SYMHC Classics: Anne Lister
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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4.2 • 24.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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This 2018 episode covers Anne Lister, who was looking for a wife at a time when many women sought husbands to ensure financial stability. She was also writing thousands of pages of diaries, including sections written in code about her relationships.
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| 1:38.0 | Happy Saturday, the second season of the TV show Gentleman Jack has been airing on HBO |
| 1:44.3 | or on BBC One for folks in the UK. Back when the first season came out in 2019, we heard from a lot of people that they'd first learned about the show's protagonist and list her from our January 29th, 2018 episode of the podcast. |
| 2:00.0 | The first season of this show, which again is called Gentleman Jack, it kind of skipped over and list her's earlier life, which is a big part of this episode. |
| 2:10.4 | And those early years really revealed Anlister to be a complicated person. |
| 2:16.0 | I can't really say how season two aligns with the real Anlister though, because even though this Saturday classic is coming out toward the very end of this season, |
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