hogan, Heather, 254
Hogan, Rebecca, 105
Hooker, Richard, 37
Horner, Joshua, 160
horse-riding, by women, 192
Hottentot Venus, 62
Hughes, Bill, 102
Hutcheon, Linda
A Theory of Adaptation, 240
identificatory language, absence of, 247
identity categories, 235
as necessary fictions, 233
identity politics,
on Twitter, 251 See also plaques: controversy
illegitimation, of words, 75
Industrial Revolution, 4
Ingham, Vivien, 175
Jagose, Annamarie, 227
Janes, Dominic, 95
Jarvis, Robin, 183
Jason and the Argonauts, 194
Johnson, Samuel
A Dictionary of the English Language, 75, 76, 80
Jones, Suranne, 33, 242
Joyce, Simon, 223, 228, 252
Jruchi monastery, 207
Juvenal
Sixth Satire, 41
Kazanjian, David, 258
‘kissing’, 79, 80
Klaproth, Heinrich Julius, 205
Klein, Ula, 7
Koch, Karl, 193, 195, 201, 205
Kutaisi, 193–197
Labate, Livia, 51
Ladies of Llangollen, 13, 179–180, 229–232
Lamb, Lady Caroline
Glenarvon, 102
Lanser, Susan S., 1, 5, 32, 252
Laqueur, Thomas, 49, 54, 57
Lascelles, Henry, 121
Lawrenson, Diane
Contemplation, 132
Lawton, Mariana. See Belcombe, Mariana
Lea, Janet
The Gentleman Jack Effect, 240, 246–249, 254
Leask, Nigel, 184
LeFanu, Sheridan
Carmilla, 99
Leggott, James, 243
Lemprière, John
Bibliotheca Classica, 77
lesbian community building, 245–247
lesbian erasure, 223–226
lexicography, 74
Liddington, Jill, 114, 120, 140, 141, 228
Female Fortune, 121
Lim, Adeline
In the Footsteps of Anne Lister, 175
liminal spaces, 97
Lister, Anne
attitude towards women’s education, 25
conservatism, 114, 127, 251–252
crypt hand, 79, 92, 93, 100–101, 103–105
death, 13
entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 81
family, 154–155
funeral hatchment, 160
and Halifax, 139–143
inheritance, 154–155
labelling, 221–226
as ‘first modern lesbian’, 226–229
letters, 161
library, 74
as life writer, 104–105
literary ambitions, 22
love of England, 116
membership of Halifax Literary and Philosophical Society, 144–147
‘oddity’, 30, 31–32, 38–40, 41, 42–44
personal taxonomy of sexual ethics, 81
physical presence, 251
politics, 113–128
portraits, 160
as potentially trans subject, 54–55
as product of own time, 102
search for clitoris, 49–63
self-consciousness in diaries, 102
self-construction, 228–232
sexual vocabulary and symbols, 51–52, 76–81
and Shibden Hall, 155–165
snobbishness, 25
status insecurity, 122–124
studies in Paris, 58–62
travel writing, 171
travels, 115–117, 173–175
in Caucasus, 191–212
domestic, 179–186
scholarly and popular interest in, 175–176
uses of dictionaries, 73–85
views on Roman Catholicism, 119–120
views on slavery and abolition, 118–119
writing biography of, 21–22
Lister archive, 14
Lister Chaise, 162
Lister diaries, 1–3, 4, 5–6, 8, 10–11, 15, 34–35, and passim
breaking of code, 92–93
cipher key, 92
crypt hand, 19
as evidence for travel planning, 176–179
evolution of, 104
history of, 1, 9
plain hand, 19
publication history, 20–21, 25
references to classical texts, 91–92
as source for history of tourism, 178
travel writing, 171, 173–175
class and gender, 183–186
public and private narratives, 179–182
Lister, Louisa Grant, 118
Lister, Marian
portrayal in Gentleman Jack, 252
Lister (née Battle), Rebecca, 23, 154
Littleton, Adam
Latin Dictionary, 77
Livingstone, David, 135–136, 145
Looser, Devoney, 184
loss, as creative process, 258
‘love’, 79
Maclean, Sibbella, 42, 180, 181, 185, 186, 230–232
McTeer, Janet, 242
Maier, Sarah E., 243, 244
Manion, Jen, 7
manuscript culture, 181
Marcus, Sharon, 4
marginalisation, linguistic, 75–76, 85
marriage, 7–8
language of, 80
Martinez, Cristina, 234
masturbation, 50, 62, 78, 81
Mechanics’ Institute, 139
memorialisation, 3
Menon, Madhavi, 244
menstruation, words for, 78
Monk, Claire, 241
Monro, Alexander, 57
Moore, Alison M., 49
mountaineering, by women, 183–184
Muñoz, Jose Esteban, 254
Murray, Sarah, 184
Napoleon, 115
natural history, 29, 35–37
natural theology, 29
Nature, 29
argument from, 38–44
neo-historical fiction, 241–242
Ng, Eve, 241–242, 243
Nicolson, Nigel, 242
Norcliffe, Isabella, 144, 180
nostalgia, 255
Nysten, Pierre-Hubert, 59, 62
Dictionnaire de médecine, 77
oddity, as term, 32, 38. See also Lister, Anne: ‘oddity’
Oni, 200, 202
opacity, 105
Oram, Alison, 98
orgasm. See female orgasm. See also ‘kissing’
Orr, Dannielle, 81, 101
Outram, D., 58
Ovid
Ars amatoria, 81
Oxford English Dictionary
