Anne Lister References
An ever-growing list of references about Anne Lister
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The goal of this list is to provide direct access to as many relevant resources as possible and to provide information about how to obtain those that are harder to access. Books, book chapters and academic works are included, as well as less frequently cited references such as historical and social research and other works relevant to researching Anne Lister. While we hope to be comprehensive, more works continue to emerge so please recommend references for inclusion.
Primary sources such as historical documents held in various archives (such as her journals and letters) are not included individually as this would make this list unwieldy, plus a lot of context is necessary to explain their relevance. For information about how these resources are collected, citations and research notes see the note at the end of this page.
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All references are listed alphabetically by title and include authors, publication date and type of work, as well as known availability information (open, paid or restricted access), linking to a source where the reference can be found. When multiple options were present, we favored the open, non-commercial option.
Marlene Oliveira
August 2022, Journal article
Restricted access: Journal of Lesbian Studies 2022, Ahead-of-Print
Mette Hildeman Sjölin
September 2022, Journal article
Open access: Journal of Lesbian Studies 2022, Ahead-of-Print
Dannielle Orr
October 2004, Review
Open access: Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 532-534
Jenny DiPlacidi and Karl Leydecker (editors)
2018, Book chapter
Paid access: Chapter "Marriage and its Queer Identifications in the Anne Lister Diaries", pp. 181-203.
Álvaro Peña Gómez
2008, Journal article
Open access: SPAL Vol. 17, pp. 329-334
Anne Choma
May 1994, Thesis
Open access: Packed with Potential, courtesy of Anne Choma
Read more about it in The Book Concierge.
Phyllis M. Ramsden
20th century, Brochure
Restricted access (in person only): West Yorkshire Archive Services
Anne-Bénédicte Damon
14 April 2020, Journal article
Paid access: Women's Studies, Vol. 50
Jill Liddington
18 July 2013, Journal article
Paid access: Brontë Society Transactions, Vol. 26, Issue 1, pp. 46-67
Anne Longmuir
31 July 2006, Journal article
Paid access: Brontë Studies, Vol. 31
Olive Anderson
1995, Journal article
Open access: History Workshop Journal, No. 40, pp. 190-192
Read more about it in The Book Concierge.
Angela Clare
24 July 2018, Brochure
Paid access: Calderdale Museums
Jill Liddington
1 March 1993, Journal article
Open access: History Workshop, Vol. 35, Issue 1, pp. 45-77
Christopher Goddard
1 Mar 2019, Brochure
Paid access: Christopher Goddard
Vivien Ingham
1968, Journal article
Open access: The Alpine Journal, Vol. 73, pp. 199-204
Anna Clark
July 1996, Journal article
Paid access: Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 23-50
Read more about it in The Book Concierge.
Patricia Hughes
25 May 2014, Book
Paid access: Hues Books
Chloe Evans
May 2022, Dissertation
Open access: Packed with Potential, courtesy of Chloe Evans
Jill Liddington
August 1995, Journal article
Open access: Gender & History, Vol.7, No. 2, pp. 260-274
Read more about it in The Book Concierge.
Angela Steidele
1 November 2018, Book
Paid access: Serpents Tail
Margaretta Jolly
2011, Journal article
Open access: Women’s History Review, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 721-728
Anthony Fletcher
October 1999, Review
Paid access: History Today, Vol. 49, Issue 10
Pam Sharpe
2000, Review
Unknown access: Labour History Review, Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 101-102
D. J. Mellett
1981, Journal article
Open access: Medical History, Vol. 25: pp. 221-250
Clara Tuite
2002, Journal article
Open access: Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770-1840, Vol. 1, pp. 186-210
Read more about it in The Book Concierge.
Carmen Álvarez Hernández (translator)
April 2019, Book
Paid access: Ménades Editorial
Jessica Campbell
September 2022, Research Article
Paid access: Journal of Lesbian Studies, Ahead of print
Maggie Tonkin, Mandy Treagus, Madeleine Seys and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa (editors)
2014, Book chapter
Open access: Chapter "Miss Wade's Torment: the Perverse Construction of Same-Sex Desire in Little Dorrit", pp. 217-240 .
