Anne Lister has been honoured in the church where she wed,and her tales of passionate affairs are now the subject of a TV dramaShe was a 19th-century pioneer in many fields: business, travel, or mountaineering. But 178 years after her death,Anne Lister is best known for her string of female lovers, with their erotic encounters explicitly chronicled in a coded diary stretching to 27 volumes.final week, or the woman often referred to as the “first contemporary lesbian” was honoured with a blue plaque at Holy Trinity church in Goodramgate,York. The medieval church had sealed Lister’s de facto marriage to a woman when the couple took communion at its altar.
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Source: theguardian.com