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Finally, Jack is back. Anne Lister (Suranne Jones, Scott & Bailey), industrialist, writer, explorer, and LGBTQ+ champion, bursts once more onto our small screens with Gentleman Jack Season 2. Add a wife to that list of accomplishments since she and Ann Walker (Sophie Rundle, Peaky Blinders) exchanged vows and rings
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Anne Lister is one of the Regency era's most fascinating characters, even if her name is not as well known as Elizabeth Wadsworth, another female diarist of the period. That is because up until this century, Lister was the type of historical figure left out of the mainstream
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Gentleman Jack is back! Well, almost. HBO announced that the highly anticipated second season of the popular period drama would finally hit our screens in April, nearly three years after its first aired. Gentleman Jack centers on Anne Lister, a 19th-century British landowner, intellectual, lesbian, and all-around unorthodox woman who
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Known for such hits as Scott & Bailey, Last Tango in Halifax, and Happy Valley, in 2016, Sally Wainwright was awarded the Wellcome Trust's £30,000 screenwriting fellowship grant to develop new programming in partnership with Film4 and the British Film Institute. The story she chose to start
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Production on the second season of the critically acclaimed period drama Gentleman Jack is officially under way in Halifax. The show tells the story of Anne Lister, a 19th-century British landowner, lesbian, and all-around unorthodox woman who was wildly ahead of her time in many respects. In its first season,
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It’s official: HBO's Gentleman Jack will be back! The period drama, which dramatizes the life of Anne Lister, a 19th century British landowner, lesbian and all around unorthodox woman will return for a second season next year. Written by Happy Valley creator Sally Wainwright, the series is
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HBO/BBC’s Gentleman Jack tells the story of the remarkable Anne Lister, an industrialist and world traveler who lived in the late Georgian period near Halifax, West Yorkshire. Her extensive diaries included not only details of everyday life, but also coded descriptions of her love affairs with other women.
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The trailer for HBO’s upcoming eight-part series Gentleman Jack is here, and it already feels like an entirely different and exciting kind of period drama. The series aims to tell the story of Anne Lister, a Victorian-era landowner and industrialist who lived an incredibly unorthodox life. She spent years
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I love, & only love, the fairer sex & thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any other love than theirs… Anne Lister/Gentleman Jack Anne Lister, diarist, mountaineer, and explorer (1791–1840), nicknamed Gentleman Jack, is once again in the spotlight, although her home town of