Read more about it in The Book Concierge.
Barbara Hutton
1969, Book
Restricted access (in person only): Yorkshire Philosophical Society
Michelina Olivieri
2021, Thesis
Open access: Sam Houston State University
Extended title includes "being so much of the narrative of Ensign Jeremy Lister of the 10th regiment of foot as pertains to his services on the 19th of April, 1775, and to his experiences in Boston during the early months of the siege".
Jeremy Lister, Humphrey Milford (editor)
1931, Book
Open access: Harvard University Press
Elke Krasny and Lara Perry (Editors), Katelyn Williams (chapter author)
2022, Book chapter
Paid access: Routhledge; Chapter 15: "Searching for Ann(e): Digital Fan Curation and the Expansion of the Queer Heritage Landscape"
This is a review of the published volume of academic essays.
Sarah Wingrove
2024, Journal article
Open access; Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Issue 20.2 (Summer 2024)
Decoding Anne Lister `united in heart and purpose`
This magazine ran through 2012 and is not available online.
Jill Liddington, Alison Oram
2010, Magazine article
Unknown access: Herstoria Magazine, Spring 2010
Discusses how romantic friendships between women resisted mainstream social norms.
Sophie Jade Slater
2012, Thesis
Open access; Minnesota State University, Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects, Vol. 129
The digital version is the latest edition.
Patricia Hughes
2010, Book
Paid access: Hues Books
Anira Rowanchild
20 December 2006, Journal article
Paid access: Women’s Writing, Vol. 7, No. 1
Brontë possible effect of stories of the notorious Anne Lister.
Amber Adams, Josephine Smith
August 2016, Journal article
Open access: Brontë Studies, Vol. 41 no. 3, 2016, 191–192
Sarah Wingrove
March 2022, Presentation
Open access: Surrey Arts and Humanities Research Group Seminar Series
Eliška Nováková
March 2022, Bachelor Thesis
University of South Bohemia České Budějovice
Jill Liddington
1998, Book
Paid access: Rivers Oram Press
Charles Upchurch
September 2022, Research Article
Paid access: Journal of Lesbian Studies 2022, Ahead of print
Hazel Brothers
1996, Journal article
Restricted access (in person only): Transactions of the Halifax Antiquariam Society, No. 771, p. 111
Alan Bray
2003, Book chapter
Open access: Chapter 6: "Holy Trinity, Goodramgate, 1834: Easter Day"
From Anne Lister to Gentleman Jack to Anne Lister
Jennifer Reed
February 2023, Journal article
Open access: Memory Studies, 16(1), 154-160
Leonieke Vermeer
2022, Journal article
Restricted access: Life Writing Vol. 19, pp. 215-240
Chris Roulston
2022, Journal article
Restricted access: Journal of Lesbian Studies 2022, Ahead-of-Print, 1-14
Fiona Brideoake
June 2007, Thesis
Open access: Australian National University
Anna Clark
1999, Journal article
Paid access: History Workshop Journal, Vol. 48, Issue 1, 1999, pp. 252-257
Jill Liddington
1996, Journal article
Paid access: History Workshop journal, Vol. 42, Issue 1, Autumn 1996, pp. 56-86
Mariza Corrêa
March 2012, Journal article
Restricted access: Mediations - Revista de Ciências Sociais , Londrina, v. 17, no. 1, p. 191–215, 2012
Jennifer Reed and Ella Ben Hagai
2022, Editorial
Free access: Journal of Lesbian Studies 2022, Ahead of print
Read more about it in The Book Concierge.