gendered exclusions, 82–85
quotations from Lister in OED3, 83
Paku, Gillian, 101–102
Paley, Willliam
Natural Theology, 37
Pandora’s box, myth of, 91–92
paratext, 103–105
patriarchy, in Georgia, 201–202
patriotism, 115, 182
Pennant, Thomas, 176
Pepys, Samuel, 34, 103
Peterloo Massacre, 117
philanthropy, 137
Pickford, Frances, 31, 40, 144
plaques, 233–234
controversy, 223–226
Shibden, 221
York, 221, 223–226, 253
Pliny the Elder
Historia naturalis, 36
politics, conceptions of, 114
Ponsonby, Sarah. See Ladies of Llangollen
Pope, Alexander
An Essay on Man, 37
Portrait of a Marriage (mini-series), 242
post-heritage drama, 241–242
Priestly, Edward, 142
pronunciation, 75
Protestantism, 115
queer, as term, 31
queer history
precarity of, 244
presenting for general audience, 226
queer past, 244
queer reading, 50, 62, 63
queer use, 74
queer utopianism, 254
queerness of historical time, 253–255
Rainbow Plaques project, 221, 224
Raine, Eliza, 79, 80, 92, 121
Ramsden, Phyllis, 192
Rancière, Jacques, 114, 125
Rawson, Christopher, 138, 140, 180
Reform Bill (1832), 120–122, 138
Rioni, source of, 204–205
Rogers, Shef, 172
Roman Catholic Relief Act (1829), 119–120
Roulston, Chris, 32, 80, 102, 127–128, 228, 233
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 32
Rowanchild, Anira, 98, 101, 126, 157, 229
Rustaveli, Shota
The Knight in the Panther’s Skin, 195
Sackville-West, Vita, 242
Saint-Hilaire, Geoffrey, 58
Sairme monastery, 208, 209
Saltmarshe, Emma, 180, 230
Sappho, 62, 73, 77
Sarlandière, Jean-Baptiste
Anatomie méthodique, 60
Savile, Robert, 157
Scapula, Johann
Greek–Latin lexicon, 77
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 103
Epistemology of the Closet, 91
self-improvement, 144
Sermons or Homilies to be Read in Churches, 36
Shakespeare, William
Sonnet 20, 38
Twelfth Night, 38
Shelley, Mary
Lodore, 233
Shibden Hall, 151–153, 219–221, 226
alterations made by Anne Lister, 155–158
history, 153–155
as museum, 162–165
plaque, 221
records, 141
staircase, 157
figures, 98
surrounding landscape, 158–160
as venue for marriage ceremonies, 253
Shibden Park, 160
singular, as term, 32
Smith, S. D., 118
Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 135
South Ossetia, 203
Steidele, Angela
Gentleman Jack: a Biography of Anne Lister, 175
Stoicism, 41–42
Stott, John, 139
Stuart, Lady Louisa, 120–121, 126–127
Sutherland, George, 118
Swift, Jonathan, 75
Taddeo, Julie, 243
Thackray, Arnold, 137, 138
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (film), 227, 229
Thompson, Carl, 172, 181, 184
thresholds, 98–99
Tissot, Samuel
Onania, 50, 51
Tory values, 114
tourism, 173, 178, 182, 185, 186
domestic, 184
pedestrian, 183
tradition, as term, 31
trans rights, 223–224
travel reading, 176–178
and writing, 191–193
travel writing studies, 171–173, 181
Trefusis, Violet, 242
tribade, as term, 32, 50, 77
Tsereteli, Prince Gregori, 200, 207
Tuite, Clara, 123, 125, 143
Turner, William, 138, 139
Ulph, Cassandra, 126
unaccountable, as term, 32
UNESCO, 34
Memory of the World Register, 3
Uplistsikhe, 193
Utsera, 202–204
vagina, 49
Vallance, Mary, 80
Vermeer, Leonieke, 104
Vicinus, Martha, 3
Vickery, Amanda
The Gentleman’s Daughter, 127
Virey, Julien-Joseph, 62
visual hallmarks, 243
vulgarity, 123
Wainwright, Sally, 241, 252, 254, See also Gentleman Jack
interview with, 262–268
Walker, Ann, 8, 13, 41, 80, 85, 126–127, 139, 155, 223
diary, 6, 95–96
portrayal in Gentleman Jack, 245, 250
travels in Caucasus, 191–212
walking, by women, 183, 184–185
water closets, 97
Waterhouse, John, 138, 139, 140
Waters, Sarah, 242
Webster, Thomas, 143
Weeton, Ellen, 181
West Yorkshire Archive Services’ diary transcription project, 175
Whitbread, Helena, 33
interview with, 18–26
White, Nicholas, 41
Wilberforce, William, 118, 121
Williams, Helen Maria, 115
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
use of code, 103
Wittig, Monique
Lesbian Peoples: Material for a Dictionary, 73
Wolstenholme, John, 157
women writers, stigma attaching to, 101–102
Woods, Rebecca, 226
Woolf, Virginia, 73
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 183
Worner, Todd, 92
Wortley, James Stuart, 121
Yar, Majid, 125
York Civic Trust, 221
York Female Friendly Society, 141, 144
Zeig, Sande
Lesbian Peoples: Material for a Dictionary, 73
Zižek, Slavoj, 125

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