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  1. Release. 31 May 2010. ( 2010-05-31) The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister is a 2010 British biographical historical drama film about 19th-century Yorkshire landowner Anne Lister. Made for television, the film was directed by James Kent and starred Maxine Peake as Lister. The script by Jane English drew from Lister's diaries, written in code ...

  2. May 31, 2010 · A TV movie based on the life and diaries of Anne Lister, a 19th-century lesbian landowner in Yorkshire. Starring Maxine Peake, Anna Madeley, Susan Lynch and others, the film explores her love, family and business struggles.

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    • Biography, Drama, Romance
    • James Kent
    • 2010-05-31
  3. Jan 28, 2023 · These remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller - and lesbian. She kept extensive diaries, written partly in code, of her life and loves First published in 1988

  4. A movie based on the real diaries of Anne Lister, a 19th-century English landowner who wrote about her lesbian affairs. See ratings, reviews, cast, and where to watch online or in theaters.

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    • James Kent
    • Drama
    • Maxine Peake
  5. In nineteenth century Yorkshire wealthy orphan Anne Lister lives with an aunt and uncle, anxious for her to marry well and blissfully - unaware that she is a lesbian. Anne is recording her thoughts and exploits in a coded diary. When her lover Mariana Belcombe makes a marriage of convenience to rich old Charles Lawton she feels betrayed and ...

  6. May 31, 2010 · A drama based on the real diaries of Anne Lister, a 19th century lesbian landowner who defied social conventions. Watch the episodes online or download them to your devices with Apple TV+ subscription.

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  8. May 31, 2010 · Maxine Peake stars in a profoundly moving drama based on the real diaries of Anne Lister: a landowning woman who defied the conventions of her 19th ce…