Anne Choma
25 April 2019, Book
Paid access: BBC Books
Eve Ng
2021, Journal article
Open access: International Journal of Communication, Vol. 15, p. 21
David Lang
February 1990, Journal article
Paid access: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 53, Issue 1, pp. 115-120
Dinah Birch
21 January 1999, Review
Open access: London Review of Books, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 10-11
Irene Javors
1 November 2012, Review
Paid access: The Gay & Lesbian Review, November–December 2012
Charley Matthews
12 Nov. 2022, Journal article
Open access: Journal of Lesbian Studies, DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2022.2125142
Dannielle Orr
2004, Journal article
Paid access: Women's Writing, Vol. 11, 2004 - Issue 2
Rebecca Hamilton
2022, Journal article
Open access: Journal of Lesbian Studies, DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2022.2107601
Helena Whitbread
2008, Journal article
Open access: Tribades, Tommies, and Transgressives, Histories of Sexualities, Vol. 1, pp. 109-126
Chris Roulston
2022, Journal article
Paid access: Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 55.2, pp. 191-213
Martha Vicinus
2004, Book chapter
Paid access: Chapter "'A Scheme of Romantic Friendship':
Love and Same-Sex Marriage", pp.18-28
Susan Valladares
19 March 2013, Journal article
Open access: Literature Compass, pp. 353-368
Read more about it in The Book Concierge.
SL Smith
16 October 2019, Book
Paid access: Independently published
John Beynon, Caroline Gonda
6 May 2016, Book
Paid access: Routhledge
Caroline Crampton
29 November 2013, Magazine article
Open access: New Statesman
Alison Oram, Annmarie Turnbull
2001, Book
Paid access: Routledge
Simon Joyce
2022, Book
Paid access; Chapters: "Introduction" (pp.1-25) and "On or About 1820: Modalities of Lesbian Emergence" (pp. 31-70); Oxford University Press
Stephen Turton
01 February 2022, Journal article
Open access: The Review of English Studies, 2022
Editors: Stanislava Dikova, Wendy McMahon & Jordan Savage
2023, Book
Open access; Chapter 2: "Liberating the Victorian politics of love through Jack the Lass and Anne Lister" (pp.31-46); Bloomsbury Publishing USA
AnneLister, Muriel Green
1 February 1992, Book
Paid access: The Book Guild
Rosemary Bailey
1 April 2005, Book
Paid access: Transworld Publishers
Mary Eichbauer
2000, Review
Open access: Journal of Lesbian Studies, Vol. 4, Issue 3, pp. 115-120
Catherine Emberson, Ian Emberson
July 2007, Journal article
Paid access: Brontë Studies, Vol. 32, pp. 116-124
This is a work of fiction.
Rosa Mackenzie Kettle
1872, Book
Paid access: Kessinger Publishing
Jennifer Aston, Amanda Capern, Briony McDonagh
November 2019, Journal article
Paid access: Urban History, Vol. 46, Issue 4, pp. 695-721
This is a work of fiction.
Clara Barley
18 July 2019, Book
Paid access: Bluemoose Books
Catherine A. Euler
1995, Thesis
Open access: University of York
Anira Rowanchild
October 1999, Thesis
Open access: The Open University
Claudia Moser
1 April 2006, Thesis
Open access: University of Pennsylvania
Jill Liddington
2003, Book
Paid access: Pennine Pens
Hazel Brothers, Brochure
Date unknown, Brochure
Restricted access (in person only): Halifax Library (Anne Lister Resources)
Barbara Anne Cook
30 October 2019, Book
Paid access: Independently published
Simon Joyce
2019, Journal article
Restricted access: Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Volume 41, Issue 5, pp. 601-610
Alexander Mather
1819, Book
Open access: Wellcome Collection
Le premier séjour d’Anne Lister aux Pyrénées: 11 août, 2 octobre 1830. Une ascension au Mont Perdu le jeudi 26 août 1830
Not yet available online but expected to be added to Gallica soon.
Luc Maury
1990, Journal article
Restricted access (in person only): Le Bulletin de la Société Ramond, pp. 91-126.
Nicole Lyn Lawrence & Sarah Bertekap
2022, Journal article
Restricted access: Journal of Lesbian Studies 2022, Ahead-of-Print
Jill Liddington
2010, Book
Paid access: Pennine Pens
Chantal Stebbings
2012, Journal article
Open access: Vol. 71, Issue 2, pp. 384-411
Ольга Хорошилова (Olga Khoroshilova)
2021, Book with a chapter on Anne Lister
Paid access: Mann, Ivanov & Ferber
Sarah Wingrove
October 2022, Journal Article
Open access: Journal of Lesbian Studies 2022, Ahead of print
Caroline S Baylis-Green
December 2015, Thesis
Open access: Manchester Metropolitan University
Temma Berg
8 August 2016, Journal article
Paid access: Brontë Studies, Vol. 41 No. 3, pp. 216–228
Sharon Rosamunde Gordon
June 2016, Thesis
Open access: Semantic scholar
Michael Brown
June 2006, Journal article
Paid access: The Historical Journal, Vol. 49, Issue 2, June 2006, pp. 425-452
Chris M. Roulston
15 July 2013, Journal article
Paid access: Journal of Lesbian Studies, Vol. 17, Issue 3-4, pp. 267-278
Liz Stanley
1992, Journal article
Paid access: Women's History Review, Vol. 1, Issue 2, pp. 193-216
Helena Whitbread, Natasha Holme
19 November 2016, Book
Paid access: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Anne Lister, Helena Whitbread
2010, Book
Paid access: Virago Modern Classics
Anne Lister, Helena Whitbread
19 March 2020, Book
Paid access: Virago
Alison Oram
24 August 2012, Journal article
Paid access: Women's History Review, Vol. 21, Issue 4, pp. 533-551
Chris Roulston
January 2021, Journal article
Paid access: Journal of the History of Sexuality, Volume 30, Number 1, January 2021, pp. 112-135
Angela Clare
8 July 2019, Brochure
Paid access: Calderdale Museums
Rosalind Westwood, Pete Brown
1998, Brochure
Open access: Calderdale Museums
Caroline L. Eisner
2001, Journal article
Open access: a/b Auto/Biography Studies, Vol. 17, Issue 1, pp. 28-42
Kirsty McHugh
2018, Journal article
Paid access: Studies in Travel Writing, Vol. 22, Issue 4, pp. 420-435
Dannielle Orr
2006, Thesis
Open access: Murdoch University
Muriel Green
1939, Thesis
Paid access: Library Association
Carina McDowell
2012, Thesis
Open access: University of Ottawa
Sarah E. Maier and Rachel M. Friars
2020, Journal Article
Open access: Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 125-152.
Charley Matthews
2007, Journal article
Restricted access: Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, vol. 15, 2023, p. 25-31.
Leonieke Vermeer
2007, Journal article
Open access: The European Journal of Life Writing, Vol. 6, pp. 101–134
Christine Santos
2020, Thesis
Open access: Universidade de Brasília
Anna Hawthorne
2023, Thesis
Open Access: University of Sheffield
Cassandra Ulph
4 March 2019, Journal article
Open access: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Vol. 73, No. 4, pp. 462-485
Patricia Hughes
2004, Journal article
Paid access: Brontë Studies, Vol. 29, Issue 1, pp. 85-87
Eve Ng
2022, Journal article
Paid access: Journal of Lesbian Studies, DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2022.2083753
J.T. Ward
May 1963, Book
Paid access: Bulletin of Economic Research, Vol. 15, Issue 1, pp. 61-74
Caroline Davidson
1985, Book
Paid access: Hogarth Press
Sarah Ernst
April 2020, Bachelor Thesis
Brandeis University
About the list, citations and research notes
This compilation began as a short bibliography listing the citations from the many books about Anne Lister as they were being read by contributors to this site (as early as June 2019), and grew as we began to explore more of the background and context around Anne Lister's life.
As with all research about Anne Lister, over time, the various topics that emerged began to generate additional interesting and relevant references and so the list grew. We created a database for keeping track of what the references were and who had them so we could consult each other when needing additional information.
Making this available to anyone is consistent with the purpose of this site—to uncover and understand Anne Lister's life and historical context and doing so openly, collaboratively and providing access to all. As long as there is interest, we hope to maintain the list and continue to add to it as new works are published.
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